SALEM — Ten Watertown and Aberdeen area senior high school basketball players have been selected to play in the 38th First Dakota National Bank 3-Class Shootout All-Star Games on Saturday, March 28, 2026.
All three classes in both boys and girls will be feature many of the top seniors from across the state.
The games will be played in the McCook Central Auditorium. The schedule includes Class AA girls vs. Class A girls at 1 p.m., followed by the Class B girls vs. the Class AA-A winner at 2:30 p.m., Class AA boys vs. Class A boys at 4 p.m. and the Class B boys vs. the Class AA-A winner at 5:30 p.m. A dunk contest will be held between the two boys games.
Northeastern South Dakota players include Hazel Luethmers of De Smet, Matatya Gouws of Deubrook Area and Hadlee Holt of Iroquois-Lake Preston, Class B girls; Blake Thompson of Mobridge-Pollock and Talya Vincent and Amari Ward of Sioux Valley, Class A girls; Grant Wilkinson of De Smet and Chance Schoenfeld of Deubrook Area, Class B boys; and Ryder Johnson and Keegen Tracy of Groton Area, Class A boys.
Here are the rosters:
Class B Girls
- Players — Luethmers, Gouws, Holt, Liz Boschee of Sanborn Central-Woonsocket; Mak Scott of Lyman, Sophie DeLange of Corsica-Stickney, Emmie Hausmann of Burke and Tatum Lyons of Viborg-Hurley.
- Coaches — JD Huberty and Marissa Caballero, Mount Marty University.
Class A Girls
- Players — Thompson, Vincent, Ward, Ashlan Carlow-Blount and Shania Ferguson of Mahpiya Luta, Andie Peters of Lennox, Ruth Dvoracek and Aubrie VanBeek of Sioux Falls Christian and Ella Merriman of Beresford.
- Coach — Celeste Beck, Dakota Wesleyan University.
Class AA Girls
- Players — Alyvia Padgett and Ava Kellenberger of Brandon Valley, Sydney Terveen and Sadie Mehrman of O’Gorman, Dana Harpe and Rylan Kennett of Sioux Falls Washington, Addie Siemsen of Mitchell, Hylton Heinz of Huron, Hayden Thorton of Rapid City Stevens and Kate Scharf of Spearfish.
- Coach — Allan Bertram, Mount Marty University.
Class B Boys
- Players — Wilkinson, Schoenfeld, Brady Schroedermeier of Viborg-Hurley, Tate Sorensen of Freeman, Ben Weber and Holden Wollmann of Bridgewater-Emery, Colt Keiser of Gregory, Colby Flowers and Parker Graff of Wessington Springs and Emmet Dinger of Wall.
- Coach — Jordan Riewer, Dakota Wesleyan University.
Class A Boys
- Players — Johnson, Tracy, Will Kuhl of West Central, Trey Hansen of Vermillion, Tate Gerdes and Teegan Musser of Lennox, Kellen Artz of Baltic, Luke Sheppard of Flandreau, Isaak Hunter of Miller and Paxton Deal of Stanley County.
- Coach — Collin Authier, Mount Marty University.
Class AA Boys
- Players — Blake Ellwein of Huron, Colton Smith of Mitchell, Sam DeGroot and Sam Ericsson of Sioux Falls Lincoln, Stellen Larson and Crayton Jibben of Harrisburg, Memphis Bylander and Justin Bilal of Sioux Falls Roosevelt, Ayuel Deng of Brandon Valley and Kamren Davis of Spearfish.
- Coach — Sam Nicholson, Dakota Wesleyan University.
Follow Watertown Public Opinion sports reporter Roger Merriam on X (formerly known as Twitter) @PO_Sports or email: rmerriam@thepublicopinion.com.
This article originally appeared on Watertown Public Opinion: High school all-star basketball games to be played in Salem
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