The Northern Lakes Preview

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Northern Lakes conference is a five team league that Littlefork-Big Falls was the best in as they had the lone winning record. Things should be more feisty this year. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Conference Commentary</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten Potential</strong>: Littlefork-Big Falls</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Littlefork-Big Falls won 17 games last season and they return their best three players. Section 7A is going to be a good Section playoff set and they should be right there keeping it interesting. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Compete with Most</strong>: Northland, Nashwauk-Keewatin, Hill City</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If Northland can defend better they push past the ten wins they had a season ago. They return two of their best players and should hit at least .500 this year, but they have to stop giving teams so many points. Nashwauk-Keewatin won seven games a season ago and lost their best player. That said, they do have a decent part of the rotation back so ten wins at least seems right. Hill City split with Nashwauk-Keewatin last year but Hill City won the second game, they are bigger, and they have a bit more back. Northland and Hill City split last year as well with Northland winning the second game. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Rebuilding: </strong>Bigfork</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Bigfork was a four win team a season ago but they only lost a couple guys so they should be more competitive. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>24-25 Conference Prediction</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(1) Littlefork-Big Falls</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(2) Northland</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(3) Hill City</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(4) Nashwauk-Keewatin</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(5) Bigfork</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Preseason Northern Lakes</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>First Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Thomas Larson of Littlefork-Big Falls (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jacob Roper of Hill City (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A.J. Knaeble of Littlefork-Big Falls (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jamison Wood of Northland (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Warren McLouden of Nashwauk-Keewatin (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Matthew Washburn of Hill City (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Second Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Caiden Rahier of Bigfork (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Anthony Robinson of Northland (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2112960' first='Jax' last='Sullivan'] Littlefork-Big Falls (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Ladainian Evans of Nashwauk-Keewatin (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jaeger Ahonen of Hill City (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Noah Calhoun of Bigfork (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->