Home cooking on Tuesday night (VIDEOS)

We have home cooking on Tuesday this week for our No. 7-ranked B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team, as they are set to host Paynesville Area (1-9, 1-2) in another Central Minnesota Conference game. Paynesville's lone win was against Eden Valley-Watkins on December 12 in Eden Valley by a 57-42 score. The Jaguars are very much still in the race for the Central Minnesota Conference title, but they need to stay in the "one loss" column to keep pace with front-runner Royalton.

The Jaguars are 7-5 overall and winners of three straight. In the CMC, the Jaguars are 3-1 and in a tie for second place with Holdingford. Royalton is in first place with a 3-0 record (8-0 overall). B-B-E and Royalton won't meet until January 16 in Belgrade, and the rematch for those teams is on Tuesday, February 18 in Royalton.

Also on Tuesday, the B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team is in action with a road trip to Benson for a Section 5A match up. The Jaguars were ranked No. 10 in the latest Class 1A Guillotine rankings. Also! Congratulations to seniors Brett DeRoo and Carson Gilbert, as they both earned their 150th career win during their respective championship matches on Friday at the home invitational.

Let's jazz up this blog post with some video...added on Tuesday afternoon.

Here's a video from Friday night in Eden Valley:


I hope you enjoy the marvelous performance of the National Anthem by an EV-W high school student.

And here's a shorter video clip recorded with just over 4 minutes left in the opening half at EV-W:


...and shifting gears to the next day.

Here's a video recorded in the heart of Colfax Township, rural New London, this past Saturday night:


The Smilin' D Arena and Events center received recent Bonanza Valley Voice coverage from a youth event held in December. They'll get more ink this week from a bull riding event they had on Saturday night to help kick off the new year in style!

In other news...here's recent job openings that are posted in the newspaper: https://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com/classifieds/category/employment.

In college basketball news...
The Northland Technical and Community College Pioneers women's basketball team, ranked No. 2 in the latest NJCAA Division III polls, earned a 104-62 win on Saturday on their home court against Minnesota North College-Vermillion. The Pioneers (11-4 overall) led 57-34 at halftime and expanded that to 82-45 by the end of the third quarter. Sophomore Tiyana Schwinghammer played 24 minutes and scored 16 points with 10 rebounds, 3 blocked shots, 2 assists and 1 steal.

In a home game on Saturday, the Minnesota State University-Moorhead Dragons women's basketball team suffered from cold 29 percent field goal shooting in a 74-50 loss to the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Sophomore Abby Berge scored 7 points. The Dragons fell to 6-8 overall and 4-4 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. On Friday night, the MSU-M Dragons lost 78-54 to No. 16-ranked Concordia-St. Paul. The Golden Bears (13-1, 7-1) held a 45-18 lead at halftime. Berge had 7 points with 5 rebounds and 2 assists.

Area girls' basketball scores on Saturday, January 4:
Central MN Christian 62, Paynesville Area 37 (at Target Center)
Albany 51, Detroit Lakes 39
Monticello 63, Willmar 48
Mountain Iron-Buhl 76, Brandon-Evansville 48
Barnum 61, Mora 58
Becker 65, Rock Ridge 57
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 68, Benson 30
Lakeview 44, Russel-Tyler-Ruthton 40

Area boys' basketball scores on Saturday, January 4:
Holdingford 72, Little Falls 58 (the Huskers are off to a 7-2 start with their best record at this point in a season since 2019-2020 when they finished 12-16)
Russel-Tyler-Ruthton 62, Lakeview 51
Upsala 69, Swanville 67
Dawson-Boyd 80, Southwest MN Christian 45
West Central Area 69, Norman County East/Ulen-Hitterdal 53
Paynesville Area 79, Central MN Christian 76 (at Target Center)
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 90, Benson 83 (two overtimes!)