The Tuesday chapter of MACA volleyball action was fantastic: a 3-0 win in front of the home crowd. The orange and black prevailed over ACGC by these scores: 25-18, 25-15 and 25-9.
Lexi Pew showed command at the service line as she fired four ace serves at the Falcons. Kenzie Hockel and Macee Libbesmeier each had one serving ace. LaRae Kram was all over the court in setting and finished with 23 assists. Libbesmeier filled in with two assists.
Hockel topped the kills list with her seven, trailed closely by Emma Berlinger and Pew each with six. Emma Bowman and Kram each batted four kills at the Falcons. Sophia Carlsen had three kills and Libbesmeier had one. Ace blocks were produced by Carlsen (3), Kram (2) and Pew (1).
Libbesmeier was in her typical position excelling in digs where her total was 19. Hockel came through with eight digs while Pew and MacKenna Kehoe each had seven. Kram concludes the list with her six.
The top ACGC hitter was Myli Naragon with four kills. Erin Roemeling had three serving aces for the Falcons. Their leader in set assists was Noelle Dilley with eight. Naragon had two ace blocks, and Jeana Denton had seven digs.
Melrose 3, Tigers 0
The MACA volleyball Tigers were humbled in front of the home crowd Thursday. The opponent was Melrose and the outcome was 0-3.
Lexi Pew was sharp at the net as she executed eleven kills. But the Dutchmen came at the Tigers with a well-honed attack that produced the sweep by scores of 25-14, 25-21 and 25-21.
Pew was joined in the hitting category by Kenzie Hockel (five kills), Sophia Carlsen (5), LaRae Kram (4), Emma Berlinger (3) and Emma Bowman (2). Kram and Bowman each went up to execute two ace blocks. Berlinger and Carlsen each had one ace block. Macee Libbesmeier, the senior "libero," was a bright spot with her 21 digs. Hockel had nine, Jaden Ross eight, Pew seven and Kram five.
Kram facilitated the offense with her 21 set assists. Three Tigers each batted a serving ace across the net: Ross, Hockel and Pew.
Cross country showcase
LQPV/DB hosts its Early Bird meet but this comes after our own cross country spectacle in Morris. You might say we have the true "early bird." We attract plenty of fans to the local golf course. I was disappointed to learn recently from our city manager that our grant attempt for an extension of the biking/walking trail to the golf course, was unsuccessful. Hopefully that can be re-booted. Morris does not have lakes recreation. An extensive biking/walking path helps make up for that. Let's go for it in the future.
The Lac qui Parle cross country meet was on Thursday, Aug. 29. The Carrington sisters excelled in a big way as Maddie was No. 1 and Meredith No. 4. Maddie covered the course in 16:46.69. Meredith's time was 17:30.20. The runner-up was Anika Fernholz of host LQPV/DB, time of 17:07.58. Also in the top five were Kyle Knollenberg of YME (third, 17:14.54) and Reegan Duininck of CMCS (fifth, 17:38.52).
Our Tigers were the champion team among the eight total. The Carringtons were joined in the MACA effort by Hailey Werk (tenth, 18:11.43), Katya Lackey (11th, 18:22.24) and Malory Anderson (14th, 18:46.65).
The MACA boys had a fourth place showing among six teams. The host LQPV/DB squad was No. 1. Zeke Sather of LQPV/DB was individual champion with his time of 17:26.68. The second through fourth place runners were also from LQPV/DB: Mikey Kvaal, Griffin Johnson and Mason Brehmer. Will Magaard of Benson-KMS was fifth.
Our top runner was Bradley Rohloff, 13th with a time of 19:41.32. Thomas Tiernan placed 17th, time of 20:11.77. Jared Boots arrived at the finish chute 19th, 20:14.19. Reid Tolifson was clocked at 21:27.51, and Cole Hawks at 22:15.66.
Setback in tennis
MACA was on the short end in September 3 tennis action. It was a humbling day with a 0-7 outcome against LQPV/DB. The Eagles were to be congratulated on their dominating air. Most likely they play a lot over the summer. This summary will give the names of the LQPV/DB players first.
So it was Anna Hacker at first singles winning over Abbigail Athey 6-2 and 6-4. The second singles Eagle, Addi Oie, was on the winning end 6-4 and 7-5 over Katelyn Wehking. The Eagles had their own Katelyn, last name of Wittnebel, prevailing over Ryanne Long 6-4, 3-6 and 7-6. Long's second set success was the Tigers' lone bright spot. Then at fourth singles, Madi Matthies downed Katie Messner 6-1 and 6-4.
At doubles the LQPV/DB tandem of Jessica Sigdahl and Rachel Halvorson defeated Greta Hentges and Kassidy Girard 6-3 and 7-5. The second singles LQPV/DB team of Bree Kallhoff and Veda Maharaj defeated Hannah Watzke and Lakia Manska 6-1 and 6-1. And then at No. 3, Eagles Sarah Halvorson and Kylie Wendinger defeated the Tiger tandem of Ireland Winter and Breanna Schmidgall, 7-6 and 6-3.
Football: home opener loss
My summary of the MACA vs. BOLD football game, a loss for our Tigers, is on my companion website "Morris of Course." Please click on the link below, and thanks for reading like always.
I guess the football game was a nice experience even if the outcome wasn't favorable. Here's an email I got from a fellow musically-inclined friend this morning. (We pay attention to things like pep band.)
We went to the game last night. It was a beautiful evening, great to sit out in the air. The game was pretty bad from a Tiger standpoint, but that’s to be expected against BOLD. We left in the 3rd quarter, but were able to do the tailgate thing before the game (very good foot-long hot dogs), got our popcorn at halftime. I looked for you up on the “cheapskates can watch for free” walkway by the RFC, but didn’t see you. Wanda (Dagen) didn’t have the pep band play - she didn’t feel that they could do well with only a couple days of prep. She said she had the kids vote on whether or not to play - can you imagine John Woell putting a possible performance up for student vote? Of course, one of her points regarding pep band is that she isn’t compensated monetarily for directing the pep band - she has a set stipend for “after school performances," which includes pep band, concerts, going to band festivals etc. And all of the teachers in the music dept. get the same stipend, so she feels short-changed.
Yours truly visits newspaper office
OK there was some stress and that was foolish of course, but I stopped by the Morris newspaper office one day last week, just to say welcome and hello. Shelly was there, part of the new husband/wife tag team owners. I enjoyed talking to her and do hope they appreciate my sincere "welcome."
I was in the neighborhood because I like to shoot baskets on many afternoons at Wells Park. It isn't often that the general public drifts into west Morris. I did not like it when the newspaper office moved from its "hub" location in east Morris, to "across the tracks" to the industrial Pacific Avenue. Man, the industrial noise is a factor over there, as one readily appreciates when shooting buckets at the park.
I would like to encourage my fellow Morrissites to simply stop by the newspaper office and say "hello and welcome." Shelly is mighty busy of course and would have to deal with the distractions, but I think she'd appreciate. She and Reed should get the "key to the city!"
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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