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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...
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...
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 defeated Langford Area 3-0 in a Lake Region Conference league rivalry last Thursday in Ipswich. The Tiger girls won the first set 25-13 that ended with a Langford hitting error. The second set also went in Ipswich's favor 25-10 thanks to Paige Mehlberg's set-point kill. But the third set proved to be a whole lot closer and Mehlberg also capped that 26-24 victory with a decisive kill. (She had just claimed Ipswich's 25th point with yet another kill.) "We tried to do a few more things offe...
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...
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...
Losing narrowly by a single point 25-24 last Friday at Warner, Ipswich/Edmunds Central had scored the first and last touchdowns of the game. But Warner already scored what would be its last TD and thought it should be two-possession insurance against a late-game Tiger rally. That’s because Warner’s first three TDs had all failed to produce any type of PAT success, leaving the Monarchs with 18 points entering the final quarter. But they did string together a successful TD drive quite late in the game to put 24 points on the scoreboard and the...
"It was a good day for the Tigers. The varsity boys ended up running 6k instead of 5k but that will be good for training purposes," says Coach Thorson after the Tiger results in a Battler Invitational cross country meet at Gettysburg last Saturday. How good was it? For starters, the Ipswich girls placed first in both the varsity and junior varsity team scores with six points each. And the varsity boys were third as a team with 21 team points. (The hosts won that with 19 points, followed by...
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...
Ipswich swept the Ipswich Division of a Mobridge-Pollock Invitational girls' high school vollyball tourney Saturday in the Ipswich Tiger Den. The IHS Tigers methodically defeated Leola/Frederick 25-14, 25-14 and 25-15. And they had a more difficult 25-15, 25-23, 25-21 sweep of the North Central Thunder. On the all-tournament team from Ipswich were Halle Heinz, Chesney Olivier and Paige Mehlberg, who had also recently become the IHS career total blocking leader. And her kill gave Ipswich a 24-13...
VS. SULLY BUTTES Ipswich methodically topped Sully Buttes 3-0 in high school girls' volleyball action at home in the Tiger Den last Tuesday. The Tiger girls would dominate the latter half of each set on their way to the straight-set win. Ipswich claimed the first set 25-15 and the second set 25-13, as well as the third-set clincher by a 25-15 verdict. The match point that nailed down the third set and the match was delivered by a Hailey Bierman kill. That was appropriate because it capped a 19-24 hitting effort by the IHS senior, who featured...
Ipswich/Edmunds Central's defense kept a potentially explosive Langford Area's offense in check for 48 minutes last Saturday evening in Ipswich. The Tigers' D sometimes bent but didn't break, so a 2-0 safety would have been enough for the Tigers. Better yet, though, they got a pair of touchdowns and could have scored even one or two more that were stymied by Tiger turnovers inside the Langford red zone. And the Tigers shocked the Langford contingent after ending a time-consuming first-quarter...
Ipswich won a high school volleyball clash of the Tigers last Tuesday in Groton. The Tigers from Groton were defeated 3-1 on their home court. Ipswich had captured a relatively easy 25-15 win of its first set, but guess what, the hosts edged Ipswich 26-24 in the second set to even the match at 1-1. But from then on there was no stopping the visiting Tigers. The IHS Tigers indeed won the third set 25-16 and then the fourth set with a 25-16 verdict, as well, to clinch the match! Ipswich received impressive net play with a 103-132 43-kills...
Ipswich then traveled to Waubay last Thursday to play Waubay/Summit and came away with a straight-sets volleyball victory to improve its record to 4-0. The Tiger girls indeed dropped W/S 25-12, 25-15, and 25-14. Paige Mehlberg led an all-around balanced team effort at the net with 16 hits that featured 10 kills. Altogether Ipswich went 72-80 at the net with 32 kills. Hailey Bierman added a 20-21 night at the net with 8 kills and Lindsey Grabowska was 14-15 there with 5 kills. Ipswich added a 63-74 serving-line effort with 11 aces. Chesney...
Ipswich attended a high school XC invite last Thursday in Redfield. The Tigers put two runners in the girls varsity race won by Milbank’s Ashlyn Batchelor in 16.21. Emily DeRaad placed 23rd in 18.86, followed by Ashley Ptacek 37th in 19.72. In the varsity boys’ outcome, Milbank’s Nick Batchelor came away the winner in 15.42. Ipswich’s Taylor Thorson was 31st in 18.45. There were 92 runners in the boys’ event and over 80 entrants among the varsity girls. There were a slug of IHS girls entering the girls’ JV run, though, and Ipswich made its pr...
The Ipswich/Edmunds Central football game with Deuel in Clear Lake on Sept. 4 was cancelled. A Tiger player was diagnosed with COVID-19. The I/EC team is scheduled to host Langford Area on Friday, Sept. 11....
The Mobridge volleyball tournament, planned on Sept. 12. was split into two sites this year. Ipswich, North Central and Leola/Frederick will play in Ipswich and Mobridge-Pollock, Stanley County and McIntosh will play in Mobridge. Two tournament winners will be announced. The state suggests using the best of five format for this tournament. The schedule of the Ipswich tournament will be: • 10 a.m. - Ipswich vs. Leola/Frederick • North Central vs. Leola/Frederick 30 minutes after completion of first match. • Ipswich vs. North Central 30 minut...
Ipswich/Edmunds Central scored in every quarter on the way to a 42-0 LRC high school football win over Northwestern last Friday in Mellette. The hosts weren’t doing themselves any favors with some costly turnovers and 10 sacks and the Tigers were able to attain a 16-0 first quarter lead. They led 28-0 at intermission. The Tigers tacked on a third-quarter insurance TD and two more in the final stanza to assure the outcome. Carson Gohl led I/EC in scoring with three touchdowns and one conversion run for 20 team points. Matt Hettich, Luke P...
The Ipswich volleyball team picked up a pair of hard-fought opening week 3-1 wins by taking control of momentum at the end. The Tigers won a Lake Region Conference match over Aberdeen Christian to start their season last Tuesday at home in the Tiger Den. The team then went on the road for a non-conference victory over Highmore-Harrold last Thursday in Highmore. But first things first! The Tigers strung together a late rally for an initial 26-24 win over the Knights. They had trailed by as much as seven points, 19-12 at one juncture of the set....
Ipswich attended a season-opening cross country invite in Pierre last Friday. At least one IHS runner was entered into each of the seven events. For instance, there were two Tiger girls in the 4000-meter varsity run, won by Jessica Lutmer of Pierre Riggs in 16:09.75. There were 21 total runners there, including Ipswich's Ashley Ptacek, tenth in 18:19.64 and Emily DeRaad 14th in 18:45.26. That same distance junior varsity run, consisting of 30 runners, saw Ashlinn Hartwell placing second only to Evelyn Trefz of Aberdeen Central 18:01.70 to...
Ipswich/Edmunds Central outlasted Potter County 40-28 in a warm high school football opener for both schools last Friday in Ipswich. The two teams had traded blows for much of the game, but I-EC manufactured a disparately needed 80-yard insurance TD drive capped by Carson Gohl's seven-yard score after the Battlers had climbed to within a TD trailing 34-28 including a two-point conversion. And the hosts would end the visitors' hopes of a last minute miracle with an interception. Ipswich/EC had...
Sustaining a 2019 Class B girls' high school volleyball SoDak 16 loss one game away from the State B, the Tiger netters might very well feel like they have some incentive to do well this year. That's because their varsity roster features 10 returning seniors, a luxury that not a whole lot of teams can experience. Alphabetically the seniors include Hailey Bierman, Halie Feldman, Kate Geditz, Lindsey Grabowska, Halle Heinz, Taryn Kleffman, Ashton Loken, Paige Mehlberg, Chesney Olivier and Bailey...