Border battle tonight (*updates)

The B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team has one of their biggest games of the season coming tonight when they travel down Highway 55 to Paynesville Area. The Jaguars (3-1 Central Minnesota Conference) are in a virtual tie for first place with Eden Valley-Watkins (4-1), and they both trail front-runner Paynesville (9-5 overall, 3-0 CMC).

In other news...the Belgrade Lions has tentatively set a date of Sunday, March 6 for the annual Family Fun Day at B-B-E high school. Additional information about the event is forthcoming.

Tomorrow (Friday), the wrestling team is at the New London-Spicer invitational, and the girls' basketball team has a key conference game at Holdingford. The boys' basketball team has their second game in two nights as they host Pine River-Backus.

The latest COVID numbers are in from the state...read more at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website (short link): https://bit.ly/3qOhcfK.

I may post game updates tonight on this blog post or a new one. It's time to get ready for the big game at Paynesville! 

**Update: with 7 minutes left in the first half, the Jaguars hold a 23 to 16 lead at Paynesville.

Halftime: B-B-E 40, Paynesville 31.

The Jaguars are running away with it in the second half. More to come in a new blog post.