The boys game
The Lakers at the halftime break led 37-33 en route to winning. The game's stats show Tristan O'Neil as top scorer with 16 points. Here are the other totals: Luke Danielson 11, Connor Erickson 10, Cavin Thorfinnson 9, Caleb Kath 5, Drew Bleick 2, Alan Svec 2 and Oliver Vanderhagen 2. Thorfinnson led in 3's with his three makes.
Well I'll be darned
The stat report from the West Central Tribune has "Gruber" making two 3-pointers but hey, Gruber's name isn't even in the scoring list! Stranger than fiction maybe. I happen to know this young man's name is Marc Gruber. So the WC Trib has him down for making two 3-pointers.
Now I'll add up the individual scoring totals to see what I get. I get 57. I guess my attempts at reporting on this game are pretty well throttled now. Should I assume that Gruber scored 11 points? I of course hate to assume anything. But let's congratulate the young man on making two 3's.
O'Neil also made two 3's. Danielson attacked the boards for the team-best eleven rebounds. Kath had eight. In assists we saw three Lakers each with four: Gruber, O'Neil and Thorfinnson. Erickson stole the ball three times.
The West Central Tribune is owned by Forum Communications. Forum had a failed venture with owning the Morris paper. They left town. Is this why the WC Trib overlooks the MACA teams almost all the time now? What do they say if asked about this? "No, we'd not be so petty as to do that." Well, I don't know. The teams that are covered by the WC Trib sure play the MACA teams a lot.
The girls game
The 'Waska girls surged to outscore Melrose 31-15 in the second half. I would guess they really ramped up their intensity. Are the Lakers headed toward a climb like last year's? We'll see.
Berlynn Green was their only double figures scorer with 15 points. The other totals are: Olivia Danielson 7, Lauryn Ankeny 7, Alia Randt 7, Jayda Kolstoe 6, Allie Mrnak 5, Nori Song 5, Kendall Danielson 2 and Eliana Marthaler 2.
Five Lakers made at least one 3-pointer: Green led with two. Her teammates Olivia Danielson, Randt, Kolstoe and Song each made one. The rebounds category was topped by Green with ten and she was followed by Mrnak with five.
Song had three assists and Green had two. Always the steals whiz, Ankeny performed seven of these. Mrnak and Song each had one blocked shot.
This is belated but I am happy to report stat details from the MACA Tigers' BBB home win over Albany, 80-76. An especially exciting game because the Tigers had to escape a concerning halftime deficit. We trailed the Huskies 43-29 at the halfway mark. Wow, look at the second half, 51-33 surge my the Torgerson crew.
I had hoped to post some stats earlier but we can't be a winner at everything. It is Friday today and we have to wonder if this will be the last really cold day of winter. Oh but my, it is still early February. You can spend all your life in Minnesota and still have the weather throw you for a loop sometimes. I'm probably not alone in saying "I've had it with the cold temperatures." Basketball helps us get through the adversity.
I attended the UMM home doubleheader - women's and men's - Wednesday night. The women lucked out some by having an opposing player miss a freethrow that would have tied the score at the very end - really no time left. And so the Cougars won but I have to feel sorry for that player. Hope the memory does not linger for her.
One thing I feel really good about: the U of M Gophers women beating Iowa, even though I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Iowa. Iowa is endearing but I'll have to root for the Gophers under "coach Dawn." I have some trouble with the coach's last name. "Plitz-U-Wait?" Well I get by calling her "coach Dawn."
So congratulations to Dawn and all the Gophers for such a significant win. Iowa has a national following. I think you all know how that got built up. "CC."
Let's have the Gophers get into the NCAA tournament this spring. Last year we faded too much down the stretch.
Getting back to our MACA Tigers and their win over Albany, let's acknowledge the super game by junior Alex Asmus: 26 points! Boffo! Alex made eight of his 13 field goal tries. Riley Asmus came on strong to score 17 points on six of nine. Our third double figures scorer was Tyson Grove: 13 points, four of nine.
Three other Tigers added to the attack, each scoring eight: Ben Tiernan, Jonah Huebner and Jack Kehoe. Tiernan was 2-for-5 shooting, Huebner 3-for-8 and Kehoe 3-for-5. Our team field goal numbers were 26 of 49, 53 percent.
In 3's I think we were pretty sharp: 10 of 19. And here we see Alex Asmus leading the way as he made five of six. Again, boffo! Grove made three of eight and Tiernan two of five.
In freethrows the Tigers made 18 of 30 led by the Asmus boys each with five makes. The team rebound total was 26 with nine coming offensively. Two Tigers led in rebounds with seven each: Riley Asmus and Kehoe. Four Tigers each supplied three assists: Grove, Alex Asmus, Huebner and Kehoe.
Jonah was far and away our steals leader with six. He also had two blocked shots. Grove and Riley Asmus each blocked one. We had nine turnovers.
The Tigers' record is 16-0. How about that? The schedule says we have two home games coming up Friday and Saturday. More therapy for putting aside any annoying quality of the weather. Temperatures will start going up but along with that, we'll get dirty snow.
Today (Friday) finds the wind rather intense. That comes in spring too.
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| Nancy Guthrie |
Every morning I wake up thinking there will be a news bulletin about Savannah Guthrie's mother being found. It is becoming a rather puzzling story. No suspects or persons of interest? My theory is that LE knows exactly who did this and they're just trying to wrap up an airtight case. I think it's a family member, or in-law. But we'll see.
LE has to work toward certainty because they could well go up against someone who "lawyers up." Even Bryan Kohberger in Idaho fought doggedly and made the prosecution pull teeth, remember?
And I think in the current case of Nancy Guthrie, we'll see that the case parallels the Dan Serafini murder case. That's the former Minnesota Twins pitcher. His victims were in-laws. At the heart of it all? Money. Some wisdom: If you have a lot of money, try to keep this fact suppressed as much as possible, do not choose to live in an opulent way. Don't broadcast to the world that you have money. An elderly person like Nancy Guthrie needed a small and comfortable apartment IMHO. What would she be lacking?
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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