MACA got back on the winning track with a 66-44 win over Montevideo on the road. This West Central Conference game was played on Tuesday, Dec. 12. Our record improved to 4-2. Monte came out of the game winless. Our halftime advantage was 26-13.
Maddie Carrington stayed "in the zone" with her three-point shooting eye. She made four long-rangers. Riley Decker and Malory Anderson each made one shot from beyond the three-point arc. Anderson and Carrington were a 1-2 punch in scoring with 23 and 21 points respectively. Decker was our other double figures scorer with eleven.
Here's the rest of the scoring list: Alexis Pew (4), Liz Dietz (3), Jenna Howden (2), Kylie Swanson (1) and Carly Wohlers (1). Anderson snared nine rebounds from her post spot. Howden gathered eight rebounds. Dietz dished out four assists and Carrington had three. Carrington was all over the court to perform five steals.
Two players dominated the Monte scoring list: Emmy Enevoldsen with 20 points and Sydney Zindel with 14. Kamren Saue scored six points, and Kari Fragodt and Jasmyn Kronback each had two. Enevoldsen made two 3-pointers. The top Thunder Hawks in rebounds were Zindel (10), Saue (6) and Molly Reeves (5). Enevoldsen had three assists followed by Reeves, Madalyn Killbarda and Fragodt each with two. Enevoldsen stole the ball four times for the T-Hawks. Fragodt had two steals.
Boys: Ortonville 64, Tigers 55
The BBB Tigers led by three at halftime but ended up on the short end against Ortonville. The visiting Trojans got their fourth win against no losses as they outscored the Tigers 41-29 in the second half. The final score was 64-55 in this December 12 contest.
Ortonville had three players coming at the Tigers with a potent scoring touch. DeVante Edwards and Caden Wellnitz each put in 18 points. Tyson Powell had a total of 17. The Trojans had an iron man look as only five players scored. Peter Treinen scored eight points and Mitchell Meyers had three.
Jackson Loge had a quite impressive night offensively for MACA with his 17 points. Jaret Johnson was the other double figures scorer with 13. Camden Arndt and Tate Nelson each scored nine. Connor Koebernick had five points and Chandler Vogel had two. Loge led in rebounds with nine while Johnson had eight. Arndt had six assists and Nelson had five.
Minnewaska 52, Tigers 41
Our boys were on the short end against Minnewaska Area Thursday (12/14). The host Lakers surged to get their fourth win against no losses. They acquired a 26-13 halftime lead. The Tigers managed to outscore the Lakers in the second half, 28-26. So the final horn sounded with the score 52-41.
Two Lakers scored in double figures to lead a balanced 'Waska attack. The team-best total of 14 was put up by Garrett Jensen. Jaeger Jergenson scored 11. Jackson Johnsrud scored seven followed by Matthew Gruber and Shawn Carsten each with five. The list continues with Jack Blevins and Ryan Christianson each with three, and Grant Jensen and Ryan Amundson each with two.
Minnewaska had quite the array of three-point shooters - six in all with at least one make. Garrett Jensen made two long-rangers. These Lakers each made one: Carsten, Gruber, Christianson, Blevins and Johnsrud. Jergenson had six rebounds followed by the Jensen boys each with five. Christianson performed five assists and Johnsrud had four. Gruber had a steal.
Tate Nelson of the Tigers excelled in long-range shooting, making four 3-pointers. Camden Arndt and Jaret Johnson each made one "3." Nelson pumped up his point total to 17. Arndt and Johnson each put in nine points. These Tigers each put in two points: Kyle Staebler, Connor Koebernick and Jackson Loge. Loge had the team-best rebound total with seven. Johnson collected five rebounds. Nelson produced three assists. Nelson and Koebernick each had two steals.
This was West Central Conference basketball.
On writing sports
There's a feeling of satisfaction when I click on "publish" to put up a post like this. I'm pleased to still feel a part of Tiger sports doings. It's bittersweet too for this reason: each new post stays current for only a very short time. The team will play its next game within three days most likely. Sometimes a team will play on Saturday, as the MACA boys will this Saturday at Lac qui Parle.
Fans/parents can be so demanding. Is the Pope Catholic? I suppose they're just being human. A review post that I put up just a few days previous will quickly become "old." And then the pressure is on to perform as a writer all over again. Over and over and over. At the Morris newspaper, this situation was exacerbated greatly by the need to cover every area team that might expect to be covered.
The pressure exerted by the fans seemed to become greater as the years went on. How do you reconcile that pressure with the fact the Morris paper has undergone such dramatic shrinkage over the last decade? I of course haven't been with the paper in the last eleven years. I can only wonder how they have dealt with the pressures, and I don't have any sympathy for them anyway. The only real priority they respect is to sell advertising like with those endless "sucker ads." We'll see more of that for Christmas. Attention businesses: spend your money more wisely. You didn't fall off a turnip truck, did you?
So let me emphasize that I enjoyed putting up this blog post today. A week from now I hope it doesn't seem like three-day-old bread, but it probably will. It's fun to keep tabs on how the Carrington family is doing. I see Tom Carrington most mornings at Detoy's when it's still dark outside! A very peaceful time.
Final note: I think today's post is the first time in my life I've written the word "exacerbate."
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwillyh73@yahoo.com
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