SPORTS FEEVER by Chris Fee of KROX Radio – chrisjfee@yahoo.com
Two more winter sports seasons will begin on Monday, November 11. The following Monday will have all the winter sports teams going. Man fall flew by!
Boys Hockey and Girls Basketball will start practice on November 11.
Wrestling and Boys Basketball will start practice on November 18.
We have posted the latest Crookston Pirate Varsity Winter Sport Schedules. To view the schedules, click the link – Pirate Winter Sports Schedules | KROX
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Minnesota State Football first round games are being played across the state this week. There are several area teams competing in the tournament.
NINE-PLAYER –
The Fertile-Beltrami Falcon Football team is making its fourth straight State Football appearance and looking to advance to the semi-finals for the fourth straight season. Fertile-Beltrami will take on the Cromwell-Wright Cardinals at Moorhead High School at 7:00 p.m. KROX will broadcast the game on the radio with a pre-game show at 6:30 p.m.
Fertile-Beltrami is 10-0 on the year and coming off a 52-15 victory over the Fosston Greyhounds in the section championship. Cromwell-Wright is 10-1 on the year and coming off a 20-14 victory over #1 ranked Nevis in the Section 5 9-Player championship. Cromwell-Wright lost to Nevis on September 27 by a 48-8 score!!
Cromwell-Wright is obviously pretty good, and they have seven seniors. Their biggest kid is 5’10, 255 pounds, with the next kid coming in at 5’10, 234 pounds. They only have three kids over 200 pounds, so they are huge by any means and will be a good size match-up for the Falcons.
Fertile-Beltrami is led by senior running back Isaiah Wright has carried the ball 120 times for 1,746 yards and 28 touchdowns. He also has 12 receptions for 175 yards and two touchdowns on the season. They also have Jonah Harstad, who has run for 1,126 yards and 14 touchdowns on 98 carries. They have a great duo, and the offensive line is a big reason why they have run for so many yards.
The Stephen-Argyle Storm will play the Mountain Iron-Buhl Rangers in the first round of the State 9-Person playoffs at Grand Rapids on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. KROX will stream the game on YouTube (audio only) with the RiverView Health pre-game show at 6:30 p.m.
Stephen-Argyle only has two seniors on the team, but senior runningback Blaine Smith ran for almost 300 yards in the section championship and was stellar on defense to lead the Storm. Darby Benitt is the other senior, and he was outstanding on both sides of the ball in the championship game.
Stephen-Argyl is really playing great football with impressive wins over two rivals. They beat Kittson County Central in the semi-finals 44-22 after beating them 20-18 in the regular season. They beat Warren-A-O 42-14 after beating the Ponies by the same 20-18 score in the regular season. The Storm is looking really good right now. Blaine Smith and Raydon Woinarowicz were stellar offensively. The offense line was impressive and the defense line was great, especially in the second half.
Mountain Iron-Buhl is 11-0 on the year and averages 67.5 points per game while only giving up 8 points per game. The Ranger quarterback, Micaden Clines has passed for 1,387 yards and 22 touchdowns and has run the ball for 1,088 yards and 21 touchdowns. Slowing him down will be the key!
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CLASS A –
The Mahnomen/Waubun Thunderbirds are back at state for the fourth straight year. They were 10-0 on the year and had an impressive showing in the Section 8A Championship game with a 36-8 victory. Mahnomen/Waubun doesn’t have a super star, but they are one of the best well-oiled machines I have seen. All 11 players on the field are studs and they just go about their business and each one can make a huge play. They are a great all-around team.
They get ready to take on Deer River who is 9-1 on the year. They lost to Barnum 39-13 in the regular season and beat Mille Lacs 8-6 in the Section 7A championship game. Mahnomen/Waubun received the second seed in the north and Deer River is the #3 seed. The teams will play on Friday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m. at Becker High School!!!!!
CLASS AA –
The Barnesville Trojans are the Section 8AA representative once again. They are 11-0 on the year and received the #2 seed in the north!!!! So they will play the Section 6AA Champion Staples-Motley Cardinals who are 10-0 on the year. Barnesville beat Hawley 46-22 in the Section 8AA Championship game while Staples-Motley beat Osakis 36-30 in the 6AA Championship. Staples Motley beat Frazee in week one 47-7. Barnesville beat Frazee in the regular season (week 8) and won 44-12, then beat Frazee 58-6 in the section semi-finals. Barnesville and Staples-Motley will play Thursday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m. at the St. Cloud Tech High School.
CLASS AAA –
The Section 8AAA Champion Fergus Falls Otters received the top seed in the north and will play the #4 seed Albany! You know the north is stacked when you have a team like Albany as your 4th seed. Fergus Falls beat East Grand Forks 30-0 in the 8AAA semifinals and beat DGF 42-30 in the championship. Albany comes out of Section 6AAA and beat Minnewaska Area 29-21 in the championship. The teams play on Friday, November 8 at 6:00 p.m. at Alexandria High School.
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Here is a list of State Football officials from the area who will officiate games at this year’s state tournament.
Steve Philion of Red Lake Falls will be an Official Supervisor and also an official.
Area officials –
Zachary Benson (Red Lake Falls)
Douglas Bruggeman (Pelican Rapids)
Grant Conway (Thief River Falls)
Roger Cota (St. Hilaire)
Brian Guler (Pelican Rapids)
Tracy Hinsz (Barnesville)
Jan-Erik Lindberg (Pelican Rapids)
Chris Mills (Erskine)
David Mills (Grand Forks, ND)
Eric Muckenhirn (Pelican Rapids)
Derrick Nelson (Pelican Rapids)
Kevin Philion (Red Lake Falls)
Brent Stahlecker (Crookston)
Kaleb Thalmann (Perham)
Jason Yutrzenka (Argyle)
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The Minnesota State High School State Class A Volleyball tournament begins on Thursday (November 7) at the Xcel Energy Center.
The team seeds are below-
- Mayer Lutheran (28-5)
- Minneota (22-11)
- New Life Academy (17-12)
- West Central Area (27-4)
- Kittson County Central (27-5)
- Fillmore Central (17-15)
- Ely (28-3)
- Sebeka (24-7)
The Section 8A champion, Kittson County Central Bearcats have had a tremendous season with the 27-5 record. They will play #4 seed West Central Area at 5:00 p.m. on court 1. West Central Area is the Section 6A Champion who beat Hillcrest Lutheran Academy in the championship 3-0. In the regular season they lost to Hawley 2-1. The other losses were 3-0 to Sauk Centre, 3-1 to Minnewaska Area, and 2-0 to Delano (#1 seed in Class AAA state tourney). Kittson County Central beat Ada-Borup-West 3-1 in the Section Championship. The losses for the Bearcats were to East Grand Forks 2-1, to Fillmore Central (#6 seed at state) 2-1, Mayer Lutheran (#1 seed at state) 2-1, Minneota (#2 seed at state) 2-1, and Canby 2-1.
The Class AA state tournament begins Thursday, November 7 at the Xcel Energy Center. The team’s seeds are below-
1. Albany (28-2)
2. Chatfield (28-4)
3. Hawley (26-5)
4. Southwest MN Christain (19-12)
5. Annandale (23-6)
6. St. Croix Lutheran (25-1)
7. Rush City (28-3)
8. New London-Spicer (18-7-1)
The Section 8AA Champion Hawley Nuggets have had a tremendous year and earned the third seed. They will play #6 seed St. Croix Lutheran on Thursday, November 7 at 3:00 p.m. on court 2. St. Croix Lutheran beat Concordia Academy 3-0 in the Section 4AA Championship match. There one loss was to Anoka 2-1. Hawley got through the gauntlet in Section 8AA by beating Perham 3-0, they beat Wadena-Deer Creek 3-2 before beating Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 3-1. Hawley’s losses this year were to Breckenridge 3-2, Ada-Borup-West 3-2, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 3-1. They lost three of their first seven matches this season. Then they rattled off a bunch of wins. They had a 3-1 win over Wadena-Deer Creek, a 2-1 win over Albany. They had two losses at the big tournament down in the cities with a 2-0 loss to Caledonia and a 2-0 loss to Chatfield (#2 seed in the tourney)
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There will be two area officials working at the state tournament this year.
Sara Bowman (Crookston)
Randi Rantanen (TRF)
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JOKES
A man walks into an open Hollywood audition. He gets inside and begins to fill out his audition form, rehearse his monologue, and stand in line. After a while, he gets into the audition room and hands the casting director his audition form. He takes his spot on stage and is about to launch into his monologue when he hears rowdy laughing coming from the casting director.
He asks, “What’s going on?”
Through tears of laughter, the casting director asks him, “Is this your real name, Penis Car Lesbian??”
The man responds, “Yes, I know it is a silly name, but please try to ignore that. My parents were drunk when they named me and just chose three silly words.”
The casting director stops laughing and tells the man, “I’m sorry, but you have to change your name if you want to make it big in Hollywood.
The man gets upset and storms out of the audition.
The casting director shrugs and calls out the next person.
10 years later, the director receives a 100,000 dollar check and a letter.
Puzzled over who would send him such a thing, he opens up the letter and reads it:
“Dear sir,
While you may not remember me, I came to an audition 10 years ago. There you told me that I would never make it big if I didn’t change my name from Penis Car Lesbian. After I left, I realized you were right and changed my name. However, I was too ashamed to return back to you, so I found other auditions. But your advice really helped, and I got a lot of big acting roles. As you were the first one to truly help me, I decided to send you a little check.
Sincerely,
Dick Van Dyke”
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A man received the following text from his neighbor:
I am so sorry Bob. I’ve been riddled with guilt, and I have to confess. I have been tapping your wife, day and night when you’re not around. In fact, more than you. I’m not getting any at home, but that’s no excuse. I can no longer live with the guilt and I hope you will accept my sincerest apology with my promise that it won’t happen again.
The man, anguished and betrayed, went into his bedroom and had a long, drawn-out fight with his wife about her infidelity.
A few moments later, a second text came in:
Correction: I meant “wifi”, not “wife”.
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My neighbor. She’s single. She’s shapely & beautiful and she lives right across the street.
I watched her as she got home from work this evening. I was surprised when she walked across the street, up my driveway and knocked on my door.
I opened the door, she looked at me and said, ”I just got home, and I have this strong urge to have a good time, get drunk, and have fun tonight. Are you doing anything?”
I quickly replied, “Nope, I’m free!”
“Great” she said. ”Can you watch my dog?”
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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
Reese Swanson is a freshman playing hockey at St. Olaf.
Carter Coauette is a freshman playing football at Minot State.
Isabelle Smith is a freshman playing Tennis at Concordia College.
Isaac Thomforde is a freshman playing Tennis at Northwestern College in St. Paul.
Emilee Tate is a Sophomore playing Softball at Northland Community and Technical College.
Halle Bruggeman is a Sophomore on the University of Wisconsin-Stout Women’s Rugby team.
Ethan Boll is a Red-shirt Freshman on the University of North Dakota Football team.
Breanna Kressin is a Junior on the Hockey Cheer Team for THE University of Minnesota Golden Gopher Hockey team.
Emma Osborn is a Junior playing basketball at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
Jacey Larson is a Sophomore playing hockey at Dakota College at Bottineau.
Aleah Bienek is a Junior playing hockey at Trine University in Indiana.
Joslynn Leach is a Senior playing golf at Concordia College in Moorhead. The Cobbers wrapped up the Fall season.
Brady Butt is a Senior playing football at the University of Jamestown.
Brooks Butt is a Junior playing football at the University of Jamestown.
Ty Hamre is redshirt Junior playing football at Bemidji State University.
Elizabeth Erdman is a coach for the Moorhead Red Dragon swim team.
Crookston School District Coaches
Ben Parkin is the head Pirate Baseball Coach.
Amy Boll is the head Pirate Girls Track head coach
Sarah Reese is the Pirate Head Girls Soccer coach
Marley Melbye is an assistant girls golf coach
Jeff Perreault is the Pirate Girls Golf head coach
Connor Morgan is the Pirate Boys Hockey assistant coach
Sam Melbye is the Pirate Boys J.V. Hockey coach
Chris Dufault is a youth wrestling 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 Wyoming.
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
Ben Andringa is serving our country in the Army and is now a Ranger.
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 a grad of West Point and currently serving in the U.S. Army.
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.
