It took a couple days but I finally discovered that the game stats are on Maxpreps. The Tigers led 39-26 at halftime.
Four individuals scored in double figures led by Riley Asmus and his 19 points. Wow, Riley was a perfect 8-for-8 in field goals!
Ben Tiernan and Alex Asmus each recorded 12 points. Ben shot 5 of 8 and Alex was 5 of 14. Tyson Grove contributed ten points on 4 of 9 shooting. Jonah Huebner was good on four of his six shots and had nine points. Also with nine was Jack Kehoe, four of six in shooting. Here are the rest of the totals: Tanner Friesen 4, Drake Asmus 2, Mason Koehl 2 and Bryce Hardy 1. I'm typing some new names here.
Let's get to the story in 3-pointers: The Tigers were cool in this department as they went 4 of 14. Grove made two from beyond the arc. Tiernan and Alex Asmus made the other two. In freethrows the team numbers were eight of 18. Riley Asmus made three freethrows.
Rebounds! MACA collected 29 boards with nine being offensive. Kehoe and Alex Asmus were top individuals with nine and eight respectively.
Alex Asmus led in assists with four. Huebner set the pace in steals with five. Kehoe had our only shot block.
It's Christmas Eve
Today is Christmas Eve Day, and joy ought to be the prevailing feeling. For most of my life it has been. I tried continuing the tradition in this year of 2025. It would be nice to assume some things we have counted on through the past. I am age 70 and have lived through countless Christmases where things slowed down for the holidays and the prevailing feeling was of love and charity.
Two days ago I began putting away my Christmas decorations. I never really had my heart in putting them up to begin with. The morning's headlines are getting worse by the day. On this Christmas Eve morning I just cannot believe it: all the stuff coming out re. Donald Trump at the head of our government. Such unvarnished evil. It's Germany of the 1930s redux. We are experiencing it in real time.
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| Corruption of the faith |
One of the most outspoken local Republicans - not only a supporter of DJT but also a virulent critic of Democrats - was so iconic at the time of his recent death, businesses shut down for his funeral. Surely no business would shut down for mine. I'm talking about Dean Monson incidentally. I envy people who are so popular as he was.
Increasingly I am simply isolated. Well I have been able to deal with it. I have a certain resiliency, probably due to being Scandinavian. That's what Mom would say. She always described herself as a "tough Swede." Me? I'm half Norwegian and half Swedish.
I understand the basic Republican philosophy quite well. I did some reading on my own after college. So I know the Republican or "conservative" philosophy has its place. Even Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC has said that. But oh, what we are seeing from Trump and his top people now hardly resembles the real Republican Party. Mitt Romney is more reflective of the real deal. And his stock was once so high in the party, he was the nominee for president! John McCain too.
Now we have Trump who is successfully becoming a full-on authoritarian. He makes new threats in this morning's headlines. Right on Christmas Eve Day. I would have to try to protect my mother from even learning about some of this stuff. She and I attended First Lutheran Church over years when the church managed to have a weekly Sunday service in its own building. Today this ELCA church in Morris is basically dead.
America has given rise to the extreme fundamentalist churches that call themselves "Christian." And this element of America, always growing, has given Trump his power to scare the hell out of all of us. It rolls on day after day. It gets worse. Our congressperson cannot stop fawning over Trump. We have chosen this.
And so I have began removing all my Christmas decorations well before the Eve even arrives. I had nick-nack type decorations around the home, very nice. And I did this despite the fact I live alone and no one else would see them. It would be nice to have just one visitor. But it's not so easy to get what you want. I sought inner peace with my decorations.
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| The puzzle that Mom and I made |
It is the Christian faith that has given us the nightmare specter of Donald Trump. He grows more desperate by the day, probably backed into a corner by the revelations slowly - painfully slowly - coming out about Epstein. And once he becomes totally cornered, desperate, what is he going to do with all his power?
We are bombarded with the most depressing headlines right on Christmas Eve Day. I assure you it never used to be like this at all. Christmas was quiet with peace, love and charity. It has become something I do not recognize now. It reflects the "new" Christian faith of America which is about hate, prejudice and reprisals. All this is bitterly expressed.
And the people out here in rural America seem not to care hardly at all. We close our businesses to honor the memory of someone who was 100 percent MAGA. This is our new reality. I do believe that the true spirit of Christianity will prevail in the end. But what kind of ordeals will be experienced between now and then? Look how Germany ended up by the mid-1940s.
I probably won't be around. There may be a purge. I think it has already started. I will say "peace" for whatever it is worth. Merry Christmas? I'm not so much in a mood to say that.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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