We truly knocked the cover off the ball. Not only did our bats resonate with 17 hits, a total of eight were for extra bases. Emma Bowman connected again for a home run, a two-run job in the first inning. She also powered two doubles in a memorable day, part of a memorable win. How soon will we in Morris start seeing such heroics at the new softball diamond? Any day now?
Shannon Dougherty slammed a solo home run in the third frame.
The one-sidedness of Tuesday's game limited the action to five innings. Bowman's boxscore line was a perfect three-for-three. The line also includes two runs scored and five RBIs. Will opposing pitchers start pitching around this Tiger? Maybe not, based on the other very potent bats in the lineup. The following Tigers each had two hits to complement Bowman: LaRae Kram, Katelyn Wehking, Dougherty, Makenna Hufford, Brienna Dybdahl and Bryanna Marty.
Kram sped her way to four stolen bases. She was a perfect two-for-two with the bat and scored three runs. Wehking stole a base while going two-for-four, scoring a run and driving in two. Dougherty had a double to go with her round-tripper. She drove in two runs and stole a base.
Sophia Carlsen had a hit in her only at-bat and scored a run. Hufford had a two-for-three line that included a double. She stole a base and scored a run.
Dybdahl complemented her pitching work with a triple in her two-for-four performance. As for her pitching, she set down five Thunder Hawks on strikes in her five-inning job. She walked just one.
Hannah Fischer socked a triple. She scored two runs, drove in a run and stole a base.
Bryanna Marty had a two-for-four afternoon with two RBIs, two runs scored and a pair of stolen bases. Camryn Ostby and Cortney Lehman each scored a run. Our line score was a super 16 runs, 17 hits and zero errors! Monte's line: 2-7-1. Our biggest inning was the third: seven runs in.
Montevideo's Alyssa Sachs went two-for-two. These other T-Hawks also hit safely: Zola Olson, Kassey Pauling, Lexi Brockmoller, Mathea Jorgenson and Cali Molde. Monte's pitchers were Megan Anderson and Pauling with Anderson taking the loss.
Baseball: Minnewaska 8, Tigers 4
Chizek Field was the site for prep baseball action involving the Tigers and Minnewaska Area Tuesday. The visiting team prevailed: an 8-4 win for the rival Lakers on a cold day. Brrr! The cold was no hindrance for Mitchell Gruber's bat, as this Laker went three-for-four.
Minnewaska got its third win in as many games.
Maybe the cold affected our play as our hurlers struggled with control. Zach Bruns and Tristan Raths combined for ten walks and a hit batsman. Raths was the pitcher of record. The Tigers came out of Tuesday at 1-2. We scored our four runs on eight hits and committed one error. The 'Waska line was eight runs, ten hits and three errors.
Our hitting shows Ross Marty with a double. Brandon Jergenson cracked two doubles. Bruns doubled, drew a walk, stole a base and scored two runs. Sam Kleinwolterink went two-for-three including a double and drove in three runs. Will Breuer had a two-for-three line.
Darion Alexander got the pitching win for 'Waska. Just one of the four runs he allowed was earned. He set down six Tiger batters on strikes.
Our elusive Chamber?
I thought for a few days I might have been "punked" by someone telling me the Morris Chamber of Commerce office had moved out to Greeley Plumbing. It did not seem real logical. Also, there is no conspicuous sign outside Greeley's heralding this move. However, there sure as heck is a conspicuous sign nearby, and that's the one touting "Trump-Pence."
For what? Isn't the election long over? Is it laziness that explains why the sign is still there? Or is it a message that the sponsor agrees with the ignorance about the election being "stolen?" Maybe this individual feels Trump ought still be president. Trump is not president. His flailing lawsuits failed all over the place.
And would Pence even wish to be associated with Trump now? Pence's very safety along with his family were endangered on Jan. 6.
Maybe our local sponsor of the "Trump-Pence" sign out along the highway, north end of Morris, regrets that the VP didn't meet his "hanging" fate that was sought by many of the rioters. Pence was supposed to deny Biden's victory, even though Pence made clear he had no such power and attempted no such action on Jan. 6.
Are there a substantial number of Morris area people, including maybe the Apostolics, who were rooting for the mob on Jan. 6? To keep Trump in office as leader of the nation's "evangelical Christians?" Is violence really the answer? What is the Trump element of our society doing to tarnish the image of Christianity itself? To bewilder the young folks, folks who are receptive to many new waves of thinking like about climate change and gay rights?
We have an LCMC church in the Morris area that got established because of gay-bashing. We probably have a state representative in office who rode the wave a homophobia a few years back. That rep at present pretty strongly reflects the ethos of the Trump/evangelical crowd.
Can you look me in the eye and really tell me that Trump is a model Christian? Oh but his own behavior doesn't matter, you'll probably say. And that's because he'd just be delivering to the evangelicals what the evangelicals want. Besides, Christ forgives us all our sins so it don't matter that Trump shops around for porn stars and Playboy models to have sex with.
Purely personal morality is a difficult thing to manage for all of us, but a national political leader should strive to put his best foot forward when it comes to public morality. Anyone with a fraction of a brain would realize that national political leaders ought to try to set an example. Set an example for our youth. So please recognize this and do what it takes to prevail on the appropriate party to take down the Trump-Pence sign out by Greeley's.
And incredibly, it has now been confirmed to me via the contact page of the Chamber of Commerce that the Chamber is now out at Greeley's. Strange I guess, but true. Does the Chamber realize yet that 2021 is Morris' Sesquicentennial year? It shouldn't be up to the city manager to announce this, it should be the Chamber, if in fact we have one.
Has State Representative Jeff Backer finally gotten his vaccine shot? Did someone finally talk him into it? I suggest he has been one of those who are unduly influenced by Fox News which is attached at the hip to Trump and his people. Republican men nationally are the biggest holdouts on the vaccine - a tragedy.
Bury April Fool's Day?
From an April 14 email to yours truly:
Funny thing on the KMRS news this AM. Marshall Hoffman had reported yesterday (I must’ve missed it) that Superior had contracted with NASA for some work on an upcoming Mars mission. Today, Marshall started out by retracting that news item from yesterday, saying that it was an April Fool's prank. He closed by saying that “apparently KMRS does not have a sense of humor.”
I assure you that when a commercial media enterprise uses the word "retract," it's serious business and it could mean the enterprise actually feared legal repercussions from the faux pas. Time to shelve the April Fool's tradition, eh?
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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