The Tigers kept rumbling through January with a 50-37 win over Sauk Centre on January 9. This game seemed wrapped up from early-on. We built a 28-16 lead by halftime. We essentially cruised through the second half. Fans at the home gym enjoyed the success.
Five different Tigers made three-point shots. Camden Arndt made two of the long-rangers while these Tigers each made one: Connor Koebernick, Tate Nelson, Chandler Vogel and Jaret Johnson. Jackson Loge topped our scoring list with 13 points. Arndt and Nelson each put in ten. Jaret Johnson added nine points to the mix, while Koebernick tallied five and Vogel had three.
Loge led in rebounds as well as scoring with his rebounds totaling nine. Johnson snared seven rebounds. Koebernick was the top assist producer with five while Johnson had three. Arndt stole the ball four times.
The win was our fourth of the season. Sauk Centre is having a .500 type of campaign.
Girls: WCA 54, Tigers 48
The MACA girls made the trip to West Central Area on a cold Thursday, January 11. Malory Anderson was outstanding with her point total of 24 but it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough that post player Malory had ten rebounds. West Central Area had the weapons to come up with a 54-48 win.
The Knights overcame our Maddie Carrington who made two 3-pointers. Riley Decker and Anderson each made one '3'. Carrington was second-high on the scoring list behind Anderson with 14 points. Jenna Howden put in four points. Other scorers were Decker (3), Carly Wohlers (2) and Liz Dietz (1). Anderson's ten rebounds were followed by Wohlers with eight. Dietz stood out in assists with five while Carrington had three. Anderson stole the ball four times while Decker had three steals.
WCA ascended to ten wins on the season. The Tigers came out of the day at 7-6. WCA held the lead at halftime, 30-18.
Our language evolves
I am writing this on a morning where the pundits are discussing the president's use of the word "shithole." Could you image a president from the boomers' younger years - even Richard Nixon - engaging in this? An easy rebuttal to make to the president is that he could find alternative language that would be more civilized.
Many people would likely shake their heads and say we have simply become numb to the odd and idiosyncratic tendencies of our president, a president who lost the popular vote to his Democratic opponent. Had Hillary Clinton won, there would be many days where we would not even be talking about the president and the White House.
Trump and the people around him are stepping on states rights which is normally a conservative principle. Jeff Sessions is threatening states that want to legalize marijuana. The administration is opening the door to offshore oil drilling which is a threat to states that have a thriving coastal tourism industry. Except that the administration makes an exception for Florida because Florida is a red state with a Republican governor. You have to know what side your bread is buttered on.
President Trump says we need to toughen libel laws so that public figures will have an easier time suing. There's a complication for him, though, in that there is no Federal libel law, unless he wants the Feds to take this over. I thought conservatives like the Info-Wars (conspiracy) crowd bristled at any suggestion that Federal power be expanded. Remember their reaction to Waco where the ATF was involved? One of their ranks blew up that government building in Oklahoma City.
And now we have a Republican president with autocratic instincts, wanting to flex the "Feds' " power. We seriously wonder if a pattern is developing similar to 1930s Germany, don't we?
The Republican Party now has the power to end this nightmare. "Shithole?" Really? Well then, I can be excused for using like language when criticizing our Morris MN newspaper which now seems a fraction of the size it was when I was there. I can describe the Morris Sun Tribune or Stevens County Times or whatever the heck it is, and its owner Forum Communications, as "shitty." No problem with that, is there? Our language is evolving, I guess, to where our standards are adjusted and we can freely use words like that in public.
I remember when a Morris cross country parent went berserk - no exaggeration - when I ran a photo of an MAHS spirit banner at the state meet, a banner that used the phrase "bat out of hell." The kids who made the banner even used hyphens in the word "hell." The parent said in the letter than he "personally" took down the banner. And now we have a president throwing around words that are clearly objectionable. Our churches need to rise up against Trump. Any other suggestions?
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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