Perhaps as much as any other season we have covered over the past 20 years, the selections to The Evening Sun's annual girls' basketball all-star team virtually selected themselves.

Step on to any court in which the 10 girls were playing, and within a few minutes, one would quickly surmise, "that girl is a heck of a player."

The best thing about this group is that we'll probably see most if not all of these faces next year. Seven of the 10 choices to this year's all-star team are underclassmen, and just four of the players are making a return appearance to the club.

Our incumbents are Sherburne-Earlville juniors Lilly Berg and Savannah Irwin, the number one and two scorers in Chenango County this year, and the Marauders' number one and number three all-time leading scorers. Greene junior Katie Carey, the area's number three scorer, and the other repeat selection is Bainbridge-Guilford senior Morgan Bullis, a three-year all-star and this year's Midstate Athletic Conference player of the year.

"She was selected as the MVP for a reason: She was the best player on the best team in our league," said Greene girls' basketball coach Dave Gorton, the MAC's girls' basketball coordinator, of Bullis.

Norwich earned four of our coveted 10 spots, and all four are first-time selections to this club. On that list are senior Carin Kuhn, junior Shelby Benjamin, and sophomores Meghan Komendarek and Makenzie Maynard.