Minnesota Basketball News November Issue

Maybe I'm just impatient this year because Shelby is a senior, but it seems like everything is being mailed later this year! The Breakdown, first issue of Minnesota Basketball News and still waiting for Kevin Anderson's Minnesota Yearbook to become available! That's my favorite one too! Oh well, something to look forward to....

And the first issue of Minnesota Basketball News came on my birthday and I won a sweepstakes on my birthday too, so not a bad day!

So....onto the current MBN issue. Here is what is in it that pertains to Bigfork this year:

Minnesota Basketball News' Girls' Polls

Class 1A

1. Ada-Borup
2. Barnum
3. New Life Academy
4. Adrian
5. New Ulm Cathedral
6. Murray County Central
7. BIGFORK
8. Brandon-Evansville
9. Ashby
10. Red Lake County Central
11. Cedar Mountain-Comfrey
12. Granada-Huntley-EC
13. Sebeka
14. Rushford-Peterson
15. Grand Meadow
16. Red Rock Central
17. Fulda
18. Hancock
19. Nashwauk-Keewatin (Section 7A)
20. Parkers Prairie

The Top 100 - State's Elite on the Court

They have 24 Centers, 23 Forwards and 53 Guards

There are only two from Section 7A-

Shelby Goble, Bigfork (5-6 Sr.) Will move to point guard this year. and
Charlotte Overbye, Mountain Iron-Buhl (5-8 So.) Emerged as a big scorer.

Wrenshalls' Andrea Gould is one of the Centers
Barnum's Katrina Newman is another Guard

On the preview page of Class 1A - Section 7 they have the following

The Starting 5

Teams- 1. BIGFORK 2. Nashwauk-Keewatin 3. Mountain Iron-Buhl 4. Floodwood 5. Chisholm
Players- Shelby Goble, Bigfork, Andrea Gould, Wrenshall, Essa Jacobsen, Cook County, Charlotte Overbye, Mountain Iron-Buhl and Risa Valentini, Chisholm

Coaches:

M. Ciochetto, Chisholm 512-233
G. Powell, BIGFORK 261-160
R. Scheuring, Cook 198-138
D. Battaglia, Carlton 163-128
J. Buffeta, MIB 155-92

They also have an action shot of Shelby on the page under the caption: "Top Teams have strong junior group"

Greg's Coaching Outlook: "We are looking for another successful year with four returning starters who averaged double figures in scoring. We should have good quickness and shooting. We have played good defense in the past and expect it to continue. We will need to develop depth, but we have some good young girls coming up." - Greg Powell

Quote: "This section should be led by Bigfork, Nashwauk-Keewatin and Floodwood. They return the nucleus of last year's team, which made it to the semifinals." Jeff Buffeta, Mountain Iron-Buhl