Robert Williams
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Robert is the Sports Editor of Detroit Lakes Newspapers. Williams worked prior in Perham for the Focus, a Forum Communications newspaper, from 2010-14.
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Head Coach Kathy Pesch, in her fourth year, has a young but hard-working tennis team. Ideal weather conditions have made for good practice time on the courts, quite unlike the end to last year's season. Early blizzards forced the team off the court in the midst of playoffs and the lay-off showed in a 7-0 defeat to number two-seeded Crookston in the first round of Section 8A playoffs.
The Prairie Conference returns with girls tennis this season, adding new teams West Central and Belgrade-Brooton-Elrosa (BBE) to long time members New York Mills, Osakis, and Parkers Prairie. There was no official conference tournament last year as the conference dwindled to four teams. The newcomers will bring back that competition. St. John's Prep will not field a varsity squad this season. New York Mills Head Coach Gary Bach, in his 10th year, has a seasoned squad to take the court. The Lady Eagles come off a 6-8 overall record last year, 5-2 in dual matches.
When it comes to life, love and sport, Kay Morris has a knack for running into relationships. Morris places those relationships above winning and was awarded the State cross-country Assistant Coach of the Year honors for both. "The relationships that I've built are my favorite part of coaching," she said. "That's what I like more than the winning." Morris was named Coach of the Year at the summer annual cross-country coaches clinic held in the Twin Cities.
Forty-two participants took to the road on bikes in the 15th annual Cal Miller Memorial Bike Race Sunday. Brian Sprague, 22, of Horace, N.D., was the over all champion finishing in a time of 1:32:58. Angie Johnson, 28, of Alexandria, took the top female spot with a time of 1:38:33. "The race has become more of a quality than a quantity race," said organizer Pat Puetz. "Most of the racers are repeaters and they enjoy the course, the camaraderie and the excellent talent of their fellow racers.
Another year of men's softball play is in the books ending with another championship for the Silver Moon/Joe's Backhoe softball team, after a 22-8 blowout in the championship game over Team Budweiser. The win is the fifth straight title for the team. The last time another team won was in 2005 by then champs Mich Golden. "We have just enough youth and speed to help out the majority of us with age amd experience," said Manager Ed Weller.
As a young man, I suffered the delusion that some day, by an improbable circumstance, I would marry. The idea of the ideal Mrs. Right came in many forms. First, she'd be French! French Canadian? No, she'd be a local, Scandinavian blonde. That seems almost too probable around here. Then again, look at the potential groom. It was then I met my first fiancé, a Zorbaz barstool.
Call it weird timing but I took the afternoon off and went home. I flipped on the beast desktop and cruised the web for fun. Huh, I wonder what's going on at the purported official Brett Favre's site? "(The site) is currently experiencing high traffic volume. During this time only this slimmed down home page will be available. You will be able to access the rest of the site once traffic volumes decrease.
The Perham area's Lake Country Mountaineers will host their 30th annual Black Powder Shoot this weekend Friday through Sunday, August 20-22 at Pioneer Village. The event brings history to life with black powder enthusiasts from throughout the region traveling to Pioneer Village to attend the kid friendly rendezvous. "We want kids to learn about history and see what life was like before 1840 and during the fur trade era," said Sherry Marquardt. Festivities will get off with a bang Saturday morning with the firing of an authentic civil war cannon. Jody Marquardt restored the cannon.
I was on my couch suffering through a thumping by the loser Cubs over my beloved Cardinals Sunday when an alert popped onto my phone. "Kevin Slowey has a no-no going after six." "JINX!" If there's one thing to be said about no-hitters it is don't say anything. Talking about a no-hitter is the most common jinx in baseball. I pondered this jinx and other baseball jinxes and needed a laugh at the Cubs after they exploded on former Twin and current Cardinal Kyle Lohse. Oh thank you, Steve Bartman.
In a new twist in running away from home, Cassie Beseman, a junior at Perham-Dent High School, returned from her running trip to Australia a different person. "It taught me a lot about how to live independently and survive on my own and work well with others," she said. She also did not mind getting away from the folks, which she claims was not a big surprise to her parents. "I liked it.