7/16/2023 0 Comments Stars beyond reach title![]() Hey, those lads from the prairie have been playing together since the third grade, and were savvy enough to get the whistles. There were also a couple of dramatic flops that contributed to his four fouls and sent Asuma to the bench for a hunk of the second half. Then, once at the line, the Knights made 13 of 14 free throws, compared to four of 12 for Cherry.Īsuma came out storming the basket in the second half, pushing Cherry to a seven-point lead. RTR survived Cherry 61-57 thanks to made free throws and getting Asuma and sophomore Noah Sundquist in foul trouble. On Friday, RTR was taking on Cherry's Isaac Asuma, verbally committed to the Gophers for 2024 and anticipated to be the point guard of the future. New Life's Erick Reader, 6-9, has committed to the Gophers as a 2023 walk-on. RTR has returned with nearly the same group - a collection of seniors ready to play a last game against New Life Academy in Saturday's Class 1A title game. RTR has had outstanding athletics with frequency, including state boys basketball titles in 2004, 20.Ī year ago, RTR made the state tournament and lost the opener to Hayfield, which would win a second consecutive title. Todd Bouman gave the Knights an immediate all-around star athlete. The merger of the schools took place in 1987-88. And that long-ago upset is left only in the ancient brains of a few of us one-class aficionados as Russell - along with partners Tyler and Ruthton - has many greater accomplishments to celebrate. Wendell Hurst, a star for those Russell Bulldogs, died in 2014. I even met the Russell player who made the two free throws to beat Marshall. Porter: "No, but I've heard about the game 5,000 times. "You weren't a kid there in '56, when Russell beat a Marshall team that was 19-1 in the District 9 opener, right?" I said. ![]() Porter's family had moved around but had settled back in Marshall before he went to high school. He made 663 field goals and I'd estimate 40% of those would have been three-pointers, because The Turk was willing and deadly from distance. He scored 1,694 career points for the Huskies. Cloud State and I was a rookie 20-year-old beat reporter at the St. Three years later, Porter was a standout at St. "The first one gave us a thrill the second was pure." "I made 80-some percent of my free throws and Denny was up there, too," Porter said. In the last seconds, Denny Schroeder made a pair of free throws to win it - the first bouncing in, the second smooth. It was a matchup of "The Turk," Porter, and "The Mouse," Dave Meisner, and their partners in the backcourt, Whitey Johnson for Marshall and Mike Forrest for Cloquet, and outstanding cohorts up front. The reason for this was to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Porter and his Marshall teammates defeating Cloquet 75-74 in a 1963 state championship game that many of us claim was the greatest played in the one-class era. On Thursday, there was a needed conversation with one of my basketball heroes, Terry Porter, who is right up there with Lou Hudson, Bobby Jackson, Lindsay Whalen and Janel McCarville on the admiration list. Which means I always leave my car keys in the house, and always leave my cellphone in the car, requiring return trips, but I'll never forget being a 10-year-old and absolutely stunned that Russell had beaten Marshall - one of the favorites to come out of Region 3.
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