The orange and black surged from behind to get win No. 4 in football Friday. What fine timing, for Homecoming 2019!
The first quarter ended with the score 13-3 and Kimball on top. That hardly set the tone for the game. We were up 43-20 when all four quarters were done. We owned the second quarter with a 21-0 advantage. It was more of same in the third: 16-0. The Tigers have a win skein of four now. Fans will be back at Big Cat again on Friday, Oct. 4, for the contest with Minnewaska Area.
Our 43 points vs. Kimball spelled tremendous offense, and our defense made a statement with a safety. But it was Kimball recording the night's first two touchdowns. Both came on passes from Tucker Schultz. First Schultz passed seven yards to Jeremy Zabinski for a score. The kick was good.
A pass-happy Schultz got the second score when he connected with Cody Leither: 30 yards. The kick was unsuccessful.
Fans are looking at a 13-0 score now, a little grim, but that complexion sure changed. Let's get into the parade of MACA scoring.
But wait, allow your blog host to insert here that the summary in Saturday's Willmar paper shows MACA scoring 36 points, not 43, so a TD must have been missed somehow. Shoot. The info below is thus unfortunately incomplete.
First we struck with a 32-yard field goal kicked by Eli Grove. Colten Scheldorf scored on a run from the ten, and Grove kicked the PAT. Zach Bruns threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Jackson Loge. Grove added the PAT. Kenny Soderberg gathered in a 30-yard scoring strike that had Bruns again throwing. Grove was automatic for the conversion.
Our next score was the safety (two points of course). Next it was Bruns passing to Soderberg who reached the end zone from 13 yards out. Grove kicked, and he put his toe to work again for the final MACA score: a 25-yard field goal.
Kimball scored with an eleven-yard pass from Lucas Jansky to Gabe Becker.
The Tigers had 21 total first downs. We had two workhorses carrying the football: Bruns with 104 yards on ten carries, and Jack Riley with 89 yards on 17. Other rushing yards were contributed by Will Breuer (13) and Scheldorf (10). Bruns was sharp with the passing game with ten of 19 for 187 yards. Here's the receiving data: Soderberg (three catches, 68 yards), Loge (3-61), Riley (2-25) and Toby Gonnerman (1-31).
We had four interceptions - the Willmar paper does not report who made these, unfortunately. We also recovered a fumble.
Kimball's Schultz had 56 rushing yards on 16 carries. In passing he put his arm to work constantly as he had a whopping 51 attempts. Of these he completed 32. Of course his four interceptions were a big negative. His passing yardage was 317. Schultz didn't even do all of Kimball's passing. Lucas Jansky flung the ball six times too with five completions for 41 yards and no INTs. The quarterbacks threw to the following targets: Gabe Becker, Jeremy Zabinski, Cody Leither and Ashton Hanan. Kimball intercepted the ball twice and recovered one fumble.
Volleyball: Tigers 3, ACGC 0
MACA volleyball arrived at .500 with a win by sweep Thursday vs. ACGC. The orange and black owned 7-7 W/L numbers going into Friday which was the apex of Homecoming week festivities. We prevailed over the Falcons of ACGC 25-14, 25-19 and 25-20. Action was at ACGC.
Lexi Pew was in the zone with her blocking prowess as she came at the Falcons with eight ace blocks. Sophia Carlsen was a force too with her four, and complementing these Tigers were Emma Berlinger (1 1/2) and Kenzie Hockel (1/2). A balanced hitting attack saw Pew lead in kills with eight. Carlsen was right behind with seven, and the list continues with Hockel (5), Emma Bowman (3), Berlinger (2) and LaRae Kram (2).
Four Tigers each had one serving ace: Jaden Ross, Hockel, MacKenna Kehoe and Macee Libbesmeier. Kram was the cog in setting where she picked up 22 assists. Kehoe contributed one set assist. The leaders in digs were Courtney Lehman (15), Kehoe (13), Ross (10), Hockel (5) and Libbesmeier (5).
A bright spot for ACGC was Jeana Denton who achieved seven serving aces. Erin Roemeling had one ace. Noelle Dilley was the ACGC set assist leader with nine. Denton had a good night hitting with the team-best nine kills. Shayna Hobson went up to perform three ace blocks. Denton and Nicole Whitcomb shared team-best honors in digs with five each.
Tigers 3, BOLD 1
The Tuesday chapter in Morris Area Chokio Alberta volleyball was a 3-1 victory. The success was versus BOLD. It repeated earlier success vs. the Warriors. Four games did the job this time. It was a home match to mark Homecoming week 2019. Game 1 was the setback and it saw the Tigers fall 21-25, but after that the story turned rosy. We won 25-16, 25-14 and 25-21.
The success was an important step toward the sought .500 plateau. BOLD has shown a winning personality this fall as they entered Tuesday with a win total of ten. MACA fans can feel heartened turning back this foe. It's always fun to start the stat summary with hitting. Here we see Kenzie Hockel as the leader with ten kills. Lexi Pew slammed down eight. Then we see Emma Berlinger with six, Emma Bowman with five, and LaRae Kram and Sophia Carlsen each with three.
The offense was facilitated in the setting department by Kram who put up 27 assists. Courtney Lehman was handy with two assists, then we have Jaden Ross and Hockel each with one. Three Tigers each executed two ace blocks: Kram, Pew and Carlsen.
The digging department was quite balanced with these Tigers having double digits: Pew (12), Macee Libbesmeier (12), Ross (11), Kram (11), Hockel (10) and Lehman (10). Let's not overlook ace serves where we see three Tigers each sending two aces at the Warriors: Ross, Hockel and Pew. Lehman socked one serving ace.
All in all a nice, potent, balanced performance in this win for MAHS Homecoming.
For BOLD, Lanie Mages and Brenna Weis each had three serving aces, and Leslie Snow had two. Makayla Snow was busy with 28 set assists. These three Warriors led in hitting/kills: Leslie Snow (14), Makayla Snow (8) and Ashley Trongard (7). Three Warriors each had an ace block: Leslie Snow, Caylee Weber and Abby Meyers. BOLD's digging leaders were Weis (19), Leslie Snow (15) and Makayla Snow (13).
Cross country: Ortonville invite
Monday (9/23) was a most upbeat day for the distance runners of MACA. Our boys and girls teams were both tops in the Ortonville Invitational.
Three of our female runners finished in the top five, led by Maddie Carrington and her first place time of 19:27. Meredith Carrington was No. 2, timed at 20:21. Hailey Werk was No. 5 with her 20:46 performance. Kaylie Raths had a 21:23 clocking which put her in ninth place, and Katya Lackey was 11th at 21:42.
Congrats to the champion orange and black girls, and let's salute also the boys where we see Noah Stewart and his second place finish with a time of 15:24. He trailed only Nick Batchelor of Milbank whose time was 15:17. Thomas Tiernan of the Tigers achieved the top five with his 17:43 time, good for fifth. Bradley Rohloff arrived at the finish chute in seventh place, time of 18:13. Then it was Reid Tolifson trucking in at 12th, time of 19:06. Jared Boots was 13th with his 19:11 time.
It looks like there were seven schools that had their teams in action. The MACA success was a nice flourish for Homecoming week 2019.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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