Friday Night Lights Part V: Jaguars win Homecoming! Believe it!

The end of the game! The Jaguars took a knee to wind out the final seconds of the clock after their defense repelled a threat from the Rockets in the final couple minutes of the fourth quarter...

...and leading up to that final play of the game...

This win was HUGE! In a nutshell...

The B-B-E Jaguars football team shook off a 14-7 halftime deficit and held Rockford Area to six second-half points in a wild 28-20 Homecoming win! It marks only the second time in B-B-E school history that the Jaguars have won two Homecoming football games in a row. The last time they did that was in the 1993 and 1994 seasons. (1993 was a 41-6 win over HL-W, while in 1994 the Jaguars beat Benson 15-12 during a 1-7, playoff-less year).

Yes, I'm more than just a little excited about winning two Homecomings in a row. It is vital to do such things to build up a football program. Not to mention all the intangible benefits like community and school pride!

This was absolutely a team win...a team win in every sense of the phrase. Whatever adjustments the B-B-E coaching staff made in the second half worked out great. Rockford Area was still able to put a few nice drives together after halftime, but luckily only one of them resulted in points in the second half.

Up next: state-ranked Maple Lake (5-0, 4-0 CMC) at home next Friday. The Irish beat the heck out of Kimball Area 41-19 tonight. The Cubs were playing without one of their better players, which may be part of the reason for the lopsided score.

One thing is for sure...Jaguars, please keep winning! I do not want to see the Jaguars fall into a #5 seed situation and end up traveling to Minneapolis for the Section 4A playoff opener. Don't let that happen! Rest up, do your homework, keep the grades up, take care of yourselves and practice hard! I am not ready to say we are poised for a playoff run. We have a long ways to go before that.

Central Minnesota Conference scores on Sept. 28:
Pierz 47, Eden Valley-Watkins 27 (Pioneers led only 28-27 with 9:30 left in the 4th quarter)
Holdingford 27, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 6

Area football scores on Sept. 28:
Ottertail Central 32, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 27 (this shakes up Section 4A)
MACCRAY 30, R-T-R 12 (MACCRAY's 1st win)
Springfield 28, Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart 8
Benson 36, Sauk Centre 14
Minnewaska Area 38, Montevideo 21 (Props to the Lakers; I doubted they would win a game this year)
Plainview-Elgin-Millville 40, Melrose Area 14 (Dutchmen Homecoming)
Osakis 42, Wadena-Deer Creek 18
BOLD 31, Lac qui Parle Valley 14
Becker 28, Albany 22
Paynesville Area 72, Yellow Medicine East 0
Browerville 22, Royalton 0
Lester Prairie-Holy Trinity 53, Spectrum 14
Minneapolis North 35, (Minneapolis Roosevelt 20 North, now 2-3, beat a very bad Roosevelt team that didn't field a squad last year and went 1-8 in 2010)

Here's a video clip from the Homecoming Pep Fest activities earlier today at the high school...
 

The Pep Fest had a lot of excitement for the 6th-12th grade students who were on hand. Great job to the B-B-E staff and student council members for putting it on.

Here's the link to the photo gallery at the Sauk Centre Herald website for the B-B-E vs. Rockford Area volleyball match: http://saukherald.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1541362&CategoryID=69413&ListSubAlbums=0