Two basketball wins and obituary listing (UPDATED)

I still have "miles to go" to get the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper ready for press. This blog post will be awfully brief. I am not touching any of my game video until tomorrow. So in a nutshell...

In a home Central Minnesota Conference game, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team was carried by a strong first half of action and survived a late comeback bid by Paynesville Area in a 48-45 win. This evened the season series at 1-1 with the Bulldogs, who defeated the Jaguars before Christmas.

At Maple Lake in a CMC game tonight, the B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team got back in the win column with a 96-66 win via shoot out against the Irish. The Jaguars led 54-39 at halftime. Hayden Sobiech led all scorers with 23 points. B-B-E made 18 out of 30 free throw attempts and shot 49 percent on field goals.

And as I did in the most recent blog post tonight...

We interrupt this sports reporting to provide this important community announcement:
Dear Community,
The Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa area has been experiencing a lot of tragedies lately. On Monday this week, we laid to rest the two brothers who passed from a side-by-side accident. Their mother works at B-B-E school. Two traffic accidents have occurred taking the lives of a mother and father leaving behind an orphaned son. The other accident took the life of a mother. The three-year-old was airlifted to Children’s Hospital and will survive. Another mother also lost a son.

To help the B-B-E community, Fr. Greg and I will lead a prayer service at St. Francis de Sales in Belgrade this Sunday, January 28 starting at 3 p.m. Prayers for the community and protection.

Please keep the B-B-E community in your prayers.
God Bless, Fr. Botzet, B-B-E Area Catholic churches


Updates on Wednesday night...
For the funeral information and obituary on Jason Michels, you can click here: https://rb.gy/q94htv. His obituary didn't make it into the newspaper. We just had too much going on, and three obituaries were enough to nearly break the paper.

For Cassie Mithaugen, B-B-E Class of 2001, the public visitation will be on Sunday, January 28 at Johnson Funeral Home in Belgrade from 2 to 5 p.m. I can't even begin to imagine how difficult that will be. Additional court documents were released by officials on Wednesday that provide more information on the man whose SUV struck and killed her on Monday. A first court hearing was held today. Everything about this case is disturbing.