The Tigers continued a demanding portion of the schedule with an 80-70 win over the Benson Braves on February 13 at Benson. It was a pretty hard-fought game that had MACA leading by two at halftime, 34-32. We created a little breathing room in second half play where our advantage was 46-38.
The night was big for Will Enderson of the Braves as he scored his 1,000th career point. He reached the milestone in a dramatic way with a three-pointer late. He had a quite productive overall night as he scored 28 points, but it wasn't enough to propel his team past the Tigers. He made four 3-pointers. His offensive efforts were complemented by Ben Peterson who scored 20 and made two 3's, while Abe Peterson and Cole Hedman each made one. Abe's point total was nine. Hedman's was eight and Matt Laumeyer put in five.
Ben Peterson led in rebounds with six and in assists with four. Enderson blocked a shot.
Our Tigers came out of the night with 13-8 won-lost numbers. Benson's W/L story: 14-9. Congrats to Will Enderson of the Braves.
The story for our Tigers had Jackson Loge again showing his offensive prowess: 23 points. He made seven of 16 in field goals including his only three-point attempt. Toby Gonnerman showed some productive offense as he connected on six of nine shots and scored 17. Brandon Jergenson came through with 13 points, two of four in field goals.
Three Tigers each supplied six points: Durgin Decker, Thomas Tiernan and Cade Fehr. Cameron Koebernick scored five points and Jaden Maanum four. We shot 25 of 51 in field goals for 49 percent, and in 3's we were four of 14. The four 3's were by Jergenson, Tiernan, Loge and Koebernick.
We had a pretty good harvest from the freethrow line: 26 points on 39 attempts, 67 percent. Jergenson and Loge led this effort with eight each and Gonnerman had five.
Loge dominated rebounding with his 23 total, eight offensive and 15 defensive. Gonnerman was second-high with seven rebounds. Our team stats were eleven offensive, 32 defensive for 43 total. Loge's five assists were team-best. Three Tigers each had one steal: Decker, Jergenson and Tiernan. Loge blocked three shots and Jergenson blocked one.
Tigers 69, Ortonville 49
The Tigers seized the lead and assumed control of their February 11 game against the Ortonville Trojans. Ortonville is where my old contemporary Jon Fellows settled for his teaching/coaching career. Let's never forget Jon's father the late Don Fellows, MAHS counselor. The yearbook was dedicated to him in 1972. He was 100 percent salt of the earth.
The February 11 story for hoops had the Tigers gain a 42-24 lead by halftime. Then in the end, the score was 69-49 as the squad moved forward. Orange and black fans at the local gym enjoyed the action. Basketball sure helps keep the winter from wearing on us too much. This past week has been aggravating. (My late mother thought the word "aggravate" was misused a lot.)
Well, Jackson Loge had another fine offensive night, par for the course. The sophomore phenom put in 21 points with eight of eleven field goal numbers, 73 percent. There was one other double figures scorer: Brandon Jergenson who made all but one of his five FG attempts and scored ten points. Then we see Thomas Tiernan and Cameron Koebernick each with nine. Tiernan shot three of four and Koebernick was four of nine.
Brock Peterson scored eight points on four of eight. The rest of the list shows Durgin Decker and Jaden Maanum each with four points, and Toby Gonnerman and Cade Fehr each with two. Our team field goal shooting was 28-for-65, 43 percent.
Tiernan made two 3-pointers while Decker and Jergenson each made one. As a team we were four of 15 in 3's, 27 percent. Loge put up six shots from the freethrow line and made five. We were nine of 19 in freethrows, 47 percent. Loge was perched atop the rebound list as is typical - his total was 12, two offensive and ten defensive. Peterson snared five rebounds and Cade Fehr had four. We had 12 offensive rebounds and 26 defensive for 38 total.
Loge supplied four assists and Fehr three. Bradley Rohloff had two steals while Peterson blocked two shots. The Tigers improved to 12-8.
Girls: Tigers 73, Ortonville 28
MACA buried Ortonville in a non-conference GBB game Tuesday at MAHS. We shot up 44-18 by halftime and owned the 73-28 advantage at game's end, for our 14th win of the campaign. Ortonville has found victory elusive.
Steals were a huge weapon for coach Dale Henrich's crew. We executed 34 as we swarmed over the Trojans. Malory Anderson had nine steals followed by Kylie Swanson (8), Meredith Carrington (5), Sydney Dietz (4) and Emma Bowman (3).
Carrington and MacKenna Kehoe each made two 3-pointers. Bowman made one long-ranger. Carrington had six rebounds and Anderson five. Carrington and Anderson each had three assists.
We're saving the scoring for last here. And here we have: Bowman (17), Carrington (15), Anderson (12), Kendra Wevley (8), LaRae Kram (9), Kehoe (6), Dietz (4) and Swanson (2).
We reached mid-week with our record 14-8, a nice course to be on as the post-season nears.
The Trojans' offense was held up by Emily Ross whose point total was 18. It's pretty scant after that: Paige Seidell with four and these Trojans each with two: Taylor Ross, Kendall Gronholz and Meg Moberg. Ross had quite the night shooting 3's as she made six. Looks like she needs a little more of a supporting cast.
Minnewaska 47, Tigers 45
The MACA girls put on a second half surge but it wasn't quite enough to overcome Minnewaska Area Thursday. The Tigers outscored the Lakers 30-14 in the second half. However, 'Waska's 33-15 advantage in the first half proved insurmountable. So the 'Waska girls came away with the victory, 47-45 at the 'Waska gym.
What explains such a turnaround from the first half to the second? We needed more of the second half quality spread out. But the Lakers are to be commended. They attacked us with a pretty balanced scoring effort. Lead scorer Maddie Thorfinnson had the modest total of 13 points. Avery Hoeper was second-high with ten. Continuing: Emma Thorfinnson (8), Isabella Ortendahl (6), Michele Stai (4), Hannah Hoffmann (3) and Alexis Piekarski (3).
The Thorfinnson girls made 3-pointers as did Hoffmann. It was Maddie leading in rebounds with seven. Plus she topped steals with three. Maddie blocked a shot. The Lakers' success put them within a game of .500 at 11-12. Meanwhile the Tigers sat at 14-9.
Alas, we made no three-point shots in this contest: unusual. The low-scoring game saw Emma Bowman top our scoring with ten points. LaRae Kram and Kylie Swanson were right behind, each with nine. Then we see Meredith Carrington and Malory Anderson each with seven, MacKenna Kehoe with two and Sydney Dietz with one. Anderson was at the fore in rebounds, collecting ten.
The Thursday story for the MBA Storm boys was surprising, considering the won-lost records of the teams involved. Our Storm were fired up to try to reach the 20-win plateau for the regular season. Instead we came out of the night at 19-5, due to the loss we were dealt by Becker-Big Lake. It was mighty close, score of 6-5. And B-BL came out of the night with a 3-22 record. The puck action was in Benson.
The Eagles of B-BL got a 2-1 advantage in period No. 1. MBA surged with a 3-1 second period advantage, but the pendulum went back toward B-BL in the third: a decisive 3-2 advantage. Chalk up the win for a B-BL team that appears to have had a struggling season.
Jaden Keo of the Eagles scored the night's first goal with assists from Jacob Boe and Jack Beckstrom. Then it was MBA's Will Breuer getting the puck in the net with assists from "the Bradys," Loge and Goff. Then it was Luke Ruppelius scoring an unassisted short-handed goal for the opposition. Loge got our second goal of the night with Hunter Blume and Brady DeHaan assists - it was a power play job.
Loge scored again at 8:21 unassisted style. B-BL's Tyler Schmitt scored a power play goal at 12:41 with assists by Ruppelius and Keo. Then it was our Zander Hoffman scoring with assists from Reece Kuseske and Breuer.
A wild third period got going with Schmitt scoring with a Jacob Bahe assist. Our Hunter Blume struck with an unassisted goal at 3:35. Ethan Tobako kept the pressure on for the Eagles as he scored at 5:42, using assists from Schmitt and Trent Rupar.
Dillon Lindenau scored the game-winner with 37 seconds remaining. Keo assisted. Our goalie was Peyton LeClair while Caden Weber worked in goal for the victor. Certainly the Eagles savored this, just their third win of the season. Perhaps they play tougher competition in their territory.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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| This image from Twitter shows the Tigers around Jackson Loge to acknowledge Loge's career milestone of 1,000 points. |
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