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Josh Moser was feeling the luck of the Irish in the Friday, March 17 consolation semifinals. In contrast to his frustrating opening round game in which he scored just five points, the basket was looking big for the M-P-B senior point guard in the first half. Moser shot 11-for-11 from the floor and finished 13-for-15 while scoring 34 points, but Powers Lake/Burke Central’s Tyson Enget and his teammates were equally up to the task. The Region 8-winning Ranchers matched the Thunder in a very c...
Warwick came tantalizingly close to pulling off one of the largest upsets in the history of Class B basketball in the first round in Bismarck, even though the score didn't show it. A 58-43 loss to eventual champion Central Cass featured the heavy underdog Warriors leading going into the fourth quarter, and tied or within one possession well into the final eight minutes. So, in the seventh place game, the Thunder decided not to let Warwick's shooting and transition game take hold, and led pretty...
Amy Becker's extensive background in agriculture, and her sense of empathy and an everlasting love for animals, has inspired her to get into massage therapy for our four-legged companions. Coppertop Therapy provides services for cattle, horses and dogs, and is an option for anybody who notices pain in their animal, or desires to provide them with increased range of motion and other health benefits. "Animals of any age can benefit from therapy sessions," said Becker. "That can range from...
Jozey Retzlaff, a junior at Carrington High School, has spent her life on the farm immersed in the Western way of life. Get up early, do your chores, feed your horse and maintain a trusting relationship and bond with them, build a strong love of the land, family and country. Those ingrained qualities served Retzlaff in her participation in the Miss Rodeo competition at the 86th Annual North Dakota Winter Show in Valley City, held Friday night, March 10, as part of the show festivities. She...
The closing line of 1980 Team USA Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks' fabled speech in "Miracle" to his team before they took on the Soviets rang true for the Medina/Pingree-Buchanan Thunder. "This. . . is your time. Now go out there and take it." Sawyer Wanzek's three-pointer from the left wing with three seconds remaining, and a defensive stop on the following possession, triggered bedlam on the floor from M-P-B players and supporters as they executed an improbable 57-56 win over favored...
As a police officer by profession, Chris Ormiston spends one night weekly at Central City Lanes to unwind from a job that provides its own special level of stress and anxiety. On the evening of February 9, however, those feelings came to Ormiston at the bowling alley, with the prospect of the sport's biggest individual thrill staring at him in the form of the 10 pins 60 feet away from the foul line, spread in width just under 42 inches. The third ball of the 10th frame spun down the polished...
Back in the early 1980s, Al Trader and his wife, Sandy, didn't quite have a defined idea where life would take them. After Al worked for an eastern North Dakota dealership for a time, the couple's original plans were to move to Bismarck and take jobs there, and that stance was one on which the two would not easily compromise. So when Trader was offered the sales position at Rosenau Equipment in 1981, he accepted, albeit reluctantly. "The company I was going to work for [in Bismarck] did not end...
Military metaphors are often overused in our sporting-obsessed culture, but M-P-B Coach Bob Young got straight to the point about what Thunder games with the Linton-HMB Lions have resembled this season. "It's always a war with Linton," he said. "Our message to the boys was that it was going to be a war, and that we'd prepared for this over the last few years." Two games in the books this season with a combined point differential of plus-three for M-P-B, tied at one apiece, meant the rubber...
Trinity Bible College women's basketball player Brenna Anderson's role on the court for the Lions has blossomed into being one of the team's go-to-players with the recent conclusion of her sophomore season. The 5'3" guard helped lead TBC to three straight wins and the tournament championship of the Northern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (NIAC), held February 17-19 at Free Lutheran Bible College in Plymouth, Minn. Anderson averaged 17.2 points per game this past season, shooting 42.6 percen...
For the first few minutes of the Region 3 quarterfinal round, the Carrington Cardinals were doing what they needed to do against District 6 winner Medina/Pingree-Buchanan, according to Coach Tim Ranum. The Cards got out to a quick 4-0 lead, and briefly landed a punch on a slightly-discombobulated team before matching them basket for basket early in the opening eight minutes. Then, the bottom fell out. M-P-B senior Josh Moser got hot from the field, and Carrington couldn't buy a key bucket from t...
The years of struggles on the floor as a young budding squad learning to win, have come to fruition for the M-P-B Thunder. After several tournament disappointments, the Thunder finally hit one of their preseason milestone goals, and captured the District 6 championship with a 54-42 victory against South Border Thursday night, March 2. It is the first tournament crown for M-P-B since their founding as a co-op, and their most recent overall for schools within the agreement since 2009 going back...
On early Sunday morning, February 12, the farm house of Rudy and Alexis Theis, located four miles north and four miles east of Carrington in Estabrook Township, went up in flames. With it, many memories, along with much of their material possessions, were lost to either fire or smoke damage. Fortunately for the family, neither Rudy, Alexis, or their three children, daughter, Blakely (3), son, Rory (2), or daughter, Kenley (seven months), were in the house at the time of the fire. Carrington...
Adding a new recreational option for area children to expend their joyous energy is already paying off for the Carrington Youth Center. The indoor play area on the premises was completed this past December 2, and is intended to cater to the younger demographic that Youth Center Director Kristin Larson says was not being serviced at CYC. "The reaction and feedback we've received has been very positive," Larson said. "The community appears excited and supportive, and we've been told it's a...
In both of Carrington's games with E-K-M in the girls' Region 3 and boys' District 5 tournaments, the halftime score was 30-20. This time around, the Rebels were the frontrunners, and if the mirror image came true, the Cards would come back for a win in this one. It nearly came to pass, as CHS drew to within 44-42 in the fourth, but that was all the closer they would get in a 64-49 loss to the Rebels in the District 5 semifinals Monday, February 27. The Cards really only had themselves to blame...
Despite the best shooting efforts of Oakes’ Noah Sundby in the first half, the Griggs/Midkota Titans were undeterred in their pursuit of one more game. Sundby hit all five of his three-point shot attempts in the first half, and finished with 20 points and one more trifecta for six total to lead the Tornadoes. However, it wasn’t enough, as the Titans took a 57-47 win in loser-out action Monday afternoon, February 27, at the District 5 Tournament in Jamestown. Titan junior Kyle Johnson’s 14 point...
Carrington will be playing in the Region 3 Tournament today (March 6) after defeating the Barnes County North Bison, 77-54, in the qualifying game Tuesday afternoon, February 28, at the District 5 Tournament from the Jamestown Civic Center. In the process, the Cards had to overcome a 15-point deficit as late as the second quarter, and trailed by a 32-27 count at halftime. Senior forward Hudson Schmitz achieved the personal milestone of 1,000 career points with a basket in the fourth quarter,...
The Independent-area District 5 teams had their first round of play at the opening postseason tournament Saturday, February 25, at the Jamestown Civic Center. Postponements related to the previous Region 3 Girls' Basketball Tournament pushed the start of the boys' district event back one day to Saturday, and moved the subsequent rounds to last Monday and Tuesday. Carrington, playing as the number two seed, took a 66-29 win over seventh-seeded Oakes, while the Griggs/Midkota Titans, seeded...
In the first quarter of their Region 3 semifinal, it seemed that when the Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier Rebels gave Carrington an inch, the Cards would take a mile. The Rebs were half a step slow in defending a four three-pointer barrage in the first eight minutes for CHS, and the Cardinal shooters were on fire in a 22-point period. But the law of averages being what they are, the Cards weren't going to shoot like that forever. And E-K-M's Mataeya Mathern and Kiara Jangula kept their squad afloat in...
The final game in Class B (in its current form) for the Carrington Cardinal girls went in the books as a triumph. It wasn't the storybook ending they pictured for the program in 2022-23, with that honor going to E-K-M in the championship game just under two hours later. Even then, the Cards walked off the Jamestown Civic Center floor for the last time with a 50-40 win over the Kidder County Wolves in the Region 3 Tournament third place contest. An evenly-played first quarter gave way to a big...
M-P-B took care of business in the first two rounds at the District 6 Tournament in Hazelton, and made it to the top rung of the ladder to play for the tournament crown. The third-seeded Thunder got their 16th and 17th victories of the season by scores of 61-22 in the first round over Strasburg-Zeeland, and exacted some revenge for a one-point loss earlier in the season by knocking off #2 seed Linton-HMB, 59-55. The first round and semifinal rounds were played February 25 and 27, and the...
Two programs fated to be part of the to-be-minted Region 2 of Division A next season got an early start on a new league rivalry Thursday night, February 16, in Thompson. Carrington's final regular season game pitted the Cardinals against a perennially-talented Tommies program with all the tools to compete for this year's Class B Region 2 crown. If not for a few hiccups, the Cards may have pulled off one of the team's bigger upsets in a few years, but witnessed the home squad make the plays late...
M-P-B enters the District 6 Tournament in Hazelton on the heels of one confidence-building victory, and a 26-point defeat at the hands of the 10th-ranked Class B team in the state. Gage Magstadt's big 23-point evening carried the Thunder to an impressive 60-38 win over Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier on February 16. M-P-B doubled up the Rebels at the half, 30-15, and kept up the pressure with a seven-point third quarter advantage. Josh Moser and Rylen Wick each had 12 points in the Thunder's scoring...
Carrington's planned Monday night, February 20 finale with Napoleon/Gackle-Streeter in the first round of the Region 3 Girls' Basketball Tournament in Jamestown didn't materialize. Instead, the winter weather demons had their say, and pushed the Cards/Imperials game to Tuesday afternoon, February 21, and did even more damage to the best-laid designs of statewide tournament organizers. It didn't end up throwing the Cards off too much, as they put together a workmanlike effort to dispatch N-G-S,...
It was enough of a chore for M-P-B to just get off uncontested shots in their 56-23 loss to the Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier Rebels in the Region 3 opening round. Following a semi-competitive first quarter, the Rebels blew the Thunder out of the water with a 22-2 run in the second quarter to win going away. Allison Thomas led the Thunder (11-12 for the year) with seven points. No other player had more than three for M-P-B. E-K-M (17-5) made use of the hot shooting hand of Kiara Jangula, as she scored...
Griggs/Midkota took a 54-43 loss to Langdon/Edmore/Munich, but got back on the winning track just ahead of the District 5 Tournament with a 44-41 win over Larimore. The two road games for the Titans were played Friday and Saturday, February 17-18. Carter Spitzer was the only Titan player in double figures with 15 points. Eli Larson, along with Latrell Rainey, finished wieht eight. L/E/M was placed by a 15-point evening courtesy of Rayce Worley, and Nickolas Kingzett scored 10 for the Cardinals...
