The Wright County East Preview

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Holy Family won the league a season ago but this year Delano and Southwest Christian seem to be in the best spot to win the league. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Conference Commentary</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten in State</strong>: Delano, Southwest Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Delano consistently finds role players to mix well with their stars and they go out and win games. Often, a lot of games. And we think they will win a lot this year with Iversen and Schultz are scoring big with Longstreet doing a lot of the defending, rebounding and doing active staff. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Southwest Christian will be the deepest team in terms of experienced players returning that are good players. They have six of their top eight back including three double figures scorers. This is a top ten team in Class AA that can even dream of section and state in addition to league. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Ten Potential</strong>: Mound-Westonka</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Mound-Westonka returns their top couple players and six of their top eight guys overall. They are a senior dominated group with big goals and they are a well coached team that we expect to have a strong 24-25. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Compete with Most</strong>: Holy Family, Hutchinson, Jordan</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Fire have some up and coming size, some veteran guards, and some up and coming players. This isn't likely to be a state run but it should be a competitive sneaky team. Hutchinson lost of a lot of scoring but they do have a big and some guards back. They have a big senior class but can they get back to 17 wins? Jordan went young last season and it was tough in league play but they should be a more competitive team this winter.</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) Delano</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(2) Southwest Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(3) Mound-Westonka</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(4) Holy Family</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(5) Jordan</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>(6) Hutchinson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Preseason All Wright County East</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>First Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1560739' first='Max' last='Iversen'] of Delano (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1585944' first='Max' last='Kraay'] of Mound-Westonka (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1582111' first='Jake' last='Schultz'] of Delano (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2103376' first='Brayden' last='Beckering'] of Southwest Christian (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1213758' first='Andrew' last='Coleman'] of Holy Family (Jr)</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='2434741' first='Cole' last='Drill'] of Mound-Westonka (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2175457' first='Isaac' last='Tollefson'] of Southwest Christian (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1436459' first='Nathan' last='Johnson'] of Hutchinson (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2478376' first='Jack' last='Burke'] of Southwest Christian (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1560806' first='Mitchell' last='Schmidt'] of Jordan (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Third Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2103353' first='JJ' last='Longstreet'] of Delano (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Lexyn Groff of Jordan (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jacob Orenge of Mound-Westonka (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2104525' first='Matthew' last='Mobagi'] of Mound-Westonka (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Drew Mertens of Southwest Christian (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Fourth Team</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Brady Larson of Hutchinson (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hayden Guggemos of Holy Family (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Brayden Davis of Jordan (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2447536' first='Jed' last='Streed'] of Southwest Christian (Jr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2822483' first='Hayden' last='Kloos'] of Holy Family (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Brenden Sexton of Mound-Westonka (Sr)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->