The 8A Profile
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Our final section profile, Section 8A. A place that has belonged to Sacred Heart when it comes to playing championship basketball, but a place where talent is plentiful as well. The 8A Power Rankings Cass Lake-Bena Fertile-Beltrami Sacred Heart Goodridge/Grygla-Gatzke…
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Continue ReadingOur final section profile, Section 8A. A place that has belonged to Sacred Heart when it comes to playing championship basketball, but a place where talent is plentiful as well.
The 8A Power Rankings
- Cass Lake-Bena
- Fertile-Beltrami
- Sacred Heart
- Goodridge/Grygla-Gatzke
- Win-E-Mac
- Red Lake
- Fosston
- Northern Freeze
- Mahnomen/Waubun
- Blackduck
- Warren Alavardo-Oslo
- Red Lake County
- Clearbrook-Gonvick
- Kittson County Central
- Northome/Kelliher
- Lake of the Woods
- Stephen-Argyle
- Climax-Fisher
- Badger/Greenbush-Middle River
- Bagley
- Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig
The Section 15
First Team
Justin Courneya Justin Courneya 6'1" | PG Win-E-Mac | 2024 State MN of WIn-E-Mac (sr)
Dominic Fairbanks Dominic Fairbanks 5'10" | PG Cass Lake-Bena | 2024 State MN of Cass Lake-Bena (sr)
Lewis Jones Lewis Jones 5'9" | PG Goodridge/Grygla-Gatzke | 2024 State MN of Goodridge/Grygla-Gatzke (Sr)
Kaydin Lee Kaydin Lee 5'10" | SG Cass Lake-Bena | 2024 MN of Cass Lake-Bena (sr)
Caiden Swenby Caiden Swenby 6'3" | SG Fertile-Beltrami | 2024 State MN of Fertile-Beltrami (sr)
Second Team
Josiah Sundby Josiah Sundby 5'6" | PG Sacred Heart | 2024 State MN of Sacred Heart (sr)
Derek Sorenson Derek Sorenson 5'11" | SG Fertile-Beltrami | 2024 State MN of Fertile-Beltrami (sr)
Gerald Kingbird Jr Gerald Kingbird Jr 5'9" | PG Red Lake | 2024 State MN of Red Lake (sr)
Everett Nelson Everett Nelson 6'2" | SF Marshall County Central | 2025 State MN of Northern Freeze (jr)
Ryan Kangas Ryan Kangas 6'5" | PF Win-E-Mac | 2024 State MN of Win-E-Mac (sr)
Third Team
Kingsley Whitebird of Cass Lake-Bena (jr)
Parker Erickson of Sacred Heart (jr)
Owen Chervestad Owen Chervestad 6'0" | PG Red Lake County | 2025 State MN of Red Lake County (jr)
Blake Rychlock of Goodridge/Grygla-Gatzke (sr)
Connor Durden of Red Lake County (soph)
8A Breakdown
The obligation feels like Sacred Heart should be the pick here. They have went to state the last two years playing better team basketball than the rest of the group making the best use of their talent. And they return two double figure scorers although they lose a couple key pieces as well. But once again Cass Lake-Bena tempts us because they have so much talent and they have a packed schedule of games that they often win. They bring back more talent than any team in Class A besides Cherry. Then you have Fertile-Beltrami who won 22 games last season and bring just above everything. They are also a top ten level team and you feel the need to pick them as well because of their winning and because of what is back. Plus Win-E-Mac, Red Lake and GGG are talented too!