The MACA teams gave the most reason to cheer.
Boys: Tigers 83, Benson 64
Our fans not only felt delighted with the nearly 20-point margin of victory, but also the .500 mark we sported at night's end: 5-5. A little ascendance is the goal now. Prospects look good as we see some individuals putting up pretty impressive stats.
Our fortunes took off in the second half as we pulled away from the mere two-point lead we had at halftime, 37-35. We outscored the Braves 46-29 in the second half. So the final was 83-64. Beating Benson was a plum because the Braves have been comfortably over .500 this season.
Benson normally impresses from beyond the three-point stripe. On Friday their long-rangers weren't falling quite so much. Still they had eight makes. We had enough weapons to overcome.
Jackson Loge is bound to start getting more scouting attention from other teams. How do we contain this guy? The sophomore's stats are revealing him to be quite the impact player. Surely he's following in his father's footsteps. Against Benson, Jackson scored 31 points on ten of 18 in field goal shooting.
Thomas Tiernan treated the fans to sharp three-point shooting, and he posted 15 total points. In fact, all of this Tiger's field goal shooting was from three-point range. He had a harvest of five 3's in the eleven attempts. The third Tiger to score in double figures was Jaden Maanum: 12 points on four of eleven in shooting. Jaden is a senior and he connected for two 3-pointers.
Cameron Koebernick scored nine points on three of seven in field goals. All three of his FGs were from 3-point distance. Here's the rest of the MACA scoring list: Brandon Jergenson (5), Durgin Decker (4), Cade Fehr (3), Toby Gonnerman (2) and Bradley Rohloff (2). As a team we shot 26 of 68 for 38 percent, and in 3's our numbers were 12 of 38. Durgin Decker and Cade Fehr each made a '3'.
Loge went to the freethrow line for 15 shots and he made 11. The team freethrow numbers were 19-for-25 (76 percent). Loge muscled his way for 23 rebounds, the dominant stat. Maanum had four boards and these Tigers also contributed: Decker, Jergenson, Tiernan, Koebernick, Gonnerman and Fehr. The assist list was topped by Maanum with five. Jergenson and Tiernan each had four assists while Loge, Koebernick and Fehr each had one.
Maanum stole the ball twice. These Tigers each had one steal: Decker, Jergenson, Tiernan, Loge and Fehr. We're not surprised to see Loge tops in blocked shots: four. Maanum and Jergenson each had one block.
Benson had five players score led by Will Enderson with 17 points. Abe Peterson and Cole Hedman each produced 15 points. Ben Peterson had eleven and Sam Lenarz six. Lenarz, Hedman and Enderson kept Benson's three-point attack viable, each making two, while the Peterson boys, Abe and Ben, each made one.
Ben Peterson and Enderson each pulled down seven rebounds. Abe led in assists with three and in steals with four. Enderson blocked a shot.
The Tigers can't take anything for granted against Benson in the future - the Braves had 9-4 W/L numbers entering the weekend. They can get hot in 3's anytime.
Girls: Tigers 67, Benson 61
The girls portion of the doubleheader presented ample reason to cheer among the orange and black partisans. Coach Dale Henrich's Tiger squad beat the Braves of Benson 67-61. The orange and black trailed by four at halftime, 34-30, but the second half was a quite different story: we outscored the Braves 37-27.
It was a night for Tiger Emma Bowman to shine. Emma poured in 19 points to lead the charge. She made a three-pointer and had our only blocked shot. Malory Anderson came through with 12 points and Meredith Carrington with eleven. Here's the rest of the list: LaRae Kram (9), Kylie Swanson (6), Kendra Wevley (5), MacKenna Kehoe (3) and Shannon Dougherty (2). Swanson connected twice from three-point land.
Anderson with her 13 rebounds led there. Carrington and Bowman each had three assists, and Anderson led in steals with five. The Tigers entered the weekend at 5-7. And Benson's mark: 4-7.
Kaitlyn Berreau was Benson's top scorer with 22 points. Claire Ricard was another force for the visitor with 12. Hannah Andrews scored nine, followed by Beth Cain (8), Abby Lundebrek (7), Marissa Connelly (2) and Kimmy Pagel (1). Berreau had quite the sharp shooting eye with five 3-pointers. Andrews made three long-rangers and Ricard one. Lundebrek had the team-best eleven rebounds. She and Andrews each had four assists. Abby also contributed four blocked shots.
Success Saturday too: Enough basketball lately? Two doubleheaders in two days? The kids could use a break! Wait, the fans too. But hey, it helps shorten the winter. The MACA girls and boys played at Lac qui Parle Valley Saturday. Just like on Friday, we won both ends. The girls beat LQPV 86-55. The boys story was closer but a win: 75-74.
A down second period opened the door for Breckenridge-Wahpeton to defeat the Storm boys hockey team Thursday. The 4-2 score had the Storm on the short end. Three of the winner's goals came in the second period.
The first period ended with the Storm leading 1-0. Jack Riley got our goal with assists from Will Breuer and Zach Bruns, so the Lee Center crowd had a fair share of optimism. Unfortunately we put up a zero in the second period puck action.
B-W got going with a Tanner Barth unassisted goal at 10:16. Then it was Brayden Wahl putting the puck in the net for the visitor - James Finkral and Thomas Withuski supplied assists at 14:25.
B-W went up 3-1 with a Jesse Kruse goal that had Jase Jensen assisting (at 15:20). Barth gave B-W a little cushion with a third period goal that had Kruse with the assist.
Bruns got the Storm's second goal at 16:39 of the period, assisted by Breuer and Hunter Blume. Chase Engebretson saved 21 of 25 shots as our goalie. The B-W goalie was Jared Aamold (24-26). The loss was just our second of our sterling 2019-2020 campaign. Our win total is 12.
Girls hockey: Luverne 9, Storm 0
The MBA girls struggled in a 9-0 loss at the hands of Luverne. Action was Thursday on the Luverne ice. Alas, victory has eluded our MBA Storm girls this winter, but we have a tie.
Luverne struck for three goals in each of the periods. Let's compliment their quality play. Indeed, they owned a 15-3-1 record at night's end. Their first goal was by Reghan Bork with an assist by Roz Oye. Kamryn Van Batavia got the second goal with assists by Rylee Gee and Claire Baustian. Then it was Anika Boll scoring with Regan Felt's assist.
Bork scored in unassisted fashion in the second period. Brynn Thier kept the "mo" going with an unassisted goal. Then it was Shelby Kracht getting the puck in the net unassisted. Bork scored with an unassisted flourish in the third period. Baustian used assists from Gee and Van Batavia to strike with a goal. Then it was Bork scoring Luverne's last goal, assisted by Oye.
The goalies were Leah Thompson for MBA and Mallory Vontersch for Luverne. Vontersch stopped 14 of 14 shots.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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