![St. Paul Academy's Devlin McCabe keeps his eye on the puck as he weaves around Totino-Grace's Nick Holtan during the second period of the Boys' Class 1A Section 4 State Hockey Final, Feb. 26, 2016, at the Roseville Ice Arena in Roseville, Minn. ] (Matthew Hintz, 022616, Roseville)](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/HCGLOBFUUZOAQBWW4NW7KSSKGM.jpg?&w=1080)
No. 5 St. Cloud Cathedral (20-7-1) vs. No. 4 St. Paul Academy (No. 4, 23-5), 8 p.m. Wednesday
Scouting the Crusaders: First-year coach Derrick Brown, a Princeton native who played on the Tigers' 2002 and 2003 state tournament teams, previously guided the Luverne program to prominence before taking the St. Cloud Cathedral job in the offseason. "I inherited a top-10 program," Brown said. "I was just trying not to screw it up." The Crusaders' margin of victory has steadily grown with each playoff game. They defeated Alexandria 5-2, Sartell-St. Stephen 7-2 and Little Falls 10-2 in sectional play. Logan Neu, a 6-1, 200-pound senior who has been on the varsity since he was a freshman, leads Cathedral with 54 points (22 goals, 32 assists). Sophomore goaltender Keegan Karki, who is 6-5, played in the Upper Midwest High School Elite League last fall and earned the Crusaders' starting role midway through the season.
Scouting the Spartans: Junior forward Matt Dahlseide (25 goals, 32 assists) and sophomore Devlin McCabe (14 goals, 25 assists) were selected to play in USA Hockey national development camps for their age groups last summer. Bucking hockey's all-level trend of giant-size goaltenders is 5-5 sophomore Andy Beran, who has played all but 48 minutes this season for St. Paul Academy. Beran has a sparkling 1.88 goals-against average and .918 save percentage.
Worth knowing: St. Paul Academy has lost only once since mid-January, a 4-3 overtime setback to No. 2 tournament seed Breck.
LOREN NELSON
