Hylanders tame the Mustangs

Prologue
Its a quality game for a Monday night with Maranatha visiting #5AAA Columbia Heights.  Should be a fun matchup of athletic teams that want to get up and down.  Time to make use of that NFHS subscription and take the chance that it works.  Cheadle getting back to back metro duty with the whistle in this one.

Game Time
We get pregame technicals for dunking so Maranatha is up 4-0 before they win the opening tip.  Muja Burton starting his night off strong with a pair of putbacks for Heights.  Maranatha clinging to a 12-11 lead early.  All Columbia Heights after that.  Terrence Brown 8 straight points and Burton adds his first triple of the night.  19-15 Heights as MCA takes a timeout.  Burton 2 more stickbacks.  Turnovers mounting for Maranatha. Heights stretches the lead to 50-32 at the break.  Burton with 4 triples in the 2nd half to make sure there's no resistance.  The lead almost gets to running time but not quite.  Columbia Heights rolls to a 103-74 victory.  Very strange game for Heights with 2 technicals for pregame dunking and 2 more techs for guys not in the book.

Post Game
Maranatha falls to 1-3 with their 3rd straight loss.  But its been a tough schedule with the other 2 losses to Holy Family and SW Christian by a combined 10 points.  Bailey McDonald leads the Mustangs with 26 points.  He hit 3 triples on the night.  Jeremiah La Velle adds 15.  Quick turnaround for their Skyline opener at Cristo Rey.  Then 2 non-conference games at home vs St. Paul opponents (Como Park and Twin Cities Academy) going into the holidays.  They start the new year with a big league home game vs New Life on January 4th.

Columbia Heights is now 2-0 on the season.  They get a week off before hosting Minneapolis Southwest.  Muja Burton with a monster night.  20 of his 36 points coming in the first half.  4 triples and just as many offensive rebound putbacks.  Guard Terrence Brown with a solid outing of 23 points despite leaving some freebies at the charity stripe.  Lots of difference zone type looks from Heights.  1-3-1 type thing, 2-3 and a 3-1-1 halfcourt trap that they used once and got beat on.  My kind of game.

Czar Insights

For details on exactly what the value in the chart mean, click here for the full explanation of Czar Insights.  Only 6-29 from 3 for the Mustangs compared to 10-21 for Heights. Add in the turnover edge and its blowout city.