Sports update

By the way. . .

Tom Obert
Cub columnist
It's also only fair to report that our boys basketball team is having an excellent year. If the girls hockey team had not had that big tournament game, the big game of the year was last night in the JHS gymnasium where the Cards beat Rocori, 55 - 53. Rocori was the undefeated conference leader prior to last night and had badly beaten our guys at their place earlier in the year. The Cards are now 10 - 4 in the conference (in 3rd place) and, I believe, 14 - 5 overall. As usual, this year's team has no size (we get killed on the boards) but also as usual has a lot of quickness - if their shooting game is on, they can score a lot of points (88 against Bemidji earlier this week). Our major problem in following the basketball guys is that the temp in the JHS gym generally runs about 95 dgrees so you feel you have to wear shorts and a t-shirt in the middle of winter.

Follow-up: Totino Grace beat Mound Westonka 7 -1, so we will play Totino. For the record, Alex beat Mound Westonka 6 - 1 earlier in the year. So it looks like the high school league did a pretty good job of throwing a road block in our path (Totino is new to our section) for the state tourney! As a further slight, the on-line Strib (haven't seen the paper yet) had everything reversed on the Alex game last night - had Abby playing for Hutch, had Hutch winning 4 - 1, and had Hutch outshooting us 52- 17. Sheeesh, no respect!!
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Note to blog regulars: sports coverage will drop off the next three days as the trailboss hits the trail back to Minnesota. He's enjoyed his time in the sun, but all good things. On the way back, he'll stop and visit with Harland and Carolyn Hoffland to get a full and unbiased report on New Mexico, and also settle some ancient matters. Watch this space. In the meantime, we've promoted the cub reporter to cub columnist as he seems to find it impossible to keep from injecting his personal opinion into any and all transmissions.

Trailboss