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District 3 Peewee AA/A playoffs

By frederick61, 02/14/13, 2:15AM CST

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Mound/Westonka battle in the finals of the Edina peewee A tourney. Will Mound/Westonka emerge from D3 as Edina A’s #1 challenger?

District 3 Peewee A playoffs

Monday, Hopkins beat Armstrong 3-2 in District 3’s only play-in game this year.  That sets the field for District 3’s 8-team double elimination tournament to be played at the Hopkins Pavilion Ice Arena starting this weekend.  The opening quarterfinal game starts the Saturday at 12:15 PM.

Orono, as the regular season league champions, have the #1 seed.  They play #8 seed Hopkins in the opening game quarterfinal game.  The Spartans team is the NOW #4 ranked peewee A team in the state.  They have beaten Hopkins twice in D3 this year, 7-1 and 7-1 and should win again.

The second game in the upper bracket would match NOW #12 ranked St. Louis Park and #17 ranked Wayzata A.  These two teams have split in their two games this year, Park winning 5-3 and losing 4-1. The Trojan A’s have been rising in NOW’s peewee A pool the past month, but lost a season ending D3 game to the Minneapolis Storm 3-2. Wayzata A.  In a tough game, the Orioles edge Wayzata A.

The #2 seeded Minneapolis Storm will play the #7 seeded OMG A in the first game of the lower bracket.   The Storm placed second in pool play at Breezy Point’s tourney three weeks ago.  They beat Northfield 10-0, beat Andover A 5-0 and lost to Wayzata A 2-1.  In the championship semifinals Saturday at Breezy Point, the Storm beat Spring Lake Park 4-1 and Sunday beat Wayzata A 2-1 to win the title.

OMG A is a team with talent and size that has struggled all season long.  They lost to the Storm twice in D3 play 6-3 and 6-2.  The 6-2 loss was three weeks ago.  The Storm wins.

In the second game in the lower bracket, #3 seed Mound/Westonka plays #6 seed Crow River.  Mound/Westonka is ranked #6 in NOW’s peewee A poll.

The Whitehawks made it to the finals of the Edina Invitational in January losing to NOW #1 ranked Edina A.  The Tigers are struggling in late January and did not have a good Red Wing tourney three weeks ago, losing to the host 3-2.  Both teams have size and talent, but the Tigers can’t match the Whitehawks’ strength and speed at forward.  Mound/Westonka wins.

The first semifinal round played Sunday at Hopkins would match Orono and St. Louis Park.  Park wins.  Park has too much strength at forward for Orono.  In the second semifinal, Mound/Westonka beats the Storm.

Three weeks ago, the Whitehawks lost a tough game to St. Vital Winnipeg 5-4 in Inver Grove Heights Championship game.  It was their second loss in championship games in January.  This time in the D3 championship game, the Whitehawks win.  Mound/Westonka gets the #1 seed and St. Louis Park gets the #2 seed.  Wayzata A emerges from the loser bracket to take the #3 seed.

District 3 Peewee AA Playoffs

Wayzata AA has beaten Osseo/Maple Grove AA twice this year.  In November, Wayzata AA won 2-1. Last week the Trojans beat the Crimson 4-1. YHH has both teams in the top ten, OMG AA is ranked #10 and Wayzata is ranked #4 and is moving up the poll.  The teams have nearly identical season records, OMG’s record is 30-14-4 and Wayzata’s record is 31-10-3.  Both teams have similar D3 records.

OMG is 7-3 in January losing to Lakeville South 6-1 in late January.  Wayzata is 9-0-1 in January since losing to Lakeville South 4-1 in the third place game of the Edina Invitational on January 1.

OMG played in the White Bear Lake Moose Goheen Tourney two weekends ago.  They lost to Duluth East AA 5-2, lost to Centennial AA 5-1, and tied Eden Prairie AA 3-3 in pool play.  Last week, Wayzata beat Woodbury AA twice, 8-3 and 9-3; St. Louis Park A 4-1; and the Minneapolis Storm 5-2.  They beat Centennial 4-3 two weeks ago.

Wayzata AA looked to be the challenger to Edina AA at the start of the season.  They lost early to the Hornets 5-1 and then lost to the Hornets by bigger scores.  OMG AA lost big to the Edina AA early in the season 16-4.  A month later they almost beat the Hornets losing 3-2.  Wayzata AA has improved in the last month.  To paraphrase what somebody famous once said, maybe this is Wayzata’s time.  The Trojans win in three games.

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