The Official Newspaper for Foster County
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It isn't a district game when Carrington's and New Rockford's Babe Ruth baseball programs meet up with each other, but the competitive juices don't flow any less. The home-standing Black Sox overcame an early 4-2 hole with three runs in the bottom of the fourth, and held the Redbirds off the scoreboard for the final four innings in a 5-4 victory early Tuesday afternoon, June 21. New Rockford's mid-game rally made a winner out of Skye Kramlich. The Sox righty allowed five Redbird hits in a...
Summer baseball for the Carrington American Legion Post 25 Redbirds kicked off at City Park Wednesday, June 8, and continued with three more varsity contests for a four-game string in six days. The Redbirds, coached once again by Tim Ranum, started off with a pair of wins by the count of 9-5 over the Nelson County Post 162 Owls, and a 12-9 win against rival Post 30 of New Rockford on June 8-9. However, their early run of success was neutralized to an overall split of the quartet of District 4...
The Carrington Pitcrew youth wrestling program was visited by two of the sport's premier coaches for a three-day Folk Style Extreme summer camp, held Monday through Wednesday, June 13-15, at the Pitcrew Wrestling Center. Troy and Terry Steiner, who are Bismarck Century High School alumni, national champion wrestlers for the Iowa Hawkeyes and most recently head coaches at Fresno State University (Troy) and the U.S. Women's National Wrestling Team (Terry), held an intensive three-day camp where yo...
Carrington's Babe Ruth baseball club took their first win of the season on Thursday, June 9, with a 12-8 road win in Wishek over the Ashley/Linton/Wishek Rattlers in District 6 play. Six runs in the top of the first inning and four more in the third gave the 13-to-15 year old Redbirds a big lead they would not relinquish, though A-L-W would make a game of it with six tallies in the middle innings to get to 11-8. Carrington tacked on an insurance run in the seventh for the final tally. Josh...
Harvey-Wells County senior Haleigh Lematta was chosen as one of the top 18 Class B softball players recognized for the All-State team. The right-handed pitcher and shortstop for the Hornets posted some very impressive statistics. Lematta batted .614 for HWC, with six home runs and 24 RBIs. She scored 33 runs and had 14 stolen bases this past season, and posted a .646 on-base percentage. In the pitcher's circle, she was equally dominant, posting a 13-6 record and a 1.77 earned-run average (ERA),...
NDSU senior Kari Wolfe concluded a great career in the javelin sector at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Wolfe threw a season-best toss of 175'8" (53.55 meters) to take 10th place overall and earn Second-Team All-American honors Thursday evening, June 9. It is the second All-American honor for Wolfe, as she placed on the First Team last season by taking fifth in the 2021 championships with a career-best of 180'6" (55.02 m). Kari is the...
With just three practice sessions under their belts, the Carrington Redbirds Babe Ruth team headed into the 2022 summer with the defending District 6 champion LaMoure A's as their opening day opponent. That first-game rust and jitters were evident, as the A's put together a solid effort to defeat the Redbirds by 10-run-rule, 13-3, on June 6 at City Park. Starting pitcher Corbin Clifton threw the first four innings, and had an up-and-down outing with five strikeouts while dealing with five...
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...
CHS senior Jacob Rexin was the only Cardinal to take the course for the State Class B Boys Golf Tournament at Oxbow Country Club May 31-June 1. Rexin placed 51st overall out of 127 golfers with scores of 92 on the front nine and 98 on the back nine for an 18-hole scorecard of 190. In the team title race, Kindred was never truly challenged, as they carded a combined score of 645 to roll to a 43-shot win over second and third-place finishers Oak Grove and Central Cass, all of whom are in Region 2...
CHS track and field Coach Greg Hoeckle was selected as the 2022 South Central Region Girls' Coach of the Year at the regional meet in Hazen Saturday, May 21, by the North Dakota High School Coaches Association (NDHSCA). With that honor, Hoeckle became eligible for Class B Coach of the Year honors to be announced the following week. Hoeckle has been the Cards' coach since 1990, and has led the team to nine state Class B girls' championships, including six straight from 1999-2004 and another...
Thanks to their strengths in pole vault, middle to long distance and long relays, the Carrington girls' track team had themselves a very successful weekend. The Cardinals scored 37 points to take home joint sixth place with Lisbon at the State Track and Field Meet at the MDU Resources Community Bowl in Bismarck, held Thursday-Saturday, May 26-28. For the first time, the meet was extended to three days from the traditional two days just before the Memorial Day weekend, and the expanded schedule...
New Rockford-Sheyenne sophomore Kelsie Belquist had Class B track legendary status in her sights Thursday-Saturday, May 26-28. Belquist won four individual state championships in the 100-meter hurdles, 300-meter hurdles, 200 and 400-meter dashes at the State Track Meet from the MDU Resources Community Bowl in Bismarck. In the process, she shattered two Class B records belonging to 19-time state champion Whitney (Carlson) Bruins, who ran for Carrington from 2001-06. In the 300-meter hurdle...
The Griggs/Midkota Titan girls track team delivered the triumph of quality over quantity over three days at the state meet from the MDU Resources Community Bowl May 26-28. With just three state-qualified athletes, the Titans still managed to score 21 points and finish in 10th place in the Class B team standings. Senior Jenna Larson tied for second in the girls' high jump with Janikka Miller of Rugby, with each clearing the bar at 5'1" and finishing behind Ellendale's Kaylin Slivoskey's 5'2" winn...
Medina/Pingree-Buchanan senior Ryleigh Martin had to structure her entire state track weekend around two things: the Parade of Athletes, and just under 18 seconds of work. Martin ran a time of 17.75 in the girls' 100-meter hurdle preliminary heat, finishing in 18th place overall. Ryleigh is the daughter of Tim and Michelle Martin of Medina....
HWC senior Madden Thorson was named as the NDHSCA-Powerade Class B Senior Athlete of the Year for the sport of track and field following the conclusion of action at the MDU Resources Community Bowl Saturday, May 28. He is the son of Jeremy and Kimmer Thorson of Harvey. More on Thorson's selection for this honor will be published in next week's edition....
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...
Carrington got themselves a shot to shock the Region 3 world, but they needed to defeat the LaMoure/Litchville-Marion Loboes twice Wednesday, May 25, to accomplish that monumental feat. Though they held the Loboes to just one hit over seven innings, the Cards' defense let them down for six errors and enabled L-L-M to return to the State Class B Tournament with a 4-1 win in the Region 3 Championship at City Park. The hometown team got one run in the first inning against LaMoure pitcher Anthony...
Kaydence VanRay and Brynn Smith of the Carrington softball team were named to the All-Region 2 team following the conclusion of play at the regional tournament held in Mayville. Isabel Wendel, not pictured, was named Honorable Mention. Kaydence is the daughter of Matt and Jane VanRay, Brynn's parents are Kyle and Layne Smith, and Isabel's parents are Shane and Mary Wendel....
The season started with snow, the melt and a few more rainstorms, but the Carrington track teams are hitting their stride at the right time. At the South Central Region Meet in Hazen May 21, the Cardinal girls took home another regional championship with 163 points, and the boys finished fourth, scoring 83. The meet represented the last chance for athletes to earn their way to the state track meet, held this past weekend at the MDU Resources Community Bowl in Bismarck May 26-28. Region...
One year in the books for Carrington softball came to an end at the Region 2 Tournament in Mayville Saturday, May 21. The fifth-seeded Cardinals and first-year Head Coach Sara Laib fell to the Langdon/Edmore/Munich Cardinals at Jerome Berg Field at MSU, 16-3, to conclude with a 2-8 mark for the 2022 spring. The teams were playing in the first round game, which was a single-elimination contest. Had Carrington won, they would have reached the double elimination portion of the tournament. Calleigh...
It was kind of hard to believe, but the Region 3 Baseball Tournament at City Park May 23-25 represented the first home games all season for the Carrington Cardinals in the physical sense. The weather needed to cooperate just enough in the last few weeks of the season for the outfield to dry sufficiently from heavy snowpack and rain to make the venue playable. Seeded second coming into play, the Cards opened up with a meeting with surprise first-round winner SNR. The sixth-seeded Black Sox won...
In what is widely considered to be the toughest region of Class B golf in the state of North Dakota, players have to bring their individual game to have much hope of earning state qualification. The Carrington Cardinals had their best meet of the spring season on their home course at the Region 2 Tournament last Monday, May 23 at CrossRoads Golf Club, shooting a team total of 336. Even with that effort, it was still 17 strokes behind the third place finishing school, Fargo Oak Grove, who nabbed...
Having qualified in four events coming into the postseason, the Griggs/Midkota Titan track team got five more via means of top-three placement at the North East Region Track Meet in Mayville Saturday, May 21. New to the state roster included boys throwing specialist Lane Kautzman, taking first in the shot put (43' 10 1/2") and second in the discus (126'5"). The other individual event qualifier was senior Jenna Larson, who came in third in the 400-meter dash in 1:02.82. Two boys relays also made...
The M-P-B Thunder track team traveled to Hazen Saturday, May 21, for the South Central Region Meet. When all events were decided, the Thunder got one state qualifier who earned the right to run at the MDU Resources Community Bowl for the state track meet this past Thursday-Saturday. Senior Ryleigh Martin finished in second place in the girls' 100-meter hurdles in a time of 17.53 seconds, in between race winner Haley Wolsky and third place finisher Isabel Wendel, both of CHS. M-P-B had a pair of...
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...
