The Big East Preview

<p>The next league up in the Class A Conference previews? The Big East. </p> <p><strong>Conference Commentary</strong></p> <p><strong>Baltic</strong> - Lost four of their best five players off a team that won a third of their games. </p> <p><strong>Beresford</strong> - A six game winner has to replace three of their top four and will do it with only four seniors on the roster.</p> <p><strong>Chester Area</strong> - The line-up of the Flyers last year was all sophomores and an 8th grader. They won just two but they will take a jump forward and teams that hammered them will be on their revenge list. </p> <p><strong>Flandreau - </strong>Fliers have just about everything back off a 12-win team including three all league players and one of the state’s elite bigs (Tash!). </p> <p><strong>Garretson</strong> - Pair of starters back including an all league player from a 3-win team</p> <p><strong>McCook Central/Montrose - </strong>Tough to know what to expect from MCM, they lost all five league honored players bringing back only junior Gavin Gordon from the main rotation (won 12 games last year).</p> <p><strong>Parker -  </strong>Parker will compete for the crown with five of their top seven back including all league level players in [player_tooltip player_id="968172" first="Davin" last="Fuller"] and Carter Robertson.  </p> <p><strong>Sioux Valley - </strong>Expectations remain high with [player_tooltip player_id="963744" first="Oliver" last="Vincent"] an all league first teamer returning along with [player_tooltip player_id="975509" first="Kelton" last="Vincent"] and others. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Big East Predictions</strong></p> <ol> <li>Sioux Valley </li> <li>Flandreau</li> <li>Parker </li> <li>MCM</li> <li>Chester Area </li> <li>Baltic</li> <li>Garretson</li> <li>Beresford</li> </ol> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Big East Preseason All Conference</strong></p> <p><em>First Team</em></p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="812206" first="Tash" last="Lunday"] of Flandreau (Jr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="963744" first="Oliver" last="Vincent"] of Sioux Valley (Soph)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="968170" first="Stratton" last="Eppard"] of Chester Area (Jr) </p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="968172" first="Davin" last="Fuller"] of Parker (Jr) </p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975509" first="Kelton" last="Vincent"] of Sioux Valley (Sr) </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Second Team</em></p> <p>Alex Anderson of Flandreau (Jr) </p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975544" first="Taryn" last="Ukestine"] of Flandreau (Sr) </p> <p>Carter Robinson of Parker (Jr) </p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="968217" first="Chase" last="LeBrun"] of Flandreau (Jr) </p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="968190" first="Parker" last="Puetz"] of Sioux Valley (Jr) </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Third Team</em></p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975586" first="Josef" last="Zahn"] of Garretson (Sr) </p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975625" first="Alex" last="Haagenson"] of Baltic (Sr) </p> <p>Gavin Gordon of MCM (Jr)</p> <p>Spencer Nelson of Beresford (Sr) </p> <p>Jaxton Schiller of Sioux Valley (Sr) </p> <p>Brock Wages of Chester Area (Jr) </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Fourth Team</em></p> <p>Cole Jurgens of Parker (Sr) </p> <p>Brady Hookie of Baltic (Sr) </p> <p>Ashton Oliver of Chester Area (Jr) </p> <p>Colby Olson of Parker 9Sr)</p> <p>Dylan Kindt of Garretson (Jr) </p> <p>Liam Streitz of Flandreau (Jr) </p>