Section 8A Profile: Red Lake County vs Fertile-Beltrami

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Red Lake County and Fertle-Beltrami have a lot of talent back and will be top ten teams in Class A. When they play it's must see.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Super Summary</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The first thing that needs to be pointed out is that Red Lake County smacked Fertile-Beltrami last year 81-53. It wasn't close. That said, Fertile-Beltrami has their top four guys back from a 24-6 team while Red Lake County has five of their top nine back from a state bound 31-3 team. Red Lake County was better last year, Fertile-Beltrami brings more back. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Owen Chervestad is now playing for Minnesota-Crookston but RLC still has Connor Dudun and Will Gieske who were double figure scorers last season. The Falcons have ALL their top pieces back including [player_tooltip player_id='1560792' first='Preston' last='Hanson'] [player_tooltip player_id='2434178' first='Drew' last='Gullickson'], and Gage Henrickson. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The difference here is size vs guards. RLC is short size, Fertile-Beltrami is a big team but can't match the guard play. Which team has the edge? Seems close but.... 81-53!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Who can stop these teams from getting to state? Kittson County Central, Stephen-Argyle, Northern Freeze and Win-E-Mac. KCC and Stephen-Argyle are coming off of good years and should be ready for the challenge while Northern Freeze and Wni-E-Mac had losing records but will take steps forward. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top 3 8A Players</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1628768' first='Connor' last='Duden'] of Red Lake County</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2139200' first='Joe' last='Courneya'] of Win-E-Mac</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1560792' first='Preston' last='Hanson'] of Fertile-Beltrami</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Three Teams That Should Improve Their Record</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Fertile-Beltrami (24-6 last year)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Northern Freeze (12-15 last season)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Win-E-Mac (10-18 last season)</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>Mahnomen/Waubun (8-17 last year)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Red Lake County (31-3 a year ago)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Fosston (13-14 last season)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->