Sauk Centre Mainstreeters girls basketball team earns sub-section championship with a convincing 45-32 win over defending champs, New London-Spicer

The Sauk Centre Mainstreeters knocked off the defending sub-section and section champion New London-Spicer Wildcats by a convincing 45-32 margin tonight at St.John's University in the Sub-Section 6AA-East championship game.

The Mainstreeters (25-2) led 23-17 at halftime.

The win avenges a 51-29 loss in last year's sub-section championship to the NL-S Wildcats, while also tying the win total from last year's squad at 25.

It is the first sub-section or district championship for the Sauk Centre girls basketball program.

For comparison, New London-Spicer won sub-section/district titles in the following years (and maybe more in this time span, I just don't remember them all):
1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2009.

**Up next for the Mainstreeters, their first-ever Section Championship berth, this Friday at 6:30pm at St.Cloud State University's Halenbeck Hall. Their opponent will be the Staples-Motley Cardinals, who were 57-53 winners over Benson in the Sub-Section 6AA-West championship game at the University of Minnesota-Morris campus. The Benson Braves (21-7) had a six point lead in the final half but let it slip away to the top-seeded Cardinals (24-5).

Here's some Youtube clips from tonight's game...

The team comes forward to accept their sub-section championship trophy following the big win. Yes, the photographer needs to work on his ability to take photos and video simultaneously.


The Mainstreeters' defense is working hard late in the first half.


More will follow on Wednesday, including more Youtube video clips from the game.

Also, be sure to check out the Sauk Centre Herald's online photo gallery, which will have well over 100 pictures from the sub-section championship game added on Wednesday.

The link is: SaukHerald.Mycapture.com (Hopefully you've already bookmarked that!)

A late note... Congratulations are in order for two members of the Mainstreeters girls basketball team, Kali Peschel and Megan Rieland, as they were both selected to the All-Section 6AA tournament team. More on that will be posted this week as well.

~RO