Bailey Marty and Emma Bowman each had two hits as the MACA softball girls defeated Minnewaska Area Thursday. The two Tigers each went two-for-three with one of Bowman's hits a double. These other Tigers also hit safely: Liz Dietz, LaRae Kram, Macee Libbesmeier and Riley Decker. Victory came by a 4-2 score over the Lakers.
Three of our runs came home in the third. Our final tally was in the fifth. Our four runs were on eight hits and we had two errors. Minnewaska's line score was 2-6-1.
The Tigers can roar as West Central Conference champions!
Liz Dietz got the pitching win with her five innings of work. She bore down to strike out eight Laker batters. She walked three and allowed one hit and one unearned run. Kenna Kehoe pitched two innings and allowed the other run (earned). Minnewaska also had two players share the pitching work: Kyla Koob and Elizabeth Murken. Koob was the pitcher of record with her five innings.
Minnewaska scored one run each in the first and sixth. Sam Geiser had a multiple-hit game for 'Waska, two-for-three, while these Lakers also hit safely: Michele Stai, Sydney Metz, Hannah Orlowski and Murken.
Tigers 15, Benson 0
Morris Area Chokio Alberta really took care of business on Tuesday, 5/14, as they shut out the Braves of Benson. Liz Dietz did the pitching work with panache, recording the zero under runs allowed. We tucked this game away in the win column 15-0.
I'm told that Benson is surely alone today in softball and not paired any longer with Hancock. I guess that partnership was dissolved some time ago.
I covered the Brave-Owls of Benson-Hancock for a number of years in the Hancock Record newspaper. Not only have the Brave-Owls been dissolved, the Hancock Record exists no more! That's because the Morris and Hancock newspaper enterprises were bought out by the big chain newspaper company in Fargo, the Forum. The chain never hesitates to slash and cut so as to maximize profit. Local owners sometimes keep things going as a matter of principle. Eventually the whole newspaper business is going to feel a crunch even more than it already has. The only question is the timetable. I personally wish the Hancock paper was still in production.
Anyway, our Tigers of MACA under coach Mary Holmberg were sure dominant in the Tuesday affair. Our offense hesitated not a bit, putting three runs on the board in the first inning, two in the second and one in the third. But the big eruption of the bats was in the fourth: nine runs.
Our 15 total runs came on 12 hits. Our perfect line score wraps up with zero errors. Benson's line score? Well, they had zero hits, so let's turn our attention to the MACA pitching. Here the credit goes to Liz Dietz. Dietz only had to work four innings and she fanned four batters while walking none, and yes it was a no-hitter.
Cally Miller and Zoe Doscher shared the pitching work for Benson with Miller taking the loss. Three of the runs that Miller allowed were unearned. She fanned three batters but had trouble in the control department with nine walks. She gave up eight hits. Doscher failed to get an out recorded. She allowed four hits and three runs, earned.
Jen Solvie homered for the Tigers. She had two RBIs on the day. Carissa Oberg had a hit in her only at-bat and drove in a pair of runs. Bailey Marty went one-for-one. Emma Bowman doubled. Dietz had two hits including a double. Kenzie Hockel had a two-for-three afternoon. Macee Libbesmeier had a hit in her only at-bat. Riley Decker came through at two-for-two. Jordann Baier had a hit and two RBIs.
The success was enjoyed at our home diamond.
Yes, it would be fun to have my work appear in the Morris newspaper again, really, but I'm too old to handle all the stress and burden about covering so many teams, all the time, according to strict standards 52 weeks of the year, along with performing a hundred other tasks for the paper. I cannot.
Baseball: Montevideo 3, Tigers 2
The MACA boys certainly didn't disappoint in hitting, when facing the Montevideo Thunder Hawks Thursday. My, we out-hit the T-Hawks 12-4 so victory was certainly within reach. However, we ended up on the short end of the 3-2 score. Each team committed two errors.
Monte pitcher Colby Buseman hung in there as he allowed just the two runs while yielding eleven hits. He hung in there for 6 1/3 innings and got the win. He fanned five batters and walked one. Jackson Snell got his pitching arm called on for the save.
Zach Bruns pitched for the orange and black and allowed the three runs but only one of them was earned. He struck out five batters and walked just one, so all in all he was in pretty commanding form.
Bruns was most in the groove with the bat also, as he doubled and tripled. He drove in a run and scored a run. Kevin Asfeld went two-for-three including a double. Jack Riley doubled and scored a run. Jaret Johnson had a hit and an RBI. Cade Fehr had a two-for-four afternoon. Also hitting safely were Michael Halvorsen, Noah Sheldon, Jordan Leuthardt and Austin Berlinger.
Chase Korte of the T-Hawks had a hit, stole two bases and scored two runs. Buseman scored Monte's other run. Matthew Fragodt had a hit and two RBIs. James Golden had a hit and a stolen base. Tyler Blue also hit safely.
The Tigers led 1-0 through three innings. Monte scored two runs in the fourth and one in the sixth. Our rally bid in the seventh was stopped short. Snell bore down on the hill for Monte to get the last two outs.
UMM graduation 2019
How about this weather for UMM graduation? It's 6 a.m. as I write this. Weather is not just wet, it's nasty. Seems that UMM has been plagued by having uncooperative weather more often than not, unfortunately.
I remember when Mom and I went to the P.E. Center the year Senator Al Franken was here. Was so crowded we couldn't find a vantage point, but we enjoyed being there. Concourse directly behind Franken was cleared of people, probably for security reasons.
Last year we had a U.S. senator again, Amy Klobuchar, and I notice an awful lot of cops of various kinds on hand for when we have these visitors. I feel nervous with so many cops around. They can be armed and dangerous.
Well, it's graduation day 2019 and perhaps Eric Kaler is muttering an expletive or two about the nature of today's weather. Would be wonderful to see the whole assemblage on the campus mall, bathed in sunshine. Well, I'll offer an expletive, perhaps in my own head.
I remember turning off the thermostat on May 15 last year. No such good fortune this time around. Our summer is going to be way too short. In mid-August we start feeling a chill in the evening air, promising fall.
We are no longer blessed having Prairie Pioneer Days in midsummer in Morris. I cannot believe that has been allowed to happen. The creation of PPD back in the '80s was considered a big step forward for this community.
UMM has hosted Franken and Klobuchar in recent years which maybe supports a stereotype of our campus as politically liberal, not so much in my eyes because I could not care less. It seems appropriate at UMM. I just cannot see one of these zealous Trump-ite anti-abortion GOPers coming to our peaceful, beloved campus, can you?
Well, congrats to the grads regardless of the weather.
Addendum: I was disappointed to see Morris Mayor Sheldon Giese reveal his political biases in the recent Star Tribune/Twin Cities article. It blew my image of him as a gentle and caring person.
Politics, the macro picture: One has to wonder, with the Trump administration emboldened by realizing that laws cannot be enforced against it, are Republicans everywhere getting emboldened to think they can get away with anything, like with severe anti-abortion legislation? I think this could bring down the GOP nationally, and the party does not realize this. They are drunk on power. Regardless of the philosophical arguments about abortion, I think most women view this issue as one of being able to control their own bodies. Are there any comparable laws regulating how a man manages his body?
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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