Becca is at the helm of the West Central Area Knights of girls basketball. Although early in her career, she has already reached the summit: the state championship! This happened last season. I wrote a blog post on "Morris of Course" that asked if she might have been signed up as Morris coach. She at least landed not far away. And it looks like the success of last year is carrying over into 2025-26.
The WCA Knights sport a 4-1 record. They got win No. 4 on Friday against our MACA Tigers, here. They worked to a 28-23 lead at the half. The final score was 55-49. The Tigers were competitive but just came up shy. The Knights' title last year was in Class A.
Becca and Beth
Becca was part of a Holland "tandem" when she played as an MACA Tiger. It was Becca and Beth. A journalist had to be sharp and remember that the first initial was not going to do in differentiating between the two. I caught the West Central Tribune at least once using the "B" first initial in the stats. Can't say I would not have been susceptible to that myself.
Always remember when assessing a journo's performance when typing through a mountain of sports info, that person can get confused at times. Often I pluck little facts from my memory. And I hope the facts are just that, facts.
What info is online about the WCA vs. MACA game? I'm always skeptical about finding much when this matchup happens. This morning (Sunday), after getting home from Caribou Coffee where I got my brain stimulated, I see there's an item on "Craig Olson Sports." Oh boy! Will this pan out for having detailed info on either MACA or WCA? Don't ever get your hopes up.
I clicked on the link and found a grand total of three sentences! I guess we're supposed to be happy with such acknowledgment. I am not. Man, when I think back to the kind of standards that were set for me when I wrote sports for the newspaper!
Craig Olson Sports has no details on MACA. The West Central Tribune hardly ever has details on the MACA girls. Lately they have had some on the boys and I don't count on that continuing. MACA used to be served much better. What's up anyway? There still is a Morris newspaper. But it only comes out once a week. It was twice in my salad days there.
So if you're looking for info on a Tuesday night game, you're - excuse me - screwed. We're deep into the age of the Internet now. Someone should do something creative. Actually I was saying this 15 years ago.
The community doesn't put much credence in what I have to say. There is an unassailable "party line" on everything. That's our lot in life in Morris. Sometimes I feel like a character in an old "Twilight Zone" episode: the only normal person in a town of deluded folks.
Our radio station helps out just a little with its website. But it has never been the same since Brett Miller left. I never met the guy. Has anyone given the radio station a hard time? Does anyone give the newspaper a hard time over its neglected website? Am I like the Twilight Zone character in asking these questions? Are people just puzzled to read this?
Well, I do give a rip. I check the Stevens County Times website just to see if they have woken up. Well, no dice on this Sunday morning. The site is loaded with UMM stuff. UMM's own website supplies sports info with 100 percent thoroughness. It is totally redundant for the SCT site to even get into this. And the top headline this morning is: "Owl girls top Battlers by double digits."
I'm happy when Hancock succeeds. But I really only care about MACA. It would be nice to see a website or two that really focuses on Morris. I must note here that our boys basketball program has started coming through with info supplied to the "Maxpreps" site. Thanks totally to those guys and keep it up man.
Is timeliness important? Didn't we have an administrator in the Mike Martin days that seemed to just scream that timeliness is important? So I assume that Mike would bemoan our current media situation. But I don't know. Do you suppose he was just being political? Here I am in that "Twilight Zone" town again.
The "Minnesota Scores" website informs us that MACA girls basketball is now 2-4. Unfortunately we have lost three straight. I cannot report any individual stats from the WCA game. I'd like to if I could.
Oh shoot! I see where the Maxpreps site for our boys does not have data from their WCA game. This is an up-and-down thing.
Our boys won 80-58 over the Knights. We're 6-0 now.
I will conclude here by asking again: Was it ever possible for MACA to get Becca Holland as our girls basketball coach? It would have been a real step forward.
Addendum: So the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. has been re-named? Here's from an email I sent to Warrenn Anderson a couple days ago:
I am getting very concerned that this nation is not going to rein in Trump. So he re-named the Kennedy Center. I was in a musical group that performed there when the place was new in 1972. I bought a Washington Post paper that had an early Watergate article. It was co-written by Bob Woodward and someone other than Bernstein.
We dined on the rooftop of the Kennedy Center. And I thought, "I wonder what all the poor people are doing." Just kidding.
- BW
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