The Lake Superior Preview

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hermantown was undefeated in the league last year and they enter 2023-24 as the preseason favorite once again. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Conference Commentary</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten in State:</strong> Hermantown</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hermantown has three key guys back from last season. They should be the class of the league with Soumis and Hill although there is some "what could have been" going on there as there was a moment they looked to have the roster that could shoot for a state title. But this team will still be very good. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten in State Potential:</strong> Superior</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>They might be top ten in Wisconsin, I have no idea. I just know they have two really good players coming back. For the rest of the information you likely have to go to Mark Miller to truly know the depths of this team. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Compete with Most</strong>: Denfeld, Grand Rapids, Duluth Marshall</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Denfeld will be very good and maybe they could surprise and be better than many even thought! Maybe earn a league title? Maybe sneak into the top ten? Should be fun. Grand Rapids should be a bit better and with [player_tooltip player_id='1139244' first='Brooks' last='Johnson'], Duluth Marshall should be able to compete a bit more than year than last season. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Rebuilding</strong>: Proctor, Cloquet, Hibbing</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hibbing should take a step forward in year two of the rebuilding stage, they have a young star in Brau plus Cary returning. Proctor and Cloquet likely have a year that could have some lumps taken, but they have some good players so they won't walked over as they have a lot of new guys on the floor. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>23-24 Lake Superior Conference Predictions</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} --> <ol><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Hermantown</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Superior</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Duluth Denfeld</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Grand Rapids</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Cloquet</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Duluth Marshall</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Hibbing</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>Proctor</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ol> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Preseason All Lake Superior Conference</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>First Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1574223' first='Calvin' last='Armstrong'] of Superior (soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2104431' first='Marnaries' last='Ferguson'] of Duluth Denfeld (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1139244' first='Brooks' last='Johnson'] of Duluth Marshall (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tre Saniger of Superior (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1887739' first='Abraham' last='Soumis'] of Hermantown (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Second Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2223320' first='Aidan' last='Altona'] of Duluth Denfeld (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2104541' first='Jack' last='Battaglia'] of Cloquet (soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1418945' first='Nathan' last='Hill'] of Hermantown (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Josh Sinnott of Proctor (jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2126126' first='Ray' last='Brau'] of Hibbing (fr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Third Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Finley Cary of Hibbing (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2175490' first='Wylee' last='Dauenbaugh'] of Grand Rapids (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Peyton Menzel of Hermantown (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>DaShawn Moore of Duluth Denfeld (sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Joseph Sutherland of Grand Rapids (soph)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->