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New Rockford-Sheyenne was raring to go this winter following a second consecutive taste of tournament success in the volleyball season. However, that hasn't exactly translated to momentum for the winter basketball battles, as the Rockets stumbled out of the blocks to a 3-7 start. With a 55-39 win over M-P-B in Pingree last Monday night, February 5, NR-S garnered their fourth straight win, improved to 10-9, and entered the District 4 Tournament February 9 on their home floor as the number three...
Twelve years after the Carrington Cardinaires made history at the North Dakota Association of Dance and Drill (NDADD) state championship by winning an unprecedented four-event sweep, they did it again. The 2024 version of what has become Class B's premier dance troupe equaled the exploits of the 2012 team by winning the high kick, hip hop, pom and jazz categories at this year's competition, held at the Minot State University Dome January 26-27. It was the third time overall that the Cardinaires...
The shots weren't going down for Carrington, but their pressure on the defensive side frustrated the M-P-B Thunder all evening long in the East Gym Thursday night, January 25. In a cross-Division A versus B matchup, the Cardinals held the Thunder to 11 points in the first half and 10 in the second for a comfortable 50-21 victory. Junior Edyn Hoornaert posted a double-double of 17 points and 10 rebounds, and Madison Johnson's stat line was well-rounded with nine points, five rebounds, four steals...
CHS hosted its home tournament for the 2024 archery season on Saturday, Jan. 27. With action in both gyms and over 300 archers competing, it was a busy day. After nine flights of both 3D and bullseye shooting, Connor Cose of Rolla emerged as the top male archer overall in both divisions. He scored a 288 in 3D with 23 tens and also took the top spot among high school boys. NR-S archer Koy Zieman had the same score but three fewer tens, and finished first in middle school boys and second overall....
The Medina/Pingree-Buchanan boys basketball team hit a speed bump with a 55-38 loss to LaMoure/Litchville-Marion, but came back for a 41-29 win over South Border in District 2 games played on January 26 and 30. The results for the Thunder mean their record is now 9-5 for the season, and 3-2 in District 2 games. Currently, they occupy the fourth slot in the standings. Boxscores from the two contests were as follows: District 2 Boys Basketball LaMoure/L-M 55, M-P-B 38 at LaMoure M-P-B 11 12 2 13...
The Griggs/Midkota girls fell to Hillsboro/Central Valley, 55-37, and NR-S, 51-28, in games played on January 25 and 29. The Titans fell to 6-12. Boxscores from the games were not available at press time....
The focus now for the Carrington Cardinal boys is to continue making improvement, and to keep spirits up heading into the postseason wars. The Cards went down to defeat in their two most recent games, a 64-44 loss to the Northern Cass Jaguars in Hunter on January 26, and a 72-40 Region 2 loss to Thompson last Tuesday in the Tommies' gym. Josh Bickett led Carrington (1-12, 0-5 Region 2) in scoring in both contests, finishing with 15 points against Northern Cass and 13 in the Thompson game. Senior...
A past New Rockford-Sheyenne school district resident played the biggest role for the Griggs/Midkota Titans in defeating his boyhood classmates. James Woodstead went for 21 points in helping the Titans surge past the Rockets, 61-49, in a District 4 contest at Glenfield Tuesday night, January 30. G-M held on to a slim two-point lead going into the fourth quarter, before Latrell Rainey came alive for eight of his 13 points. Woodstead also had six in the stanza, and Will Spickler accounted for the...
M-P-B has been in the conversation for several District 2 victories this past girls' basketball season, but it hasn't translated to actual tallies in the win column. Their final league outing of the season was, sadly, no exception, as the visiting Kidder County Wolves withstood a second-half comeback from the Thunder and held on for a two-point win, 45-43, in Medina Monday, January 29. With the defeat, M-P-B finished their district contests with a 2-6 record, and sit at 4-14 with just their...
TEN PINS LEAGUE - Week 19 Headlocks Bar 86.5 33.5 Cornhuskers 72.5 47.5 Randy’s Pro Shop 64.0 56.0 Schulz Plb, Htg & A/C 58.0 62.0 Chain Gang 57.0 63.0 Albatross 52.0 68.0 Shamrock Bar 46.0 74.0 5 Spot 44.0 76.0 High Team Series: Headlocks, 2284; Cornhuskers, 2410; Randy’s Pro Shop, 2237 High Individual Game: Rick Christianson, 279; Richie Geringer, 259; Randy Peterson, 236 High Individual Series: Rick Christianson, 785; Richie Geringer, 674; Dave Roberts, 669 High Rollers - Week 18 Leevers Foods 64.5 31.5 L.R. Floucers 57.0 39.0 Cork & Bar...
The traditional end to the wrestling individual tournament regular season came and went at the East-West Tournament in New Salem January 26-27. The event brings the best Class B male wrestlers from the two longitudinal directions under the Holsteins' "barn", for one last head-to-head chance before overall seeding is determined. At East-West, the Cards came in ninth with 98 points, and had two runner-up wrestlers in Dru Carr (114) and Corbin Clifton (145). Three other CHS grapplers came in fourth...
In their final regular season tournament of 2023-24, the Cardinal girls wrestlers finished in a 10th-place tie at the 42-team Belle of the Brawl at Central Cass High School in Casselton January 26-27. Sophomore Khendra Garcia topped all CHS placers with a runner-up podium finish at 130 pounds. Ashley Lindberg was third at 250 pounds, taking two pins and two decisions. Jazmyn Ybarra had the Cards' other top four placing, finishing fourth at 124, and Madalina Ciubotareanu was sixth at 136. Several...
The Knights of Columbus basketball free-throw contest was conducted by Carrington Council 4951 on Sunday, January 28 at the Carrington High School east gym. James Oatis was the 10-year-old winner. Radke Hooey won the 11-year-old division and had the highest shooting percentage of all contestants making 14 of 15 shots. Brooks Mozelle took second-place honors in the 11-year-old division. Zayden Nitschke won the 12-year-old division, with Howie Simonson taking second place. Justin Hone won the...
The Harvey-Wells County girls basketball team finished out District 8 competition picking up two big wins this past week. The Hornets hosted Drake-Anamoose in Fessenden and held off a third quarter charge to claim the victory. The Hornets also picked up a big win over Lewis & Clark in Berthold to finish district play with four wins. The Hornets hosted Kidder County in a non-district game and although playing solid in the first half, dropped the contest by 10 points. HWC 55, Drake-Anamoose 47...
The Harvey-Wells County Boys Basketball team went 3-0 this past week picking up District 8 victories over Drake-Anamoose and Lewis & Clark and also defeating Kidder County. The boys will continue into the heart of District 8 action with games against Velva, Surrey, Glenburn and TGU in the coming weeks. HWC 62, Drake-Anamoose 53 Harvey-Wells County exploded for 23 first quarter points and held off a late charge from Drake-Anamoose to pick up a 62-53 win over the Raiders in Fessenden on Tuesday,...
The Carrington Cardinals got their Division A, Region 2 doubleheader on Thursday, January 18, rolling with a 36-point win in the girls' game over the Grafton Spoilers, 59-23. After that, the visitors were in no mood to play around, and the fourth-ranked Spoiler boys exacted the frustrations of their first loss of the season to Devils Lake in the previous game on the Cards, in a 91-34 defeat in the nightcap. In game one, CHS played perhaps their best defensive effort of the season, holding...
The HWC boys and girls basketball teams were in action for a split-day doubleheader, taking on the Westhope/Newburg Sioux on January 18 and 19. The Hornet girls dropped a 47-45 heartbreaker to W-N in Newburg the first night, and the #3-ranked Sioux boys had no problems taking a 68-28 victory in Westhope that Friday night. W-N 47, HWC 45 Girls Westhope/Newburg hit two three pointers and a two and one and stormed back from 11 points down in the fourth quarter to steal a 47-45 win over visiting...
The M-P-B Thunder girls basketball team took on two District 2 opponents for a pair of games January 19 and 23, traveling to Strasburg to take on the S-Z Clippers, and coming home to Medina for a game with Napoleon/Gackle-Streeter. In the first game, the Thunder had their chances, but couldn't overcome Addison Wagner's 22-point night for the Clippers in a three-point defeat, 43-40. Wagner, a senior, put pressure on the Thunder all game long with her aggresiveness inside, and cashed in from the...
Griggs/Midkota got back on the winning track with a 56-27 road win on January 19 over the Warwick Lady Warriors, but lost that momentum with a loss to the Hatton-Northwood Thunder, 52-36, in Glenfield last Tuesday night, January 23. Scoring summary and boxscores from the two games were not available at press time. G-M's record now stands at 6-10 and 2-2 in District 4 play following the games. Next up for the Titans are the final regular season contests of the season, as they travel to NR-S to...
After years of being among the small fish in the Class A ocean, the Devils Lake Firebirds are now the Division A middle class's big men (and women) on campus. So, the Carrington Cardinals are busy trying to adjust to life as the plucky underdog themselves. The Cards and Firebirds met for Region 2 games Monday and Tuesday, January 22 and 23, with the boys playing in Carrington and the girls in Devils Lake. In the Monday game, the talent of the bigger school won out again and again in a 77-31 win...
Medina/Pingree-Buchanan, playing without their top offensive player, still managed to get one win in two District 2 matchups this past week. With senior Rylen Wick on the shelf due to injury, the Thunder took a 41-28 win on January 18 in Medina over the Kidder County Wolves, and fell to seventh-ranked Linton-HMB on the road, 60-46, this past Monday, January 22. In the low-scoring opening triumph, Terek Kinzell's 13 points provided the exact margin of victory for the Thunder against KCHS. Collin...
Griggs/Midkota gave up a fourth-quarter surge to Warwick to fall to the Warriors, 71-61, but created second-half magic with a 20-0 third quarter to blow open a five-point deficit and fly past Hatton-Northwood in Hatton by a 56-28 score in their two latest District 4 games. The Titans, with the split, now have an overall record of 5-6 and 1-1 in the district table. James Woodstead led G-M in both games, scoring 20 points in the Warwick loss and 18 in the win over H-N. During that stretch,...
Reagan Wolsky, front, along with Sydney Friedt (background) and the rest of the Cardinaires, were in action this past Friday and Saturday at the North Dakota Association of Dance and Drill (NDADD) state competition at the MSU Dome in Minot. A full recap of their performance will be published in the February 5 edition....
The full Carrington wrestling program was on the mats for the two-day Nick Storhaug Invitational Tournament in Lisbon Friday-Saturday, January 19-20. The Cardinal girls team crowned two champions on their side of the tournament, Khendra Garcia at 130 pounds and Ashley Lindberg at 250. Meanwhile, the CHS boys had three runner-up finishers, with Skye Kramlich (107), Corbin Clifton (145) and Brody Weisenburger (285) doing the honors. Both the boys and girls took fourth place in their respective...
TEN PINS LEAGUE - Week 17 Headlocks Bar 50.0 22.0 Randy’s Pro Shop 45.0 27.0 Schulz Plb, Htg & A/C 42.0 30.0 Cornhuskers 37.5 34.5 Shamrock Bar 33.0 39.0 Albatross 32.5 39.5 Chain Gang 25.0 47.0 5 Spot 23.0 49.0 High Team Game: Headlocks, 833; Randy’s Pro Shop, 764; Cornhuskers, 710 High Team Series: Headlocks, 2336; Randy’s Pro Shop, 2227; Cornhuskers, 2093 High Individual Game: Randy Peterson, 279; Dave Roberts, 223; Jadin Reidesel, 223; Kevin Johnson, 223 High Individual Series: Randy Peterson, 744; Dave Roberts, 610; Kevin Johnson, 579 T...
