Moving on to round three! B-B-E is heading to the 'Ship!
The B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team is advancing to the third round of the playoffs after a convincing 3-0 sweep over a very talented Parkers Prairie Panthers team. Game scores were 25-10, 25-19, 25-19. Parkers Prairie put up a good fight and scrapped after most of B-B-E's attacks. They were unable to get a good block up on many of them, however, and the Jaguars were able to finish with a 26 percent hitting figure.
Up next: the Jaguars (22-7) travel to Fergus Falls high school on Thursday, November 4 for the Sub-Section 6A-South championship. The match will begin at approximately 7:30 p.m. or later. They will face either No. 2-seeded Wheaton/Herman-Norcross or
At 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 4 at Fergus Falls high school, Breckenridge and Henning will square off in the Sub-Section 6A-North championship. The winner of that match and the winner of B-B-E vs. W/H-N will advance to the Section 6A championship, which is on Saturday, November 6 at 7 p.m. at Fergus Falls high school.
Sub-Section 6A-South update! Holy cow! the Wheaton/Herman-Norcross Warriors have advanced to the finals with a 3-2 win in Wheaton over bordering and Pheasant Conference rival Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley, who finishes 12-16 overall. W/H-N is now 19-9 overall. In the regular season, W/H-N went 6-2, one match better than runner-up West Central Area, to claim the Pheasant Conference title. **Game scores tonight in Wheaton were 25-23, 16-25, 16-25, 25-13, 15-6. The Warriors had to come back from a 2-1 set deficit after C-G-B earned big wins in games 2 and 3. The Warriors put it together to stomp on their neighbors to the south in games 4 and 5.
Up in Sub-Section 6A-North...the Henning Hornets swept Underwood in their semifinal match; both teams were 21-8 at the conclusion of the match. In the other semifinal match, No. 1-seeded and state-ranked Breckenridge improved to 27-2 overall with a 3-0 sweep over Lake Park-Audubon (14-11).
*Here's a video clip recorded at the tail end of the pre-match warmup drills; it includes the B-B-E Pep Band performing the B-B-E school song:
*Here's a long video featuring the B-B-E Pep Band playing the National Anthem, the player introductions for both teams and then the entire game one:
Area volleyball playoff scores on Friday, October 29:
West Central Area 3, Litchfield 0 (Section 3AA first-round match; WCA, now 22-6 overall, was the No. 5 seed in this match and had to travel to No. 4-seeded Litchfield; now WCA faces Paynesville Area in the sub-section semifinals on Monday, November 1 at 7 p.m. in Paynesville)
Kimball Area 3, Spectrum 0 (the win lifts the Cubs to 14-13 overall; now they get to take on No. 1-seeded and state-ranked Watertown Mayer in the Section 6AA quarterfinals)
Albany Area 3, Pillager 2 (the Granite Ridge Conference champion Albany Huskies nearly get knocked out of the Section 6AA tournament in the first round, but they pulled through with a 15-7 win in game five to improve to 18-9 overall and advance to the section quarterfinals; the Huskies, seeded No. 4, beat the 13th-seeded Pillager Huskies 20-25, 25-13, 23-25, 25-10, 15-7; that's crazy! Albany went down 2-1 in sets before putting the hammer down in game four; Pillager finishes 6-21 overall; Pillager was 0-7 in the Park Region Conference, which was won by Henning with a 7-0 record)
Bertha-Hewitt 3, Upsala 2 (the B-H Bears improve to 17-14 overall with their first sub-section final berth since the 2010 season; they won at Upsala tonight in a Section 5A, sub-section match; in the 2010 playoffs, B-H lost 3-1 to our Jaguars in the subsection finals at Pierz in a season when the Jaguars advanced to state)
Eden Valley-Watkins 3, Minnewaska Area 0 (the Eagles are the No. 2 seed in Sub-Section 3AA-North and improve to 17-10 overall; the Lakers, seeded No. 7, end the season 7-20 overall; I haven't seen who EV-W plays next)
MACCRAY 3, Renville County West 1 (the Camden North Conference champion Wolverines are the No. 2 seed in Sub-Section 3A-North and improved to 20-7 overall with this quarterfinal win; up next for MACCRAY is No. 2-seeded Canby in the semifinals; the Lancers defeated MACCRAY 3-1 in a Camden Conference match in Canby on September 21, which is ancient history by now)
Browerville 3, Verndale 0 (the Prairie Conference champion Browerville Tigers are 23-2 overall after this Sub-Section 5A-South quarterfinal win)
Yellow Medicine East 3, Central Minnesota Christian-Prinsburg 0 (the YME Sting pull off a rather large upset and improve to 10-14 overall with this Sub-Section 3A-North quarterfinal win at Prinsburg; CMCS swept YME in Prinsburg on September 9 in a Camden Conference match but finish the year 18-10 overall with an 0-1 mark in the playoffs)
Paynesville Area 3, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 0 (Not much to say here, as it was a routine win for the top-seeded Bulldogs, who are 21-3 overall now)
New London-Spicer 3, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 2 (the MA/CA Tigers push NL-S to the limit in this opening-round match of Sub-Section 3AA-North but end their season 6-18 overall; the No. 3-seeded Wildcats, who are 16-12 overall, swept sixths-seeded MA/CA in a non-conference match on August 31 at Fort Knox in New London;)
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