A weekend of wings

Now on special at Buffalo Wild Wings, we have all these new flavors!   OK that's not what we're here for.  I took in 4 games on video over the opening weekend and the wing play was a major factor in all of them.  Here are some standout names from those games.

Farmington 80 Rochester Century 78
Another big day for Century's star wing Shaun Wysocki as he had 25 and cleaned the glass in the Friday night loss at Farmington.  Big, athletic, passes well and lefty to boot.  Definitely one of the best remaining unsigned 2024 guys out there.  Reid Weckwerth with 16 points for the Panthers in a nice supporting role.  Wing Ryan Beckwith 17 critical points including a pair of 3s off the Farmington bench   Brandon Hrncir getting to play a more perimeter role for the Tigers this season with his shooting had 4 triples and 29 points in the win.  Farmington with a run out for the winning layup with 4 seconds left after Century missed 2 chances to win it and didn't hold for the final shot in a tie game.  Farmington is a very interesting team with all their size but still the ability to shoot it, move it and execute.  They ran a great set multiple times vs zone after Century went to it because of foul trouble.

Rogers 83 Centennial 64
Rogers off to a nice 2-0 start and after watching their Saturday matinee with Centennial, I definitely have underestimated them.  Adam Broberg has had 2 quality outings for the Royals.  But in this one, the Rogers also got 18 points each from Trey Mix and Christian Wagner off their bench.  Lots of mix and match pieces for a wing laden Rogers squad.  Centennial is coming off a late start due to football and played without Ty Burgoon (football all-star game).  Add in that Rogers already had played once and this one was going to be tough.  Soph forward Tristan Hanson 11 points off the Cougars bench.  Junior wing Jackson Driessen scoreless in the 1st half but heated up for 30 with 5 3s in the 2nd half.

St. Anthony 64 Mahtomedi 36
Kenji Asai 15 points off the wing for St. Anthony in their blowout home section win.  Very entertaining to watch 3 easy layups he got off of slipping screens.  They get 10 3s from 5 different guys in a classic showing of how they'll win games.  Mahtomedi having to replace their entire lineup didn't have anybody in double figures.

Chaska 71 Champlin Park 67
No 1st game jitters in this Saturday afternoon game as both teams already had a game in.  Champlin Park with the quick turnaround after a loss at Maple Grove Friday night.  Junior Jimmy Coddington with 25 points and 3 triples from his wing spot to lead Chaska.  That picked up for forward Trey Lenzen missing a bunch of minutes with foul trouble.  But early on it was Champlin Park junior wing Preston Thielke doing the damage.  He had 17 of his 27 in the 1st half.  He's a clone of teammate Amory Peterson.  Freshman guard Kwa Silikpoh able to get to the rim off the bounce to cause major problems late.