MN Comets Season Ends

With the boys in Vegas and the top girls team in the NT Meltdown in Mpls.

Comets Seevers finishes 1-4 in Vegas with 3 single digit losses, and a 25 point win along the way. Lost to 4PO out of Dallas in Silver bracket play.

Comets Stock Finishes 1-3 losing by 6 in the Gold Playoffs.

Comets Lewis finishes 2-2 and loses in Championship bracket play to Devin Harris Elite(WI) by 3.

Comets Hanson finishes 2-2 and loses in the Gold bracket to the GRAND RAPIDS STORM(MI).

Girls Gold 16U goes 2-3 at the NT Meltdown.

More time...Recruiting updates, and a Girls SHIP!!!

- Congrats to the girls 16U Gold team coached by John Hughes for winning the Great Lakes Shootout which was held July 9-11 in Menomonie, WI. 4 girls named to all tournament team. Hannah Dahlman, Kenzie Spaulding, Paige Beseman, and Abby Knisely.

- Bemidji State has offered both Jayme Moten and Travis Rollo.

- Northern State has offered Seth Hinrichs(along with a half dozen others) Moorhead State did so most recently.

- Mary continues to be at everyone of Blake Maslonkowski and Simon Krych's games. They have offered both.

- Look for Kurt Moody, Trevor Morlock(Coming off a great academic camp in Chicago, where he was said to have played really well) to be offered soon by some NSIC schools.

- Lot's of D1 calls into the Comets coaches, no offers as of yet, but Seth Hinrichs was great in Sioux Falls, and Drake, Idaho took notice amongst others.

- The Big Lake boys job is open, I know someone from our Comet family who'd do a great job there.

Updates

The open evaluation period opened up in July at the Next level Invite, in Milwaukee Wisconsin(In the suburb of Mequon). Great event and the Comets came out well from the get go. Comets Elite 16 Stock went 2-1 in pool play and narrowly lost their bracket game by 3. Comets Elite 16 Lewis survived the Pool of Death and went 1-2 and played Howard Pulley White in bracket play, and won, before falling to Tyus Jones, Tyler Vaughan, and the rest of Howard Pulley Blue.

Seventeens had Comets Seevers win a bracket game and lose a close one to Pulley White, and then Comets Hanson win their pool and lose to Kingdom Hoops out of Iowa. The best part was all of the recruiting attention that all of our guys are getting from D1's to D3's and everywhere in between.

Couple notes

My team lost 3 games, one to the champs, one each to the other two semifinalists. WOW.

Look for E Kentucky and Vermont to stay hot and heavy on Seth Hinrichs.

Sioux Falls

We had a rough weekend in Sioux Falls. I went 1-3 and took more losses in one 24 hour span than we previously had all year. We rebounded and played well in our last two, winning one by 20 and then losing to a really good 17U Fury Gold team(Which made the semis) by a basket. I think it taught us about playing against older competition, and how to execute better.

Our Top 17s won their pool 3-0 easily and then flattened out and lost in the qtrs by 6 to a very beatable team. They should of probably won the whole thing but for sure they should have won that game.

Our 2nd 17s and our top girls teams were the hard luck losers of the day both going 1-3 and both losing on last second shots and in OT.


We send our top 2 16s and 17s to MILWAUKEE JULY 6-9. The schedule can be found at ny2lasports.com

A little bit of everything

Six quick notes

1. Congratulations to Jake and Janel Sullivan n the adoption of their son Samuel.

2. Good Luck to our girls teams at SUMMER JAM and Comets Elite Stock at Minnesota Showcase Mankato this weekend.

3. Congrats to a former player of mine Bronson Koenig of Lacrosse Aquinas HS. He is going to be a sophomore and just picked up an offer from coach Ryan and the University of Wisconsin.

4. Jordan Riewer picked up a Scholarship offer from Moorhead State and so did Scott Nystrom. It will be interesting to see if one or either decide to go there .

5. If they do that will be 13 of the 19 guys in our ELITE 17u program playing scholarship basketball of some sort . That is amazing, and something coach Hanson and Seevers should be pleased about.

6. Two standouts at Bemidji Elite camp yesterday were Mayer Lutherans Travis Rollo and New Londons Jayme Moten. Neither will lack for scholarship offers soon.

Expanded now that there is some time

We did win state d1. We were seeded #1 so we were expected to do well, but anything can happen and we could've lost in both the quarters or semis. We didn't play rhythym offense, and really forced a lot of looks. We also settled if we didn't force and took a ton of contested long jump shots. Made for some heart pounding sequences along the way. These kids are winners though, and that is a huge part of it, they take the floor expecting to beat you.

My roster is

Scottie Rucks 6'5 Cathedral
Zach Gabbard 6'0 Perham
Damien Reinke 6'6 Becker
Jimmy Unger 6'2 Willmar
Kevin Heysse 6'6 Tech
Nate Meyer 6'4 ROCORI
Austin Pohlen 6'0 Grand Rapids
Joe Burt 6'1 Cathedral
Caleb Jansen 6'4 Pierz
Mike Spoden 6'8 Grand Rapids

State Champs!!!

MN Comets 16U Elite that I coach. We are 18-3 to date. These guys are a ton of fun to coach, and really work hard.