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Similar to last year, Ipswich obtained second place in the girls' State B track and field meet last Friday and Saturday in Sioux Falls, losing only to Deubrook Area 76-67, as that school racked up its third straight State B girls' team title. But any Ipswich disappointment in the narrow loss was quickly mitigated by the Tiger boys finishing fourth in their State B team outcome. And those respective placements, second from the girls and fourth by the boys, were the recipe for Ipswich's coveted...
Several Edmunds County 4-H Archery Shooting Sports members won awards at the State Shooting Sports Competition held in April. The beginner compound without sites team took third place in the state. Team members include Lincoln Beyers, Nevaeh Moser, and Seth DeRaad. They each received medals for their hard work. Beginner Alexis Fischer brought home two awards. She received first place with her Match 3 qualifying score. She also places second in the state. Alexis uses a release on her compound...
Edmunds County 4-H Shooting Sports will have Shotgun again this summer. They will shoot every Monday starting on June 10. Practice will be held at the Sportsman’s Club north of Ipswich starting at 6:30 p.m. The first class will include safety training followed by shooting. Members may shoot the shotgun of their choice. Shells and clay pigeons for the first round will be provided for 4-H members. Extra rounds will be available for a fee. Shooters must wear eye protection and ear plugs. These are also provided but members can bring their own. Y...
How impressive was Ipswich's Region 2B girls/boys team sweep last Thursday in Gettysburg? Let coach Todd Thorson modestly tell you: "It was a good day for the Ipswich Tigers! And that had to be somewhat of an understatement! Maybe one of the more significant features of their regional outcomes were that eight brand new Ipswich State B events and/or individual participants were obtained, despite somewhat less than optimum weather conditions. (You need to finish either first or second in a...
The Region 5B high school golf tournament was held on Monday, May 20 at Broadland Creek Golf Course in Huron. The Tiger boys were the runner-up regional champs with an aggregate 278, second only to Potter County's 266, among 11 teams eligible for the team standings. Selby Area claimed third at 289. Individually, Ipswich's Luke Peterson placed first with a score of 84, Ethan Gilbert was fifth with a score of 90, Chet Peterson was 14th with a score of 104 and Matthew Jaenisch was 16th with a...
The State B high school golf tourney has been moved from Mitchell to Yankton due to poor course conditions. The meet will be held on June 3-4. Ipswich prepped for the Monday Regional meet at Huron with a pair of trips there last week. The Tigers attended the pre-region warm up last Monday and also the invitational on May 16 hosted by JVC. In the pre-region there on Monday, May 13, the Tiger boys were third as a team with a 289. Potter County won at 276 followed by Faulkton’s 284. Ipswich was led by Luke Peterson’s third at 88, followed by Eth...
The Ipswich varsity golfers were planning to attend a meet hosted by James Valley Christian in Huron last Thursday, but it got postponed until this Thursday, May 16. So the Ipswich contingent stayed home to attend a meet at Split Rock in Ipswich that day instead. And it turned out to be a good day for the IHS boys, sweeping the first three spots for a 256-stroke team score, bettering the runners-up from Selby Area's 297. But the Walworth County based team did manage a 311 to 378 win over second-place Ipswich in the girls' division. Those Tiger...
Though the Lake Region Conference track and field meet in Ipswich last Tuesday started out in less than optimal weather conditions and ended in downright rain showers, several records and state qualifications were still recorded. And Ipswich swept the varsity meet in both the girls' and boys' divisions. The Lady Tigers more than doubled runner-up Northwestern Area 245.5 to 106 and the Tiger boys topped second-place Warner by a somewhat lesser margin, 203 to 149. But still very impressive and...
Ipswich hosted a small track and field invite for six area teams last Friday afternoon and the home team turned in an impressive showing both in individual events and relay efforts. The Lady Tigers indeed powered to a 332 to 106 team victory over runner-up Eureka-Bowdle and the Tiger boys topped second-place Warner 251-151. "It was a little windy today, but both Ipswich teams performed really well," said IHS coach Todd Thorson "Highlighted by Lily Gaston in triple (jump) and long jump and Taylor...
Eighteen Edmunds County Shooting Sports members attended the State Shoot in Ft. Pierre on April 26-28. BB Gun participants, their scores, and ribbon placing are as follows: Beginners Lincoln Beyers-295.3-Blue, Clara Iverson-288.2-Blue, Ella Iverson-298.1-Blue, Brooke Larson-255-White, Elaina Morales-246-White, Nevaeh Moser-330.4-Blue; and Juniors Hannah Beyers-339.8-Blue-White. Beginners as a team also received white ribbons. Archery participants, their discipline, scores and ribbon placings...
Ipswich graduate and USD sophomore Macy Heinz crossed the finish line in 2:10.32 to win the college women’s 800-meter run during the Howard Wood Dakota Relays in Sioux Falls this past weekend. And a couple of current IHS Lady Tiger relay teams won their Class B high school division at that prestigious meet. That would be the 4x100 clocked at :51.82 (Bailey Hammrich, Taylor Maurer, Halle Heinz and anchor Lily Gaston) and the 4x200 in 1:50.50 ran by Bailey Hammrich, Taylor Maurer, Tessa Kilber and Lily Gaston. The Lady Tigers furthermore p...
Ipswich attended two high school golf meets last week, starting with the Lake Region Conference high school golf invite in Aberdeen last Tuesday, where IHS came away with a boys' varsity team win, led by Luke Peterson's individual title. He carded an 80, five strokes better than runner-up Andrew Rohrbach of Aberdeen Christian. There were four conference teams on the boys' side and the Tigers defeated second-place Faulkton Area by 14 strokes, 261 to 275. Leola was third among the boys with its 291 and Frederick fourth at 504. Ethan Gilbert also...
Local athletes competed in the Special Olympics Area Track Meet held in Watertown on Friday, May 3. It was a successful day for Tucker Green, Johnathan Kamps, Isaiah Goetz, Teagan Cody, Royce Iverson, Casey Gilborne, Cash Henderson and Coy Stager. The athletes had a great day and worked very hard in their events. Each athlete is in a division with kids of their age and ability as there were over 200 athletes competing this year from this part of the state. Results were: Standing long jump:...
Ipswich swept a recent high school track and field invite at Eureka on April 23. The IHS girls overwhelmed runner-up Potter County 221-99 and the Tiger boys outlasted second-place Warner 154-131. (Nine teams scored points in each division!) “It was a windy day, but we made it a high volume day,” said IHS coach Todd Thorson. “They really competed hard.” And the outcome was some brand new state-qualified events, featuring both state-qualifying shot put and discus throwing championships from Kamryn Heinz at 36-00.00 and 113-00.00, respectively. Tw...
Due to less than favorable weather conditions last Saturday, a scheduled track and field meet in Gettysburg was cancelled. But that was no problem for the Ipswich contingent. They still found a way to salvage the day. “The middle school went to Mobridge and varsity went to Sisseton,” said IHS coach Todd Thorson. “They had an entry limit in Sisseton.” But there were enough Lady Tiger and Tiger thinclads to each finish a strong second in the team standings, second only to Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta, Minn. in both divisions. The Minneso...
Ipswich hosted a high school golf invite last Thursday at Split Rock golf course, where no team points were kept. Hometown golfer Ethan Gilbert posted the top varsity boys' score of the afternoon with an 82 among 29 total entrants. Grant Luikens of Potter County finished second with his 85. Ipswich's Luke Peterson placed fourth at 86, followed by Matt Jaenisch 15th with a 99 and Chet Peterson 16th at 100. Kaden Boettcher was 23rd at 119. Ipswich entered a lone girl, Halie Feldman, into the...
Ipswich’s Brian Hogie was named the Aberdeen American News All-Area Girls Basketball Coach of the Year. And three of his stalwarts were also named to the AAN All-Area Girls Basketball Team for 2019. Two of them, Kamryn Heinz and Abby Grabowska, were IHS seniors, of which Ipswich featured seven this season. The third member of the trio was sophomore Halle Heinz. (Warner’s Laurie Rogers was named the player of the year.) According to Hogie, Kamryn Heinz finished her career as the second leading scorer and rebounder for Ipswich, with the most eve...
The weather has finally cooperated somewhat for high school athletic events. Ipswich was scheduled to attend a track and field meet in Eureka, Tuesday, April 23. There will also be varsity track and field action at Gettysburg on April 27 and again on April 30 at Eureka. Those IHS golfers will host a varsity meet at Split Rock in Ipswich on Thursday, April 25 starting at noon. They will travel to Lake Poinsett for a golf competition starting at 10 a.m. on April 26. Then at Bowdle on April 27 there will be another golf meet. Looking down the...
USD sophomore Macy Heinz of Ipswich became the fourth Coyote women to break the 2:10 barrier in the 800-meter run school history. She accomplished that with a 2:9.76 clocking. That was also a new personal best for her during the recent Mt. SAC Relays held in Torrance, Calif....
Last Monday was April Fools Day! But this was no April Fools joke at an indoor high school track and field meet hosted by SDSU in Brookings -- the Ipswich Lady Tigers indeed compiled a 77.875 to 62.333 team-title win over runnerup Sioux Falls Christian with Deubrook Area third at 55. And the IHS Tiger boys finished seventh with 34 team points. (The male competition was won by Sioux Falls Christian 102 to 48 over the second-place team Milbank, which edged out third-place Warner by a mere point.) The 16-event Scott Underwood Invitational at the...
The Ipswich boys' high school golf team placed ninth in the team standings at the Class B Classic tourney in Mitchell last Friday. The Tigers scored a cumulative 283, led by a pair of Top 15 golfers, Luke Peterson in 13th at 88 and Ethan Gilbert 15th at 89. Matthew Jaenisch was Ipswich's third scorer with his 60th-place 106 and Kaden Boettcher rounded out the effort, placing 65th at 113. James Valley edged Bon Homme 258 to 259 for the boys' team title. But JJ Beck of Gregory was the top medalist of the day with his 76, while Chase McDonald of...
Todd Thorson, Ipswich track and field and cross country coach, has been selected as one of the 10 Aberdeen Central graduates who will be inducted into the 2019 Aberdeen Central Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Class of 1989 and will be recognized in their Athletics category. He has led the Ipswich girls and boys cross-country and track and field programs to several state championships and is a nationally-recognized water skier, who founded and still directs the equally successful Aberdeen Aqua Addicts water ski team. The 10 inductees will...
The Edmunds County Shooting Sports held their second postal on March 25, 2019. Shooting a qualifying score enables the shooter to participate in the State Shoot in Ft. Pierre on April 26-28. Seven BB Gun shooters showed their skills in standing, kneeling, sitting, and prone positions and 15 archers competed. Qualifying for state in BB Gun were Beginners Ella Iverson-273 and Elaina Morales-266. Other BB Gun shooters were Lincoln Beyers, Clara Iverson, Brooke Larson, Neveah Moser, and Jadon Rohrbach. Archers qualifying for state were Beginners...
The Ipswich varsity golfers are planning on attending a Friday invitational meet at Michell on Friday, April 5 and are no doubt anxious to get their season underway after battling the snow banks and standing water here. The Tiger girls and boys are hoping to have a successful season. Last year the boys placed fifth at the State B, helped by the senior leadership of Dylan Northrop. Returners with experience are Ethan Gilbert, a junior and freshmen Luke Peterson and Kaden Boettcher. So the pieces of the puzzle could fall into place on the boys'...
IHS senior Kamryn Heinz has signed a letter of intent on April 2 to play basketball at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell. She is pictured with her parents, Mike and June and sister Halle in the IHS gym. The IHS All-Stater recently played in a South Dakota All-Star basketball game....