Coach Alanna Hunter's team is coming off a win over Badger/Greenbush-Middle River (BGM). It was 3-1 success with scores as follows: 22-25, 25-20, 25-21 and 25-14. So you can see how the Jags turned on the jets after Game 1.
Will the momentum carry over to today? The "Minnesota Scores" website tells us that today's starting time is 1 p.m. And that the opponent is Minneota.
Thursday's success was a slight on-paper upset: BBE seeded fifth for state, BGM fourth.
The West Central Tribune refers to today's foe as "mighty Minneota." The W/L numbers underscore that: 32-3 by the Vikings of Minneota. BBE is now 26-6. No one will be thinking about the won-lost once the first serve gets delivered in today's action.
For the record, Minneota has the No. 1 seed. Minneota's success on Thursday was over New Life Academy of Woodbury, 3-1. The Vikings were last year's state runner-up. They will present an array of strong suits. But look out for those Jaguars! Certainly the BBE community is consumed with enthusiasm now.
BBE wasn't taking anything for granted yesterday. BGM has the "Gators" nickname. Their coach is Stacy Dahl. BGM carried a 30-2 record into the state quarter-finals. The Gators actually aren't done yet. There is a state consolation phase.
But the BBE Jags are still in the big show of the winner's bracket! The fan enthusiasm helps put aside thoughts about our impending winter. The wind has created a quite raw feeling yesterday and today. We're all hoping the snow holds off a while longer. But it will surely come.
Kylie Weller was the cog in setting for the Jags Thursday. Weller came on to be the team's primary setter after the injury to Davia Szczesniak. Senior captain Allison Dingmann commented, "You can't do anything without a setter, right?" Weller was up to the challenge and then some. On Thursday she produced 57 set assists on 131 attacks, zero errors. Harley Roering and Adley Hagen each picked up one assist. BGM had a setter of note: all-stater Cassidy Dahl, senior. Dahl had 31 assists with no errors.
Ava Mueller led BBE in kills with 22 followed by Brooklyn Fischer 18, Abby Berge 12, Dingmann 5, Hagen 4 and Roering 1. Let's take a look at serve aces where we see Fischer leading the way with three. Weller batted two aces over the net, and Roering, Berge and Mueller each had one. The blocking department showcased Dingmann, Fischer, Hagen and Berge.
In digs we see Fischer as top performer with 28. She was followed by: Berge 20, Roering 17, Weller 11, Mueller 9 and Anna Jaeger 6.
The BGM hitting was led by Jade Reese with 13 kills. These three Gators each had a serving ace: McKenzie Dahl, Sierra Westberg and Cassidy Dahl. Dahl was in sync with setting. Hannah Bergsnev led in digs with 13.
Let's never forget the 1984 Belgrade team (by itself) that made state! But new memories are being made all the time, right Randy? Randy Olson is the newspaper guy.
They're quite the winning crew, those BBE Jaguars of 2022!
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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