Monday, October 28, 2024

338 pictures


Oh, man, did I bury myself on Saturday. I just checked the camera card: 338 pictures taken on Saturday afternoon at the football game. Now the uphill climb begins for picking what gets published in the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper! Oh, boy!

I'm also working on a cross country story on senior Taylor Nelson, who was a leader at the Section 6A meet on the Paynesville/B-B-E boys' cross country squad. In last Thursday's state qualifier, Nelson missed advancing to the state cross country meet by just two places. It was a heartbreaking end to what was a short but outstanding cross country career.

Football and volleyball are clearly, and with good reason, the big talk of the community this week. We have two big match ups ahead of us for both teams! Have you made your plans yet for carpooling to Fergus Falls tomorrow night?

More to come tonight. Soon it's time to get ready for the B-B-E Music Boosters Halloween Spooktacular!



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Sunday, October 27, 2024

The Voice Fall Sports Show No. 10 - Let's Make Travel Plans and support our Jaguars! (VIDEO)


Right after returning home from the Bonanza Valley Royal Strutters Gun Blast last night at the Padua Pub, I went straight to the recording studio with the camera equipment. Instead of drawing up an intricate outline and speech for this 10th Fall Sports show of the season, I wanted to record it right away and get it done. With football and volleyball fresh on my mind last night, I figured I'd get most of what I wanted to say included.

Here's what I did not stress in the podcast: the trip to Fergus Falls on Tuesday night to cheer on our volleyball team is crucial! They will be playing on Tuesday without the support of the football team, who will be remaining home and just about wrapping up with their practice while the volleyball team is running pre-match drills. Let me be very clear on this: the match against West Central Area will be essentially a home game for the Knights. Their school district is neighbors right to the south of Fergus Falls. It's more or less a 20 to 30 minute drive for WCA Knights fans. For B-B-E fans, it's about a 1 1/2 hour drive. This is a HUGE hurdle to overcome! Please spread the word and fill up the car pools! Fan support goes a long way in the playoffs!

Without further ado...here's the latest installment of The Voice sports department's fall sports show:


Today I thoroughly enjoyed having lunch at the Sunburg Free Lutheran church! They had an old-fashioned and delicious Lutheran potluck meal. They are hard to beat! Yah, sure, you betcha!

I looked ahead on the forecast, and it appears that our family garden vegetables will not make it into November. On the night of Halloween, a hard frost will take out what we have left growing with a low of 28 degrees. It is unclear if blankets will help. I may try a sleeping bag over a couple of our tomato plants. We'll see how the week goes.

Looking ahead to a few section football championship games...
Section 6AAA: Minnewaska Area faces Albany in that section final at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 1 at Rocori high school in Cold Spring.
Section 5A: BOLD faces Minneota on Friday, November 1 at 3 p.m. at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall.
Section 5AA: Kimball Area faces Holdingford on Friday, November 1 at 7 p.m. at St. John's University.
Section 6AA: Staples-Motley faces Osakis on Friday, November 1 at the FargoDome at 3 p.m.
Section 6A: West Central Area faces Parkers Prairie on Friday, November 1 at the FargoDome at 12:30 p.m.
Section 4 9-man: Hancock faces Border West on Thursday, October 31 at the FargoDome at 11:30 a.m.




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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Friday Night Lights IX: incredible 2nd quarter lifts Jaguars to section finals! (VIDEOS)


An absolutely incredible second quarter performance today by the B-B-E Jaguars football team launched them into their second straight Section 4A championship berth. The Jaguars led 42-0 at halftime after blistering the Tigers to the tune of 34 second quarter points. Final score: B-B-E 54, Browerville 0.

The final score marks the first playoff shutout win in B-B-E football history, which goes back 36 years! B-B-E improves to 8-1 overall. They have won every post-pandemic playoff opener, now four in a row, going back to 2021. In section semifinal games, the Jaguars have a record of 7-9. This means that this is the 7th time in school history that they will play in a section championship game. The other seasons they've made it to a section football final were 1997, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2021, 2023 and now 2024.

NEXT: the Section 4A championship game is on Friday, November 1, at the FargoDome in North Dakota. Kickoff is at 10 a.m. against No. 1-seeded Upsala/Swanville Area. The U/SA Patriots defeated No. 4-seeded Benson by a 49-6 score today in Upsala. Their overall record is now 9-0. The Braves finish their season 3-7 overall.

This is an eye-popping statistic that describes how the Jaguars won 54-0: the Jaguars earned an average of 12.4 yards per offensive play; the Tigers gained an average of just 1.75 yards per play.

Here's a video featuring the starter introductions, the opening kickoff and the first few minutes of the first quarter:


Before I get into the game review, I have to give a huge shout out to Browerville high school for two things: (1.) the Browerville Pep Band made the one-hour long trip to Belgrade and played during pregame plus at halftime. Kudos to them! (2.) the Browerville high school also sent a large cheerleading crew who displayed what I felt was an outstanding job of cheering throughout the entire game, even as the Tigers fell behind on the scoreboard by a wide margin. It takes great courage and character to continue giving your very best effort in spite of the realization that your team is going to lose.

How the game played out...
The game started with Browerville on offense, but their first series had a net loss of 7 yards on 3 plays. In their first try on offense, the Jaguars started on their own 29, but they had a net loss of 2 yards on 3 plays before punting. The Tigers went back on offense starting on their 33 with 8:14 left. On first down, Brett DeRoo tackled Browerville quarterback Ryan Riedel for a 4-yard loss. On second down, DeRoo had a pass break up, and third down was called dead due to a Browerville false start penalty. On 3rd-and-19, the Tigers gained just 3 yards. On 4th-and-16, the Browerville punt sailed high and landed on the track right in the Browerville cheerleader's section.

B-B-E's second series of the game brought another three-and-out with a punt on 4th-and-5. Luke Illies's punt rolled inside the 20, and Browerville started their third series with 5:54 left. A false start penalty hurt the Tigers on 3rd-and-7, and their 3rd-and-12 play resulted in an incomplete pass.

After receiving the punt, the Jaguars had first down on the Browerville 28-yard line with 3:48 on the clock after DeRoo had a great punt return. B-B-E then needed just 2 plays to punch in their first touchdown, with Jack Lundberg running for 6 yards and then 22 yards with a touchdown. Lundberg ran in the two-point conversion to give his team an 8-0 lead with 3:10 left in the opening quarter.

You can watch that first touchdown drive as part of this video below:


As you can hear in the video, I was jacked sky high! From the moment I ran into the stadium this afternoon, the Modus Operandi was that we had to give 200% all game long! In the instance where I thought the Browerville quarterback committed a grounding penalty, I did not see the nearby receiver just out of my camera view. In that case, it was not grounding, just a great effort by Riedel to get rid of the ball as Ethan Mueller was tackling him.

The Jaguars scored early and often across the second quarter to lead 42-0 at halftime. The onslaught of offense seemed unending, with the Jaguars utilizing numerous big plays to post five additional touchdowns as follows:
Second touchdown: Lundberg with an 87-yard run with 11:38 left.
Third touchdown: DeRoo with a 65-yard reception with 10:58 left.
Fourth touchdown: Kameron Hiltner with a 42-yard reception with 8:25 left.
Fifth touchdown: Lundberg with a 10-yard run with 6:48 left.
Sixth touchdown: Josh Walstrom with an 82-yard reception with 2:33 left.

After Walstrom's big touchdown reception, Lundberg ran in the two-point conversion to make it a 42-0 lead.

In a very classy move, the coaching staffs agreed to play JV squad players right at the beginning of the third quarter. With a six-score deficit, Browerville concluded that it was best to turn the game over to the JV and see how the second half played out. The Jaguars JV offense began the second half with possession, and while they did not score on that drive, they used over 6 minutes of game clock while driving into Browerville territory before stalling out on downs at the 47-yard line with 5:41 left.

Once the second half was complete, the JV defense kept the record-making shutout intact. B-B-E's JV offense scored with 4:09 left in the fourth quarter. Kaden Kollman leaped for a 17-yard touchdown catch in the endzone from quarterback Aiden Mueller. This brought a 48-0 score. After the kickoff, the JV team scored a defensive touchdown when Aiden Detloff returned a lost fumble from a distance of 41 yards in the final two minutes of the game.

For the game, the Jaguars racked up nearly 460 yards of offense. A full review of game statistics won't be completed until later this evening.

Here's head coach Chris Moscho in a postgame interview today:


Game statistics summary:
B-B-E's defense was incredible from start to finish, including in the second half. The Tigers attempted to convert third down 12 different times, and their final conversion rate was 0-for-12. Through 48 minutes, the Jaguars limited Browerville's offense to 96 yards. A total of 21 Jaguars recorded one or more tackles. Kameron Hiltner had the game's only interception, and Aiden Detloff had the game's lone fumble recovery. Browerville's varsity and JV quarterbacks combined for passing marks of 3-for-13 for 8 yards. Browerville ran the ball 38 times for a total of 88 rushing yards.

For their part, B-B-E had 156 rushing yards on just 12 carries. Through the air, Luke Illies and Aiden Mueller combined for 303 passing yards and four touchdowns! Wow! For those who are calculating, that comes out to a quarterback passing rating (combined) of 126.36.

More to come. Video is uploading. Plus, I have a big event tonight in Padua with the Bonanza Valley Royal Strutters Gun Blast!

Don't forget! the St. Francis de Sales Catholic church holds their fall pancake and sausage supper on Sunday (tomorrow) from 2 to 6 p.m. at the parish center on Martin Avenue. Also, a fall sports show was recorded tonight, and it will get posted in a new blog post on Sunday after church.

Area football scores (section semifinals) on October 26:
Holdingford 34, Eden Valley-Watkins 14 (the Huskers avenge a Week 8 loss by a 24-6 score in Eden Valley)
Kimball Area 37, Royalton 0
Mahnomen/Waubun 43, Polk County West 0
Barnesville 58, Frazee 6
Parkers Prairie 22, Breckenridge 12
Border West 51, Ottertail Central 8
Hancock 56, Hillcrest Lutheran Academy 28
Osakis 16, Pillager 15
Renville County West 41, Red Rock Central 8
Minnewaska Area 26, New London-Spicer 22 (a huge win for the Lakers football program just a year after they went 2-7; they are now section finals bound)
Two Harbors 21, Pierz 20
Litchfield 44, Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted 27
Marshall 20, Willmar 6
Minneota 62, Canby 0
Mille Lacs 24, Braham 8
BOLD 41, Dawson-Boyd 20
Alexandria 38, Bemidji 13
Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 31, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 27 (MA/CA drops a tough one at Big Cat Stadium in Morris)
Hutchinson 21, St. Peter 0
Albany 44, Sauk Centre 8
Pipestone Area 23, Redwood Valley 14
West Central Area 42, New York Mills 18
Springfield 27, Sleepy Eye United 6




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GAME DAY! At OUR house! At the Jaguar stadium (VIDEO, UPDATES!)


Game updates to be posted here this afternoon! The game is not on the radio. It's partly cloudy, temps in the 50s...some south wind! Let's GO JAGUARS!

Post-game in Murdock!


GAME UPDATES...
After the first quarter, the Jaguars have an 8-0 lead.

Early in the second quarter, Jack Lundberg scored on an 85 yard touchdown run with 11 minutes and 38 seconds on the clock. This made it 14-0.

Halftime: BBE 42, Browerville 0. Yes, indeed!

**In the other semifinal game, the Patriots are ahead 49 to 6 with about 3 minutes left in the game.



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Friday, October 25, 2024

Step Ii: another sweep, Jaguars head to the 'Ship! (VIDEOS*)


The B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team defended their home court for the last time of the season and defeated No. 4-seeded Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley in a 3-0 sweep to advance to the Sub-Section 6A-South championship match! B-B-E used 23 percent hitting with three hitters earning 9 or more kills to defeat an outstanding Wolverines team. Game scores: 25-17, 25-20, 25-23.

The Jaguars will get a rematch looking for revenge against West Central Area, who swept Parkers Prairie tonight in the other subsection semifinal. The subsection final match is Tuesday, October 29 at 6 p.m. at Fergus Falls senior high school. Please spread the word!

Here's just a brief glimpse of the tail end of the "Roller Coaster" cheer tonight; recorded during game three:


How tonight's match played out...
From start to finish, game one had an ebb and flow of momentum between each team, but an early 2-0 start on the scoreboard got the Jaguars off to a good start. Kenna Lieser's ace serve and later back-to-back kills from Kacey Fischer made it a 5-2 lead. A block from Kadynce Haider made it 10-7. After Adley Hagen's third kill of the set, the Jaguars led 15-8, and C-G-B's Coach Moberg called a timeout. Hagen's fourth kill of the set, Kacey Fischer's kill and a C-G-B net violation made it 20-10. The Wolverines scored four straight points at the start of a 6-2 run that cut it to 22-16. Back-to-back kills from Kadynce Haider and Hagen gave the Jaguars a 25-17 lead.

The Wolverines had early leads of 4-3 and 5-4 in game two, but back-to-back ace serves by Kamie Fischer put the Jaguars ahead 7-5. The Wolverines tied it at 9-9, but Hagen hit two straight kills to start a 3-0 run. The Jaguars kept grinding while building a lead of 22-17. Kacey Fischer later finished off the set with a booming kill for a 25-20 win.

C-G-B showed resiliency and hung tough early in game three while earning early leads of 6-3 and 7-5. The Jaguars pulled in front 10-8, but the Wolverines earned a 4-0 run off of four straight errors by the Jaguars. The Jaguars played from behind until Kenna Lieser's ace serve tied it up at 19-19. C-G-B later led 23-22, but they committed two straight hitting errors to give up the lead. Kadynce Haider's 9th kill of the night finished the competition while the Jaguars won 25-23.

Here's a lengthy video featuring the National Anthem, the player introductions plus the first few minutes of game one:


Here's the final points scored in game one:


Adley Hagen had 16 kills on 42.4 percent hitting with 9 digs, one block and one block assist. Kacey Fischer dropped 15 kills on 22 percent hitting with 16 digs. As a team, the Jaguars racked up five ace serves, but their serving percentage was just 86.4 percent. That figure will have to dramatically improve in order for them to compete with WCA on Tuesday.

More to come. Video is uploading. I'm also terribly distracted from sports while watching a freshly recorded podcast created by one of the most famous podcaster on the entire planet. PLUS there's going to be frost tonight, so I have garden vegetables to cover before midnight!

Section 6A volleyball playoff scores on October 25:
Breckenridge 3, New York Mills 1
Hillcrest Lutheran Academy 3, Underwood 0

I'm caught up as far as October 14 for my fall varsity sports photo album. I try to keep within about a 10-day lag on getting pictures uploaded from my community and sports events. You can find the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper's Fall 2024 photo albums by clicking here: https://bonanzavalley.smugmug.com/BBE-Fall-Sports-2024.

In community news...
We have numerous activities coming up beyond sports in the Bonanza Valley across the next couple of weeks. It is an intense stretch of events! One item I want to give a shout out to is the Ham and Eggs breakfast at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Elrosa, which will be held on Sunday, November 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in their church basement.

Saturday night! Don't forget the Bonanza Valley Royal Strutters Gun Blast that's coming to the Padua Pub on Saturday night. This is a 20th annual event! It has been held without interruption, even held in November 2020 while resisting being canceled that fall...the Royal Strutters is one of the premier local groups supporting our B-B-E Clay Trapshooting team each spring. Please come out and show your support in Padua! You can read more about this and other upcoming events by clicking to the Bonanza Valley Voice website, where the community calendar can be found by clicking here: https://shorturl.at/IkhQe.

Area volleyball scores on October 25:
Kimball Area 3, Blake 1 (Cubs have back-to-back playoff wins in Section 5AA)
Litchfield 3, Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 2
Paynesville Area 3, Montevideo 0
Sauk Centre 3, Minnewaska Area 0
Albany 3, St. Cloud Cathedral 0
MACCRAY 3, Central Minnesota Christian 1
Pine River-Backus 3, Mille Lacs 2
Swanville 3, Braham 0
Westbrook-Walnut Grove 3, Edgerton 0
Russel-Tyler-Ruthton 3, Red Rock Central 0
Minneota 3, Lakeview 0
Canby 3, Lac qui Parle Valley 0
Eden Valley-Watkins 3, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 0
Royalton 3, Holdingford 0
Renville County West 3, Wabasso 1
Albany 3, St. Cloud Cathedral 0
Adrian/Ellsworth 3, Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 2




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Funeral held for Mrs. Stalberger (VIDEO, UPDATES at playoffs)


A Mass of Christian Burial was held today for Mrs. Ruth Stalberger, who taught elementary school locally between the years of 1952 and 1998. In that period, she taught a total of 42 years in Brooten, Spring Hill and Belgrade. In four of those years, she took time away from teaching when her two children were born.

She was a dearly beloved teacher, according to everything I have read and heard about her! Just a wonderful, wonderful woman. I did not have the honor of having her as a teacher as an elementary student in Brooten in the late 1980s. (I had really great teachers there, of course!)

Her funeral was in Belgrade at the St. Francis de Sales Catholic church. I have a short video clip to share below that features part of one of the funeral's songs.

"On Eagles' Wings" today in Belgrade...


Mrs. Stalberger's obituary has been posted online at the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper website: https://rb.gy/953qd7.

Time to get ready for the Belgrade Lions Fish Fry! Plus the volleyball game later tonight.

VOLLEYBALL UPDATES...
In game one, the Jaguars have a 15-8 lead, and the Wolverines just called their first timeout. Game one final: B-B-E 25, C-G-B 17.

UPDATES in a new blog post!




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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Step I: tough serving overwhelms Owls (VIDEOS)


On Thursday, two additional videos were added, and other updates were included below...including a postmatch interview with Ava Deters...

In a terrific night of serving, the B-B-E Jaguars volleyball team overwhelmed the No. 8-seeded Hancock Owls in straight sets during the playoff opener tonight.

Now 26-3 overall, the top-seeded Jaguars host a Sub-Section 6A-South semifinal match on Friday this week. They will face Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley at 7 p.m. The Wolverines (17-13) are the No. 4 seed and were a fourth-place team in the Little Eight Conference. They had a 10-4 overall record after beating Brandon-Evansville 3-0 on the road in Little Eight Conference action back on September 19.

How the match played out tonight...
The Owls came out jittery to start game one and faltered with a serve into the net to start the match. After hitting long, however, they earned a kill for a side out. Adley Hagen had a kill for the Jaguars, and the Owls hit into the net. Hagen then served back-to-back aces to make it a 6-1 lead. The Jaguars expanded the lead to 9-1 before the Owls called for a timeout. The tough serving continued for the Jaguars, and they added three more ace serves plus 8 more kills in a 25-6 win.

The Jaguars won 25-13 in game two after leading 19-10. Hancock showed better fight early in the set, but a 3-2 deficit soon became 10-3 after three straight kills from Kacey Fischer. The Owls had a couple kills and trailed 15-7 before surging down the stretch. Game three had a final score of 25-16 while the Jaguars overcame an 11-7 deficit at one point. In the third set, the Owls had early leads of 5-2 and 7-3. Kylie Weller's ace serve and a kill by Hagen tied it at 11-11. Three straight kills from Kacey Fischer brought Hancock to call their final timeout, but they were unable to re-ignite their offense against B-B-E's strong service game.

Here's a video featuring the starter introductions tonight plus the opening minutes of game one:


And more video...

Here's action from the middle of game three after the Jaguars trailed 11-7...


Match statistics:
The Jaguars had a monstrous 53.1 hitting efficiency rating and were led by Kacey Fischer's 15 kills and Adley Hagen's 10 kills. At the service line, B-B-E racked up 14 ace serves, including 5 by Hagen and 4 by Kacie Fischer. Kylie Weller had 18 set assists plus stellar serving marks (18-for-18 with 3 aces). Overall, the Owls struggled mightily against B-B-E's strong serving and were not able to mount an effective attack.

Here's a postmatch interview with Ava Deters following the win:


Thank you, Ava, and all your teammates! I appreciate you offering your time for these random interviews after matches this season.

The Hancock Owls finish 9-17 overall after a 1-1 showing in the subsection playoffs. In the QRF, they were ranked No. 111 out of 151 teams in Class 1A.

More to come. It's time to work on a scouting report on the Browerville Tigers football team.

Community announcement (again)! I'm asking again that you get the Belgrade Lions Fish Fry on your schedule for Friday this week! It is coming Friday night from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Belgrade. If you get the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper in your hands, their advertisement was published as a banner ad on page one.

Section 6A volleyball scores on October 23:
West Central Area 3, Ortonville 0
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley 3, Wheaton/Herman-Norcross 0
Parkers Prairie 3, Brandon-Evansville 0
Breckenridge 3, Battle Lake 0
New York Mills 3, Park Christian 0
Hillcrest Lutheran Academy 3, Henning 0
Underwood 3, Lake Park-Audubon 1

State tennis update...
The Litchfield Dragons girls' tennis team prevailed in a close battle by a 4-3 score over Crookston in the Class 1A state semifinals this morning. In the state championship, the Dragons fell to No. 1-ranked Blake by a 6-1 score to finish as state runners-up.

Area volleyball playoff scores on October 23:
Kimball Area 3, Cristo Rey Jesuit 0
Holdingford 3, Staples-Motley 1
Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 3, Nevis 2
Pine River-Backus 3, East Central 0
Browerville 3, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 0
Swanville 3, Ogilvie 0
Braham 3, Upsala 0
Willmar 3, Mankato East 0
Royalton 3, Melrose Area 1
Sebeka 3, Verndale 0
Minnewaska Area 3, Osakis 1




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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Section playoff semifinals set (VIDEOS*)


A video was added here late on Wednesday afternoon...

The last four teams standing in Section 4A are now set. In tonight's quarterfinal round, the Browerville Tigers defeated visiting Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 43-14. This means that our B-B-E Jaguars football team knows its opponent for their playoff opener. The Jaguars (7-1) and Browerville (6-3) will meet in the Section 4A semifinals this Saturday, October 26 at 2 p.m. at our house at the B-B-E high school football stadium.

Here's a video from the first quarter during Friday Night Lights VIII in Murdock:


I posted that video last weekend, but it hasn't gotten many views yet. Now I return to publishing the October 24 newspaper issue. Additional notes will be added to this blog post on Wednesday morning.

**Here's action from the third quarter against K-M-S last week...


The Jaguars were on defense at the beginning of that video.

**Also! there is not radio coverage for the volleyball match on Wednesday night. The match starts in our house at 7 p.m.!

State tennis tournament updates:
At the Class 1A state tournament today, the Litchfield Dragons girls' tennis team defeated Montevideo 5-2. In another quarterfinal state match, the Crookston Pirates defeated Providence Academy 5-2 (way to go public schools!)...now Litchfield and Crookston will meet in the semifinals tomorrow morning at the Reed-Sweatt Family Tennis Center in Minneapolis. Litchfield is the No. 3 seed, while Crookston is the No. 2 seed.

Area football playoff opener scores on October 22:
West Central Area 40, Pine River-Backus 8
Parkers Prairie 62, Brandon-Evansville/Ashby 6
Benson 47, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 6
Royalton 22, Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 14
Holdingford 42, Paynesville Area 2
Renville County West 46, Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart 8
Sauk Centre 16, Melrose Area 8
Willmar 28, New Ulm 6
New London-Spicer 50, Montevideo 7

In Murdock for the Section 5AA playoffs, Royalton trailed 14-0 before scoring a touchdown before halftime to trail 14-6. They scored 16 unanswered points in the second half to end K-M-S's season. Jett Olson carried the ball 31 times for a whopping 233 rushing yards, but it was not enough to overcome three lost fumbles.



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Sunday, October 20, 2024

Sports Show! (VIDEO)


Hot off the press! Or video camera...here's my ninth sports show of the fall...I got off to a very good start with my sports podcasting for this fall season with seven sports shows recorded from late August through Homecoming week in the last week of September...but just 2 so far in the first 20 days of October. The month of October has been wicked crazy, and I have had to dial back from 80-plus hours a week of working like I was doing in September. That is a pace I can't keep for more than a few weeks at a time.

Let's talk playoffs!


Currently, we await the outcome of the play-in round volleyball match in Hancock that takes place tomorrow night. Also, we look to Tuesday to see the outcome of the Browerville vs. Long Prairie-Grey Eagle football game. I actually might record a "Part II" for my sports show, as I forgot a few things that I wanted to include.

I'm having technical difficulties with link shorteners, so I can't get a short link prepared for a web article I wanted to share. I added video to the Crow River Lutheran church auction article that's posted at the Bonanza Valley Voice website. You can click here and look for it under "news" = https://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com.

In other news...community news!
The Belgrade Lions Fish Fry is this week on Friday! Mark your calendar and bring your family! Click here for all the details: https://rb.gy/ntgokj.

I've got the agenda posted for tonight's (Monday) Belgrade city council meeting: https://lifeinbonanzavalley.blogspot.com.

AND...more Sonic Escape concert coverage! This is a two-week old video, but I got it posted today for the first time at The Voice's website: http://bit.ly/40czo4u.

Monday night update: the Hancock Owls swept Benson 3-0 tonight to advance to the Sub-Section 6A-South quarterfinals. The Owls will travel to our house on Wednesday to face the Jaguars with a 7 p.m. match.



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