Two wins of vastly different complexions

The B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team defeated Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted by a 70-38 score tonight for their first Central Minnesota Conference win of the season. The Jaguars led 43-22 at halftime with Brittany Berge powering the offense in the first half with 15 points.

Next: the girls' basketball team has their second CMC game in two nights with a trip to Pierz (4-5, 2-2) tomorrow. The Pioneers lost at Holdingford tonight by a 67-31 score.

*Below, video from the first half of the girls' basketball game with under 80 seconds to go:


*Final score at Hancock! B-B-E boys' basketball 61, Hancock 60 in overtime! The score was tied 55-55 at the end of regulation. At halftime, B-B-E led 28-26 after they trailed 16-7 earlier in the first half. At that point, B-B-E had eight turnovers and just seven points.

Dylan Meyer earned Smooth Magic 107 FM's Stony Creek Dairy Play-of-the-Game award; the senior canned the game-winning three-point shot with 18 seconds left in the overtime session. Freshmen Ashton Dingmann earned the Lakeside Ballroom Player-of-the-Game award with 24 points and 13 rebounds.

For the game, the boys' basketball team shot 46 percent from the floor and nine of 16 three-point shots. Hancock shot 41 percent on field goals and made just five of 18 three-point attempts.

With the huge win, our boys' basketball team improves to 5-2, while the Owls fall to 6-1 overall. The win capped a three-game sweep for all three B-B-E squads, with the C-squad and JV teams also beating their Owls counterparts.

**Below, listen to the final seconds of overtime at Hancock! Courtesy of Smooth Magic 107 FM of Glenwood, with audio recorded via the TuneIn app on my SmartPhone:

We've got a lot cooking in Jaguar Country over the coming days. Tomorrow the B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team hosts the Jaguar Invitational that starts at 2:30 p.m. and will bring a great deal of excitement to our high school gym. On Saturday, the B-B-E Resistance Robotics team heads to Staples for the Kick-Off event of their 2019 competition season. Also Saturday, the B-B-E/Paynesville Pirouettes dance team resumes competition with an invitational at Alexandria.

Busy, busy, busy, busy!!!

Central MN Conference girls' basketball scores on Jan. 3:
Kimball Area 83, Paynesville Area 51
Eden Valley-Watkins 65, Maple Lake 32 (EV-W is 9-0 overall and 5-0 in the CMC)
Holdingford 67, Pierz 31

Central MN Conference boys' basketball scores on Jan. 3:
Pierz 83, Paynesville Area 75
HL-W-W 61, Holdingford 45

Area boys' basketball scores on January 3:
Litchfield 70, Kimball Area 45
Upsala 76, Swanville 65
New London-Spicer 54, Montevideo 44
BOLD 77, Benson 62
Ashby 81, Wheaton/Herman-Norcross 32
West Central Area 69, Park Christian 52

Area girls' basketball scores on January 3:
Breckenridge 69, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 66
New Prague 44, Hutchinson 42
Hancock 49, Rothsay 48
Ortonville 75, Ashby 58
Willmar 77, St. Cloud Apollo 46
Alexandria 53, Fergus Falls 39
Lakeview 54, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 49
Albany 53, Milaca 41
Mora 63, Braham 56
East Central 63, Ogilvie 59
Yellow Medicine East 42, MACCRAY 40
Lac qui Parle Valley 51, Canby 36
Minneota 78, Renville County West 18
Sauk Centre 74, Osakis 26
Dawson-Boyd 43, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 40

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