Jaguars volleyball clinches share of the CMC title! It's a "five-peat"

A very excited Jaguars volleyball team is shown celebrating achieving match point tonight, vs. Eden Valley-Watkins...after they took game three 28-26.

The seventh-ranked Jaguars volleyball team clinched a share of their fifth straight Central Minnesota Conference title with a 25-10, 25-12, 28-26 win over Eden Valley-Watkins tonight. They are now 21-2 overall and 6-0 in the CMC.

Game three was a pure barn burner! More on that will follow later.

This marks the fifth year in a row that the Jaguars have won or shared the CMC title. Since joining the CMC in 1999, the Jaguars have won or shared the title eight times.

Eden Valley-Watkins fell to 1-5 in the CMC and 10-11 overall.

Up next: a trip to Kimball to face the Cubs in the final CMC match of the season, next Tuesday night. Kimball Area swept HL-W-W tonight; they are 8-11 overall and 3-3 in the CMC.

Central Minnesota Conference volleyball standings through Week Six:
B-B-E (6-0)
Maple Lake (5-1)
Pierz (4-2)
Holdingford (3-3)
Kimball Area (3-3)
Eden Valley-Watkins (1-5)
Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted (1-5)
Rockford (0-6)

Visit the Sauk Centre Herald website to see the photo gallery with 70 photos from tonight's volleyball match: http://saukherald.mycapture.com

Check out the huge crowd - many donning pink in honor of "Dig Pink" night.

A clip from the break between games one and two tonight...

Here's a video clip from the final few minutes of game two, won by the Jaguars 25-12.


Central Minnesota Conference results tonight:
Kimball Area 3, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 0
Maple Lake 3, Pierz 2 (what a match that must've been...held in Pierz, where the Pioneers blew a two-game lead and lost the fifth game 15-12)
Holdingford 3, Rockford 0

Area volleyball scores tonight:
Willmar 3, Sartell 2
Albany 3, Milaca 0
Sauk Centre 3, Foley 2 (a gutsy win for the Mainstreeters, who remain in first place in the West Central North Conference)
Benson 3, Minnewaska Area 0
Mora 3, St.Cloud Cathedral 0
Royalton 3, Swanville 2
A-C-GC 3, Yellow Medicine East 1
Maccray 3, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 2
BOLD 3, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 1 (BOLD wins their first West Central South Conference title since 2005, when they joined the league and went 12-0)
K-M-S 3, Lac qui Parle Valley 0
Benson 3, Minnewaska Area 0
NL-S 3, Dassel-Cokato 0
Wheaton/Herman-Norcross 3, Park Christian 0

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