No surprise with how super the Minnewaska Area volleyball team is doing. Well-established talent over there as shown by the basketball Lakers taking fourth in state. Fans went on such an exciting ride with that. We can always assume there's some carryover from basketball to volleyball. Not totally assumed of course but likely.
And so look at the W/L numbers of the volleyball Lakers now: 9-0! It is a pleasure for yours truly to occasionally write about the Lakers of both volleyball and football. My current post on my "Morris of Course" blog is about the football team's 26-25 win over Melrose and the volleyball team's 3-0 shutout over WCA. Here's the link to the post and thanks:
In an ideal world I'd be writing about Morris Area Chokio Alberta. Sadly, for the last several years I have had trouble getting access to timely MACA sports information. If we rely on the Morris newspaper that's bad news because of the lack of timeliness. I find this product to be basically worthless.
Sounds like this week is Homecoming week at Morris Area. For so many years I'd put together a whole collage of photos from the coronation and have it in the Morris newspaper. I would have loved continuing to do this over the last 20 years. And if the paper didn't have room for this - or my collage of parade photos too - I'd insist on getting this stuff up on the newspaper's website.
Can we count on the Stevens County Times website to provide this kind of service? What about timely MACA sports coverage? Well, I guess not.
I had the rare opportunity to report fresh info on the football team from Friday night. That's because the game data was available from the "Minnesota Football Hub" system. The system relies on coaches or others contributing info to the "template." And this is hardly ever done, unfortunately. But someone did it with the Tigers' game at Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted.
So, my previous post on the blog you're looking at now is about the game. Wish I could do this for every game. I first began writing about Tiger football for the media in 1972. I am most happy to continue, when I get the chance.
My exit from the Morris paper 20 years ago was involuntary. The owner at the time, Forum Communications, eventually gave up on this community, left town. It's the same owner as for the Willmar paper which used to do a fair job covering MACA sports. It no longer does. The print version of the Willmar paper only comes out twice a week now. To find any timely info at all you really have to go to their website which has a paywall.
MACA was removed from the Willmar paper's coverage territory several years ago. Was this done out of bitterness about how the Forum's ownership of the Morris paper failed? I am assuming that. They would deny it of course.
I have tried suggesting a hundred or so times that the Anfinsons here in Morris "juice up" their website, make it more dynamic and interesting. A fool's errand for me to do this?
The Lakers have a habit of winning by sweep. But not on this night. BOLD bore down to take one of the games in this 3-1 outcome. Here are the night's scores: 17-25, 25-16, 25-12 and 25-16. The action was on Monday at the Lakers' gym. The West Central Tribune specifies "Glenwood" as the location. Boy, I don't know about this.
Eliana Marthaler and Emma Poegel each batted two serving aces at the Warriors. Berlynn Green had one. Haillie Schulz is the setting specialist and she finished the night with 39 assists. Other Lakers with assists were Piper Barsness, Marthaler, Poegel, Hailey Wesen and Mya VanLuik.
Green led in the crowd-pleasing hitting department. She recorded 17 kills. VanLuik got in position for 14 kills. Others with kills were: Avery Lewison, Taylor Schulz, H. Schulz, Wesen, Carley Jergenson and Marthaler.
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For BOLD, Kyleigh Snow had two serving aces. Kenley Elfering performed ten set assists. Zoey Lippert topped kills with nine. Lucy Remer and Kenley Elfering each had an ace block. In digs, Lilly Henriksen and Kya Elfering had 23 and 19 respectively.
UMN-Morris Homecoming is coming up too. Will there be a parade? A coronation? A concert presented by the music discipline? The latter is a longstanding tradition and important to many alumni. I'm just asking. What about the Saturday morning brunch open to the public? Is that on too? Or is it off this year?
Do you suppose the institution is just getting ready to close?
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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