Worms throws a no-hitter! Fastpitch blanks ACGC, baseball comes-from-behind for a W!

Tuesday night...this blog post was updated with two videos from the ACGC baseball game. Also, the scoreboard postings were cleaned up and added to...today we got a deluge of rain. It was very needed rain. I am calling it a "million dollar rain"!!

In a Central Minnesota Conference game against Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City, the B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team faced the Falcons in Grove City today. Freshman Mya Worms started and threw a rare no-hitter. The Jaguars won 13-0 in five innings to square their record at 3-3 overall. This was the first no-hitter thrown by a B-B-E softball pitcher since May 17, 2012. On that day, then-senior Michelle Sanders threw a no-hitter against St. John's Prep in a 10-0 five-inning win.

In today's win at A-C-GC, Worms issued one walk and fired 10 strikeouts. B-B-E earned 10 hits, and 7 of their 13 runs were earned. Sophomore Kacey Fischer hit the first solo home run of her career, and Bree Radermacher went 3-for-4 with two singles, one double with one RBI. B-B-E improves to 3-3 overall and 1-1 in the CMC.

A-C-GC falls to 1-2 overall. They were runners-up in the CMC last year and have their eyes set on doing damage in the Section 4A playoffs...the last two games have been tough outings, however. After a 17-12 win against Minnewaska in their season opener, the Falcons dropped a 14-0, five-inning game to Eden Valley-Watkins last Thursday.

The next action is up in the air for this week, as we have some heavy rain in the forecast tomorrow. It is likely that the next action for fastpitch will be a road CMC doubleheader on Thursday at Maple Lake.

At Elrosa tonight, the B-B-E Jaguars baseball team trailed 2-0 after the first inning and then 2-1 going into the sixth inning against Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City.

Just for fun! I dug back into my YouTube archives and found this...

This is a video clip from the 2012 fastpitch playoff opener in Brooten...


Michelle Sanders, B-B-E Class of 2012, pitched for the varsity team beginning in the 2008 season. In fact, the biggest pitching win of her career was in that 2008 season...she earned the win in the circle on May 22, 2008 as the Jaguars defeated No. 3-ranked Maple Lake 6-5 to claim the Sub-Section 5A-West championship at Minnewaska Area.

Exciting! So exciting!!! This is so awesome! With their backs to the wall as they were running out of outs against A-C-GC, the B-B-E Jaguars baseball team plated three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to erase what was a 2-1 deficit. Final: B-B-E 4, A-C-GC 2. It puts them at 2-1 overall and 1-0 in the Central Minnesota Conference. Their next action is most likely this week Thursday in Elrosa for a CMC doubleheader against Maple Lake.

Against A-C-GC, the baseball team trailed 2-0 after 4 1/2 innings. In the bottom of the fifth, Ethan Mueller hit a one-out triple deep in left field after outrunning a cutoff throw that died in the grass in shallow left field. Luke Illies followed that with an RBI-single. Two were left stranded, however, on a strikeout and ground out. The Jaguars scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth by Ryan Jensen, Luke Dingmann and Ethan Mueller. Illies and Dingmann each had RBI hits in that inning. Kaden DeRoo got the win on the mound in relief, as the senior right hander pitched 5 1/3 innings with no hits, no runs, five walks and six strikeouts.

Here's a video from the bottom of the fourth inning in Elrosa:


Here's a video from the bottom of the fifth inning...the Jaguars plated one run, but they got robbed on a call at first base...


More to follow later...I need to have supper.

In the last bit of sports I've got to report on tonight, junior high boys' and girls' golf team members competed at The Lynx National golf course in Sauk Centre today. This was the official start of the golf season...although the varsity team (boys' golf) won't open their season until Wednesday or Thursday this week depending on the weather. I had to break away from the baseball game in Elrosa to try and catch the end of the golf meet 11 miles north...there I caught up with Coach Gary Rodgers as he brought the two girls' golf team members to the club house. Rodgers reported that five boys golfed plus two girls at The Lynx from B-B-E. I have two scores to report: seventh grader Olive Olson shot a 63, and eighth grader Marlie Schlangen shot a 70. These were two outstanding scores considering they are both first-year golfers! Rodgers mentioned that one of the junior high girls' golfers at the meet shot a 52, which is rather impressive at that level.

And some sad news...a member of the B-B-E Hall of Fame has passed away. Charles Sagedahl, Brooten Class of 1948, passed away on Saturday, April 13. He was inducted into the B-B-E Hall of Fame as a Brooten Buccaneer student-athlete with the HOF Class of 2021. You can read his obituary in the April 18 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. As long as I live, one of the most special memories I'll always cherish was when one of my daughters and one of her friends enjoyed time on the front porch of Chuck Sagedahl's Brooten home on Halloween night of 2022. The girls both told me it was really great to hear him whistling and humming a tune as they walked up to get candy and then walked to the next home. It was a "You had to be there" moment on Crow Lake Street! We already miss Chuck. He was one of a kind.

Central MN Conference fastpitch softball scores on April 15:
Kimball Area 10, Royalton 0
Eden Valley-Watkins 11, Paynesville Area 8

Central MN Conference baseball scores on April 15:
Holdingford 1, Maple Lake 0
Paynesville Area 12, Eden Valley-Watkins 2

Area fastpitch scores on April 15:
Renville County West 14, Ortonville 1
Brandon-Evansville 18, Ashby 6
Brandon-Evansville 14, Ashby 4
New London-Spicer 11, Litchfield 10
Browerville 18, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 1
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley 4, Upsala 2
Albany 10, Sauk Centre 2
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 14, West Central Area 4

Area baseball scores on April 15:
BOLD 6, Benson 2
Montevideo 7, Sauk Centre 1
New London-Spicer 12, Litchfield 2
New York Mills 14, Browerville 4
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 9, Canby 0
Albany 9, Little Falls 5
Upsala/Swanville Area 11, Breckenridge 5
Parkers Prairie 5, Wadena-Deer Creek 1

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