Elementary state tournament pep fest (VIDEO)

Both buildings held marvelous pep fests last week for the B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team, with the elementary holding their state pep fest on Wednesday and the high school on Thursday. A longer clip from the elementary pep fest is posted a few days ago on this blog.

Below is a clip from the elementary pep fest games on the gymnasium stage:


In college volleyball news...
B-B-E Class of 2022 graduate Emily Kern's St. Cloud State University Huskies pulled off an impressive weekend while claiming the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) playoff title and an automatic berth in the NCAA Division II national tournament. In the NSIC semifinals, SCSU won 3-0 over No. 8-seeded Augustana University. In the NSIC finals, SCSU won 3-2 over No. 2-seeded and No. 3-ranked Concordia-St. Paul. A crazy game five had no fewer than 8 ties, and the Huskies won the match on a stuff block by Sam Zimmerman and Makena Hollman. Most impressive was that SCSU came back from a 13-12 deficit in game five while scoring the match's final 3 points.

SCSU head coach Chad Braegelmann is now 8-1 in NSIC playoff volleyball matches for his career, and his Huskies are now back-to-back NSIC playoff champions. For his career, his college volleyball teams are 412-253 overall. He is a Rocori high school graduate from Cold Spring who earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota-Morris in the Class of 2000 (same as me!)

Against Augustana, Kern had one ace serve and 4 digs while playing in all three sets. Against C-SP, Kern played in all five sets and had one ace serve and 11 digs. SCSU reguarly plays 3 freshmen and 1 sophomore, but they also have great senior leadership and are battle-tested for the NCAAs.

No. 9-ranked SCSU (26-5) opens the national tournament at the NCAA Central Region tournament on Friday, November 18 at 5 p.m. in Wayne, Nebraska against No. 10-ranked Northwest Missouri State.