Northern Lights Lacrosse MBSLA North All-Conference Team

In what is sure to produce some amount of controversy, the MBSLA just released their 2011 all-conference and all-state teams.  In the North Conference, Duluth was left completely off the all-conference list.  There were no Duluth players named to the 1st or 2nd team or the Honorable Mention list.  Unfortunately, the Duluth players paid for the Duluth officials, who were contacted to participate in the all-conference selection, lack of involvement.


MBSLA officials exercised due diligence in contacting team officials and setting up a conference call to select the all-conference teams.  Duluth failed to respond to any of the communications.  It's unfortunate that the players, who earned the right to be recognized on an all-conference team, were penalized due to this indifference.  An all-conference team without any players from a team that finished the season 3-1 in conference, finished with an overall record of 7-3 and clearly had some very good players simply cannot be considered as meaningful as a team fully represented by the entire conference.  Again, Duluth is clearly at fault, but it's the players who must pay unfortunately. 


In light of this situation, Northern Lights Lacrosse made an effort to name an MBSLA North all-conference team that more fairly represents the entire conference.  Of course our effort wasn't perfect just as any other effort like this that introduces subjectivity is never perfect.  We realize that our Honorable Mention list is way too large, but we did want to recognize those players that may have been bumped off the 2nd team with the addition of more players to the team.  We really didn't have great justification for bumping them off the second team and weren't familiar enough with the names already on the Honorable Mention list and wanted to be sure they were recognized for their efforts as well.


So, with the admission that nothing is perfect, here is the 2011 Northern Lights Lacrosse MBSLA North All-Conference team.  Please feel free to comment:

2011 MBSLA North All Conference
1st Team		2nd Team
Attack		Attack
Mike Whitson, Jr. - St. Cloud North		Andrew Lindmeier, So. - St. Cloud North
Zach Thompson, Sr. - Duluth		Steven Halver, Jr. - Duluth
Zach Brown, Sr. - Brainerd		Tanner Lindstrom, So. - Fargo
Mid-Field		Mid-Field
Jake Reichenbach, Sr. - Brainerd		Beau Hughes, So. - Duluth
Keith Haymaker, Sr. - Brainerd		Ian Wieczorek, Sr. - Duluth
Mike Hillman, Sr. - Duluth		Aaron Monson, Jr. - Fargo
Defense		Defense
Nate Pratt, Sr. - Duluth		Mark Torgerson, Sr. - Brainerd
Tyler Kohnen, Sr. - St. Cloud North		Justin Kremer, Jr. - St. Cloud North
Tyler Minkel, So. - St. Cloud North		John Babick, Sr. - Duluth
Long Stick Mid-Field		Long Stick Mid-Field
Matt Mensinger, Jr. - Duluth		Ben Berghuis, Sr. - Brainerd
Goalie		Goalie
Tyler Olson, Sr. - Duluth		Alex Hoalupczok, Sr. - St. Cloud North
Face-Off Mid-Field		Face-Off Mid-Field
Christian Murray, Jr. - St. Cloud North		Kristian Haymaker, Fr. - Brainerd
Honorable Mention -  Ben Dunnell (A) Grand Rapids, Brandon Kruse (A) St. Cloud North, Mitch Howieson (A) Brainerd, Cameron Waby (A) Brainerd, Henry Roningen (M) Duluth, Trevor Clark (M) Duluth, Jack Maddy (M) Duluth, Ryan Bidinger (M) St. Cloud North, Zach Peterson (M) St. Cloud North, John Kirick (M) St. Cloud North, Michael Kringle (M) Fargo, Brody Geisler (M) Grand Rapids, Ben Noah (M) Fargo, Jeremy Young (M) Brainerd, Adam Casperson (M) Brainerd, Nevada Shelton, (LSM) Duluth, Tucker Isaacson (LSM) St. Cloud North, John McGillis (D) Brainerd, Daniel Evenson (D) Fargo, Zach Brist (D) Grand Rapids, Jake North (D) Duluth, John Deelstra (D) Fargo, Zach Caldwell (D) Brainerd, Kevin Lechner (G) Brainerd, Joe Noah (G) Fargo