Have you ever seen so much "dirty snow?" Holy cow, absolute black dirt covering the snow in so many places. It's "snirt," yes, but I suggested to my DeToy's server this morning that it's worse than snirt. My server suggested that we have had so much wind this winter, that explains it. Wind lifts the dirt right off the farm fields, I guess.
Our biking/walking trail to the east of town is not really open yet. If I had to, I could walk my full route with sturdy boots. But the surface is uneven, not worth the trouble. All this comes after two snowless winters, of course.
The constant we can count on is basketball. We have plenty of both high school and college basketball here in Morris. And look how our MACA boys basketball team did on Thursday. The Tigers absolutely crushed BOLD at Bird Island.
Four of our players reached double figures in scoring. We took care of business with an 85-32 win over the Warriors!
BOLD has problems away from the court these days: the criminal investigation into school finances. We can sure be thankful we don't have this in Morris. Morris sails along with its perfect batting average for getting referendums passed. Although, it was close the last time. But just look at Minnewaska with its stumbles.
MACA fans can jump up and click their heels together this morning because some individual game data is reported by the West Central Tribune. The WC Trib normally doesn't want anything to do with us. So we see the report that shows these four Tigers with the double figures in scoring: Alex Asmus 25, Ben Tiernan 20, Bryce Hardy 11 and Jack Kehoe 11. These four were complemented by teammates: Tanner Friesen 7, Riley Asmus 4, Jonah Huebner 3, Drake Asmus 2 and Ozzy Jerome 2.
Tiernan was on fire with his 3-point shooting: five makes! Alex Asmus made three long-rangers, Hardy 2 and Friesen 1. The West Central Tribune does not report on the other stat categories for us.
For a while the MACA coaches were posting boxscores through "Maxpreps." I have not checked yet today, but lately I have noticed no new fresh info there. I get tired of checking. Once the coaches start with a system like this, they should be consistent IMHO.
I feel good this morning being able to write about MACA at all. It has been really tough since the WC Trib dropped us and Brett Miller left the radio station. Brett wrote actual timely articles for the kmrs website. I have never met him. Evidently the station manager did not find it necessary to replace Brett with that service. Anyone complain?
The Tigers led 52-21 at halftime. We continued pouring it on the rest of the way.
BOLD's top scorer was Derrick Bahl with eleven points. Tyler Ruschen scored nine with all points coming on his three 3-pointers.
The MACA girls
I arise in the morning with equal enthusiasm about checking "Minnesota Scores" for both the MACA boys and girls results. I say this because I want to remind with a cultural/historical observation. Yes girls basketball got established in the early '70s. But the development took time. And this was not just with the skills of the players - a heavy lift by itself - but with the public perception for taking both genders totally seriously.
It is a raw uncomfortable fact that people for a long time saw boys basketball as the higher-standing sport worthy of more serious analysis. The disparity remained for a long time even as the gap narrowed. The triumph in the end came with a single player named Caitlin Clark! Yes, she galvanized interest to the extent that pro games had to be moved to larger arenas!
So today, February of 2026, it's quite clear that women's basketball has full, unquestioned parity. I really find college women's basketball more enjoyable to follow than the men. And while the Iowa women continue to captivate me, I was happy when our U of M Gophers beat the Hawkeyes recently! "Coach Dawn" leads the Gophers. I have a hard time handling her last name.
Becca reached the state championship with her squad last season! That's in Class A. The Tigers play in AA.
Becca even grew up in my church. That was First Lutheran. As I point out quite regularly, First Lutheran can really be said to be dead now. It no longer has weekly Sunday services at its own building. So it's dead. It has paired with the Methodists. A weird thing because you'd think it would join up with Faith Lutheran.
At present I have become churchless. My conscience was starting to bother me about being associated with a faith - Christianity - that is so aligned with Donald Trump and MAGA. I just couldn't stand it anymore. Is there any hope on this front now? Hope for a breaking-away?
We have a congressperson out here on the barren prairie who is worshipful toward Trump. So she supports his Federal police. Will those police be out here to do poll-monitoring for the mid-terms? Trump cannot risk having his party lose in the mid-terms. He'll do anything. Trump and his people will be in a whole lot of trouble if the Democrats gain real power.
If I show up at our armory to vote, people might say "there's Williams and I bet he'll vote Democrat."
To date I have seen nothing but very good and civic-conscious people working our polling place. Good chance that will change soon. The Republicans seek autocratic power for their leader. And we now have "concentration camps" in the U.S. There is nothing that I can do about this.
I would like to type some game details from MACA vs. West Central Area but I can't. I can't find info on the world wide web. Wait all the way until Tuesday for the Morris paper? I don't see why we have to wait so long. That's life.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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