The St. Thomas Men's Basketball League has announced its award winners for the 2024-2025 season. 

Ben Murray MVP Trophy & Playoff MVP: Ryan Pflanzer

With a modern era league record 32.8 ppg Ryan Pflanzer led Cole-Munro Foods to a share of the regular season title. 

Playing in all 20 games, Pflanzer got himself in great shape coming into the year and he shot a higer percentage from the field than in his previous seasons. He made 6.5 3-PT FG per game, and 5.3 2-PT FG per game while shooting 65% from the line. 

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In the post-season, Pflanzer was unguardable including a 42-point performace in the championship game as the Trout won the title. 

He averaged a whopping 34.8 ppg in the playoffs. 

Top Defender:  Jimmy Hendricksen

As the centre piece of a good defensive team, Jimmy Hendricksen was a dominant force in the paint. He blocked shots, altered shots and grabbed double-digit boards every game. 

Ambrose Plumbing allowed the fewest points in the league and Hendricksen is a main reason why. 

Rookie of the Year:  Connor Hodgins-Depoint

While his work schedule only allowed him to play 65% of the games, it was enough to qualify Connor Hodgins-Depont for the Rookie of the Year award. 

The Home Hardware guard was as explosive as any player in the league and averaged 25.9 ppg in his first year. 

George Shaw Most Improved Player: Adam Millyard

Adam Millyard is the first two-time winner of the George Shaw Most Improved Player award. 
After first winning in 2019-2020, Millyard had a huge jump in play from 2023-2024. The Talbot Trail Physiotherapy guard is a pest on defence, but his jump from 5.1 ppg to 14.0 ppg earned him the nod. 

Mike Parsons Most Dedicated Player:  Matt Agbetiafa

Ambrose Plumbing forward Matt Agbetiafa is the Mike Parsons award winner. While scorekeeping every night, Matt was also willing to jump in and play a number of games for teams that were short. Without him, many teams would have not had five guys to play. 

It was a matchup of perimeter stars vs the league's biggest centre in the 2025 St. Thomas Men's Basketball League Final. 

Cole Munro Foods - undefeated in the playoffs- with League MVP Ryan Pflanzer, taking on Ambrose Plumbing and defensive player of the year Jimmy Hendricksen. 

A slow start to this one with missed field goals, and blocked shots by Hendricksen, it took about about four minutes before Steve Barton scored the first field goal.

However after that 4-0 lead, it was all Cole-Munro.

Ryan Pflanzer got on fire from deep, knocking down three triples in the opening quarter, add in a bucket and three free throws and he had 14 points in the first ten minutes.

Andrew Cole added six of his own and it was a 22-9 after just ten minutes.

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Early on, it was mistakes by the Plumbers, turning the ball over multiple times, and those lead to easy buckets for the Trout. 

In the second quarter, Pflanzer stayed hot adding in another eight to give him 22 in the first half.

Barton tried to keep his team in it with a pair of triples, but Cole-Munro jumped out to a 39-22 lead at the half.

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Things didn’t get much better for the Plumbers in the third, as Pflanzer stayed hot. He poured in another 13 points in the third quarter, pushing his total to 35 after 30 minutes.

At one point he had 31 points to the Plumbers 30. 

Ambrose did have a much better third quarter, but trailed by 20 going into the fourth. 

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Planzer would score seven more in the final frame to finish with 42 points overall, with Cole adding 14 and Adrian Carstolevean 9 for the winners who cruised to a 71-48 win. 

Barton had 13 and James Jarvis 11 for the Plumbers in a losing cause.

Cole-Munro Foods win its second title in the past four years, and Pflanzer was named playoff MVP after averaging 34.8 ppg over five games in the postseason

Harrison Cole, Karsten Groen, Ryan Pflanzer, Drake Bernardi, Adrian Carstolovean, Andrew Cole. (Absent Alex Ryan, Geoff Cole, Justin Vanderzanden) 

It will be the Cole-Munro Trout (6-0) against The Ambrose Plumbing Plumbers (5-1) for the Herb Hales Memorial Trophy Monday at Parkside Collegiate Institute. 

The Plumbers earned their ticket the hard way after a 64-53 war against Elite Stars Wednesday night in the second semifinal. 

Buckets were hard to come by all night long, and with the league's top big men going head to head, the paint was protected and most of the hoops came from outside. 

The Plumbers took an early lead on hot shooting from Tyler Annett who scored 11 in the first quarter. Jimmy Hendricksen and Nick Lawrence had eight and seven respectively in the second quarter, as Steve Barton got in foul trouble. The Plumbers lead 36-29 at the break, as Brian Apfelbeck kept the Stars in the game with 13 first half points. 
 

Both teams struggled from the field in the third, and the game nearly took a turn when Hendricksen suffered a broken nose going for a loose ball mid-way through the period. 
Luckily, Chris Strieb, a player and sponsor, as well as a top physiotherapist in the city, managed to put his nose back in place, and by the fourth quarter he was back in action. 

Hendricksen would score seven points in the fourth, as the Plumbers kept the lead through the rest of the way to win and reach the championship game. 

Annett had a team high 25 points for the winners, with Hendricksen adding 16. 

Apfelbeck lead the way for the Stars with 24, and their season ends with a regular season title, but no trip to to the finals. 

The Plumbers will face the Cole-Munro Trout who cruised to a 91-58 win over Talbot Trail Physiotherapy in the other semifinal. 

The game was closer than the score indicates for the first 25 minutes, before it turned. 

Andrew Cole got the Trout off to a hot start scoring 14 points in the first quarter, as they jumped out to a 28-18 lead. 

Alex Packer had 14 for the Physiotherapists in the first half, and a couple of three pointers by Wes Bogart kept the lead to 39-32 after twenty minutes. 
 

The third quarter was where it changed. Ryan Pflanzer had 12 points in the third, and the Trout stretched the lead to 15 after thirty minutes. 

The fourth saw the Trout get on fire from long range, as Cole scored four triples to finish with 28 points, and Pflanzer added three of his six triples in the final frame to finish with a game high 34. 

The Physiotherapists season comes to an end with Taran Beekhuis scoring 21 points and Packer finishing with 19. 
 

The final will be 7 pm Monday at Parkside Collegiate.