Some photo galleries posted

The Sauk Centre Herald has a new host for online photo galleries...here's the link for photos from the Class A state girls' golf meet in Becker last week:
http://saukherald.smugmug.com/2013SPORTS/B-B-E-girls-golf-at-Class-A/29968910_5tqLbg#!i=2573488482&k=QfLTj53

Here's the photo gallery from the B-B-E 6th grade class trip to St. Paul on May 29:
http://saukherald.smugmug.com/2013NEWS/B-B-E-6th-grade-class-trip/29968016_nX88hP#!i=2573393724&k=wjsdXFK

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

Off to sub-section golf

Had to pack up for the rain...it'll be another wet day.

No time to blog this morning. My apologies.

Ross Rath approaching the finish line while running the fourth leg of the Sub-Section 5A-20 4x100 relay race; he and his relay team won the event with a time of 47.64 seconds. Off to Section 5A!

Great news...Jaguar girls' golf take second at Rockford meet

At Corcoran on Friday during an afternoon where sleet and rain was making a mess of things, the Jaguars girls' golf team took second place in the second Central Minnesota Conference meet of the year.

Exciting races for the sub-section golf championships are underway

It's neck-and-neck between Osakis, B-B-E and West Central Area for the boys' championship in Sub-Section 5A-North. With the first round completed, Osakis led with a score of 176, followed by WCA at 177 and B-B-E at 181.

The B-B-E girls' golf team is faring well on their end of the competition. With the first round complete, they held a score of 229 compared to front-runner WCA's 220.

More will follow later.

Jaguar girls' golf 5th at CMC opener

Team scores at Maple Lake on Tuesday were:
1. Maple Lake 179; 2. Osakis 185; 3. EV-W/K 195; 4. Pierz 207; 5. B-B-E 224; 6. Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 229; 7. Rockford 234.

The Jaguar boys' golf team earned second place in their first conference meet of the year.  

Here's another clip from the track meet yesterday...showing a 4x800 relay handoff

Knutson has a strong finish on day two of the state girls' golf meet

Senior Amy Knutson finished her fine career as a three-sport B-B-E Jaguar athlete with a strong finish at the Class A girls' golf state tournament.

After sitting in 40th place out of 88 golfers after day one, Knutson had a strong day two showing to move up to a five-way tie for 37th overall with a two-day score of 191 at Pebble Creek Golf Course in Becker.

Knutson shot a 48 on the front nine today and a 46 on the back.

She is a rare example of a student who was captain of four activities her senior year: girls' tennis, danceline, speech and girls' golf.

Osakis did a fine job representing Section 5A as a team, with the Silverstreaks coming in with a fourth-place showing. Their senior star Kelsey Ross won the individual state title by a single stroke with a two-day total of 160.

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Good luck to Amy Knutson today in the Class A state golf tournament

Senior Amy Knutson teed off today at 12:34pm at Pebble Creek Golf Course in Becker. It is day one of the Class A state golf tournament.

This is the second year in a row that Knutson has earned a state meet berth.

**Update at 8pm...Amy still has 3 holes left to golf. They had a major rain delay.

Check back later tonight to see how she fared on the links today.

**Update at 9:30pm...Amy had an outstanding first day at the state golf meet. She struggled early but then recovered nicely on the second round and finished with a first day score of 97. Her rank is 40th out of 88 girls heading into the final day of the meet.

Team wise, Section 5A champion Osakis sits in fourth place out of the eight teams competing for the title. The Silverstreaks' top four golfers shot a cumulative 373, while the top team from Lewiston-Altura shot a 330.

Sauk Centre's Laura Hintzen, also in her second straight state appearance, shot a 49 on the front nine and 43 on the back to come in for a three-way tie at 46th place out of 88 golfers in Class AA at Jordan.

Six-time state champion Minnewaska Area sits in third place overall with a 345. The top team in Class AA, Detroit Lakes, has a 329. Red Wing has a 330.

More exciting playoff news for the Jaguars - Plus update on baseball

Five Jaguars boys' and girls' golf team members earned a spot in the Section 5A tournament after today's Sub-Section 5A-North meet at Minnewaska.

B-B-E's Peyton Miller, Amy Knutson, Jordan Lewis, Carl Knutson and Aaron Roelike will compete in the section meet next Wednesday, June 1 in Benson.

Miller, an eighth grader, took runner-up honors overall in the girls' division, carding a 93.

The Jaguars baseball team won two games at Rockford on Tuesday by scores of 7-1 and 7-6. They open the playoffs tomorrow in Elrosa at 5 p.m. against #9 seed Pillager.

Brandon Roelike, a junior, banged out a three-RBI home run in the fourth inning at Sauk Centre on May 23. He also hit the game-winner in game two at Rockford on Tuesday night.


More will follow on Thursday morning.

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Knutson is co-medalist at home CMC girls' golf meet on Monday this week

Senior Amy Knutson earned co-medalist honors at the second Central Minnesota Conference meet of the season on Monday, shooting a 43 to tie Erin Dingmann of Eden Valley-Watkins/Kimball Area.

Eighth grader Peyton Miller was not far off of the mark set by Knutson, as she came in with a score of 45. Both Miller and Knutson are returning state qualifiers for the Jaguars girls' golf team.

The meet was hosted by the Prairie View Community Golf Course.

In the first boys' Central Minnesota Conference meet of the season, Jacob LeBrun paced the Jaguars with a 43 at the Osakis Country Club on Monday. LeBrun was only three strokes off of the medalist, Alec Raabe of Rockford. The team results were incredibly tight, as the Jaguars finished fifth but trailed first place Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted by only 11 strokes.

Boys' golf team scores at Osakis: (1) Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 177 (2) Kimball/Eden Valley-Watkins 179 (3) tie, Osakis and Pierz, both 182 (5) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 188 (6) Rockford 196 (7) Maple Lake 201.

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Jaguars' boys and girls golfers tee off this morning at the Benson Golf Course in the Section 5A meet

The Jaguars' boys golf team has a good chance at advancing to the state tournament, which would be a first in B-B-E school history.

Meanwhile, two members of the Jaguars' girls golf team are competing at sections as well. Junior Amy Knutson and seventh grader Peyton Miller will compete for a chance to go to state. Knutson is in her second trip to the Section 5A tournament, as she went as a freshmen with the Jaguars girls golf team, who were sub-section runners-up in 2008.

By 4:00pm I will post who is advancing to the state tournament.

Section 5A girls' fastpitch championship:
Barnum 3, Osakis 0

Section 6A girls' fastpitch championship:
Menahga 1, Parkers Prairie 0 (Panthers narrowly miss out on advancing to 3 state tournaments this year - they went in volleyball last fall and took 3rd in basketball in March)...making it tougher was the fact that the Panthers swept Menahga on April 27 in a Park Region double-header. Menahga takes an 11-14 overall record into the state tournament next week

Section 6AA girls' fastpitch championship:
Rocori 5, St. Cloud Cathedral 4 (10 innings)

Today (Tuesday) Jaguars' girls golf at Sauk Centre has been cancelled

The Sauk Centre girls golf invitational that was to include Benson/KMS, St. Cloud Cathedral, Melrose Area, Morris Area, Kimball Area, and Meadow Creek Christian has been canceled. It was to be hosted at the Sauk Centre Golf Club on Country Club Road.

Just as I was adding the invitational information to the website, I learned that it was canceled. The forecast suggests that it will rain all day.

It's 35 degrees outside right now!

More will follow later.

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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