Friday Night Lights VII: Jaguars win blowout in the rain, earn share of district title! (VIDEO)

Mark it seven in a row! AND!! There's more!!! We are adding a regular season football trophy to the high school's trophy case for just the third time in school history.

In their seventh straight win of the season, the B-B-E Jaguars football team leveled an undermanned Long Prairie-Grey Eagle squad in a 48-7 blowout win tonight in Long Prairie. With the temperatures hovering around 45 degrees at game time with a steady rain coming down and 10 to 15 mile an hour northeast wins, the Jaguars limited turnovers to just one lost fumble while racking up a 42-7 halftime lead.

This win tonight at LP-GE, combined with Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg's loss to Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City in Murdock, gives the No. 5-ranked Jaguars just their third conference championship in school history! The Jaguars are at least co-champions of the Mid-Northwest Gopher Gold District with a 6-0 record this fall and one game remaining. The Fighting Saints are 4-2 in the district and out of the race, while Upsala/Swanville Area leveled Benson 52-0 tonight to stay just one game out of first place with a 5-1 mark. The Jaguars can do no worse than a tie for first place with U/SA depending on the outcome of next week's games.

B-B-E won the Prairie Lakes Conference title in 1988 in Year One of Jaguar football with a 4-0 record. They went 7-0 in the Mid-State, Sub-District III schedule to win the district title back in 2017.

The Jaguars received the opening kickoff and needed just two plays to score with 11:10 left in the first quarter for a 6-0 lead on a 59-yard touchdown carry by Jack Lundberg. LP-GE's first series that followed went nowhere, and they miffed the punt to give the Jaguars possession at the Thunder 14-yard line with 9:14 left. Five plays later, Luke Dingmann scored on a one-yard touchdown carry go put the Jaguars ahead 12-0 with 7:01 left.

*Here's a video featuring B-B-E's second touchdown of the game:


Braeden Michels later scored on a 45-yard touchdown carry with 3:56 left in the opening quarter that capped a 57-yard, three-play drive. Owen Paulson ran off left tackle for the two-point conversion that made it a 22-0 lead.

LP-GE then scored on a kickoff return to make it a 22-7 game with a successful PAT kick with 3:45 left...still in the first quarter. The 22-7 score was what stood at the end of the first quarter.

Ryan Jensen's five-yard touchdown reception with 11:15 left in the second quarter made it 28-7 while capping a 54-yard drive in a span of about 4 minutes.

Scoring the last three touchdowns were Owen Paulson, Luke Illies and Luke Dingmann. I'll get more written here on Saturday morning. I have to call it a night...gas tank empty! Good night!

LP-GE falls to 1-6 overall with their sixth straight loss.

For the game, B-B-E limited LP-GE to just 54 total yards of offense, whose ball carriers got tackled behind the line of scrimmage at least 7 times. LP-GE's first series had a net gain of one yard on three plays. Four B-B-E players had 3 or more solo tackles: Harley Weber, Odin Jensen, Jack Lundberg and Carson Gilbert. Ethan Mueller recorded one quarterback sack. Overall, a total of 19 Jaguars earned at least one solo or one assisted tackle. The Thunder are really struggling this year on the gridiron. I counted just 20 players in pads after the game. I haven't checked what was on their official roster, but anything that low is really, really tough for 11-man football.

Luke Dingmann's passing numbers showed 9 completes on 11 attempts for 76 yards with two touchdowns. The team's running game tallied 285 yards on 32 carries. Jack Lundberg had 78 rushing yards on 4 carries with one touchdown, and Braeden Michels had 5 carries for 73 yards with one touchdown.

The Jaguars have shattered the old record of most points scored in the regular season, which was 261 points scored in the regular season of 2013. They entered tonight's game with 254 points scored and now sit at 302 points for the season. Last year's team scored 260 points in the regular season, and the state tournament team of 2021 scored 204 regular season points.

NEXT: the Jaguars (7-0) host Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg for a border battle next Wednesday, October 18 to close out the regular season. I do not have confirmation on a final score of K-M-S's game tonight. I know that at halftime, the Fighting Saints on their Homecoming night trailed to visiting Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City by a 22-7 score. FINAL: A-C-GC 30, K-M-S 26...it was a wild fourth quarter tonight in Murdock. The Fighting Saints closed the deficit to 22-20 with a little over 3 minutes left in the game. After falling behind 30-20, the Fighting Saints scored with 54 seconds left on a two-yard reception by Logan Duke from Jared Cortez. The point-after failed, but they recovered an onside kick but ran out of time while trying to convert fourth down. A-C-GC's Jevon Williams ran 24 times for 213 yards with four touchdowns. K-M-S countered with Jett Olson's 20 carries for 113 yards and one touchdown.

Don't forget on Saturday! the Elrosa Fire Department steak fry as well as the Crow River Lutheran church soup and supper events both begin a 4 p.m. The live auction at Crow River with Mark and Brian Ziemer starts at 7 p.m. sharp. The steak fry ends at 8 p.m. or when supplies run out.

Mid-Northwest Gopher Gold district scores in Week 7 on October 13:
No. 8-ranked Upsala/Swanville Area 52, Benson 0
Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 30, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 26
Browerville 30, West Central Area 14

Area football scores for Week 7 on October 13:
Minneota 67, Lac qui Parle Valley 0
Brandon-Evansville/Ashby 56, Ortonville 7
Montevideo 37, Pierz 12
Albany 52, Minnewaska Area 6
Perham 21, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 6
Chisago Lakes Area 42, Willmar 14
Rockford Area 36, Melrose Area 6
Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 20, Sauk Centre 14
New London-Spicer 62, St. Cloud Apollo 12
Holdingford 40, Paynesville Area 6