The 2AA Profile

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The fight for state in 2AA looks to be a three team battle between Maple River, GSL, and LCWM. GSL is the defending champ, can a back to back run occur? Will there be a surprise? Like maybe NYA? We will find out!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>2AA Power Rankings</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} --> <ol><li>Maple River</li><li>Glencoe-Silver Lake</li><li>Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial</li><li>Norwood-Young America</li><li>NRHEG</li><li>Belle Plaine</li><li>Waseca</li><li>LeSueur-Henderson</li><li>Blue Earth</li><li>St. Clair</li><li>WEM</li><li>Minnesota Valley Lutheran</li><li>Tri-City United</li><li>Medford</li><li>Sibley East</li></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>The Section 15</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em><strong>First Team</strong></em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1284132' first='Eli' last='Ehrke'] of Glencoe-Silver Lake (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1284116' first='Daxter' last='Lee'] of NRHEG (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Braeden O'Neill of Norwood Young-America (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962272' first='Mason' last='Schirmer'] of Maple River (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962261' first='Zack' last='Wells'] of LCWM (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em><strong>Second Team</strong></em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962242' first='Will' last='Sellers'] of Maple River (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962308' first='Hayden' last='Niebuhr'] of Maple River (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962268' first='Sawyer' last='Kaczmarek'] of Glencoe-Silver Lake (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1225639' first='Noah' last='Strickfaden'] of Norwood-Young America (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Andrew Siegle of Belle Plaine (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em><strong>Third Team</strong></em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1617745' first='Grant' last='Adams'] of LeSueur-Henderson (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2026184' first='Jamis' last='Ulman'] of LCWM (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Sam Olson of NRHEG (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Ethan Anderson of LCWM (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2103355' first='Damarius' last='Russell'] of Waseca (soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>The 2AA Rundown</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This group really feels like a three horse race, a couple maybes, and then a lot of teams that either don't have much back, or guys coming back but limited in terms of what the talent can do. GSL has two of their best three players back in Eli and Sawyer. They went to state last year but without Mitchel Jaskowiak they will look different. Maple River has the perfect combo of experience, an all state lead guard, size, and talent which is why they are our pick. LCWM will also be very good with Wells leading backed by a nice junior class. Could NYA join the group? Maybe but they were under .500 last year so that is a lot of ground to make up. And I think NHREG will be solid but they have too many spots to fill to start talking about them in the same area as some of the others. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->