We learn that Tuesday was a good night for MACA girls basketball. The kmrs website has one sentence that cites three individuals from the successful night. I'll take what I can get - often not much. The public sure set higher standards for judging the media when I was involved! Kmrs tells us that Kaylee Harstad led the attack for MACA in the Tuesday night win. She scored 19 points and grabbed ten rebounds in the team's 46-39 win over the Montevideo Thunder Hawks at Monte.
The sentence of highlights also informs us that Brianna Marty contributed with eight points and six rebounds. And, that Catherine Kehoe supplied eight points and seven boards. Then the radio station's coverage moves on with the sentence that starts "up next." Would be nice to see a few more game details, like leaders in assists and steals, plus a full rebounding review.
Found out this past weekend that Kaylee Harstad is an occasional server at DeToy's. I had seen her before but didn't have a name to go with the face. She looks like a basketball player!
I can get into the West Central Tribune's online sports coverage this morning by just being a registered reader. You never know on any given day. Sometimes the barriers are down, sometimes they are only partially down and sometimes it's wide-open. I suppose they want to entice you sometimes.
But an MACA fan can often feel affronted when looking at their coverage. Officially speaking, MACA is not in the paper's coverage territory. Quite often though, our game results show up there because of who we are playing. So Monte makes the grade?
Today the WC Trib site has a little subhead about the game with some details below, but. . . But there's a familiar bugaboo for MACA fans. "Stats not available" for the Tigers. We are not alone as these three words appear for Minnewaska for today's coverage too. "Stats not available."
So what exactly does that mean? Does it mean that the coach in question decided to "stiff" the WC Trib? I would assume no. I'd assume that various coaches do not sense any formal obligation to call in to this newspaper. So it's nothing personal or anything like that. But it just looks bad.
It looks bad for the WC Trib. It can put coaches on the defensive. They might get asked why the details do not appear there. Coaches have no formal or contractual relationship with newspapers. The newspapers are private businesses. They make money by selling advertisements. Actually they will try to extract money from people any way they can think of.
Today's WC Trib coverage of the Monte game does have all the stat details for Montevideo. Monte hosted the game. Former home of the "Montevideo Mohawks." Such names have been pushed aside except in Benson.
Our Tigers led Monte 32-23 at halftime. The winning outcome pushed our W/L to .500 at 10-10. It's a respectable record to be sure, but we might feel discouraged some by how badly we have lost at times like to Hancock. I write about the historical disparity between the Morris and Hancock girls on my "Morris of Course" site. You may read with this link. I greatly appreciate any visitors to my blogs.
Two Monte T-Hawks each scored 12 points Tuesday: Teagan Epema and Brooke Lindstrom. Here's the rest of the list: Lily Eisenlohr 6, Hallie Helgeson 5, Taya Weber 3 and Jessa Norby 1. Epema succeeded twice from 3-point range. Weber and Helgeson each made one '3'.
My, four T-Hawks each with five rebounds! These were Epema, Eisenlohr, Norby and Helgeson. Epema had the team-best three assists. She led her team in blocks with three. Monte came out of the game with a 5-14 record.
Good news on the hockey front: the MBA Storm boys turned back Prairie Centre at the Morris ice. We had the edge by one goal, thus our won-lost improved to over .500 at 12-11-0.
After getting shut out in the first period, we scored one goal each in the second and third. Prairie Centre's lone goal was in the third. Prairie Centre came out of the game at 7-13-1.
Our goalie was Christopher Danielson. He stopped 25 shots on goal in 26 attempts. Carter Holman wore the mask for the opponent (28-30).
Let's look at how the goal-scoring happened. Charlie Goff put the Storm up 1-0 in the second period. He was assisted by Kaleb Breuer and Logan Schauer at 13:51. Prairie Centre tied the score in the third as Zac Bick scored with assists from Leyton Fuchs and Caiden Frerichs at 10:51. MBA's Alex Claussen scored at 14:51 with the assist from Breuer.
"Hockey night in Morris" is always special!
Below is photo of the MBA Squirt "Blue" team which placed third in the Brookings SD tournament.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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