The SESD Preview

<p>The last league preview for Class A before we get into the power rankings statewide?  The Southeast. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Conference Commentary</strong></p> <p>Bon Homme - Good size but only five upperclassmen so not much experience back from an 8-win team. </p> <p>Chamberlain – Cubs return their top players from a team that finished .500 a season ago. Won four of their last six las year.</p> <p>Gregory - The Gorillas were a top team in the league with three main scoring options scoring 14-18 a game, and then reserves around them.  All those reserves are gone but Gregory has two of the leagues best. </p> <p>Mount Vernon/Plankinton - Only six wins a season ago but the entire rotation returns outside of one player.  The team will take another step and likely be above .500 this year. </p> <p>Parkston - A senior dominated team won a dozen games last season but the Trojans will have a mostly new line-up outside of junior Cole Prunty.</p> <p>Platte-Geddes - Half the rotation graduated but two all league players are back including All State level standout [player_tooltip player_id="757853" first="Kelby" last="VanDerWerff"].</p> <p>Wagner - Wagner didn’t have a senior last year so they return a full line-up.  A step forward will be taken. </p> <p>Winner – [player_tooltip player_id="975500" first="Brady" last="Fritz"] returns, but little else does for Winner’s 16-win club.  Brady will keep them in contention of course but with five key pieces needing to be replaced it will be interesting to see how potent they are again. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>SESD Predictions</strong></p> <ol> <li>Platte-Geddes</li> <li>Chamberlain </li> <li>Winner</li> <li>Gregory</li> <li>MVP</li> <li>Parkston</li> <li>Wagner</li> <li>Bon Homme</li> </ol> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Big Dakota Preseason All Conference</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>First Team</em></p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="812195" first="Coy" last="Determan"] of Gregory (Jr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975500" first="Brady" last="Fritz"] of Winner (Sr)</p> <p>Dreyton Priebe of Chamberlain (Sr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="968152" first="Keshaume" last="Thigh"] of Chamberlain (Jr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="757853" first="Kelby" last="VanDerWerff"] of Platte-Geddes (Sr)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Second Team</em></p> <p>Nolan Carda of Wagner (Sr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="968191" first="Caden" last="Foxley"] of Platte-Geddes (Jr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975522" first="Kolby" last="Kayser"] of Mount Vernon/Plankinton (Sr)</p> <p>Daniel Mitchell of Gregory (Fr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="963774" first="Reed" last="Rus"] of Mount Vernon/Plankinton (Soph)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Third Team</em></p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="975571" first="Cameron" last="Caldwell"] of Chamberlain (Sr)</p> <p>Evan Farmer of Winner (Sr)</p> <p>Cole Prunty of Parkston (Jr)</p> <p>Carter Uecker of Bon Homme (Jr)</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="963824" first="Blake" last="Volmer"] of Winner (Soph)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>