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With the Miller boys' cross country varsity scoring a winning 32 team points at last Wednesday's regional in Chamberlain, it became a race for second. And the North Central Thunder would accomplish exactly that. They placed second with 50 team points topping McLaughlin's third with 57. So that will send the entire Thunder team to the State A later this month in Sioux Falls. Miller was individually led by Pierce Baumberger's championship run in 16:44 followed by his teammate Alex Schumacher in...
Ipswich attended its high school regional cross country meet last Wednesday in Webster. The Tiger girls would individually qualify three girls for the upcoming State B in Sioux Falls later this monh and one Tiger boy Xavier Kadlec. You need to have at least three individual runners to be eligible for team scoring purposes at the B and Ipswich will indeed have the minimum three runners to do exactly that. They were Madisyn Gellhaus in fifth at 20:55.69, Gracyn Kadlec in ninth at 21:48.22 and...
Ipswich came up short on the final score board in a high school volleyball match vs. Hitchcock-Tulare last Thursday in the Tiger Den. But there were some positives, especially in the third set, where the visitors salvaged a 25-23 victory after Ipswich had scored three straight points to climb to within two points at 23-21. But the Patriots would quickly regroup with two points of their own to seal the deal. Ipswich had trailed 25-17 in the first set and also would fall behind 25-6 in the second...
Ipswich traveled to Mobridge last Monday and would return with a straight-sets 3-0 loss. The IHS Tigers would indeed lose the Battle of the Big Cats 25-12, 25-8 and 25-16. Unofficially Ipswich would end up 32-44 in its net attack with eight kills, led by Marley Guthmiller at 14-15 with two kills and Kaylin Onken finished 7-8 at the net with two kills. But the M-P hosts would be 58-63 at the net with 34 kills led by Charley Henderson at 15-15 with a dozen kills. Ipswich was 76-80 in setting and featured eight assists. The setters were mainly...
We did barely manage to get up in time for the Gypsy Day parade Saturday in Aberdeen. It turned out that it would be fairly decent weather-wise as the day would progress. We caught most of the bands and there were some really impressive ones. Edmunds Central School’s band looked and sounded good. Ipswich had other commitments that day and could not attend. The Tigers are scheduled to march in Groton on Friday and driving to Brookings for Hobo Days on Saturday. Though we did get to see the IHS band in the Gala Day parade in Ipswich on Friday. T...
Ipswich won the battle of the Tigers last Friday in Ipswich to pick up a huge 49-18 Gala Day win over the Dupree Tigers. The IHS Tigers would rush for 293 yards and pass for 157 more yards with a balanced offensive attack. And they weren't all that bad defensively as well holding a talented Dupree offense to 173 rushing yards and 106 passing yards and three touchdowns. Ipswich struck first with a quick 33-yard TD run by Casey Geditz and Max Kulesa then passed to Trevor Heinz for the two-point co...
Ipswich attended a high school volleyball tourney hosted by Potter County in Gettysburg last Saturday. Ipswich was able to come away with one win and three losses in their four matches. The win would be against McIntosh 25-21 and 25-23 - both close decisions. But the Tigers were defeated 2-0 by Phillip 25-11 and 25-13 and Wolsey-Wessington 25-13 and 25-12. They also lost to Potter County 2-1 as they were able to win a set 25-19. But the hosts would regroup for a 25-20 win and a 25-16 victory. “We forged through some tough matches versus some v...
vs. Herreid/Selby Area The North Central netters lost a homecourt high school volleyball to Herrreid/Selby Area last Thursday. It was a three-set affair — 25-15, 25-22 and 25-21, all in favor of the visitors. But a bright spot was that the Thunder were able to get 30 kills among their 105 accurate hits. Amree VanderVorst went 31-38 at the net with 13 kills and Natalie Bieber was 19-23 with five kills. The Wolverines countered with 138 hits at the net that included 38 kills. They were led by Jada Rossow at 19-22 with eight kills. The Thunder w...
The Yellowstone Trail Conference cross country meet was held Wednesday, Oct. 4 in Gettysburg. North Central placed second in both the YTC varsity standings. The Thunder girls had 23 team points and were second only to Potter County's winning six points. (The Thunder edged third-place Herrreid/Selby Area's 27.) Potter County's Dannika Kaup wore the winner's crown in 19:20.34. Emma Schlachter of PC placed second individually in 19:53.99, followed by her teammate Jadyn Ahlemeier who was third in 20:03.11. (Yet another Battler teammate Paige Ahleme...
Faulkton claimed a Lake Region Conference 3-0 varsity volleyball win over Ipswich last Tuesday in Faulkton. The individual set scores were indeed all in favor of the Trojans -- 25-17, 25-15 and 25-8. Ipswich was unofficially 24-44 in its net attack that included 18 kills. It was led by Marley Guthmiller at 22-25 with nine kills. And Gabby Wald added a 17-24 three-kills evening. But Faulkton was 79-90 in hitting with 33 kills led by Addison Melius at 28-32 with 13 kills. The eventual winners also did OK at the serving line including seven aces...
Ipswich hosted and participated in the Lake Region Conference cross country meet last Wednesday at the athletic complex. The Tiger varsity girls were second only to Frederick's 16 team points with their 19 team points. And the Tiger boys team was fourth in their varsity outcome with 36 points. Northwestern won that with 12 team points followed by Frederick with 23 and then Faulkton with its 30 team points that just edged the Tigers. Individually Ella Boekelheide from Northwestern was first with...
It is definitely time for homecoming week Gala Week in Ipswich and also NSU's Gypsy Day parade early Saturday to help celebrate their homecoming week. And Ipswich's Gala Day parade is scheduled for Friday afternoon And let's hope that all the affected sports confrontations will result in wins for both Ipswich and NSU if you are indeed a Wolves fan. It sounds like the weather could maybe be fairly decent on both Friday and Saturday. But maybe just a little on the cool side for this time of the year. But NSU's Gypsy Day weather? It has a history...
Ipswich and North Central both attended a cross country meet in Miler on September 25. The NC varsity boys and girls each placed fifth in their respective team standings. The NC girls were led by Grace Roth 19th in 23:16.85 and then Melanie Dallenbach was 22nd in 23:39.52. Their third scorer was Kassandra Abbas 29th in 24:43.78 and they totaled 56 team points. Potter County led those standings with 10 points out-distancing the runners-up James Valley Christian at 23. But Northwestern's Ella Boekelheide placed first individually at 19:26.77....
Ipswich picked up a non-conference high school volleyball win on the road versus Potter County last Thursday. The hosts were eventually outscored 3-1 by the Tiger netters. The individual set scores for Ipswich were 25-23, 25-20, 15-25 and 25-17. Ipswich got 14 kills from Marley Guthmiller and 10 from Gabby Wald. The Tigers totaled 42 kills. Ipswich had 12 serving aces, which were led by Guthmiller’s four. The Tigers added 41 setting assists, led by Josie Knutson with 14. They had 51 total digs in a team effort, led by Gabby Wald with eight a...
North Central began last week with a five set volleyball defeat to Ipswich at Ipswich last Monday and then also lost to Leola/Frederick in straight sets at home a night later. First things first! The Thunder lost the tiebreaker set 15-10 and that match point was delivered by Ipswich's Marley Guthmiller. She ended up with 19 kills among her 48 accurate hits and Kaylin Onken was next at 17-21 with six kills. The Tiger team totaled 70 hits with 38 of them being kills. The Thunder countered with 109 hits in 133 tries that included 36 kills. Billie...
North Central's netters defeated Strasburg/Zeeland, N.D. 3-0 last Thursday. The scores were 25-15, 25-17 and 25-13. They were able to obtain 95 hits including 37 kills. Amree VanderVorst went 25-28 with 11 kills and Natalie Bieber finished 16-18 with 10 kills. Ella Batie chipped in with 19 hits that featured 10 kills. The Thunder were 67-73 at the net including six aces. Sydnee Malsam was 17-17 with two aces followed by Jenisa Jacobs at 9-10 with two aces and VanderVorst, 11-13 with two aces. They were led in setting by Sydney Bertsch at 88-90...
Ipswich was in contention for a varsity high school football win last Friday in Britton. But the hosts would eventually win the affair 48-30. The quarter scores were 20-8, 26-16 and 42-22, all favoring the hosts. But Ipswich actually did get on the scoreboard first with a Max Kulesa pass to Chet Peterson of two yards and Kulesa also passed to Casey Geditz for the two-point conversion. Ipswich's next TD would be a Kulesa kick return TD of 80 yards and Kulesa also passed for the extra points this time to Peterson. Ipswich then opened the third...
Ipswich and North Central both participated in a cross country invitational at Highmore last Saturday. The NC Thunder girls were fourth in their varsity as were their varsity boys. The girls varsity team crown was awarded to Potter County with 6 team points and the second-place team would be Faulkton Area at 26 followed by Stanley County with 35 team points and the Thunder girls were narrowly behind Stanley County's third-place 35 with their 36. This event was won by Potter County's Danika Kaup with her 19:59.45 effort followed by Autumn...
It seems that lately when it rains it pours as the old weather adage says! So we will hope it won't rain on anybody's parades next week especially any events that are included in homecomings. And I guess we should mention any area upcoming sports events that still remain to be played in addition to parades. We certainly don't want any more showers or worse yet thunderstorms then. You area football guys are probably still drying out from the previous weekend weather systems. I got a first hand look at the NSU stadium in game conditions....
The area runners attended a cross country invite hosted by Faulkton on September 20. North Central's boys placed fourth among 13 eligible varsity teams. This was individually won by Miller's Pierce Baumberger in 17:02.18 followed closely by his teammate Alex Schumacher at 17:11.06. So you might correctly guess that Miller would easily win the boys' standing with nine points followed by Northwestern with 22 points. Frederick Area was third with 43 points just ahead the Thunder's 49. And the North Central varsity girls placed eighth as a team...
VS.. SULLY BUTTES The North Central netters did it the hard way vs. Sully Buttes last Tuesday. They dropped their initial match 25-16, but came back with three straight victories --25-23, 25-17 and 25-16. NC utilized 32 kills among their 106 accurate hits, led by Amree Vander Vorst at 32-36 with 11 kills. Next would be Natalie Bieber at 25-33 with 10 kills. They were 154-161 in setting including 29 assists, paced by Sydney Bertsch at 114-118 with 19 assists. And in serving they landed 82 of 90 attempts that featured 11 aces. Vander Vorst went 2...
Ipswich lost a league varsity volleyball encounter last Thursday in Langford. The hosts would win 25-22, 25-15 and 25-20. But Marley Guthmiller would lead the Tigers' net effort with nine kills, followed by Gabby Wald with five kills. Altogether Ipswich totaled 21 kills. They were enabled by Ipswich's setting effort, led by Reaghan Bowers with 15 assists and Knutson with four. They would distribute a total of 20 assists. The Tigers also dropped in four aces in their overall serving duties. Knutson, Guthmiller, Bowers and Kaylin Onken each...
The equinox is just approaching, but you already know that with the cool temps in the morning and evenings. And you don’t want to be driving west on the Highway at sunset. I’m not sure if that is the case at sunrise heading east. I won’t be finding that out anytime soon. Our days are getting shorter too. There are stories that you can balance an egg on the spring equinox. I’m not sure that is true for the autumn. But maybe you’d rather eat the egg in a fried egg sandwich or make a hard-boiled egg. You certainly don’t have to wait until Easte...
North Central placed seventh in a Subway Invitational volleyball tourney in Ipswich last Saturday. The Thunder were indeed able to defeat Ipswich 2-1 in their seventh-place placement game. They won 25-15, 20-25 and 25-15. In that outing the Thunder were led by Amree Vander Vorst in hitting, going 15-17 with five kills. Ella Batie was next at 16-17 with three kills. The team finished 64 of 74 at the net with 21 kills. They were 93-97 in setting with 17 assists, led by Sydney Bertsch at 74-77...
Ipswich went up against a pair of perennially talented Lake Region Conference volleyball opponents last week. The Tigers first journeyed to Warner last Tuesday and the result was a 25-5, 25-11 and 25-3 setback for the visitors. Two nights later Northwestern came to Ipswich and that outcome was a 25-15, 25-11 and 25-9 defeat for the home team that evening. Unofficially vs. the Monarchs the Tigers were led at the net by Marley Guthmiller at 8-13 with two kills. Natalie Crissman was next at 3-8 with one kill. Meanwhile, the hosts were led by...