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Edmunds Central School had a Public Football Forum on Monday, Nov. 16 to discuss the future of football for EC athletes. The 2020 season marked the end of the cooperative agreement with Ipswich for football. Extending that coop with Ipswich was requested by an EC district member. The options of continuing the coop with Ipswich or beginning the Thunder coop with Eureka and Bowdle were outlined. EC AD Riley Donovan said there will be possibly three football players from Edmunds Central in the 2021 season. The number of boys in the coop is...
Ipswich came up short in a SoDak 16 high school volleyball trip to Hitchcock-Tulare last Tuesday in Tulare. The 3-1 defeat ended the Lady Tigers' season at 21-6 and will send the Patriots to the State B in a game vs. Warner scheduled for 7 p.m. on Nov. 19 in Huron. That will be the first qualification for the B by the combined Hitchcock and Tulare contingent, coached by Roscoe native Jordan Opp. The other first-round games that day will feature number one Northwestern vs. Corsica-Stickney at 12 noon, followed by Colman-Egan vs....
Ipswich/Edmunds Central football players have been named to the Lake Region Conference honor team. I/EC players on the LRC All-Conference team are seniors Josh McQuarie and Matt Hettich and juniors Luke Peterson, Zach Geditz and Carson Gohl. Sophomore Ian Beyers was a honorable-mention pick. Warner was the LRC champion with a 4-0 record. The Offensive MVPs were Ty Cramer of Warner and Isaac Sumption of North Border. The Defensive MVP was Landon Leidholt of Warner. The South Dakota Football Coaches Association honored award recipients during...
One of the two Region 2B girls' high school volleyball bracket champions, Ipswich came up short in its SoDak 16 bid, losing 3-1 to Hitchcock-Tulare, coached by Roscoe native Jordan Opp last Tuesday in Hitchcock. That sends the Patriots to the State B on November 19-21 in Huron and will face #2 Warner in their opener on Thursday. (This will be the first-ever qualification for the State B by the combined Hitchcock and Tulare contingent.) The other first-round games that day will feature top-rated Northwestern vs. Corsica-Stickney, Colman-Egan...
The Ipswich netters, seeded second only to Faulkton in this year's Region 2B rankings, celebrated another 2B bracket championship last Thursday, thanks to a straight-set 3-0 win over Highmore-Harrold, seeded third overall. Two nights earlier the Tiger girls had carved out a similar straight-sets victory over seventh-seeded Sully Buttes. Ipswich coach Trent Osborne was impressed with Ipswich's consistency. "I thought everyone played very steady both nights," he explained. "We were able to win...
Football is not over yet. The State Finals are this weekend in Vermillion. The 9-man trio of games at the Dome this weekend will include the 9A clash between Warner and Canistota/Freeman. Warner was a 26-0 winner over Wall in their previous game. The 9AA game will feature Platte-Geddes vs. Hamlin and 9B will have Dell Rapid St. Mary vs. Wolsey-Wessington. The 11B and 11AA championship games are Friday and the 11A and 11AAA games are Saturday....
By Dana Hess For the South Dakota Newspaper Association Figuring out how to allow athletes to compete in a close contact sport, like wrestling, during a pandemic was just one of the challenges faced by the South Dakota High School Activities Association board of directors at its meeting Wednesday, Nov. 4. “Wrestling is going to give me ulcers and turn my hair gray,” according to SDHSAA Executive Director Daniel Swartos who explained the recommended rule changes for winter sports. “In general, it involves items surrounding the event and not t...
The Ipswich volleyball team was stopped in the SoDak16 game on Tuesday, Nov. 10 in Tulare. The Tigers won the first set 25-19. But then Hitchcock-Tulare won the next three sets — 25-21, 25-17 and 25-18. The H-T Patriots will compete in the State B tournament in Huron, Nov. 19-21....
You just knew that Ipswich/Edmunds Central and Warner would battle down to the wire in a Class 9A second-round high school football play-off game in Warner last Thursday. And they would do exactly as predicted with Warner escaping with a 20-14 win! In a game of this magnitude turnovers often play a role in the eventual outcome and that was true in that game. And there were some impressive fourth-down defensive stands by both teams. As well as some costly penalties at inopportune times! For...
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 Ipswich netters swept Leola/Frederick Area 25-11, 25-17 and 24-18 last Monday at Leola in a league clash. The Tigers were 86-99 in hitting with 38 kills, They were led by Lindsey Grabowska 20-21 with 10 kills and Hailey Bierman 20-22 also with 10 kills. The setting effort to make the offense click was led by Halle Heinz, 44-47 with 16 assists and Bailey Pitz 32-32 with 10 assists. Totally Ipswich was 94-97 with 32 assists. Ipswich found daylight for nine service aces and was successfully...
Ipswich finished third in the Class B Girls' Cross Country team standings last Saturday in Rapid City. The only teams to beat them were Kimball/White Lake first with 33 points and runners-up Aberdeen Christian with 39. Ipswich was next with 43 points followed by fourth-place Great Plains Lutheran and Newell also in the top five, each with 64. The girls race was very interesting, how it developed, said Coach Todd Thorson Sunday night at the welcome home. "It was a three team race and the rest of...
Tuning up for regional play, Ipswich traveled to Selby on Monday and outlasted the home team the Herreid/Selby Area Wolverines 3-1. The Tigers got off to a great start in that one with back to back 25-21 wins. But the home team wasn't about ready to let the janitors onto the floor with their backs to the wall and prolonged the game with a hard-fought 30-28 outcome in set #3. But volleyball is so momentum driven and Ipswich regained its earlier momentum and then some with a 25-12 victory in set #4. “It is always good to put a mark in the ‘W’ col...
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...
"It was a good race today for the Tigers," said Ipswich cross country coach Todd Thorson, regarding the IHS team results at the Region 4B meet in Gettysburg last Wednesday. "Both boys and girls teams qualified for state." What that essentially means is that both the IHS girls and boys will send their entire teams to the State B in Rapid City, scheduled for October 24 in Rapid City. And that indeed makes them eligible for the girls and boys combined team standings. Thorson predicts "It will be...
The IHS Girls team were the Region 4B Champions and the Boys were the Region 4B runners up. They will compete at the State B Meet at Hart Ranch Camping Resort at Rapid City of Oct. 24, 2020....
Ipswich's volleyball team got to attend a Saturday event, the Dakota Valley Conference Tourney, in Castlewood. "They were looking for a team to replace a team that was out because of covid," said IHS coach Trent Osborne. "I felt we needed some more court time, since we have so much time off after this Monday." But the Tiger girls dropped a pair of best-of-three decisions against quality teams. They lost to Estelline/Hendricks 25-21 and 25-23 and also lost to the host team 25-17 and 25-13. Against EH, Ipswich's hitting leaders were Paige Mehlber...
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...
Ipswich's netters defeated LRC league rival Faulkton Area in straight sets last Tuesday in the Tiger Den. But it certainly wasn't all that easy. There were mini momentum switches and tied scores by both teams throughout the evening. But the Tigers would have the last say in all three sets. They got a kill from Lyndsey Grabowska for their initial 25-22 set-point and also outlasted the Trojans 28-26 in the second set, thanks to Kate Geditz's kill from the same side. The third set eventually also w...
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'...
Ipswich finished in second place in both the girls and boys varsity team standing at the Lake Region Conference cross country meet last Wednesday in Ipswich. The LRC is known to be competitive in just about any sport you name and that was true here Wednesday, Oct. 7. The Aberdeen Christian varsity girls upended Ipswich 10 to 19 for their team title, while Frederick Area was third with 23 points and Faulkton fourth with 44. Meanwhile, on the boys' varsity side, Northwestern topped Ipswich 12 to 2...
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...
Ipswich had a busy cross country schedule last week. One highlight was that the varsity girls placed second in their respective team standings in Miller last Monday and then again at Highmore-Harrold on Saturday. The latter meet was won by the Kimball/ White Lake girls with their 15 team points and the Tigers next with 28. Thirteen teams were eligible for those team score standings. Earlier in the week in Miller, Ipswich had scored 23 girls' team points, second only to Aberdeen Christian with 13. Five teams could vie for contention in that even...
They found a last-minute opponent to replace Faulkton for the Ipswich and Edmunds Central homecoming football game last Friday in Ipswich. It turned out to be Watertown-based Great Plains Lutheran, who would be seeking their initial victory of the season. But the Panthers went away empty-handed once again as the Tiger D pitched its second shut out (44-0) and improved to 5-1. GPL fumbled their kick return to start out the night and Trevor Beyers grabbed the football at the enemy 27. Six plays lat...