Let's go to church (VIDEO) and some basketball notes

Here's video from worship service on the final Sunday before Lent began...Sunday, February 27. This is at Sunburg Free Lutheran church, where Pastor Ron Knutson leads worship every Sunday. A dairy farm boy from the Norway Lake area, in his younger days, he was a bruising fullback for the Brooten Buccaneers football team in the late 1950s.

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The video begins with B-B-E Class of 2022 member Ben Thonvold providing the reading of the lessons.

I've had a lot of people ask me about Sleepy Eye St. Mary's and how good they are. I answer every time: they are very good! They are tough as nails! They played a tough schedule and won most of their games. On paper, they are underdogs in the upcoming match up with our B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team, but that doesn't mean it won't be the fight of our lives to get past the state quarterfinals. The game is not played on a stat sheet! I'm still compiling information on them. Stay tuned.

I'm still going over New York Mills statistics. One of their big guns is Noah Noffsinger, who scored just five points. B-B-E survived the game in part because of Noffsinger's shooting performance: 1 of 6 on two-pointers and 1 of 6 on three-pointers, plus he didn't get to the free throw line. Another big gun is Jack Peeters, who scored just four points on perfect 2-for-2 on field goals with no three-point shots and no free throws attempted. A third big gun for NYM is Jonah Johnson, who scored just two points on 1-of-5 field goal shooting with no three-point or free throw attempts. I've got other insights to the New York Mills game, but they will be saved for the print edition of the Bonanza Valley Voice to prevent any possible intel falling into SESM's hands.

More to come.