The Dream Team 2006/07

Tonight will mark my third time covering a Hutchinson/Glencoe-Silver Lake football game. I was thinking earlier this week about all of the great players that have graduated from the two schools the past two years. Imagine this team:

QB - Matt Muenchow, G-SL (two state titles, unbelieveable athlete in big games, state champion in track)
RBs - Dusty Jurek and Jon Hoese, G-SL; Cory Shufelt, Hutch (Hoese is in the backfield for the Gophers; Jurek won two state titles; Shuey may only be second to Nate Swift for career yardage)
WRs/SEs - Hunter Dunbar and Bud Sanken, G-SL (Dunbar caught two TDs in the state championship in 2007; Sanken was a tank two years ago and is playing at Southwest MN State in Marshall)
OL - Randy Erickson, Dan Kurth, Ryan Thorson, Hutch; Andy Eberhard and Jon Cox, G-SL (Cox and Erickson join Sanken in Marshall; Eberhard and Thorson were all-conference players; Kurth played at Ridgewater a year ago)

DL - Cole Schlauderaff and Tony Schauer, G-SL; Brian Albrecht, Brady Mickolichek and Aaron Staples (w/ subs Joe and Tim Schlueter), Hutch (Good luck running on this group)

LB - Steve Slater and Chip Maresh, G-SL; Brian Renkes, Hutch ( Renkes is at Bemidji; Slater is Minnesota-Duluth; and Maresh is at Valley City. What a group)

DB - Michael Cano and Chris Odegaard, G-SL; Josh Wendland, Hutch (Wendland redshirted at SMSU at safety for one year. The other two were solid DBs for the Panthers the past two seasons)

Special Teams - Jeff Matthias/Brian Meuleners at kicker; Bill Moritz/Muenchow at punter (Any of the four could get the job done)

Late news out of Glencoe is that safety Ryan Style and offensive tackle Tyler LaMott are out for tonight.