The Tigers climbed to .500 at 7-7 with a most impressive home victory Tuesday. It was a blow-out night for our orange and black who disposed of ACGC 71-22. We were up 44-15 at halftime. Our defense slammed the door in second half play: just seven ACGC points. The Falcons are sputtering at 1-10.
Our attack included four scoring in double figures. Malory Anderson set the pace with 16 points. Then we see Emma Bowman with 14, Kendra Wevley with 13 and Meredith Carrington with 12. MacKenna Kehoe added to the mix with eight points and she made two 3-pointers. Bowman had the other 3-point make. Sydney Dietz scored four points and Kaylie Raths and LaRae Kram two each.
Wevley led in rebounds with nine followed by Anderson with eight. Anderson was tops in assists with six. Leading in steals were Anderson with seven and Kylie Swanson with six. Swanson blocked a shot.
Scoring totals were anemic for the Falcons and here we see Rachel Wilner with eight points and Daniela Parker with seven. Shayna Hobson scored three while Elli Roemeling and Brooke Schroeder each scored two. Wilner made the only 3-pointer.
Boys hockey: Storm 7, Mayport 4
The Lee Center ice was a place for our MBA Storm boys to shine on Tuesday. Our success was vs. a team with a neat nickname: the "Ice Dogs." Almost a shame to see a team with that nickname lose. Just kidding. Those Ice Dogs are from Mayville-Portland in North Dakota. Officially it's called "Mayport." Seems like a long distance for those guys to travel Tuesday night. Would be more practical for a Saturday afternoon game IMHO.
Mayport kept the game even in period #2. First they scored with a Mitchell Coleman goal that had assists from Sammy Satrom and Jake Verwest (1:36). Will Breuer scored for the Storm at 8:35, assisted by Bruns and Jack Riley. Ice Dog Sammy Satrom struck with a goal at 13:42, assisted by Sawyer Satrom.
The third period really made the difference. Ryan Tolifson scored the first of our four goals in the period. Brady Loge and Matthew Tolifson came through with assists. Bruns got the puck in the goal at 11:18 with a Hunter Blume assist. Sammy Satrom of the Ice Dogs answered with a goal at 13:05 that had Mehus assisting. Riley scored at 14:22 with assists from Sam Thompson and Blume, then it was Kuseske getting our final goal at 15:26, assisted by Breuer and Brady DeHaan.
Chase Engebretson wore the goalkeeper's mask and he stopped 15 of 19 shots. Kade Susie Worked in goal for the Ice Dogs (35/42).
Girls hockey: Willmar 9, Storm 0
The girls hockey story was downbeat for the Storm Tuesday. The Storm failed to get a goal while Willmar got the puck in the net nine times. Action was at the Benson ice in this home game. Halle Mortensen got the shutout in goal for the victor. She achieved seven saves. Willmar got its 13th win against six losses and a tie.
Unfortunately our scoring summary is going to acknowledge Willmar players only. Congrats to them. Bailey Olson got Willmar's first goal in power play style, unassisted. Olson scored again at 7:54 assisted by Mya Monson. Kessa Mara scored at 8:38 with an assist from Nina Dawson. Monson used assists from Olson and Makenna Larson to score at 15:06.
The second period was a repeat of the first: a 4-0 Willmar advantage. Ashley Larson scored with Olson and Monson assists at 2:00. It was Madison Garberding scoring with Dawson's assist at 11:35. It was Olson scoring with assists from Monson and Audrey Stewart at 14:05. Dawson scored with a Mara assist at 14:40.
Willmar put frosting on the cake with a third period goal which was by Emily Morris (Olson assisting).
Willmar coach Eric Setrum was happy to see senior Emily Morris score in this, her first varsity game. The coach was quoted: "She's been a grinder for four years."
Our goalie was Leah Thompson who stopped 45 of 54 shots. Mortensen put up a barrier for Willmar.
Any break in the case?
I'd be surprised if law enforcement doesn't know by this time who the offending party is, with regard to the threat at the school. We have learned of another school in Minnesota where this has happened since. It's scary not only on the face of it, it's scary because if certain determined individuals in a given place decide to do this type of thing, it could be very hard to stop.
We must scratch our heads and wonder about this: we can never eliminate all risk from our lives. Problem is, we seem to have a policy of taking extraordinary measures based on the worst that could possibly happen. I don't even want to give the school or town names where the worst has happened. But it's troubling when extraordinary measures, presumably high-cost, must be taken based on a zero-risk attitude.
We never wish to allow risk of course. But life is risky by its nature. There's an old saying about how we start taking risks when we get up in the morning. That's fine for adults, but the thing with kids is that they are required to attend school. They are subjected to at least some risk by the mere act of attending school each day. Look at the risk element just in transporting kids by motor vehicle: look how that poor family was impacted in the Hancock school van accident. I think we all wonder how that accident was resolved in terms of what parties ended up paying the bills for medical treatment.
Upon hearing of the horrific accident, one of my first impulses was to wonder if staying home should be an option for more kids. Technology makes it easier for everyone to stay at home a good share of the time. The Internet is a resource for everything.
The recent school threat incidents make me wonder too if our law enforcement bureaucracy might fall into a sort of "racket" where people can make their living investigating these things. They end up with generous budgets. And you know how it is with government-supported things: once created and funded, they need to keep getting fed. We saw this for the enormous effort spanning many years with Jacob Wetterling: tips in the tens of thousands. Wouldn't it be fascinating to know how many hours and law enforcement dollars went into all that? The guilty party was a suspect early-on. It is now generally believed the early efforts had flaws. Once the guilty party created a reprieve for himself, springing from the net, we saw a bloated effort flailing about in countless ways, costing many fortunes, but law enforcement professionals could feel satisfied putting in their hours and making a living, through the dead ends and superfluous rabbit trails.
It is subconscious for sure: a desire to maintain a high need for government services, even if those services depend on troubling things happening. Of course no one wants bad things to happen. But people want to feel important and to make a living too, on a sustained basis.
Let's not forget those dogs that were brought here for the threat incident in Morris. The dogs might be the prime heroes. Give them some biscuits.
As I have stated, I do not think a stupid threat in my day would have caused mountains to be moved. Far from it. We'd hear a muttering of some adjective and then the application of an eraser. Seemed we all had a better sense of proportion during my young days. Not only about this but with lots of things, like jokes that might be un-P.C. It was a different world. Risk? To what extent are we being unreasonable if we just try to wipe it out, to apply an eraser to it? A truism: it is a dangerous world. Republican politicians like to respond to nasty things with "prayers" all the time, so let's just join in a prayer.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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