Baseball team splits with Maple Lake, track in action at Sauk Centre (VIDEOS*)

In a home Central Minnesota Conference game and the first home action of the season, the B-B-E Jaguars baseball team came away with a series split against Maple Lake tonight in Elrosa.

The Jaguars were terrific in game one and defeated the Irish 3-0. Baron Breitbach, an 8th grader, got his first varsity career win and went the distance on the mound. He held the Irish to just one hit while surrendering just two walks to go with 11 strikeouts.

In game two, the Jaguars led 2-0 after two innings before Maple Lake scored 5 runs in the bottom of the third inning. The Irish took the second game by a 10-3 score.

The Jaguars have a big Section 6A game at Ashby (0-5) this Saturday.

Here's a video recorded later in tonight's game


Tyler Myers, a junior, was closer in the second game tonight.

The Jaguars are 2-4 overall.

At Sauk Centre on Thursday, the B-B-E Jaguars track and field teams competed in an 8-team invitational. On the girls' side, Laken Anderson placed third in the high jump (4'10"). Seventh grader Brooklyn Breitbach led the girls' squad with a second-place finish (2:31.77) in the 800 run. Breitbach took fourth place in the 1600 with a career-best time of 5:51.56. That was a full 20 seconds faster than her run at A-C-GC a week ago.

Here's a video featuring Breitbach finishing the 800 in Grove City a week ago:


Aiden Detloff, a sophomore, had a personal best 18'2" in the long jump while taking 6th place on the boys' side. Taylor Pieper, a senior, ran a 54.57-second 400 open to take second place. Mason Douvier ran a career-best 5:11.47 in the 1600 run while taking 6th place. The boys' 4x400 relay squad took third place out of 6 teams with a season-best time of 3:50.4; that squad consisted of Taylor Pieper, Aiden Detloff, Colin Evenson and Mason Douvier.

Backing up to Tuesday this week...
The B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team suffered a 12-5 loss in CMC action at home to Eden Valley-Watkins. The Eagles banged out 14 hits overall against all three B-B-E varsity pitchers.

The fastpitch team traveled to Maple Lake today (Thursday) but had a doubleheader series called in the second inning of the first game. The doubleheader with the Irish will resume at a later date. In the second inning, hail and rain stopped the action. A downpour brought standing water to the softball field infield at Maple Lake high school, according to Coach Funk. Funk reported that the Jaguars had a terrific start to the game.

On Friday, the fastpitch team travels to Long Prairie-Grey Eagle for a non-conference game.

The Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's website is being updated: https://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com. Two new posts were added tonight featuring a renewable fuels promotion plus the B-B-E FFA Tractor Day.

In girls' golf news...
On Wednesday, the B-B-E Jaguars girls' golf team traveled to Sauk Centre's Greystone Golf Club for a 10-team invitational. Kragen Wiener led the Jaguars with a terrific score of 97. Olive Olson had a 103, and Marlie Schlangen shot a 127. Albany won the team title with a 356.

The boys' and girls' golf teams competed in Atwater in the CMC season opener on Tuesday. I'll catch up to that and update this blog post later on Friday.

I have the "extreme luxury" of working on the road on Friday, as I'm now blogging from the outside deck of the Osakis Golf Club as a Central Minnesota Conference girls' golf meet is getting underway. At this time, the boys' golf team is getting their meet going at Prairie View Golf Course in Brooten. The boys and girls switch sites for an afternoon CMC meet.