Anyway, MAHACA fans certainly had to like the results on January 19. It was a Tuesday and the day of triangular action here. Our team went 2-0.
Hoops updates too
A reminder that I have two basketball reports on "Morris of Course." Click here to read about the Tiger boys and girls games versus Minnewaska Area, a win for both (girls in OT):
Click here to read about the boys' win over Sauk Centre and the girls' setback vs. New London-Spicer:
Wrestling: Tigers 63, BOLD 16
Five Tigers achieved wins by fall in the first period! Congrats to this group: Andrew Marty, Casey Nelson, Dain Schroeder, Hunter Massner and Toby Messner. The following report of details will have the Morris wrestler reported first for each weight.
At 106 pounds, Tyce Anderson dropped a 9-0 major decision to Brady Kiecker. Andrew Marty at 113 pounds won by fall in :38 over Tanner Kantz. Dallas Walton at 120 was a forfeit winner. Casey Nelson was our 126-pounder and he got Gavin Hammerschmidt's shoulders pinned to the mat in 1:58.
Ethan Lebrija at 132 won by forfeit. Davin Rose decisioned Austin Kiecker 4-1 in the battle of 138-pounders. Breighton Logan at 145 lost by fall to Kaden Fischer in 4:31. Caden Rose was our 152-pounder and he got Jesse Manderschied's shoulders pinned to the mat in 3:44.
Dain Schroeder strode onto the mat as our 160-pounder and he won by fall in :31 over Rylan Gass. Hunter Massner at 170 pinned Connor Plumley in 1:26. Toby Messner was our 182-pounder and he pinned Sabastian Enriquez in :37. At 195 pounds it was Hunter Gibson winning by forfeit.
Turning to the big guys, first we have Sawyer Knobloch at 220 pounds getting his arm raised via forfeit. Then at 285, Carter Gibson was on the short end by fall vs. Tim Peppel in :16.
MAHACA's other match of the day brought an equally satisfying win, 66-15 over "Spectrum." I'm not sure what Spectrum is.
So it's Sunday, Jan. 24
We follow high school sports and perhaps try to imagine that "life as normal" is functioning. It's hard and maybe delusional. You can't blame high school sports fans for being bitter, to the extent that measures must be taken to restrict/abbreviate the normal activities. High school happens just once in your lifetime! The clock is ticking.
Students strive to make a mark with career statistics. The current data might have to be accompanied by asterisks, like the stats for baseball seasons shortened by player strikes. So I cannot blame parents for getting a little, well, delusional about wanting to find normality. But of course we all seek normality. So this morning I attended church. Only recently did the doors get opened for Sunday in-person.
Today is the second Sunday I have attended. Totally mixed feelings about being there. Just like the high school sports fans, we feel some exhilaration about such activities being resumed. Distancing is enforced although it seems less than perfect. I'm not sure everyone was six feet apart from non-family members. Should we just shrug and figure we have to accept some risk in life? Are these risks justified by our sheer desperation to have normal activities and see familiar faces? Stop and think about that.
My spirits are lifted having been to church this morning. It transforms my day. And so now I just composed a high school sports review. My life would not be complete if I could not do some of this. I have covered area youth sports since 1971. In theory I would love actually going to an office again to perform this. I hung in there as long as I could with the Morris paper, at the end when it was under Fargo ownership.
Media people sometimes just have to internalize that the end of a particular "gig" has come. Larry King had to realize this when he was at CNN. Chris Matthews bit the dust at MSNBC. It can be a turbulent world. We just lost Larry King, you probably heard on the news. Almost certainly a casualty of Covid. So we hear regular testimonials honoring the late King. He was an innovator and forward-looking talk show host, a particular talent who carved out his own niche.
He went on for years and years. And then, when there was obviously still gas in the tank, the worm turned for him professionally. CNN no longer felt he fit in so well. Tastes, priorities and marketing attitudes change. King had his show ended on CNN, a show considered "appointment TV" for a long time. It was at its apex for the O.J. trial. Night after night we digested our updates on the trial, as a regular cast of guests got formed.
King delivered his product masterfully at the time. He got replaced by Piers Morgan on CNN. Morgan did not seem to have the magic. Today the approach is to have partisan political jousting almost all the time. Endless sharp and "wonky" minds following their carefully prepared partisan scripts. It's what we digest now.
Larry King had a fair amount of celebrities and gossip, with the former usually seeking redemption! I felt his tenure could have gone on a little longer.
And what about my tenure for the local newspaper? I probably stayed there too long based on the unpleasant climate that grew around me, beginning rather suddenly as if on an edict from above. Leave it to the Forum to operate like that. The Morris newspaper enterprise went into rapid shrinking very soon after I left. The Hancock paper was wiped off the map. So was the free shopper, the "Ad-Viser." The regular Morris paper got steadily smaller. Did they think we wouldn't notice?
Finally the Forum was set to close things up completely, according to information from a reliable source, then the Anfinsons came and rescued us.
The Forum put itself forward as a state of the art corporate organization for its time, following all the trendy and faddish things. Well, how did that turn out? There's a more practical operation in place now, some old-fashioned traits I'm sure. At least the Anfinsons were able to keep the ship from sinking.
There's a famous quote: "The ship be sinking." Who said that?
Again, it is my pleasure to continue my coverage of Morris youth sports. Also, a pleasure to go to church again: First Lutheran of Morris. I'm proud to say we are not an extension of the cult of Donald Trump.
Reminder to Liz Cheney: If you are going to kill the king, you had better succeed.
My podcast for Jan. 24
I invite you to visit my "Morris Mojo" podcast where I remember the old East 7th Street of Morris. It was a focal point of the town with the school being there. Businesses that catered to people traffic were there, like the "Pylin" drive-in. Plus the Dairy Queen, a neighborhood grocery store and Lesmeister Motors which offered "military surplus" items. Here is the permalink:
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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