At St. Paul Johnson East Metro Show Case

East Metro Show Case 2012 at St. Paul Johnson High School

This year’s showcase had 6 teams from Minnesota, 4 from Wisconsin and 1 from Florida. Had 8 games in 2 day, 1 court at St. Paul Johnson. The event had more good teams then games, with 6 blow-outs and Hart-Racer. With 4 or more D-1 players on the court, there were more then a dozen college coaches and Tubby Smith in the building.

Game Scores

St. John Lutheran (FL) vs St. Paul Highland Park (MN) 98-36 Highland Park

-I did not see this whole game St. John’s is so bad it made Highland Park look good

Riverside Milwaukee (WI) vs St. Paul Central (MN) 72-48  Riverside

-Riverside where huge and played their starters only about 25 min and beat up on Central

Hopkins (MN) vs St. Paul Johnson (MN)  99-83  Hopkins

-This was one of the better games as the home team Governors host Minnesota most talented program. Johnson gave Hopkins a game leading the Royals 52-50 6 minutes into the second half , but Hopkins Siyani Chambers was not having it scoring 31 to win

St. John Lutheran (FL) Vs Roseville (MN)  106-49  Roseville

-Roseville is having a good season and has a good team, as they gave St. John takes a whooping

Hopkins (MN) vs Riverside Milwaukee (WI) 91-58  Hopkins

- In the most highly anticipated match-up of the showcase, the #2 ranked team in MN vs #4 ranked team in WI. A lot hype was around Riverside’s 6’10 D-1 Recruit Monte Gaston. Riverside looking like the team so beat with great size. Hopkins would have nothing too do with it as their defense and 3 point shooting with 15 plus apiece would prove to out-class the Tigers in a complete and total damnation.

Onalaska (WI) vs St. Paul Johnson (MN)  61-59   Onalaska

-The events best game by far as the host Johnson took on Onalaska  and their D-1 stud Matt Thomas. Onalaska started out fast leading by 12 in the first half, but Johnson’s Marcus Marshall would lead them into all out battle taking the lead 51-44 with 5:00 left in the game.  Onalaska’s Matt Thomas would lead them back to tie it with 30 sec left an game a decoy for Ben Socha to get the game winner under the rim.

Eden Prairie (MN) vs Lacrosse Aquinas (WI) 72-45  Eden Prairie

- This game could have been much much worst as Eden Prairie played their best player less then a half. ( Andre Wallace and Sander Mohn )

G.E.T (WI) vs St. Paul Central (MN) 66-44  G.E.T.

- G.E.T. played a 1-3-1 full court press and Central had no answer for it or Riley Bambenek who led G.E.T.

This is Metro Youth Sports Media  list of the showcases best players and MVP, First and Second all Showcase teams

    First Team                                        Second Team

Siyani Chambers- Hopkins (MVP)                       Andre Wallace- Eden Prairie

Matt Thomas- Onalaska                                  Demitrius Martin- Hopkins

Marcus Marshall- Johnson                               D’ Andre Downey- Riverside

Zachary Stahl- Hopkins                                    Riley Bambenek- G.E.T.

Monte Gaston- Riverside                                  Nicholas Jorgenson- Hopkins

Honorable Mention: Sander Mohn Eden Prairie, Jamal Davis Hopkins, Wayland Johnson Johnson, Jacob Wright Hopkins, Phillip Nolan Milwaukee Riverside, Logan Brown Roseville, Nick Arenz Onalaska, Jalen Currie Riverside