Home cooking! Major success! (VIDEOS*)

This blog was updated slightly on Saturday morning.

Today, on their home diamond, the B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team hosts Benson at 5 p.m. For this game, Benson is the "home" team, as it was scheduled as a game to be played in Benson. However, Benson officials deemed their field "not ready" - so it became a game in Brooten!

And the result is in!
The 52-minute-long game resulted in a 20-1 win in four innings for the Jaguars! After B-B-E posted a 2-0 lead in the first inning, they broke the game wide open with 13 runs scored in the top of the second. It is the first 13-spot in one inning by any B-B-E fastpitch team. They were held off the scoreboard in the third inning but then set themselves up for the blowout win by scoring 5 times in the top of the fourth. Altogether, B-B-E piled up 21 hits, while Benson had 2.

Benson, who is a fellow Sub-Section 3A-North team with B-B-E, was playing their second game of the season. Just like our squad, they have just 2 seniors on the roster. In their season opener yesterday (April 10) in Dawson, the Braves won 7-6 against Dawson-Boyd in spite of being out-hit 17-10.

The Jaguars are now 2-1 (1-1 Central Minnesota Conference) going into Monday's home doubleheader with Maple Lake (4 p.m.) in Brooten.

Here's a video featuring the final out being recorded in the lopsided win:


Freshman Lydia Primus spun a two-hitter with 2 strikeouts while issuing no walks in the complete-game win. Her team's defense was solid with no errors while she faced 14 batters for the game.

At the plate, Primus went 4-for-4 with one stolen base. Kenna Lieser hit 3 doubles with 3 RBI and 3 runs scored. Also earning 3 hits were Mya Worms (2 RBI), Kacey Fischer (2 RBI) and Taylor Shelton (2 doubles, 4 RBI).

Benson's pitching battery included senior Mya McGeary (IP-1 2/3) and junior Ava Williams (IP-2 1/3).

**Here's a video featuring action in the top of the 4th inning with the Jaguars batting:


I'll do a little more digging, but I think we have to go back to the 1990s to see when a Jaguar fastpitch team scored 20 runs!

On the schedule for tomorrow (Saturday) on the road...
The B-B-E Jaguars baseball team has a big Section 6A contest tomorrow when they travel east to Eden Valley to face Parkers Prairie. First pitch is at 1 p.m. at Hawks Field, their amateur baseball park. The JV team faces Parkers Prairie, and they also play at 1 p.m. at a different field in Eden Valley.

In college basketball news...
Two Northland Community and Technical College women's basketball players have been chosen as All-Americans by the NJCAA Division III Women's Basketball Committee. Northland sophomore guard Tiyana Schwinghammer was named to the NJCAA Division III All-American First Team, while sophomore point guard Josie Iverson was named to the Second Team. Schwinghammer, a B-B-E graduate in 2023, averaged 15.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game during the 2024-2025 season, and Iverson averaged 12.1 points, 4.1 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game during their respective sophomore seasons. This is Schwinghammer's second All-American award. She was named to the Second Team as a forward following the 2023-24 season. Schwinghammer is the first Pioneer to earn First Team All-American honors since Carly Mekash earned that honor following the 2019-20 season. She is the eighth Northland player to be named to the NJCAA Division III All-American First Team in program history and she joins ShaRon Miller as the only other two-time All-American in NCTC program history.

Area fastpitch scores on April 11:
St. Cloud Cathedral 19, Paynesville Area 9 (6 innings; the Crusaders are 3-0 so far after going 24-3 and finishing in third place at the 2024 Class 2A state tournament)
New Ulm Cathedral 8 BOLD 0
Yellow Medicine East 9, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 5
Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 16, Minnewaska Area 6 (5 innings; the Falcons scored 14 runs in the top of the 4th)
Eden Valley-Watkins 18, Litchfield 8 (6 innings)
Norwood-Young America 9, Maple Lake 6
Sauk Centre 6, Osakis 0
Pierz 3, Holdingford 2
Kimball Area 6, Dassel-Cokato 2
Wabasso 14, Russel-Tyler-Ruthton 4 (5 innings)

Area baseball scores on April 11:
Minnewaska Area 4, BOLD 0
Minnewaska Area 9, BOLD 1
Russell-Tyler-Ruthton 11, Lac qui Parle Valley 9
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 11, Hancock 3

Area fastpitch scores on April 10:
Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 10, New London-Spicer 3
Minnewaska Area 12, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 5
MACCRAY 9, Ashby 7
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley 12, Lac qui Parle Valley 4

Area baseball scores on April 10:
New London-Spicer 12, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 2
Montevideo 8, Benson 1
Montevideo 11, Benson 1 (5 innings)
Eden Valley-Watkins 6, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 2 (a Central MN Conference game at Eden Valley)
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 17, Central MN Christian-Prinsburg 2 (5 innings)
K-M-S 6, CMC-Prinsburg 4
Lac qui Parle Valley 12, Renville County West 1