Friday Night Lights IX: first step is completed!

Members of the Belgrade V.F.W. carry the U.S. and V.F.W. flags off the field following the singing of the National Anthem by Paige Benson.

Our B-B-E Jaguars football team is headed to the section semifinals! They defeated Kimball Area 40-14 tonight! Moving on, baby!! I am pretty jacked up right now!

After posting an 8-0 lead in the first quarter, the Jaguars went up 16-0 in the second quarter and then took a 24-6 lead into halftime.

B-B-E's defense came up big on the game's first drive, when Kimball Area coughed up possession on a lost fumble at their own 30-yard line on third-and-four. With 10:35 on the clock, the Jaguars took over and scored on a two-play drive that ended on a 27-yard touchdown run by Kyle Felling. It was amazing! Adam Jaeger ran in the two-point conversion for an 8-0 lead.

B-B-E scored two quick touchdowns early in the third quarter to go up 40-6. The Cubs posted a second touchdown later in the third quarter.

The Jaguars (8-1 overall) rushed for a season-high 338 yards! They totaled 391 yards of offense on 56 plays. The Jaguars had four ball carriers who rushed for 61 or more yards. Another huge statistic that contributed to the win was B-B-E's defense earning three quarterback sacks on Kimball's very talented, hard-throwing sophomore quarterback, Tucker Schultz.

Full statistics will appear in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper that prints tomorrow morning.

Next: Upsala/Swanville Area (6-3) will come to Belgrade for a 1 o'clock kickoff* on Saturday, October 28. *That time is subject to change. Regardless of when kickoff takes place, we must bring the whole countryside to this game!!!!

USA beat Parkers Prairie 22-16 tonight at Swanville.

In other Section 4A playoff games:
Mayer Lutheran destroyed Browerville by a final score of 42-16. The No. 2-seeded Crusaders (8-1) are in the other bracket of Section 4A and move on to host Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg on Saturday. The K-M-S Fighting Saints upset No. 3-seeded Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity tonight 26-7 and move on to the semifinals as a No. 6 seed. (Great job, K-M-S! I predicted you would win.)

Here's video! Just got it uploaded and processed shortly after 23:00 on Tuesday night. It features quite a bit of action, including a very special, memorable and amazing performance of the National Anthem by B-B-E freshmen Paige Benson. (Her singing starts at 2:10 on the video) Members of the Belgrade V.F.W. were on hand as the Color Guard carrying the U.S. Flag and the V.F.W. flag. It was truly inspirational to have those men in the stadium!!! See for yourself:


Other playoff opening scores on October 24:
BOLD 81, Lakeview 0
Hancock 52, Underwood 20
Ada-Borup/Norman County West 31, New York Mills 0
West Central Area/Ashby 30, Osakis 13
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 34, Breckenridge 7
Pillager 54, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 7
Dawson-Boyd 56, Ortonville 14

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Game updates!

There's no radio coverage tonight. The school will stream it online at their website (broadcasting): http://bbejaguars.org.

Updates will be posted here as often as possible at this blog post (below) ...stay tuned!

GO JAGUARS!

Halftime: B-B-E 24, Kimball 6. The Jaguars led 8-0 after the first quarter.

Final: B-B-E 40, Kimball 14!

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The night before the playoff opener!

Coach Gossen gives a final talk to the Jaguars at the end of Monday's practice - the eve of the Section 4A quarterfinals.

'Twas the night before long-awaited football playoffs began, and all throughout Jaguar Country, players, coaches and fans were all thinking "YES WE CAN!"
The oncoming night will be Friday Night Lights IX, coming on the heels of a regular season where the Jaguars did very fine!
The football pads and gear were hung in the equipment shed with great care, with hopes that a vast crowd of Jaguar fans will soon be there.
The Jaguars were geared up with intensity that Kimball's team dreads, as visions of their opponents' schemes danced in their heads.
And the coaches with their chalk talk and well-stated game plans, knowing throughout the game the Jaguars will be fired up for their great fans.
As Tuesday arrives a stunning level of Jaguar Pride will arise, as the Jaguar football team will come out for battle with FIRE IN THEIR EYES!
The long Jaguar-Cubs rivalry will play out through four quarters, providing plenty of notes to keep busy the reporters.
Many years of gridiron experience has made this Jaguar team wise, as everyone in Jaguar Country knows they have their eyes on the prize!
Then comes a loud rumble in the stands that puts fear in Kimball's faithful: whose house? OUR HOUSE! whose house? OUR HOUSE! Anything but a mouthful.
Great in numbers and passion, Jaguar fans will Kimball's spirit douse, chanting in a grand chorus, "WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE!"


(Video) The Jaguars break it down following Monday's practice:


When: 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 24.
Where: the B-B-E high school football stadium
What: the Section 4A football quarterfinals
Who: the B-B-E Jaguars host the Kimball Area Cubs
Why: come to the stadium and help the Jaguars protect their house!!!

Here's a light scouting report on Kimball, which will be updated on Monday night: http://bbejaguars.blogspot.com/2017/10/scouting-kimball.html?m=0

**...and be sure to grab a copy of the special edition of the "Band of Brothers" football spread that printed on Monday. They are available for free at Coop's Corner in Belgrade, plus at Mike's Market / Roosters / RJ's Mini-Mart in Brooten.

Scouting Kimball, section seedings

Digging up some stats and other information on the Kimball Area Cubs football team. They are what stands in the way for our B-B-E Jaguars football team earning a section semifinal berth for the first time in two years. In case you haven't heard, the No. 1-seeded Jaguars host No. 8-seeded Kimball Area on Tuesday night, October 24 at 7 p.m. This will not be a typical 8-vs-1 match up. While I would not call it a "toss up" - I will call it the toughest game of the season to this point not including the season opener.

The Kimball Area Cubs have 52 players on the 9-12 grade roster. On that roster, 15 of them are seniors who no doubt played their part in helping the Cubs snap a 42-game losing streak when they beat Upsala/Swanville Area in Week Six. At the time, the 42-game losing streak was the second-longest in the country. Kimball's first-year head coach, John Benson, is a grandson of former St. John's University football coach John Gagliardi. Coach Gagliardi retired in 2012 as the nation's winningest college football coach - in any division.

The last time these two teams met in the playoffs was the 2013 Section 4A quarterfinals. That year, with then-senior Brian Goodwin as quarterback, the No. 2-seeded B-B-E Jaguars struggled to shake an 0-8 Kimball team but managed to win 21-13 in a playoff run that ended in the section finals.

Kimball is gonna bring it! We need to be ready!

This is what else I found on the Kimball vs. Browerville game (Week Seven) in which the Tigers pulled out a 35-32 win:

The Cubs just couldn’t get the luck they needed last Friday, Oct. 13, as they were edged out by Browerville, 35-32. Kimball made a valiant effort, but Browerville held on to earn its second victory of the year. The Cubs move to 1-6 following the loss.

Kimball rushed for four touchdowns and earned a fifth score through the air (Zack Garding). The lone time they converted an extra point attempt was when Weston Hine powered in a two-point conversion.

Kimball stats:

passing - Tucker Shultz 17-27 for 106 yards, one TD;
rushing - Zack Harding 16-163 with 3 TDs; Riley Miller 5-13 with one TD; Tucker Schultz 6-27; Payton Schiefelbein 2-17; Grant Garding 1-1.
receiving - Zack Garding, 8 receptions, 57 yards, TD; Thomas Pearson, 5 receptions, 59 yards; Payton Schiefelbein, 2 receptions, 2 yards; Hayden Gagnon, 1 reception, 10 yards; Weston Hine, 1 reception, 3 yards.