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This Alpha News video includes views provided by Kendall Kotzmacher, a 2025 graduate of White Bear Lake high school. She is doing so as an adult who can provide her First Amendment-protected rights without repercussion from her high school or from the Minnesota State High School League. Kotzmacher stated her desire to speak out and support younger female student athletes who currently have their views restricted and oppressed by authority figures both in the school system and in state...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa baseball team successfully opened the Sub-Section 6A-South tournament with a 12-2 in in 6 innings. The opponent was No. 7-seeded West Central Area. Seniors Luke Illies and Brett DeRoo split pitching duties for the Jaguars, who are looking to return to the Section 6A championship game for the sixth straight season. The Jaguars (14-6) now advance into the double-elimination part of the Section 6A tournament. They play at 11 a.m. in Morris on Thursday, May 29. Further...
The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team got off to a solid start to the 2025 campaign. Thanks to multiple outstanding pitching performances on April 26 and 27, the Saints defeated Starbuck 7-0 and then Lake Henry 3-0. In the Stearns County League opener at Lake Henry on Sunday, Will VanBeck started and pitched 5 innings while surrendering just 1 hit and 2 walks to go with 8 strikeouts. Ethan Vogt then pitched 3 innings (2 hits, no walks, 6 strikeouts), and Wyatt Steffensen earned the save as clo...
On Tuesday, March 11 at the Padua Pub, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team held their 8th-12th grade 2024-2025 season awards banquet. In the attached video, you can listen to part of head coach Kristina Anderson's season review with her varsity team. The full story from the banquet, which included the varsity team and individual awards, was published in the March 20 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
The No. 5-seeded Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team saw their season conclude in the quarterfinals of the Sub-Section 6A-South tournament on Thursday, March 6. The No. 4-seeded and host Brandon-Evansville Chargers overcame a 21-15 halftime deficit while claiming a 49-43 win over the Jaguars. B-B-E came within a second of going into halftime ahead 21-12, but the Chargers got a buzzer-beating three-pointer on an off balance shot from the right corner by senior Tanner Riedel. In the...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team will send four student athletes to the Class 1A state individual tournament. Three of the four earned Section 5A titles, while the other was runner-up at the state-qualifying tournament held on Saturday, February 22 at Yellow Medicine East in Granite Falls. Advancing to state as section champions are seniors Brett DeRoo (160 pounds), Carson Gilbert (215) and Hunter Laage (285). Noah Jensen, an eighth grader, advanced to state as the Section 5A...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team is riding a three-game winning streak, and they are playing their best ball of the season as winners of 5 of their last 6 games. On Tuesday, February 18 in a border battle at their neighbors to the south, New London-Spicer, the Jaguars had an outstanding second half in a 61-54 win to cap a four-game road swing. Last Friday at Maple Lake, the Jaguars held the Irish to just 16 first-half points in a 68-34 win. B-B-E is currently in 5th place in...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team sent 12 athletes to the Section 5A individual wrestling tournament at Yellow Medicine East high school on Saturday, February 22. Out of those 12, three of them earned first or second place finishes to advance to the Class 1A state tournament at Xcel Energy Center on February 28 and March 1. They are Noah Jensen (107 pounds), Brett DeRoo (160), Carson Gilbert (215) and Hunter Laage (285). Results are as follows by weight division. 107: Noah Jensen...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team concluded their regular season with a 7-12 overall record. In the Central Minnesota Conference, they finished in third place with a 4-2 record behind Holdingford and Paynesville Area. On Monday, February 10, the Section 5A seedings were released for the upcoming playoffs. The Jaguars earned the No. 5 seed and open with a quarterfinal match at Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg high school on Thursday this week (February 13) at 7 p.m. They face the No. 4-seeded...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team made it 5 wins in a row when they defeated Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 57-48 on Friday, January 10. This improved their overall record to 9-5 heading into a road game at Maple Lake on Tuesday, January 14. The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's sports section features additional coverage. Fans can also follow along with near-daily updates on B-B-E varsity sports at the newspaper's Jaguars Sports blog: https://bbejaguars.blogspot.com. The attached...
In a heavyweight battle between Top 10 teams in Class 1A, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa volleyball team had revenge on their minds with No. 8-ranked West Central Area as the teams squared off on Tuesday, October 29 at Kennedy High School in Fergus Falls. At stake was the Sub-Section 6A-South championship and a berth in the state qualifier. The Knights, who entered the night ranked No. 12 in Class 1A by QRF, faced a Jaguars team that was No. 2 on that same scale. Both teams bring back a long list...
The game was not for the faint of heart! Not by any means. Facing No. 5-ranked (Associated Press) and undefeated Upsala/Swanville Area, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa football team battled for 48 minutes of hard-hitting and highly entertaining Section 4A championship action at the FargoDome on Friday, November 1. The Jaguars led 6-0 after the first quarter, but the teams were tied at 6-6 going into halftime. The Jaguars trailed 12-6 in the fourth quarter before they scored on their 14th possession...
The No. 7-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa football team maintained second place in the Mid-Northwest Gopher Gold District standings with a 54-7 win over Long Prairie-Grey Eagle last Friday, October 11. Parents Night was also held prior to kickoff in what was the last regular season home game. The Jaguars built a 42-0 lead after the first quarter. At halftime, they led 48-0. Big achievements: in the second quarter, Jack Lundberg surpassed 1,000 season rushing yards. Later in that same quarter,...
A total of eight men and women will be inducted to the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa school's Hall of Fame on September 28. Ticket sales for the HOF banquet run through the end of the business day on Friday, September 20. You can order your tickets by contacting either office in person or by telephone (320-254-8211). The new B-B-E HOF class features three graduates from both the former Brooten and Belgrade high schools plus two who made an impact with the B-B-E Jaguars athletic program. Additional HOF...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa volleyball team has moved into sole possession of first place in the Central Minnesota Conference. With their 3-0 win over Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City on September 19, plus Royalton's five-set loss to Paynesville Area on the same night, the Jaguars are 3-0 in the conference with a one-match lead over Maple Lake, Paynesville and Royalton (2-1 each). The Maple Lake Irish were tagged with a five-set loss by Royalton on September 12 at home. The attached video features...
After a successful sweep earned in the season opener on August 27, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa volleyball team added three more wins to mount a 4-0 start. Last Thursday at home in an early season sub-section battle, the Jaguars won 3-1 against Parkers Prairie. Last Friday in a non-conference match played in Belgrade as part of a day promoting support for tennis, volleyball and football, the Jaguars earned a statement win by a 3-0 margin against MACCRAY. On Tuesday, September 3, the Jaguars made quick work by defeating visiting...
After Friday's game with Roscoe got rained out (July 5), the Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team made the short trip east to New Munich for a Stearns County League North division battle on Sunday, July 7. A four-run second inning, which featured a solo home run by Derek Wiener, fueled a 7-3 win that secured a regular season sweep over the Silverstreaks. Earning two hits each were Jackson Peter, Peyton Winter and Gavin Kampsen as the Saints tallied 10 total hits. Will VanBeck started and went...
The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team kept their playoff hopes alive with a thrilling walk-off 7-6 win in 10 innings against visiting Richmond on Friday night. The game was played across two days, as it began on May 24 but was halted after the third inning due to the weather. It was an incredible game that saw 24 runners stranded by both teams. In the bottom of the 10th, Will VanBeck led off with a walk, advanced on a two-out intentional walk issued to Jackson Peter and then scored on Derek Wi...
For the third straight season, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa baseball team advanced to the Section 6A championship game. The Jaguars earned that feat by defeating Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 13-3 in five innings in the elimination bracket final on June 6 in Clarissa. B-B-E's appearance in the section finals marked the fourth time in the past five seasons that they made it to the championship game (2019, 2022, 2023, 2024). With the win over LP-GE, the Jaguars advanced to face once-beaten Parkers...
In Clarissa for the final week of the Section 6A playoffs, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa baseball team battled their way into the championship series after falling to Parkers Prairie 10-5 in the winners bracket final and then defeating Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 13-3 in five innings in the losers bracket final. The loss to Parkers Prairie took place across both Tuesday and Wednesday after the weather halted the game in the second inning on Tuesday. B-B-E's 13-3 five-inning win took place on Thursday...
In a fitting beginning to the playoffs for the 2024 season, the Sub-Section 6A-South opener for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa baseball team was rained out on Thursday, May 30 in Morris. By mid-afternoon, storm clouds were passing through Stevens County, and the second round of the playoffs were postponed by one day. For the Jaguars, they will open the playoffs on Friday, May 31 at 11 a.m. at Chizek Field in Morris. The opponent will be No. 5-seeded Hancock (9-10), who beat No. 4-seeded Benson 7-4...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars fastpitch team has won the playoff opener in Sub-Section 3A-North on Thursday, May 23. They defeated Ortonville 7-2 to advance to the double elimination format of the postseason. In the attached video, the Jaguars are facing the Trojans in the bottom of the sixth inning, during which they scored four runs to break open what was a tight game to that point. The game was scoreless through the first four-and-a-half innings before the Jaguars plated three runs in...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa baseball team went 2-2 with four competitive games taking place across three days. On Wednesday, May 1 at Joe Faber Field in St. Cloud, the Jaguars earned a split with Holdingford with a 9-8 loss and a 10-4 win. On Friday, May 3 in Elrosa, the Jaguars had one tough inning in an 8-5 loss to No. 5-ranked Paynesville Area, who is currently leading the Central Minnesota Conference with a 9-1 mark. At Kingery Field in Atwater on Monday, May 6, the Jaguars picked up a big...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team was one of 56 teams at the Great Northern regional competition in Grand Forks. The regional was held on March 6-9 at the Alerus Center. B-B-E's team pulled off a thoroughly impressive comeback on Friday and Saturday as they endured tremendous adversity. While competing in North Dakota for the third straight year, the robotics team had to contend with unforeseen and nearly impossible-to-predict mechanical failures that cost them a smooth...
The attached video features Maximus Hanson in his state championship match on March 2 in St. Paul. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team's final dual at the Class 1A state tournament was not for the faint of heart. With their backs truly to the wall in the third-place match of the Class 1A state tournament on Thursday, February 29 at Xcel Energy Center, the Jaguars came alive with a full-throated roar in the upper weights after trailing 31-12 through the 152-pound match against No....
