A rivalry resumed

One has to go all the way back to 1981 for the last time Carrington and Devils Lake met on the basketball floor as conference mates.

That was the final year of the Northstar Conference, an “island of misfit toys” in the Class A division mostly consisting of lower-enrollment schools too big for the then-larger Class B membership that at one time boasted 32 districts.

The Cardinals and Firebirds, pr...