This morning, Friday, the onslaught of wind comes at us.
All this happens as the general weariness with winter has built up. But we persevere, right? The northwest wind makes an impression for those of us living on Northridge Drive. We're out by the soils lab. The wind comes raging down a slope that we face to the north.
People my age remember the blizzards of the late '60s.
I have learned never to get too optimistic about the month of March. In theory we should get a reprieve. The hopes seem never to be borne out. When the temperature gets milder, we often find there are winds out of hell. I have read that the earliest pioneers were surprised at how strong the winds could be. Remember that when they first showed up, a striking feature of the landscape was that there were no trees. The only exception was "a few larchwoods down along the river." I have also read that there were no permanent Indian settlements here. What? They could not have fallen in love with this place?
So the weather is at the forefront again on this Friday of late January, 2023. Imagine as you're driving around, the theme music from the movie "Fargo." Better to imagine the Morris Area High School song. In athletics we're "MACA" of course. That's how our hoops teams are identified.
And the boys are giving lots of thrills at present. Fans could enjoy yet another win Thursday night at home. We had a winning advantage of ten points, 55-45, over those Streeters of Sauk Centre. Sauk has been a prime rival of the Tigers for time immemorial. Always nice to beat them. We did Thursday with Drew Storck again leading our scoring, second game in a row. Drew is a senior and he put in 18 points on seven of ten shooting.
Riley Asmus scored 13 and made both of our 3-pointers. Third-high was Drew Huebner with eleven points, then we see another double figures scorer in Tyler Berlinger, ten points. Kyle Fehr chipped in with two and Charlie Hanson with one. Our team shooting numbers were 19 of 55, 35 percent. We were off in 3-point shooting: two of 16. A little more practice here, guys?
We made 15 of 20 freethrow shots, Storck the leader with five makes.
Rebounds! We had 31 total with ten coming offensively. Berlinger had three of our nine assists. He was his usual strong force in steals, getting four of our six total. Storck and Asmus each blocked two shots, and Huebner blocked one. We had seven turnovers. We led 30-22 at halftime.
We got victory No. 10! Our record now is 10-6. Hey, Sauk Centre is having a mighty fine season too, record of 10-3. A feather in our cap for beating them.
Other teams
What about the MACA girls? Can't find a lot of details right now. That's too bad because we learn that they won Thursday. It was an exciting win with the orange and black turning back Osakis 40-39. I can find only the score on the kmrs site. I'm sure Brett Miller would have been happy to share some details. That's how these things go sometimes. I know.
Brett does have brief summaries of the Hancock win over Battle Lake, 72-33, and the Brandon-Evansville win over Browerville, 54-47. No details on the MACA win? This is as of Friday morning, 9:30 a.m.
We learn that MACA wrestling had a couple of tough duals, losses to Minneota and Marshall. The cavalcade of prep sports continues! Forget about the snow and wind.
I invite you to compare my coverage with what you see on the Morris newspaper website.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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