Wrestlers earn split at Minneota (VIDEO)

The B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team was cooled off by Canby as they earned a 1-1 dual record in the Canby triangular last night. The No. 2-ranked Jaguars beat No. 10-ranked Minneota 34-26 while powering past the Vikings by taking the last four weights, including 189 and 215 by fall. Minneota fell to 13-7 overall with the loss to the Jaguars and also a 30-21 loss to the Lancers.

Against the host Lancers, the Jaguars could not overcome losing the first five weights. Going into the 139-pound match, the Jaguars trailed 27-0. Canby, who is unranked, led 38-23 going into heavyweight, which Harley Weber won by forfeit. On a closer look at the Guillotine website, I see that Canby (10-3) has just two state-ranked wrestlers: Eli Greenman (No. 4) at 121 pounds and Nick Wagner (No. 5) at 189 pounds.

B-B-E is now 11-2 in dual meets; they had won 10 straight going into the loss to Canby.

Here's a video that's over a week old...but it has taken this long to upload it...from NLS high school on January 19:


The tribute to Will Dahl and Harrison Dahl received a small bit of newspaper ink in the January 25 issue, with a picture of Jaguar wrestlers and fans gathered with the large crowd at NLS high school that day. The tribute provided by Lara Dahl, and read aloud by NLS head coach Joey Brown, was truly memorable. It is difficult to imagine the grief and pain and raw emotion felt by Lara and the rest of her family as she wrote it. Lara Dahl is the B-B-E business manager who deals with numbers, contracts and Human Resource-related matters behind the scenes. She is one of numerous school workers who make things run smoothly.

Now we try to look for good news and positive stories involving people, families and businesses of our community. The Lenten season is coming up, and that's a rough period of time for Christians to go into while feeling sad and depressed. I'm finally getting time to compile the area Dean's List for current college students. That is always a nice section to see in the newspaper.

Area girls' basketball scores on January 27:
Eden Valley-Watkins 47, Osakis 46 (at the Target Center)
Hancock 74, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 35
Mountain Iron-Buhl 103, Red Lake 22
Verndale 74, Sebeka 45

Area boys' basketball scores on January 27:
BOLD 72, Minnewaska Area 58
Nova Classical Academy 57, Maple Lake 31
Willmar 62, Brooklyn Centre 61
Sebeka 80, Verndale 48
Osakis 65, Eden Valley-Watkins 58 (the Eagles have a 15-game winning streak halted; Silverstreaks are 13-3)
MA/CA 71, Hancock 50