Section 7AAA: First Look

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Section 7AAA might have been hit as hard by graduation as any section that I can recently remember. It's going to be a wide, wide open league. </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>When it comes to sections getting hit the hardest by graduation, 7AAA might be right at the top.&nbsp; Chisago Lakes lost nearly all of their key contributors, Hermantown lost most of their key pieces, and while they have standouts back and should be solid teams, North Branch and Denfeld lost several starters as well.&nbsp; Throw in 18 win Rock Ridge and struggling Grand Rapids losing senior starters and this section is going to have a lot of fresh faces in starting line-ups.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Cloquet feels like the team with most of the rotation back but they really, really struggled against teams in this section. They were 0-7 against the top five seeds in the section last year meaning they need to correct that to think about a section title.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2104446' first='Tyler' last='Minke'] of North Branch and [player_tooltip player_id='2104431' first='Marnaries' last='Ferguson'] of Duluth Denfeld are going to be two of the best talents in this section so we expect their teams to be near the top plus [player_tooltip player_id='2466467' first='Lance' last='Janson'] of Hermantown is a player that we think will move into a big role.  [player_tooltip player_id='2126126' first='Ray' last='Brau'] of Hibbing and [player_tooltip player_id='1560804' first='Joey' last='Sutherland'] of Grand Rapids are good players but do they have enough around them to take the next steps as a team?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top 3 7AAA Players</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2126126' first='Ray' last='Brau'] of Hibbing</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2104431' first='Marnaries' last='Ferguson'] of Duluth Denfeld</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1560804' first='Joey' last='Sutherland'] of Grand Rapids</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>North Branch (14-14)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Duluth Denfeld (15-12)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hibbing (4-23)</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>Chisago Lakes Area (22-9)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hermantown (21-8)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Rock Ridge (18-10)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Transfer In</em>: none that I know</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Transfer Out</em>: none that I know</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->