The game's final score: 54-48. Maddy Grove supplied lots of the winning flair on Friday. She put in 20 points. Overall though the Tiger attack was characterized by balance.
Osakis assumed an early advantage. But their scoring pace slowed while the Tigers started finding traction. Let's keep fingers crossed that we can keep enjoying the home hoops in-person. In other words, without the pandemic raining on the parade. Could be a long winter. For the time being, let's just try feeling the holiday spirit.
The Tigers got out in front of Osakis 26-18 by halftime. Osakis shooting had cooled. Or rather, MACA played a tight defense. Our momentum accelerated as we got into the second half. The lead swelled to 14. But the Silverstreaks had fight left in them. Our advantage got trimmed down to a mere six. The orange and black held on and emerged from the night with 2-0 W/L numbers.
Can they stay perfect going into the holidays? We'll see. Osakis sits at 1-1.
Maddy Grove with her 20 points was followed by: Sydney Dietz (11), Meredith Carrington (9), Cate Kehoe (8), Shannon Dougherty (4) and Brianna Marty (2). Kehoe and Grove each made two 3-pointers.
Dietz was the team leader in rebounds (9), assists (6) and blocked shots (3). Dougherty led in steals with three. We'll be hosting New London-Spicer on Tuesday.
The Breckenridge game on Tuesday had a score of 50-43. Meredith Carrington was hot in this winning effort as she made ten of 16 shots. Her point harvest: 24. Fans at Tiger Center cheered as our team shot 43 percent vs. the Cowgirls. Maddy Grove put in ten points while Cate Kehoe and Sydney Dietz each scored six.
Boys basketball
My coverage of the Tigers' season-opening BBB win, 60-37 over Lac qui Parle, is on my "Morris of Course" blog site. I invite y'all to click and read. Thanks, God bless and happy holidays. - BW
Tigers 84, Paynesville 57
The offense turned on the jets for MACA in Friday's BBB action. It was a real showcase that had Jackson Loge in the type of role we'd expect.
The Bulldogs were pretty futile as they tried to stop Loge. Loge's point output was 35. He was a force too with rebounds: 17. He made 13 of 27 shots from the field. He was a factor everywhere including from beyond the three-point line. Loge made four of nine long-range tries in front of the Paynesville crowd.
The Tigers and Paynesville are Section 3AA rivals. Don't ever underestimate those green-clad Bulldogs. We have learned that in the past, the hard way. Yes, even with Paynesville seeded eighth. For now we can savor the Friday success which had us shooting out to a 43-22 halftime lead.
The game stats show Loge as one of three double figures scorers. He was complemented by Thomas Tiernan with 14 points and Brandon Jergenson with ten. Tiernan was six of eight in total shots, Jergenson four of seven. As a team the Tigers were 34 of 65 in shooting, 52 percent.
Tyler Berlinger and Cole Wente each scored eight points. Also joining the parade were Sam Kleinwolterink with seven and Drew Storck with two.
We put up a fair number of three-point tries, 23, and made nine for 39 percent. Loge with his four was joined by Wente and Tiernan each with two, and Brandon Jergenson with one.
The freethrow department saw the Tigers make seven of ten. Loge was the clear standout in rebounds, with five of his boards coming offensively. Kleinwolterink was second-high in rebounds with eight, five offensive. Jergenson and Loge each had seven assists. Jergenson and Tiernan each came through with three steals. Loge blocked five shots and Wente one.
Paynesville sits at 1-1. The Bulldogs' leading scorer was Max Athmann with 14 points. The green had no three-point makes. Eli Nelson had six rebounds to lead.
A pleasant surprise this morning (Saturday) to see both the boys and girls Friday games covered with a fair amount of thoroughness on the West Central Tribune website. Things had looked grim on that front. The paper has announced its All Area football team and no Tigers. That confirms what I had learned about our status relative to the Willmar paper. We weren't represented on the All Area volleyball team either. But it looks like at present, we can see some decent coverage of Tiger hoops.
Sometimes their spelling is off. They gave us, for example, "Maddie Grove" (should be "Maddy"), "Kate Kehoe" (should be "Cate Kehoe," short for Catherine) and "Tyler Burlinger" (should be "Berlinger"). It is tough to get everything right. I suppose I shouldn't root for the West Central Tribune, owned by Forum Communications of Fargo (known to be an ass), but I feel good about today's coverage.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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