{"id":681355,"date":"2026-03-27T04:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681355\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:03:17","slug":"seventh-seeded-apple-valley-continues-historic-run-to-state-title-game-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/681355\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh-seeded Apple Valley continues historic run to state title game \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another round, another upset for senior Trey Parker and his surprising Apple Valley teammates.<\/p>\n<p>After knocking off second-seeded Wayzata in the Class 4A state quarterfinals Tuesday, the seventh-seeded Eagles did it again Thursday night \u2014 holding off third-seeded Maple Grove 73-63 in the semifinals at Williams Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Parker led the way with 23 points, including a dunk that helped put the exclamation mark on the win with 49 seconds to go. Classmate Camare Young added 18 for Apple Valley, which finished 28-for-45 (62.2 percent) from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Apple Valley (21-10) advances to meet fifth-seeded Chaska for the state title at 8 p.m. Saturday at Williams Arena. The fifth-seeded Hawks (27-4) upset unbeaten and top-seeded Tartan 60-51 in Thursday\u2019s other semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Max Iversen finished with 24 points and seven rebounds for Maple Grove (24-7), which will play Tartan for third place at 4 p.m. Saturday at Concordia-St. Paul. The Crimson finished 22-for-57 (38.6 percent) from the field Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another round, another upset for senior Trey Parker and his surprising Apple Valley teammates. After knocking off second-seeded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,49533,3255,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-681355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-high-school-boys-basketball","10":"tag-high-school-sports","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116299157552294978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}