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Hillsboro-Central Valley (HCV) and Harvey-Wells County (HWC) played a great first half, but the visiting Burros got the most out of their second half scoring 22 unanswered points to leave with a 36-6 win at L.C. Loerch Field in Harvey, on Friday, September 23. HCV started quickly in this Region 4 matchup. The Burros forced a HWC turnover on the Hornets' first drive as Peter Dryburgh stepped in front of a screen pass and with the interception gave the Burros excellent field position. The Burros u...
New Rockford-Sheyenne started strong and finished strong in this regional matchup, as the Rockets defeated Harvey-Wells County, 3-0, in Fessenden on Thursday, September 22. Kelsie Belquist got the Rockets started on the right track, as the junior had three kills early and NR-S took a 6-2 lead. Two kills from Aubree Wolfe and one from Larissa Arnold helped HWC stay close early, but the net play of Belquist, Ava Peterson and Lucy Meier propelled the Rockets to an 18-10 lead. Madisen Myhre had thre...
Throw out the first set of this match, and you have yourselves a dandy high school volleyball game. Washburn cruised by HWC by 13 points in game one, and then outlasted the Hornets in extra play in the final three games to go on to a 3-1 victory Tuesday, September 20, in Harvey. Game one was a bit of a yawner, as the Cardinals started strong and stayed strong throughout. Washburn took an early 8-2 lead on kills from Molly Jennings and Monica Goven. HWC pulled to within four at one point on an...
The HWC Hornets' football playoff dreams remain alive, albeit small, but still alive after the Hornets defeated the Park River Area Aggies, 28-12, at A.G. Strand Field in Park River on Friday, September 16. The Aggies and Hornets had a rough start, as far as turnovers, in this Region 2 battle. The Aggies started the night going to the passing game, and Jadyn Vollmer made sure that that part of their game would not get a solid start as the junior had an interception on the first play of the...
The Griggs-Midkota Titans won a tight third game, 25-23, and took the steam out of HWC defeating the Hornets, 3 sets to 1 in Fessenden on Thursday, September 15. In the first of three close games to start the match, the Hornets found themselves out front, 14-9, courtesy of kills from Christalea Wagner and Ashley Keller. The Titans, behind the heavy hitting of senior Asia Becherl, stormed back to tie the game at 14 with the help of kills from Becherl and Andie Anderson. Emma Dockter smashed down...
The Bottineau Braves had a total of 476 yards and scored on drives of two plays or less three different times on their way to defeating the Hornets by 26 points on Friday, September 9, at L.C. Loerch Field at Veterans Memorial Park in Harvey. There were fireworks everywhere to start the game. Bottineau started the scoring on the first offensive play of the game as Ryler Pollman found Khaliel Abdurrahman on a 51-yard scoring strike and with the PAT run by Jacob Shriver, the Braves led 8-0 with ju...
The Thompson Tommies held off a late surge by the Harvey-Wells County Hornets to pick up their third win and stay undefeated in a huge 28-22 victory in a Region 2 11B football game in Thompson on Friday, September 2. The Hornets received the ball first, and executed their first drive offensive play chart to perfection. The Hornets went 77 yards on 14 plays, and used eight runs and six passes in the drive. HWC picked up huge pass plays to Keaton Keller, Gabe Allmaras and Brock Fike on the drive,...
BY LANE MOELLENKAMP Harvey-Wells County held off a fierce Drake-Anamoose comeback to defeat the Raiders, 3-2, in area girls volleyball on Thursday, September 1, in Harvey. The Raiders got off to a fast start in game one, with Taryn Sieg picking up three early kills and Rylee Martin connecting on two service aces as they led, 7-2. Trailing 12-6, the Hornets used two kills from Emma Dockter and a couple of long kill attempts by the Raiders to pull to within 13-11. Sieg picked up her fourth kill,...
A low scoring first quarter turned into a runaway in Harvey as the #2-ranked Langdon/Edmore/Munich Cardinals scored 28 points in the second quarter and cruised to a 48-8 win over the Hornets at L.C. Loerch Field on Friday, August 26. Both teams had a solid defensive effort in the opening quarter, as the Cardinals scored just once on a Jack Romfo three-yard run on L/E/M's second possession. Leading by six heading into the second quarter, the Cardinals unleashed what could be one of the best...
The Cardinal volleyball team showed their net presence from the start of the night as they dominated the hitting game en route to a 3-0 win over HWC on Tuesday, August 30, in Carrington. Game one was all about the power up front for Carrington. The Cardinals amassed 10 kills in the opening set, and were led by four from Haley Wolsky. Emma Hone had three blocks, while Kacie Rexin had two aces as Carrington won set one 25-13. Larissa Arnold had two aces in the opener for HWC. The second set was mu...
The HWC girls' varsity volleyball team had a tough go in pool play at the Bottineau Early Bird Volleyball Tournament, but finished in style winning both games in the Consolation bracket to finish in ninth place. In pool play, HWC lost to a very talented and senior-heavy Rugby Panther team, and also dropped two games to Westhope-Newburg. The two losses put them in the consolation bracket, where they defeated Velva and Dunseith. Statistically, the Hornets were led by Kayme Bartz with 38 assists,...
Two fourth quarter scores for Harvey-Wells County turned a slim six-point lead into a 20-point victory, as the Hornets started the season 1-0 by defeating the Rugby Panthers in Rugby on Friday, August 19. Both the Hornets and Panthers were pretty conservative to start the night, but HWC got the scoring rolling on their second possession. It only took a couple of plays but the highlight was a 48-yard scamper by Kayl Sieg, setting up a three-yard touchdown run from Tallen Thorson. The PAT was...
HWC's run last year didn't end the way that they had hoped for but gave the returning players for this year a taste of what the postseason is all about. Harvey-Wells County lost in the first round of the playoffs to Central Cass but some gained valuable playing time with unfortunate injuries piling up late last season. Coach Bret Dockter enters his 9th year as head coach of Harvey-Wells County and his 26th year coaching overall. Dockter knows where his team's strengths and weaknesses lie and he...
Hornet volleyball is alive and well at Harvey-Wells County. HWC returns three starters from last year's squad that went 12-14-4 overall. The loss of several key starters to graduation make this more of a rebuilding season, but Coach Kristi Fike is looking forward to the challenge. Returning players who saw action a year ago for the Hornets include seniors Emma Dockter, Larissa Arnold and Kayme Bartz. Dockter had 235 digs, 63 kills and 34 aces, Arnold had 42 kills and 48 digs, while Bartz...
Fifty-six members of the Fessenden-Bowdon FFA Chapter recently exhibited 187 items at the North Dakota State Fair held August 22-30 in Minot. The following grand and reserve champions awards were earned: Grand Champion Awards Austin Brame - Tire Rim Shop Chair; Garin Opdahl - Large Namesign; Brody Jones - Corn Sheaf; Brody Jones - Dill, white onions and apples; Logan Grover - 1st show - squash; Logan Grover - 2nd show - beans, yellow onions, yellow zucchini, cherry tomatoes (honeycomb variety) Reserve Champion Awards Ryan Snively - Educational...
Nineteen members of the Fessenden-Bowdon FFA Chapter recently participated in the 93rd North Dakota State FFA Convention. The Convention was held on the NDSU campus June 6-9. Highlighting the week's action for the Fessenden-Bowdon FFA was the election of Regan Jones as the State FFA Treasurer. Jones went through two days of intensive Screening Committee meetings before being nominated and finally elected as the next treasurer of the North Dakota FFA Association. Other major highlights were the...
At the conclusion of each North Dakota High School Activities Association State Tournament, there is always a time to see the post-season award winners from that particular sports season. If one would have stuck around long enough for the team and individual presentations this year, you would have witnessed a local win the NDHSCA-Powerade senior track and field athlete of the year award. Madden Thorson of the Harvey-Wells County Hornets was named as the track and field athlete of the year award...
Alex Erickson won the long jump and triple jump, while Madden Thorson won the 110-meter hurdles and Tallen Thorson won the 300 hurdles as the Hornets amassed 66 team points to finish third in the team standings at the recently-held State A and B Track and Field Meet at the MDU Resources Community Bowl in Bismarck. 2022 was the first time for the three-day schedule, as several events were run late Thursday afternoon and into the evening. Thursday evening saw the boys 4x200 relay team of Isaac...
The Harvey-Wells County boys and girls track and field teams traveled to Rugby on Saturday, May 21, to compete in the North Central Regional meet. The top three individuals or relay teams in any event, as well as any team who met the qualifying standards, would qualify for the state meet to be held at the Bismarck Bowl on Thursday, May 26-Saturday, May 28. In the girls division, perennial powerhouse Rugby cruised to the regional title, but the Hornet girls finished in fifth place, picking up...
The Harvey-Wells County track and field teams participated in their final two meets of the season as they made preparations for the North Central Region Track and Field meet scheduled for Friday, May 20, in Rugby. The Hornets hosted the Lloyd Memorial meet in Fessenden on Saturday, May 14, and attended the Panther Booster Invitational in Rugby on Monday, May 16. The Hornets varsity and junior high participated in Fessenden on May 14, and although the meet was hampered by wind gusts of up to 50...
The HWC track and field teams traveled to Rugby and Bismarck this past week and had lots of hardware to bring home. The boys team continues to dominate picking up meet wins in both meets while the girls continue to improve and look to peak at the big meets to finish the year. The Hornet boys continue to dominate the hurdle races and jumps, and can do well in the relays with a variety of runners. The following are the current state track and meet qualifiers for HWC: Madden Thorson: 100 dash, 200 dash, 110 hurdles, 300 hurdles, 4x100 and 4x200 re...
It happened a day earlier than expected in order to beat the rain, and it was the first outdoor meet for many of the 700-plus track and field athletes and 24 teams that showed up in Fessenden on Thursday, April 28, for the HWC Junior High Invite. A wet, snowy spring has put a damper on the junior high season. In reality, there are only a couple of weeks left in the season and many performers were seeing their first outdoor meet of the year. To say the Fessenden facility was in top notch shape would be an understatement, but some hard work got...
The Harvey-Wells County boys track and field team continues to put up solid efforts, winning their second of two outdoor meets of the season at Shiloh Christian on Thursday, April 28. HWC picked up wins in nine events and had 10 state qualifying efforts in the process. Picking up state qualifying and events wins were Daniel Stoll in the 100, 200, and 400, Madden Thorson in the 110 and 300 hurdles, Alex Erickson in the high jump and triple jump, and the 4x200 relay of Isaac Friese, Tallen...
Harvey-Wells County took a limited squad to the Hazen Early Bird Invitational meet on Saturday, April 9, and came away with a couple of state qualifiers to start the outdoor season. Madden Thorson finished first in both hurdle events and also met the standard for the state meet, running a 15.38 in the 110-meter high hurdles and 41.56 in the 300 hurdles. The standards for both hurdle events are 16.24 and 42.24. Also finishing first was Isaac Friese in the javelin, and also meeting the standard...
The Harvey-Wells County junior high track and field team saw action Friday, April 8, at the Underwood Sports Complex in Underwood, N.D. Braylee Keller picked up event wins in the 100 and 200-meter hurdles for the girls’ team, as the Hornets finished in second place. The girls’ 4x200 relay team of Brooklyn Dockter, Aubree Rudel, Aubrey Thorson and Rachel Neumiller also claimed the event title. For the boys, Wyatt Korb won the 110 and 200 hurdles, and Carson Heilman won the long jump as the boys finished fourth overall. The HWC boys also won the...
