BVD 3-on-3 basketball; Starz of Tomorrow Baseball Academy, and *VENUE change

The flyer is ready for the Bonanza Valley Days 3-on-3 youth basketball tournament! Coach Rambow submitted this to our sports department tonight, so now it's time to promote, promote, promote! This event will help kick off the four-day BVD weekend of activities, and it will be held on Thursday, July 11 at the B-B-E elementary school in Brooten.

The BVD 3-on-3 basketball tournament is set up for student athletes who are ENTERING 4th through 9th grade for the 2024-2025 school year. Games will start at 9 a.m.

Now's the time to start organizing your 3-on-3 team...teams can include 3 or 4 players. I'll get additional details posted here. Also, I hope to get the registration form included in the newspaper. We'll see.

In high school baseball news...
At this point, a venue change has been posted for the Section 6A semifinals for our B-B-E Jaguars baseball team, who is set to face Parkers Prairie tomorrow (Tuesday) at 2 p.m...this game is set to be played in Clarissa, not Browerville. The forecast looks tough, however...we'll have to see what develops for severe weather on Tuesday. ALSO! The Section 6A championship series is set to begin on Wednesday, June 5 at 4:30 p.m. at a site to be determined.

**Here's top of the fifth inning action against Upsala/Swanville Area last Friday in Morris:


The clip begins with U/SA batting with one out and two runners in scoring position for a solid threat to B-B-E's slim 2-0 lead underway. Right fielder Jack Lundberg ran down a ball hit down the right line, caught it for a pop fly and then threw a bullet to catcher Aiden Mueller that held up the runner at third base. It was an incredible throw right on the money that helped preserve the shutout!

In YOUTH baseball news...Youth baseball camp coming to Elrosa on June 19 - register soon!
The Starz of Tomorrow Baseball Academy will be coming to Elrosa on Wednesday, June 19 at Saints Field. This is for baseball players age 13 and younger.
The Starz of Tomorrow Baseball Academy is operated by Pat Dolan with the St. Cloud State University baseball team. He has been head coach of the Huskies since June 2007. At SCSU, his teams compiled a record of 611-247-1. The 2024 season was his 29th year as a collegiate head baseball coach.
This year’s Starz of Tomorrow Baseball Academy youth camp in Elrosa features a skills camp from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and a game will be played from 2 to 3 p.m. Lunch is provided.
This will be the 35th year that Coach Dolan’s baseball academy has done summer camps across Minnesota. From his website, Coach Dolan said, “Come join the baseball FUN and learn the FUNdamentals of this great game with learning new baseball drills, drills, drills to in every area of the game to improve your baseball skills along with simulated baseball games and various contest and always finishing the day with a game
Each player will get a Starz of Tomorrow camp T-shirts and a baseball lunch. Awards will be given for MVP, MMS (Star!), Charlie Hustle, Mr. Defense and top hitter. Also included are contests that test arm speed and bat speed with their radar gun and running speed from home to first base along with Rambow “Grinder of the Day!”, the Viking Coke “Powerade dirty, mustache throwing contest!” and more.
The cost for B-B-E Jaguar players is just $75 or $50 by cash payment.
Registration can be handled online at https://starzbaseballcamp.com/camps/detail.php?campid=178.

The days continue to get longer and longer...it will be this way for a couple more weeks before the summer solstice. Can you believe it? THEN we begin our march towards winter. Crazy...yes, later in June, the days begin to shorten day by day.

Area baseball playoff scores on June 1 and June 3:
Windom Area 3, New London-Spicer 2
Minnewaska Area 7, Paynesville Area 4 (an elimination game at Regal on Saturday)
Minnewaska Area 5, NL-S 4 (an elimination game in Granite Falls on Monday)
Montevideo 2, Windom Area 1 (a Section 3AA winner's bracket game)
Pierz 5, Holdingford 2
Foley 7, Albany 6