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Ipswich/Edmunds Central gave Langford a huge Lake Region Conference high school football scare last Friday in Langford. But the host team prevailed 26-20 in overtime. The loss dropped I/EC to 2-2 and the Tigers are now 1-1 in league play. The Lions scored a late TD to send the game into OT, knotted at 20 all. (The PAT failed.) They added an OT touchdown and then intercepted a Tiger pass that ended the game. The Lions had scored the game’s first TD and PATs for a 8-0 lead. They added a touchdown score to go up 14-0. But I/EC did manage a f...
Ipswich never lost a single set in winning a Mobridge-Pollock Invitational volleyball tournament last Saturday in Mobridge. The three wins improved Ipswich's record to 8-1 at that point in time and capped a very busy net week for the IHS Lady Tigers. Ipswich indeed defeated McLaughlin 25-20, and 25-16, Cheyenne Eagle Butte 25-19, 25-17 and then topped the host school 25-22, 25-18 in the championship match. In that one, Ipswich utilized a 49 of 54 serving evening with five aces, led by Halle Heinz, 11-13 with three aces and Chesney Olivier,...
Ipswich won two high school girls' non-conference volleyball matches last week during the school week, one on the road and then one in the friendly confines of the Tiger Den. And both wins were in straight sets! The Lady Tigers indeed topped Sully Buttes at Onida 25-22, 25-21 and 25-21 last Tuesday and then two nights later dropped Sunshine Bible Academy 3-0 in Ipswich by a 25-11, 25-19 and 25-16 verdict. In that one, they capped the first set with an eight-point run, started by a Hailey Bierman...
Ipswich will host a volleyball tournament on Saturday, Sept. 21 beginning at 10 a.m. Joining the Lady Tigers in the tourney are Aberdeen Christian, Herreid/Selby Area, Kimball/White Lake, Langford Area, Lemmon, Leola/Frederick, and South Border, N.D....
Ipswich/Edmunds Central dropped its first high school football decision of the 2019 campaign with a 41-6 non-conference loss to Deuel last Friday in Ipswich, as part of the EC homecoming festivities. Deuel was led by Carter Hoffman with three rushing touchdowns and a receiving TD. He ended up with 282 yards rushing on 16 carries. (The team's powerful ground attack compiled 436 yards and probably didn't really need its additional 23-yard passing effort from Logan Stoltenburg.) The Tiger numbers f...
Ipswich attended a high school cross country invite hosted by Redfield last Thursday. The Lady Tigers had two varsity girls runners entered, led by a Top Tenner Tessa Kilber in eighth at 20:56.58. Emily DeRaad also placed 31st of 64 runners in that event at 22:21.78. It was won by Victoria Zirbel of Dakota Hills in 20:00.16, followed by Rana Hegg of Webster Area in 20:13.50. Ipswich also entered and placed one boy in their varsity race, Maxwell Geditz, also in the Top 10 at fourth in 17:38.66. (There were 83 total runners, led by Mitch Batchelo...
Ipswich split two homecourt non-conference high school volleyball outcomes last week. The Ipswich Lady Tigers were defeated 3-0 by their Groton area counterparts on Tuesday evening and two nights later edged Waubay/Summit 3-1. In this one the visitors won the (first) battle 25-21, but eventually lost the war. That's right, Ipswich swept the next three sets -- 25-13, 25-19 and a hard-fought 27-25 victory to clinch the match 3-1. In that latter win, Paige Mehlberg launched a kill for the set and...
Ipswich won a pair of high school volleyball outings last week to open its 2019 campaign, one at home and the other on the road. Credit the Lady Tigers with a 3-0 Lake Region Conference sweep over Aberdeen Christian last Tuesday in Aberdeen, as well as a much closer 3-1 win over non-league opponent Highmore-Harrold two nights later in the Tiger Den. That one was capped by a hard-fought 27-25 victory of the third set after the visitors had erased their deficit to 2-1 with an equally tight 25-23...
Score one for the host team in area high school football last Friday! Ipswich/Edmunds Central indeed dominated Lake Region Conference foe Northwestern Area 42-2 for its second straight win of the young season and moved to 1-0 in league play as a result of the victory. The Tigers methodically put together a 60-yard touchdown drive after the teams had exchanged punts on their respective initial possessions. The Tigers got decent field position right at midfield after the Wildcats' punt and Kaden...
Ipswich traveled to Pierre last Friday for a multi-class, multi-division season-opening high school cross country meet. Tessa Kilber placed eighth among 33 individual contestants with her 16:44.13 clocking. Melanie Jacobs of Aberdeen Central edged her runner-up teammate Zoe Douglas 15:17.28 to 15:36.90. Ipswich's Emily DeRaad also finished 16th in 17:40.86. Meanwhile, Maxwell Geditz competed for Ipswich in the boys' varsity race and placed eleventh among 28 boys (14:33.98). Again the boys' champion represented Aberdeen Central in 12:48.46, as...
Morris Grosz got his first hole-in-one at the Split Rock Country Club recently. Grosz got the ace on Hole 7, using a 9 iron. Witnessing the shot were Tim Gillick, Les Holland and John Gillick....
The IHS cross country season kicks off on Friday, August 30 in Pierre for the respective Ipswich cross country teams, followed by a trip to Redfield on September 5 (Ipswich's first home meet will be hosted on September 14 at Split Rock). Another home event will be the LRC get-together on October 9. And that will indeed usher in the post-season action with the regionals set for Gettysburg on October 16, followed by the state meets at Huron on October 26. Each Tiger team is relatively youthful this season with one lone senior girl and boy to...
Ipswich/Edmunds Central opened its 2019 high school football campaign with an impressive 52-28 non-conference victory over Potter County in Gettysburg last Friday. The Tigers signaled their intentions early with 16 straight points, and still led 16-6 after an eventful opening-quarter. Carson Gohl, who finished with 207 rushing yards on 14 carries, included two touchdown jaunts, one of which occurred with 10:15 remaining in the opening quarter. Ethan Gilbert found Kaden Hix with a PAT pass,...
Coached by Brian Hogie, assisted by Tyler Severson and Austin Manzey, the 2019 Ipswich/Edmunds Central varsity football roster currently consists of 31 players. Last year's Tiger team qualified for the post-season playoffs for the first time in a few seasons and the 2019 Tigers would certainly like to be in the hunt for a playoff berth again this year. The state championships will be hosted in Brookings this year, due to a remodeling project at the DakotaDome in Vermillion. But talk about a...
Dan Sudbeck of Dimock, Chairman of the State Athletic Commission for The American Legion, Department of South Dakota, announced the first round pairings for the South Dakota 2019 Class "B" Junior American Legion Baseball State Championship Tournament that will be held at the Locke-Karst Field in Groton beginning on Friday, August 9, 2019. The first-round pairings are the teams that have emerged victorious from their respective Regional Tournaments. Warner/Ipswich/North-ville (W.I.N.) Post 137...
It was a hot but fun weekend in Waterloo, Iowa at the Regional Water Ski Show Tournament. The Aberdeen Aqua Addicts were among the teams competing. The team finished fourth overall. Aberdeen skiers Abby VanLiere and Todd Thorson were awarded the female and male MVP awards. Abby VanLiere placed third, Emily DeRaad placed ninth and Ahna Schauer placed 12th in swivel open competition. Their jumpers Noah Leach and Tyler Thorson finished first and third in freestyle jump. The team jump took second...
Ipswich is forming a Youth Football team for grades 3-6. This will be a tackle football team. Teams are typically separated in 3-4 and 5-6 grades but some games may be different. An organizational meeting is planned on Monday, July 29 at the south baseball field from 6 to 7 p.m. Players can try on the equipment and get it ordered for the season. If you are interested in playing but cannot be at the meeting contact Dan Knust, 605-690-2132. The season will start in mid-August and run for six to eight weeks. Games will be played in Ipswich and...
The IHS fall sports meeting is planned on Tuesday, August 6 at 7 p.m. in the school theater. Students going out for sports in grades 6-12 and parents are encouraged to attend. The first football practice is August 12. Volleyball and Cross Country practices begin on August 15. Middle school practices will start on August 21, the first day of school....
Highmore will host the Northern Prairie Baseball League 2019 All-Star game on Tuesday, July 16 for Midgets age 12U. The Home Run Derby will begin at 5 p.m. followed by the nine-inning game. The teams will consist of three players from each of the eight teams in the league, including Ipswich. Other teams in the league are Warner, Miller, Faulkton, Northwestern (Northville and Brentford), Highmore, Redfield and Gettysburg. One player from each team will have a chance at the home run derby....
The W.I.N. Junior Legion team played in Ipswich on July 7. W.I.N. faced Mobridge in the double header. The team is made up of players from Warner, Ipswich, Northville, as well as a few from Roscoe....
The Edmunds County 4-H Horse Show was held on Wednesday, June 26 at the Yellowstone Trail Complex in Ipswich. The 12 participants were from Edmunds, Campbell, Faulk, Walworth, and Brown counties. Edmunds County participants were Jalyssa Hutson, Jailey Hutson, Quincy Olivier, Jacey Rossow, and Karlie Weisser. Champion Showman from Edmunds County was Junior Jailey Hutson. Participants have the option of going to the State Horse Show in Huron in July. Ribbon results from the events were: Western...
Dakota State volleyball head coach Amy Veenhof is excited to announce the addition of Ipswich High School product Abigail Grabowska to its 2019 recruiting class. She will continue her education and volleyball career at DSU this coming fall. Grabowska, 5-foot-7 outside hitter, was a four-time letter winner for Ipswich volleyball team. She was named to All-Conference First Team from 2016-18. She was selected as the Most Valuable Player and Player-of-the-Year in 2016. She was voted as the...
The Ipswich boys' high school golf team moved up into the Top Eight at number eight during their State B event in Yankton last Monday and Tuesday with a 280 the first day and a 266 the final day. That was a total of 546 strokes. At Hillcrest Country Club, the boys faced a course with large trees, narrow fairways and fast greens, which resulted in a challenging course for the entire field of golfers, according to IHS coach Matt Pollock. The boys did their best to manage the course and finished...
This year's pre-concert Trail Days event "Bulls and Broncs" will begin at 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 8 at the Trail Days Arena in Ipswich. And it will for the fourth straight year include both saddle-bronc and bull-riding competitions. The action indeed all starts with the Calcutta at 4 p.m., which provides an opportunity for the crowd to bet on the contestants and how well they will fare. There will be calcutta auctioning for both bulls and broncs. The National Anthem will be sung by Tessa...