Pirouettes terrific at Minnewaska, bring back hardware (VIDEO added*)

It was an exciting awards ceremony tonight at Minnewaska Area, as the B-B-E/Paynesville Pirouettes dance team hauled in a second-place trophy in the JV Kick division. In first place was Montevideo, while the Pirouettes defeated four other teams: Sauk Centre, Minnewaska Area, Foley and Alexandria.

**Here's an exciting video clip from Minnewaska tonight:


Before dropping back into high school sports coverage, I have some college sports news to post. Exciting! The SCSU Huskies volleyball team is heading to the NCAA Sweet 16! The Huskies defeated Concordia-St. Paul tonight by a 3-1 score in the NCAA D-II Round of 32 at Halenbeck Hall. B-B-E Class of 2022 graduate Emily Kern is a junior defensive specialist on the team. They compete in the NCAA Central Region championship tomorrow at Halenbeck Hall.

Game scores for SCSU were 23-25, 25-15, 25-16, 25-20. The Huskies are 29-2 overall.

*Saturday update: the girls basketball team defeated Brandon-Evansville 59-50 today to even their record at 2-2 overall. A new blog post will be added much later tonight. This has been an extremely busy day with Brooten Santa Day - which was wildly successful!!!

 

Dance at Melrose, wrestling at Big Bear

The B-B-E/Paynesville dance team earned two trophies at the Melrose invitational today. The JV Jazz squad took first place, while the varsity jazz squad took second.

Updates to follow.

The B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team placed 10th at the 40-team Big Bear tournament. Canon Swanson earned first place at 120 pounds. Other place winners were Tyler Bents taking fourth, Isaiah Gilbert taking fifth and Trevor Kern taking seventh.

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Dance meet, and radio coverage

Tonight the B-B-E/Paynesville dance team hosts a nine-team invitational at the elementary school beginning at 7 p.m. The National Anthem will begin at 6:55 p.m., so come early to get a good seat!

The approximate times for BBE/Paynesville's teams are as follows: 7:05 JV kick; 7:35 varsity kick; 8:35 JV Jazz; 9:10 varsity jazz.

Also, the girls' basketball game at Kimball Area tomorrow night (Tuesday, Jan. 5) will be broadcast on Smooth Magic 107 FM of Glenwood.