Success just keeps accumulating for the MACA boys hoops team. Nothing but wins as far as the eye can see. So, the pattern continued on Thursday, Jan. 27, at Tiger Center. There, fans watched the squad get its 17th win against zippo losses. The score was 65-63, so it was not an easy or routine win.
We're 6-0 in conference, 7-0 vs. section-level opponents, 8-0 at home, 6-0 on the road and 3-0 at neutral sites. Again, nothing but wins as far as the eye can see. Makes the winter seem not quite so harsh. The cold edge is moving back in tomorrow (Thursday), word has it. Yesterday the wind was the headache.
Starting in mid-March, we should thank the Lord for every day when the weather is more palatable than this. So what(?) with the slush, "snirt," strong winds and cloudy skies. Raise a toast! For now, we just have to hunker down. And, to enjoy winning prep basketball. We are ranked among the state's elite.
Redwood Valley was at our heels in the Jan. 27 contest. The Cardinals trailed by just three at halftime, 31-34. The second half continued the stalemated look of the game. The Cards had a one-point advantage in the second half, 32-31, not enough to overcome the orange and black. So the final score was 65-63.
Jackson Loge appeared not to have the greatest night with shooting percentage but he scored the team-best 28 points. He made 11 of 28 shots. Durgin Decker was our other double figures scorer: 14 points. His percentage was a quite super 86 on six of seven in field goals.
Also scoring for MACA: Brandon Jergenson 8, Thomas Tiernan 7, Tyler Berlinger 4, Cole Wente 2 and Toby Gonnerman 2. Our team shooting numbers were 26-for-59, 44 percent. Tiernan was two of five in 3-point shooting, Loge two of six. Jergenson had our other '3'. As a team we were five of 17 in 3's, 29 percent. We made eight of 15 at the freethrow line led by Loge with his four makes. Decker made two.
Loge had 20 of our team-total 34 rebounds. Nine of his boards were offensive. Decker was second-high with four rebounds. Jergenson led in assists with five of our team total 13. Decker and Loge each dished out four assists. Decker and Jergenson each had two steals. The Tigers turned the ball over eleven times. Loge had three shot blocks.
The kmrs-kkok article described this game as a "dogfight." The article shared some of the closing suspense. So, the scoreboard showed a 62-61 lead for MACA with seconds remaining. Loge fires a pass to Jergenson who was alone underneath. Basket! I hope the MACA fans are not chanting "let's go Brandon." I assume you all know what this means in our political climate. I wonder if the fans have gotten an actual advisory on this. Let's not translate the expression here.
The Tigers executed a defensive "stop." Loge was poised to get the rebound and he got fouled. His final business of the evening was to make one of two from the freethrow line. The win was wrapped up, No. 17.
The Cardinals were led by Carson Woodford with 21 points and ten rebounds. Zack Reck put in 13 points for the red crew. Drew Lundeen supplied ten points and Charles LaChapelle nine. Alex Lang collected nine rebounds. The Cardinals left here with an 11-6 won-lost.
The hockey action extended into overtime on Friday, Jan. 28. MBA vied with Luverne at the Benson ice. MBA got the game-winning goal with 23 seconds left in overtime. Brady DeHaan completed a hat trick with his game-winner. So the boys could savor this hard-earned 6-5 win.
There was a flurry of scoring in the first period. Luverne worked to a 3-2 advantage in the period. MBA offset the advantage with a 2-1 edge in period No. 2. Each team scored a goal in the final period of regulation.
Luverne really seemed to own the momentum early-on in this contest. The Cards scored the evening's first three goals. Henry Hartquist got things started at 5:40 with a goal assisted by Brock Behrend. Behrend got the second goal with assists from Owen Sudenga and Jack Schlosser. Behrend put the Cardinals up 3-0 with a goal at 10:40, assist from Sudenga.
Finally the Storm got warmed up and started scoring. This began with a DeHaan goal with an assist from Ryan Tolifson. DeHaan and Tolifson worked their magic again at 14:13, so MBA is quite in the thick of things, trailing by just one goal at 2-3.
Our Tim Blume got the score tied with an unassisted goal at 1:46 of the second period. Luverne fought back with a Behrend goal assisted by Hartquist. Then it was Charlie Goff of MBA getting the puck in the net with a Brett Hansen assist.
Hansen scored our third period goal at 5:07 with an assist from Trevor Buss. Luverne hung in there with a Sudenga goal which was unassisted. Bring on overtime! The overtime goal has some confusion from the news media. I'm sure the kmrs-kkok coverage is correct, DeHaan with the goal. The West Central Tribune coverage had the name unavailable for the goal-scorer, but had DeHaan and Hansen with assists. Obviously DeHaan could not both score and get an assist. But that's the data out there, sorry.
Our goalie was Christopher Danielson who had 31 saves in 36 attempts. Tyler Arends worked in goal for Luverne: 25 saves, 31 attempts.
Thoughts on the media
From an email I shared with a friend this morning:
The Morris newspaper can do so many fancy and splashy things now, thanks to what computers can do. Photography has no overhead and there are no tech challenges. The old photography was the epitome of "analog," was more trouble than it was worth sometimes. Tons of things could go wrong.
Standards can be much higher for Morris paper when it's once a week. Staff has whole week to prepare for just the one paper, and it's not like they put themselves out for the website, they don't.
It was Sue Dieter's intention to make the website super dynamic, and finally I went into her office and expressed exasperation. At that moment I knew I was on the way out. I sensed we'd have to have the previous night's sports summarized thoroughly or I'd get yelled at, called names, and I just decided I didn't want to live life like that anymore. One problem is that too many people get emotional about high school sports. It would be funny if it wasn't scary sometimes.
Thoughts re. macro-level media
We may be in Floyoverland, but I think our insights can be as valued as anyone's, if anyone from the East Coast would just ask! Might I have something to offer? Below are some thoughts I recently shared with nationally-known commentator John Ziegler.
- Has any well-known op-ed writer expressed concern about how "attorney-client privilege" might be getting abused in a serial way? Remember, a disproportionate number of people in gov't are lawyers by profession. So now, when they engage in nefarious things, they fail to turn over info based on attorney-client privilege. We hear about Paxton of TX now.
- Has any well-known op-ed writer prepared the "script" for conservative media when/if Merrick Garland announces real charges against the higher-ups? The Fox News people are all set with, "he's just bitter because he got passed over for the Supreme Court" (by the McConnell machinations). Should Garland recuse himself from EVERYTHING?
- Has any well-known op-ed writer commented on the normalization of potty mouth language in the media? I mean, look at the headlines on "Mediaite" on a given day. Yes, these are quotes, but still. Even with all the "squiggles" to blot out certain letters, it's shocking and stupid. Remember the squiggles for when "Sarge" of Beetle Bailey got mad?
- Has any op-ed writer commented on: Jesse Watters trotting out "kill shot" language re. Fauci, and then being backed by the old argument of "metaphorical." Watters then gets promoted. But what about when Kathy Griffin did her little stunt, which was satirical in spades, and then even Anderson Cooper didn't support her? She lost her New Year's Eve gig.
- Cable news "hall of shame": "Balloon boy," John Mark Karr (in Jonbenet case) and Paris Hilton's detainment. We would not see these things today. Partly because, it's all about partisan fighting now.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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