Byers Verbals, All Tournament, Coaching Awards, Polls

#1 posting 11.10.2008
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VERBALS
Shannon Byers of Faribault has verballed South Carolina Aiken. The OH played with Northern Lights 17-2 last year.
Byers is the 24th player overall in the 2009 Minnesota class to verbal and the 12th headed to a D2 program.

STATE TOURNAMENT RECAPS
Here are some of the reports from the papers that don't publish on Sundays---
A
The Worthington Daily Globe has details on #2 Windom's win over #1 Bethlehem Academy.

The West Central Tribune has more on #4 Ada-Borup's win over #3 BBE.

AA
The Marshall Independent has more depth to the story on the AA Championship where #1 Jordan beat #2 Marshall.

ALL TOURNAMENT
Here are the A, AA and AAA all Tournament teams.

COACHING AWARDS
Here are the coach of the year for each section in each class
A
1 Franz Boelter, Bethlehem Academy
2 Stef Dietz, Sleepy Eye St. Mary's
3 Ron Wendorff, Windom
4 Greg Sayak, SW Christian Chaska
5 Kevin Weller, BBE
6 Ruth Hayden, Ada-Borup
7 Connie Boyum-Ezar, Deer River
8 Missy Thompson, Northern

AA
1 Scott Koepke, Caledonia
2 Dave Nixon, LeSueur-Henderson
3 Dan Westby, Marshall
4 Tom Kivel, Minnehaha
5 Rebecca Rue, Delano
6 Ted Farber, Rocori
7 Gail Nucech, Hibbing
8 Dan Christensen, Perham

AAA
1 Mike Woody, Farmington
2 Mike Dean, Prior Lake
3 Becky Egan, Eastview
4 Michelle Parker, Stillwater
5 Bill Quan, Osseo
6 Scott Jackson, Wayzata
7 Beth Joki, Grand Rapids
8 John Yunker, STMA

Here are the assistant coaches
A
1 Kelsey Anderson, Mabel-Canton
2 Wendy Owens, Sleepy Eye St. Mary's
3. Gene Lovell, Windom
4. Leah Rudzitis, Meadow Creek
5 Heidi Wormley, Nevis
6 Breanne Marshall, Barnesville
7 Tina Bonestell, Deer River
8 Missy Foslein, Fosston

AA
1 Laura Threinen Byron
2 Lyle Noah, Belle Plaine
3 Jon Hegerle, Marshall
4 Amanda Daninger, Concordia Roseville
5 Jen Traeger, Melrose
8 Eryn Anderson-Moser, Perham

AAA
1 John Kaytor, Owatonna
2 Tim Carroll, Hutchinson
3 Jeff Groves, Apple Valley
4 Joshua Mattison, North St. Paul
5 Becky Amann, Blaine
6 Gary Anderson, Hopkins


POLLS
Here are the MaxPreps all class polls for Nov. 10. Shakopee is #1 to no one's surprise.
If you extrapolated them out by class
AAA
1. Shakopee
2. Eastview
3. Chaska
4. Lakeville North
5. STMA
6. Alexandria
7. Lakeville South
8. Woodbury
9. Blaine
10. Andover

AA
1. Jordan
2. Marshall
3. Jackson County Central
4. Hibbing
5. St. Cloud Cathedral
6. Delano
7. LeSueur-Henderson
8. Belle Plaine
9. Yellow Medicine East
10. Worthington

A
1. Windom
2. Bethlehem Academy
3. BBE
4. Minneota
5. Ada-Borup
6. Mabel-Canton
7. Wabasha-Kellogg
8. SW Christian Chaska
9. SW Star
10. Murray County Central

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