In an exciting home game tonight, the Jaguars girls basketball team evened their Central Minnesota Conference record at 6-6 with an improbable 57-45 win over Pierz. Senior Julie Hieserich went 6-of-6 at the free throw line down the stretch to help preserve the win. Brittany Roelike, a reserve sophomore forward, also hit some big free throws in the final minutes of the game (2/2) to help the team pick up their fourth win in a row.
The girls basketball team's four-game winning streak is their best such streak since February of 2009, when they went 5-0 after a tough 42-36 loss to Osakis that put them at 11-7 on the season.
With the loss tonight, Pierz falls to 8-4 in the Central Minnesota Conference and 15-8 overall. Eden Valley-Watkins won tonight over Holdingford and pulls into a tie for second place in the CMC with Pierz. Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted currently leads the pack by one game, sitting in first place at 9-3.
Final score from Ashby tonight: B-B-E 85, Ashby 62. The road-weary Jaguars (they went to Parkers Prairie on Monday night) jumped out to an early 19-8 lead on the Arrows' court on their way to a 42-25 halftime lead. Ranked number two in Class A, the Jaguars are now 21-0, while Ashby is now 12-8. There are only three undefeated boys basketball teams in the entire state of Minnesota right now, and one of them is B-B-E. They have a huge, huge, huge, HUGE game tomorrow night at their house, when Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted comes to town.
Did I mention that the game is huge?
More will follow later tonight.
A few notes on a game out west: Minnewaska Area picked up an improbable 59-58 win over visiting Montevideo tonight, in front of a near-full house crowd. What gave the game an added twist of drama is that the Lakers (20-2) were playing without their top scoring threat - senior Shane Bosek. Montevideo led 35-18 with a little over 2 minutes left in the first half. Halftime score: Thunderhawks 37, Lakers 26. At the end of regulation, the game was tied 52-52.
Central Minnesota Conference girls basketball scores on Feb. 17:
Eden Valley-Watkins 59, Holdingford 41
Kimball Area 65, Rockford 61
Games involving Section 6A girls basketball teams:
Brandon/Evansville 52, Battle Lake 46
West Central Area 65, Ulen-Hitterdal 20 (U-H is in SS-6A-North)
Hancock 46, Underwood 33
Area boys basketball scores on February 17:
Minnewaska Area 59, Montevideo 58 (OT thriller at MAHS in front of over 1500 fans!)
Dawson-Boyd 95, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 31
St.Cloud Apollo 68, Little Falls 57 OT
Melrose Area 68, Albany 66
Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 55, Sauk Centre 35 (I don't believe it, I have to see that score at a second source)
Area girls basketball scores on Feb. 17:
New London-Spicer 65, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 41
Montevideo 47, Minnewaska Area 32
Marshall 69, Willmar 50
K-M-S 61, Central MN Christian 42 (K-M-S leads the Camden North Conference at 11-3)
Maccray 50, Lakeview 31 (Wolverines are tied at 2nd in the Camden North at 9-4 with CMCS)
Dawson-Boyd 80, Renville County West 37
Paynesville 57, Benson 55 (a huge win for the Bulldogs' program)
Upsala 77, Browerville 48
A-C-GC 48, Lac qui Parle Valley 41
Parkers Prairie 62, Ashby 20
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