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Posted at 11:50 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 5. This is a very exciting week in Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguar Country! If you haven't heard, the Jaguars volleyball team has earned a trip to the Class 1A state tournament that begins on Thursday, November 8. The Jaguars play at 3 p.m. against New Life Academy of Woodbury in the state quarterfinals at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. Win or lose, (and we are VERY hopeful they will win!) the Jaguars play again at 3 p.m. on Friday at Xcel. (Championship...
On Sunday, July 29, the Elrosa Saints Little Dipper baseball team squared off with New Munich in their sixth straight appearance in the Stearns County League championship game. After the first inning was in the book, the Saints held a 10-0 lead. Below is video from the bottom half of that inning. A game recap story and photos, plus a business-sponsored team color photo page, appeared in the August 2 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Elrosa-area merchants are to be thanked for their...
The Stearns County League championship game in the Little Dipper division has been moved back an hour. It will start at 6:30 p.m. in Elrosa on Sunday, July 29. The Saints will take on New Munich. A short game recap with a couple photos appeared in this week's July 26 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice. A photo gallery is also available to view at this link: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/Summer-Sports-2018/Elrosa-Little-Dipper-SCL-semis-07-22. The undefeated Elrosa Saints (9-0) earned their...
The Elrosa Baseball Club had an especially busy on Saturday, June 30 as they hosted numerous events at Saints Field. First was the Stearns County League All-Star game, where the oldest players (freshmen this fall) were divided up. Then was an amateur baseball Home Run Derby with Central Valley and Stearns County league players; followed by the amateur All-Star game won by the SCL. Mitch Gordon (far left in the photo) and the Unleaded Band performed as the sun set to the west and then into the...
The Regal Eagles amateur baseball team is repeat champions of the second annual Elrosa Elite 8 tournament. The Eagles achieved the feat after pulling off a 4-3 win over the host Saints in the title game on Sunday, July 17. Elrosa, 8-5 overall, leads the north division of the Stearns County League. Regal opened the tournament with a narrow 6-5 win over Clinton on Friday night. The Saints finished the night with a 12-2 win in six innings with Aaron Vogt pitching a complete game. On Saturday,...
Get your team organized and registered today for the upcoming Bonanza Valley Days 3-versus-3 basketball tournament. It will be held on Friday and Saturday, July 13-14 at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa elementary school. First it the adult division that is Friday evening with games beginning at 6 p.m. It will have men's and women's brackets, which is new in 2018. On Saturday, the BVD 3-on-3 tournament will have the high school divisions with games beginning at 9 a.m. (This will be held for boys and...
For the first time since 2008, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars fastpitch team has extended their season into the second week of the postseason while being one of the last six teams standing in Section 6A. Check out video below from the bottom of the seventh inning that kept their season going. Last Thursday at Minnewaska, the Jaguars battled all game with top-seeded West Central Area (19-4) but came up short in a 7-3 loss in the Sub-Section 6A-South semifinals. They kept the season alive...
Athletes at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa High School and Braham Area High School will benefit from the 2018 California Casualty Thomas R. Brown Athletics Grant program. They are among 79 public middle schools and high schools in 32 states awarded a total of $83,000 to aid sports programs affected by tight budgets. The $815 grant will allow Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa High to purchase a new discus net, improving safety for athletes and coaches on the track and field team. Braham Area High will use its...
In a home doubleheader against Pierz in Central Minnesota Conference action on Monday this week, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars fastpitch team lost two games by scores of 7-1 and 4-2. It was the season opener for both teams....
Tickets are still on sale for the seventh annual KMGK radio sports banquet in Glenwood. This year's speaker at the banquet is Robert (Bob) Stein, a two-time All American and two-time Academic All American at the U of M, Stein was a formidable defensive end for the Gophers in the late 60's and played a pivotal role on the 1967 Big Ten Championship team. The banquet will be held Wednesday May 2, at the Lakeside. Ballroom for the seventh straight year. Tickets for the public are available at the...
A 29-year drought at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa ended on March 3 when senior Adam Jaeger earned a takedown in the closing seconds of the third period to win a 3-1 decision and claim the 152-pound Class 1A state wrestling title. Jaeger, who finished a perfect 34-0 this season, defeated senior Jacob Tvinnereim (48-6) of Jackson County Central. This is B-B-E's first wrestling state title since 1989, when Brendan Bogart won a state title in our first year as a paired program under the Jaguars banner....
These six Jaguars will compete on March 2 and March 3 at the Class 1A state wrestling tournament, the most-ever that B-B-E has sent to the big show....
The No. 9-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team begins their postseason journey with a home quarterfinal-round match on Tuesday, Feb. 13. The Jaguars will host a wrestle-in round match at 6 p.m. that night between No. 7-seeded Ortonville and No. 10-seeded Quad County. B-B-E's best wrestling regular season in school history with a 19-2 record earned them the No. 2 seed in Section 5A. They will face the winner of the Ortonville-vs.-Quad County dual at approximately 7:30 p.m. next...
For the first time in school history, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team will have four team members competing in the Class 1A state tournament semifinals. The Jaguars went 4-0 in the state quarterfinals tonight (Friday, March 2) at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul! A variety of reasons and factors go into building a student-athlete up to the point where they can not only compete at the biggest stage of a high school wrestler's career - but also win! For B-B-E's four wrestlers...
It's been a busy day of wrestling at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul for members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team! At 113 pounds today...eighth-grader Blaine Fischer was defeated by sophomore Trevor Janssen of Blackduck/Cass Lake-Bena (35-12) by a 9-5 decision in the state semifinals. Then in the wrestlebacks, Fischer was pinned (4:01) by freshmen Carter Jonsagaard (34-13) of Lewiston-Altura/Rushford-Peterson. In the fifth-place match, Fischer was defeated by a 17-2...
The Section 3A state-qualifying dance comp is coming to Montevideo high school at 12 p.m. on Saturday, February 10. The welcome and introduction of the teams, plus the National Anthem, will be at noon. The Jazz competition starts at 12:05 p.m. with Worthington leading things off. Next is Canby-Minneota, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton, BOLD, Renville County West, Sleepy Eye, Yellow Medicine East, New London-Spicer, Minnewaska Area and MACCRAY. The B-B-E/Paynesville Pirouttes jazz squad is set to perform...
Hot off the press! On Friday, Jan. 12, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team found themselves with a Top-10 ranking in The Guillotine's Class 1A state poll. B-B-E comes in at No. 10, two spots behind Section 5A rival Long Prairie-Grey Eagle/Browerville. Other information is posted below on team rankings and also individual rankings for wrestlers in Section 5A. B-B-E has four wrestlers listed individually in the Top-10 rankings: Canon Swanson, Tyler Bents, Adam Jaeger and Isaiah...
Elrosa's seventh hit of the game was a memorable one at the Region 15C amateur baseball tournament opener on Friday (Aug. 4) in Farming. Pat Illies stepped the plate with two outs and Kevin Kuefler sitting on second base in the bottom of the ninth inning. Earlier in the game, the Regal Eagles took a 2-0 lead in the top of the sixth, while Elrosa got one run back in the bottom of the seventh. In the bottom of the ninth, Kevin Kuefler knocked a stand up double deep to left field on two outs, and I...
For the third year in a row, the Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team has earned a spot in the Region 15C tournament. The No. 1-seeded Saints dispatched No. 4-seeded Meire Grove on Sunday afternoon (July 29) with a 5-4 win. Elrosa out-hit Meire Grove nine to five, with Matt Schmitz getting the winning RBI-single that scored Austin Imdieke from third. Schmitz went 3-for-5 with two RBI and one run scored, and Kevin Kuefler went 2-for-4 with another run scored. Elrosa went ahead 3-0 after two...
The Elrosa Saints Little Dipper baseball team, comprised of fourth- to eighth-grade players, earned the No. 1 playoff seed for the Stearns County League playoffs. They finished in a tie for first place with Farming, 7-1 each in the league, and won the tiebreaker due to their 5-1 win over the Flames in the regular season on June 25. The Saints open the playoffs with a home quarterfinal round game against No. 8-seeded Roscoe on Sunday, July 16 at 6:30 p.m. Roscoe advanced in the playoffs after an...
The script did not play out like it did two years ago, when the conference championship went down to the absolute wire between Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa and Osakis. In 2015, both teams entered the final Central Minnesota Conference meet tied for first place with 1,113 strokes each. The Jaguars won the final meet by a six-stroke margin to earn the program's second conference title in school history. Now, for the third straight season, the B-B-E girls' golf team has earned the Central Minnesota Conf...
The sixth annual KMGK sports banquet will be held on Wednesday, May 3 at Lakeside Ballroom in Glenwood. This is an opportunity for the Glenwood radio station to honor area athletes from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, Minnewaska Area and Osakis plus scholar-athletes from Benson, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg and West Central Area. The keynote speaker will be Darrell Thompson, executive director of Bolder Options, which focuses on healthy youth development. Thompson is a color commentator for Gopher...
The first day of wrestling at the Class 1A individual tournament at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul was nearly a wrap when the Bonanza Valley Voice interviewed Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa head coach Jack Mueller for this interview on Friday night, March 3. The state quarterfinals round had just completed. Action resumes on Day Two of state at 9 a.m. on Saturday. The Bonanza Valley Voice will update the Jaguars Sports blog as often as possible throughout the day as match results come in....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team competed at the Section 5A individual tournament on February 24 and 25 at New London-Spicer high school. The Jaguars filled 13 of 14 weight brackets, missing just the 220-pound division. Of the 13 wrestlers who started the tournament on Friday, 11 made it to the second day of action in wrestlebacks or semifinals. When all was said and done on Saturday, four Jaguars had punched tickets to the Class 1A state tournament, while six others earned...
Four members of the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team begin competition at the Class 1A state individual wrestling tournament on Friday morning starting at 9 a.m. at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. At 113 pounds, No. 6-ranked freshmen Canon Swanson looks to improve on earning a sixth-place medal (106 pounds) in 2016 by blazing his way through state beginning with his first match on Friday morning. Swanson (38-3) faces junior Chris Romero (20-7) of Grand Meadow High School...
