Blooming Prairie

And then number two, Maple River dispatches Medford 47-7.

And then Blooming Prairie-Hayfield beats Blue Earth 26-6.

And here's another section where this thing got a little skewed as far as I'm concerned because Blooming Prairie beat Maple River head-to-head.

I believe they have the same record.

But Bloomington ends up with the three seed.

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or escamilla um yeah you know having a great year um But you got Waterville sitting there waiting for you.

I'm going to take Blooming Prairie to go to Maple River and win.

And then I still got to get my carpet off-road cars out this year.

I was going to race last Saturday locally, but Blooming Prairie switched their season finale because every place has been getting rain like crazy up here.

Mm-hmm.

So yeah, man.

And that handles a lot of our beans and going into the valley and up north there's some other larger facilities.

Like I said, we have some in the Michigan, Angel Seed Farm over here by me, by Blooming Prairie, has been a longtime cleaner for us, a legend here, and do a lot there and others around the area.

And we bring on some new ones every now and then, too.

So that part is unique to probably some, just because, like I said, some of the smaller independents might not have that ability to do all that.

Sure.

Can you guys tell me about that play-in game? So it's a 3-1 win over Blooming Prairie on Thursday.

You guys mentioned to me before we hopped on the microphones that you guys lost the first set.

You come roaring back.

You win three straight games.

What was the scouting report on Blooming Prairie? What did you feel like you needed to do well in that game? Or maybe it was less about what Blooming Prairie did? What did you guys need to

do? I would say, like, what was it, Wednesday at practice, we did, like, at least, what was it, like a half an hour of film watching for Blooming Prairie.

And everybody was taking notes.

Jeannine Vorlhin.

Uh, Jeannine is from Blooming Prairie.

I've known Jeannine for forever and a day.

She's a, uh, oh, area director, I believe is her title, for the... area wildlife manager, I believe.

I'm gonna say area wildlife manager is her correct title.

She's, lives in Blooming Prairie.

She is Minnesota DNR's first female area wildlife manager, and she saw a junco on October 8th, and TJ, Tom Jessen of St. Peter, saw one, y- I think around that same time, and, uh, my wife and I saw one this morning.

Uh, dark-eyed juncos have bright white outer tail feathers that act as a key identifying feature.

Lois and David Riess had been married for a long time, long enough to raise three kids and watch five grandchildren come along behind them.

They lived in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, the kind of small town where everybody knows everybody, and by most accounts, everyone liked Lois.

Her friend Jennifer Peterson remembered Lois as someone who was, quote, "super personable and liked to talk." Lois had run a daycare out of their home for years.

Dave owned a wax worm business, farming the insects out of a little shop right next to the house.

No more communication for 12 days.

Dave was the kind of man who kept in regular contact with his crew.

So when his team hadn't heard from him for almost two weeks, a worried employee finally called the Blooming Prairie Police Department and asked for a welfare check at the Riess house.

When officers got there, they found Dave inside, dead on the bathroom floor with two bullet wounds to his torso.

Um, you know, survived a little scare last week.

And, uh, you know, I, they got maybe kind of a tough matchup this week again here, or maybe a little scary matchup for them with Blooming Prairie this week, um, who beat Maple River.

And Maple River damn near beat Waterville last week, so-

Yeah.