It's that time of year - Jaguars sports kicks off fall season with a home girls tennis triangular tomorrow (Friday)

It's that time of year again, as we are through over half of August and the time for the fall sports season to kick off is here.

Tomorrow, Friday, the Jaguars girls tennis team opens up the 2010 season with a home triangular beginning at 8:30am.

Traveling to the B-B-E High School tennis courts to join the Jaguars will be Long Prairie-Grey Eagle/Upsala-Swanville Area as well as Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd.

The opening match of the day will have the host Jaguars facing off with LQPV/D-B. Following that, LQPV/D-B will face LP-GE/USA in the middle match, with the Jaguars taking on LP-GE/USA in the final match of the day. The triangular will probably go until at least 2:00pm if not later.

Preparing for her fourth year as head coach of the Jaguars girls tennis team, head coach Katy Westrom begins her second season with the help of J.V. coach Colleen (Radermacher) Borgerding, a 2005 graduate of B-B-E who was also a standout girls tennis player for the Jaguars.

The Jaguars are hopeful for a very successful season, based on the fact that eight of the 10 starters at playoff time in 2009 return to the courts this season. They lost two-time Sub-Section 5A-West Final Four participants Tia Braegelman and Laura Johnson to graduation last spring.

The Jaguars have two experienced seniors on the roster, Amber Meyer and Amy Knutson. Seven talented juniors bolster the heart of the varsity lineup, including Erin Anderson, Kelly Reller, Kelsey Loch, Michelle Sanders, Myranda Zarbok, Nicole Dokken, and Sara Welte. The Jaguars have one lone sophomore, Jordan Gruendemann. Freshmen on the squad are Daisha Meyer, Mattea Eckstein, and McKenzie Winter. Rounding out the lineup is eighth grader Morgan Pastian.

Just a day after hosting the season-opening triangular, the Jaguars girls tennis team travels to Milbank, South Dakota, to participate in another triangular.

They then have three days of practice next week before traveling to the Minnewaska Quadrangular next Thursday, August 26, where Parkers Prairie and Montevideo will also be participating. The regular season is jam packed with matches scheduled, with 16 separate regular season dates that will include duals, triangulars, and quads culminating with a trip to Annandale on October 4.

As they have been doing since the program was established at B-B-E in 1993, the Jaguars will compete in Section 5A for post-season honors.

This marks the second year that all home Jaguars girls tennis matches will be played at the B-B-E High School courts.

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