In their ninth straight sub-section championship berth dating back to 2002, the B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team turned it on when it counted and won a 3-1 match over Bertha-Hewitt in front of a packed crowd tonight at Pierz Healy High School. Game scores were 22-25, 25-14, 25-20, 25-17.
The Jaguars trailed 10-4 in game three before turning it on - tying it at 12-12 - and then pulling ahead 15-12 only to see the Bears force ties at 15-15, 16-16, 17-17, 18-18, and 19-19. Three kills from that point on by the Jaguars and a couple Bears' hitting errors brought game point, when Taylor Braegelman served up an ace to give the Jaguars a 25-20 win.
Now 26-2 overall, the Jaguars will face Nevis in the Section 5A championship this Saturday night at 7:00pm. The match will be held again at Memorial Athletic Center at Pierz Healy High School. This is the third year in a row that these two teams have met in the Section 5A championship match. It will be the rubber meeting of the two, as the series sits at 1-1 between them.
In the Sub-Section 5A-East championship tonight, Nevis defeated East Central in a 3-0 sweep.
The B-B-E Acoustix choir singers perform the National Anthem at Pierz tonight.
Action from late in game one, which the Bears won 25-22 tonight.
In 12 of 23 seasons of Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa dating back to the 1988 merger, the Jaguars volleyball team has played in a sub-section title match. This year marks the 9th year in a row that they’ve played for a sub-section title – and they’ve won seven in a row now. They are 3-3 in the last 6 years in section championship matches.
Come Saturday night, they will work to erase the bad memory of a 3-0 loss to Nevis in last year's section final.
Area playoff volleyball results tonight, not grouped by section:
Windom Area 3, Murray County Central 2
Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop 3, Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart 0
Sauk Centre 3, Albany 1
Rocori 3, St.Cloud Cathedral 0
Maple Lake 3, Mora 0
Hancock 3, Underwood 1
BOLD 3, Benson 0
Ada-Borup 3, Barnesville 0
Marshall Area 3, Jackson County Central 2
Wadena-Deer Creek 3, Fergus Falls 0
Minneota 3, Canby 0
Hats off to Sauk Centre, Hancock, and Maple Lake for advancing to their respective section finals. It's nice to see a few other area programs see some deep post-season success.
**Don't forget! This is awesome, of course...Friday night, November 5, the Jaguars football team will battle it out with Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City in the Section 4A championship game. Kickoff is at 7pm. You can tune in to all the action for the game at Smooth Magic 107 FM of Glenwood. Their website is http://www.kmgk1071.com/, where you can go and learn about listening to streaming audio through your computer via Windows Media Player.
A fun note to promote: somewhere between 30 and 35 people were listening to tonight's volleyball sub-section championship via Smooth Magic 107's audio stream on the internet, from all over the U.S.
