Blue Jackets state-bound

The Minnewaska/B-B-E Blue Jackets girls' golf team punched their ticket to the Class 2A state tournament on Tuesday. They won the Section 3AA title by a wide margin over Marshall Area, the defending section champion.

B-B-E's Jacqueline Gossen finished in a tie for fourth place individually.

More information was published in the May 30 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper.

Gutsy athletes! All Jaguar boys' and girls' golf team members advance to Section 5A

The Jaguars athletes and coaches gather outside the Minnewaska Golf Course club house, with rain still coming down, after they all punched tickets to next week's Section 5A meet in Benson.

For the second year in a row, all Jaguars boys' and girls' golf team members advanced from the Sub-Section 5A-North meet to sections. They both advanced to sections in 2008 as well.

What a day! It was extremely windy, cold and very wet. I was lucky enough to use a golf cart to hop around the course and snap pictures. The kids battled the elements and managed to shine when it really counted. The B-B-E community should be incredibly proud.

This is the first year ever that the Jaguars girls' golf team has won the sub-section championship. 

On the boys' side, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley won the team title. They won a tie-breaker over the Jaguars, who ended up tied on the team score for first place when the results were all added up.

**Web story added with the Sauk Centre Herald...click here...it includes a video of the trophy presentation:
http://saukherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=402&ArticleID=15185

B-B-E's golfers have a great opening day at state

Junior Amy Knutson shot a 48 on the front nine at the main Pebble Creek Golf Course, then followed that with an even-better 45 on the back nine for a first day score of 93. Teammate Peyton Miller shot a 50 on the front nine and then a 45 on the back nine for a first day score of 95.

Knutson ranks in a seven-way tie for 18th place, while Miller sits in a five-way tie for 29th. Both are competing in their first state golf tournament. A total of 87 girls golfers are in Class A.

Junior Kelsey Ross of Osakis leads the Class A field with a first-day score of 75.

Corey Tonn's first-day score was an 86. He shot a 41 on the back nine and then a 45 on the front nine. Corey tees off at 11:49am tomorrow.

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Here's how the Sub-Section 5A-North boys' golf race played out on Friday

Matt Goodwin drives off of a hole on the back nine at the Minnewaska Golf Club during the sub-section meet on Friday.

It was a wild afternoon as the scores came in at the Minnewaska Golf Course, during the Sub-Section 5A-North meet.

West Central Area, with only one senior on the roster, took first place honors with a score of 343. They barely edged the Jaguars' boys golf team, who came in with a 345.

WCA's Matt Wagner was the second place individual medalist with a score of 78. Logan Pfingsten took sixth with an 86.

WCA head coach Kraig Hunter stated following the meet, "After our top golfers came in (Wagner and Pfingsten) we were trailing B-B-E by one stroke."

Here's how it played out from there... Calvin Anderson came in next with a solid round of 91, but B-B-E's #3 golfer (Jordan Lewis) shot an 89 putting the Knights behind by 3 strokes. B-B-E's 4th golfer (Karl Knutson) came in with a 93. In the next group, WCA's Luke LaValley needed to come in with a 90 to tie B-B-E and an 89 to beat them. LaValley came in with an 88 giving the Knights a 2 stroke lead. They just had to hope B-B-E's #5 and #6 golfers didn't have lower than a 92 and they did not, sealing the Knights victory.

Boys' golf team standings at Sub-Section 5A-North:
1 - West Central Area
2 - B-B-E
3 - Chokio-Alberta/Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley
4 - Wheaton/Herman-Norcross
5 - Ashby
6 - Osakis
7 - Browerville

Area fastpitch playoff results:
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg gets a shot at a section championship berth by virtue of their 14-5 win over Edgerton today in a Section 3A winner's bracket game. They lost to Wabasso in the winner's bracket final, though, by a 14-8 score. This sets up a rematch between K-M-S and Edgerton, coming next Tuesday (June 1) in a loser's bracket final game. The winner of that has to take on Wabasso in the Section 3A championship (June 3)...and they have to beat the Rabbits twice to advance to the state tournament.

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Jaguars' boys golf team gets back to Section 5A, finish as sub-section runners-up - Jaguars baseball falls in sub quarters 4-0

Jordan Lewis makes his first shot of the day at sub-sections, off of hole #1 on the front nine at the Minnewaska Golf Club.

The Jaguars' boys golf team finished as runners-up at the Section 5A-North tournament today at the Minnewaska Golf Course.

Two of the team members will play at sections for the second straight year, as seniors Matt Goodwin and Corey Tonn advanced individually from last year's sub-section meet.

They last advanced as a team in 2008.

West Central Area was boys' champion, while Osakis won the girls' side of Sub-Section 5A-North.

In the south half of the section...
Ortonville won the boys' side at the Sub-Section 5A-South meet, with Dawson-Boyd coming in as runner-up. On the girls' side at Sub-Section 5A-South, Ortonville was also team champion, while MACCRAY came in as runner-up. Those four teams will advance to the Section 5A meet, coming next week on June 4 at the Benson Golf Club.

A photo gallery at the Sauk Centre Herald's website has over a hundred photos of the Jaguars in action at the sub-section meet. The link is: http://saukherald.mycapture.com.

The Jaguars' girls golf team took third place the the sub-section meet. Only the top two teams advance to Section 5A. On the plus side, though, junior Amy Knutson advanced individually, keeping the streak of sending a Jaguars' girls golfer to sections intact since 2006.

• **Update in Sub-Section 5A-West baseball action...

The Jaguars' dugout cheered on their teammates at the plate during the playoff game at Upsala.

The Jaguars' baseball team played a good game but had their bats kept in check at Upsala-Swanville Area today, as they lost 4-0 in the quarterfinals.

The Jaguars finish their season 7-12 overall.

Sophomore Brady Weller pitched a complete game in the playoff opener.


Second-seeded Osakis fell behind 8-2 early on but rallied to win their sub-section opener by an 10-9 margin over #7-seed Pillager. It marks the first time in many years that Osakis has won a playoff game. They improve to 15-2-1 overall, while Pillager finishes 4-15.

Sub-Section 5A-West baseball quarterfinals:
Royalton 10, St.John's Prep 1
Eden Valley-Watkins 9, Kimball Area 8!! (Cubs make the Eagles sweat)
Osakis 10, Pillager 9

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Playoffs, playoffs, playoffs...Jaguars' sports is packed with post-season action this week

Lennard Krebs takes the handoff from Eric Speldrich. Both are the lone seniors on the Jaguars' boys track and field team this season.

• In a nutshell...

Jaguars' track and field: they host the Sub-Section 5A-20 meet at the high school sports complex on Tuesday, May 25. Field events start at 2pm, with prelims for running events coming at 2:45pm. Finals start at 4:00pm.

The Jaguars' fastpitch infield huddles up between innings in recent home action. On Tuesday this week, they will play for a Section 5A Final Four berth, a feat achieved only three times since 2000. Their last trip to sections came in 2008, which was also the first season they earned a sub-section championship in school history.

Jaguars' fastpitch: On Tuesday this week, they travel to the Minnewaska Area fastpitch complex at their high school to take on #1-seeded and state-ranked Osakis in the Sub-Section 5A-West semi-finals. The game begins at 5:00pm. The other semi-final will take place at the same time and location between #2-seed Kimball Area and #6-seed Eden Valley-Watkins.

The winners advance to the Section 5A final four round, the losers are out.

Jaguars' boys and girls golf: the Sub-Section 5A-North meet is at the Minnewaska Golf Course on Friday, May 28. Both boys and girls teams will be competing.

Jaguars' baseball: a trip to Upsala on Friday, May 28, with a 3:30pm game against the third-seeded Upsala/Swanville Area Patriots. The Jaguars are ranked #6 in the nine-team sub-section.

If they defeat USA, they will play either Osakis or Pillager at Joe Faber Field in St.Cloud on Tuesday night, June 1 at 7:00pm.

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Jaguars boys golf compete at Minnewaska Area Invitational

Senior Chris Kent putts on a green near the back end of the Minnewaska Golf Course.


An online photo gallery has been uploaded to the Sauk Centre Herald's website with pictures from the Minnewaska Golf Course. The website URL is: http://SaukHerald.Mycapture.com

At the Benson Girls Golf Invitational on Saturday, the Jaguars girls golf team placed eighth out of 12 teams in their division. They were led by Jordan Gruendemann and Peyton Miller, who both carded 100.

Team scoring at Benson: (1) Litchfield 353 (2) Osakis 399 (3) Willmar 404 (4) BOLD 412 (5) Dawson-Boyd 413 (6) West Central 413 (7) Ortonville 418 (8) B-B-E 420 (9) MACCRAY 430 (10) New London-Spicer 435 (11) Benson/KMS 443 (12) Paynesville Area 445.

Saturday prep baseball results:
Staples-Motley 4, Wheaton/Herman-Norcross 2
K-M-S Triangular at Sunburg
Osakis 8, K-M-S 7
K-M-S 18, Hancock 4
Osakis 10, Hancock 6

Saturday prep fastpitch results:
Minnewaska Area Invitational
Ottertail Central 8, Ogilvie 2
Ottertail Central 9, Minnewaska Area 0
Ottertail Central 3, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 2 (OTC is 5-0)
K-M-S 12, LP-GE 1 (5 innings)
K-M-S 15, Oglivie 1
Minnewaska Area 6, Brandon/Evansville 3
Minnewaska Area 11, LPGE 1 (5 innings)
LQPV Invite
MACCRAY 16, Montevideo 1
Championship
Dawson-Boyd 12, MACCRAY 2

**Results from the Section 5A speech meet:
4th place:
Michelle Sanders, Original Oratory
5th place:
Isabella Groller, Drama
Erin Ditmarson, Ex Reading
Jordan Lewis, Ex Speaking
6th place:
Erin Reps, Ex Reading
Hope Bell, Great Speeches
Rachel Scheller, Humorous
Katie Hieserich, Informative
8th place:
Carma Hauge, Poetry

Only the top three in each category advance to the state tournament from sections.

So while they didn't send anyone to state, the B-B-E Speech team had another outstanding season!

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Jaguars fastpitch defeats Browerville to even their record at 1-1 overall; Boys golf finishes 3rd at CMC meet in Pierz

Sophomore Amy Bast went 2-for-3 against Browerville, including a double, while also earning three RBI.

Senior Laura Johnson went 1-for-2 at the plate against Browerville, while scoring two runs and earning an RBI. She also picked up the pitching win, spinning all seven innings while scattering six Tigers' hits, giving up one earned run, one walk, and firing four strikeouts.


The Jaguars fastpitch team defeated Browerville today in their home opener, winning by a final score of 7-2.

They were helped by earning a 3-0 lead after the first inning was complete.

Sophomore Raeann Sorenson led the team at the plate with a 3-for-4 performance.

More will follow on Friday morning.

Central Minnesota Conference boys meet at Pierz: (1) Pierz 169 (2) Osakis 177 (3) B-B-E 180 (4) Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 184 (5) Rockford 185 (6) Kimball/Eden Valley-Watkins 188 (7) Maple Lake 192.

Central Minnesota Conference fastpitch results:
Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 4, Rockford 2

Area baseball results:
Holdingford 6, Foley 4
Rocori 6, Willmar 5
Paynesville Area 7, Minnewaska Area 6
Montevideo 11, LQPV 10
BOLD 10, YME 0
RCW 5, Dawson-Boyd 4
MACCRAY 12, RTR 2
K-M-S 14, Lakeview 0
Sauk Centre 6, NLS 5
EV-W 26, A-C-GC 1

Area fastpitch results:
Albany 1, Milaca 0
Albany 4, Milaca 3
Kimball Area 14, St. John's Prep 0
Pequot Lakes 7, Pierz 6
Rocori 9, Willmar 4
Paynesville Area 1, Minnewaska Area 0
Benson/Hancock 3, Morris Area 1
YME 18, BOLD 9
Dawson-Boyd 5, RCW 2
RCW 13, Dawson-Boyd 12
Sauk Centre 4, NL-S 3
Dassel-Cokato 10, Litchfield 0
A-C-GC 7, EV-W 6

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