Three-pointers were again a valuable weapon for the MACA girls on Tuesday. Fans at the home gym cheered as the orange and black made nine 3's in a 67-53 win. Maddie Carrington came at the Ortonville Trojans with three 3-pointers. Liz Dietz and Malory Anderson each connected twice from 3-point range. Riley Decker and Makenna Kehoe each sank one such shot.
I imagine Makenna is the granddaughter of my former co-worker Janet Kehoe. Janet was a very pleasant person to know through the years at the Sun Tribune.
It was post player Anderson who topped our scoring list with 20 points. Carrington joined her in double figures with eleven. Dietz used her 3's to build her total to eight points. Jenna Howden likewise scored eight. Decker's '3' was part of seven points scored for this Tiger. Carly Wohlers put in six points. Kehoe had her 3-pointer which I'm sure brought cheers from some friends of mine. I personally cheer for Jordann Baier, my occasional waitress at DeToy's, who scored two points as did Jen Solvie.
Anderson grabbed ten rebounds and Wohlers grabbed seven. Carrington and Decker each executed four assists. Anderson and Carrington were tops in steals with five and four, respectively.
We vaulted to our ninth win with the Tuesday success. Ortonville is also having a fine campaign and emerged with an 8-4 record.
Our team three-point shooting numbers were a quite stellar 9-for-19. Carrington had an impressive night across the stat categories.
Madysen Stegner paced Ortonville in scoring with 16 points. The other double figures scorer was Jaiden Conroy with eleven. Samantha Erickson scored six points followed by the Kirchberg girls, Brianna and Allyssa, each with five. Megan Rademacher put in four points while Tyler Peters and Carissa Vanderwall each scored three. Conroy was dead-on from 3-point range three times. Brianna Kirchberg and Erickson each made one '3'.
Boys: Tigers 64, Benson 35
The MACA boys shot out to a 44-19 halftime lead which set the tone for the game. This game was Tuesday night and had Benson as the opponent at Benson. The orange and black prevailed in the 64-35 final. The success pushed our W/L record to .500 at 7-7. Benson is having a struggling campaign.
Jaret Johnson made three shots from 3-point range. Connor Koebernick and Camden Arndt each made one long-ranger. But it was the up-and-coming Jackson Loge who topped our scoring list with 15 points. Johnson was right behind with 13 and Arndt contributed 12. Koebernick added nine points to the mix. Tate Nelson came through with six points and Judah Malek had five. Chandler Vogel and Kevin Asfeld each scored two.
Nelson attacked the boards to collect ten rebounds. He was followed on that list by Johnson with seven. Nelson dished out two assists. Nelson and Vogel each stole the ball four times.
No one with Benson scored in double figures. Here's the Brave scoring list: Austin Ose (5), Max Benson (2), Eric Hoium (1), Matt Ebnet (1), Will Enderson (9), Sam Lundebrek (6), Hunter Gonnerman (4), Jonas Habben (3), Dan Lenarz (4) and Devon Liles (1). Enderson supplied a Benson highlight with a three-pointer. Lundebrek collected five rebounds and Hoium had four. Ose had an assist. Enderson and Lenarz each had two steals.
Girls: Tigers 49, Benson 31
The Morris Area Chokio Alberta girls shot out to a 17-10 lead at halftime and cruised to a 49-31 win over Benson. The game was played on January 12 at home. In the next day's edition of the Willmar newspaper, the data for Benson is reported but not for MACA. I am puzzled by that. Doesn't the home coach phone in? I can only speculate. These days I'm quite out of the loop.
I will dutifully report here the info I have available from the Willmar paper. Kaitlyn Berreau and Abbie Mitteness each made a three-pointer for the Braves. Success doesn't come often for Benson GBB these days. Berreau with her eleven points was the only Brave in double figures. Mitteness had a point total of seven. I wonder if she's the daughter of the Benson Legion baseball coach with whom I worked many years ago. A player with the last name "Anderws" - most likely a typo from the Willmar paper - scored six points. Her first name isn't provided.
Three Brave players each scored two points: Courtney McNeill, Claire Ricard and Lee (first name not provided for Lee). Lundebrek - again, no first name given - added a point to the mix. Benson's rebound leaders were Ricard and "Andrews" (same player as in the scoring list?) each with four. Mitteness had two assists. Andrews had three steals.
If I engaged in such sloppy and incomplete reporting when I was at the Morris paper, it'd probably be cause for shouting, swearing, kicking waste baskets and slamming doors. Of course, such things are way out of proportion to how important these sports subjects are. People in the corporate media get way carried away assessing their own importance.
I do wish the reporting on this game would be more solid so that I could produce a better summary. Did Maddie Carrington make any 3's? My online writing does gather some attention. I know it does. It's hard to gauge exactly how much, but it's there and it's why I keep plugging away.
Crisis brewing in D.C.
Our nation's failure to produce more moderate, temperate and sensible leaders could have catastrophic consequences at some point. Our recent tendency to favor hard-line ideological people on the right could lead to disaster for the nation.
Up until now the Dow Jones just keeps rocketing higher as if propelled by some mysterious force. I was always taught that you cannot predict with certainty what the stock market will do.
So many people in the U.S., people who mostly go to church on Sunday, are looking the other way regarding our odious president and it's because the stock market keeps doing well. We put up with racist thinking on full display. What would Jesus say?
Why is it that Donald Trump walked away from a reasonable bipartisan compromise on DACA? Hard-line conservatives showed up to gum up the works. So now we might have a government shutdown.
I don't hear enough speculation on Trump's motives. It seems clear to me that he needs "cover" from the Republicans who control all levers of power in D.C. He needs cover in order to try to resist the Mueller investigation. That investigation could have serious repercussions for Trump and his family. If he were to indicate that he's not "in" with the wild-eyed, tea partyish wing of the GOP, the wing that has disproportionate power now, that wing might not be as zealous fighting Mueller and dispensing the venomous anti-Mueller propaganda. So Trump essentially knows what side his bread is buttered on. In my view it's scandalous. But the public's attention to this may not be aroused until there's a major stock market correction. I really do believe that God will punish us U.S. citizens for this someday. I hope it doesn't make our nation into a "shithole."
And now we learn Trump's lawyer paid off a porn star, $130,000. It's the equivalent of prostitution: Trump gets what he wants and the porn star gets what she wants.
So the Vikings won
I watched the Vikings/Saints game only at the very end. I was indifferent about the outcome but was curious how it would end. It's unthinkable for me to watch an entire NFL game or even a large portion of one. The game's end was a reversal of what we saw at the end of that famous Vikings/Dallas game in 1975. At that time, I unfortunately was emotionally invested in the Vikings.
Today I'm not attuned to the euphoria generated by the Vikings' win. Instead I think of former Viking Fred McNeill dying from Alzheimer's in his early 60s. There is a time bomb of more and more former players ending up like this. There is a generation of former players in their late 50s and 60s who played football at a time when the game was becoming more dangerous. It's a shame.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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