MACA basketball splits in MLK Day games

At first I thought the caffeine hadn't taken effect yet. First I read on the "Minnesota Scores" site that our MACA boys basketball team lost to Litchfield. It was a Monday game which surprised me on the face of it, because Monday was the MLK holiday. Doesn't seem like the holiday is observed a whole lot. It would never be passed into law today. Ronald Reagan opposed it. 

Civil rights is wonderful, essential, but we don't need this holiday. I'm an equal opportunity skeptic of holidays. Veterans Day? We don't need that holiday to appreciate veterans. Veterans get a whole lot of advantages because of their veteran status. Some of these holidays basically boil down to the mail not being in the mailbox. This at a time when we see how the U.S. Postal Service is struggling. 

Holidays can be depressing because they upend our normal routine. But the MACA boys hoops squad did in fact play Monday. The problem with the normally reliable "Minnesota Scores" site is that someone mistakenly submitted the girls score. I realized the mistake when I consulted the kmrs site and saw that our boys won. I then saw that the girls score was repeated on the MACA boys page. So it was just a human screw-up. 

Wait a minute, we're not done talking about shortcomings this morning, unfortunately. So the kmrs site reports the boys outcome accurately, but there are no game details there as of 11 a.m. Just the score. Imagine if I was caught in my newspaper days just reporting the score. We see the score of 49-39 with MACA on the winning end. So that's happy news indeed. 

Let's see, maybe I can find game details on the "Maxpreps" site. OK, there isn't even the score there. Maxpreps is a terrific source, would be nice if both our boys and girls coaches cooperated regularly. 

Shall I try to get into the West Central Tribune sports site? Sometimes the paywall isn't there. Oh but here's the paywall - their "roundup" page is blocked. No guarantee the MACA/Litch game would be there anyway. 

I just do not pay to read anything online. There's a little panel on my screen that says "save 50 percent." Save? Why should people have to pay to read basic sports news? Ideally, information should be free. No one deserves money just because they want it. We all want money. Our public schools are supported by tax dollars, so we deserve to read school news unimpeded IMHO. "Maxpreps" is free if coaches cooperate. 

The kmrs site has some brief details about the girls game. Thanks for that. The girls played their MLK Day game against Litchfield at Tiger Center. The Tigers have been on the skids of late. No reprieve Monday as the orange and black was defeated 55-39. It was our ninth loss with just two wins. Litch sports a 6-5 record. 

Our Maddy Grove scored 12 points and snared seven rebounds. Maddie Fehr contributed nine points and Brianna Marty eight. Kaylee Harstad's contributions were seven points, nine rebounds.

- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com