Tigers sweep an impressive Melrose team

Tigers 3, Melrose 0
The Tigers played with a sweep flourish once again, dispatching the Dutchmen of Melrose on October 10. Scores at the Melrose gym were 25-13, 25-14 and 25-16. It was a significant win as it dislodged Melrose out of a tie for the WCC lead. We breezed into mid-week with a 15-3 record. Melrose has impressive numbers too at 18-4.
It was a feather in our cap to win at Melrose. Jenna Howden led the spiking as she typically does - she had the team-best 13 kills. Jenna Larsen was No. 2 on the list with her nine kills. Bailey Marty and Lexi Pew each had five. Kenzie Hockel had four kills and Karly Fehr three. Fehr and Howden each executed four ace blocks. Pew had two ace blocks and Marty had one.
Riley Decker was busy in digs, posting the team-best 29. Marty complemented her efforts with 22. Howden dug the ball up eleven times while Fehr had ten digs and Larsen nine. Howden showed diversified talent on this night, coming at the Dutchmen with two serving aces. Marty, Fehr and Larsen each had one serving ace. Fehr facilitated the winning offense with her 33 assists. Decker added two assists to the mix.
For Melrose, Mallari Funk led in kills with seven. Mia Meyer went up to perform three ace blocks. Kelsey Fleischhacker and Cassie Klaphake each had 13 digs. Luetmer and Mashayae Tschida each had one serving ace.

Cross country: meet at Benson
The assignment for MACA cross country on October 9 was to visit Benson. It was a day when Lac qui Parle/Dawson-Boyd impressed with a No. 1 showing in boys and girls. Marquee runner Keiser Freetly of the Eagles was No. 1, timed at 16:42.30. Jordyn Sterud of the girls took champ honors with her time of 19:55.60. There were nine teams in the boys field, eight in girls.
How did our MACA runners fare? The Tigers were No. 4 in the boys division, No. 3 in girls. Here's who ran for the boys: Tate Nelson (7th, 18:02.20), Ben Hernandez (12th, 18:10.80), Thomas Tiernan (28th, 19:07.80), Bradley Rohloff (32nd, 19:37.60) and Judah Malek (44th, 20:37.30).
Meredith Carrington set the pace for the MACA girls with her fourth place showing, time of 21:35.20. Caryn Marty arrived at the finish chute No. 14, time of 22:25.80. Malory Anderson was 17th with her 22:34.60 showing. Also wearing the orange and black were Kaylie Raths (24th, 23:23.10), Isabel Fynboh (27th, 23:54.00) and Alexis Motz (34th, 25:09.30).
The site of the running was the Benson Golf Club.

Cross country: meet at Sauk Centre
Unfortunately we're still seeing just one Carrington name in MACA cross country data. Meredith Carrington is doing fine as shown in info from the Sauk Centre Invitational on October 3. Carrington placed eighth in this meet that had ten teams. She covered the course in 21:36.2. We're awaiting the return of Meredith's sister Maddie. Maddie is reportedly dealing with a foot issue.
As a team the MACA girls placed fifth at Sauk Centre. The host Streeters took first. Meredith was joined in the MACA effort by: Malory Anderson (22:51.4), Caryn Marty (22:55.7), Isabel Fynboh (23:30.3), Crystal Nohl (23:34.1), Alexis Motz (23:40.1) and Kaylie Raths (24:04.8).
Noah Stewart was quite excellent for the MACA boys. Stewart was No. 3 to the chute in the boys race with his time of 17:31.7. Tate Nelson was the next orange and black runner getting there, timed at 18:20.0. Solomon Johnson had a time of 18:20.3, then it was Ben Hernandez (18:22.1), Tyler Reimers (19:09.8), Thomas Tiernan (19:11.2) and Bradley Rohloff (20:07.5).
Staples-Motley had the top boys team among the eleven total boys teams.
There was a junior varsity race also. Our Katya Lackey was the girls champion in JV with her time of 24:11.1. Meghan Goulet placed tenth with a 26:32.9 time. Victoria Vargas was clocked at 27:47.7, and Bobbi Wohlers had a 28:45.6 performance. Boys running JV were: Allen Roberts (20:41.5), Judah Malek (20:51.3), Colton Wohlers (20:55.5), Micah Aanerud (21:48.2) and Tyce Anderson (23:07.8).
I am having to wear powerful reading glasses to learn this information from the Morris newspaper. The meet data is reported there in type size that is way too small. Newspaper readers are an aging population, so this makes no sense.
With papers shrinking all the time, there is a natural inclination toward running stuff smaller, except for the front page photos which sometimes take up half the page in the Morris paper. This happens even when the photo is quite pedestrian and with no photojournalistic merit. Killing space with photos means, of course, the news department doesn't have to work as hard.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com