Bring on the fire trucks for the champs from Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa!

In a small town, state-championship celebrations are still a bit of a throwback

March 27, 2012 at 2:37PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Combine the populations of Belgrade, Brooten and Elrosa and you have fewer than 1,700 people, according to the most recent census figures.

Here are a lot of them:

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

So it was a darn big deal with the Jaguars brought home the Class 1A boys' basketball title over the weekend, a thrill that will linger a little bit longer on the main streets of those central Minnesota cities than, probably, in Osseo, where winning the Class 4A title is much more of a school thing.

As evidence, Upload presents the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Jaguars sports blog -- complete with fire trucks, crowd photos and a shout out to the Ka-De-Shack in downtown Brooten.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

If you have no other rooting interest -- and you roll this way -- it was a public school over private school victory.

Way to go, Jaguars!

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Howard Sinker

Digital Sports Editor

Howard Sinker is digital sports editor at startribune.com and curates the website's Sports Upload blog. He is also a senior instructor in Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul.

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