SPORTS FEEVER – September 26, 2024 | KROX

SPORTS FEEVER by Chris Fee of KROX Radio – chrisjfee@yahoo.com

it is hard to believe playoffs for some sports begin in two weeks!!! Football will have two and a half weeks left after Friday. Fall sports have flown by!!!

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Minnesota-scores.net has released the QRF rankings for volleyball. The area section rankings are below.

Section 8AA Volleyball Standings

The Section 8AA standings over halfway through the season are showing there are a lot of important matches remaining for all teams as far as seeding goes. There are 14 teams in the Section so the top four teams won’t have to play in the first round. Right now, it looks like there is a very clear-cut top four teams, with the red-hot Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Rebels winning eight matches in a row and playing some great volleyball. Hawley, Wadena-Deer Creek, and East Grand Forks competed in the Twin Cities this past weekend and had some great competitive matches against the top teams in the state. Then Hawley beat WDC. The top four are pretty clear and it is a matter of where they will fall seed-wise. The rest of the seeds are still way to early to try to break down. The standings as of Wednesday night are below.

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Section 8A – East Volleyball Standings

The Section 8A-East Volleyball has two clear-cut top two seeds right now with Fertile-Beltrami and Ada-Borup-West. They are the top two hands down. Fertile-Beltrami has won eight matches in a row and they have weapons galore. The Falcon back-row has been fantastic and they seem to be getting better each match. Ada-Borup-West is Ada-Borup-West. They have an outstanding attacker, and are scrappy as ever. They know how to win and they will be a tough team to beat. It looks like Blackduck is solidifying one of their better seasons in a long time as they are in the third spot and within striking distance of a second seed at this point. The rest of the teams are battling for seeds the rest of the regular season and Win-E-Mac and Red Lake are just looking for the first win of the season.

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Section 8A – West Volleyball Standings

The Section 8A-West standings have some familiar names at the top with Kittson County Central at the top, barely edging BGMR. KCC has played the toughest schedule so far so they have suffered five losses, but they are 9-0 in the section. BGMR is the hottest team as they have won 10 matches in a row and are winning some good battles. They are 10-0 in section play. Those two teams are by far the top two and nobody is within striking distance the rest of the season. I know you are wondering…..KCC and BGMR play Tuesday, October 8 and that will be for the top seed I am guessing. It looks like Lake of the Woods has the third seed in hand as of today. Red Lake Falls, Sacred Heart, and Goodridge/Grgyla are all fighting for the fourth seed. Warren-Alvarado-Oslo almost had their first win of the year on Tuesday night in an exciting 3-2 loss to Stephen-Argyle. But they are a team I wouldn’t want to play at playoff time.

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Section 8A – North Girls Soccer Standings

The Section 8A North Girls Soccer standings are pretty much going as expected. East Grand Forks is at the top and has pretty much locked up the top seed. Crookston is battling for the third seed with Hillcrest Academy. Crookston’s first win came last Thursday when they beat Hillcrest 2-0 to split the two games during the regular season. Both teams have games with Pelican Rapids and if both teams lost to Pelican Rapids, Crookston would get the third seed because they would have the better conference record. If both teams beat Pelican Rapids it would be the same. If one team beat Pelican Rapids and the other lost, the team that won would be the three seed. Why is getting the three seed important? It will be very difficult to beat EGF, but both teams think they could beat Pelican Rapids. So we will see what happens.

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The Section 8A – South Girls Soccer standings seem to be set already.
St. Cloud Cathedral will be the top seed.
St. John’s Preps will be the second seed.
Albany will be the third.
Walker-Hackensack-Akeley the fourth
Melrose is still looking for its first win and will be the fifth seed.

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AREA SECTION FOOTBALL UPDATES –
SECTION 6 9-PLAYER FOOTBALL
still has two undefeated teams with Fertile-Beltrami scoring an average of 56.2 points per game. The impressive part is they haven’t scored a lot of points in the second halves of their first four games. The Falcons are now the top team in the QRF, 1.3 points in front of Fosston.

SECTION 8 9-PLAYER FOOTBALL
Goodridge/Grgyla and Stephen-Argyle are both 4-0 on the year and GG has 4.2 point advantage right now. The two teams play Thursday, October 10 in Grygla for more than likely the top seed. KCC is in a solid third place right now.

SECTION 8A FOOTBALL
The Red Lake County Rebels have moved into the top seed halfway through the regular season with a 4-0 record. They are leading another 4-0 team Mahnomen-Waubun by 3.5 points. The teams play this Friday for what will likely be for the top seed.  If Mahnomen-Waubun wins they will have locked up the top seed because they already beat Ada-Borup-West. If Red Lake County wins, they still have a game with Ada-Borup-West on Friday, October 11 at Ada. So the top three seeds are still up in the air at this point. The rest of the Section is struggling with Bagley at 1-3 and Polk County West, Cass Lake-Bena and Red Lake all 0-4. That will change this Friday when Polk County West plays Red Lake.

SECTION 8AA FOOTBALL
Whaaaaaat? Barnesville is the top team at 4-0. The only undefeated team in the section and that will likely be the case after week 8!
The final three weeks will be interesting because of the race for the second seed. Park Rapids and Pelican Rapids are both 3-1 on the year, and Hawley is 2-2. They are all within less than five QRF points of each other.
Park Rapids takes on Hawley this Friday, plays Barnesville next week, hosts Frazee on October 11, and ends the regular season at Pelican Rapids!  That is a tough four-game schedule.
Pelican Rapids’ lone loss is to Barnesville. They finish the regular season with four huge games. They travel to Frazee on Friday, host Hawley next week, go to Roseau on October 11, and go to Park Rapids to wrap up the season.
Hawley has its two biggest games this week and next. If they win the next two games, I am betting they will be the second seed. They are at Park Rapids on Friday and travel to Pelican Rapids next week. Those games should be great. Hawley finishes with Warroad and Crookston.
Right now, Frazee is a solid five-seed, and Roseau is the front-runner for the sixth seed.
The big game will come next week when Warroad hosts Crookston on their first-ever game on the new Warrior Turf Football Field. This game is big, because you won’t have to play Barnesville in the first round, although playing Park Rapids, Pelican Rapids, or Hawley won’t be much better!

SECTION 8AAA FOOTBALL
Fergus Falls solidified themselves as the top seed with a hard-fought win over East Grand Forks last week.
Fergus Falls is 4-0 and they lead Morris, who is also 4-0, by 14.8 points!!!!  Here is the reason why. They have beaten Park Rapids, Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton, Detroit Lakes, and East Grand Forks!! What a way to start the season. They end the season with Morris!
Morris Area’s schedule ends with four tough games after they beat Minnewaska Area, Thief River Falls, Little Falls and beat DGF in 3OT to go to 4-0. They finish with Detroit Lakes, East Grand Forks, Perham, and Fergus Falls.
East Grand Forks is currently in the third spot, but their final three games are tough. They host Thief River Falls on Friday, travel to Morris next week and finish at DGF before hosting Detroit Lakes.
DGF is 1-3 on the year with a  24-14 loss to Barnesville, a 48-29 loss to Fergus Falls, a big win over TRF, and a 34-32 loss in 3OT to Morris. They end with games at Little Falls, Detroit Lakes, EGF, and Perham. DGF is definitely a team NOBODY will want to play in the playoffs and don’t count them out at making a run at section time.

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JOKES

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One day, Jimmy Jones was walking down Main Street when he saw his buddy Bubba driving a brand new pickup.Bubba pulled up to him with a wide grin.
Bubba, where’d you git that truck?!?”
Tammie give it to me” Bubba replied.
“She give it to ya?
I know’d she wuz kinda sweet on ya, but a New truck?”
“Well, Jimmy Jones, let me tell you what happened.
We wuz drivin’ out on County Road 6, in the middle of nowheres.Tammie pulled off the road, put the truck in 4-wheel drive, and headed into the woods. She parked the truck, got out, threw off all her clothes and said,’Bubba, take whatever you want.’ So I took the truck! “
“Bubba, yore a smart man! Them clothes woulda never fit you!”

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Five ways to have a little fun at work
1) Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice.
2) Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Wear them one day after your boss does. This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you.
3) Make up nicknames for all your co-workers and refer tothem only by these names. ‘That’s a good point, Sparky.”No, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to disagree with youthere, Cha-cha.’
4) Send e-mail to the rest of the company telling them exactly what you’re doing. For example: ‘If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the bathroom.’
5) Hi-Lite your shoes. Tell people you haven’t lost them asmuch since you did this.

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A middle aged woman has a heart attack and is taken to the hospital. While on the operating table she has a near death experience. During that experience she sees God and asks if this is it. God says no and explains that she has another 30-40 years to live.

Upon her recovery she decides to just stay in the hospital and have a face lift, liposuction, breast augmentation, tummy tuck, etc.. She even has someone come in and change her hair color. She figures since she’s got another 30 or 40 years she might as well make the most of it. She walks out of the hospital after the last operation and is killed by an ambulance speeding up to the hospital.

She arrives in front of God and asks, “I thought you said I had another 30-40 years?”

God replies, “Sorry…I didn’t recognize you.”

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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

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