When all else fails, turn to your blue-chippers.
That was the strategy for the Madison Memorial High School’s boys basketball team Saturday int the Timberwolves Shootout at the Target Center in Minneapolis.
Division I recruits Jeronne Maymon and Vander Blue combined for 42 points to lead the Spartans to a 67-64 win over Henry Sibley, Minn.
Memorial (7-0) was tied 31-31 at half, but took control in the third quarter behind Blue, a University of Wisconsin recruit, and Marquette University-bound Maymon. Blue, a junior, had 11 in the third and Maymon added nine as the Spartans opened up a five-point lead. Henry Sibley got no closer than three in the fourth quarter.
University of Wisconsin recruit Mike Bruesewitz, a 6-foot-8 junior guard, led Henry Sibley with 20 points.
MEMORIAL 67, HENRY SIBLEY 64
Memorial (67)—Davis, 0-2-2; Jones, 1-2-5; Creamer, 3-0-6; Blue, 6-2-16; Lomomba, 3-2-8; Maymon, 11-4-26. Totals: 26-12-67.
Henry Sibley (64)—Bunge, 1-0-2; Hernandez, 4-0-11; Bruesewitz, 9-2-20; Halverson, 5-2-12; Kreuser, 1-0-2; North, 2-1-5; Minnig, 1-0-2; Rostampour, 5-0-10. Totals: 28-5-64.
Madison Memorial 19 12 22 14—67
Henry Sibley, Minn. 13 18 17 16—64
Three-point goals—Memorial 3 (Blue 2, Jones), Henry Sibley 3 (Hernandez). Free throws missed—Memorial 7, Henry Sibley 6. Total fouls—Memorial 14, Henry Sibley 18. Fouled out—Rostampour.
n Sun Prairie 47, Stoughton 44—Michael Boos made a three-point basket with two seconds left to play to give the visiting Cardinals a nonconference win.
Sun Prairie (5-2) trailed by six after three quarters but outscored the Vikings (4-2), 14-5 in the fourth quarter.
Jordan Noskowiak had 13 points to lead Sun Prairie, while Boos and Sam Marshall added 12 each.
Stoughton’s Skip Gerber led all scorers with 16.
SUN PRAIRIE 47, STOUGHTON 44
Sun Prairie (47)—Handel, 1-0-2; Enstad, 1-5-8; Boos, 5-0-12; Marshall, 6-0-12; Noskowiak, 6-0-13. Totals: 19-5-47.
Stoughton (44)—S. Gerber, 3-0-6; Sk. Gerber, 3-9-16; Kowalkowski, 1-0-2; Tierman, 4-0-12; Lehr, 1-1-4; Slaby, 1-2-4. Totals: 13-12-44.
Sun Prairie 7 17 9 14—47
Stoughton 9 17 13 5—44
Three-point goals—Sun Prairie 4 (Boos 2, Noskowiak, Enstad), Stoughton 6 (Tierman 4, Enstad, Lehr). Free throws missed—Sun Prairie 5, Stoughton 5. Total fouls—Sun Prairie 15, Stoughton 14.
Sophomores—Sun Prairie 64, Stoughton 62.