The Austin boys are playing in the Saturday Fall League at Kennedy High School in Bloomington, Minn. In today’s action, they faced Woodbury, a Class AAAA team from the suburbs of St. Paul.
The Packers tied the game at 38 with 90 seconds remaining and then played tough defense to get the ball back. Here are the last 30 seconds of the contest:
After beating the top-ranked defending state champs, previously undefeated Minneapolis North, which had won 41 straight games over two seasons, the Packers held off a strong challenge from another undefeated team, Chaska. See those highlights here.
That put the Pack in the championship game against Anoka, which had won its semifinal match with St. Paul Central. Here are the Packer highlights from the first half, which was a seesaw affair.
The Packers were up by a point with three minutes left in the first half, but Anoka went on a 7-2 run to close the half up by four.
Highlights from the second half are coming tomorrow. And on Friday we’ll be getting the old gang together for the Packers’ season finale against Rochester Century.
As we left off, the ’81 Packers were clinging to a one-point lead over Chaska at halftime of their state tournament semifinal. Here are the highlights of the second half:
Tomorrow we’ll have first half highlights from the championship game, with the conclusion on Thursday.
This is all in preparation for the Friday night reunion of the ’81 Packers.
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.
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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