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The North Central girls' varsity basketball team has 11 players this season led by seniors Jenisa Jacobs and Katelyn Engelhart. They also feature one junior in the person of Sydney Bertsch. There are five sophmores: Lindsey Geier, Alaina Dosch, Ella Battie, Amree Vander Vorst and Anne Mateos Fernandez. The varsity freshman newcomers will include Camryn Witlock, Kaidence Bulgin and Ashton Heyne. They will be coached by Kaci Vander Vorst assisted by Ashley Grenz. So they will be a fairly young team, but with some definite potential as the season...
Ipswich High School athletes were named to the Lake Region All-Conference teams for volleyball and football. Marley Guthmiller, IHS sophomore, was on the second LRC team. The LRC 2023 team champs were the Warner Monarchs. Ava Nilsson of Warner was the conference MVP. Tigers on the LRC football team are seniors Trevor Heinz and Chet Peterson, junior Max Kulesa and sophomore Kyle Hettich. Casey Geditz, sophomore, was an honorable mention pick. Warner was the LRC 2023 football champions. The Offense MVP was Hunter Cramer of Warner and the Defense...
The North Central Thunder volleyball team fashioned a 3-2 Region 6A victory over Dupree last Monday in Dupree. The win advanced the Thunder to face Miller last Thursday in Miller for a bracket championship. Meanwhile versus Dupree the Thunders' respective game results were 25-20, 15-25, 19-25, 25-19 and 15-13 in the tie-breaker set. They were paced by Amree VanderVorst in hitting with her 41-45 evening with 13 kills. Next would be Lindsey Geier 19-19 with six kills and Natalie Bieber 31-37 with eight kills. The team was 161-180 with 43 kills....
Herreid -Selby Area fashioned a 3-0 high school Region 6B regional victory while hosting Ipswich last Monday. The individual set scores all in favor of the hosts were 25-14, 25-16 and 25-11. The Wolverines obtained 68 accurate serves that included a dozen aces and were 71-84 in hitting that would include 30 kills. Defensively they came up with 61 digs. They used a balanced team effort on both sides of the net. “They served and passed us right out of everything we wanted to do,” said Coach Trent Osborne. “We found ourselves constantly scram...
Ipswich split two recent varsity volleyball matches to finish their regular-season schedule. The Tigers lost a 3-0 home court outcome to Herreid/Selby Area last Monday, but won a closely contested 3-2 match versus North Central a night later in Roscoe. The first two scores of the latter were 25-18, 25-18 in favor of the hosts, but guess what Ipswich wasn't quite ready to make the short trip back to town. The Tigers would win three straight sets 25-12, 25-18 and 16-14 in the tie-breaker. Marley...
North Central dropped a pair of close high school volleyball matches last week to close out their regular-season schedule at 11-17. The Thunder indeed lost a 25-11, 25-13 and 25-20 decision to Northwestern last Monday and a night later went the distance against Ipswich at home in Roscoe. (The Thunder lost this one 3-2.) They did win their first two sets by identical 25-18 margins. But Ipswich would bounce back with three straight wins to capture the match 25-12, 25-18 and a 16-14 tie-breaker....
Ipswich was defeated 60-14 in a Class 9AA high school first-round football play off last Thursday in Howard. Ipswich would score the first TD of the night when it accepted a punt from Howard’s own territory to around the IHS 30. It was a 60-yard TD pass from Max Kulesa to Kyle Hettich. But the conversion play failed. Ipswich’s only other score came late in the second quarter a pass of 78 yards from Kulesa to Hettich. The host Tigers would end up with nine touchdowns and six conversions points. Their final TD was a run of 10 yards. A hig...
Both teams played with a lot emotion and fire, but Aberdeen Christian would eventually stave off Ipswich 3-0 in a league high school volleyball match last Tuesday in Aberdeen. In a post-game interview with a South Dakota Sports Scene reporter Ipswich coach Trent Osborne said "It's always a learning situation. We got better tonight, which is good. Some girls really came out. I learned some stuff; the kids learned some stuff. What could be bad about that." The hosts would indeed win the first set 25-20. And the second set was even closer at...
Ipswich claimed a league 3-1 girls high school volleyball win last Monday in the Tiger Den over Leola/Frederick Area. But the match was somewhat closer than the final score would indicate. The visitors would win their first set 25-23, but the hosts would rally for a 25-20 win of their own to tie things at 1-1. And they weren't through yet, winning the third set 25-19 and the fourth 25-21. Their coach was impressed with their whole evening. "That was our first five match sweep in a few years," Osborne said. "It started with the 6th/seventh grade...
The NC Thunder volleyball girls were 1-1 in a pair of road appearances. They lost to powerful Warner 25-19, 25-4 and 25-7 on October 16 and bounced back to defeat Wakpala on October 17. Those scores were 25-16, 25-12 and 25-18. In the latter, the Thunder were 79-100 in attacking the net and included 39 kills. They were led by Amree VanderVorst at 25-32 with 11 kills and Ella Batie was 11-14 with seven kills. They were able to manufacture 112 sets including 39 assists. Sydney Bertsch handled that with a 79-79 evening and included 29 assists....
Ipswich placed two Cross Country Top 25 medalists among the Top 25 runners at the State B last Saturday in Sioux Falls. Madisyn Gellhaus placed 22nd in 20:54.11 for the IHS girls and senior Xavier Kadlec finished in 18th place at 17:44.82. Gracyn Kadlec was 37th in 21:39.64 and Isabella Henderson was 58th in 22:27.65. The Tigers girls were able to qualify for the team standing purposes. They were 10th with 100 points. The girls team winner was Potter County with 22 points. The top individual...
North Central sent several runners to the State A Cross Country State Meet last Saturday in Sioux Falls. Their top individual effort came in the boys' meet where Gabe Johnson was 44th in 17:33.72. Senior Anthony Miller was next at 54th in 17:40.34. Drew Arbach had a 18:11.43 effort for 69th and Avery Wells was 92nd in 18:52.33. Another Thunder thinclad was Aaron Ingerson at 106th in 19:31.42 and Jason Arbach added a 19:46.95 effort for 111th. The NC boys team placed 12th in Class A competition....
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...
The Ipswich Tigers football team will play in the First Round of the 9AA Playoffs on Thursday, Oct. 19. The IHS Tigers, with a 4-4 season, will face the Howard Tigers (7-1) at 6 p.m. in Howard. Sixteen teams will play in the First Round. The winners will play in the Quarter-Final Playoff on Oct. 26. Teams playing in the First Round Class 9AA are: • (16) Viborg-Hurley (3-5) at (1) Parkston (8-0) • (9) Hanson (6-2) at (8) Leola-Frederick (5-3) • (13) Bon Homme (3-5) at (4) Hamlin (7-1) • (12) Kimball-White Lake (4-5) at (5) Wall (7-1) • (15)...
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...
The North Central Thunder volleyball team was scheduled to play in Wakpala on Oct. 12. The game was postponed to Oct. 17. The Thunder played Warner on Monday. They will play Northwestern on Oct. 23 and will finish the regular season on Tuesday, Oct. 24 hosting Ipswich in the Edmunds Central gym....
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...
The Edmunds County 4-H Shotgun Shooting Sport program had a busy summer shooting to qualify for the state shoot. Shooters spent Wednesday nights at the Ipswich Shooting Range practicing their shotgun skills. The state shoot was held in Mitchell on September 8-10. Five shooters from Edmunds County qualified for the state shoot. They were Junior Weston Weisser, and Seniors Gabe Johnson, Adam Kanable, Kadyn Weisser, and Emerald Wittmeier. Juniors and Seniors shot 100 rounds of trap. Junior Weston Weisser shot a 34 for a white ribbon. Seniors Gabe...