Class A and AA Team Ranking Update Week 2

<p>OK, our pre-season rankings in Class A and AA—and I should add, Class AAA as well—are a mess. There’s no way to sugar coat it. #1A Goodhue, #2AA Minnehaha, #3AA Roseau and, again, I must add, #1AAA DeLaSalle all lost in the early going. So there are lots of changes to report in our rankings. (For the record, I’m doing A and AA, Grant is doing AAA and AAAA.) Here are some of the big games and upsets that gave us pause to reconsider our rankings.</p> <p>• #1A Goodhue lost to Class AAA Red Wing in Red Wing’s tip-off tournament 46-39. The Wingers followed up by losing to #5AAA Northfield by just 1 point, so that’s not a particularly bad loss. So, Goodhue remains at #1A.</p> <p>* #2A Heritage Christian played in the Breakdown Tip-Off Saturday and laid an egg, losing to Wheaton 63-40. The game actually went to running time before it tightened up at the end. Heritage was playing without guard Taylie Scott, but she will be back for the rest of the season. Still, they drop to #9 and need to earn their way back up.</p> <p>• #2AA Minnehaha took a bad loss at the Dover-Eyota tournament, losing to Zumbrota-Mazeppa 69-67. They then also took a good loss, 68-62 at Holy Angels. The Red Hawks drop to #5.</p> <p>#3AA Roseau is without 6-2 senior post Victoria Johnson, and lost a couple games in last weekend’s trip to the metro. They lost at St. Francis on Friday 68-56, then to Minnehaha 68-52 on Saturday. The Rams drop to #6.</p> <p>• #7AA Rochester Lourdes took a couple of not-bad losses at St. Thomas after Thanksgiving. Well, the loss to Holy Angels was not such a bad loss until you look at the score, 72-37. Still, Lourdes stays at #7.</p> <p>• #8A SW Christian took a not-bad loss 83-79 in OT at AAA Marshall and stays at #8.</p> <p>• #8AA Eden Valley Watkins lost to then-#10AA section rival New London Spicer 48-41. EVW drops to #9 while NLS moves up to #8.</p> <p>• #9AA Annandale was crushed by Sauk Centre 78-46 at the Breakdown and drops out of the top 20. We found out that senior forward Kamryn D’Heilly has retired from basketball to concentrate on volleyball.</p> <p>We’re not going to list all the losses by teams in our second 10s but here are some key ones.</p> <p>• #4A Hayfield did not lose but #19A Minneota and #15AA Tracy-Milroy-Balaton did—to Hayfield, both of them. So you could say Hayfield had a pretty good season-opening road trip. Hayfield moves up to #3A, but Minneota also moves up to #16A because it won big in its other games and so many other Class A teams lost.</p> <p>• #12AA St. Peter lost a pair to Glencoe-SL and Worthington and drops out of the top 20.</p> <p>• #13A Sleepy Eye, #16A Mayer Lutheran and #18A BOLD also lost a pair of games each and drop out of the top 20.</p> <p><strong>So, in Summary…</strong></p> <p>Our biggest gainers on the week are Wabasso, which moved from #25A to #18A after beating then #13A Sleepy Eye 52-49; and Concordia Academy, which moved from #20AA to #15AA after beating Fridley and SW Christian.</p> <p>Our biggest droppers are Annandale from #9AA out of the top 20, and Sleepy Eye, from #13A out of the top 20.</p> <p>New to our top 20s are Sacred Heart at #19A with 3 wins, one a great win over Class AA Crookston; and Pine City and Zumbrota-Mazeppa at #17AA and #18AA. Pine City won a pair, while ZM won 3 of 4, including that upset on Minnehaha. They lost only to Lyle/Pacelli, not a bad loss.</p> <p>Dropping out of our top 20s are Sleepy Eye, Mayer Lutheran and BOLD in Class A, and Annandale and St. Peter in Class AA.</p> <p>A few other notable games include MIB over Cromwell and Cromwell over Cherry in Section 7A, Sephen-Argyle over Pequot Lakes 66-62, and Barnesville over Thief River Falls 64-59.</p> <p>Our Class A and AA team rankings are located under the High School pull-down menu.</p>