The Tigers are really becoming a team to watch in section. They have truly gotten their engines humming in recent play with one exception, and that exception might have an explanation in that the Homecoming powder puff football game was the night before!
Not only is the orange and black squad winning habitually, it is often doing so by sweep. Their Monday, Oct. 8, match was their first since the 0-3 loss they were dealt by Benson. The Tigers asserted themselves in a way indicating that the Benson match was a pure anomaly. It was a night for fans to savor sweep victory.
The Tigers hosted and defeated the Falcons of ACGC with scores of 25-14, 25-21 and 25-12. This was the Tigers' 14th win overall against seven losses. In conference play they came out of Monday at 7-3.
Anytime there's a sweep you can feel quite certain the winner showed balance. The Tigers indeed displayed that attribute for fans to enjoy Monday. How proficient were they? They had only four non-good attacks in 118 attempts.
There were three pillars in the attacking phase. Sydney Engebretson was at the fore with nine kills, and her good/attempts stats were 25/26. Nicole Strobel was focused to pound down six kills, and she was perfect in good/attempts at 20-for-20.
Paige Schieler was a force with five kills and she went 18-for-20. Kayla Pring went five-for-five with two kills. MicKenley Nagel had 17 good in 18 attempts with one kill. Katie Holzheimer was a perfect 15-for-15 with two kills. Rebekah Aanerud was sharp at 14-for-14 and she produced a kill.
The Tigers got a nice push from Chelsey Ehleringer and Beth Holland in the serving department. Each had three serving aces. Ehleringer batted a thousand with 18-for-18 in good/attempts. It was ditto for Holland whose good/attempts numbers were 15/15. Nicole Strobel added a serving ace to the mix and she had six good in eight attempts.
Holzheimer led the squad in set assists with 14 and she was flawless with 46 good in 46 attempts. Ehleringer was busy setting too and this Tiger was good on all 55 of her attempts while accumulating seven assists. Pring was ten-for-ten with one assist.
Homecoming Queen Nagel went up to achieve four ace blocks, leading in this category. Strobel and Holzheimer each had two.
Digging specialist Mikaela Henrichs led with 28 in this category. Ehleringer had 15 digs and Holland eleven.
The volleyball Tigers came out of Monday having won ten of their last eleven matches.
Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City is a below-.500 team. Falcon Sydney Larson pounded down 17 kills which was high for the match. Mariah Remmel had three serving aces in the losing cause.
Morris Area Chokio Alberta volleyball is in the midst of a busy week!
Click on the permalink below to view my Flickr album of MAHS Homecoming photos. When the Flickr page comes up, you might want to try the "slideshow" feature. It's neat! - B.W.
Football: Next foe is Lac qui Parle
Two games remain in the MACA football team's 2012 regular season. It has been a highly banner season thus far.
Coach Witt's Tigers have yet to be beaten. Suspense has been minimal in many of the games. The Tigers take charge often. Will this happen again this Friday (10/12)?
Lac qui Parle Valley is the opponent and it's rather tough to size them up. At their best the Eagles are impressive like when they defeated Minnewaska Area 35-21 on September 21. They showed they could beat Benson when they edged the Braves by one, 21-20, on August 31. They also beat YME although YME has been a doormat this season. Success vs. YME came by a 35-6 score at Granite Falls.
Lac qui Parle has been on the losing end vs. Paynesville (28-0 on 10/5), BOLD (31-14 on 9/28) and ACGC (40-13 on 9/7).
So which Eagles team will show up this Friday? The game will be at Lac qui Parle out in that remote area which can seem especially remote at night.
After the LQPV game, just one regular season contest remains on the Tigers' slate and this will match them against the struggling Sting of Yellow Medicine East. The YME game is for MEA week which means it's on Wednesday (10/17).
The Tigers and Sting will play at Big Cat Stadium provided the Sting don't decide to forfeit. They lost to Paynesville 72-0 on September 28. There's really no cause for a score like that, no matter how the rosters match up. Teams losing by scores like this will have a hard time keeping their numbers up well enough to even continue having a program.
The Tigers own a 6-0 record as this post is being written.
YME includes Granite Falls which once had a powerful football program all by itself. Remember their distinctive nickname? It was "Kilowatts."
"Reddy Kilowatt" was the high school mascot for Granite Falls for nearly 60 years until consolidation. NSP had a power plant in Granite Falls for many years.
I'm sure many fans in Morris still remember a big win by Tiger football at Granite Falls in the late 1980s. The win was achieved dramatically with a trick play or gimmick play that had Kent Moser catching the football for a score. The thrower was Jared "Bru" Brustuen.
Thanks to Lyle Rambow for refreshing my memory on this. My memory had gotten a little fogged and I had thought Moser threw that pass, not caught it.
Granite Falls was considered a big obstacle for us at the time. I remember being in a school hallway, probably to keep warm, before the game and seeing those proud, chest-thumping Kilowatts headed down the hallway en route to the field. I remember a brawny guy in front shouting "we own this section!"
Granite Falls used a conventional hard-nosed attack while we were more fond of the pass and finesse. Our attributes won out, knocking Granite Falls down a notch. There was a big celebration of Morris fans on the field after the game.
Back to the present: My Saturday post on the Montevideo game (Homecoming) didn't include statistics. Let's get that taken care of here. We only had six first downs but that's because we were covering so many yards with big plays.
Quarterback Jacob Torgerson attacked the Monte defense surgically as he completed six of his seven pass tries for 199 yards and had no interceptions. Coach Witt might have left Jacob in the game to get over 200 yards but that hardly seemed necessary, so on came understudy Bryce Jergenson. Bryce completed his only pass attempt for ten yards.
Tanner Picht had just one catch but it covered 71 yards. Chandler Erickson sped over 84 yards of real estate on his two catches. Other Tigers with one catch each were Corey Storck (ten yards), Logan Manska (eight yards), Lincoln Berget (14 yards) and Tom Holland (12 yards).
Holland was the top ballcarrier with 70 yards achieved on just four carries. The running game was also buttressed by Picht (32 rushing yards), Jordan Staples (27 yards), Aaron Nelson (25 yards), Bo Olson (13 yards) and Jergenson (28 yards).
Trent Wulf performed the only MACA punt and it went for 35 yards. Staples and Berget each had a fumble recovery.
Tackle chart standouts included Staples, Connor Metzger, John Tiernan and Erickson. Two Tigers could boast a quarterback sack: Dillon Johnson and Tiernan.
I'm sure coach Witt was pleased with just the one penalty for five yards.
The night was futile for the visiting Thunder Hawks but Markus Kranz was able to rush for the robust total of 93 yards.
Cross country: Smith, Goulet lead Tigers
The Tiger harriers were off and running again for a Monday, 10/8, meet at Benson. The weather of late might seem chilly to us more sedentary folks - maybe I should just speak for myself - but runners can take to it nicely. After a mile or so, any sensation of cold seems to dissipate, I would suggest.
MACA displayed its share of excellence Monday. MaKenzie Smith was in championship form, posting a 15:38 time (4K) to beat all challengers. The MACA girls were runner-up as a team, trailing only host Benson-KMS. Sauk Centre's Madison Greenwaldt was the runner-up female runner (16:02).
Smith was joined in the MACA effort by Rachel Rausch (16:46), Savannah Aanerud (17:01), Becca Holland (18:21) and Tahni Jungst (19:38).
Aaron Goulet had a memorable day running for the boys team. Goulet with his 18:06 time (5K) placed second behind only Ben Burgett of Willmar Community Christian (16:55).
The MACA boys team placed fourth. Sauk Centre was the top-performing boys team trailed by Benson-KMS in second and BOLD in third.
Goulet was joined in the MACA boys effort by Ryan Gray (19:21), Roy Reese (19:59), Jonathan Jerke (20:23) and Beau Keimig (20:30).
Viva Morris Area Chokio Alberta fall athletics!
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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