Baseball Jaguars swept by Irish

The B-B-E Jaguars baseball team put in two solid games against state-ranked and conference-leading Maple Lake tonight, but they ended up losing by scores of 3-0 and 7-4. The Irish (14-2, 10-1) are running neck-and-neck with Pierz, who is also 10-1 in the Central Minnesota Conference. The Pioneers swept Kimball Area tonight in another CMC doubleheader. B-B-E is now 8-5 overall and 7-5 in the CMC and travels to Pierz on Tuesday next week for a doubleheader.

At Maple Lake, the B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team lost 18-0 and 11-1 (5 innings).

At Pierz, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' golf team tied for first place with Osakis with a 185. They remain 40 strokes ahead of Osakis overall in the CMC standings with three meets left.

Central Minnesota Conference baseball scores on May 11:
Paynesville Area 4, Eden Valley-Watkins 1  
Paynesville Area 3, EV-W 0
Pierz 10, Kimball Area 0 (5 inn.)    
Pierz 12, Kimball Area 1 (5 inn.)

CMC fastpitch scores on May 11:
EV-W 13, Paynesville Area 2 (5 inn.)
EV-W 10, Paynesville Area 0 (5 inn.)
Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 10, Holdingford 0  
HL-W-W 14, Holdingford 1  
Kimball Area 4, Pierz 2  
Kimball Area 13, Pierz 1 (6 inn.)

Area baseball scores on May 11:
Melrose Area 6, Benson 5    
Sauk Centre 6, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 0
Litchfield 4, Watertown-Mayer 2

Area fastpitch scores on May 11:
Sauk Centre 14, Minnewaska Area 13 (8 innings!)
Osakis 17, Swanville 2
Becker 8, Albany 2
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 10, Melrose Area 2    
Melrose Area 4, MA/CA 2

On Friday, the B-B-E Jaguars boys' golf team competes at the New London-Spicer invitational.