The City Conference boys basketball races in St. Paul and Minneapolis got interesting last week.
In Minneapolis the Washburn Millers, the defending conference and Twin Cities champions, are currently in control with the North Polars, Camden Patriots, and Southwest Lakers right behind and the South Tigers, Roosevelt Teddies, and Edison Tommies rounding out the standings.
The Central Minutemen, the defending conference champions, are currently undefeated in St. Paul with the Johnson Governors, Como Park Cougars, Highland Park and Harding in the mix along with the Humboldt Hawks and Washington Eagles.
Minneapolis City Conference
Cooper Carlson, Brayden Gorton, and Armonil Dischinger-Harris lead Washburn.
Marcus Marshall Jr., JMarion Sanders and Cordae Williams lead North.
Camden gets the majority of their scoring from Wali Mosley, Eban Lo and Tramere White.
Heny Wolfe, Finn George, Vansin Smith and Dashiell Erickson lead Southwest.
South, who made a deep run in the Class 3A tournament last season, are led by Eugene Brown, Ramadan Ibrihim and Jumair Wright.
Calvin Peterson, Obie Esparza, Jason Wind and Steven Hunter have played well for Roosevelt.
Jashawn Scott and Nico Luitjens Weatherspoon lead Edison.
Minneapolis City Conference coaches
Jamil Johnson (Camden), Frank Webster (Edison), Ahmil Jihad (North), Donald Groce (Roosevelt), Joe Hyser (South), Keenan Shelton (Southwest) and Myles Sheppard (Washburn)
St. Paul City Conference
Allan Lankfard Jr., Eli Moseman, Etienne Reyes, and Sefi Whittington lead defending champion Central.
Johnson has gotten outstanding play from Tyrel Pride, Kenny Turner, Colin Moore Jr. and Tavi Johnson.
JaHari Hill, Dashawn Robinson, DeJuan Jones and Contrell Jenkins have been leading Como Park.
Highland Park has been led by Yared Yohoness, Izaac Hooper, Isaiah Davis, Rob Carlson and Nico Gonzalves.
Tobis Williams, Ai’Jhon Douglas, Neyo Chea, and Mahamadou Kamara lead Harding.
Humboldt’s Jakar Rice, Pharroh Holliman and Fadil Alabi have played well.
Shawn Huberty and Abdurahman Hassan lead Washington.
St. Paul City Conference coaches
Scott Howell (Central), Donnell Gibson (Como Park), Stephen Solaja (Harding), Zach Towle (Highland Park), Sam Esboldt (Humboldt), Colin Moore (Johnson) and Chris McCray (Washington)
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