All-Star games scheduled for Friday, April 19 in the Sanford Pentagon at Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS — Nine area seniors have been selected to play in the South Dakota Basketball Coaches Assocaition-Pentagon All-Star Basketball Games on Friday, April 19.
The boys will play at 6 p.m. and the girls at 8 p.m. in the Sanford Pentagon. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students.
Player of the Year candidates will be unveiled daily on the Sanford Sports Complex social media channels beginning on Monday, April 8. Winners will be announced at halftime of each game.
Dylon Rawdon of Watertown, Lane Tvedt of Castlewood, Layne Cotton of Faulkton Area, Alec Squires of Sioux Valley, Lane Tietz of Groton Area, George Jensen of De Smet, Maxwell Engebretson of Sioux Valley and Tyson Stevenson of Hamlin will play in the boys' game and Caylin Kelly of Florence-Henry the girls' game.
Boys Blue Team
Players include Rawdon, Tvedt, Cotton, Squires, Nicolas Marshall of White River, Gavin Soukup of Mitchell, Matt Anderson of Canton, Daniel Mitchell of Gregory, Jacob Mehrman of Harrisburg and Tage Ortman of Canistota.
Ryker Kreutzfeldt of Mitchell is the head coach and Cole Knippling of Parkston the assistant.
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Boys White Team
Tietz, Jensen, Engebretson, Stevenson, Jaxson Wingert of Dakota Valley, Braeden VanBockern of Harrisburg, Kurt Koepsell of Howard, Porter Inhen of Lennox, Jackson Schaer of Faith and Hayden Goff of Sioux Falls Roosevelt.
Kyle Courtney of Rapid City Christian is the head coach and Cody Lawrence of Timber Lake the assistant.
Girls Blue Team
Kelly, Mahli Abdouch of O'Gorman, Claire Sheppard of Flandreau, Sawyer Stoebner of Mitchell, Maggie Taylor of Hill City, Megan Reiner of Tripp-Delmont/Armour, Courtney Sees of Avon, Mara Grant of Tea Area, Jaidyn Dunn of Sioux Falls Jefferson and Abby Flanagan of Harrisburg.
Tucker Tornberg of Centerville is the head coach and Dave Brooks of Mitchell the assistant.
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Girls White Team
Emilee Fox of Mount Vernon-Plankinton, Abby Aslesen of Howard, Katie Vasecka of Tea Area, Skyler Volmer of Lyman, Avery Orth of Wessington Springs, Lily Klein of Flandreau, Ava Lingemann of Ethan, Paige Kjerstad of Wall, Reese Terwilliger of Pierre and Hamtyn Heinz of Huron.
Jon Brooks of Vermillion is the head coach and Tyler Husby of Colman-Egan the assistant.
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