best teams in west tennessee

[soccerfreak92]

Who's supposed to be the best teams in west tennessee this upcoming season?

[loveusasoccer]

Another year, another stacked CBHS team. This year's team should be better than last year's squad. Last year's team lacked leadership and composure early, but they were able to use their superior depth to take home their second title in two years. That shouldn't be a problem this year. Once again CBHS will be strong at forward with Banks, Bran, Svgdik, and Wickham. Their real depth is in their midfield. They have more quality midfielders than other teams have quality players in general. Matthews, Wilson, Gardea, Kauker, Palonia, Silver, Reddick, etc, etc. They also have strength on their backline. Roberts, Tarver, Burdette, Owens. Not sold yet on their keeper Healy, but you can't overlook his success.(2 state titles in high school and 5 in club). Rogerio goes into the season with 5 regional ODP players. Most teams don't have 5 ODP state players. Franklin their all everything midfielder will be their most significant loss.

MUS will also be tough again this year. Defensive stars Matt Montsinger and Toby Baker will again have to keep the defense organized and aggressive with the loss of Utkov in the back. Luckily, the Owls should be much better offensively this year. Henke, Kaline, Levy, and Camuti should give the Owls nice skills throughout the frontline and central midfield. Graduating seniors, Baker and Utkov, especially Utkov, will be tough to replace.

ECS is loaded again with Gagnon, Wilson, Chenault, Crockarell. They will miss Vander Voort's scoring(over 30 goals last season) and Linn's overall great play, but in their division, they will be extremely tough.

SBA will be a better with the rumored return of Ryan Ashielman, to help Wagner and Tucci. They just don't have a lot of depth.

The biggest team hit from graduation will be Briarcrest. Losing 8 seniors( Pacileo, Davis, Hendrik, Stimpson) and having Ballard graduate early and join the Creighton soccer team for the spring is going to leave the Saints in a rebuilding position. This season the Saints will lean on Golightly, and West. They have other hard working players. They will need to really unite as a team and just out work teams to have success.

St. George's also took a hit with graduation, losing midfield playmakers Sims and Schneider among others. They return a pretty solid group though and Nate Sims is a very nice player.

My Public school opinions tomorrow

[firecrotch12]

I hear from a good source that gibson county has a very talented squad this year, many returning upperclassmen. Dyersburg may have a challenger for the district crown this year.

[soccerfreak92]

Gibson county? From what I heard they have been terrible in the past few years, and now they are actually good this season?

[bigredone83]

Another year, another stacked CBHS team. This year's team should be better than last year's squad. Last year's team lacked leadership and composure early, but they were able to use their superior depth to take home their second title in two years. That shouldn't be a problem this year. Once again CBHS will be strong at forward with Banks, Bran, Svgdik, and Wickham. Their real depth is in their midfield. They have more quality midfielders than other teams have quality players in general. Matthews, Wilson, Gardea, Kauker, Palonia, Silver, Reddick, etc, etc. They also have strength on their backline. Roberts, Tarver, Burdette, Owens. Not sold yet on their keeper Healy, but you can't overlook his success.(2 state titles in high school and 5 in club). Rogerio goes into the season with 5 regional ODP players. Most teams don't have 5 ODP state players. Franklin their all everything midfielder will be their most significant loss.

MUS will also be tough again this year. Defensive stars Matt Montsinger and Toby Baker will again have to keep the defense organized and aggressive with the loss of Utkov in the back. Luckily, the Owls should be much better offensively this year. Henke, Kaline, Levy, and Camuti should give the Owls nice skills throughout the frontline and central midfield. Graduating seniors, Baker and Utkov, especially Utkov, will be tough to replace.

ECS is loaded again with Gagnon, Wilson, Chenault, Crockarell. They will miss Vander Voort's scoring(over 30 goals last season) and Linn's overall great play, but in their division, they will be extremely tough.

SBA will be a better with the rumored return of Ryan Ashielman, to help Wagner and Tucci. They just don't have a lot of depth.

The biggest team hit from graduation will be Briarcrest. Losing 8 seniors( Pacileo, Davis, Hendrik, Stimpson) and having Ballard graduate early and join the Creighton soccer team for the spring is going to leave the Saints in a rebuilding position. This season the Saints will lean on Golightly, and West. They have other hard working players. They will need to really unite as a team and just out work teams to have success.

St. George's also took a hit with graduation, losing midfield playmakers Sims and Schneider among others. They return a pretty solid group though and Nate Sims is a very nice player.

My Public school opinions tomorrow

 

 

CBHS easily will be the top team in the state, if not the region. With the talent and Rogerio as a coach, I would love to see the team that beats them.

[loveusasoccer]

The Public schools in the Memphis area should have quite a battle this year. Most every traditional powerhouse team in the area is pumped for the season to begin.

Collierville seems to think they are the team to beat. Their young talent from the past couple years will be put to the test. Collierville lost a pretty strong and deep senior class from last year. Hensley- Carson Newman, McCalister- CBU, and Thornbury- Central College are all playing college soccer. Those young men plus the twins, Michael Stewart and Thomas Hipps who all gave Collierville experienced and quality players all over the field last year are gone. Luckily, they return some quality players Lesnick, Carbognani, and others. I'm just not sure if they will be as good as last year.

Houston should be better than last year. They were young last year and continued to improve as the year went along. Their big question mark is the health of their keeper, Simota. He was hurt in August and has just started back. He is set to play college ball at Delta State next fall, but not sure if he will be at his best during high school season. Luckily, the Mustangs have one of the best back lines returning with Dee, Vanderburg and company. Rumor has it that Blankenship will be moving to an offensive position this season. That should really help the attack that was a little inconsistent last year. Houston has better depth than they have the last couple years so things should go pretty well for them this year.

White Station will again be strong. They don't have a great deal of big name players, but Felsenthal is really strong in the middle. They also have Cohen and Shibata on defense and Edelman in goal, so defensively they look good. Losing Brown and Jono is going to be tough though.

Germantown returns most of their players. Forman and the Hughes boys along with Hanisco will keep them in a lot of games. They lost they keeper and will need to find a replacement.

Central is really excited once again about their team. They return most of their players from last year, with Will Vaughn leading the way. Should be a strong season for them.

Cordova was hit hard with graduation. Look for them to slide a little this season.

I have no idea about Kingsbury, but hey keep coming up with a pretty good squad though

 

Good luck to all.

[JOE23]

I hear from a good source that gibson county has a very talented squad this year, many returning upperclassmen. Dyersburg may have a challenger for the district crown this year.

While I appreciate a positive attitude I do not see this happening...EVER.