The weather! I have had disagreements with a couple friends, as I maintain this is the worst winter I've seen. I get some pushback on that. Minnesotans can probe their memory for lots of anecdotes. The late '60s were a piece of work. Granted, but this winter has been so relentless with its miserable conditions, extreme cold and cold with wind. On and on it goes.
The sun is getting higher in the sky in February. You have heard of the "January thaw." Odds are greater for such a thing in February. But look outside on this mid-February Tuesday. It is 2/22/22. But let's put that novelty aside. Our weather is a big ad for moving south, to just get the heck out of here. Why don't I just use the alternate word to "heck," the more incisive one? We are, after all, in the age of Trump and "let's go Brandon."
Our U.S. culture has been turned upside down. What will all the ramifications be? Will those ramifications be existential? I think they could. There is nothing that I, as a single individual, can do about it. I would discourage even praying, as it is Christianity that led us here, to the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. It was the "evangelical Christians." Damn them.
So let's look at the MACA boys basketball game of Saturday, re-scheduled from Friday. It was quite low-scoring. Not sure if the Tigers promoted that complexion of if the Sauk Centre Streeters did. But it was Sauk Centre coming out on top. MACA was dealt its second loss of the season. We did lead at halftime 19-18. But the Streeters picked up "mo" the rest of the way to defeat us 45-40. Action was at Sauk Centre.
We made 16 of 41 field goal attempts for 39 percent. Jackson Loge held up our scoring, no surprise there. He scored 15 points on 5 of 11 shooting. The other individual point totals were awfully modest. Let's review them: Thomas Tiernan 7, Cole Wente 6, Brandon Jergenson 5, Toby Gonnerman 5 and Sam Kleinwolterink 2.
Oh my, we struggled from 3-point range, just three makes in 22 tries, 14 percent. Jergenson, Tiernan and Loge each made one. As I have stated repeatedly, I hope fans do not chant "let's go Brandon." Wouldn't it be wonderful if fans could chant this for the right reasons? But we are in the age of Trump.
Not many freethrow attempts: seven, of which we made five. Loge had four of the makes, Gonnerman the other. Loge collected ten rebounds to lead, of which two were offensive. Our team total was 19, four offensive. Tiernan and Loge each had three assists of our team total 12. Loge had two steals. Our turnover total was 14. Loge blocked two shots.
Girls: Sauk Centre 47, Tigers 39
Can't find many details on the girls hoops game of last Thursday, a 47-39 loss to Sauk Centre. We stay below .500 at 9-15. The Streeters came away with 18-6 numbers. So, this was a high-caliber foe that coach Dale Henrich's squad was playing, at Sauk Centre.
Let's acknowledge some of our point-scorers: Sydney Dietz with 12, Maddy Grove with nine, and Meredith Carrington, Cate Kehoe and Kaylee Harstad each with six.
Wrestling: Tigers 39, United 26
"United" is one of those names that does not help us understand where they're from. It's like MACCRAY or BOLD. I wish sports teams would just go by the high school name that serves as the primary host. Presumably there is one that does. United had the No. 2 seed for the 3AA-North wrestling team tournament. The site: Hutchinson.
One of the schools in the United partnership is Lac qui Parle. Some people might fumble even trying to pinpoint where that's located. It's Lac qui Parle "Valley." Is there a valley over there?
United was seeded No. 2 and our MACA Tigers No. 3. That did not stop our Tigers from achieving victory! This was done with a 39-26 score over United. So, congrats Tigers.
Tyce Anderson at 106 pounds won by a 14-2 major decision over Ben Gunlogson. Grayson Gibson at 113 pounds decisioned Kameron Sather 14-10. We came out on the short end at 120 where our Alex Sperr lost by fall in 5:46 to Daniel Gunlogson. Dallas Walton at 126 pounds was the 3-1 decision winner over Zander Clausen.
Andrew Marty came on strong to win by decision over Ethan Moravetz 4-1. Then at 138 pounds, it was Ethan Lebrija pinning Isaac Moravetz in 3:54. At 145 pounds, Caden Rose won by tech fall over Tyler Schickedanz, 17-2. Davin Rose at 152 won by fall in 1:40 over Noah Meyer.
Hunter Massner at 160 pounds dropped a 24-13 major decision at the hands of Dain Mortenson. Our Dain Schroeder dropped a 17-9 major decision to Avery Wittnebel. United made it three in a row as Holt Larson pinned our Noah Amundson in 4:52.
195-pounder Hunter Gibson of the Tigers pinned Landon Olson in 2:41. Brock Marty vied at 220 pounds for the Tigers and he was pinned in :29 by Keaton Haas.
Our big guy at 285 was Levi Kellenberger and he decisioned Zach DeBeer 2-0 in overtime.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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