Three varsity teams earn wins

Updates, with a Tuesday night scoreboard, are being added to this blog post on Thursday morning.

All three varsity teams that were in action tonight earned wins in their respective competitions.

At home, the B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team earned a 79-64 win over Maple Lake in a Central Minnesota Conference game. This improved their record to 2-9 overall with their second straight win. In the CMC, the Jaguars hold a 1-3 record, while the Irish fell to 0-12 overall (0-5 CMC). Next: the boys' basketball team travels the short trip into Swift County on Thursday this week for a border battle at Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg (4-6, 2-4 Camden North). They have a key CMC game the next day at Royalton (5-5, 1-3) in the second of a brutal four-game road swing. They travel to Upsala next Tuesday and then Paynesville Area (7-5, 3-1) on Thursday, January 23.

At a home triangular in Belgrade, the B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team was defeated by Osakis 44-29 in the first event of the night. The Silverstreaks, who compete in Section 6A, then beat Eden Valley-Watkins to improve to 10-5 overall. In the final dual, the Jaguars defeated Eden Valley-Watkins 50-21 to improve to 3-6 overall. The Eagles, who compete in Section 4A in the playoffs, fell to 6-8 overall. Next: the wrestling team travels south to the New London-Spicer Invitational on Friday this week with a start time of 3:30 p.m.

In a road CMC game at Maple Lake tonight, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team shook off a rough first half of play while earning a 69-48 win over the Irish. The Jaguars shot just 23 percent in the first half and sat in a 29-29 tie at halftime. Bree Thieschafer led the Jaguars with 18 points on 8-of-14 field goal shooting plus 8 rebounds and 2 assists. Next: the girls' basketball team (10-5, 5-1) has their biggest game of the season so far when Royalton comes to Belgrade on Thursday this week. A win by B-B-E would pull them into a virtual first-place tie in the CMC with the Royals (11-0, 5-0) and Holdingford (10-4, 5-1).

That's it. Time to finish the newspaper for the printing press.

**Thursday night this week...
the dance team competes at home at 6 p.m. at the elementary school.

Central MN Conference girls' basketball scores on January 14:
Eden Valley-Watkins 54, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 41 (game played on Monday this week)
Royalton 71, Rocori 36 (game played on Monday this week)

Central MN Conference boys' basketball scores on January 14:
Eden Valley-Watkins 62, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 48
Holdingford 63, Kimball Area 43 (Kimball's first CMC loss of the season)
Paynesville Area 79, Royalton 54

Area girls' basketball scores on January 14:
Pequot Lakes 54, Holdingford 50
Melrose Area 64, Paynesville Area 61
Annandale 41, Kimball Area 38
Upsala 68, Mille Lacs 22
New London-Spicer 74, Litchfield 35
Lac qui Parle Valley 52, Benson 38
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 80, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 32
Bertha-Hewitt 67, Verndale 33
Braham 71, Foley 57
Minnewaska Area 59, BOLD 54
Redwood Valley 55, Montevideo 51
Osakis 54, Swanville 35
Hillcrest Lutheran Academy 57, Underwood 42
Hancock 85, Wheaton/Herman-Norcross 26
Pine River-Backus 87, Browerville 30

Area boys' basketball scores on January 14:
Upsala 75, Mille Lacs 42
Sauk Centre 67, Annandale 63
Litchfield 66, New London-Spicer 50
Underwood 71, Brandon-Evansville 60
Henning 72, Browerville 59
Montevideo 80, Redwood Valley 59
Hancock 62, Rothsay 38
Hillcrest Lutheran Academy 67, Parkers Prairie 36
Border West 76, Battle Lake 52
Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 86, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 57