Arndt had 61 rushing yards on the night on 13 carries. Colten Scheldorf covered 33 yards in six carries. The signal-caller was Jaret Johnson who added 15 yards to the rushing mix on ten carries. Other rushing yards were turned in by Matt McNeill and Jack Riley. Johnson with his passing arm completed two aerial attempts for 39 yards and had none picked off. The receptions were by Arndt and McNeill.
We were held to seven first downs while Osakis picked up 17. Osakis has the very neat nickname "Silverstreaks," one of my favorites. The Silverstreaks scored one touchdown each in the first and second quarters. It was Triston Stoetzel getting Osakis' first score on a nine-yard scamper. Jonathan Lara kicked the point-after. Luke Imdieke got the second Osakis score on a 29-yard run, after which Lara again kicked the PAT.
Imdieke surpassed 100 rushing yards on the night, achieved on 17 carries. The 100 plateau was also surpassed by Stoetzel: 18 carries, 102 yards. Jacob Backes added 15 rushing yards to the mix. So the Osakis rushing yards total was 293. Osakis got the job done offensively with no passing.
The Silverstreaks are having a fine campaign and now own a 5-1 record.
To the extent that the MACA coaching staff had a shaky relationship with the Willmar paper over the last third of last season, it appears there is no problem this time around. I can only speculate on the background of all this. In the "old days" I'd be quite well-versed on everything. Even when MACA scored 30-plus points in a home playoff win over Breckenridge last season, it didn't get in the Willmar paper, and that ties my hands as a blogger. When BOLD came here and won big a year ago, I can understand why the Morris staff wouldn't be excited about calling that in, but I'm sure the BOLD parents were expecting to see a summary in the Willmar paper. I'm sure lots of phones were ringing. I know how all that goes.
Anyway, I am very happy at the present time to be sharing about the excitement in Tiger football. I cannot be held down very easily, eh?
Volleyball: Tiger 3, ACGC 0
Three games were all that were needed for the MACA volleyball team to get the job done Thursday night at home. We got to the ten-win plateau with this success. Scores were 25-17, 25-16 and 25-9.
Bailey Marty gave spark from the serving line with four aces. Kenzie Hockel and Riley Decker each had one ace. The duo of Liz Dietz and LaRae Kram shared the setting work and produced 15 and 12 assists, respectively. Our hitting attack was led by Lexi Pew who pounded nine kills. Marty had impact with her seven kills. Three Tigers each had four kills: Emma Berlinger, Jen Solvie and Hockel. Sophie Carlsen came through with three kills and Kram with one.
Hockel and Pew each went up to perform two ace blocks. Berlinger and Carlsen each had a block. Decker stood out in digs with eleven.
ACGC had no serving aces. Rachel Wilner had 14 set assists. Shayna Hobson slammed six kills for the Falcons. Lindsey Minnick and Erika Tagtow each had three kills and Rachel Wilner and Alexis Schmidt each had one. ACGC had no ace blocks. Jeana Denton led in digs with nine followed by Rachel Wilner with seven.
BOLD 3, Tigers 2
The orange and black didn't fare as well in the match against BOLD at Olivia. The West Central Tribune reported that this match was played on Thursday but it was on Tuesday. It was a hard-fought match that had a 2-3 outcome with game scores of 25-23, 25-15, 13-25, 21-25 and 13-15.
Yes, the scores show we were up 2-0 at one point although BOLD was contesting hard. BOLD eked out the advantage to the delight of their home court fans over the last three games. BOLD soared to a 14-1 season record with this success - quite the juggernaut.
LaRae Kram did well in the serving department for the Tigers, executing three ace serves. These Tigers each had one ace: Bailey Marty, Riley Decker, Kenzie Stahman and LeAndra Hormann. It appears that the Willmar paper continues to misspell some of the Tigers' names. I am employing what I feel to be some of the corrections.
Kram and Liz Dietz had the main setting responsibilities and produced 22 and 16 assists respectively. Riley Decker had four assists. Three Tigers each had nine kills to lead: Sophie Carlsen, Lexi Pew and Marty. Kenzie Hockel had eight kills, and the list continues with Emma Berlinger (5), Jen Solvie (3) and Dietz (2).
Four Tigers each had one ace block: Carlsen, Berlinger, Pew and Marty. Decker topped the digs list with 12 and she was followed by Marty (10), Kram, (8), Hockel (7), Dietz (5) and Macey Libbesmeier (5).
Let's move on to the BOLD Warrior stats and here we have Makenna Steffel with two serving aces while Morgan Schmitz and Ashley Trongard each had one. Makayla Snow did the setting work and came through with 47 assists. Steffel was the kill leader with 23 while Trongard had ten kills and Snow had nine. Steffel had three ace blocks and Alex Revier had one. The top Warriors in digs were Brenna Weis (27), Steffel (25) and Schmitz (20).
Kavanaugh is in
Could be a dark day for America today as the right wing has taken over with the narrow vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh. Maybe the sky is not falling. We should always try to be glass-half-full or keg-half-full as Kavanaugh would say. If the political right wing truly has values that will ultimately uplift us and make our lives better - which I gravely doubt - then we will have to be happy. Our only hope is that people like me are wrong and the right wing can genuinely make all our lives better.
So we pray for that. Of course, the Supreme Court should not be so political in the first place. Kavanaugh was not a top candidate at the start. Did he rise because of signs he might be inclined to make Donald Trump a king of sorts, to protect him from indictment? Are we as a nation going to keep acquiescing to what the narcissistic and power-drunk president wants? Are we all going to be like those zombie admirers of Trump at the MAGA rallies? Will we someday view video footage of those rally speeches and be reminded of what turned out to be a dark chapter in American history?
Will there be light at the end of the tunnel: a new president who is kind, who is civil and who is respectful even if espousing views that are ideological? Can we be rescued by someone like Kamala Harris being president? Can Harris stand up to the horrible insults that will be hurled at her by Trump and the right wing media? We need someone with courage, now more than ever.
Dorothy Watzke, RIP
I don't go to funerals often but I joined the friends and family of Dorothy Watzke this morning (Saturday) at Federated Church. We paid tribute to the memory of one of those parents of the boomer kids. The kids grew up under such different times. The kids ran wild in a lot of ways and weren't restrained much in any way, shape or form. No one would have thought of contracting "security" to a private company at the school.
We walked and rode bike to school and played self-supervised games where we could learn to be self-starters, albeit with imperfections and some risk. Those were the pre-Jacob Wetterling days. Today we hear of "free range parenting laws" in some states to bring back some freedoms for kids. It's bad to court any risks but it's also bad for kids to grow up so protected and living such a sedentary lifestyle.
The "boomer" brand of freedom may never come back. We wax nostalgic about it. We can blot out some of the negative stuff like bullying, often intense, partying with associated vices, and onerous grading systems in school classes resulting in maybe only 3-4 kids on the 'A' honor roll. Compare that to today.
I was delighted to see Tom Watzke with whom I graduated in the spring of 1973. We heard our class speaker Edie Martin talk about how we should "not be a milquetoast." We certainly broke the mold which I'm sure brought no objection from Dorothy, her husband Jack and the other adults who saw a big unbridled frontier out there for us.
I missed seeing Matt at the funeral.
Dorothy Watzke, RIP.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
I had other commitments that day so just stopped in for visiation and did not think about Tom until it was too late.
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