Fastpitch Jaguars record big win at Long Prairie; girls' golf pulls 3rd place at Osakis (UPDATES*)

The B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team banged out 22 hits in an 18-4 five-inning win on Friday against Long Prairie-Grey Eagle. Playing at LP-GE high school in Long Prairie, the Jaguars were led by 4 hits each from Abby Lieser and Kamie Fischer. Fischer, who batted 4-for-5, had 4 RBI, and Lieser tripled and scored 4 runs.

LP-GE, currently in fourth place in the Prairie Conference, dropped to 2-5 overall. B-B-E improves to 3-4 overall going into Monday's home border battle game against Paynesville (3-5, 3-2).

Time for some golf news...
In Central Minnesota Conference meets on Friday, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' golf team earned third place at the Osakis Country Club. In scoring a 165, the Jaguars were led by Kragen Wiener's score of 49 at Osakis. At Osakis, Wiener placed fourth overall, while Olive Olson took 8th place with a 56.

In the afternoon on Friday, the Jaguars placed fourth in the home CMC meet at Prairie View Community Golf Course in Brooten. Wiener led the Jaguars with a 50, and Olson shot a 53. Sophomore Marlie Schlangen, in her return to the team after golfing her first season back in 8th grade, is showing terrific early-season improvement. She carded a 60 in Osakis and a 60 in Brooten. The addition of Schlangen brings turnout to 3 for girls' golf at B-B-E. While this number is small, it is the magic number needed in order to turn in a girls' golf team score in the Central Minnesota Conference. This is a change that occurred for the 2025 season.

At Prairie View, the Jaguars took fourth with a 163. Kimball/Eden Valley-Watkins shot a 162 to take third. In first was Paynesville Area with a 138, and Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City took second with a 139. Crazy close scores in Brooten!

At Osakis, A-C-GC took first with a 134. The Bulldogs were second with a 146, and Kimball/EVW was fourth with a 178.

On Sunday morning, I'm reviewing boys' golf scores from Friday. They will be updated in a new blog post later on Sunday night. On Sunday, the B-B-E speech team holds their season-ending banquet at The Eagle's Nest bar and grill in Regal. At some point, I need to catch up on the baseball team's games that were played in Ashby on Saturday. They had a non-conference doubleheader with the Owls.

Additional updates to this blog post won't take place until (probably) later tonight (Saturday)...in the morning, I'm packing up for an AAU basketball drive to Burnsville senior high school...131 miles away! Thank God for $1.99 a gallon E-85 at Coop's Corner! Thank you, Belgrade Co-op.

MORE updates on Sunday morning...
The Elrosa Saints amateur baseball team opens their 2026 season on the home diamond with a 1:30 p.m. game against Lake Henry.

Exciting news about the B-B-E Jaguars baseball team, who went 2-0 in Ashby on Saturday. In game one, the Jaguars out-hit the Owls by an 8-to-1 margin in an 8-0 shutout win. In game two, the Jaguars racked up 11 hits to 3 by the Owls in a 12-0 five-inning win. Lance Radermacher pitched a complete game in the series opener, and Noah Jensen (3 innings) and Walker Winter (2 innings) pitched in the second contest. B-B-E's record is now squared up at 4-4 overall.

That's it for now. I have to conserve laptop battery while working on the road with my second Burnsville trip of the weekend.

Baseball team splits with Maple Lake, track in action at Sauk Centre (VIDEOS*)

In a home Central Minnesota Conference game and the first home action of the season, the B-B-E Jaguars baseball team came away with a series split against Maple Lake tonight in Elrosa.

The Jaguars were terrific in game one and defeated the Irish 3-0. Baron Breitbach, an 8th grader, got his first varsity career win and went the distance on the mound. He held the Irish to just one hit while surrendering just two walks to go with 11 strikeouts.

In game two, the Jaguars led 2-0 after two innings before Maple Lake scored 5 runs in the bottom of the third inning. The Irish took the second game by a 10-3 score.

The Jaguars have a big Section 6A game at Ashby (0-5) this Saturday.

Here's a video recorded later in tonight's game


Tyler Myers, a junior, was closer in the second game tonight.

The Jaguars are 2-4 overall.

At Sauk Centre on Thursday, the B-B-E Jaguars track and field teams competed in an 8-team invitational. On the girls' side, Laken Anderson placed third in the high jump (4'10"). Seventh grader Brooklyn Breitbach led the girls' squad with a second-place finish (2:31.77) in the 800 run. Breitbach took fourth place in the 1600 with a career-best time of 5:51.56. That was a full 20 seconds faster than her run at A-C-GC a week ago.

Here's a video featuring Breitbach finishing the 800 in Grove City a week ago:


Aiden Detloff, a sophomore, had a personal best 18'2" in the long jump while taking 6th place on the boys' side. Taylor Pieper, a senior, ran a 54.57-second 400 open to take second place. Mason Douvier ran a career-best 5:11.47 in the 1600 run while taking 6th place. The boys' 4x400 relay squad took third place out of 6 teams with a season-best time of 3:50.4; that squad consisted of Taylor Pieper, Aiden Detloff, Colin Evenson and Mason Douvier.

Backing up to Tuesday this week...
The B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team suffered a 12-5 loss in CMC action at home to Eden Valley-Watkins. The Eagles banged out 14 hits overall against all three B-B-E varsity pitchers.

The fastpitch team traveled to Maple Lake today (Thursday) but had a doubleheader series called in the second inning of the first game. The doubleheader with the Irish will resume at a later date. In the second inning, hail and rain stopped the action. A downpour brought standing water to the softball field infield at Maple Lake high school, according to Coach Funk. Funk reported that the Jaguars had a terrific start to the game.

On Friday, the fastpitch team travels to Long Prairie-Grey Eagle for a non-conference game.

The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's website is being updated: https://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com. Two new posts were added tonight featuring a renewable fuels promotion plus the B-B-E FFA Tractor Day.

In girls' golf news...
On Wednesday, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' golf team traveled to Sauk Centre's Greystone Golf Club for a 10-team invitational. Kragen Wiener led the Jaguars with a terrific score of 97. Olive Olson had a 103, and Marlie Schlangen shot a 127. Albany won the team title with a 356.

The boys' and girls' golf teams competed in Atwater in the CMC season opener on Tuesday. I'll catch up to that and update this blog post later on Friday.

I have the "extreme luxury" of working on the road on Friday, as I'm now blogging from the outside deck of the Osakis Golf Club as a Central Minnesota Conference girls' golf meet is getting underway. At this time, the boys' golf team is getting their meet going at Prairie View Golf Course in Brooten. The boys and girls switch sites for an afternoon CMC meet.

Thursday night action

The wind has gotten nasty in Elrosa for game 2 of tonight's doubleheader against Maple Lake. Through 2 innings, B-B-E has a 2-0 lead.

After 4 innings, the Irish hold a 9-2 lead.

After 6 innings, the Irish are ahead 10-3.

At Maple Lake, the fastpitch team was rained / hailed out by in second inning. 

More to come in a new blog post after 9 p.m. tonight.

Spring returns

Spring has returned after taking a three-day break in the Bonanza Valley area.

On Friday, the weather turned cold, and the cold stuck around across Saturday and Sunday. Things warmed up considerably today, and highs reached into the mid-60s for part of the afternoon.

The Belgrade city council met in regular session tonight. A meeting agenda summary can be found at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper editor's blog: https://lifeinbonanzavalley.blogspot.com/2026/04/belgrade-city-council-agenda-for-april.html.

Back to sports news...
The B-B-E Jaguars girls' golf team and the B-B-E Jaguars boys' golf team open the Central Minnesota Conference schedule with a joint meet at Atwater tomorrow. They begin at 4:15 p.m. at Island Pine Golf Club.

The B-B-E Jaguars track and field teams host an 8-team invitational at 4 p.m. Teams invited are Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City, Eden Valley-Watkins/Kimball, Holdingford, Paynesville Area, St. John`s Prep and West Central Area.

I am getting caught up on the A-C-GC track and field results, and I noticed that the Jaguar boys had a strong showing with a 7th-place finish out of 10 teams. They defeated the host A-C-GC Falcons, Paynesville and Willmar Community Christian. They were led by a first-place finish by senior Kameron Hiltner, who won the 100 open with a time of 12.39 seconds. Hiltner also earned a stack of points by placing third in the long jump (18'9"). Taylor Pieper, another B-B-E senior, placed fourth in the long jump (18'1.5").

Mason Douvier, a sophomore, took fourth place in the 1600 run (5:16.19).

The B-B-E Jaguars baseball team resumes CMC action with a game at Kingery Field in Atwater at 5 p.m. against the A-C-GC Falcons.

The B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team resumes CMC action with a home game at 5 p.m. against Eden Valley-Watkins.

Thursday was a busy and eventful night (VIDEOS)

On Sunday afternoon, a few more notes were added with fastpitch plus area fastpitch scores on April 16; I have not had a moment's rest all weekend...run, run, run! On Saturday, I was in Farmington with my daughter's West Central Wildcats AAU team. I finally posted additional high school spring concert coverage: https://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com.

From the top.

The B-B-E Jaguars track and field teams competed at a 10-team invitational at Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City. The winds from the south at Falcons Stadium was incredible, and not in a good way. It was literally breathtaking as it blasted across the southern end of the football field. Those running down the back stretch were hit with a strong 20-30 mph wind, which helped counter the 80-degree heat. The Jaguars had some terrific performances in spite of the conditions. For example, seventh grader Brooklyn Breitbach almost matched her Morris time in the 1600 run. At Morris on April 10 (one week ago), Breitbach ran a 6:11. At A-C-GC yesterday, with much tougher conditions, her time was approximately 6:10. (Video coming)

And here's a video at the end of the 1600 run for the girls' division yesterday in Grove City:


In the high jump, freshman Laken Anderson took second place (4'10") behind a senior from Benson/Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg.

Here's Laken Anderson in the high jump at a height of 4'4" at A-C-GC:


The full set of results from A-C-GC won't be reviewed until later this evening.

At the home diamond, the B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team settled for a series split against Holdingford. They won 7-4 in game one before losing 1-0 in game two. The Jaguars are now 2-3 overall and 1-2 in the Central Minnesota Conference.

Here's a video from the April 10 game against Upsala:


A few more fastpitch notes from the Holdingford doubleheader:
Mya Worms started and pitched 5 innings for B-B-E in game one; she had 2 strikeouts with 3 walks and 6 hits with just one earned run. Brielle Worms closed for the save with 2 innings pitched; she had 2 strikeouts, one walk, two hits and one earned run. Brielle Worms pitched 6 innings in the 1-0 loss. She had 5 strikeouts and 2 walks with no earned runs and just one hit.

In the 1-0 loss, B-B-E was held to 4 hits. In game one, Mya Worms led the team by going 3-for-4 with 2 doubles and 3 RBIs. Overall, the Jaguars had 8 hits while earning 4 walks and being struck out 8 times.

Central MN Conference fastpitch scores on April 16:
Maple Lake 8, Paynesville 3
Paynesville 6, Maple Lake 5
Kimball 12, A-C-GC 2
Kimball 5, A-C-GC 0

At Holdingford, the B-B-E Jaguars baseball team lost a tough one in the first game by the 10-run rule by a 10-0 score in 5 innings. They fell behind 7-3 in game two before battling back across the last 4 innings. However, the teams ran out of daylight, and the game was called after 7 innings. At that point, the score was tied 11-11. This game will resume at a later date.

In golf news...
The B-B-E Jaguars girls' golf team had two varsity events this week. They began with a neighborhood dual "Battle for Regal" meet at Koronis Golf Club in Paynesville on Tuesday. The meet featured a total of 9 girls, including 6 Bulldogs for the home team. B-B-E's three varsity girls' golfers this spring are Kragen Wiener, Olive Olson and Marlie Schlangen.

At Paynesville, B-B-E freshman Kragen Wiener took second place with a 40 behind first-place Peyton Roeske, a Paynesville freshman. B-B-E freshman Olive Olson took fourth place with a 43. B-B-E sophomore Marlie Schlangen, who golfed in 8th grade but not last year, shot a 57.

On Thursday this week at the Little Crow Golf Club, New London-Spicer hosted an 18-hole invitational. B-B-E's girls' golf team competed and was led by Kragen Wiener's score of 108 (tie for 30th place). Olive Olson shot a 111 (tie for 39th place), and Marlie Schlangen had a 132.

The B-B-E Jaguars boys' golf team also competed in the Battle for Regal on Tuesday. B-B-E had 5 scorers and were led by tri-champion Jaxxon Koetter, a freshman, who shot a 5-under-par 30. He was joined in a three-way tie for first place with Paynesville's Colin Fleischhacker and Reuben Christensen. Other B-B-E scorers: Owen Roering and Walker Winter (9th place tie) 35 each, Cash Lehner 40, Dylan Roering 47, Treyson Nemmers 49.

FOR FRIDAY: all after school competitions were canceled or postponed due to the violent winds we're enduring. It's nasty out there! Temps in the 30s and winds gusting over 30 miles an hour. We are going to suffer with this through the weekend, but it looks like spring returns for good on Monday. Thank God!

Area girls' fastpitch scores on April 16:
Yellow Medicine East 2, Minnewaska Area 0
Alexandria 4, Willmar 3
K-M-S 8, MACCRAY 4
MACCRAY 14, K-M-S 9
BOLD 11, West Central Area 3
West Central Area 2, BOLD 1
Melrose Area 15, Montevideo 1
Melrose Area 12, Montevideo 2

Multiple sports in action

Track and field, baseball, girls' golf and fastpitch are all in action today. Busy day!

Fastpitch is hosting Holdingford. *Update: the Jaguars won 7-4 in game one for their first conference win of the season. 

*Update: at Holdingford, the baseball team lost in 5 innings in game one. They trailed 7-3 in the 3rd inning of game two.

*Update: through 7 innings in the book, the Jaguars and Huskers are tied 11-11. Or will follow tomorrow morning in a new blog post.  

Baseball falls in conference opener

The B-B-E Jaguars baseball team was cuffed at the plate on Monday at Paynesville Area in the Central Minnesota Conference opener. Held to three hits in a complete game effort by Paynesville senior Reed Johnson, the Jaguars lost 11-1 in 6 innings to fall to 1-1 overall. Johnson fired 4 strikeouts with no walks.

B-B-E sent Aiden Mueller and Lance Radermacher to the mound, and they gave up a combined 11 hits against 9 strikeouts.

They travel to Holdingford on Thursday this week for a CMC doubleheader that starts at 4 p.m.

In other news...
A video featuring the first 40 minutes of the Easter Vigil Mass at St. Donatus Catholic Church has been posted to the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website: StDonatusEasterVigilMass.

Also, the track and field teams will host their only home meet of the season next Tuesday, April 21. It will feature 9 teams, including Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City, Browerville, Eden Valley-Watkins/Kimball, Holdingford, Melrose Area, Paynesville Area, St. John`s Prep and West Central Area.

Here's a video recorded just before the second qualification match at the Granite City Regional last Friday in St. Cloud:


Coverage on the B-B-E Resistance Robotics team will follow in this week's newspaper.

TONIGHT! The grades 6-12 band and choir spring concert starts at 7 p.m. at the Phil and Lucille Olson Auditorium.

Fastpitch suffers two losses (VIDEO)

The B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team dropped to 1-2 on the season after a 12-2 loss to Upsala on Friday. The score was 1-1 in the third inning before the Cardinals began to pull away. They led 3-1 after the fourth inning, but the Jaguars cut it to a 3-2 score in the bottom of the fifth. A disastrous sixth inning followed, with the Cardinals scoring 7 runs in the top of the frame.

Overall, Upsala out-hit the Jaguars 12 to 4. B-B-E had 3 errors to none by the Cardinals.

Here's a video featuring Kenna Lieser scoring after her two-run home run against MACCRAY last Tuesday:


The Jaguars are now idle until next Thursday, April 16, when they host Holdingford in a doubleheader.