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The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team, ranked No. 5 in the last Guillotine poll of the season, stormed their way into the Class 1A state tournament as No. 3 seed out of eight teams. The Jaguars faced Medford in the quarterfinals on Thursday, March 2 at Xcel Energy Center and won the final six matches of the dual. Final: B-B-E 42, Medford 22. With a 21-5 overall record, the Jaguars had blazed their way into the state final four round. In the semifinals, they suffered a tough 33-27 loss to...
The No. 5-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team has advanced to the Class 1A state tournament for the third straight year after claiming their third straight Section 5A title. The Jaguars, seeded No. 3, defeated higher-seeded Canby and Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg in the section semifinals on Saturday, February 18 at Benson high school. They take a 20-5 record into the state tournament, which opens with the 9 a.m. quarterfinals round on Thursday, March 2 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team picked up double-digit wins on back-to-back nights to improve to 15-3 overall. Last Friday at Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City high school, the Jaguars built a huge halftime lead on their way to a 53-34 win to improve to 8-2 (second) in the Central Minnesota Conference. On Saturday in a girls/boys doubleheader in Belgrade, the Jaguars defeated Section 5A rival Browerville 69-35 while handing the Tigers their fourth loss in five games. The No....
The No. 8-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team finished up last week with a flurry of action after three straight days of practice. On Thursday at Kerkhoven, the Jaguars went 1-1 with a loss to the host Fighting Saints and a win over Benson. On Friday at Minneota, the Jaguars suffered a 37-27 loss to No. 12-ranked Canby but defeated state-ranked Minneota and Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted. In other results at Minneota on Friday, HL-W-W edged Minneota 30-29 and Canby beat neighboring...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa/Paynesville Pirouettes dance team hosted a six-team meet on Thursday, January 19 in Brooten. The Pirouettes JV Jazz squad took first place with a hard-fought win. Led by B-B-E Class of 2015 graduate and head coach Katie Boie, the Pirouettes went through what was a not-so-easy transition in mid-December to split up their 13-person roster into varsity and JV squads. This created an extra layer of work and especially teamwork to pull off. The team was thrilled to earn...
On Friday, January 13 at the Paynesville Invitational at the Paynesville Area Community Center, the No. 5-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa wrestling team emerged as champions in an 11-team field. Other tournament notes: Wyatt Engen earned his 100th career win in the championship round win where he claimed the 138-pound title. Video of him winning his tournament opener is embedded below. Ethan Spanier improved to 17-1 this season while pinning his way through three matches and earning the...
The No. 16-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa girls' basketball team picked up a key Central Minnesota Conference win last Thursday at home by a 74-63 score over Kimball Area. The Cubs, who tied for the CMC title last year with Holdingford, then lost one night later to the visiting Huskers 59-46 to fall to 1-3 in the league. The Jaguars picked up a 72-33 win on Friday at Maple Lake to move to 2-1 (third) in the CMC. On Tuesday at Minnewaska, the Jaguars won 55-41. Now 6-2 overall, the Jaguars...
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...
