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Sunday, December 28, 2025
Winter weather takes down numerous church services (VIDEO)
Worship services this morning at West Lake Johanna and Trinity Lutheran churches of Brooten were cancelled due to the wild, windy, snowy weather that's blowing across our area.
Let's go back to Christmas Eve! There will be more added here today.
Enjoy Tony and Marie Halls of Lake Johanna Township performing special music at South Lake Johanna Lutheran church last Wednesday:
Tony and Marie performed the song "Mary, Did You Know?", written by Mark Lowry in 1984 and first performed by Michael English in 1991 for a solo album.
We are fortunate in Jaguar Country that massive levels of snow haven't materialized. The road conditions are still quite dangerous.
Facing considerably tougher competition than yesterday, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team earned a 2-0 record at the Granite City Breakdown Classic with a 66-51 today over New Life Academy of Woodbury. The Jaguars trailed 32-29 at halftime
Junior Teagan Dingmann scored a career-high 29 points on 11-of-24 field goal shooting. The Jaguars shot 30 percent from the floor with 11-of-16 free throw shooting. Macey Roering with 12 points and Kacey Fischer with 11 points were also in double figures.
The Eagles, a Section 4AA team, fell to 7-4 overall. They were coming off of an 87-55 blowout win over Ashby yesterday at St. Cloud Apollo.
Next: after a week-long break over the New Year's Eve holiday, the Jaguars (7-2) return to action with a home Central Minnesota Conference game on Monday, January 5 against Maple Lake (1-6, 0-2).
Here's a video from the second half of yesterday's win against Sauk Rapids-Rice:
The area scoreboard will be expanded on later.
Area girls' basketball scores on December 27:
Alexandria 66, New Ulm 38
Holdingford 60, St. Croix Prep 53
Jaguars win blowout game at Sauk Rapids-Rice (VIDEO)
In their first game of the Granite City Breakdown Classic, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team routed Sauk Rapids-Rice 82-24 to improve to 6-2 overall. Sophomore Macey Roering earned Player of the Game honors given by Breakdown staff.
The Jaguars led 46-14 at halftime after jumping out to an early 15-5 lead. With 8:15 left, Mya Worms sank two bonus free throws for a 24-10 lead. With 6:30 left, Teagan Dingmann drained a corner three-pointer to extend it to a 31-10 lead.
Here's a video recorded in about the middle of the 1st half:
The Storm got a free throw for the first point scored in the second half. After each team scored 4 points for a 51-19 score, the Jaguars went on an 18-0 run that pushed the margin in range of the Mercy Rule. A three-pointer by sophomore Makenna Roelike with 9:40 left expanded B-B-E's lead to 69-19. From that point on, running time was used. In the final minutes, Coach Anderson emptied the entire bench.
The Jaguars shot 39 percent on field goals with 19-for-32 marks at the free throw line. Macey Roering led a quartet of Jaguars in double figures that included Reese Kampsen (12), Kacey Fischer (11) and Mya Worms (11). Kacey Fischer also had 7 rebounds, and junior Kamie Fischer led the team with 6 steals.
Tomorrow: the Jaguars travel back to the Granite City Classic, and the JV team plays the St. Cloud Crush at the Sartell Community Center with an 11:30 a.m. tip-off. The St. Cloud Crush is a basketball co-op between St. Cloud Apollo and St. Cloud Tech. What is wild, and honestly mind-blowing, is that those two high schools are unable to support their own girls' basketball program. I digress! The varsity Jaguars play at Sartell-St. Stephen high school at 1:45 p.m. against New Life Academy of Woodbury.
In their game today in the Granite City Classic, New Life Academy throttled Ashby 87-55 to improve to 7-3 overall; the Arrows are 6-5.
The Elrosa Bar and Lounge has live music starting at 8 p.m. with Josh Kehr. The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper appreciates the support of their business throughout the year!
Crazy! Crazy!
Can you BELIEVE it! This was wild: at Casey's in Sauk Rapids tonight, I filled up our Chrysler minivan with 87 octane E10 gasoline for $2.25 a gallon! Wow! All across the St. Cloud Metropolitan area, a full-blown gas war is underway. This is happening right now! I am loving lower energy prices. How about you? Take a moment and think about the importance of having federal decision-makers putting an emphasis on lowering energy prices. For me, as a small business owner, I greatly appreciate lower gas prices. For you, as a sports fan, I want you to appreciate the fact that lower gas prices is a huge benefit to my ability to operate the newspaper's sports department.
Also coming on Saturday: the Tanner Stark Band is performing at Lincoln's in Brooten. For additional details, you can refer to the December 11, 18 and 25 issues of the Bonanza Valley Voice, which included large advertisements for this event. I also have information posted at the newspaper website: TannerStarkBandBrooten.
For the fifth straight season, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team is competing in the Granite City Breakdown Classic. Today, at Sauk Rapids-Rice high school, the Jaguars face the host Storm (0-7) with tip-off at about 4:15 p.m. Game updates will follow here by halftime.
UPDATE: with 1:21 left in the first half, the Jaguars are ahead 46-14.
HALFTIME: B-B-E 46, Sauk Rapids-Rice 14. Since the 10-minute mark, the Storm was held to just 3 field goals and 6 points. The Jaguars led 15-5 out of the gate.
Here's a video featuring the end of the 1st half:
More to come. The 2nd half starts at 5 p.m.!
I heard the JV Jaguars won by a wide margin in their game played in Sartell this afternoon. I'll catch the final score from Coach Rajdl after the varsity game.
Hit refresh to see the final score in a new blog post.
TONIGHT! The Elrosa Bar and Lounge hosts their Christmas customer appreciation party! Their complimentary meal is served until 9 p.m., so hopefully some of you can make it. I am not sure if I can get there. Live music starts at 8 p.m. by Josh Kehr. This was advertised on page 16 of this week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper issue.
A fresh update at The Voice website - and Merry Christmas!
A fresh set of web articles with video are posted at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website: http://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com. Also, Merry Christmas to you and your family.
On Friday:the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team travels to the Granite City Breakdown. The JV squad plays first, and their game is at 12:45 p.m. at Sartell-St. Stephen high school. The varsity game plays at 4:15 p.m. just a bit farther east at Sauk Rapids-Rice high school. The Jaguars face the host Storm, a Class 3A school. On Saturday, the JV and varsity Jaguars both play at Sartell, and the varsity game has a 1:45 p.m. tip-off against New Life Academy, who competes in the Skyline Conference and Section 4AA.
Tonight is the eve of Christmas Eve. I can't believe that Christmas is less than 2 days away. Where on earth did December go? It's a mad dash to the finish line for the December 25 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. This blog post will be refreshed with various news and sports items on Wednesday.
Here's a video recorded in the final minute of the first half last night against K-M-S:
The Jaguars went into halftime down 29-21 after they began the game with 10-0 and 15-2 deficits.
Multiple area churches have Christmas Eve worships tomorrow. One of them, South Lake Johanna Lutheran Church, begins their worship at 4 p.m.
Area boys' basketball scores on December 22:
Yellow Medicine East 70, Red Rock Central 38
Benson 84, Ortonville 54
Minnewaska Area 75, Sauk Centre 51
Area girls' basketball scores on December 22:
Osakis 47, Paynesville 40
Minnewaska 67, Melrose 28
Sauk Centre 83, Montevideo 36
Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 61, Yellow Medicine East 54
Wednesday morning update:
Good grief! The layout of the 16-page issue this week included approximately 48 pictures. I did not take all of them...this is the third straight 16-page issue in December. That's a Bonanza Valley Voice record!
How about more Christmas music!
Below is a video from the high school band's winter Christmas concert held a week ago on Tuesday at Olson Auditorium.
Here's the 7th-8th grade band performing:
Central MN Conference girls' basketball scores on December 22:
Kimball Area 59, Holdingford 47
Area girls' basketball scores on December 22:
Legacy Christian 77, Maple Lake 17
Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 67, Bagley 24
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 77, Eden Valley-Watkins 40
Pine River-Backus 74, Nevis 54
Milaca 58, Braham 43
Hancock 59, Minneota 54
In games with vastly differing play in the final minutes, we suffered two non-conference border battle losses tonight.
In a closely contested game at Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg high school, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team had their three-game winning streak end with a 47-42 loss.
The Jaguars suffered from ice cold 3-for-24 three-point shooting in the game. They missed all 12 three-point attempts in the first half. At the free throw line, they went 7-for-11. Overall on field goals, B-B-E shot just 25 percent (16-for-62). Teagan Dingmann was the leading scorer with 19 points.
The Fighting Saints (5-2) entered the night averaging 72.6 points per game. They are currently the No. 3-ranked team (QRF) in Sub-Section 3AA-North behind Minnewaska Area and New London-Spicer.
In boys' basketball action...
In a home game, the B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team was in a one-possession contest early in the second half with K-M-S after trailing 29-21 at halftime. Across the last 10 1/2 minutes of the game, the Fighting Saints shot the lights out and extended a 39-34 lead to a 69-48 final score to improve to 4-1 overall. The Minnesota-Scores.net records are incomplete; on December 8, the Fighting Saints lost a Camden Conference game at Dawson-Boyd. To date, that is their only loss.
K-M-S has a key Sub-Section 3AA-North game at Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City tomorrow night.
Here's a lengthy video featuring the National Anthem tonight and more...
The opening minutes of the game were rough. B-B-E's first successful field goal came with 10:40 on the clock.
Here's a video recorded in the middle of the first half:
In other news...Christmas news!
I don't want you to take your eye off the ball from the Christmas and holiday season! You can click over to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website and take in songs performed at East Norway Lake Lutheran church on Saturday: NorwayLakeJingleBells.
The River Lakes girls' hockey team defeated Delano/Rockford 3-1 on Saturday to snap a two-game skid. They move above .500 to 6-5-1 overall heading into tomorrow's game at the Buffalo Ice Arena. The Stars face Buffalo/West Lutheran/Maple Lake/Annandale, who has a 5-9 overall record.
B-B-E's Lillian Thompson has now faced 351 shots on goal with 315 saves. She's logged all 620 minutes of goalie time for the Stars through 12 games.
In boys' and girls' wrestling news...
At the Jackhammer Invitational in Pequot Lakes on Friday and Saturday, the B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team placed 20th out of 29 teams with 47.5 points in a tie with Albany. In first place was Staples-Motley, who had 260 points. The runner-up was Perham with 154 points, and Paynesville Area took third with 147.5 points.
Freshman Noah Jensen won the 114-pound title.
In the girls' brackets, B-B-E sophomore Elizabeth Rademacher placed first in the 125-135 division. In the championship, she won by fall (20 seconds) against Isabella Jackson of Detroit Lakes. B-B-E freshman Marianna Baker placed third with a 1-2 record in the 135-139 division.
It has taken nearly a week! But I am finally getting to band concert video from the Christmas concert last Tuesday night.
Here's the second song performed by the senior high band that night:
The name of the song performed was The Rowan Tree, arranged by Randall Standridge.
More to come.
COMING on Monday night:
The basketball teams have home-and-away border battle action with Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg. The girls' basketball team travels to K-M-S high school in Kerkhoven; the C-squad game starts at 4:15 p.m. Meanwhile, the boys' basketball team hosts K-M-S in Brooten. For the boys, the C-squad and JV games start at 5:30 p.m
