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How about a little throwback to nearly three years ago! This was PRE-COVID! Do you remember the world we lived in back then? In just about every way, our local area in the Bonanza Valley has returned to life exactly how it was in February and early March of 2020. Thank God for that! Student athletes who were freshmen on that 2020 state tournament team are now the five seniors on this year's B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball squad....
And below is the video player for the interview mentioned in the December 8 issue of The Voice with the newspaper owner interviewed at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school on Tuesday this week. *I had one mistake in that interview...in 2012-2013, the boys' basketball team lost 66-59 to Wheaton/Herman-Norcross in the sub-section semifinals. It is true that it was a game that I will never forget. I swear it was just a 3-point loss...but indeed the Warriors won by 7 points back on March 9, 2013. I...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars girls' basketball team had an impressive showing for the season opener on Tuesday, November 29 against visiting Melrose Area. After a somewhat sluggish start, the No. 8-ranked (Minnesota Basketball News) Jaguars jumped out to a 30-16 halftime lead and played a much stronger second half with a final score of 68-35. An early 13-2 run pushed them out to a 13-5 lead in the game's first five minutes. To start the second half, the Jaguars outscored the Dutchmen...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa volleyball team has two playoff wins to their credit after earning back-to-back sweeps in Sub-Section 6A-South play. They now head to a sub-section championship match for the 20th time in program history. The Jaguar volleyball program began in the fall of 1988, during a season when the Jaguars played in their first and only season in the Prairie Conference. They have played in the West Central South Conference and now the Central Minnesota Conference since 1999....
This is absolutely horrendous. Shocking and stunning and sickening. Watch the seven-minute long video to know what the fuss is all about. For those who are concerned about the girl injured by the biological boy player who smashed the volleyball in her face, she is still suffering from ongoing concussion injuries and has not been cleared to play. No word on whether or not she faces permanent injuries by what happened to her. At the end of the video clip, the speaker says it best, "Immorality and...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars earned the No. 2 seed in the Section 4A playoffs. They will host No. 7-seeded Long Prairie-Grey Eagle next Tuesday, October 25 with a 6 p.m. kickoff in Belgrade. This is the second straight year that the Jaguars have earned the No. 2 seed for the playoffs. Section 4A football playoff seedings: 1. K-M-S (6-2 record and first-round bye) 2. B-B-E (6-2 record) 3. Upsala/Swanville Area (4-4) 4. Parkers Prairie (3-5) 5. Browerville (3-5) 6. Benson (2-6) 7. Long...
The September 24, 1953 issue of the Brooten Review newspaper previewed the 1953 Brooten high school football team as they prepared for the season opener at home against Eden Valley. Expectations ran high for a strong season that fall on the gridiron. The team's eight returning lettermen were Dale Solbreken, Quentin Barnes, Kenneth Hoff, Roger Nelson, Sherwood Trustheim, Desmond Sagedahl, Dale Miller and Clidus Anderson (two-year letter winner from Akron, Iowa). Homecoming was scheduled for...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars football team is 5-1 with just two games left in the regular season. Video below features a defensive stop made by the Jaguars against Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City during the 48-12 Homecoming win last Friday, October 7. On A-C-GC's first offensive series of the third quarter, the Jaguars held on fourth-and-six to gain possession with 8:09 on the clock, which you can watch in the video below. Extended coverage of B-B-E varsity sports can always be found on the...
Trailing 13-11 in game five at No. 12-ranked (Class 2A) New London-Spicer on Tuesday, September 6, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team had their backs to the wall but proceeded to score the last four points of the night and put a huge exclamation mark on a 3-2 win over a very talented Wildcats team. The Jaguars had built an 8-4 lead with a kill by Ava Mueller and a block from Allison Dingmann to force NL-S into a timeout. The Wildcats then outscored the Jaguars by a 9-3 margin to...
The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team took on top-ranked New Ulm in the second round of the Class C state tournament on Saturday, August 27 in Dundas. A large crowd at Memorial Field saw a tight ball game play out through the first four innings. The Brewers pulled away from Elrosa in the final innings and advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 12-2 win in eight innings. New Ulm improved to 31-3 with the win, while Elrosa finished a remarkable season of their own with a final record of 20-9. A video...
Note: a video clip from the Elrosa vs. Richmond game is embedded in this web article. The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team is heading to state for the first time since 2018 after they won both games in the opening weekend of the Region 15C tournament in the Land of Rocks and Cows of western Stearns County. While two games on Friday and Saturday nights were played in Elrosa, the remaining region games were played in Meire Grove, where the Saints played their two contests. On Saturday against...
Here's video featuring Activities Director Rick Gossen announcing the 2021-2022 outstanding senior athletes of the year at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa. This was at the senior recognition banquet on Wednesday, May 25 at the B-B-E high school's Olson Auditorium. The graduation video player can be found at the newspaper's Jaguars sports extended coverage blog: http://bbejaguars.blogspot.com/2022/06/b-b-e-class-of-2022-graduation-live.html....
After a lengthy Mother Nature-induced delay to start their season, Elrosa's amateur baseball team has rocketed off to a 5-0 start starting with a 4-0 win over the visiting Meire Grove Grovers on Sunday, May 15. Two weekends ago in two road games, the Saints won 15-5 at Lake Henry on May 21 and then 9-7 at Spring Hill on May 22. On Saturday under the lights of Saints Field, Elrosa defeated Farming 7-2 before they headed down to Roscoe on Sunday afternoon and picked up a 10-1 win. The delayed...
Featured here is a video from Saturday, March 26 at Williams Arena in Minneapolis with the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team facing Hayfield in the state championship game. The clip begins with action with just under 10 minutes to go in the second half. The March 31 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper included extensive state tournament game coverage. The winter sports folder at the newspaper's website includes over 50 distinct game galleries, with the most recent ones added...
Here's a video from entertainment provided at the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa state basketball pep fest hosted at the elementary school on Tuesday, March 22. You can catch more B-B-E Jaguar coverage at the newspaper's sports blog: https://bbejaguars.blogspot.com. The newspaper's online photo gallery has over 50 folders added from the winter sports season. You can find them by clicking here (short link): https://bit.ly/3DDqf7N....
For the first time since 2014, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team is heading to the state championship Final Four round. The Jaguars, 27-4 on the season, defeated No. 3-ranked Sleepy Eye St. Mary's 70-63 in the Class 1A state quarterfinals on Wednesday, March 23 at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. They led 37-34 after a back-and-forth first half played out and trailed 52-47 midway into the second half. A late 13-0 run put the game out of reach for the Knights, who head to the...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team had the program's third state title within its grasp in the final minute on Saturday, March 26 at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. Trailing 45-44, the Jaguars duked it out with top-seeded and defending state champion Hayfield down the stretch before falling 51-49. At halftime, the Jaguars led 29-21 and held the lead for over 16 of the game's first 18 minutes. Isaac Matti led the Vikings (32-2) with 27 points. Ashton Dingmann was leading scorer for...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa boys' basketball team is back in a section championship game after getting stopped the past two years in the Sub-Section 5A-West championship. The Jaguars take a 25-4 record into the Section 6A championship after they dispatched No. 4-ranked Hancock 71-44 in the Sub-Section 6A-South finals on Tuesday, March 15 in front of a packed house at Minnewaska Area high school. The section finals will be at 7 p.m. at Fergus Falls senior high school on Friday, March 18. Their...
Below is the full video clip from the state tournament pep fest on March 2 at Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa high school. Additional pep fest and state tournament coverage was published in the March 10 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. As always, additional coverage of the B-B-E Jaguars is posted on a near-daily basis at the newspaper's Jaguars Sports extended coverage blog: http://bbejaguars.blogspot.com....
A rousing pep fest was held for the state tournament-bound Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team on Wednesday, March 2 at the high school. Students in grades 6-12 were in attendance, and the high school pep band performed before and at the conclusion of the pep fest. Now-retired Belgrade and B-B-E head wrestling coach Chuck Marks gave a special speech to the team and fans. More coverage will follow in the March 10 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. A video is below featuring...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Resistance Robotics team begins their Lakes Superior Region competition on Friday, March 4 at the D.E.C.C. in Duluth. Their first heat is at 10:15 a.m. on the arena floor. The remaining region competition schedule is as follows: Heat No. 2 is at 11:25 a.m. Heat No. 3 is at 1:51 p.m. Heat No. 4 is at 2:54 p.m. Heat No. 5 is at 3:36 p.m. Heat. No. 6 is at 4:32 p.m. Heat No. 7 is at 5:35 p.m.; this heat concludes their competition rounds for Friday. On Saturday, the two...
Day two of competition at the Lakes Superior regional is underway at the D.E.C.C. in Duluth. The National Anthem was played at 8:40 a.m., and the qualification rounds got underway with the first one starting at 8:50 a.m. B-B-E's first match of Saturday morning is the fourth match of the day and should begin at about 9:12 a.m. They are starting the day ranked 44th out of 58 teams with a 2-5 record. Today's qualification matches conclude after two matches are played by each of the 58 teams...
Embedded here is video recorded during the second half of regulation play between the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars girls' basketball team and Royalton on Thursday, February 10 at the high school. A full story on the overtime win was published in this week's February 17 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper....
It's a back-to-back performance for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team after they won the Section 5A championship on Saturday, February 19 at Benson high school. It's the second straight season that the Jaguars will compete in the state tournament. The Jaguars, seeded No. 1 in Section 5A, defeated No. 2-seeded and No. 5-ranked Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 45-17. It was a big statement win for the Jaguars after they also throttled No. 4-seeded Minneota 47-20 in the earlier match....
In a home non-conference contest on Tuesday, January 4, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars boys' basketball team defeated Upsala 65-43. This was their fourth straight win that also started a three-game home stand. After posting a 43-28 halftime lead, the Jaguars held the Cardinals to just eight points in the game's final 15 minutes of play. Upsala did not score in the last five minutes. The Jaguars (6-2) host Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City tonight (Thursday) in a Central Minnesota Conference game....
