MHSAA 2022 Basketball Championships
March 20, 2022 by admin
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2022 MHSAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | |
| A Girls | Glenboro School | Grandview School | Rivers Collegiate |
| AA Girls | Prairie Mountain High School | Collège Régional Gabrielle-Roy | Rosenort School |
| AAA Girls | St James Collegiate | Dauphin Regional Comprehensive SS | École Secondaire Neelin High School |
| AAAA Girls | Dakota Collegiate | Westwood Collegiate | |
| A Boys | Glenboro School | Frontier Mosakahiken School | Pinawa Secondary School |
| AA Boys | Collège Régional Gabrielle-Roy | Margaret Barbour Collegiate Institute | Carman Collegiate |
| AAA Boys | École Secondaire Neelin High School | Collège Louis-Riel | Churchill High School |
| AAAA Boys | St Paul’s High School (Winnipeg) | John Taylor Collegiate |
MHSAA 2022 VARSITY GIRLS BASKETBALL PARTICIPANTS
| A | AA | AAA | AAAA |
| Rivers Collegiate | Collège Régional Gabrielle-Roy | Linden Christian School | Dakota Collegiate |
| Elm Creek School | Teulon Collegiate Institute | Collège Béliveau | Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute |
| Grandview School | Souris School | École Secondaire Neelin High School | Westwood Collegiate |
| Pinawa Secondary School | MacGregor Collegiate Institute | St James Collegiate | Collège Garden City Collegiate |
| Riverton Collegiate | Prairie Mountain High School | Dauphin Regional Comprehensive SS | Sisler High School |
| Glenboro School/Baldwur High School | Rosenort School | Neepawa Area Collegiate | Institut collégial Vincent Massey Collegiate (Winnipeg) |
| Duke of Marlborough School | Warren Collegiate Institute | R D Parker Collegiate | St Mary’s Academy |
| Grandview School | Margaret Barbour Collegiate Institute | Steinbach Christian School | Fort Richmond College |
| Hapnot Collegiate Institute | Springfield Collegiate Institute | Glenlawn Collegiate Institute | |
| Carman Collegiate | W C Miller | Collège Miles Macdonell Collegiate | |
| Corcus Plains Regional Secondary School | |||
| Garden Valley Collegiate Institute |
MHSAA 2022 VARSITY BOYS BASKETBALL PARTICIPANTS
| A | AA | AAA | AAAA |
| Fisher River High School | Collège Régional Gabrielle-Roy | Churchill High School | John Taylor Collegiate |
| Grandview School | Teulon Collegiate Institute | Linden Christian School | St Paul’s High School (Winnipeg) |
| Elm Creek School | Major Pratt School | Westwood Collegiate | Sisler High School |
| Frontier Mosakahiken School | William Morton Collegiate Institute | Swan Valley Regional Secondary School | Collège Garden City Collegiate |
| Pinawa Secondary School | The King’s School | École Secondaire Neelin High School | Collège Miles Macdonell Collegiate |
| Riverton Collegiate | Margaret Barbour Collegiate Institute | R D Parker Collegiate | Collège Sturgeon Heights Collegiate |
| Glenboro School | Rosenort School | Sanford Collegiate | Dakota Collegiate |
| Wawanesa School | Carman Collegiate | Transcona Collegiate | École Secondaire Oak Park High School |
| Killarney School | Niverville High School | Fort Richmond Collegiate | |
| Westpark School | Collège Louis-Riel | Vincent Massey High School (Brandon) | |
| Steinbach Regional | |||
| Garden Valley Collegiate Institute |
1A GIRLS AWARDS
PLAYER CHOICE – #16 Brooklyn Zemliak (Rivers)
ALLSTARS
- #9 Alexis Mclean (Rivers)
- #23 Leah Janzen (Elm Creek)
- #33 Jorja Cords (Grandview)
- #11 Kiera Potvin (Glenboro)
- #15 Kylee Fair (Glenboro)
MVP – #5 Lexie Shearer (Glenboro Panthers)
Game Star Final – #5 Lexie Shearer / #33 Jorja Cords
Game Star Bronze – #23 Leah Janzen / #9 Alexis Mclean
Game Star Consolation – #11 Mackenzie McCullough / #3 Celeste Fontaine
Game Star Semi-Final 1 – #34 Jaidyn Cords / #9 Alexis Mclean
Game Star Semi-Final 2 – #10 Avery Hartman / #5 Lexie Shearer
Game Star Consolation Semi 1 – #8 Josephine Long / #23 Liberty Murdock
Game Star Consolation Semi 2 – #11 Mackenzie McCullough / #3 Brooklyn Kornelson
Game Star Game 1 – #15 Brianna Zemliak / #33 Jorja Cords
Game Star Game 2 -#34 Jaidyn Cords / #13 Taryn Choken
Game Star Game 3 -#5 Lexie Shearer/ #McCenzie McCullough
Game Star Game 4 – #23 Leah Janzen / 14 Carrie Anne Spring
1A BOYS AWARDS
PLAYER CHOICE – #12 Kelby Diehl Glenboro Panthers
ALLSTARS
- #10 Darian Giasson (Grandview Spartans)
- #8 Marcus Holmlund (Pinawa Panthers)
- #5 Christian Buck (Frontier Mosakahiken)
- #23 Ryan Buck (Frontier Mosakahiken)
- #3 Cody Drinkwater (Glenboro Panthers)
MVP – #5 Will Van Schie (Glenboro Panthers)
Game Star Final – #5 Will Van Schie / #5 Christian Buck
Game Star Bronze – #10 Darian Giasson / #8 Marcus Holmlund
Game Star Consolation – #33 Maximus Mallette / #20 Shane Buhr
Game Star Semi-Final 1 – #23 Ryan Buck / #8 Marcus Holmlund
Game Star Semi-Final 2 – #12 Kelby Diehl/ #10 Darian Giasson
Game Star Consolation Semi 1 – #30 Ashton Sinclair / #11 Dylan Brown
Game Star Consolation Semi 2 – #20 Shane Buhr / #74 Sheldon Courchene
Game Star Game 1 – #4 Payton Tirschman / #4 Jesse Mallette
Game Star Game 2 – #33 Fernandez Monias / #15 Richard Gradwell
Game Star Game 3 – #5 Will Van Schie / #20 Shane Buhr
Game Star Game 4 – #10 Darian Giasson / #23 Sheldon Dyck
2A GIRLS AWARDS
PLAYERS CHOICE AWARD: SOURIS: Bailey Kreusch
ALLSTARS:
ROSENORT: Cassidy Friesen
GABRIELLE ROY: Bethany Carter, Annika Moïns
PRAIRIE MOUNTAIN: Maria Gundrum, Olivia Goderis
MVP: PRAIRIE MOUNTAIN: Michayla Peacock
2A BOYS ALL STARS AND MVP
YOUR 2022 TOURNAMENT MVP – #8 – Jax Chammartin (Gabrielle-Roy Les Roys)
YOUR 2022 ALL-STAR TEAM
#2 – Sami Hladey (Margaret Barbour Spartans)
#4 – Mika Hladey (Margaret Barbour Spartans)
#6 – Marcus Cook (Gabrielle-Roy Les Roys)
#7 – Stellan Chammartin (Gabrielle-Roy Les Roys)
#10 – Carson Park (Carman Cougars)
PLAYER’S CHOICE AWARD – #23 – Jhetro Young – (William Morton Warriors)
2A BOYS ALL STARS AND MVP
3A TOURNAMENT AWARDS – BOYS
Tournament All-Stars
Kalel Aleje – Churchill
Gabriel St. Vincent – Louis Riel
Abdi Youssuf – Louis Riel
Max Winter – Neelin
Wyatt Greer – Neelin
Tournament Most Valuable Player – Zerek Menard – Neelin
Dairy Farmers of Manitoba Players Choice Award – Irie Taylor – Neelin
3A TOURNAMENT AWARDS – GIRLS
Tournament All-Stars
Kassidy Loewen – Neelin
Callista Hudyma – Dauphin
Kristen Genik – Dauphin
Tiffany Ortega – St. James
Raiza Manlulu – St. James
Tournament Most Valuable Player – Kristine Navea – St. James
Dairy Farmers of Manitoba Players Choice Award – Tiffany Ortega – St. James
4A Girls Awards
PLAYER’S CHOICE AWARD – Emilia Banmann St Mary’s
All Stars
Raia Guinto Sisler
Emilia Banmann St Mary’s
Anna Miko Westwood
Darya Rom Dakota
Izzy Fust Dakota
MVP – Kyu Fust Dakota
4A Boys Awards
PLAYER’S CHOICE AWARD – Chinonso Njelita Dakota
Allstars
Randale Capras Garden City
Amrinder Bhandal Sisler
Ryan Luke John Taylor
Micheal Uzonna St Pauls
Ramogi Nyagudi St Pauls
MVP – Lorence Dela Cruz St Pauls
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Lancers, Crusaders prevail
Dakota and St. Paul’s triumph at AAAA provincial high school hoops championships
By: Mike Sawatzky
The unbeaten Dakota Lancers gave notice Saturday they are the present and future of high school basketball.
Top-ranked Dakota, which can return its entire starting lineup next fall, walloped the No. 3 Westwood Warriors 87-48 in the Dairy Farmers of Manitoba AAAA Provincial High Schools Basketball Championships varsity girls final at Maples Collegiate.
In the varsity boys final, the No. 2 St. Paul’s Crusaders hammered the No. 1 John Taylor Pipers 101-83 for the third AAAA varsity boys title in school history.
Varsity girls MVP Kyu Fust, who usually draws the toughest defensive assignments, led the Lancers with 15 points and 10 rebounds.
“Kyu was great, she’s been great all season,” said Dakota coach Eric Sung. “She’s been steady for us and one of our most consistent players. Just a stat filler — she fills it all up in all different ways. She gets rebounds for us, gets assists for us. She scores. Rebounds. She does it all.”
Fust and Jasia Hayden are in Grade 11 while the three remaining starters — Abby Sweeny, Darya Rom and Kyu’s sister Izzi Fust — are only in Grade 10. Dakota will lose three players to graduation.
“We work hard and we work five days a week,” said Kyu Fust. “It’s really good because we practise a lot and we are going to get better. I think it’s gonna be really scary next year for other teams.”
The Lancers, who held leads of 12, 24 and 31 points at the quarter breaks, finished the season 22-0. Their smallest margin of victory in 2021-22 was 19 points.
Izzi Fust led the Lancers with 28 points while Rom added 27 for Dakota. After poor shooting in the tournament quarter-finals and semifinals, the Lancers went 10 of 22 from behind the three-point line and 36-for-81 overall from the field.
“Our plan was to stop their transition and limit their offensive rebounds,” said Westwood coach Morgan Cross. “And they hadn’t been shooting very well (lately) so we were kind of hoping for them obviously to have a little bit of slump. But they came out pretty strong, especially on the three-point line.”
Perhaps the most challenging part of the Lancers’ stellar run was dealing with the naysayers.
“There are people that think we shouldn’t be doing (this) and it’s kind of wrong that we’re winning by a lot,” said Kyu Fust. “But we just have to kind of block that out and use it for motivation.”
“I think it’s more of a victory for Dakota basketball as a program,” said Sung, in his seventh season with the Lancers. “This is kind of something we’ve been building towards ever since I’ve been working at Dakota and that was my message to the girls. The alumni support and former staff and coaches’ support that these girls have been getting and the representation that they’ve done for the alumni, it’s been phenomenal.
“The majority of the games might have not been close, but I’m still coaching each athlete to better themselves and improve their basketball skills.”
Tournament all-star Anna Miko led the Warriors with 19 points and 12 rebounds. Teammate Brooke Schrader added 10 points and 13 boards.
Westwood advanced with a 72-63 semifinal triumph over the St. Mary’s Academy Flames Thursday. Dakota upended the Sisler Spartans 67-42 to reach the final.
Westwood was hampered by the loss of two players in its top six, Charlea Burkett and Leah Ross.
“Teams prepared with zone defences and when we’re not making shots, it becomes a little bit easier for them on the defensive side,” said Sung. “So once we kind of started making shots and stretched them out, you kind of saw the game change.”
Pipers 83 Crusaders 101
St. Paul’s overcame the absence of star forward Ramogi Nyagudi to avenge its only loss of the season — a five-point defeat to John Taylor in the conference final on March 8.
Nyagudi, a practising member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, observes the Sabbath and does not play between Friday and sundown Saturday.
Saturday’s 6 p.m. start time made it impossible for the 6-8 Nyagudi to get to the gym on time.
It was an incredibly rewarding experience, dealing with COVID and not being able to play last year and at times this year not knowing if we’d be able to finish the season,” said Crusaders coach Jeff Laping. “There were a lot of unknowns and then coming up short in that conference final. The guys really rallied today without Ramogi — they just played exceptionally well.”
The Crusaders’ depth would not be denied. The sparkling play of the Uzonna twins — Michael and Jason — and the performance of tournament MVP Lorence dela Cruz, who played the entire fourth quarter with four fouls, was too much for the Pipers to overcome.
“I really did think without Ramogi we’d have to play some small ball, let’s call it, but they’re just such good athletes that they, you know, they just get up and down real quick. They both are great. Defensively, they both rebound really well. And so in a lot of ways, it was a really strong lineup. Even though we weren’t as big as they were.”
St. Paul’s held an 11-point lead after the first quarter and expanded the advantage to 15 points at the intermission.
Dela Cruz had a team-high 24 points while Michael Uzonna chipped in with 18, two more than his brother Jason. The twins also had eight rebounds and two blocks each.
“I felt that as the year progressed it kind of made us a lot stronger and harder to beat,” said Pipers coach Spiros Kavadas. “Because we really learned how to deal with adversity and played with foul trouble. I felt that every kid on my team gave everything they had. They all did their best and they all contributed in so many different ways.”
St. Paul’s reached the final with a 115-61 semifinal win over Sisler while the Pipers advanced by beating the Garden City Fighting Gophers 94-81.
ALL-STAR WRAP:
The varsity girls provincial all-star squad consisted of Dakota’s Izzi Fust and Darya Rom, Sisler’s Raia Guinto, St. Mary’s Mia Banmann and Westwood’s Anna Miko. Banmann was also voted the players choice sportsmanship award winner… The varsity boys all-stars included Garden City’s Randayle Capras, Sisler’s Amrinder Bhandal, John Taylor’s Ryan Luke and St. Paul’s Michael Uzonna and Ramogi Nyagudi. Dakota’s Chinonso Njelita was honoured with the players choice award.
mike.sawatzky@freepress.mb.ca
