Updates on Bradley's Class of 2019 recruits

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Rienk Mast & his Gronigen team lost Sunday, but their head coach made a point of
praising how well Rienk Mast played...

"Bright spots
Despite the large defeat, Braal was able to point out some bright spots.
As a team it was possible for us, but if I have to get someone out, that is Rienk Mast. He played well .."
https://www.dvhn.nl/sport/Onzeker-Do...o%2F5cDSMjB0tW
...they play again Saturday.

The team they lost to is fully pro & has Northern Iowa's Bennett Koch


Over in Finland- HBA-Marsky demolished the team a couple notches below them in the standings, Kouvot, 109-64
Ville Tahvanainen had 18 pts and was 4-6 from 3-pt, in just 16 minutes in the blowout - https://www.basket.fi/basket/sarjat/...ason_id=103771
...they don't play again for 11 days.

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1st game of the District playoffs in Tennessee - Memphis East beats Memphis Central 93-68
Next game - Friday vs. Whitehaven
Antonio Thomas had 8 pts, 3 asst at half but don't have his full game stats
James Wiseman had 34 pts, 10 rebs, 6 blocks for tha game
https://247sports.com/college/memphi...ent-129064398/


In a ceremony Tuesday in Groningen Holland...
Rienk Mast was named "Sports talent of the Year" and his team was named ...
".. Sports Team of the Year of the province of Groningen.
The team was elected above fellow nominees Lycurgus and Gijs Groningen
on the grounds of the extraordinary performances of the basketball players in the past year."
https://www.donar.nl/nieuws/donar-sp...-van-het-jaar/


In Finland - the final cuts are made for their Finnish National Team that will play for the World Cup
and Ville Tahvanainen has made the final cut along with his current teammate, Utah Commit Mikael Jantunen
https://www.basket.fi/basket/uutiset...sintaikkunaan/

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...Memphis East....
Next game - Friday vs. Whitehaven

Rock Island play RI Alleman at 7:30pm tonight

NTSI may be playing this weekend but they do have a tourney next weekend (Feb. 22-24) at IMG

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JaMir Price scores 11 on 4-6 and Rock Island wins 55-39
Memphis East gets a huge hit to their State Championship plans as Memphis East lost their Regional Championship 60-55

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Rienk Mast's team, Groningen just clobbered Rotterdam 111-72
full stats not yet available

edit - Mast had 10 pts, 6 reb

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Stream of Stephan Gabriel's game Monday - NTSI vs. DME Sports Academy post-grad (LINK

Game gets started at about 7:30 on the video (the first 7:30 is warmups)
Stephan Gabriel is #22 in dark red.
He wears a white sleeve on his left arm.
At 8:03 he wins the opening tip easily - a few seconds later he gets the first rebound of the game and he plays point guard - making an inside pass that is lost out of bounds (but appeared to be a good pass).

He plays the first 11 minutes and leaves the game with 12 pts, 5 rebs, 2 asst, 1 steal and 1 TO and NTSI ahead 28-21.

http://dmesportsacademy.com/live/

a second group of players then play the next 7:15 and Gabriel re-enters with 2:45 left in the 1st half.
Stephan misses a long shot at the halftime buzzer and his halftime stats are: 12 pts, 6 rebs, 3 asst, 2 steals, 1 TO
NTSI leads at half 61-44

NTSI subs liberally in the 2nd half but Gabriel plays the first 7-8 minutes then the final 8 minutes.
But DME gets hot late in the game and sneaks away with a 104-101 win -
I had SG for 14 pts, 12 rebs, 4 asst, 3 steals, 1 block, 2 TO

NTSI plays in a Tourney at IMG this weekend Feb. 22-24.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzdKpOSUcAED0-K.jpg:large

JaMir Price plays Friday - 7pm, Rock Island vs. United (East Moline)

HBA-Marsky plays Thursday (they are 8 hours ahead) but Ville Tahvanainen and teammate Mikael Jantunen will be gone playing in the FIBA Worold Cup qualifier - they play against France Thursday - https://news.wagertalk.com/european-...and-prediction

Then Finland plays Russia on Sunday - http://www.fiba.basketball/basketbal...sia-in-group-k

They really need to win both to qualify!

The links to view both games are here:
Finland vs. France - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNMdGNjcPI
Finland vs. Russia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3-24tSxnLQ

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Stephan Gabriel plays tonight at 7pm Central- https://twitter.com/Farragut_mbb/sta...92929177169927
..then again tomorrow at 1:30pm Central & Sunday at 11:45 am Central - https://www.imgacademy.com/sites/def...stschedule.pdf
https://www.imgacademy.com/boarding-school/livestream


Rock Island begins play in the IHSA State Tourney on Wednesday Feb. 27 at 7pm in Pekin vs. East Moline (United) - https://www.ihsa.org/SportsActivitie.../bkb/4pair.htm
..BUT FIRST - the Conference Championship to be decided tonight vs United - and it's on the radio at 6:45pm
...check this link - https://twitter.com/qcsportsnet/stat...55898436296704


Ville Tahvanainen's HBA-Marsky doesn't play again until March 1
In their World Cup Qualifier game Thursday, they beat France 76-69 - they play Russia on Sunday


Rienk Mast does not play again until March 2.


And despite losing their District Championship game, Memphis East is still eligible for their State playoffs as the #2 seed out of their District,
so they begin play Saturday Feb. 23 at 7pm against Memphis Ridgeway - http://tssaasports.com/event/bracket.cfm?id=20180211

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Rock Island 21 - United 18 at halftime


update - Rock Island up 34-24 at the end of the 3rd quarter

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Final
Rock Island wins 45-31 & are co-champs of Western Big 6
Jamir Price had 10 pts

https://qconline.com/gallery/photos-rock-island-vs-united-township/collection_c9916242-257e-5688-b461-2bc29fe419d3.html#30

https://qconline.com/gallery/photos-rock-island-vs-united-township/collection_c9916242-257e-5688-b461-2bc29fe419d3.html#8

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/qconline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/1b/11b0fca5-3c5a-5908-bf0d-6b53a43c9da6/5c70c9c38905a.image.jpg?resize=750%2C530

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/qconline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/3d/a3defcea-00d0-532e-90e8-41afbc87964b/5c70dbae2e553.image.jpg?resize=750%2C1022

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Memphis East wins 79-46 in their first State playoff game - they advance to play Germantown (TN) Houston HS at 6 pm Tuesday
James Wiseman had 25 pts, 12 rebs.

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Finland's National Team loses to Russia and falls just short of qualifying for the FIBA World Cup later this summer (Ville DNP)
http://www.fiba.basketball/en/basket...come-to-an-end

The Dutch team also failed to qualify - losing to Poland 85-76 but Rienk Mast was one of their bright spots - playing AGAINST top pros
that are as much as 15-18 YEARS older than he is (the Polish team is almost entirely 29-35 year old veterans!)
- he played 26 minutes, scored 9 points & grabbed 5 rebounds
He was 3-4 on 2-pt attempts & 1-3 on 3-pt attempts
https://www.rtvnoord.nl/nieuws/20537...eruit-in-Polen
http://www.fiba.basketball/basketbal...s#tab=boxscore

Antonio Thomas & Memphis East play tonight at 7:45pm in their 2nd round game in the TSSAA State Playoffs - http://tssaasports.com/event/bracket.cfm?id=20180211

Jamir Price &Rock Island play vs. East Moline at 7:45pm Wednesday at the Pekin HS Regional - then if advance, play again 7pm Friday

Stephan Gabriel and his NTSI team just competed in a big national tourney in Florida at IMG Academy.
On Saturday, they faced the strong post-grad team from IMG and won. I don't know the final score but here is a complete video of the game right up to the 2 minute mark, then the video cuts out with NTSI winning 81-70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0UyWTMLxA

Stephan Gabriel plays pretty much the entire game - he wears #22 in red & has a white sleeve on his left arm.
There were two other games they played this past weekend but they appear to have held SG out as they must have been playing teams that did not have post-grad players.
Gabriel is athletic, plays decent defense, strong rebounder - altho nobody plays great defense in these prep tourneys - and he has good mobility getting to the rim. He does not have a great outside shot altho he's not bad - possibly could develop into a good shooter with range.

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Memphis East wins & advances in the TSSAA State Playoffs 59-44 after leading 21-1 after the 1st quarter
They play Whitehaven on Friday 7pm.

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JaMir Price scores 19 to lead Rock Island into the final of the Pekin Regional.

https://twitter.com/jaydub_DA/status/1100942361058791424

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huge blow to Memphis East (Antonio Thomas) - with the loss of one of their top players for the rest of the season

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/02/27/high-school-basketball-tennessee-tssaa-memphis-james-wiseman/3002508002/

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Despite playing without 2 of their key players, Memphis East won tonight over Whitehaven HS to win their Tennessee Class 8A Regional Championship. 5-Star recruit James Wiseman was named the Tournament MVP, and Antonio Thomas had a great game, and was named to the All Tournament team. He played tremendous defense against Whitehaven's best player (the top player in Memphis' 2020 class, 4-star recruit Matthew Murrell), and held him to just 6 points, way below his average of 21 ppg.
Their next game is the Substate game on Monday at 7 pm at Memphis East HS against Bolton HS. If they win that game, they move on to the state finals.