The predicted storm for Western Minnesota and North Dakota is causing problems for a lot of schools, farmers, and many others. Let’s hope the meteorologists are wrong!!!
I was supposed to be in Duluth Tuesday night through Thursday morning for the Minnesota Broadcasters Association Annual meetings. I went to Duluth Tuesday night and left at 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon and cruised home to do the Crookston High School football game at 7:00 p.m.
I am on the board of directors and was elected Vice-Chair of the board for 2020 and will be Chairman of the Board in 2021. I was honored to be nominated by our outgoing chair. I have been on the board for three years and it has been one of the more rewarding and educating experiences of my life. It would have been nice to stay for the entire conference in beautiful Duluth, but I did get to bring my Daughter Alyssa (a senior at UMD) and her roommate out to eat at Tavern on the Hill so that was nice to visit her in Duluth for only the second time in four years!!!! (We are terrible parents – but busy parents!!)
Many have asked why I came back and didn’t stay in Duluth. My response is simple. My dad carried every Pirate football game except for one (my sister’s wedding) after Jerry Dahlberg retired from calling Pirate football. I have done EVERY Pirate football game since my dad has retired. Only three people have called a Pirate football game in 50 years!!!!! My dad and I take pride in our job and even though it was far from my best work, I love bringing people the game. Plus we have football on Thursday, Volleyball Friday and another football game on Saturday. So I wouldn’t want Leo doing three football games in four days. Football takes a lot of time to prep….it is by far the hardest to prep for, especially in high school.
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The University of Minnesota Crookston has moved all three of their remaining home games to the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. The move is because of field conditions (or lack thereof) at Ed Widseth Field.
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The Section 8A Girls Tennis Tournament has been affected by the predicted storm.
All three rounds (first round, semi’s, and championship are being played Thursday, October 10 at Fargo.
The individuals have been postponed to next Wednesday and Thursday.
TEAM SEEDS –
1. Thief River Falls
2. Perham
3. East Grand Forks
4. Crookston
5. Roseau
6. Park Rapids
7. Wadena-Deer Creek
8. Parkers Prairie
First-round – Thursday, October 10
9:00 AM – #4 Crookston vs #5 Roseau (Match 1)
10:30 AM – #1 Thief River Falls vs #8 Parkers Prairie (Match 2)
Noon – #2 Perham vs #7 Wadena-Deer Creek (Match 3)
1:30 PM – #3 East Grand Forks vs #6 Park Rapids (Match 4)
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ALL THE PREVIEWS WERE BEFORE THE GAMES ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT!!!!
We have two games left in the high school football regular season and many of the seeds are still up for grabs.
SECTION 8AA
Section 8AA’s top seed is wrapped up and Barnesville will be the top seed. What happens after that is a toss-up for almost every remaining seed.
#2 Pelican Rapids has games with Hawley and Polk County West. They could lose both of those game and the could win both. I think if Pelican Rapids wins their final two games, they are guaranteed a #2 seed.
#3 Warroad has games with Walker-H-A and Frazee left on the schedule. Again both teams will be tough to beat, but both are beatable so we can’t even guess what they will do in the final two games. If they win the last two games, they will be the third seed at worst.
#4 Frazee plays Wadena-Deer Creek and Warroad. They should win one of the game and the Warroad game is a 50/50 game. They will likely be a 3-5 seed.
#5 Crookston plays Breckenridge and Otter Tail Central. Crookston could be anywhere from a 3 to a 6 seed depending on what happens. If they win both and Warroad and Frazee only win one, I would think Crookston can move to #3. If Crookston loses both, they could drop to a six seed.
#6 United North Central has games with Rothsay and Bertha-Hewitt. They would need two wins and Crookston or Frazee would have to have two losses to move up and out of the sixth seed (I believe). But, with two losses, they could drop to seventh if Bagley wins one of their last two games.
#7 Bagley is in the same boat, but I predict they will win their last two games with games against Cass Lake-Bena and Wadena-Deer Creek. Both programs are struggling mightily and it should be two wins, which could move them up to a sixth seed, but that is about as high as they can go.
#8 Hawley has two games left with Pelican Rapids and West Central Area. I think Hawley can win both of the games, but they could easily lose both games too. The highest they could move up is 5th I am thinking.
| Team (QRF) | Section | Overall |
| 1. Barnesville (58.4) | 2-0 | 6-0 |
| 2. Pelican Rapids (38.2) | 1-0 | 4-2 |
| 3. Warroad (29.8) | 1-0 | 4-2 |
| 4. Frazee (24.5) | 1-1 | 2-4 |
| 5. Crookston (22.9) | 1-1 | 2-4 |
| 6. United N. Central (14.1) | 0-0 | 2-4 |
| 7. Bagley (13.6) | 0-2 | 2-4 |
| 8. Hawley (9.0) | 0-2 | 0-6 |
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SECTION 8A FOOTBALL
Section 8A pretty much has the seeds wrapped up 1-5 if things go like we expect them.
#1 Ada-Borup/West has games against Red Lake County and Walker-H-A and with two wins they are guaranteed the top seed. They own wins over Mahnomen/Waubun and Polk County West already and have the tie-breaker with those two teams. With two losses they would drop to second and possibly third.
#2 Mahnomen/Waubun has Lake Park-Audubon and Pine River Backus. One would think they will win both games, but the way this season has gone, there are no gimmie wins. I am thinking they will be the two seed.
#3 Polk County West has games with Fosston and Pelican Rapids. They should win the Fosston game and the Pelican Rapids game could be an interesting one. If Polk County West takes care of the ball, they might have two more wins. Polk County West should be the third seed.
#4 Red Lake County will play Ada-Borup and Breckenridge. So they have two very tough games before playoffs. Two wins would give them some big points, but I don’t know if that would move them up any, but it would be huge for the confidence going into the postseason. Two losses won’t hurt them either because they are likely the fourth seed no matter what.
#5 Cass Lake-Bena has games with Bagley and Underwood. They will be an underdog in both games and even with two wins they might be the fifth seed.
#6 Red Lake and Fosston are tied in the QRF. Red Lake plays Pine River-Backus and Lake Park-Audubon and it will be tough to win either of those games. Fosston has games with Polk County West and New York Mills. They likely won’t win those two games so it will come down to QRF and it could go to who has a better QRF as both teams would be 0-8 on the year.
| Team (QRF) | Section | Overall |
| 1. Ada-Borup/West (47.6) | 3-0 | 5-1 |
| 2. Mahnomen/Waubun (46.9) | 3-1 | 5-1 |
| 3. Polk County West (37.3) | 2-2 | 4-2 |
| 4. Red Lake County (24.5) | 3-2 | 4-2 |
| 5. Cass Lake-Bena (11.2) | 1-2 | 1-5 |
| 6. Red Lake (6.3) | 0-2 | 0-6 |
| 6. Fosston (6.3) | 0-3 | 0-6 |
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SECTION 8 9-MAN
The Section 8 9-Man top seed is solidified, but the rest of the teams are fighting for their seed.
#1 North Central (Northome/Kelliher/Bigfork) once again has crushed their opponents by an average of 43 to 6. They have games with Hill City/Northland and South Ridge. They will be the top seed unless they lose the last two games and Stephen-Argyle wins the last two.
#2 Stephen-Argyle has games with Kittson County Central and Goodridge-Grygla left. The game on Thursday against Kittson County Central could be the battle for the second seed. Whoever wins will likely be the second seed in the playoffs. But two losses to end the year could drop the Storm down to the fifth seed, depending on what happens with the other teams.
#3 Kittson County Central has two big games left with Stephen-Argyle and Warren-Alvarado-Oslo. If KCC wins both they will be at worst, a second seed and possibly a top seed. If they lose both, they could drop down to the fifth seed. Both games are big for the Bearcats.
#4 Warren-Alvarado-Oslo has the Northern Freeze and Kittson County Central. If the Ponies win both games they would likely be the second or third seed as they hold the tie-breaker Stephen-Argyle.
#5 Badger-Greenbush-Middle River has games with Goodridge/Grygla and Clearbrook-Gonvick and I would think they could win both games and possibly move up to a 2 or 3 seed depending on what happens with the other teams. I am guessing a 3 or 4 seed is where they will end up.
#6 Goodridge-Grygla will have BGMR and Stephen-Argyle so they will have a couple of tough games to end the regular season. A 6th seed looks like it might be a good bet. At worst a seven seed.
#7 Lake of the Woods has games with Bigfork and Ely left and to be honest, I don’t know anything about the two. If they win both games they will likely be the sixth seed. They don’t have to worry about dropping lower than seventh.
#8 Northern Freeze has games with Warren-Alvarado-Oslo and Laporte. It will tough to beat the Ponies this week, but a win against Laporte is possible and that would be a good way to go into playoffs.
| Team (QRF) | Section | Overall |
| 1. North Central (33.6) | 1-0 | 6-0 |
| 2. Stephen-Argyle (22.8) | 2-1 | 4-2 |
| 3. Kittson County Central (19.3) | 2-1 | 4-2 |
| 4. Warren-A-O (18.6) | 2-1 | 3-3 |
| 5. Badger-Greenbush-MR (18.3) | 3-1 | 3-3 |
| 6. Goodridge-Grygla (12.5) | 1-2 | 3-3 |
| 7. Lake of the Woods (10.1) | 0-1 | 2-4 |
| 8. Northern Freeze (5.5) | 0-4 | 0-6 |
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SECTION 6 9-MAN
The Section 6 9-Man seeds are still up for grabs in a few spots, including the top spot.
#1 Win-E-Mac has games with Norman County East/UH and Blackduck. Both games will be tough games, but if they win both they will be the top seed because they have the tie-breaker for the top seed. If they lose both, they could drop to the second seed (if Fertile-Beltrami wins both).
#2 Fertile-Beltrami has games with Park Christian and Nevis. They will be two solid games and if the Falcons can win both they and Win-E-Mac loses one, they could take over the top seed even though Win-E-Mac beat them earlier this year. With two wins they are either 1 or 2.
#3 Blackduck has games with Nevis and Win-E-Mac. With two wins they are guaranteed to be the third seed. I am not sure if they can move up to the second seed, but I don’t think it is out of the realm of possibility.
#4 Nevis has games against Blackduck and Fertile-Beltrami. If they win both they would be for sure the third seed and I don’t know if they could make enough to get the second seed, but it would be close.
#5 Norman County East/UH has games with Win-E-Mac and Park Christian. They are slightly ahead of Park Christian so the game in the final week could be for the fifth seed.
#6 Park Christian has games with Fertile-Beltrami and Norman County East/UH. The final week will be a playoff game of sorts with the winner of the game getting the fifth seed.
#7 Clearbrook-Gonvick has games with Laporte and Badger-Greenbush-Middle River. The game against Laporte will be a big one with both teams looking for their first win of the season. The winner will be the seventh seed and the loser will be the eighth seed.
#7 Laporte has games with Clearbrook-Gonvick and the Northern Freeze. Laporte has a good shot at finishing the regular season with two wins as they play two teams that don’t have a win yet. That would be a great way to end the regular season.
| Team (QRF) | Section | Overall |
| 1. Win-E-Mac (32.8) | 4-0 | 6-0 |
| 2. Fertile-Beltrami (30.1) | 3-1 | 5-1 |
| 3. Blackduck (22.0) | 3-1 | 5-1 |
| 4. Nevis (19.8) | 4-1 | 4-2 |
| 5. Norman County East/UH (16.8) | 0-3 | 2-4 |
| 6. Park Christian (15.7) | 2-2 | 3-3 |
| 7. Clearbrook-Gonvick (5.3) | 0-4 | 0-6 |
| 8. Laporte (5.3) | 0-4 | 0-6 |
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SECTION 8AAA
The Section 8AA standings have spread out a bit, as far as QRF goes, and Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton took over the top spot with an impressive win over Perham a couple of weeks ago and had a great effort in a 20-14 loss to Detroit Lakes last week.
#1 DGF has games against Park Rapids and East Grand Forks and the Rebels should be able to win those and end the season with a 6-0 section record and the top seed.
#2 Perham has a big game this week with Pequot Lakes and will have another tough game to end the season at Detroit Lakes.
#3 Pequot Lakes has a big game with Perham this week for a battle for the second seed and they wrap up the regular season with games against Perham and Fergus Falls. Both games are big games for seeding purposes and if they win both, a second seed is likely.
#4 Fergus Falls has games with Detroit Lakes and Pequot Lakes. The DL game will be a tough game to win and the last game of the regular season will be an important game and kind of a playoff game.
#5 East Grand Forks will host Thief River Falls this week and DGF next week. If I was a betting man, I would think EGF goes 1-1 in the final two games and will likely stay in the fifth spot.
#6 Roseau has games against Barnesville and Pillager. Two tough opponents and it is unlikely they win one and will stay in the sixth spot.
#7 Thief River Falls plays East Grand Forks and ends the regular season with Park Rapids for a fight to get out of last place. Whoever wins the game will be the seventh seed.
#8 Park Rapids has games with DGF and Thief River Falls. The first game will be tough, but the last game of the regular season is a battle for the seventh seed.
| Team (QRF) | Section | Overall |
| 1. Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton (63.0) | 4-0 | 5-1 |
| 2. Perham (52.5) | 4-1 | 5-1 |
| 3. Pequot Lakes (45.2) | 3-1 | 4-2 |
| 4. Fergus Falls (34.0) | 3-2 | 3-3 |
| 5. East Grand Forks (26.3) | 1-3 | 2-4 |
| 6. Roseau (23.0) | 0-0 | 2-4 |
| 7. Thief River Falls (13.5) | 0-4 | 0-6 |
| 8. Park Rapids (11.0) | 0-4 | 0-6 |
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Zack Greinke earned more this season ($31.5M) than the entire Tampa Bay Rays lineup he lost to on Monday. So the people that say you need to spend money to win, once again are dead wrong!!! The Rays line up and what they made this year are below –
Y. Diaz ($558,400)
A. Meadows ($557,400)
T. Pham ($4.1M)
J. Choi ($850,000)
A. Garcia ($3.5M)
B. Lowe ($1M)
T. d’Arnaud ($3.5M)
K. Kiermaier ($8M)
W. Adames ($562,400)
Total ($22.6M)
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We have been hearing of some current and former Division 1 athletes getting big checks in the mail as part of a class-action lawsuit with the NCAA. The money is from a 208.7 million dollar settlement of one part of a lawsuit against the NCAA and 11 major conferences concerning the association’s athlete-compensation limits. The settlement has over 43,000 athletes in Bowl Subdivision football and Division 1 men’s and women’s basketball. The overall average of the settlement check is $3,800 and we have heard of some former UND Basketball players receiving two to three times more than that.
– More than 8,100 checks are for amounts between $5,000 and $10,000.
– Nearly 1,300 are for amounts between $10,000 and $20,000.
– There are 14 for $20,000 or more, including one for a little over $36,000.
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How are former Crookston Pirates athletes doing in college or elsewhere?
****LET ME KNOW OF OTHERS TO ADD TO THE LIST email me at chrisjfee@yahoo.com
Paul Bittner, is playing for the Cleveland Monsters, the AHL affiliate of the Columbus Bluejacket. Paul didn’t score, but had three shots on goal and a +1 rating in a 3-2 win over the Laval Rockets in the season-opening game on Friday. Paul didn’t play in a 4-1 victory over Laval on Saturday. Cleveland will host the Syracuse Crunch on Friday and Saturday.
Cade Salentine, is a redshirt Freshman playing football at the University of North Dakota. Cade didn’t play in a 38-36 victory over #12 ranked UC Davis on Saturday. UND will travel to Idaho State on Saturday.
Ben Trostad, is a sophomore member of the University of Minnesota Crookston golf team. Ben shot an 81 and a 79 for a 160 at the Augustana Invite. UMC will travel to St. Joseph, Missouri for the Holiday Inn Express Classic October 7 and 8.
Isaac Westlake, is a Senior on the Winona State Warrior Men’s Golf team. Isaac Westlake shot a 68 and 79 for a 147, good for a second-place finish at the LaCrosse Country Club in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Winona State will travel to the Fairfield Inn Invitational in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Elise Tangquist, is a Junior golfer for the University of Northwestern in St. Paul. Elise shot a 93, 97, 94 for a three-round total of 284 at the UMAC Championship in Becker. Elise finished eighth place individually and Northwestern finished second place to wrap up the fall season.
Mason LaPlante, a freshman, is playing soccer at the University of Jamestown. Mason didn’t play in a 3-2 loss to Briar Cliff and he didn’t play in a 5-1 loss to Hastings College on Saturday. Jamestown will play Mount Marty and Providence College this week.
Rachel Hefta, a freshman, is playing volleyball at Hastings College in Nebraska. Rachel is playing on the J.V. team. The varsity team is 8-9 on the year.
Thea Oman, a freshman, is swimming at St. Ben’s. The first event of the year is at St. Kates Pentathlon October 11.
Kate MacGregor, a Sophomore, is swimming at Minnesota State Moorhead. The first meet of the year will be at the University of Mary on October 14.
Ally Tiedemann, a Sophomore, is playing tennis at the University of Minnesota Duluth. The season will start in February.
Aleece Durbin, is a Sophomore on the University of North Dakota Women’s Track and Field team.
Brita Fagerlund, is a Junior on the University of Jamestown Jimmy Women’s Track team.
Brady Heppner, is a Senior, playing hockey at St. Johns University in Collegeville.
Nick Garmen, is a freshman playing basketball and tennis at the University of Minnesota Morris.
Crookston School District Coaches –
Brody Davidson is an Assistant Pirate Football coach.
Jeremy Lubinski is a Pirate 8th Grade Football coach.
Amy Boll is the head Pirate Girls Track head coach and assistant volleyball coach
Sarah Reese is the Pirate Head Girls Soccer coach
Cody Brekken is the Head Pirate Girls and Boys Tennis coach and Crookston Community Pool Supervisor
Marley Melbye is the Head Girls Swimming coach
Mitch Bakken is the head Pirate Baseball coach.
Brock Hanson is the Pirate Baseball volunteer assistant coach.
Jeff Perreault is the Pirate Girls Golf head coach
Wes Hanson is the Pirate Wrestling Head Coach and assistant boys golf coach
Wade Hanson is the 8th grade boys basketball coach
Kevin Weber is a Pirate Boys Basketball volunteer assistant coach
Connor Morgan is the Pirate Boys Hockey assistant coach
Sam Melbye is the Pirate Boys J.V. Hockey coach
Chris Dufault is an Assistant Wrestling Coach
Nate Merten is an Assistant Wrestling Coach
Non-Crookston High School coaching –
Kaylee Desrosier is a softball coach for Fargo Davies Middle School.
Justin Johnson is an assistant softball coach at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Josh Edlund is an assistant football coach and phy ed teacher at Flandreau, South Dakota.
Allison Lindsey Axness is Assistant Varsity Volleyball Coach in Champlin Park
Jeff Olson is Head Wrestling coach and Head Baseball coach at Delano.
Jake Olson is an Assistant Football Coach and Head Boys Tennis coach at Delano.
Carmen (Kreibich) Johnson, is Head Volleyball coach at Little Falls High School.
Katy Westrom, is Head Girls Tennis Coach and Head Boys Tennis coach at Monticello High School.
Matt Harris, is a Director of Athletics at the British International School of Houston.
Marty Bratrud is the Superintendent and High School Principal at Westhope High School.
Gordie Haug is an assistant football coach at the University of Wyoming
Mike Hastings is the Minnesota State Mankato Men’s head Hockey coach
Mike Biermaier is the Athletic Director at Thief River Falls High School
Stephanie (Lindsay) Perreault works with the North Dakota State stats crew for Bison football and volleyball and basketball in the winter. Stephanie’s husband, Ryan, is the assistant director for the Bison media relations
Jason Bushie is the hockey athletic trainer at Colorado College
Chris Myrold is a Tennis Pro on Nevis Island in the West Indies
Kyle Buchmeier is a Tennis Pro at the Reed-Sweatt Family Tennis Center in Minneapolis
Jarrett Butenhoff is serving our country with the U.S. Navy
Joshua Butenhoff is serving our country on a Submarine with the Pacific Fleet with the US Navy.
Peter Cournia is a 2002 Crookston High School Graduate and also a grad of West Point and is currently is serving in the U.S. Army.
Erik Ellingson is serving our country with the U.S. Air Force at Minot.
Philip Kujawa class of 2004 from Crookston High School. He is an Army recruiter in Rochester.
Scott Riopelle is head of Crookston Parks and Recreation
Rob Sobolik is the General Manager of the Fargodome
That’s it for this week. Thanks for the comments and if you have anything to add or share, please e-mail chrisjfee@yahoo.com or call. Thanks for reading and listening to KROX RADIO and kroxam.com
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