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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....
The No. 1-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team vanquished defending state champion and previously-No. 1-ranked Kimball Area 32-25 on Tuesday, December 21 at Kimball. The Jaguars picked up key wins by decisions at 195 and 220 pounds by Carson Gilbert and Ethan Spanier. Head coach Jack Mueller spoke about the win during an interview with the Bonanza Valley Voice sports department the following day. The video is embedded below. The Jaguars travel to Holdingford on Thursday,...
Below is video from the last four kick division performances at the home dance comp "Dancing to the Finish Line" on Thursday, December 16. The video begins in the kick division with the Canby-Minneota Sensations team performing to music by Gaga. At the 4:10 mark of the video, the Sauk Centre team takes the floor for their kick performance with music by an ABBA Mashup. At the 9:20 mark in the video, the Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd Shadows kick squad takes the floor with a dance mix titled "Heaven". Right around the 14-minute mark in the...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars girls' basketball team trailed as much as 32-13 in the opening half of their Central Minnesota Conference opener against Holdingford on December 7. They fought back to close the gap to a more manageable deficit of 34-25 at halftime. In the second half, the Jaguars traded baskets for most of the first six minutes of play. They began cutting into the double-digit deficit with 11:40 to go, when Abby Berge scored on a fastbreak and drained an and-one opportunity...
The door has been busted down, and the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars will no longer be an outsider to the Minnesota state football tournament. The No. 2-seeded Jaguars avenged a Week Four loss in the regular season with a 52-44 win last Friday over top-seeded Upsala/Swanville Area to claim the Section 4A championship. They trailed 24-22 at halftime before blistering the scoreboard with 30 second-half points at the FargoDome. B-B-E's first shot at a state tournament win is tomorrow (Friday, Nov...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars advanced in the Section 4A football playoffs after they defeated visiting Long Prairie-Grey Eagle by a 36-8 score on Tuesday. The Jaguars, who led 22-6 at halftime, are now 6-3 overall going into the section semifinals. This is their first playoff win since 2017, and it's their fifth Section 4A semifinal birth since 2010. The Jaguars were semifinal winners in 2010, 2012 and 2013. They lost in the semifinals in 2011 and 2017. The No. 2-seeded Jaguars will host...
The Section 4A football seedings have gone official. The rankings are out, and the pairings are set for the Tuesday, October 26 playoff openers. The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars football team has earned the No. 2 playoff seed in Section 4A. This is a huge achievement for the team. It's their best playoff ranking since 2017, when they entered the Section 4A playoffs as the No. 1 seed. The Jaguars were seeded No. 4 in the 2015 playoffs, when they went 1-1. Long Prairie-Grey Eagle, fresh off of...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa volleyball team held their Dig Pink night on Thursday, October 7 along with Parents Night. The Dig Pink program raises funds for cancer awareness and cancer research. Video from the presentation is below....
In a big achievement for the middle of the regular season, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars football team moved above .500 with a 34-12 Homecoming win over Long Prairie-Grey Eagle on Friday, October 1. The Jaguars used a balanced offensive attack combined with stellar defense to forge a 28-6 halftime lead. This week the Jaguars (3-2) faced a tough task at a sub.-500 Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City team that is stinging from a 34-8 thrashing at the hands of visiting Upsala/Swanville Area. A-C-GC's...
The 10th-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars volleyball team successfully opened the 2021 season with a 3-1 win at Osakis on Tuesday, August 31. Early in game two, senior libero Emily Kern earned her seventh dig of the night, which broke the school career record for that category at B-B-E. The dig record stood for 12 years after it was broken by 2009 graduate Emily Roelike, an older sister of assistant coach Brittany Borgerding. Roelike graduated with 1,237 digs, and Kern currently has 1,255...
Dave Kampsen, Donnie Lenarz and Willard "Bucky" Buckentine (posthumously) were inducted into the Elrosa baseball team's Hall of Fame on July 9 at Saints Field. Dave Kampsen, an Elrosa native, played for the Saints from 1975 to 1995 and was a key member of the program's first amateur state tournament team in 1988. Donnie Lenarz is also an Elrosa native who has been a dedicated and deeply devoted caretaker of Saints Field as well as all things Elrosa. His grandson Riley Lenarz is a member of the...
Here's a summary of information for the various Bonanza Valley Days sports offerings for the BVD weekend in Brooten: July 8 to July 11. BVD Men's Softball The BVD men's slowpitch softball tournament has 10 teams signed up as of July 8. Matt Schmitz is the coordinator. The tournament is on Saturday, July 10 starting at 9 a.m. at the city park on the west side of town. BVD Sand Volleyball The BVD Sand Volleyball tournament had seven teams signed up as of the morning of July 8. To sign up, you can...
Here's a summary of information for the various Bonanza Valley Days sports offerings for the BVD weekend in Brooten: July 8 to July 11. *This article was updated on Wednesday, July 7. BVD Men's Softball The BVD men's slowpitch softball tournament had nine teams signed up as of July 2. Matt Schmitz is the coordinator. The tournament is on Saturday, July 10 starting at 9 a.m. at the city park on the west side of town. *Update: as of Tuesday night, July 6, the softball tournament has 10 teams...
A big weekend is shaping up for the Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team. They travel to Freeport on Friday this week (June 11) with first pitch at Black Sox Stadium at 7:30 p.m. The "big game" is this coming Saturday, when the Saints (3-4) host Stearns County League North leader Spring Hill (5-2) in the KASM 1150 AM radio Game of the Week. First pitch at Saints Field on the 12th is at 8 p.m., and Randy Rothstein will have the call. Another big weekend follows this one, with Elrosa hosting their...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars fastpitch team won a back-and-forth contest on the home field on Tuesday this week over Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City. After trailing 6-2 heading into the bottom of the second inning, the Jaguars won 17-7 in six innings. On Monday this week in another home game, the Jaguars lost 9-2 to undefeated Browerville. On Friday, May 21, the Jaguars travel to Upsala for a non-conference make-up game that was originally scheduled for April 9. Next Tuesday, May 25, Melrose...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa baseball team won two games over Kimball Area in a season-opening doubleheader by scores of 18-1 and 12-3 on Thursday, April 22 at Elrosa. Their next game is on Monday, April 26 back in Elrosa against Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City with first pitch from Saints Field at 4:30 p.m....
In their first-ever appearance in the Class 1A state championship game during their second-ever trip to the state tournament, the No. 4-ranked (Minnesota Basketball News) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars girls' basketball team is runner-up out of 140 teams in their division. The No. 1-ranked Minneota Vikings prevailed 48-45 after building a 28-18 halftime lead at Target Center in Minneapolis on Friday, April 6. See additional coverage at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's Jaguars Sports...
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars girls’ basketball team has two state tournament wins under their belt with heart-stopping excitement the hallmark of a remarkable playoff run. Last Tuesday at the Perham gymnasium dubbed "The Hive", the No. 4-ranked Jaguars defeated No. 18-ranked West Central Area 76-71 in the Class 1A state quarterfinals. The Section 6A champion WCA Knights were the No. 4 seed in the north half of Class 1A, while the Jaguars were the No. 1 seed. B-B-E played at Target C...
The Class 1A state tournament Final Four was oh-so-close to including three teams from the Central Minnesota Conference, but it was not meant to be. Unfortunately, the No. 2-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars wrestling team is not one of the two CMC teams who advanced to the state semifinals, but it was not for a lack of heart or desire to get there. On Saturday in the Class 1A state quarterfinals, the Jaguars suffered just their fourth loss of their unforgettable, record-breaking season. Th...
Below is video of an incredibly heartfelt speech given by then-senior Josey Tensen with his fellow team tri-captains Kaleb Voss and Colby Schramel on Friday, February 20, 2015 at B-B-E high school. After thanking all the dedicated and loyal wrestling fans who supported them throughout a 12-win regular season where they finished second in the Central Minnesota Conference under first-year head coach Jack Mueller, Tensen encouraged everyone to come to Kimball the next day to watch the Jaguars...
Below is video from late in the second half of the Central Minnesota Conference border battle between Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa and Paynesville Area. The two rivals met on Tuesday, January 26 at the B-B-E elementary school. After holding a 31-29 lead at halftime, the Jaguars pulled away from the Bulldogs to win their fourth straight. The Jaguars host Kimball Area (4-0, 3-0) on Friday, January 29 in a battle for first place in the CMC. You can catch more information and near-daily updates for...
The regular season has completed for the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa varsity football team. The Jaguars finished the six-game schedule with a home game against state-ranked Browerville on Wednesday, November 11. Video featured below is from the second half of the game. Fans can catch a full photo gallery from the October 26 Junior Varsity football game against Upsala/Swanville Area by clicking here (short link): https://bit.ly/3puVnPv....
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars football team played their third and fourth games of the season on the artificial turf of Alexandria Area high school's football stadium. Below is a short video clip from the fourth quarter of the game against Parkers Prairie on Saturday, October 31....
Below is video from the final fall league baseball game, bottom of the sixth inning at Elrosa on Sunday, October 11. The Saints have one out with bases loaded and Will VanBeck at bat. Click on the following link to view the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper photo gallery from that game: https://bit.ly/3kNpLBP....
