Step I: opener success

Final score! B-B-E 64, K-M-S 39. As a team, the Jaguars shot 43 percent from the floor, made six three-point shots while going 12-of-17 (70 percent) on free throws.

The top-seeded B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team advances to the Sub-Section 5A-South semifinals at Foley this Saturday night. Tip-off is at 6 p.m.!

Update: the Jaguars (20-7) will play No. 4-seeded Swanville (14-9). Tonight at Swanville, the Bulldogs defeated neighboring and Prairie Conference rival Upsala (8-19) by a 44-41 score.

Updates to follow later plus video from tonight's game.

*Here's video from the latter part of the first half tonight:


*Read about the wrestling team and learn about day one of the state tournament in this week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.

Class 1A state wrestling quarterfinals:No. 2-seed Frazee 41, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 10
No. 3-seed LPGE/Browerville 41, Blackduck/Cass Lake-Bena 13
No. 1-seed Zumbrota-Mazeppa 37, Ottertail Central 19
No. 4-seed Tracy-Milroy-Balaton/Westbrooke-Walnut Grove 63, No. 5-seed Kenyon-Wanamingo 7
Class 1A wrestling semifinals:
Frazee 38, LPGE/Browerville 20 (LPGE-Browerville led 20-19, but Frazee won the final four matches to pull away.)
Zumbrota-Mazeppa 35, TMB-WWG 18
Class 1A state title match: Zumbrota-Mazeppa 31, Frazee 19
Third-place match: TMB/WWG 38, LPGE/Browerville 18
Fifth-place match: OTC 39, B/CL-B 23
(Also, ACGC finished 0-2 at state with a 30-27 loss to B/CL-B in the consolation round)

Various Section 5A girls' basketball results:
Pine River-Backus 72, Verndale 48
Sebeka 64, McGregor 43
Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 80, Nevis 35
Barnum 77, Isle 27
Menahga 75, Browerville 22
East Central 78, Ogilvie 47

Area girls' basketball playoff results on March 1:
Wheaton/Herman-Norcross 71, Brandon-Evansville 18
Underwood 59, Hancock 50
West Central Area 51, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley 38
Parkers Prairie 58, Ortonville 30
Eden Valley-Watkins 58, Minnewaska Area 20
Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 71, Pipestone Area 31
Kimball Area 50, Royalton 46 (No. 6-seeded Cubs upset No. 3-seeded Royals in the Sub-Section 6AA-East quarterfinals)
Albany 45, Osakis 41
Melrose Area 62, Holdingford 47
Sauk Centre 64, Pierz 27
Maple Lake 53, Breck 33

Annandale 47, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 42
New London-Spicer 65, Litchfield 56 (ninth straight win for the Wildcats, who are now 21-6 heading into the Sub-Section 3AA-North championship game against Eden Valley-Watkins)