SPORTS FEEVER by Chris Fee of KROX Radio – chrisjfee@yahoo.com
It is tournament time for Football and Volleyball starting next week. Some official seeds have come out, while volleyball and three sections of football will come out tomorrow morning!!! Stay tuned. This week we break everything down!
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Park Rapids and Pillager Football teams are playing Thursday evening so Section 8A, 8AA, and 8AAA seeds haven’t been announced yet and won’t be until they play that game. It will be Friday morning for those sections.
Section 8A Football
The Section 8A Football seeds weren’t released yet on Thursday morning so here is how it looks like it is going to go!
1. Park Christian (they lead MW by 1.9 QRF points and didn’t play each other and are both 8-0.)
2. Mahnomen/Waubun 8-0
3. Red Lake County 6-2
4. Polk County West 6-2
5. Bagley 4-4
6. Ada-Borup-West 3-5
7. Cass Lake-Bena 1-7
8. Red Lake 0-8
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Section 8 9-Player Football
Section 8 9-Player Football has been interesting this year, with BGMR climbing to the second seed! It is good to see them have a great year after having some challenging seasons over the past few years. One thing that went as expected is Kittson County Central going undefeated and earning the top seed again.
TEAM SEEDS
1. Kittson County Central
2. Goodridge/Grygla
3. Badger/Greenbush-Middle River
4. Win-E-Mac
5. Stephen-Argyle
6. Warren-A-O
7. Northern Freeze
8. Lake of the Woods
FIRST ROUND – Tuesday, October 27 at high seed at 6:00 PM
#8 Lake of the Woods at #1 Kittson County Central
#5 Stephen-Argyle at #4 Win-E-Mac
#7 Northern Freeze at #2 Goodridge/Grygla
#6 Warren-A-O at #BGMR
SEMI-FINALS – Saturday, October 31 at high seed at 2:00 PM
LOW/KCC winner vs SA/WEM winner
NF/GG winner vs WAO/BGMR winner
CHAMPIONSHIP – Thursday, November 5 at 4:30 PM at Fargodome
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Section 6 9-Player Football
The Section 6 9-Player Football Playoffs seeds and schedule have been announced. Fosston received the top seed, just getting by Blackduck. The seeds and schedule are below-
TEAM SEEDS-
1.Fosston (6-2)
2. Blackduck (6-2)
3. Kelliher/Northome (4-4)
4. Clearbrook-Gonvick (4-4)
5. Norman County East/U-H (3-5)
6. Fertile-Beltrami (2-6)
FIRST ROUND at high seed at 6:00 PM
Fosston and Blackduck have byes
#5 Norman/County East/U-H at #4 Clearbrook-Gonvick
#6 Fertile-Beltrami at #3 Kelliher/Northome
SEMI-FINALS at high seed at 2:00 PM
NCEUH/CG winner at #1 Fosston
FB/KN winner at #2 Blackduck
CHAMPIONSHIP – Thursday, November 5 at Fargodome
2:00 PM –
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Section 8AA Football
The Section 8AA seeds are looking pretty cut and dry, with a tie-breaker question with Warroad and Frazee. Here is how the seeding should go –
1. Hawley 6-2
2. Pelican Rapids 6-2
3. Barnesville 3-5
4. Warroad 2-6
5. Frazee 2-6
6. Crookston 2-6
7. Roseau 0-8
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Section 8AAA Football
Section 8AAA is waiting for Park Rapids to finish their game tonight vs Pillager. Here is how the seeding could go IF Park Rapids wins Thursday night.
1. DGF
2. Perham
3. East Grand Forks
4. Minnewaska Area
5. Park Rapids (If Park Rapids loses, they could drop to 6)
6. Morris
7. Thief River Falls
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Section 8A Volleyball
The Section 8A Volleyball Tournament seeds and schedule will be released on Friday. As of Thursday morning, here is how the seeding looks and IS subject to change depending on what happens on Thursday night.
1. Sacred Heart (top seed no matter what)
2. Climax-Fisher (will be #2 with wins over Fertile-Beltrami and Fosston)
3. Fertile-Beltrami (if they best Fosston Thursday they are #3, if they lose Fosston is #3)
4. Fosston (see above)
5. Lake of the Woods
6 – 10 is a crap shoot and right now, in this order-
6. RLCC
7. Goodridge/Grygla
8. Red Lake Falls
9. KCC
10. Bagley
11. Northern Freeze
12. Warren-A-O
13. Blackduck
14. Stephen-Argyle
15. Win-E-Mac
16. Ada-Borup-West
17. Northome/Kelliher
18. BGMR
19. Mahnomen/Waubun
20. Clearbrook-Gonvick
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Section 8AA Volleyball
If have no idea how Section 8AA is going to look. Thief River Falls takes on East Grand Forks and what happens in that match will change some things. Here is how I see things working out and it will/could look different tomorrow morning.
1. Barnesville (beat TRF 2-1 in a tourney)
2. Perham (beat TRF 3-1)
3. East Grand Forks (if they beat TRF)
4. Thief River Falls (unless they beat EGF, then they would be 3)
5. Hawley (beat WDC and DGF)
6. DGF (beat WDC)
7. Wadena-Deer Creek
8. Frazee (beat Roseau 2-1)
9. Roseau
10. Menahga (beat Park Rapids)
11. Park Rapids
12. Crookston
13. Warroad
14. Red Lake
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The Minnesota State High School League Class A Girls Tennis team tournament seeds have been announced and for some reason, tennis still isn’t seeding all eight teams.
1. Saint James
2. Litchfield
3. Breck
4. Lake City
5. Foley
Unseeded – Morris, Pequot Lakes, Thief River Falls
FIRST ROUND – October 27 at Inner City Tennis (Formerly Reed-Sweatt Tennis center)
8:00 AM – #4 Lake City vs #5 Foley
10:00 AM – #1 Saint James vs Morris
NOON – #2 Litchfield vs Pequot Lakes
2:00 PM – #3 Breck vs Thief River Falls
CONSOLATION SEMI-FINALS – October 27
4:00 PM – Lake City/Foley loser vs St. James/Morris loser
6:00 PM – Litchfield/Pequot Lakes loser vs Breck/TRF loser
SEMI-FINALS – October 28 –
8:00 AM Lake City/Foley winner vs St. James/Morris winner
6:00 PM – Litchfield/Pequot Lakes winner vs Breck/TRF winner
CONSOLATION CHAMPIONSHIP – October 28
NOON –
THIRD PLACE – October 28
2:00 PM –
CHAMPIONSHIP – October 28
4:00 PM –
The Section 8A Girls Tennis individual tournament represenatatives have found out who they will play in the first round of the state tournament. If you win your first round, but lose your second round you are eliminated. If you lose your first round, you go to the consolation bracket.
SINGLES –
October 29 at 8:00 AM at Inner City Tennis
Lauren Tull (Crookston) will play the #1 seed Chloe Alley (Minnehaha Academy) in the first round
#3 seed Ronnie Noska (Staples/Motley) will play Reese Foley (Visitation) in the first round
DOUBLES –
October 29 at 10:00 AM at Inner City Tennis
Madison Perius/Kaylee Perius (Staples-Motley) will play Alaina Miller/Lydia Anderson (Foley) in the first round
Natalie Hanson/Sarah Kroll (Staples-Motley) will play #3 seed Thèrèse Bauer/Rylee Thieren (Lake City) in the first round
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MILESTONES –
Red Lake Falls’ Layna Schindler had the 1,000th dig of her career last week.
Roseau Ram Volleyball head coach, Becky Hayden, reached 200 career wins on Tuesday in a victory over Crookston.
UMC Volleyball’s Madison Carsten (Wadena-Deer Creek) recorded the 1,000th dig of her career last weekend.
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KROX Radio and KROX TV will be video-streaming every Crookston Pirate Varsity Fall sporting event again this season. We have direct links to the streams for each home game. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel ((155) KROX Radio – YouTube) to get reminders when we go live with all our coverage.
October 22 –
Crookston Pirate Volleyball vs Climax-Fisher – https://youtube.com/live/dbH4RVra80Y
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JOKES
A man awoke one evening to discover prowlers in his storage shed. He immediately called 911, gave his address, to report the prowlers and possible burglary. The operator at the other end said “Are they in your house?” He said they were not, only in his storage shed in back of the house. The operator said there were no cars available at that time. He thanked the operator, hung up the phone and counted to 30 and called again. “I just called you about prowlers in my storage shed. Well you do not have to worry, as I just shot them all dead!” Within seconds there were 3 police cars, an ambulance and fire engine at the scene. After capturing the prowlers red-handed, the policeman asked the caller, “I thought you said you had shot them all!” The man answered, “I thought you said there were no police available!”
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Sometimes… when you cry… no one sees your tears .
Sometimes… when you are worried… no one sees your pain.
Sometimes… when you are happy… no one sees your smile.
But fart just one time…
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One day in philosophy class they spent a great deal of time debating whether the glass was half full or half empty. After the class, one student was feeling pretty good about himself and what he was learning at university, so when he went home he tried to continue the discussion with his family.
With maximum drama, he took a 12 ounce glass from the cupboard and poured in 6 ounces of water. Then took it into the dining room and placed it in the middle of the table. He proudly asked his family, “can anyone tell me whether this glass is half full or half empty?”
Without missing a beat, his grandmother replied, “Depends if you’re drinking or pouring.”
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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
Reggie Winjum is a freshman playing basketball at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Chloe Boll is a freshman playing basketball at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Emma LaPlante is a freshman playing hockey and tennis at Wisconsin-Superior.
Ava Martin is a freshman playing golf at Gustavus Aldolphus.
Matt Contreras is a Sophomore playing baseball at Concordia College in Moorhead.
Conner Hanson is playing Club Hockey at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Brandon Colborn is playing Club Hockey at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Teagen Lubinski is playing Club Hockey at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Riley Benson is playing Club Hockey at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Kadin Edwards is playing Club Hockey at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Garrett Fischer is playing junior hockey for the Pueblo Peppers in the NAHL.
Jay Reese is playing junior hockey for the Gillette Wild in the Na3hl.
Greyson Ecker is playing junior hockey for the Gillette Wild in the Na3hl.
Parker Kelly is playing junior hockey for the Bandlands Sabres in the Na3hl.
Nathan Kelly is playing for the NDSU Club Hockey team
Addie Fee is a Sophomore playing hockey at Wisconsin-Superior.
Kambelle Freije is a Sophomore playing hockey at Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Riley Helgeson is a Sophomore playing football at Northern State.
Emily Bowman is a Sophomore playing Softball at North Dakota State College of Science.
Halle Winjum is a Junior playing basketball at Minnesota Crookston.
Naomi Johnson is a Sophomore playing soccer at Alexandria Tech
Reese Swanson is a Junior playing hockey at St. Olaf.
Carter Coauette is a Junior playing football at Minot State.
Isaac Thomforde is a Junior playing Tennis at Northwestern College in St. Paul.
Halle Bruggeman is a Senior on the University of Wisconsin-Stout Women’s Rugby team.
Ethan Boll is a Senior on the University of North Dakota Football team.
Breanna Kressin is a Senior the Hockey Cheer Team for THE University of Minnesota Golden Gopher Hockey team.
Jacey Larson is a Senior playing hockey at Dakota College at Bottineau.
Paul Bittner is an assistant coach on the University of Wisconsin-Superior Men’s Hockey team.
Seth Heppner – Head Coach of Men’s and Women’s Golf at Jessup University
Brady Heppner – Head Coach of Women’s Golf at UMC and Assistant Hockey Coach
Crookston School District Coaches
Blake Bergeron is the head Pirate Wrestling Coach.
Colton Weiland is an assistant Pirate Wrestling Coach
Jason Cassavant is a Jr. High Baseball Coach and Head American Legion Baseball coach
Sarah Reese is the Pirate Head Girls Soccer coach
Marley Melbye is an assistant girls golf coach
Connor Morgan is the Head Pirate Boys Hockey coach
Ben Trostad is the Pirate Boys Hockey assistant coach
Ethan Magsam is the Pirate Boys Hockey assistant coach
Non-Crookston High School coaching/Admin/etc
Elise Tangquist is the Head Girls Golf Coach at Horace High School in Fargo, ND.
Carmen (Kreibich) Johnson is the head Little Falls Volleyball coach.
Tim Desrosier is an Assistant Coach for Warren-Alvarado-Oslo Pony Boys Basketball
Pat Wolfe is the head wrestling coach for Fosston/Bagley.
Austin Sommerfeld is an Assistant Athletic Director for Strategic Communication at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth.
Collin Reynolds is the head baseball coach for the University of Colorado Buffalo Club Baseball team.
Trent Stahlecker is a School Security Specialist & he works for the Brevard Public Schools, Florida.
Cody Weiland is an assistant wrestling coach at Proctor/Hermantown.
Josh Edlund is the head football coach and phy ed teacher at Flandreau, South Dakota.
Allison Lindsey Axness is Assistant Varsity Volleyball Coach at Champlin Park
Jeff Olson is the Head Wrestling Coach and Head Baseball coach at Delano.
Jake Olson is an Assistant Football Coach and Head Boys Tennis coach at Delano.
Matt Harris is an Assistant Principal/Athletic Director at Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Marty Bratrud is the Superintendent and High School Principal at Westhope High School.
Gordie Haug is an assistant football coach at the University of North Dakota.
Mike Hastings is the Wisconsin Badgers Men’s head Hockey coach.
Mike Biermaier is the Athletic Director at Grand Forks Schools.
Stephanie (Lindsay) Perreault works with the North Dakota State stats crew for Bison football, volleyball, and basketball in the winter. Stephanie’s husband, Ryan, is the assistant director for Bison media relations.
Jason Bushie is the hockey athletic trainer at Colorado College.
Chris Myrold is the Director and Fitness at Mission Ranch and Fitness in Camel, California.
Kyle Buchmeier is a Tennis Pro at the Reed-Sweatt Family Tennis Center in Minneapolis
Jaren Bailey is serving our country and is Lance Corporal in the Marines.
Ben Andringa is serving our country in the Army and is now a Ranger.
Philip Kujawa class of 2004, from Crookston High School. He is an Army recruiter in Rochester.
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..
