Granite City Classic basketball (VIDEO, UPDATES)

*Here's the third winter sports show of the season:


We are courtside for the Granite City Classic at St. Cloud Apollo high school. The B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team is facing a fleet-footed and talented Cass Lake-Bena team while trying to snap a two-game losing skid. The Panthers are 5-1 overall and come into the game averaging close to 70 points per game, while their defensive average is 37 points per game. They are tough as nails and ranked No. 12 in the latest Minnesota Basketball News rankings.

With 10 minutes to go in the first half, CL-B has an 18-9 lead. With 6:27 left, the Jaguars had cut the deficit down to 18-13.

Here's a video featuring the start of today's game, which kicked off the games at Apollo:


Halftime: #12 CL-B 34, B-B-E 17. The last 65 seconds of the game were rough, as the Panthers put up 7 unanswered points. B-B-E struggled mightily offensively in the last 6 minutes.

Final: CL-B 71, B-B-E 45. The Jaguars shot a cold 35 percent from the floor.

The boys' basketball team plays Nevis at 1:30 p.m. today at St. John's University.

Right now we are heading to Brainerd to watch Tiyana Schwinghammer and her Northland Pioneers women's basketball team! They faced No. 4-ranked Riverland from Austin. The Pioneers are 9-3 overall so far this winter.

For the girls' basketball team, they play at 2:15 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday) at St. Cloud Apollo against Hawley to conclude the Granite City Classic. Tomorrow's varsity boys' basketball team is at 3:45 p.m. and also at Apollo....they play back-to-back games there. The boys' basketball team's opponent will be Mountain Iron-Buhl.

Update in Brainerd... at halftime, the Northland women's basketball team has a 35-28 lead over Riverland. Final: Northland 73, Riverland 49. Schwinghammer had an unofficial 21 points and 14 rebounds for another double-double.

The B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team lost 82-62 today to Nevis. At halftime, the Tigers led 42-34. They were led by 25 points from Luke Dingmann and 10 by Hayden Sobiech. The Jaguars shot a solid 43 percent from the floor but made good on just 3 of 14 three-point attempts.