Playoffs begin for two teams (*Updates)

...Actually three teams!

The B-B-E Jaguars track and field teams open the postseason with the Sub-Section 5A-West championships at Maple Lake high school. The meet will begin at 3 p.m. sharp. The boys' and girls' squads have numerous athletes who are in position to earn Section 5A berths if they earn top-six finishes in their respective individual events.

The B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team travels to Hantho Township in Lac qui Parle County at LQPV high school for the opening round of the Sub-Section 3A-North tournament. The Jaguars, seeded No. 6, face No. 3-seeded Yellow Medicine East. Last year the Jaguars fell 2-1 in a heartbreaker to YME in the first round.

Fun fact: back in 1871, my great-great-great grandmother Ane Romo Boraas put her stake down on a 160-acre homestead just a few miles southwest of the present-day LQPV high school. She earned the homestead deed and later passed away in 1901 at age 79.

Here's Faith Radermacher pitching in game 2 last week against Holdingford:


More to come much later. I will be spending the late afternoon and evening at the Maple Lake track and field complex with our Jaguars.

**Update: the fastpitch team lost 7-0 in their playoff opener to see their season come to an end.

At Long Prairie, the baseball team was also shut out and lost by a score of 4-0.