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Returning Class B 400-meter state champion, Logan Weninger, has watched much of the spring track season from the shelf. Nursing a nagging hamstring injury, the senior returned to the track for one final regular season meet when he and his Carrington teammates competed at the Devils Lake Rotary meet last Monday, May 13. Weninger ran just one race, the 300-meter hurdles, and ran a state qualifying time of 41.59 to take first in the event. Junior Ryder Bickett added a second individual event to...
An extremely busy week for Hornet track and field resulted in some great efforts and a few more qualifiers as well as better times in previously qualified events. The Hornet boys claimed the CNDC and HWC invite titles by narrow margins which leads into the making of an outstanding boys team race in the upcoming North Central Regional Meet to which was to be held on Friday, May 17 at Rugby. Currently, the Hornet boys and girls track and field teams boast the following qualifiers with just the...
Dickinson State University senior Jory Boote proved himself good enough with a lasso to punch his ticket to the College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR). Jory, the son of Alan and Nikki Boote of Binford, will be making the trip to Casper, Wyo., June 7-15, thanks to placing second in Tie-Down Roping in the Great Plains Region standings for the season. Boote's score of 515 points puts him just behind event leader Luke Mavity (572) of Black Hills State University (Spearfish, S.D.). He is currently in...
Two tough opponents dealt the Carrington Cardinals losses at the so-called "Baseball Day" in Park River on Friday, May 10. The Cards fell by a 9-4 count to the host Park River/Fordville-Lankin Aggies, and two-time Class B defending title winners Thompson dispatched CHS, 9-2, in action from northeast North Dakota. Five-run innings proved to be the fatal blows for Carrington in each instance, as they were victimized in the fifth by the Tommies and the sixth by the Aggies. Carrington would return t...
Strong efforts in the final regular season games for the Carrington Cardinals put them in position for a few program firsts. On Thursday, May 9, the Cards trounced south sub-Region 2 opponent Larimore, 25-4, to earn a home postseason tournament matchup with those same Polar Bears this past Thursday. In the first inning, 14 CHS batters came across to score, with 20 coming to the plate against the beleaguered Polar Bear pitchers. Katie Allmaras went 3-for-4 in the win, scoring four runs along with...
Carrington Gymnastics finished their season with the Region 4 Xcel Regional gymnastics competition April 19-21 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Brynlee Hoff, Addison Thompson and Paisley Lura were amongst the 4000 other gymnasts from 7 different states looking to top the podium one last time this season. Hoff and Thompson competed in the silver division, and Lura was in the gold division. Hoff and Thompson both earned two 9.0s or higher. Hoff scored 9.0 on beam, and 9.325 on floor. Thompson scored 9.075...
Madison Johnson's pursuit of the Carrington girls' track record books bore dividends for the third time this season. Johnson set a new mark in the 3,200-meter run at the Cards' home Kiwanis/Lions Track meet on Saturday, May 4, running an 11:30.05 time to surpass Ashley Neumiller's 2014 standard of 11:39.64. She, along with Kenadie Pazdernik, took a ride outside of their comfort zones to the short sprints, and qualified as possible alternates for the 4x200-meter relay in 1:50.88. Harper Kollman...
The highs and lows of the spring baseball slate continue for the Carrington Cardinals. Carrington built up some momentum with a non-region doubleheader sweep in Tolna over the Nelson County/Midkota Chargers (4-0) and Hatton-Northwood (9-6) in Saturday, May 4 weekend action, but all the good diamond vibes came to a halt with a pair of sizable late-inning swoons in a 10-3 Region 3 loss to LaMoure/Litchville-Marion at Townsend Field in LaMoure last Monday, May 6. The Cards fell behind to the...
The meet was not on the schedule but with a rain forecasted for the rest of the last week, the Panthers threw together a five-team event, the Midstate Quad, on Wednesday, May 1, in Rugby. HWC came away with four new qualifiers on the day led by the 4x400 boys relay team of Noah Ziegler, Keaton Keller, Carson Heilman and Tallen Thorson, who not only finished first but met the standard with a time of 3:35.84. Other Hornet qualifiers on the day included eighth grader Dylan Heitman, who soared...
The Carrington girls' softball squad both won and lost big in a pair of Region 2 games played last week. On Friday, May 3, the team traveled to Rolette and registered a 23-4 win over Northern Lights. In the victory, both Maara Kutz and Lauren Hendrickson registered four hits each, and combined for seven runs driven in. Calleigh Hewitt had three hits, as did Isabel Wendel and Ella Volk. Last Monday, the number one team in the state, the May-Port-CG Patriots, made a statement with a lopsided 32-2...
Carrington Athletic Director Karla Michaelson wishes to announce that effective Friday, May 3, the Region 2 Softball Tournament format has been changed, per a meeting with other regional athletic directors. Due to the difficulty of rescheduling weather-affected games, Region 2 school officials agreed to split the region into North and South sub-regions for postseason tournament purposes. Teams in the North sub-region will be Grafton, Langdon/Edmore/Munich, Midway/Minto, Northern Lights and Pembi...
In Steele this past Tuesday, the Carrington baseball team patched up some loose ends to their Region 3 schedule, and are now getting ready for postseason play. The Cards won each end of a regional doubleheader with the Kidder County Wolves, winning by scores of 19-1 and 6-0 to improve their record to 8-7 on the season and 5-3 in league contests. Senior righthander Grady Shipman started both halves of the two-game swing, getting some valuable rest thanks to a big five-run first inning that...
The Carrington Wrestling Club honored their young athletes for their accomplishments this past season at their annual banquet Saturday night, May 4, at CrossRoads Golf Course north of town. Participants with the Pitcrew youth wrestling team were honored, with special awards going to Jazmyn Ybarra (Iron Sharpens Iron) and Jaxon Wilson and Ridge Kramlich (Spencer Tufte Award)....
Carrington may not win all the games they play this spring, but they seem to have a flair for the games that count. The Cardinals improved their Region 3 record to 4-1 with a 7-3 win over their rivals up the highway, the SNR Black Sox, on Tuesday, April 30. With the threat of precipitation looming, the game was moved up from its 3 p.m. starting time to 1:00, and starters Josh Bickett of the Cards and Keaton Cudworth of the Sox went to work early with two scoreless innings each. SNR got the...
Quietly, the South Border Mustangs have inserted themselves into the conversation in the short list of Region 3 contenders one month into the high school baseball season. Wins over LaMoure/Litchville-Marion (11-8) on April 11 and Carrington (4-0) in the second part of the Cards' doubleheader with Langdon/Edmore/Munich on Thursday, April 25, means that the regional picture has become ever more muddied. But with a strong pitching performance by Grady Shipman in Wishek, CHS showed they can still...
Griggs/Midkota took to the track for a pair of invitational meets on April 20 and 26, as they participated in the Don Kerlin Memorial Invitational at May-Port-CG High School and the VCSU High School Open six days later. The Titans had one participant improve on his state meet seeding, as shot putter Levi Kautzman hit a big attempt of 48 feet, nine inches in Valley City. Results from the two meets are as follows: Don Kerlin Memorial Invitational Track Meet, Mayville Saturday, April 20 Boys' Team...
Junior girls' hurdler Savannah Reister provided the M-P-B Thunder's individual highlight at the Clark and Sharon Lloyd Invitational with a first-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles. Reister crossed the line in 17.88 seconds for 10 of the team's 31 points for the meet. On the boys' side, Mark Thomas scored all 15 of the M-P-B points with four placings. Thunder results from the Lloyd Invitational are as follows: Clark and Sharon Lloyd Invitational, Fessenden Tuesday, April 23 M-P-B Girls' Indivi...
While the HWC junior high team hosted a meet in Fessenden, the Hornet varsity tracksters participated at the Mariya Tate Memorial Track and Field Meet in Rugby. The Hornets performed well in the strong winds, picking up new qualifiers in the boys' 4x100-meter relay and the girls 4x200 relay, and finishing 3rd in the boys' and 5th in the girls' divisions. Dylan Heitman, Keaton Keller, Carson Heilman and Tallen Thorson raced to a 45.35 clocking to qualify the boys' 4x100 relay, while Breanna...
Harvey-Wells County hosted a junior high invitational meet in Fessenden on Thursday, April 25, with 13 teams participating. Winners of the divisions included Rugby (7th girls), Carrington (8th girls) and Devils Lake (7th and 8th grade boys). Capturing first place in their events for HWC was Emilee Cazier (7th grade discus) and Westin Opdahl (8th grade pole vault). Other outstanding performances included Layne Allmaras, who finished 7th in the 200 dash, 2nd in the 400 dash and 100 hurdles and...
Carrington made a rare trip just north to New Rockford Golf Club on Wednesday, April 24, for a triangular meet featuring the Cards, the host NR-S Rockets and Griggs/Midkota Titans as featured participants. It was the first tournament hosted at the nine-hole course in quite some time, and the conditions made for some favorable scores. Grady Shipman played in his first action of the year, and took fourth with a card of 41. He was followed down the leaderboard by Hunter Bachmeier (44), Max Whitman...
The Carrington boys' golf team got their spring walks down the fairways in competition for the first time, competing in Casselton on April 15 and Hillsboro this past Monday, April 22. The Cards shot 432 as a group, behind meet winner Central Cass's 313. The Squirrels and medalist Jake Thompson (77) made use of their home course advantage to take team honors. Gabe Ricter was the top shooter for CHS with an 18-hole score of 101. He was followed by Callen Garber (106), Easton Mittleider (112),...
In almost the blink of an eye, it all went to a bad place for the Carrington baseball team. Four innings had elapsed between the Cards and the visiting May-Port-CG Patriots, with both teams getting two-run frames to settle into a 2-2 deadlock. But a few hit batters, hits and errors later, things got out of reach, and the Pats scored nine times in the next two innings to shellshock the host team, 11-2, in the "official" home opener at City Park Monday night, April 22. Ethan Roller got the start...
Carrington's Cardinal Stadium was the place for a junior high track meet, held Tuesday afternoon, April 23. In attendance at the meet were the host Cardinals, M-P-B, Devils Lake, Barnes Co. North, Benson County, Velva, and Warwick. Results from Carrington and M-P-B athletes are as follows: Carrington Junior High Track Meet Tuesday, April 23 7th Grade Boys Team Scores Devils Lake 195.5, Velva 100, Carrington 55, Benson Co. 46, Barnes Co. North 17, Warwick 15.5, M-P-B 4. Carrington Results - 7th...
A small squad for the Carrington Cardinals met up with the best of eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota at the Fargo Elite Meet, held at the Terrence Dahl and Donna Beres Track Complex on the NDSU campus Saturday, April 20. And, for the second time in an eight-day span, CHS senior middle distance runner Madison Johnson is in the spotlight. Johnson broke her own school record in the 1,600-meter run set the previous week in Grafton by four-hundredths short of three full seconds, crossing...
New Rockford-Sheyenne seniors Connor Knatterud and DJ Mudgett, as well as Maddock seniors Logan Maddock and Macyn Olson, have the opportunity to play together one last time on the field. All four were selected to play on the 9-East team in the 2024 North Dakota Shrine Bowl on Saturday, June 22 at Mayville State University. Other players named to the 9-East roster are Nick Wulfekuhle, Richland; Havlin Delong, Blake Mattson and Carter Casavant, North Prairie; Parker Simon, North Star; Luke Martins...
