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Sweeping West, the Week

19 Feb

The Packers completed a season sweep of Mankato West and of the week’s games with a 43-35 win in Mankato last night. Tough half-court defense by both teams led to the low-scoring affair, as the score was just 19-15 at halftime.

Joe Aase led the Packers with 18 points, while Andrew Kaiser had 8, Zach Wessels 6, Tom Aase 5 and Jay Ettinger and Zach Fadness each had a timely trey. Here’s the Austin Daily Herald article.

With the win, the Packers are now 12-9 overall and 10-5 in the Big 9 Conference.

On to the highlights…

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Packers Thump Cougars

16 Feb

The Austin boys avenged an early January loss to Mankato East last night with a 60-51 win over the Cougars.

It was senior night, in a matter of speaking, as Max Coffee, Jay Ettinger, and Andrew Kaiser each scored 9 for the Packers, while Zach Fadness added 8. Joe Aase led the scoring with 14, Zach Wessels had 6 and Tom Aase 5.

Here’s the Austin Daily Herald story.

To the highlights:

The Packers travel to Mankato on Friday to take on West.

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Packers Drop Close one to Mayo

12 Feb

The Austin Packers’ bid for a sweep of the week fell short when they dropped a 57-47 contest to Rochester Mayo on Friday night.

The Packers led by one at the half, but fell behind with a few minutes gone in the second half and couldn’t catch up. The Mayo coach said it was his team’s best performance of the year.

Joe Aase, Zach Wessels and Tom Aase were all in double figures for the Packers, with 16, 14 and 12 points respectively, while Zach Fadness had 3 and Andrew Kaiser 2.

Here are the video highlights:

The Packers are back in action Tuesday night at home against Mankato East.

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Big Win over Waseca

11 Feb

The Packers pushed their record to 10-8 Thursday night with a 73-44 win over Waseca.

After a scoreless first couple of minutes, the Packers went on a 9-0 run to start the game and never looked back, leading 41-24 at halftime and pushing the lead to nearly 40 with about 10 minutes remaining. Joe Aase had 25 points to lead the scoring, while Zach Wessels had 15, Matt Duren 11, Andrew Kaiser 9, Tom Aase 6, Zach Fadness 3, Jay Ettinger 2 and Caleb Knorr 2.

Here’s the Austin Daily Herald story (including a nice picture of Joe’s dunk.) And here are the video highlights (the dunk sequence starts around the 2:25 mark):

Tonight the Packers travel to Rochester looking to build on their two-game winning streak (and their four-game winning streak against Rochester schools) in a 7:30 contest against the Mayo Spartans.

Pack Back on Track with JM Win

9 Feb

It wasn’t their best win of the year, but the Packer boys completed their season sweep of Rochester John Marshall last night with a 58-43 win at Packer Gym.

Turnovers and cold shooting plagued the Pack, but strong defense kept them ahead by double digits most of the game. Joe Aase and Zach Wessels each had 14 points, while Matt Duren chipped in 13, Tom Aase 8, Max Coffey and Zach Fadness 3 each, Jay Ettinger 2 and Andrew Kaiser 1. Let’s go to the film:

The win boosts the Packers’ overall record to 9-8, and they are 8-4 and alone in fourth place in the Big Nine. They return to action at home Thursday night against Waseca, and then travel to Rochester to take on the Mayo Spartans.

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