Lensing Medals at State Track and Field Meet

Coach Richards telling Heidi, "You can't jump any higher than that?" (Actually, he didn't say that)

Junior Jaguars Girl Track & Field team member Heidi Lensing earned the second medal of her track career at the state meet today at Hamline University. Lensing finished 8th out of the final 16 athletes in the Class A state High Jump. She earned 5th place for a medal in the Long Jump in 2007.

Lensing had simply fantastic jumps on her preliminary height (4'8"), first height (5'0") and then second height (5'2") before running into trouble going for 5'3". Numerous athletes began falling off at the 5-2 height and once the bar went to 5-3 the field was narrowed quickly to the final four.

The great showing by Lensing at the state track meet brings to a close the 2007-2008 sports year for B-B-E. It's finally summertime.

State Fastpitch update:
Maple Lake 3, Littlefork-Big Falls 1 (Class A semi-final game played today at 10:00am)
The Irish, 2008 Central Minnesota Conference and Section 5A champion, played New Life Academy in the state championship game today at 2:00. New Life Academy is a private school from Woodbury.

The Irish lost the title game 3-0. They did an excellent job representing Section 5A at state and should have a number of players earning all-tournament awards.

Maple Lake, Barnum, and B-B-E all return a fair amount of talent from this year's teams, and they will all be looking at winning Section 5A in 2009. This experience earned at state will give Maple Lake a slight advantage going into next season.

Section 6AA Baseball:
Congradulations to the Albany Huskies, who advanced to the Class AA baseball tournament next week with a 7-3 win over Rocori-Cold Spring in the final game of the championship series today. They last went to state in 2005.

In my "good grief, are you serious!" category:
A video was recently posted on MSNBC.COM from a Little League game that showed a kid swinging a baseball bat at an opponent in the post-game handshake line! What's going on with our kids today? I have to say, when I witness poor sportsmanship on the playing field/court from B-B-E players, or opponents of teams playing against us, those are very dark, difficult moments to be a sports reporter. Thankfully and proudly, I can say that over the past school year ('07-'08) I can count on one hand the times I saw some poor behavior/language from Jaguars student athletes.

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