Section 3AA: First Look

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A young Jackson County Central team fought their way to state a year ago, can they do it again?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading --> <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Summer Summary</strong></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The South was a two team race last year between Redwood Valley and Jackson County Central and that will continue this season.&nbsp; JCC made the state tournament last year and they did it with three sophomores playing key roles last year.&nbsp; Those sophomores return with [player_tooltip player_id='1601069' first='Roman' last='Voss'] pushing to be an All State First Team player in Class AA.&nbsp; But Redwood Valley has one of the elite 1-2 punches in Class AA basketball with [player_tooltip player_id='2104527' first='Lukas' last='Means'] and [player_tooltip player_id='2288333' first='Elway' last='Berg'].&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Graduation could make the North a two team race as well.&nbsp; Eden Valley-Watkins, Paynesville, New London-Spicer and KMS will all need young players to step up and the team to have great chemistry to be able to make up for the graduation losses they suffered.&nbsp; Meanwhile, Montevideo returns a few of their best players as does Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta.&nbsp; All in all there is some very good basketball in AA and the champ will be up for grabs.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top 3 3AA Players</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2118471' first='Riley' last='Asmus'] of Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2104527' first='Lukas' last='Means'] of Redwood Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1601069' first='Roman' last='Voss'] of Jackson County Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Three Teams That Should Improve Their Record</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Montevideo (21-7)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jackson County Central (22-9)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Morris Area (20-10)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Three Teams That Might Not Match Last Year's Win Total</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Eden Valley-Watkins (24-5)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>KMS (15-11)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Paynesville Area (22-6)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->