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Carrington senior Kacie Rexin, right, shares a smile with Kindred's Avery Bartels as they wait to hit from the third tee on the second day of play at the State Class B Girls Golf Tournament in Mapleton Tuesday, September 26. The two would go first and second place overall in the event, with Bartels taking her fourth straight state title. It is the highest-ever finish for Rexin, as well as for any Carrington golfer, male or female, in school history....
Carrington finished the girls' golf season at the State Class B meet at Maple River Golf Club in Mapleton Monday-Tuesday, September 25-26. Senior Kacie Rexin placed as the state runner-up, shooting rounds of 78 and 78 for a two-day score of 156. She finished only behind state champion Avery Bartels of Kindred, who blistered the course for a 70-69-139 for her fourth career medalist honor. As a team, the Cards were tied for eighth with a 779. Oak Grove and Kindred shot identical 673 scores at the...
Wet weather is the great equalizer, if you have two teams that struggle to score at times. At least that's what Griggs/Midkota was banking on in search of their first victory of the season, when the Richland Colts stopped in Cooperstown as the Homecoming opponent Friday night, September 22. Two plays represented all of the output in that game, but unfortunately for the Titans, it was the last one that counted against them in an 8-2 loss to the Colts. "We actually played pretty well," Head Coach...
The previous 47 minutes and roughly 57 seconds of football at Sandager Field in Lisbon came down to one potential game-saving goal line stand for Carrington. In search of their fifth straight victory, the Cards took their first lead of the contest at 27-26 just under two minutes to play, on a Grady Shipman 15-yard touchdown catch and extra point kick. However, Bronco senior quarterback Wyatt Olson would have the last salvo, sneaking just past the goal line as the clock struck zero to give...
The M-P-B Thunder and their supporters witnessed a great individual accomplishment Tuesday night, September 26 in Medina. Senior Allison Thomas racked up her 2,000th career dig in the Thunder's five-set win over the Linton-HMB Lady Lions, and is also chasing quadruple digits for kills during her five-year varsity career in the process. Thomas finished with 37 digs in the 25-23, 21-25, 25-19, 16-25 and 15-9 victory to put M-P-B in the top spot in the District 6 race midway through the season. The...
Carrington improved to 2-1 in District 5 matches with a three-set win against the Ellendale Cardinals Tuesday night, September 26, in Ellendale. Scores from the match were 25-11, 25-18 and 25-23, all in CHS' favor. Edyn Hoornaert and Madison Johnson were the big offensive forces for the local Cardinals, hitting for seven kills each in the win. Ellendale (6-8, 1-3 District 5) was paced by nine kills from Ariel Hagen. This past Friday and Saturday, the Cards played in the two-day Des...
Rain threatened to dampen the spirits of competitors and spectators alike at the Bill Jansen Blue & White Invitational at Bjornson Golf Course in Valley City for the second straight year. Unlike last time around, when lightning delays postponed the start of some races for hours, the weather, though wet, didn't really slow down the meet. Carrington, along with Medina/Pingree-Buchanan, were the local teams in action at the Blue & White, and several runners had standout performances. Kenadie...
Danielle (Wickline) McClean tries her best to put on a brave face to the world, even when the pain and fatigue can be overwhelming. The divorced mother of three from Carrington is on a waiting list for a liver transplant, as she was diagnosed with cirrhosis in December, 2020. "We didn't know she was getting a transplant until about the end of July," her daughter, Lexi, said. "We just found out she got put on the UNOS [United Network for Organ Sharing] list for possible recipients." McClean...
Marvin 'Red' and Evie Skytland, along with Carrington Public School Superintendent Janelle Helm, stand with Carrington Cardinal players as part of a special ceremony officially dedicating the newly-named Cardinal Stadium before the start of the Homecoming game against Grafton Friday night, September 15. The Skytlands helped to fund-raise $250,000 on their own for the new stadium, an amount which was matched by CHS alumnus Michael Chambers to complete the $500,000 project. As part of the...
Weird things can happen to a football team when offensive success almost becomes too easy. Carrington scored at will on their first four possessions in the first half Friday night, September 15, building up a 32-7 lead at one point, but the Grafton Spoilers had too many weapons to just lay down. Two-and-a-half quarters, and 47 combined points on the board later, the Cards sweated out a 53-33 pinball-style score in their 2023 Homecoming game at the newly-christened Cardinal Stadium (see related...
In danger of losing their first two District 5 matches, Carrington dug deep and got perhaps their most important win so far this fall on the volleyball court. Two very evenly-match-ed squads met in the Loboes' den in LaMoure, with valuable positioning and future tournament seeding on the line. And when the dust settled, the Cards prevailed in a five-set marathon over LaMoure/Litchville-Marion, 25-20, 18-25, 25-23, 24-26 and 15-8 last Tuesday night, September 19. Freshman Harper Kollman is...
Griggs/Midkota hoped that their win over BCN to start the league season in District 5 would spring them to a possible upset last Tuesday night in Cooperstown, but that was not to be. Despite playing well in the first set against the Edgeley-Kulm/Montpelier Rebels, the Titans learned, as two other district teams have so far, that the Rebs are not a squad with which to be trifled. The Titans fell to E-K-M by scores of 21-25, 14-25 and 13-25, which vaulted the visitors to sole possession of first...
After five weeks of play, the Griggs/Midkota Titans are still waiting to step into the winner's circle as it relates to the Friday night lights. Maple River's Tee Sylling made sure of that, rushing for five touchdowns and passing for another to boost the Raiders to a 51-22 win over the Titans Friday night, September 15, in Hope. The 6'3", 190-pound junior scored on rushing plays of 18, five, nine, four, and 69 yards spread out among the second to fourth quarters, and also got the game's scoring...
In her tenure leading the NR-S Rocket volleyball program, Sara Myhre has one big ticket list item that her team hasn't accomplished. Defeating their rivals from 16 miles down Highway 281, the Carrington Cardinals. Mark Thursday, September 14, 2023 on that calendar, as the Rockets, behind a big match from senior All-State performer Kelsie Belquist, took a 29-27, 12-25, 25-21 and 26-24 victory at CHS' East Gym in front of a raucous Cardinal crowd during their Homecoming Week. Senior middle hitter...
Olivia Threadgold and Logan Weninger are the 2023 CHS Homecoming Queen and King following coronation ceremonies held Wednesday afternoon, September 13, in the West Gym. More photos from Homecoming will be published in next week's edition....
The Carrington offense has been equal parts Road Runner and Houdini over the first four weeks of the fall football season. As in, getting their athletes in space to make big plays happen, and making use of some sleight of hand with misdirection to create even bigger chunk plays. Coach Kyle Smith's Cards made the first switch flip play on defense, though, and that got the visitors going for good with a surprisingly-efficient 45-15 win over the Thompson Tommies in the Red River Valley Friday...
By necessity, the Griggs/Midkota Titans have had to earn an education on the football field the hard way. Now down two quarterbacks after an injury to starter James Woodstead, the Titans turned to their third signal-caller in freshman Trace Spickler. Spickler did very well in his starting debut, going 12-for-18 for 100 yards, but G-M dropped their fourth straight game to start the season, 37-6, against the LaMoure/Litchville-Marion Loboes. The game at Townsend Field in LaMoure was an...
The question for Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier's girls volleyball program was never the athletic talent, or the desire. It was getting past the "Big Three" in District 5 competition, which for the past few years, has been some combination of LaMoure/Litchville-Marion, Oakes, or Carrington. The Rebels completed one part of that progression Thursday night, September 8, taking a surprising 3-0 sweep over Carrington in the district opener by scores of 25-21, 25-19 and 27-25 in the East Gym to improve to...
Senior Kacie Rexin was one of just four golfers to achieve the individual state qualification standard at the second Region 2 individual qualifying meet in Cooperstown Friday, September 8. Rexin shot a score of 80 (40 on the front and 40 on the back nine) on the nine-hole Cooperstown Golf Course to hit the automatic standard for the State Class B meet for the second time this season. She did the same at Hillsboro on August 28. Her score was two shots back of medalist Avery Bartels of Kindred,...
M-P-B got back into the winner's circle following a mini two-match losing skid, taking three straight sets over the Ellendale Cardinals Thursday night, September 7, in Pingree, and getting off on the right foot in District 6 last Tuesday, September 12, with another three-set win against South Border. Brynn Sorenson led three Thunder players in double figure kills with 17, followed by Maddie Gefroh's 11 and Allison Thomas's 10. Violet Bohl had 29 assists, and Alaina Bosche found the opposite...
JunkFest returned to the Foster County Fairgrounds for another year Saturday, September 9, and bustling activity related to the popular showcase of antiques, furniture, art, clothing, and other curiosities continued throughout the city of Carrington during the weekend. Food vendors were present for the festival held throughout the grounds from morning to afternoon, and live music was once again provided by the "Mooncats"....
When the quip comes out, "He just made a lot of money," credited to then-NDSU Coach Bob Babich in response to a play made in a rivalry game, you know greatness may just be coming your way. But Carrington's own Jim Kleinsasser put together a body of work in the college ranks that was more than just one grainy sprint-and-score that made the rounds in the early Internet days. Before he put on the pads for the Minnesota Vikings for 13 years, Jimmy, as he is affectionately called around these parts,...
In their illustrious gridiron lore, the Cavalier Tornadoes have seen their fair share of triumph and heartbreak. In between six state championships, won from levels spanning the original Class B to nine-man and the then-Class AA level, the Tornadoes hit a string of bad luck the last four years. Four straight losses in the Dakota Bowl in the nine-man division were a double-edged sword, and moved Cavalier back up to 11B this season. Up in the higher classification, but now struggling with...
The Thompson Tommies have always been on the short list of who's who in North Dakota Class B high school volleyball. Six-time defending Region 2 champions, including eight out of the last 10 years, five Class B championships and a coach (Lisa Strand) with over 1,000 career victories, means that their opponents have to bring their 'A' game to have a shot at a win. Carrington did just that Thursday night, August 31, and showed that they have the players to compete for postseason glory of their...
The most draining matches can end up being the most satisfying ones, especially if the team you favor is the one with the victory at the end of the evening. Griggs/Midkota endured a gauntlet of a five-set win over the Benson County Wildcats Thursday night, August 31, in Maddock, with three of the five games going into extra points. The 27-25, 26-28, 25-20, 24-26 and 15-12 win for the Titans (1-1) was their first of the 2023 fall season after a straight-set loss to M-P-B two nights before....
