Jaguar baseball sweeps Rockford in doubleheader

 In game one of the Central Minnesota Conference doubleheader tonight, the B-B-E Jaguars baseball team defeated visiting Rockford 4-3. They went on to beat the Rockets by a wider margin in game two to improve to 9-7 overall on the season and 7-4 in the CMC. Up next for the squad is a trip to Eden Valley-Watkins next Tuesday.

Unfortunately for the Jaguars' chances in the CMC race, Maple Lake has kept on winning this week; they picked up an 8-5 win on Wednesday at Howard Lake and then beating Eden Valley-Watkins in game one of tonight's doubleheader 16-1 in five innings. If they beat EV-W in the nightcap, they will have clinched at least a share of the CMC crown. They are currently 9-1 in the CMC.

**Update...Maple Lake won the second game against EV-W 9-3 and clinched a share of the 2012 CMC baseball title. They are 10-1 in the CMC, while the Jaguars are in second place at 7-4.

**Another update...the Pierz Pioneers baseball team swept a doubleheader from HL-W-W last night and sits in second-place tie with B-B-E in the Central Minnesota Conference.

At Rockford in a doubleheader, the Jaguars fastpitch team lost 3-0 and 2-1 to fall to 3-13 overall. They host Eden Valley-Watkins (10-6, 7-6 CMC) next Monday at 4:00pm.

**Here's that link again to the KSAX Athlete of the Year voting: http://ksax.com/article/12519

Tyler Tensen heading into his final lap of the 1600 run today in Melrose.

The Jaguars track and field teams competed at the Dave Sieben Invitational in Melrose today. I have a limited amount of notes from the meet, but I do know the following: the B-B-E girls' 4x800 team took fourth, Kinlee Swanson placed third in the 100, the B-B-E girls' 4x200 took fourth, the B-B-E boys' 4x200 placed fourth, Dillon Knutson set a new personal record in the discus throw (115-9 3/4), Kim Kollman set a personal record in the shot put (29-10) and the B-B-E boys' 4x100 earned second place with a time of 46.96 seconds.


Central Minnesota Conference baseball scores on May 10:
Kimball Area 9, Holdingford 5
Kimball Area 5, Holdingford 2
Pierz 11, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 10
Pierz 7, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 1
Maple Lake 16, EV-W 1 (5 inn.)
Maple Lake 9, EV-W 3

Area fastpitch scores on May 10:
Minnewaska 13, Melrose Area 3
Paynesville Area 4, Sauk Centre 0
Albany 15, New London-Spicer 7
Albany 11, New London-Spicer 0

Area baseball scores on May 10:
Paynesville Area 5, Sauk Centre 0
USA 11, LP-GE 1 (6 inn.)
Osakis 4, St. John's Prep 2
Melrose Area 6, Minnewaska Area 0