MACA volleyball is in a holding pattern with one win on the season. The Tigers came up shy again Thursday. They visited Thunder Hawk country of Montevideo. It was the T-Hawks with reason to celebrate as they put away a 3-0 win. Monte had the upper hand 25-19, 25-23 and 25-21.
The orange and black was left with a 1-9 record. I don't think it's coincidence that we can't find individual highlights for MACA in the available media. We can probably give up on finding much if anything on the West Central Tribune website. More disappointing than that, is the absence of match details on the kmrs-kkok site this morning (Friday). All I found was the 0-3 match outcome.
Most likely there is a connection between the dearth of media info and the 1-9 record. That is unfortunate. Can our school administration do anything about this? I suppose we're a little in flux with the superintendent having left, abruptly. I gather a family health situation. We wish him well.
So the Tigers had to contend with the hitting talent of Avery Koenen on Thursday. Koenen came at the Tigers with 24 kills. She complemented that stat with four blocks, five digs and an ace serve. Another T-Hawk standout was Tenley Epema with 24 set assists and eight digs. Monte owns a 5-6 record. The West Central Tribune reports "stats not available" for MACA.
So let's look at the T-Hawks who had four athletes with serving aces: Avery Williams 3, Teagan Epema 2, Callie Augeson 2 and Koenen 1. Tenley Epema had three teammates complement her in setting: Teagan Epema, Williams and Koenen. Koenen was by far the standout in hitting. She got minor help from Williams, Taya Weber, Alyssa Sachs and Emmie Koenen.
Avery Koenen with her four blocks was complemented by Williams and Tenley Epema. It was Tenley setting the pace in digs with eight, then we had Teagan Epema with seven and Avery Koenen with five.
Cross country
The Tigers of the cross country world traveled to New London-Spicer for a Thursday meet. The venue was Little Crow Golf Course, Spicer. The MACA girls team took second behind Minnewaska Area. The Lakers had the top three runners enter the finish chute. Olivia Danielson was No. 1, Laura Ankeny second and Sydney Chevalier third.
The Tigers had Hailey Werk lead the way in 12th. Meredith Carrington was 18th and Isabel Fynboh 20th.
Our boys team had Charlie Hanson setting the pace with his 22nd place showing. Matt Giese arrived at the finish chute 41st. The champion boys runner was Sauk Centre's Brandon Kampsen. Sauk Centre was the champion team while MACA placed eighth.
Tennis: 7-0 MACA win
Everything came up roses for the Tiger tennis team on Thursday. It was a rout, a 7-0 sweep of Yellow Medicine East. Action was in Morris. Singles winners were Abbigail Athey, Kassidy Girard, Catherine "Cate" Kehoe and Claire Stark. Stark won by forfeit. The winning doubles teams were:
- Breanna Schmidgall and Lakia Manska
- Kjersten Nibbe and Hope Sperr
- Lydia Fynboh and Elizabeth Pollard
Visit my "Morris Mojo" podcast
I invite you to visit my podcast where today, Sept. 17, I reflect on the U.S. Civil War and its remembrance in Minnesota. I tell about two dates post-war that have significance for the remembrance. I also remind of the Sam Smith statue here in Morris, the "running rifleman." You may click on this permalink:
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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