Breaking news!
The B-B-E Jaguars girls' tennis team is advancing in the playoffs. They have defeated Long Prairie-Grey Eagle/Upsala-Swanville Area in the opening round of the Section 6A tournament. The final score is yet to be decided. At No. 3 singles, freshman Olive Olson is still playing in her match. In the first set at No. 3 singles, the set lasted 70 minutes.
Final score: B-B-E 4, LPGE/USA 3. At No. 3 singles, Olive Olson fell in nailbiters with 7-6 scores in both sets. In the tiebreakers, LPGE/USA's Jaden Ludvigson won 7-5 in the first set tiebreaker and 7-2 in the second set tiebreaker. The entire match lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Temperatures were in the low 80s at the start of the match. The winds were strong out of the south coming off of the LPGE high school parking lot. I'd venture a guess they were gusting at 10 to 20 miles an hour.
The Jaguars travel west to top-seeded Minnewaska Area tomorrow for the Section 6A quarterfinals.
Note: a sports show video was added to this blog post on Thursday morning. It had one glaring mistake! I wrote about that below.
Thursday includes Levi's Celebration of Life, playoff tennis at Minnewaska and home volleyball against Paynesville. Back to back to back.
Here's a video from the tiebreaker of the 1st set at No. 3 singles:
Here's a video from the No. 2 singles match which clinched the win for B-B-E:
How tonight's playoff match developed:
The Jaguars picked up a straight set win for the first team point when Jena Borgerding won at No. 4 singles. At No. 3 doubles, Harper Herickhoff and Abby Coners picked up a straight set win, and Kylie Zins and Kwynn Quade then picked up a straight set win at No. 2 doubles. LPGE/USA won at No. 1 singles, so the match was still undecided. That changed when Andrea Douvier won 6-2, 6-2 at No. 2 singles to clinch the team win and make the score 4-1.
The visitation for Levi Adrian was held tonight at the Belgrade funeral home. I had a long and healing conversation with Grant Adrian, Levi's uncle. He is a 1998 graduate of B-B-E high school. The Adrian family has always been full of love and concern for others. Grant spoke about how eye-opening the support was. It's important that the community pay it back.
I just recorded my latest sports podcast. That is uploading now.
And here's my Fall Sports Show No. 5 of this season:
A reminder that school is dismissed at B-B-E at 11:30 a.m. today. If you know parents or families who need help with their children this afternoon, please reach out to them. Be inquisitive while being supportive! We got this. B-B-E's staff is on their own journey to find healing as they rally around and show support for their colleague and his family.
About Grant Adrian's senior football team! That season was 1997! Not 1998. Yikes! The Class of 1998 played their football season in the fall of 1997 - of course! The Section 5AA championship was held on October 31, 1997 in Eden Valley. As stated in the video, the Eagles won 14-12 to advance to state. In the state quarterfinals, EV-W was soundly defeated by Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton, although I don't remember that exact score. The 1997 season became a "rebirth" season for EV-W, and by the early 2000s, they were regularly one of the top teams in the Central Minnesota Conference.
