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It wasn't the future that Carrington's basketball programs and school administration would have preferred to face. But, now that they're here, it's time to make the best of it. For the first time since the 1963 season, there will be three divisions of basketball in North Dakota instead of two, and the Cardinals have moved from among the higher enrollment Class B schools into one of the smaller programs in the new Division A. Coach Andy Braaten will embark on what is officially a quarter century...
A pre-meal appetizer before the turkeys and casserole came out of the oven meant some exciting action from the Cardinal mat crews two days prior to the Thanksgiving holiday. Carrington started the head-to-head portion of the 2023-24 boys' wrestling campaign with a home dual in the East Gym Tuesday, November 21, against the Oakes Tornadoes, falling in 42-30 fashion. Meanwhile, at Fargo South High School the same night, the CHS girls' wrestlers got in their second event of the season by...
Allison Thomas could be described as Coach Jacie Connell's "Swiss Army knife" for the M-P-B Thunder volleyball program. Like the legendary utilitarian tool, Thomas did a little bit of everything on the court in her five years of varsity play. From helping to carry the Thunder offense at the net, to her work as an elite back row passer and defender, the 5'6" standout athlete was one of the most visible players in District 6 and Region 3 for a several-year span. Even though her stellar career...
Through it all, Connie Speldrich does her best to keep taking her life day-by-day. Recent health scares have knocked her down, but she keeps getting up, and the fighting spirit within her keeps shining bright. The Sykeston native will have a soup and sandwich benefit in her honor at the Sykeston Fire Hall Saturday, December 2 from 5-7 p.m. The event will also include a 50/50 drawing, rifle board, quilt boards and a live auction, with all proceeds going towards Connie's mounting medical...
Linemen don't seek the spotlight, but they often do the sometimes-unheralded work at the point of attack to get the players with the ball their moments in the sun. So it was that Carrington senior center Brock Jungels, along with two of the players for whom he opened running lanes, junior Corbin Clifton and senior Logan Weninger, were lauded for their exploits in Class A 11-man football in 2023. Jungels, a Pingree-Buchanan athlete, was named to the North Dakota High School Coaches Association...
The winter sports season for 2023-24 got going for the Carrington wrestling teams at the Minot Early Bird Tournament the weekend of Saturday, November 18, at Minot High School. Boys and girls varsity and junior varsity results are as follows: Minot Early Bird Wrestling Tournament Saturday, November 18 Boys - Teams in attendance: Alexander, Bishop Ryan, Carrington, Des Lacs-Burlington, Devils Lake, HWC, Killdeer, Minot, New Town, Turtle Mountain, Velva, White Shield, Williams Co., Williston...
+++ "I don't think I could count the times I was so down on myself and cried wondering why God has to make me hurt so bad and what purpose do I have here. To numb the pain, I did drugs, because when I was high – there was no feeling." - Mya Schiele, personal journal entry +++ From all appearances, Mya was your typical American teenager, with all the emotional highs and lows that come with those sometimes-turbulent formative years. The 2020 CHS graduate was full of love, kindness and vigor for h...
In this scene from "Nellie", a play by Robby Steltz, famed pioneer journalist Nellie Bly, played by Kelsi Neuman (seated), goes undercover and sees for herself the abuses of patients in what would then have been called an insane asylum. Also in this scene are Briley Carr (Miss Grupe), Nela McKibben (Nurse) and Ben Gustafson (Dr. Kinier). The four are part of Carrington High School's One-Act Play troupe, directed by Jill Fandrich and Paige Thomas. CHS captured the Region 5 championship for their...
It would have been completely on-brand for the Carrington Cardinals and Oakes Tornadoes to play their typical match for a plaque that, on the surface, might not mean much in the grand scheme. This one didn't go five sets, like their past games are wont to do, but the two programs saved all their drama for the end point of the first two sets. Both of those extra-point affairs went to Oakes, 29-27 and 27-25, and Carrington briefly extended their hopes of a comeback with a 25-18 third set win befor...
The second crack at greatness for the New Rockford-Sheyenne volleyball team ended up being much tougher than their successful first attempt just one year ago. In 2022, the Rockets flew under the radar, played the match of their lives, and shocked the Langdon/Edmore/Munich Cardinals in four sets for their first-ever Class B Tournament berth. Four sets came and went in this year's Region 4 championship, with each team registering two victories, and the final set to 15 points meant everyone's blood...
The lineup didn't exactly have the greatest depth in terms of match experience last season, but Carrington's boys' wrestling team is one year wiser, and ready to make some noise at key weights. Last year's team placed 10th with 60 points in the State B individual tournament at the Fargodome, while failing to qualify for the dual event. Only eight wrestlers participated at state in 2022-23. The Cards graduated the state champion at 120 pounds, Trace Hoggarth, and the 152-pound fifth place finishe...
The Carrington girls' wrestling program had certainly, to borrow a mixed sporting metaphor, punched above their weight class in their first season as a varsity sport. The Cards ran the gauntlet of predominantly Class A-sized schools to earn a surprising state dual tournament berth at the East Region meet in their home gym, eventually finishing sixth at state, and placed 10th in the open-class individual tournament at the Fargodome last February. Mark Pazdernik begins his second season at the hel...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne/Maddock Rockets finished one game short of advancing to this year’s Dakota Bowl, but were very well-represented on the North Dakota High School Coaches Association (NDHSCA) Nine-Man All-State Teams. Defensive lineman Easton Benz was selected to the First Team for the 10-1 Rockets, one of just three sophomores to make the cut for the top squad. Four other NR-S-M players were honored with Second Team recognition, those being junior running back/defensive lineman Carter E...
Steeled from their season-long fight against the tough competition in District 5, the Carrington Cardinals were not a team for opponents to underestimate or look past. If the E-K-M Rebels occupied the proverbial "S-tier", then the Cardinals, along with LaMoure/Litchville-Marion and Oakes, definitely qualified as "A-tier" programs, to borrow the popular ranking convention. Three-time defending Region 3 champion and District 6 tournament winner Linton-HMB knew they were in for a battle no matter w...
If nothing else, the Medina/Pingree-Buchanan Thunder left 2023 Region 3 volleyball fans with an everlasting memory of a team refusing to go gently into the night, and some respect for their heart and fortitude. M-P-B's season at the volleyball net came to a painful conclusion in a four-set defeat to the Oakes Tornadoes in the first round of regional play in Ellendale Monday, November 6. But, in true Thunder fashion, they made their opponent sweat out each and every volley, spike and dig, and tha...
Cinderella's slipper couldn't quite fit the Carrington Cardinals' foot. Try as they might, the Cards came back valiantly from a two-sets-to-none disadvantage, and forced a fifth set against LaMoure/Litchville-Marion with two victories. But the final race to 15 points was not to be, and the Loboes would stifle CHS' bid for their first State Class B Tournament appearance in 10 years with a 3-2 (15-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-11, 12-15) loss in the semifinal round at the Region 3 Tournament Tuesday...
Carrington had five players selected to the Class A Region 2 team, as well as four additional players on the Honorable Mention squad. Quarterback/free safety Josh Bickett, along with running back/linebacker Corbin Clifton, center/defensive tackle Brock Jungels, wide receiver/strong safety Grady Shipman, and running back/cornerback Logan Weninger were named as All-Region selections for the Cards. Making Honorable Mention status were guard/inside linebacker Jake Otto, guard/defensive lineman...
The Griggs/Midkota Titans had three players make the All-Region 1 team in the Nine-Man division, and one other earn Honorable Mention distinction. Linemen Levi Kautzman and Isaac Stadler, and running back/linebacker Kindle Carlson, all juniors, were selections to the top squad, and senior wide receiver Latrell Rainey was Honorable Mention for the team roster, which was released to the public Tuesday, November 7. Region 1 champion Sargent County had six players on the All-Region team, while...
One year following the first attempt, residents within the Pingree-Buchanan School District will go to the polls again to vote yea or nay on a proposed school improvement project for the elementary school complex in Buchanan. The P-B school board unanimously decided to proceed with a $5.1 million dollar bond referendum that will go before voters on December 6. The decision to pursue the project again comes after district voters rejected a similar proposal on November 21 of last year, which...
It must be late October in North Dakota, and the final 5,000 meters of competitive course running for statewide athletes featured the first winter weather of the fall season. A bone-chilling temperature of 24 degrees and half a foot of snow lined the Parkhurst Recreation Area north of Jamestown to give fans and runners alike a shivery atmosphere at the Class B State Cross Country Meet Saturday, October 28. Even with unfavorable conditions, the competitive juices were no less flowing, and...
While the Carrington Cardinals had their own agenda to follow, Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier's season-long ascension into the top of the district world has proven to be no passing fad. The Rebels continued their landmark 2023 fall campaign with a win over Carrington, 3-1, on Friday, October 27, in the semifinal round of the District 5 Tournament in Oakes. In the 25-23, 19-25, 20-25 and 21-25 loss for the Cards, the two teams played through over 30 set ties in the hyper-tense matchup of the top seed...
District 5 Tournament officials had to come up with a creative solution to get their first game of the day in the books. The weather in Oakes was sufficiently calm Thursday, October 26, to allow teams involved in the final two first round games to face off in Tornado Alley. However, by the luck of geography and the winter storm’s path, Carrington and Griggs/Midkota, the two northernmost District 5 programs, were unable to travel southeast. The Cardinals and Titans, the district’s fourth and fif...
Medina/Pingree-Buchanan's five-match run through the District 6 regular season provided them with confidence they could get the two straight wins to take the tournament plaque in Napoleon Monday-Tuesday, October 30-31. The first part of that equation came to pass, but not the second, as the Linton-HMB Lions rose up to take a four-set win in the championship over the Thunder last Tuesday evening. In a three-set win over Kidder County (25-6, 25-17 and 25-18), M-P-B sustained a costly loss, as seni...
Griggs/Midkota faced a tall task in their attempt to spring an upset and prolong their volleyball season at the District 5 Tournament in Oakes Monday night, October 30. Namely, to take down the hometown team on their court with Region 3 qualification on the line. The Tornadoes took care of the playoff nerves early, and sent the Titans home for the fall with a 15-25, 8-25 and 22-25 loss. Kelsey Johnson had eight kills, Kennedy Reidman six and Vanessa Vollmer five for G-M, whose season ended at...
Anyone who has spent a measurable amount of time living in Carrington, or passing through for a stop for groceries, has met Jim Indergaard at least once. Since taking his first job at Steve's Jack & Jill in 1979, at the location of the current Calvary Baptist Church, Jim, as most everyone knows him, has been a fixture at the end of the counter making sure the eggs are separate from the heavy items, and the frozen foods and canned goods are contained in their proper spots. On Thursday, October...
