It's six in a row now for our orange and black of volleyball. The skein grew to six on Tuesday with the sweep over Benson at home. The home fans cheered as the Tigers won 25-11, 25-20 and 25-13. We sported a 9-5 conference record at night's end, 13-10 overall.
The WCC slate is now completed. Benson came out of the night at 8-15 overall.
A very balanced hitting attack had Lexi Pew lead with nine kills. She was complemented by: Emma Berlinger (6), Kenzie Hockel (5), LaRae Kram (4), MacKenna Kehoe (1), Sophia Carlsen (1) and Sydney Solvie (1). Pew showed authority at the net in blocking too. She rose up to execute three aces. Carlsen and Kram each came at the Braves with two ace blocks. Berlinger and Hockel each added one ace block to the mix.
Macee Libbesmeier set the pace in digs with ten. Courtney Lehman and Jaden Ross each performed eight digs. Hockel and Kehoe each had six, and Kram had five. Let's take a look at serving aces and here we see Kram with two followed by several teammates each with one: Emma Bowman, Ross, Kehoe and Carlsen. Kram facilitated the offense with her 17 set assists. Kehoe and Carlsen each had one assist.
Claire Ricard was the Benson hitting standout with ten kills. These Braves also got stats in hitting: Mariah Ahrndt, Sarah Brandt, Rachel Berens, Beth Cain, Marissa Connelly, Kara Kannegiesser, Abby Lundebrek and Abbie Mitteness. It's nice to see the Berens name continue in Benson Brave sports. Rachel Berens had the team-best three serving aces. Ellie Moesenthin was their top setter with 12 assists. Ricard contributed two ace blocks. Ricard and Mitteness had 16 and 15 digs respectively.
Cross country: WCC meet
The Pomme de Terre Golf Course was abuzz with excitement Tuesday for the colorful spectacle of the West Central Conference cross country meet. Our Tigers sport the orange and black colors. The team tent was a nice bright orange.
The weather was the kind that cross country runners like, cool but not unpleasant, sun under the clouds. So, in that setting we had our boys team leader arrive at the finish chute No. 1. This very accomplished individual is Noah Stewart. Noah's champion time was 16:40.0. The MACA boys placed fourth as a team. Melrose was the boys team champion among the six total teams.
Stewart was joined in the MACA effort by: Thomas Tiernan (13th place, 18:50.0), Bradley Rohloff (16th, 19:07.0), Reid Tolifson (32nd, 20:11.0) and Jared Boots (35th, 20:20.0).
The MACA girls' effort is unfortunately without Maddie Carrington. Maddie was injured in the Homecoming week Powder Puff football game. It was an avoidable injury IMHO. Just avoid playing in the game. But the Carrington name is hardly absent from the running scene. Meredith now carries the Carrington family banner.
Grandpa Tom was on hand to support Meredith and her teammates. Tom was able to cheer Meredith arriving at the finish chute No. 2, timed at 20:53.0. The only faster runner was Kayla Meyer of Melrose, time of 20:35.0. The Tigers placed second as a team behind Minnewaska Area. There were seven schools represented. Hailey Werk of the Tigers placed seventh, timed at 21:58.0. Anna Backman was tenth (22:21.0).
Isabel Fynboh (23:08.0) and Katya Lackey (23:11.0) placed 18th and 19th respectively.
Football: Tigers 36, Sauk Centre 14
Our MACA Tigers own a record over .500 at the end of the regular season. The finale was Wednesday night at our Big Cat Stadium, where the visitor was a struggling Sauk Centre team. Alas, the Streeters have failed to win in the 2019 campaign. We afforded them no relief Wednesday as we prevailed 36-14. So we're 5-3. Next is the playoffs.
Sauk Centre was a strong rival back in the days when I attended high school.
The Streeters scored first in the Wednesday game: Anthony Marsh carried in from the nine. The conversion run try was unsuccessful. A punt return was the vehicle for the orange and black getting going. Kenny Soderberg took that return 52 yards for the score. Eli Grove kicked the point-after.
Soderberg scored our second TD as well. This time he caught a pass for 37 yards, a pass thrown by Zach Bruns. Grove came through for the PAT. The Tigers were up 14-6 at the end of the first quarter.
A field goal and a touchdown accounted for the MACA scoring in the second quarter. Grove gave thrills with a 33-yard field goal. Looks like there is college football potential for this young man's kicking. Bruns scored on an eight-yard run and Grove kicked.
On to the second half: Bruns had a three-yard TD carry and this time the PAT kick try was blocked. Sauk Centre's Ben Millard ran the ball in from the four, and Nolan Ziemer passed to Isaiah Hornick for two on the conversion. The last TD of the night was scored by our Jackson Loge. Loge caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from Bruns. The conversion pass try was unsuccessful.
We had 13 first downs on the night. Bruns not only engineered our passing game, he was the top ballcarrier: 12 carries, 63 yards. In passing his numbers were seven completions in eleven attempts for 89 yards. He was complemented in the running game by Tristan Raths (ten carries, 47 yards) and Durgin Decker (4-29). Our pass-catchers were Soderberg (three catches, 55 yards), Loge (2-18) and Josh Rohloff (2-16).
Sauk Centre had 19 first downs. Sauk's rushing yardage was supplied by Marsh (29 carries, 126 yards), Irvin Brenes (8-46), Gabe Polipnick (9-28) and Ben Millard (5-21). Ziemer completed four passes but he had two picked off. Marsh had two of the receptions for 13 yards. Dominic Ritter and Riley Gritz each had one reception.
I invite you to compare my coverage of MACA sports with what is on the Stevens County Times website.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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