It's Saturday morning and it's difficult finding details. What does the West Central Tribune report? Well it's a grand total of four sentences. The first states that the Tigers are up to 7-4 in the West Central Conference. The second states that Benson fell to 2-11 in conference and 6-16 in overall. Then we see the Tigers have a 17-6 overall mark. That's great.
Sentence No. 4: "Benson plays West Central Area at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Barrett."
I would not have wanted to answer for such token coverage, back in my days with the Morris newspaper. People would have spoken of me in openly hostile terms.
So shall we check the Maxpreps site? This has been a huge and tremendous resource for yours truly this winter. But the coaching staff needs to submit info. As of Saturday morning I see none, either for last night's game or the Thursday win over Breckenridge. The Tigers beat Breckenridge 76-43 at Breck. Lots of good news that could be reported.
My posts on the Tigers are available to fans in a totally user-friendly way. Just click and read, no barriers of any kind. I hope this is appreciated. The 2023 Tigers are something to crow about.
We're keeping an eye on Minnewaska this season. The reason: futility. My goodness, an 80-46 loss to West Central Area that put the Lakers at 1-22. WC Area coach Kraig Hunter got his 400th career win, so congrats. For 'Waska, I guess it's back to the drawing board.
Is the Minnewaska school having some fundamental problems these days? It warrants asking. Are a large number of Glenwood families choosing to send their kids to Alexandria where the new facilities are an attraction? Are Starbuck families continuing to look seriously at Hancock? Is it possible that the 'Waska school was a mistake from the get-go? This was a "cornfield school" of the type the Minnesota legislature subsequently said it would never approve again.
So pathetic how parochial politics played into that. From another age. It doesn't count for much if anything any more. But back when the 'Waska school was drawn up, it seemed the legislature had to kowtow to some regressive but assertive special interests. Wouldn't happen today IMHO.
In the West Central Area win over 'Waska Friday, Mitch Dewey scored 17 points for the Knights. Jacob Strunk put in 15 and had some other nice stats: four rebounds, four assists, three steals. Brett Miller further reports that Bryce Kjesbo had ten points and Ben Bye eight plus eight rebounds. The Knights improved to 15-7 on the season.
The floundering Lakers had Hunter Kloos scoring 22.
Brett Miller's Saturday morning report on his kmrs site has only the score of the MACA game. Not his fault, everyone, the coaching staff has to get fired-up on this.
The MAHS band program had a jazz concert last week. I did not attend and I heard the audience turnout was not impressive. I am hearing rumblings that MAHS music is having to confront the losses of kids who are in this thing called "PSEO." I'm not real well-versed on it yet. Essentially it seems like a way for high school kids to take college classes, get college credit.
A good thing? Oh on the surface it sounds like it. I don't always buy surface impressions. I wonder if certain special interests are up to something with this. Well, our institutions of higher learning. We have UMM right here in Morris. This institution has to be desperate to try to get new students, n'est-ce pas?
So my fear is this: will colleges start "raiding" high schools and thus deplete them in the process? And what's so great about having these kids take college classes? You are only in high school once in your life. Many people talk about it like it was an essential building block in their lives, for socialization as much as anything. Now we're dangling this "PSEO" temptation out there for the kids.
For whose benefit? The colleges? I hate to see MAHS music start to get hamstrung by this. The music program needs the kind of leadership and example-setting that the PSEO-type kids provide. Are the other kids going to be left to "go it alone?" OK I disapprove, disapprove totally. The kids needn't feel so much pressure to get "smart." Who really cares? Don't the kids all have calculators in their phones? Don't they read and type stuff all the time? They'll be fine. Mostly they will end up in college anyway.
Oh, the cost. That's how colleges extend the carrot on the stick. Well, college is too (expletive) expensive in the first place.
Girls basketball
Addison Cihak my neighbor scored ten points and grabbed seven rebounds in the Friday game versus Sauk Centre. But the Tigers were on the short end 58-34. Action was at Sauk Centre. Alas we only shot 16 percent, 9 of 56. We are now 5-17. Sauk Centre is 17-8.
Cihak gained seven rebounds to go with her scoring. Maddy Grove put in seven points.
Do you suppose a little coaching shakeup might be called for after this season?
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The Tigers of MAHACA are into post-season for 2023. The first round of competition saw the Tigers win one and lose one. The success was versus Quad County, score of 42-28. The loss was at the hands of United, score of 57-20.
Now the focus is on the individual Section 3AA affair. Tiger fans will have the convenience of watching that competition here in Motown, February 25.
There was lots of excitement at the recent home invitational which is named for a deceased Morris physician. Let's get some names into this post. So we had Beau Haugen representing MAHACA at 106 pounds. Grayson Gibson carried the banner at 120 and he took fourth, picking up 10.5 team points. Jarret Payne was our 126-pounder, also placing fourth and adding 7.0 team points. Then we saw Davin Rose as our 138-pounder and he took No. 1, getting a harvest of 26.0 team points.
It was Breighton Logan handling the 145-pound responsibilities. He was No. 4 and with 11.0 team points. Andrew Marty was our 152-pounder and he took No. 3 with 11.0 team points. Then at 160, Ryker Erickson was No. 2 and gained 18.0 team points. Dain Schroeder vied at 170 and this Tiger was champ with 24.0 points.
Hunter Gibson wore the singlet at 195 and he was No. 1 with 23.0 points. Then it was Brock Marty turning away his challengers at 220: 28 team points. Javon Johnson was No. 2 in the 285-pound slot, with 20 team points. Big guy Carter Gibson took fourth at 285.
No it's not "Breckenridge," it's the "Breck" school of Golden Valley who faced off against our Storm boys on Friday. This was the last regular season game for the Storm. Our W/L is a most encouraging 15-9. We downed Breck by a score of 7-2.
Brett Miller informs us there was a seven-minute span of the third period that saw the Storm take charge. The game was close prior to that. Our surge was with three goals which were by Tucker Blume, Brady Pederson and Trevor Buss.
But it was Charlie Goff who earned primary praise with his hat trick. Buss had an assist to go with his goal. Goff had a pair of assists as did Zach Wrobleski. Our goalkeeper was Chris Danielson who made 21 saves. But he had help: Gavin Schmidt putting on the gear in the late-going and making eight saves. Another memorable night for the MBA skaters.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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