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It’s that time of year — girls post-season volleyball time! And when the Region 2B girls’ high school volleyball seeding points were counted (and more than likely recounted) Ipswich narrowly trailed top-seeded Faulkton Area as the overall second seed, placing the Lady Tigers in the hunt for one of the two Region 2B bracket championships. The Lady Tigers were scheduled to host seventh-seeded Sully Buttes on Tuesday evening with those results not known by our newspaper deadline. (Faulkton was all set to host the eight-vs-nine Monday play-...
The funeral service for Vernay W. Gohl, 85, of Long Lake, was at 10:30 a.m. on October 27, 2020, at Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home, Aberdeen. Burial was at Salem Emmanuel Cemetery, Long Lake. Military honors provided by Roy S. Hickman American Legion Post 78, Leola. Vernay went home Wednesday, October 21, at Avantara Ipswich. Vernay was born January 7, 1935, in Long Lake, in McPherson County, to Wilhelm and Emma (Schueffle) Gohl. He grew up in the Long Lake area and attended school in Long Lake....
Ipswich/Edmunds Central upended Britton-Hecla 52-0 via the mercy rule in a Class 9A high school football play-off outcome last Friday in Ipswich. The win sends the Tigers into the next round on Thursday to face Warner in Warner at 7 p.m. The Monarchs easily handled North Border in their 9A opener. Warner had edged the Tigers 25-24 in a regular-season clash, so the Tigers are definitely hoping to avenge that narrow loss. "Anytime you are able to get into the second round of the playoffs you expec...
The Ipswich Lions Club was recently named Club of the Year for Lions District 5 South West. District Secretary Neil Vollmer of Newell made the announcement. The club received the honor during the recent District 5 South West Fall Rally held virtually from Rapid City. Other Lions Club winners taking home honors this year included: Custer Lions Club, second place; Newell Lions Club, third place; Rapid City Rushmore Lions Club, fourth place and Onida Lions Club, fifth place. The Club of the Year is awarded based on the number of points each club e...
All of the local high school autumn sports team have either started or will be soon be starting their post-season competitions and one state meet is already scheduled for this weekend — the cross country meet near Rapid City on Saturday. That wind was something else during the regional meet in Gettysburg, but Ipswich braved the wind and then some, qualifying its entire girls and boys teams for that state meet. And the North Central Thunder had two girls in the varsity regional meet competing for experience for next year and one boy (Alec M...
There was a battle of two pretty decent high school volleyball teams last Thursday when Region 3B power Hitchcock-Tulare, coached by Roscoe native Jordan Opp, hosted Region 2B Ipswich for a non-conference regular-season showdown. When it was all said and done the Lady Patriots outlasted Ipswich in straight sets, 25-13, 26-24 and 26-24. Ipswich finished 106-136 in hitting with 10 kills, led by Gracie Lange, who was 18-20 with 10 kills. "Yes, Gracie came in off the bench in games 2 and 3 and had a great night offensively and defensively," said...
Stopping Sully Buttes 48-8 in a non-conference high school football clash last Friday in Ipswich, the Ipswich/Edmunds Central Tigers improved their season record to 6-2 and secured a home-field location in Ipswich for the first round of the 9A high school football playoffs, scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 22. That was a big sentence but it was an even bigger win. The Tigers will host Britton-Hecla, 4-4, a team that had handled Ipswich/EC fairly easily a year ago in the opening round of the 9A...
Monday's high school volleyball match in Ipswich turned out to be a classic clash of the Tigers. Class A Mobridge-Pollock and Ipswich both entered the match with only two losses. But Ipswich indeed emerged with a hard-fought straight-set win that improved its record to 17-2 and the visiting Lady Tigers dropped to 15-3. The IHS Tigers held on for a 25-22 win in a back and forth opening set and then staged a late rally to out-last the M-P netters 27-25 to go ahead 2-0 in the match. And that disappointing loss seemed to deflate the visitors'...
A pair of high school football once-beatens did battle last Friday in Selby on a beautiful evening for football. And the Herreid/Selby Wolverines topped the Ipswich/Edmunds Central Tigers by a 34-16 verdict. That improved the hosts' season record to 6-1, while the Tigers dropped to 5-2. Trailing 20-8 at the halftime break, Ipswich/Edmunds Central methodically put together a scoring drive that had started on their own 27. They capped the drive with a short carry by quarterback Ian Beyers. He also passed to Eric Severson for the PATs, reducing...
The second annual Roncalli Marching Band Festival was held in Aberdeen on September 30 and featured eleven marching bands. The Ipswich High School Marching Band tied with Aberdeen Roncalli Marching Cavaliers for first place. Ipswich was honored as the Outstanding Flag Corps. Other results for the events are: second place Gregory Marching Gorillas, third place Warner High School Band and fourth place Northwestern Area Marching Wildcats, Outstanding Winds Section: Aberdeen Roncalli Marching...
Ipswich High School coronation was held on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at the Athletic Complex. 2019 King Maxwell Geditz crowned the new King and Queen - King Tyler Tran and Queen Halle Heinz. Members of the royal court are Paige Mehlberg, Halie Feldman, Bailey Pitz, Josh McQuarlie, Eric Severson and Matthew Hettich....
Ipswich improved its girls' high school volleyball record to 15-2 last week, going into a huge homecourt match vs. LRC and Region 2B rival Faulkton Area that had been scheduled for earlier this week. (Those results weren't available as of our newspaper publication deadline.) "It is too early to worry about the (2B) bracket too much (but don't think we don't keep our eye on it)," says IHS coach Trent Osborne. "We need to keep putting W's on the board and then let the chips fall where they may at...
The Ipswich Marching Band is preparing for the Gala Day parade, as well as local band festivals. They will attend the second annual Roncalli Marching Band Festival on Wednesday morning, Sept. 30. The event runs from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and will feature 11 bands. They will march along 15th Ave. from Main St. to Dakota St., eventually ending up in the Roncalli High School Parking Lot. The IHS band will also participate in the Groton Lake Region Marching Festival on October 9, according to IHS band...
Joey Langstraat, grandson of Bernard and Deloris Thares of Ipswich, made his first hole-in-one On Sept. 5, 2020 at Falcon Lakes Golf Course in Basehor, Kan. Joey, the son of Mike and Laurie (Thares) Langstraat, is a senior at Basehor-Linwood High School. He hopes to play golf at the collegiate level. He used his pitching wedge for the 140-yard shot and the ball hit the green and rolled about two feet into the cup. Joey was playing in the golf course's Patriot Day Tournament that raises funds...
A graveside service for Shirley J. Gisi, 79, of Ipswich, was Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at Holy Cross Catholic Church Cemetery in Ipswich. Fr. Timothy Smith led the service. Shirley Jean Gisi was born on June 5, 1941 to John and Winifred Kraft in Aberdeen. She graduated from Aberdeen Central High School in the Class of 1959. Shirley married Vincent Nigg on October 8, 1962; four children were born to this marriage. She worked at the Beverly Nursing Home for a short period of time and then for the Edm...
The Ipswich/Edmunds Central high school football cooperative got back into the win column with a huge 44-20 Lake Region Conference league victory over North Border last Friday in Leola. The convincing win improved the Tigers' record to 4-1 and they are currently 3-1 in league play. Another league rival, Faulkton Area was to have visited Ipswich on Friday, Oct. 2 to cap both Ipswich's and Edmunds Central's respective homecoming weeks. (The Trojans are coached by IHS graduate Shayne Geditz.)...
Ipswich hosted a high school cross country meet at Split Rock on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon last week. "It was a good day to run," Coach Thorson explained. "I didn't run some varsity athletes because they had other workouts planned for the week." And there were indeed no Tiger runners in either of the varsity events. So Aberdeen Roncalli swept the girls' event with a team championship score of 9 team points, led by Paige Schmidt first in 19:42.59 and Sarah Schmidt second in 20:08.94....
Ipswich outlasted North Central 3-0 in girls' high school volley action Monday evening in Ipswich. It was indeed a straight-sets win against a scrappy Thunder team that continued to improve as the evening progressed along. "They were very scrappy just as we anticipated," said IHS coach Trent Osborne. "We were able to get them out of system with our serving enough to get ourselves some good swings in transition offense. I thought our passers and setters really did a nice job of getting the hitters some great looks.” Ipswich won the initial s...
Mass of Christian Burial for Sylvia Ertz, 87, of Aberdeen and formerly of Ipswich, was 10:30 a.m. Sept. 21, 2020 at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Ipswich with burial following in the church cemetery. Sylvia Marceille Wojick was born January 23, 1933 at Trinity Hospital in Jamestown, N.D., the youngest of five children to Edward and Anna (Lavey) Wojick. The temperature that day was 35 degrees below zero. She was baptized at the hospital chapel before she and her mother boarded the Midland Train...
Ipswich swept its own Subway Invitational girls' high school volleyball tourney with four wins last Saturday to improve its record to 12-2. Another home match was to have been played here on September 22 hosting Potter County but that game has been postponed due to an outbreak of covid-19 in Potter County. But the game is now scheduled for Oct. 1 at home. And Tiger fans can still hopefully watch their team at home on Sept. 24 vs. Langford Area and then again on Sept. 28 hosting North Central. (A...
Ipswich sustained a 3-1 Lake Region Conference girls' high school volleyball defeat by Warner last Tuesday in the Tiger Den. Ipswich had lost its first set 25-16 and the Tigers' final scoring in that set would be a Hailey Bierman kill that left them down 23-16. But the Tiger girls bounced back for their lone set win, a 25-20 verdict, capped by a Warner hitting error. And the Tigers' 24th point for that 24-20 lead was delivered by a Paige Mehlberg kill. But Warner then claimed back-to-back 25-11 and 25-19 leads of its own to win set #3 and the...
Ipswich dropped a 3-0 girls' high school volleyball LRC league decision to powerful Northwestern last Thursday in Mellette. The Tiger girls lost their opener 25-13 and then the second set 25-12, before doing somewhat better in the final set with a 25-17 setback. The Wildcats were 76-85 at the net with 36 huge kills and Ipswich finished 48-65 in net play with 13 kills. Hailey Bierman went 13-14 with two kills, Paige Mehlberg 11-11 with four kills and Lindsey Grabowska 11-17 with three kills. The service line resulted in a 34-43 three-aces...
We lost a sports fan, sportsman and high school classmate when Dave Williams recently passed away. And speaking of high school sports, the IHS girls' volleyball team was 8-0 going into this week. But their schedule certainly didn't get any easier. A highlight of this week's schedule besides a pair of talented LRC rivals, Warner last night in Ipswich and Northwestern on Thursday evening in Mellette will be Ipswich's own invitational tourney on Saturday in the Tiger Den. The North Central Thunder is also starting to experience some success as of...
Longtime Ipswich banker, J. David Williams, 73, died Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at his residence in Ipswich. Honoring Dave's wishes, closed casket visitation was held Sunday, September 13 at Gramm Funeral Home in Ipswich. A private funeral service was held and burial was in the Ipswich City Cemetery. John David Williams was born May 20, 1947 at Ipswich to Edwin and Neva (Middlewood) Williams. He graduated from Ipswich High School and attended South Dakota State University where he attained a...
Ipswich hosted its annual high school cross country invite Saturday at the Split Rock Country Club, but on a newly designed course layout. That proved to be Heidi Olson's recipe for success in the varsity girls' individual outcome. The Mobridge-Pollock runner toured the course in 19:14.57. But Ipswich finished second only to Aberdeen Christian in the girls' team standings (8 to 16) with five teams eligible for team-point honors. The IHS girls were led by Ashlinn Hartwell, fourth among 26...