Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Basketball District Champions!

Video Highlights: District Semi Final -  District Championship - Alumni Support Team

For the first time in a decade the Mount Michael Knights are headed to the state basketball tournament in Lincoln.  In the district championship game the Knights soundly defeated the Blair Bears 70-44.

In the state tournament the Knights are eighth seed and will play first seed Gretna (24-2) at 7:00pm on Thursday March 12th at the Devaney Center. In early January Mount Michael lost to the Dragons 57-72.
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Omaha World Herald - State Bracket

World Herald Stats:
Mount Michael  12 16  18 24—70
Blair                       9    4    9 22—44
MM: Mohamad Elradi 4-9 3-6 12, Tommy Farhart 7-9 3-3 18, Ben Borsh 4-4 3-3 12, Jake Batenhorst 6-6 4-4 19, Garrett Raabe 2-3 1-1 5, Raymond Dorsey 0-3 0-0 0, Mick Steier 1-1 0-0 2, Logan Larson 0-0 0-0 0, Logan Kalkowski 1-1 0-0 2, Reed Tiwald 0-1 0-0 0, Harrison Hohman 0-0 0-0 0, Conor Luff 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-37 14-17 70.
Blair: Ethan Cox 0-0 1-2 1, Vance Janssen 5-13 7-8 17, Nolan Kirwan 0-3 0-0 0, TJ Loudner 2-12 1-4 7, Jacob Jones 3-3 0-0 6, Jacob Sorensen 5-8 0-0 13, Matt Brunkhorst 0-0 0-0 0, Dylan Rahlfs 0-1 0-0 0, Derek Anderson 0-0 0-0 0, Tim Bennett 0-0 0-0 0, Brandt Radloff 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 15-38 9-15 44.
3-point goals: EMM 6-11 (Elradi 1-2, Farhart 1-1, Borsch 1-1, Batenhorst 3-3, Dorsey 0-3, Tiwald 0-1), B 5-21 (Janssen 0-6, Kirwan 0-2, Loudner 2-8, Sorensen 3-3). Total fouls: EMM 14, B 17. Fouled out: Janssen. Technicals: none. Turnovers: EMM 10, B 13. Rebounds: EMM 17 (Elradi, Batenhorst 3), B 17 (Sorensen 4). Field-goal percentage: EMM .676, B .395. Free-throw percentage: EMM .824, B .600. A: 800 (est.).
Go Knights!
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