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Now winners of the most regular season tournament titles in school history, the 2018-19 edition of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling claimed the New London-Spicer invitational title on Friday, January 18. Led by the strength of five individual Jaguars who won their respective brackets, the Jaguars out-gunned runner-up Pierz by over 25 points, 194 to 168.5, in the final team standings. Read more coverage on the Jaguars in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Next: the Browerville duals on...
Shown below is video from the home dance comp on December 20....
The 10th-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team brought home a Final Four state trophy after earning a quarterfinal win in the Class 1A state tournament held on November 8, 9 and 10 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. After sweeping New Life Academy of Woodbury 3-0 on Thursday, the No. 3-seeded Jaguars suffered a 3-1 loss to Medford in the state semifinals. The stat sheet read in almost identical fashion between the Jaguars and Tigers in all but one category. Medford hit 20.9...
A terrific battle is coming on Friday, November 9 at Xcel Energy Center. In the 3 p.m. Class 1A state semifinal match, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team faces Medford for a berth in the championship match. Medford, unseeded, was unfazed by the specter of two-time defending state champion and No. 2-seeded Mayer Lutheran in their Thursday quarterfinal match. The Tigers fell behind 2-1 in sets, but they came out on absolute fire in game four, led 6-0 early and proceeded to smoke...
A welcome home ceremony was held on Saturday, November 10 at the high school for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team. The Jaguars defeated New Life Academy in the state opener by a 3-0 margin. They fell 3-1 to Medford in the semifinals on Friday. On Saturday, the Jaguars were swept by Ada-Borup to take fourth place. While the outcome for state was not what they had worked so hard for and hoped so high for, the Jaguars have so much to be proud of. The list is long! Scroll below...
An eight-year long drought is over at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa. How sweet it is! On Saturday, November 3 at Little Falls high school, a battle of volleyball heavyweights played out for almost two hours for a fiercely-challenged outcome. When match point was achieved, the result was a 3-1 win in favor of the 10th-ranked B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team. They defeated No. 5-ranked and defending section champion Pine River-Backus 25-22, 25-20, 18-25, 25-20 to advance to state for the first time since...
A welcome home ceremony was held tonight (Saturday, November 10) at the high school for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team. While the fourth-place outcome for state was not what they had worked so hard for and hoped so high for, the Jaguars have so much to be proud of. The list is long! Scroll below to view the full video of the welcome-home ceremony. (Rough footage at times) Click here to view the full collection of fall sports photos (through November 1) by the Bonanza Valley...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team held Senior Night and recognized the four seniors who have led the team to their best regular season since the 2012 season, when they took a 22-7 record into the Sub-Section 5A-South playoffs. Head coach Kevin Weller provided a fitting tribute to seniors Ally Gruber, Katherine Mastey, Nicole Thonvold and Emily Knight prior to pre-match drills on Monday, October 22. The Jaguars were set to host Swanville in the last match of the regular season....
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...
