Winning!

The five seniors are a close bunch. They've played a lot of basketball together over the years.

Two big records were broken tonight for Seniors Night! The B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team defeated Pierz 70-39 to finish the regular season 18-8 overall and 12-2 in the Central Minnesota Conference. The 18 regular season wins is a new record for the program. The 2007-08 team (17-9) broke the previous record of 16 wins (16-6 overall) in 1994-95. The 2008-09 team tied that record of 17 wins and finished 17-9 overall while also breaking the record for most wins in conference play in a season. In 2008-09 the Jaguars finished 11-3 (third place) in the CMC. That record of 11 conference wins stood until tonight.

At halftime, the Jaguars led 50-20 over Pierz and had accumulated 20 steals. They finished the game with just eight turnovers. The Pioneers (9-17, 4-10) finished seventh in the CMC and enter the Sub-Section 6AA-North playoffs next Thursday at Melrose.

Next for the Jaguars is another home game. They host the playoff opener next Thursday, March 5 at 7 p.m. The top-seeded Jaguars will host either Swanville or Northland. Those two teams square off on Monday in the play-in round of the tournament. I confirmed today that this is the first time in school history that the Jaguars have been the top-seeded team in the playoffs!

State wrestling updates: Adam Jaeger won by pin and Ben Feuerhake won 13-7 to keep their seasons alive.

...and can't forget robotics!! Here's a glimpse of the B-B-E Robotics team's robot at Duluth.

The B-B-E Robotics team's robot (#4238) is shown ready to start competition in Duluth today.

Don't miss tomorrow morning's Prep sports review on Smooth Magic 107 FM with myself and Brady Erdmann at 8 a.m.! It will also be streamed online at http://www.kmgk1071.com.

Tonight and tomorrow night the lights will be on all night at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper office in honor of Eric Dean, a Starbuck boy who was murdered by his father's girlfriend two years ago today.

Next week I'll start sinking my teeth into officials at Pope County to determine who broke what laws as the incompetence at their Human Resources department contributed to Eric Dean's murder. It was tough reading this today: http://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/S3719831.shtml?cat=10151