The Pateros-Entiat finale was pretty impressive, for sure, but a lot of the key players that made that game what it was are gone.

Mortimer does a nice job with Pateros, and there hasn't been anything in the way of drop off since Ellis left. Edwardson does alright with Entiat too. Both teams have really, really strong young players (Pateros, its incoming freshman class, and Entiat its incoming sophomores)...but MLCA's players - Walker, Yarbro, Sandberg, and the younger Yamane, in particular - are a totally different caliber, and Entiat got a glimpse of that this past weekend (no Yarbro, though).

MLCA is young, and only figures to have 7-9 players on its roster at all, although that's been par for the course in recent years. Foul trouble, then, is certainly a potential issue...but very few teams will be able to put the kind of players they will on the floor 1-6. It's a young team (this year's edition will have 1 senior and no juniors), but one that has played as much as anyone in the past 12 months.

Older, tourney-experienced teams such as ACH and SC were able to exploit their youth last year, but even senior-laden ACH had a time putting them away at last year's regional. The only other loss was by 2 to 1A Cle Elum (47-49), in a game that Carlee Creager (she's a legit 6' guard) went off for 30. 

All of that being said, no one can say for sure until the ball goes up...