Jaguars rock Rockets, clinch share of CMC title!

Three-year starter James Kuefler hauls down a rebound against Maple Lake earlier this week. Without a doubt, he and his fellow seniors on the team are a group of very special, very elite athletes.

Final in Rockford: B-B-E Jaguars 98, Rockford 59. It's the most points ever scored by the Jaguars in a Central Minnesota Conference game. They've been members of the CMC since 1999. Last year's 74-50 win in Rockford was their biggest win to that point that they had in Rockford. This year's win definitely topped that.

Tonight's win at Rockford clinched a share of the Jaguars' sixth straight CMC championship. Six in a row! Wow! Now they need to make it count and make it even more memorable by running the table the rest of the way to playoffs. Up next for the Jaguars is a home game on Tuesday night against Pierz; a win over the Pioneers would clinch the conference title outright - also for a sixth straight season.

At Eden Valley tonight, the Jaguars girls' basketball team lost 52-45 after being down 28-17 at halftime. Junior Alex Evenson led B-B-E with 9 points. The Jaguars (10-11) shot just 9-for-22 at the free throw line...had they gone 17-of-22, not a mark that is unreasonably high, they would've left as winners.

Good luck to the K-6 Youth Jaguar wrestlers when they compete in a team tournament at Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg on Sunday. They are piling up an impressive amount of hardware this season, and I expect that to continue this weekend.

Section 5A wrestling Final Four results:
Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 63, Paynesville Area 6
Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 57, Kimball Area 7 (the championship was incredibly lopsided)
Kimball 53, Osakis 24

Central Minnesota Conference boys' basketball scores on Feb. 14:
Kimball Area 62, Holdingford 43
Maple Lake 62, Pierz 48

Area boys' basketball scores on February 14:
Melrose Area 69, Montevideo 67 (Dutchmen, Thunderhawks sit in a tie for 1st in the West Central North Conference at 9-3 each; Sauk Centre fell to 2nd place alone at 9-4 with an upset 89-79 loss at Minnewaska) 
Browerville 65, St. John's Prep 51
Benson 83, A-C-GC 68 
MACCRAY 71, K-M-S 36
Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 80, Eden Valley-Watkins 63
Orono 82, New London-Spicer 59

Area girls' basketball scores on February 14:
Sauk Centre 74, Paynesville Area 52
#8 AAA Orono 63, New London-Spicer 53
A-C-GC 38, Benson 32
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 62, Melrose Area 42
Montevideo 58, Minnewaska 45