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With a novel three-tiered divisional alignment system comes a whole new way of approaching the postseason. A loss in the regional tournament, provided it's after the quarterfinal round, does not necessarily mean the end of the road if state competition is in the cards. The Carrington girls basketball team got past the opening round of play with a 59-39 victory last Monday night, February 19, over the Hillsboro/Central Valley Burros at the Region 2 Tournament from Mayville State University's Lewy...
The long slog of Division A competition, featuring a top three in Region 2 taking turns running roughshod over the bottom three, meant that victories have been hard to come by for the Carrington boys this season. So, they met up with an old Class B, Region 3 rival from just down Highway 281, and renewed pleasantries with the M-P-B Thunder. The Cards owned the odd-numbered quarters, but the Thunder "evened" things up with their performances in the second and final periods. And, despite not...
A game of runs ended up in the win column for the Griggs/Midkota Titan boys basketball team, as they left Midway High School with a hard-fought 63-62 win over the Midway/Minto Mustangs in action featuring teams who could possibly meet in the Region 2 tournament. Four players hit for double figures for the Titans, now 10-9, in the regular season finale. G-M's three senior leaders, James Woodstead (18 points), Latrell Rainey (15) and Kyle Johnson (13) led the way, while junior Isaac Stadler had...
The collective memory of how the Four Winds-Minnewaukan Lady Indians' four-point loss to Carrington happened earlier this season served them well this time around. This time, the Indians matched the Cards free throw for free throw, and made use of early offensive fireworks to hold on for their own win by a four-point margin, 60-56, in Fort Totten Monday night, February 12. FW-M led by as much as 13 points late in the first half, 26-13, before the Cards made a game of it in the second half and...
A season of improvement for the Griggs/Midkota Titans came to an end at the District 4 Tournament in New Rockford, as they went 1-2 in their outings to finish the year at 8-15. The Titans got out to a slow start in their opening round matchup with third seed NR-S on Friday, February 9, and fell to the Rockets, 44-32. For the entire first half and part of the third quarter, just one player, Jessa Spickler, had points for G-M in the contest. She would lead the Titans with 19 points, including...
The M-P-B Thunder's season ended with a loss to Linton-HMB, 48-33, in the regional qualifying round at the District 2 Girls Basketball Tournament in Jamestown. Earlier, the Thunder fell in first round action, 60-30, to LaMoure/Litchville-Marion, and staved off elimination with a 44-19 win over Strasburg-Zeeland. Statistics, along with the All-District 2 Team members, will be published next week....
It doesn't come often when an opponent comes to a road gym and his name is on all spectators' lips, down to the youngsters. But that's the kind of presence 6'5" senior All-State forward Deng Deng brings to the floor every night for the Four Winds-Minnewaukan Indians. The UND football commit scored about every way possible for the running-and-gunning Indians, including elevating an eye-popping two-handed slam dunk. His talented FW-M teammates fed off that energy, riding their trademark pressing...
The Medina/Pingree-Buchanan Thunder righted themselves a bit after a four-loss stretch in five games, taking wins of 56-44 and 45-42 over Strasburg-Zeeland and Oakes in weekly action from February 8 and 13. M-P-B's victory over the Clippers in Strasburg came in District 2 play, and concluded their league schedule with a record of 4-4. They currently occupy the fourth spot in the district seeding race, per the standings from ndhsaanow.com. Statistics from the win over S-Z were not available at...
Senior Kyle Johnson had a big game with 20 points, and the Griggs/Midkota Titans got another District 4 win over Benson County, 65-42, in action from Glenfield last Tuesday night, February 13. The Titans got back to even in the win-loss column at 9-9 overall and 2-3 in the district, while the Wildcats fell to 6-11 and 3-4. In getting the victory, Johnson had plenty of support from teammates Latrell Rainey (13 points) and James Woodstead (11). Benson County's Macyn Olson had 14 points, while...
The two gyms at Carrington Public Schools were rocking from all the excitement, as the Cardinals hosted both of the East Region individual wrestling tournaments Friday and Saturday, February 9-10. The one-class girls tournament was up first on the agenda, and the Cards emerged with a sixth-place finish (121 points) and seven state qualifiers. Topping the list was 130-pound champion and sophomore Khendra Garcia, who earned the number two overall seed for the state individuals in Fargo with a 39-5...
Even without the use of language, Alex VanRay can "say" more with a smile, hug and an exuberant yell than one could possibly imagine. The son of Matt and Jane VanRay of rural Pingree can't help being the gifted dispenser of joy that he is. "Whether it's at a ball game, at church or at the grocery store, Alex seems to seek people out and give them a wave, laugh or big hug," says Jane, his mom. "It seems like so many people know Alex and help look out for him." Alex lives with a condition called...
The second year of varsity girls wrestling at CHS is progressing very similarly to the first one. While the novelty of the opening campaign delivering a state dual tournament berth was exciting, many anticipated what the Cardinals would do for an encore in 2024. And the team did their fans and coaches proud with another second-place finish at the East Region Dual Tournament, held at Central Cass High School Friday, February 2. The Cards entered the competition as the number three seed, and took...
The Carrington boys wrestling team, save for their efforts with the championship opponent, had a very strong performance at the Region 2 Dual Tournament in Larimore Saturday, February 3. CHS finished as the runners-up at the tournament to meet winner Northern Lights, competing in Region 2 for the first time following realignment prior to this season. In round one, the Cards took a 42-8 win over the host Polar Bears. Coach Josh Kerbaugh's team dropped just two matches in the dual, which had four...
By the luck of the schedule, the Carrington girls basketball team faced the top-rated squads in both the A and B divisions in back-to-back games February 1 and 6. And the Cardinals showed that with the breaks going their way, they can compete with any squad in the state, if not outright come away with the win. Those outcomes came to pass in a closely-contested 54-48 loss to undefeated Division A top team Thompson, and they played some of their best basketball of the year in an eye-opening 54-45...
Obviously, it's little consolation now, but the Ellendale Cardinals exacted a small measure of vengeance on the Medina/Pingree-Buchanan Thunder for their epic 57-56 Region 3 championship defeat last March. Now District 2 rivals, Ellendale got out to a sizable lead before M-P-B closed in on the Cardinals in the fourth quarter, but the host team got past the Thunder, 53-49, on Friday, February 2. Six-foot-eight junior forward Kade Schimke had 16 points for Ellendale (11-5, 6-2 District 2)....
Region 1 and Region 2 representatives of Division A met on the basketball court for the first time in a long while Monday night, February 5. The Lisbon Broncos came to the East Gym for a rare roundball clash with the Carrington Cardinals, and took a 60-38 win to improve to 7-8 on the season. Carrington got a 4-0 lead to begin the game, however, the Broncos established control from that point on thanks to seven first quarter points by 6'1" junior guard Lincoln Adair. He would end the night...
Carrington didn't have their A-game, at least as far as long-range shooting was concerned, but that was good enough Friday, February 2. While the armchair meteorologists were celebrating the groundhog's forecast of an early spring, the Cardinal defense made the HWC Hornets see their shadow and gave the home team a 55-27 victory in A-B interdivisional play at the East Gym. No Cardinal players scored in double figures, as scoring leadership was shared by both Edyn Hoornaert and Madison Johnson...
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...
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...
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...
