
By Brenda Erdahl, Sports Editor
The Maple Lake girls’ basketball team continued to show improvement last week despite losses to two Central Minnesota Conference foes. Maple Lake 48, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 69 The Irish traveled to B-B-E to take on the 7th in Class A ranked Jaguars on Tuesday, Jan. 14. This was the teams’ second meeting, and the Irish were looking forward to a rematch from an earlier season game that saw the Jaguars overpower the Maple Lake squad. Determined to match B-B-E’s intensity, the Irish played a tough zone defense and forced B-B-E to work for nearly every basket in the first half.
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