Four wins! (VIDEO)

Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa varsity teams recorded four wins tonight!

On the home court, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team overcame a strong challenge from Osakis to record a 47-41 non-conference win. This improves their overall record to 4-0 as they have a six-day layoff from competition before hosting Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City next Thursday, December 16. Seven players scored tonight for B-B-E, with Abby Berge leading the way with 18 points.

Osakis is 2-2 overall; they are 1-0 in the Prairie Conference after beating Upsala 55-37 last night.

At a dual tournament hosted at Bertha-Hewitt high school tonight, the B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team picked up three non-conference wins. They started with a 60-15 win over Hibbing. Next was a big 61-18 win over Section 5A rival Minnewaska Area. They finished with a convincing 55-18 win over state-ranked Minneota, who is a new member of Section 5A this year. Tonight's action was the first competition of the season for Minneota, whose football team played in the Prep Bowl just two weeks ago.

B-B-E is 3-0 going into tomorrow's varsity and JV invitational at West Central Area high school (JV starts at 9 a.m.; varsity starts at 9:30 a.m.).

*Here's a video that starts about halfway through the first half tonight against Osakis:


More to come. Time to take a look at the area scoreboard. I did see that Royalton's girls' basketball team defeated Paynesville Area 64-41 in a Central Minnesota Conference game tonight in Royalton. The Royals are 2-0 in the CMC and 4-1 overall. They appear to be the main threat to our Jaguars in the conference.

Area girls' basketball scores on December 10:
Underwood 63, Brandon-Evansville 44
Battle Lake 48, Parkers Prairie 40
Menahga 78, Bertha-Hewitt 37 Verndale 48, Sebeka 46
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 61, Melrose Area 41

Area girls' basketball scores on December 10:
Sauk Centre 72, Holdingford 22
Foley 47, Maple Lake 26
Albany 59, Melrose Area 50
Browerville 67, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 37
MACCRAY 60, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 48

Let's all tip our hats to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court! This past week, their state's highest court struck down their vile and shameful school mask mandate. Hallelujah. It's ironic that states like Pennsylvania, who are doing utterly vile things to their school children, are seeing worsened COVID-19 cases. Yesterday in Pennsylvania, population 12.8 million, they had 11,628 new COVID-19 cases. In Minnesota, where we do not have a statewide mask mandate, we reported 4,429 new cases in a population of 5.7 million. The per capita rate is higher in Pennsylvania.

Look around the country, especially at these blue states: Pennsylvania, New York and Commie-fornia. Those states speak for themselves. In New York state, school children eat lunch outside in freezing temperatures "to keep them safe" - according to that utterly vile White House press secretary Jen Psaki. These people are insane. We can look in our own backyard here in Minnesota in blue counties like Hennepin, which have multiple schools who enforce a mask mandate regardless of vaccination status. Their COVID-19 numbers are no better than outstate Minnesota. There's still a high level of COVID-19 in those areas where they have an endless list of COVID-19 mandates. What gives? With all that masking and the vaccine mandates in place in countless colleges and public schools in the Twin Cities, they should have a firm handle on COVID-19, right? Compare that to our B-B-E school district, where our COVID-19 numbers aren't running through the roof. In fact, week to week, they've been in the same range for the past 8 weeks. This is all while we have perfectly normal, gatherings-allowed, mask mandate-free public school. Just this past August, our overlords predicted that we would be trampled by COVID-19 if we did not follow all of their rules and recommendations. We've had 14 weeks of school now, which represents approximately 36 percent of the 2021-2022 school year. There's no more or no less COVID-19 in our local communities than there was 4 weeks ago. In fact, our latest COVID-19 weekly case counts across the area are lower now than they were prior to the Thanksgiving break. Those are facts. Our overlords' predictions did not come true. They were completely wrong. Color me shocked.