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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...
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...
