Speech showcase is today! and archive sports videos

The B-B-E Speech Team showcase is today from 3 to 5 p.m. at the high school. More on that was published on page 3 of this past week's Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.

I recently dug up an archived video that was never posted from the 2015 boys' basketball playoffs. It features first-year head coach Chris Anderson speaking after the B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team knocked off top-seeded and heavily favored Kimball Area by a 50-44 score in the Sub-Section 5A-South semifinals. The game was held at Little Falls high school. The playoffs that year were topsy-turvy through the subsection tournament. B-B-E was seeded No. 5 in the playoffs and had to drive over 120 miles to East Central high school in rural Askov to begin the tournament. They thrashed the Eagles and then faced conference nemesis Kimball in the semis. Midnight struck for the upstart Jaguars when they fell to No. 3-seeded Upsala Area in the Sub-Section 5A-South championship game. Upsala had defeated No. 2-seeded and neighboring and conference rival Swanville in their semifinal game which was also held at Little Falls (Noise from that game is heard in the background of the video below.)

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A key factor in this last team's run to the state championship game was the incredible coaching staff we are blessed with at B-B-E. Coach Anderson and assistant Coach Mike Brower have been coaching in the trenches since Anderson assumed the head coach position after Hall of Fame Coach Dave Montbriand geared down to eighth grade basketball in 2014.

**Here's a fun video that I also haven't posted before. This was recorded the night before that Little Falls game that's referenced in this blog post.


In the above video, third-year head coach Kristina Anderson talks to her team after they beat Pierz on Parents and Seniors Night to conclude the regular season. It was also Coach Anderson's 29th birthday! That was seven years ago...my how time flies!!!

Time to get to the speech showcase!