MACA boys basketball took care of business pretty routinely Friday night (1/19). The Tigers hosted a struggling Montevideo Thunder Hawk team that has just one win. It was clear at halftime there would be no T-Hawk win on this night. The Tigers shot out to a 38-21 lead by the halfway mark. We won in the 64-34 final.
Three MACA players scored in double digits led by Tate Nelson with 14 points. Chandler Vogel and Jaret Johnson each scored 12 points. Tyler Reimers had a point contribution of nine. Here's the rest of the list: Connor Koebernick (6), Jackson Loge (5), Camden Arndt (2), Kevin Asfeld (2) and Eli Grove (2). Vogel and Reimers each made two 3-point shots, and Koebernick and Nelson each made one long-ranger.
Loge with his eleven rebounds led in that category. Koebernick was nifty in assists with his five. And in steals, Nelson, Reimers and Johnson each had two.
Monte's Jackson Snell topped his team's scoring with 16 points. These three T-Hawks each scored five: Isaac Hoogeveen, Christian Riley and Adam Root. Hunter Ward scored two points and Josh Tastad scored one.
Girls: BOLD 83, Tigers 58
The mood was bleak among Tiger partisans Thursday night as their team faltered against the Warriors of BOLD. This West Central Conference game ended with BOLD up nicely, 83-58.
Makenna Steffel was a big force for the host Warriors as she put in 28 points. Morgan Schmitz put in 15 followed by these three Warriors each with ten: Ashley Trongard, Makayla Snow and Brenna Weis. Taylor Sagedahl scored six points and Abby Sigurdson had four. Three BOLD players each made a 3-point shot: Schmitz, Trongard and Sagedahl.
Steffel was a force in rebounds as well as scoring as she snared a team-best eleven boards. Snow collected eight rebounds and Sagedahl had seven. Assist leaders were Weis with nine and Sigurdson with four. Steffel was all over the court as she had ten steals. Snow stole the ball five times and Schmitz had four steals.
BOLD got its 13th win with the Thursday success. The Tigers came out of the night at 9-7. The game was still close at halftime with BOLD having a lead of just five, 42-37. For MACA, Riley Decker's four 3-pointers couldn't help the team keep pace in the end. Maddie Carrington connected twice from 3-point land, and Liz Dietz made one '3'.
The Willmar paper makes me pull out my hair sometimes. The Friday edition reports that the Tigers vs. BOLD game was played "at Morris/Chokio-Alberta." For one thing, the correct reference would be to "Morris Area Chokio Alberta" or "MACA." My MACA sports schedule says the Thursday game was played at BOLD. I checked Pheasant Country Sports which reported that the game was in Olivia. The Willmar paper said it was home for MACA. You'd have a 50/50 chance of getting this right even if you just guessed.
So why the screw-up in the West Central Tribune? I wrote my whole first draft of this blog post going by the Willmar paper. Later I had to revise it. Sometimes the sports department of the Willmar paper can be a real shithole. We see "NA" for "not available" with the rebounds, assists and steals categories for MACA in the Willmar paper. If the game was played in Morris, I would expect these stats to be reported. But you never know these days. Remember the recent game against Benson?
I guess I can report the MACA scoring totals. Decker's 3-pointers vaulted her to the team-best total of 18 points. Malory Anderson had a productive night with 17 points. Carrington came through with eight. Dietz added seven points to the mix, then we have Jennifer Solvie and Kendra Wevley each with four.
Hockey: Mayport (ND) 8, MBA Storm 7
The MBA Storm played a mighty competitive game, getting edged in the end 8-7 at the hands of Mayport Area of North Dakota. This is the first time I have ever heard of "Mayport Area." Fans at our Lee Center watched the skaters race back and forth on January 16.
The Mayport boys put the puck in the net four times in the second period. MBA surpassed that with an output of five goals in the second. MBA scored one goal each in the first and third periods. Fans certainly got to see plenty of offense. Chase Engebretson was the Storm player working in goal to try to hold off Mayport. He battled Kade Susie who wore the goalie equipment for the North Dakota foe.
Sam Satrom scored the first goal of the night. Satrom scored with an assist from Reece Groth at 4:29. Then Zach Bruns evened things up with a goal for MBA at 6:01. Groth scored in power play style at 11:02 to make the score 2-1.
The second period saw the offense rule and the goaltenders just try to hold their own. Satrom scored for Mayport with assists from Groth and Braden Soderberg. Parker Klemm scored for MBA with assists from Hunter Gades and Jack Riley. The Klemm goal was part of five in succession for the suddenly surging Storm. Cheers were robust at Lee Center. Bruns scored at 4:45 assisted by Mike Halvorson and Riley. Matthew Tolifson found the net with a Kolby Goff assist at 6:01. Riley brought cheers from the Lee Center crowd with a goal at 11:32, assisted by Bruns and Jake Riley. Then it was Goff finding the net at 12:07 with assists from Halvorson and Tolifson. Mayport's Groth stabilized things for his team with a goal at 13:24. Groth scored again for the ND boys, this time assisted by Soderburg and Satrom. Satrom ended the second period scoring with a short-handed goal at 16:18.
On to the third period. First it was Satrom scoring for Mayport with assists from Groth and Derek Johnson. Groth got an assist from Johnson for a goal at 13:44. Then it was MBA's Bruns scoring the night's final goal with assists from Tolifson and Tyler Buss at 15:10. Fans had certainly enjoyed a full session of hockey.
The government shutdown
Someday we'll look back on the Trump presidency as this weird sort of sci-fi story where the American people got hypnotized into thinking the president's idiosyncrasies could be overlooked. The president had a sexual relationship with a porn star and had the woman paid off to try to keep her quiet. And yet this is a president supported by the so-called "evangelicals" of so-called Christianity.
I wish the media would give us a more firm understanding of who these "evangelicals" are. I don't think this describes my church which is ELCA. ELCA stands for "Evangelical Lutheran Church in America." But we're not like the nutcases who seem to use their religion as a cover for promoting far right wing politics. President Trump talks like he supports them, although he has a long history, according to people who have been close to him, of being quite receptive to progressive political ideas.
The porn star's name is Stormy Daniels. If you type her name into Google Images along with a word or two out of the pornographic realm, you will see what she is capable of. And, she is capable of doing a great deal. Congratulations, "evangelicals." You no longer have to be burdened by the knowledge of having an African-American president. You are so relieved, you're all in with a person like Trump who is arguably rather a scumbag.
One thing will make us wake up: a major stock market correction, lasting a while. It takes money. I wonder how Jesus would pass judgment on all this. Trump is all in with the far right of politics now because he needs the support of those people (like Sean Hannity) to harass the Mueller investigation.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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