MACA boys basketball got its second win of the season Friday. Success came in the Fergus Falls Tournament. There, the Tigers took the court to face Chisago Lakes. And when the two halves were done, it was our Tigers with the win 74-62.
Our sophomore of note, Jackson Loge, made more strides toward really being an attention-getter in West Central Minnesota basketball. His 6'7" frame is imposing. And against Chisago Lakes he poured in 29 points and grabbed 17 boards. We got up 39-35 at halftime. Our record at day's end: 2-4. The Chisago Lakes record: 1-6. We outscored Chisago Lakes in the second half 35-27.
Thomas Tiernan was second high in scoring and he made a special impression with long-range shooting. Tiernan made four 3-pointers and scored 17 points. Jaden Maanum and Cade Fehr each made one '3'. Toby Gonnerman had impact with his 11 points. A trio of Tigers each scored five: Maanum, Brandon Jergenson and Fehr. Durgin Decker added to the mix with two points.
Decker and Maanum each dished out four assists. Loge swatted aside two shots.
Here's the Chisago Lakes scoring list: Andrew Koehler (16), Beau Backes (14), Ethan Thompson (10), Ryan Sanvik (8), Noah Lasiuta (6), Grant Koehler (4), Ben Forsberg (3) and Holden Miller (2).
Fergus Falls 72, Tigers 68
So, on to Saturday it was. Now we faced the host Otters of Fergus Falls. We didn't have quite the firepower to overcome this foe. We did have the lead at halftime, 32-31, but the Otters surged to outscore us the rest of the way, 41-36. So the final score had Fergus Falls up 72-68.
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| Jackson Loge image from "Hudl" |
Fellow sophomore Durgin Decker made his presence felt with 14 points on five of nine shooting. Our third-best scorer was another sophomore, Thomas Tiernan, and he came through with 12 points. Toby Gonnerman - whoa, another sophomore - scored six and Jaden Maanum (senior) five. We shot 42 percent from the field.
Loge topped our three-point shooting with three makes while Tiernan had two and Maanum one. We were six of 16 in that department. From the freethrow line we were 12 of 21 for 57 percent. Loge made eight of his eleven tries from the gift line. Decker made four of six.
Loge impressed in rebounding as we'd expect, as he came down with ten rebounds, two offensive and eight defensive. Gonnerman grabbed seven boards. Maanum topped the assists list with four. Loge had three steals followed by Tiernan and Decker each with two. Loge had both of the team's blocked shots.
Boys hockey: Storm 6, Fairmont 1
Nothing like having puck success in your own tournament, at holiday-time no less. The MBA Storm boys skated past Fairmont with a score of 6-1 on Friday. We got our ninth win as we out-shot the Fairmont boys 75-13. Fairmont is having a below-.500 season. For MBA, the wins are frequent and thrilling.
Surely we thrilled in the opening period with a 2-0 advantage as first it was Zander Hoffman scoring. Hoffman scored at 11:44 with assists from Grady Goff and Tyler Buss. Zach Bruns got our second goal at 12:53 as Jack Riley supplied an assist.
The score became 3-0 when Riley scored in the second period with a Bruns assist (:13). Then the score was 4-0 with a Matthew Tolifson goal, assisted by Kaleb Breuer (5:25). The surging continued with a Tolifson goal that had assists from Ryan Tolifson and Brady DeHaan (6:44). The last goal of the period was by Fairmont and it was scored by F. Thomas Claeys, assist from Carson Kuhl (15:40).
The only third period goal was by our Storm: Ryan Tolifson got the puck in the net with assists from Hunter Blume and DeHaan (7:53).
Chase Engebretson guarded the goal for the winner. Chase saved 12 of 13 shots. Fairmont had two goalies work: Carsen Musser and Tyson Geeerdes.
Girls hockey action didn't go so well for the Storm as we got shut out 8-0 by Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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