First Look: 3AAA
Teams Holy Angels. Bring back 3 of top 4 guys off an 8 win team. Big year. Bloomington Kennedy. Drop down, could make state year one. Richfield. Spartans are led by good coaches, they will turn it around. Simley. Lost…
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Holy Angels. Bring back 3 of top 4 guys off an 8 win team. Big year. Bloomington Kennedy. Drop down, could make state year one.
Richfield. Spartans are led by good coaches, they will turn it around.
Simley. Lost so much, but Stensgard & Binley will produce.
S St. Paul. What can you say, they've been struggling for 25 years.
St. Paul Highland Park. Sneaky good team that returns good players.
St. Thomas. New coach, Chaffee, and varsity bench will combine.
St. Paul Harding. The Knights need an insurgence, will this be it?
Ten Thoughts
- Holy Angels won eight games a year ago, but brings back 3 of their top 4 guys. Schedule wasn't ultra difficult. Tough to know what they will be. Like Boehne and their frontcourt.
- Kennedy has to make a run here. They will be the most athletic team, Markel Aune won't have a guy that can step over on him, and Coach Braziel knows how to get a team together for a run.
- The section overall. We are talking about top teams contending that won single games a year ago, and then the best teams from a year ago lost just about every starter.
- This is the type of section where just about everybody, or everybody will lose double figure games and they will still win the thing.
- It's the type of section that coaches look at and say “man, we really have a chance. We were better last year, but have a better chance this year”.
- Highland Park, watch out for them. Team has some athletes, experience, and toughness. They could sneak up on you!
- Back in the day, John Aune of the Gophers and Mark Aune of A&A Millwork will always asked if they were related. In this same section you have Josh Aune of Highland Park (John's cousin) and Markell Aune (Mark's grandson). No they aren't related either.
- Nate Chafee and Jack Stensgard. After so many years playing with the graduated guys, they must feel like old veterans all alone now. Both are high character solid players. Nate has more returning varsity teammates, Jack may have the best in Jake Binley.
- I feel bad harassing or whatever South St. Paul. Mom said if you don't have anything nice to say…. But it's been so long since they have had a competitive team. You just hope they can put some Ws together this year.
- Richfield's guys will turn it around. Good, hard working guys. It's going to happen sooner than later.
Section Team
Markell Aune, Kennedy
Jake Binley, Simley
Sam Boehne, Holy Angels
Josh Bryant, Kennedy
Nate Chaffee, St. Thomas
Amitri Collins-Westlund, Highland Park
Khari Dennis, Highland Park
Jack Stensgard, Simley
TJ Wright, St. Thomas