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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...
Here's video from February 14 featuring the Snow-Week coronation games (Pictionary). Pictures from this appeared in the Feb. 16 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
Shown is video from the third period and overtime of the 145-pound match between No. 2-ranked Adam Jaeger and No. 10-ranked Shane Whitcomb on Tuesday, January 31 at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. The B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team was squaring off with Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City....
At the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City meet on Monday (January 23), the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa/Paynesville dance team had a banner night as they head into the final competitions of the regular season. The team competed in four events at A-C-GC: varsity jazz and kick and JV jazz and kick. Other teams at the meet were Sauk Centre, Sleepy Eye and MACCRAY. When all was said and done, the dance team hauled home four trophies. Three of the four squads took first place: varsity jazz, JV kick and JV jazz;...
For the second Friday in a row, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars have risen to the top of the crowd at a wrestling invitational. On January 20, the B-B-E Jaguars made the very short trip south down Highway 71 to a nine-team invitational that included Central Minnesota Conference rivals Eden Valley-Watkins and Kimball plus strong programs from Glencoe-Silver Lake, Albany and Hibbing. Once the semifinals and wrestlebacks were completed, the Jaguars found themselves sitting in first place, but...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa/Paynesville dance team competed at the MACCRAY Invitational on Monday, January 16. Teams at the seven-team meet included Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City, Canby/Minneota, Lakeview, Worthington and Yellow Medicine East. Although not all the results have been reported yet, the Bonanza Valley Voice is excited to announce that the B-B-E/Paynesville JV kick squad took runners-up honors in Clara City. More information will appear in the January 19 issue of the...
It was a pure dog fight the entire night. Round after round, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team was stuck in second place, right behind front-runner Paynesville who took a one-point lead after the first round was in the book at their home tournament on Friday, January 13. Round one tally: Paynesville 61, B-B-E 60, Watertown-Mayer/Mayer Lutheran 55, Sartell-St. Stephen 49.5. After the semifinals, the host Bulldogs gained more separation with the Jaguars and jumped ahead 156.5 to...
A packed house - the best in all the years that Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa has hosted a home dance invitational - saw a terrific dance invitational on Monday, January 9 at the B-B-E elementary school. The B-B-E/Paynesville dance team competed in four divisions, and the JV Jazz team came away with the third-place trophy in a division with eight teams. Shown in the video below are Courtney Brandt and Megan Carroll singing the National Anthem at the beginning of the dance meet. Further coverage and a...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team won two matches in home Central Minnesota Conference action on Friday night, December 9. The night started out great for the Jaguars when they thrashed the Kimball Area Cubs with a final score of 50-16. B-B-E was especially tough in the lower weights, where they picked up three pins in the first four matches plus a major decision to start out with a 22-0 lead. Paynesville Area defeated Kimball when those two teams met in the second dual of the...
They certainly did not see that coming. What transpired was something that hasn't happened since 1998. (More on that at further below). The high-flying, hard-swinging offense for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team never got off the ground as they went down in a shocking first-round playoff defeat at the hands of the Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg Fighting Saints on Friday night, October 28. The Jaguars got off to good starts in all three games, but the Fighting Saints answered back...
Just seconds into their playoff opener on Tuesday, October 25, the underdog Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars football team found paydirt when Isaiah Gilbert ran the opening kickoff back for an 81-yard touchdown. The No. 6-seeded Jaguars duked it out with No. 3-seeded Upsala/Swanville Area in Swanville in the Section 4A quarterfinals. At halftime B-B-E trailed 14-6, but they forged a 20-14 lead in the fourth quarter before losing in the last couple of minutes in a season-ending 22-20...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars could not have gotten a better start to their road game in the heart of Grant County tonight (Friday, September 30). The hosts, West Central Area/Ashby, sputtered on their first series of the game and suffered two penalties while trying to get a punt off after their drive stalled out inside the B-B-E 43-yard line. With 9:18 on the clock, the Jaguars started a drive from their own 19-yard line. With some big plays helping lead the way, the Jaguars scored with 1...
Smash mouth football with a dose of aired-out pig skins was the name of the game on Friday night (Sept. 2) for the 2016 season opener between Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa and Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City. The Jaguars and Falcons duked it out for four very entertaining quarters of football, with B-B-E drawing first blood when Adam Jaeger ran back the game-opening kickoff for a 95-yard touchdown. Jacob Weller's PAT kick gave the Jaguars a 7-0 lead. By the end of the first quarter, the Jaguars were...
The Regal Eagles have won their state tournament opener, just as they did back in 1997 in their last trip to the big show in Minnesota's Class C of amateur baseball. The Eagles, facing the the Shakopee Coyotes in Dassel this morning (August 20), sat in a 2-2 tie through nine innings. Chris Beier started and went seven innings. Brian Kingery, Atwater draftee, finished for Regal and earned the pitching win. In the bottom of the 12th a two-run, two-out home run by Nathan Meyer ended the game in...
For the third time in team history, the Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team is heading to the Sweet 16 round of the Class C state tournament. In the Round of 32 at state, Elrosa beat Blue Earth by a 1-0 score on Saturday, August 27 in Hutchinson to improve to 19-14 overall. The Pirates, who were competing in their 14th straight trip to the state tournament, beat St. Joe 6-0 in the opening round of state last weekend. They had won 12 of their last 14 games and entered the state tournament with close to 30 wins. As of July 26, Blue Earth had a...
Strictly from a baseball fan's viewpoint, the game that played out between Elrosa and Regal could not have been scripted any better. In the Region 15C amateur baseball tournament finals, the Saints and Eagles went at it for nine stellar innings of baseball on Sunday, August 14 in Paynesville. With fans chanting, shouting and cheering from start to finish, Regal had the upper hand early with a 2-0 first inning lead. The Saints got one run back in the second inning and took a 3-2 lead in the botto...
The Regal Eagles amateur baseball team is heading to the Class C state tournament for the first time since 1997 and 12th time in team history. From 1985 to '97 they made it to state 11 out of 13 years and now, with an entirely new group of players, they are gunning for some state hardware once again. The Eagles were Class C champions in 1991 and runners-up in 1997. Starting with a 5-2 win over Meire Grove on August 6 in the first round of the Region 15C tournament, the Eagles marched their way...
The Elrosa Saints won two games to begin the Region 15C amateur baseball tournament, both in come-from-behind fashion, as they clinched a berth in the Class C state tournament for the first time since 2013. Against Farming, the Saints got perhaps the toughest first-round draw of the tournament when they faced starter Brad Mergen on Saturday morning. Mergen cuffed the Saints for seven full innings, not giving up a hit until Pat Illies earned a single in the bottom of the sixth. The Flames got an...
Shown is a video of player introductions and also the National Anthem prior to the championship game of the Stearns County League Little Dipper teams from Regal and Elrosa. Members of the Lake Henry Legion were on hand and provided a U.S. Flag and American Legion Color Guard. Read the August 4 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice for a story on the game and also a team photo of the champions. NOTE: an online photo gallery will be uploaded as soon as possible that includes game p...
The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team earned a spot in the Region 15C tournament with a 2-0 win today (July 30) over New Munich. The Silverstreaks had defeated Elrosa twice in the regular season series, winning 4-2 on May 15 in New Munich and then by a 2-0 score last Sunday (July 24) in Elrosa. Defensive errors by the Saints contributed to both losses, something they knew they had to clean up in order to punch a ticket to regions. In the first meeting, Austin Imdieke and Austen Hadley pitched...
A total of 58 runners enjoyed and/or endured the Bonanza Valley Days Walk/Run event held on Saturday morning, July 9, 2016. The course covered two miles, starting and ending on the southeast corner of the lot of the former Brooten and B-B-E Senior High school. The event was organized by members of the B-B-E Jaguars Wrestling Club as a fundraiser. Shown is video of the finish line with a bulk of the runners/walkers finishing up. The weather was "absolutely perfect" for the event. Very little humidity, a cool breeze and temperatures in the upper...
The last undefeated teams in the Stearns County League met for a great baseball game in Elrosa on Wednesday, June 29. The Elrosa Saints hosted the Farming Flames in a Little Dipper contest, in which the Flames overcame a 4-2 deficit in the third inning to come out with a 5-4 win. Farming improves to 7-0 in the SCL standings, while the Saints fall to 5-1. Elrosa trailed 2-1 after the first inning but scored three times in the bottom of the third. Will Van Beck led off with a single, and Blaine Fi...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 14-U fastpitch team hosted Sauk Centre in a West Central League doubleheader on Tuesday this week. In two well-played contests, the Jaguars came out on top by 3-2 and 11-5 scores in two five-inning games. Read the full story in the June 23 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....