"Maxpreps" has long held potential for getting attention for the team. Mark Torgerson and now his successor have been good at getting individual stats posted, even with less than 100 percent consistency or reliability. Anything these guys can do to connect with fans is terrific. So I personally say "kudos."
Actually there's a good chance that yours truly was the one who got Mark aware of the possibilities of Maxpreps years ago. Chalk one up for me if that's true. I even remember Mark typing game comments from time to time. There was one problem with that: the Maxpreps template assumed the games were organized in quarters, not halves as is the case in Minnesota. Last night (Wednesday) at UMM I attended the UMM games where we see the "quarters" format. Women lost in the first game. Men looked like they were headed for a loss in the nightcap.
Update: Men lost in overtime!
It's only money
I noticed that non-senior citizens are charged $10 for admission. Maybe I'm having a hard time staying aware of inflation. But I think the admission charge is way too much for non-seniors.
On a positive note, I'll observe that the caliber of play for both women's and men's games came across as very good. I'll have to elevate my view of the UMAC. Cougar basketball is a great way to make life interesting when the frigid weather outside limits our choices. It's a long night of basketball and not boring.
But, no pep band last night. The grand experiment of pep band was unveiled on Saturday. It was a modest start but one to be commended.
Speaking of Star Trek, a friend emailed me one of those birthday greeting messages featuring a celebrity yesterday (Jan. 28). And the celebrity was. . .William Shatner! I couldn't have been more pleased. I'm highly pleased to have reached the age of 71. How about that?
I received a grand total of two birthday cards. One was from the UMM giving department. The other was from their counterpart in the Twin Cities. Yes I give $ in order to receive such gestures. No matter, the greetings seem quite sincere. I have no family. I get no personal acknowledgment from my church because it is now my former church. So, no family and no church. But why hang one's head? I'm not.
Did I ever get any public acknowledgment for giving $2000 to support the MAHS band's trip to New Orleans a couple years ago? Music enabled me to see the world when I was age 17. And so I'm happy to give something back.
I even performed with a group at the then-new Kennedy Center. Today it's called the Trump/Kennedy Center I guess. Well, no one ever stops the guy. My musical group appeared in a photo on the front page of the style section of the Washington Post. This was in the summer when the Watergate story was first breaking in the Post. I kept an edition that had a front page article co-written by Bob Woodward and someone other than Carl Bernstein.
I was in Austria when George McGovern announced Tom Eagleton as his runningmate. Saw the big picture of the two on the cover of Time Magazine. Eagleton didn't exactly work out. We got Nixon redux and continued hell with the Vietnam war. I was a little too young to have to worry (much) about being sent to war there.
At present we have the hell of Donald Trump and his "Federal police" in America. Has our congressperson spoken out about the ICE outrage in the Twin Cities? Has she stepped forward to defend the interests of her own state vs. the overreaching Federal government with its ICE presence? Well I don't think so. She stands idly by while Trump gives billions of dollars to Argentina.
Trump in effect then declares war on one of the states of the U.S. Our state? We tend to vote Democrat. Russia is Trump's friend, not Minnesota. But we approve of this. Our local churches are full of people who would vote for Trump again. Well, this nation once put up with the Vietnam war, for years and years in fact. Actor John Wayne was a cheerleader for that. We are such flawed mortal beings, n'est-ce pas?
Tigers 78, Lakers 51
Let's focus on the Tuesday night win by the MACA boys basketball team. "Maxpreps" tells us we are 13-0. The Tuesday success was by a score of 78-51 over Minnewaska. We were up at halftime 42-30.
There was a nice distribution of scoring totals: four Tigers in double figures. And leading that charge were the Asmus boys. Riley put in 20 points, Alex had 14. Right behind was Jack Kehoe 13 and then we see Tanner Friesen with 11.
Riley made nine of his 13 shots while Alex was six of ten. Friesen made all four of his shots. Jonah Huebner came through with nine points. Other totals: Ben Tiernan 3, Tyson Grove 3, Bryce Hardy 2, Mason Koehl 2 and Jorge Rodriguez 1. As a team we shot 31 of 54, 57 percent.
Tiernan and Friesen each went one-for-one in 3-pointers. Grove and Alex Asmus each added a '3'. We were four of nine in long-rangers. In freethrows our numbers were 12 of 24. Huebner was five of eight at the line.
Rebounds! Here the team total was 36, ten offensive. Alex Asmus had nine boards and Huebner had eight. Huebner had four of our 16 assists. Huebner had four of our nine steals. Grove and Kehoe each blocked two shots.
Final note on "Maxpreps": Maximizing the possibilities of this website, and getting the public aware of it, will make us less dependent on the Morris newspaper which has the huge drawback of only coming out once a week. Of course the paper has a website. Looks like they need some prodding to develop that. Someday we may care very little about what the SCT does. And you have to BUY the thing. Those people will have to be humbled before they roll up their sleeves.
Surely a big night for MACA girls hoops Tuesday as the orange and black won in a breeze, score of 75-21.
We are blessed to be able to see individual scoring totals for MACA on the WC Trib website. The game was played in Montevideo. I remember all the years of going there and seeing the "Mohawk" mural. Monte of course abandoned the "Mohawks" nickname. Today we see Benson surviving with the "Braves" name.
I wonder if the Monte coach supplied the MACA individual stats to the WC Trib as a favor. If so, thanks. We see that Chloe Fehr led the charge for the Tigers with 19 points. Samantha Konz put in 16. Leah Berlinger was our third double figures scorer: 11.
Other totals: Mia Lu Asche 8, Alexa Raths 6, Madalyn Pope 5, Addie Cihak 4, Mylie Fehr 4 and Olivia Huebner 2. We led at halftime 43-10. Monte's top scorer was Megan Koosmann with nine points.
If you wish to acknowledge my birthday which was yesterday, you can do so by clicking to listen to Elvis Presley sing "Funny How Time Slips way." Here's the link, thanks and God bless.
71 years old! And I have been writing about Tiger sports since 1972. You've heard the lyrics "Rock 'n' roll is here to stay, it will never die." Well, same with me and Tiger sports.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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