What about the understanding that Wednesday is "church night?" Isn't that sort of the gentlemen's agreement? I'd like to see Wednesday be open for school activities as much as any other day. Why not? It would create some breathing room for getting more humanities events worked in. Let humanities take over the evening now and then. When I recently attended the jazz band concert, there was a girls hoops game in the gym.
All the activity was nice to see, definitely. But maybe we shouldn't have to concentrate so much in four nights of the week. Make it five. And Saturday is not off-limits at all. Seems there are more Saturday games being played than in an earlier time, and not just makeup games.
Wednesday as church night would seem to present some serious issues in the year 2022. That's because of Christianity being so aligned with politics, especially out here in greater Minnesota. Religion is always a matter of opinion, naturally. But I hate to see the alignment of Christianity with conservative Republican politics, especially the kind of politics that props up Donald Trump. These people have been rooting for Putin, or at least they did for a while, until they began to feel some embarrassment. The embarrassment of ignorance. For a time they just wanted to echo their cult leader, Trump.
Is there any hope for our society now? A case can be made that the U.S. is nearing the "end of empire." You don't care? You had better start paying attention.
For a time I had a small "Kamala" sticker on the back of my car. I began to feel concerned about that, so I put gray tape over it, matches color of my car. I do believe there are some local Democrats. But we have to step lightly.
Basketball action of Wednesday had the Tigers crushing Minnewaska Area 61-29. You'd have to yawn if you were there as a fan. I'd prefer taking in a music concert. But the fans were enthused, undoubtedly, as their team improved to 21-2. 'Waska was left at 3-20.
I'm reporting the score and other stats from the "Maxpreps" site. The kmrs-kkok website coverage has the score reported as 61-22. Maxpreps has MACA outscoring the Lakers 30-8 in the first half, 31-21 in the second. You get a final score of 61-29 from those numbers. Let's go with 29 for the Lakers, would let them feel a little better.
The orange and black had two double figures scorers: Jackson Loge with 12 points and Sam Kleinwolterink with ten. Thomas Tiernan was on the cusp of double figures with his nine. Then we see Tyler Berlinger with eight points and Cole Wente with six. Continuing: Toby Gonnerman 4, Durgin Decker 4, Max Lietz 2, Daniel Travis 2, Trey Hunt 2 and Brandon Jergenson 2. My first time typing Max's name - welcome.
Loge scored his 12 points on four of six in shooting. Kleinwolterink made five of seven. Our team numbers in field goals were 26 of 48. In freethrows we were six of nine with Loge having four of the makes. Our total rebounds were 23 with Loge capturing eight (one offensive).
Jergenson had four of our 15 assists. Three Tigers each had two steals: Berlinger, Wente and Jergenson. We turned the ball over nine times. Berlinger and Wente each blocked a shot.
We put up some bricks from 3-point range: the team stats were three of 14. Tiernan had two makes, Wente one.
No double figures scorers for the struggling Lakers. Here's their list from the West Central Tribune: Damon Uhde 7, Andrew Mrnak 5, Hunter Kostelecky 4, Hunter Kloos 3 Cade Olson 2 and Tate Reichmann 1. Kloos and Mrnak each made a '3'. Ethan Quelle led in rebounds with four. Uhde had three steals.
Girls: Minnewaska 52, Tigers 46
The visiting Lakers showed poise at the freethrow line down the stretch to get the upper hand versus our Tigers on Wednesday. Yes, another Wednesday game. We were defeated 52-46 at home. The Tigers did surge in the late stages to get the deficit whittled down to three. This was within the final minute, but our momentum waned.
'Waska's girls are doing much better than their boys. The Lakers were 16-9 coming out of this game. Our Tigers had 9-16 W/L numbers.
Meredith Carrington buoyed MACA with her team-best 17 points plus five rebounds. Sydney Dietz put in eight points. Kaylee Harstad came through with seven points and six boards.
Maddie Thorfinnson led the Lakers with 18 points while Brooke Kolstoe had 14. These two were complemented by: Sydney Dahl 9, Addy Randt 5, Megan Thorfinnson 4 and Addyson Kath 2.
Mattie T. made two 3-pointers. Kolstoe had seven rebounds. Megan T. had three assists and four steals. Kolstoe and Dahl each had two blocked shots.
An unusual week
Sorry if I've gotten a little behind in reporting on the Tigers. Games reviewed here were on Wednesday, so Saturday for posting does not seem unreasonable, does it? It might be, just a bit, due to the rapid pace by which games are played.
I have been distracted this past week by the need to "dig in" to the story about the extent to which our University of Minnesota-Morris is partnering with the U of M-Crookston. It is coming as a stark surprise to many of us.
The people running UMM would say "it's no big deal," I would argue because "it's no big deal" is so entrenched in Minnesota vernacular. Nothing is really a "big deal." Except I guess the weather, and for that we always make accommodations, n'est-ce pas?
It is legitimate to wonder if UMM might be losing some of its autonomy within the U system. The Crookston chancellor has the "executive chancellor" title in connection with UMM. Huh? I wasn't prepared for that. It blared over KFGO Radio and from other places last week. So I had to check into all that.
Not sure what firm conclusions are to be made at this time. I never automatically buy a "party line" that is meant to just calm the populace. You must remember, I'm a Watergate-era journalist.
Today (Saturday) I have posted again on the Morris-Crookston topic, as I have discovered extensive background from the UMC website. Crookston has been not at all reserved in reporting about all this. They've in fact seemed proud of it, whereas the word has been suppressed here in Motown. I might employ my brainpan to conclude that this is because Morris might be getting the dirty end of the stick? I'll say this: If the Crookston chancellor, Mary Holz Clause, could get the UMM Jazz Festival up and running again, I'll raise a toast to her. Shall we call her "Mrs. Santa Claus?" Crookston is way up north. Here is the permalink to the post I have up today on "Morris of Course":
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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