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Ipswich had attended another indoor track and field meet at the Barnett Center in Aberdeen, the Wolves Invite on Tuesday, March 26. It featured a somewhat limited number of events and no team points were kept, but was still well-attended to say the least. "There were over 1000 athletes entered in this meet," said IHS head coach Todd Thorson. "And the Tigers really had a good day." How good? The Lady Tigers featured five first-place finishes and the boys, three. And Maxwell Geditz had a hand in all three boys' wins! He won the 400-meter dash in...
The numbers are there again for the Ipswich track and field program this spring, but there’s not only an impressive quantity of IHS thinclads. “There’s good quality as well,” predicts IHS head coach Todd Thorson. Last year the Lady Tigers finished second in the state with 58.5 team points at the State B and the Tiger boys scored 22 team points for 13th place in their team standings. So both Ipswich track and field teams hope to be in the hunt again this year, both during their regular-season meets and in the post-season drama. One reason...
Ipswich obtained several placements, led by some impressive first-place performances at the Fuller Invitational high school track and field meet at the Barnett Center in Aberdeen last Tuesday. For starters on the girls’ side, Lily Gaston won a pair of individual events, the 200-meter dash in :28.98 and the long jump at 4.85 meters. The girls also got a winning effort from Tessa Kilber in the 400-meter dash, clocked at 1:04.18 and Paige Mehlberg added a first-place high jump effort at 1.53 meters. And Kamryn Heinz produced yet another winning in...
Ipswich basketball players were named to the Lake Region Conference (LRC) All-Conference teams. IHS senior Kamryn Heinz and sophomore Halle Heinz were on the girls basketball first team. Kamryn Heinz and Laurie Rogers of Warner were Co-MVP picks. Abby Grabowska, a senior, was on the girls basketball second team. Will Kadlec, IHS junior, was on the boys basketball LRC All-Conference second team. Senior Jacob Nierman was a honorable mention pick. The boys co-MVP’s were Zech Clemens of Northwestern and Tyler Ogle of Faulkton....
The girls basketball head coach of the year in Region 1 is IHS coach Brian Hogie. The South Dakota Basketball Coaches' Association made the announcement. The assistant coach from Region 1 is David Williams of Clark/Willow Lake....
It’s the little things that make a difference in any sports tournament of any sort at any level and that was certainly true during the State B boys’ high school basketball tourney at the Barnett Center in Aberdeen last weekend. Clark/Willow Lake indeed took care of all the little things, plus a huge defensive effort throughout its three-day competition. And for the eventual State B champion Cyclones, that definitely proved to be the difference in an otherwise quite balanced event! That defense all started in their first game of the tourney Thu...
The 2019 State Youth Wrestling Tournament was held March 15-17 in Brookings. Local wrestlers and their placings were: Second place: Marley Guthmiller, Parker Gill Fifth place: Denver Wolff Seventh place: Sophie Knittel Eighth place: Serenity Robinson, Matt McCloud and Tanner Frickson...
Ipswich captured seventh-place at the State B girls' high school basketball tourney in Huron last Saturday afternoon with a 52-49 victory over Waverly-South Shore, a team that the Lady Tigers had also narrowly edged in overtime during the regular-season. "As for the W-SS game, we just did a much better job of boxing out and rebounding," said IHS coach Brian Hogie. "That led to us getting in some transition, which led to a little more offensive rhythm." So the Lady Tigers came into the game...
Ipswich stunned Corsica-Stickney with an early 8-0 lead on opening day of the girls’ State B in Huron and still led 12-10 with a quarter in the books. Credit Abby Grabowska with a free throw to initiate Lady Tiger scoring and she then added a layup-up off a long Kamryn Heinz assist. Halle Heinz contributed a layup and a three-ball before Corsica-Stickney could get untracked. But C-S fans, though out-numbered by a huge Ipswich fan base, would eventually celebrate a 61-32 victory. Their team oustcored Ipswich 19-8 in the second quarter and also w...
Trailing 58-37 late in the third quarter against White River on Friday afternoon in the consolation bracketing of the State B girls' high school basketball tourney in Huron, the Ipswich Lady Tigers got a third-quarter buzzer-beating steal basket from Halle Heinz. But it still left the White River Lady Tigers up 58-39 with a quarter to play. And Ipswich would then also double its Lady Tiger counterparts from White River 22-11 down the stretch to eventually lose a 69-61 verdict. The game clock...
Ipswich hosted a welcome home and awards presentation for the IHS Lady Tiger basketball team in the School Theatre on Sunday, March 10 at 7 p.m. Coach Brian Hogie introduced the players and summed up his thoughts on the tourney and the whole year. The year including multiple adversities that the team dealt with, including injuries. Hogie called this a special team, especially the seven seniors, because of their attributes and care for their teammates both on and off the court. He talked about th...
Several Ipswich area youth wrestlers competed in the Region AAU wrestling tournament in Pierre. Results were: First place: Parker Gill Second place: Tanner Frickson, Matt McCloud, Denver Wolff, Marley Guthmiller, Sophia Knittel, Brantley Schwartz Third place: Justin Rohrbach, Kadyn Weisser, Serenity Robinson, Chance Miller, Tucker Habeck, Ryder Steen Fourth place: Brady Unser, Lane Braun Fifth place: Gunnar Knittel, Sixth place: Levi Patch, Ben Hoyle Did not place: Oliver Dana, Tyler Gellhaus, Draycen Easterby, Rowen Bollinger The top three in...
Ipswich/Leola/Bowdle wrestlers have been named to the Lake Region Conference Wrestling All-Conference team. Junior Carter Heinz and eighth grader Lucas Rowland have been named to the team. Tanner Frickson, eighth grader, is an honorable mention pick. Conference Champions Faulkton had five on the list: Alex Aesoph, Tate Schulte, Gage Carter, Gage Martinmaas and Parker Geditz. Leighton Weber was an honorable mention pick. All-Conference team members from Warner/Northwestern were Trey Fortin, Cody Laron and Lincoln Fortin, with honorable mention...
The 2019 South Dakota Boys State B basketball tournament is slated for Aberdeen on March 14,15,16 in the Barnett Center. And two of the eight schools in this year's tourney had also competed in the recently concluded State B girls' event in Huron! De Smet indeed won the girls' B and is seeded fifth in the boys' event at 21-2. The Bulldogs will meet number-four Jones County, 19-2, in the second afternoon game on Thursday, beginning at approximately 1:45 p.m. And who is seeded first this year? The White River Tigers, at 20-2, a perennial...
Avenging last year's statewide final 16 girls' high school basketball loss, the IHS Lady Tigers indeed clawed their way to a 51-40 SoDak 16 win over Bridgewater-Emery last Thursday in the James Valley Christian Gym at Huron, as part of a SoDak 16 twin bill that also saw Warner knocking off Faulkton Area for a return trip to the State B in Huron later this week. Defense wins big games in any sport and the Ipswich Lady Tigers' defense rose to the challenge, especially surviving a late run by the...
Ipswich closed out its boys' high school basketball season at 11-10 with a Region 2B 59-42 loss to Potter County at Gettysburg last Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Battlers and Sully Buttes both qualified out of Region 2B for the SoDak 16 and its eight winners will comprise the boys' State B lineup slated for later this month in Aberdeen. Ipswich stayed right with the Battlers, but was outscored 17-2 in the final quarter. "Yeah, we let that fourth quarter get away from us," said IHS coach Tyler...
The Ipswich Wrestling Booster Club hosted the AAU District 4 wrestling tournament on March 2, 2019 in the Ipswich gym. There were 287 young wrestlers competing. Ipswich area wrestlers competing included: First place: Matt McCloud, Parker Gill Olson, Brantley Schwartz, Serenity Robinson, Sophie Knittel, Marley Guthmiller, Denver Wolff Second place: Brady Unser, Justin Rohrbach, Tucker Habeck, Bryce Hochalter, Lane Braun, Gunnar Knittel, Kadyn Weisser Third place: Ryder Steen, Lewis Judkins...
Ipswich claimed a Region 2B girls' high school basketball bracket championship, edging Sully Buttes 42-41 in their 2B upper-bracket title game last Thursday in Ipswich. Ipswich had blasted Potter County 67-46 in a semifinal outing last Tuesday in Ipswich. Faulkton, meanwhile, eventually prevailed in the lower-bracket with an easier 53-27 upset win over Herreid/Selby Area played last Tuesday at Selby. Faulkton, 15-6, is seeded 12th among the 16 regional survivors and will face fifth-seeded...
The Region 2B boys' high school basketball action got under way on Monday, including a lower-bracket play-in game and in that lower bracket, Ipswich hosted Eureka/ Bowdle as the number-seven seed vs. ten. And the hosts captured a 70-28 win to advance to face Potter County in Gettysburg in a lower-bracket semifinal on Tuesday. Number-three Leola/Frederick was to host sixth-seeded Faulkton Area in the remaining lower-bracket semifinal. Those winners will also meet at the home of the higher seed...
Ipswich prepared for its boys' high school regional tourney action with two homecourt regular-season games last week and the Tigers split both outcomes. They upended Sunshine Bible Academy 69-49, but lost to Potter County by a 67-64 verdict two nights later. Against SBA, Ipswich never trailed and gradually pulled away. The Tigers led 24-13 after a quarter and upped their lead to 49-24 at intermission. They narrowly won the third quarter 9-8 to take a commanding lead into the final quarter, even...
Ipswich will host the AAU District 4 wrestling tournament on Saturday, March 2 in the Ipswich school. Weigh-ins are from 7 to 9 a.m. and wrestling begins at 10 a.m. There are more than 50 youth wrestlers from Ipswich, Edmunds Central, Leola, and Bowdle in the Ipswich Area program....
Ipswich/Leola/Bowdle wrestler Carter Heinz (22-14) placed eighth in the 195 division at the State B Wrestling Tournament Feb. 22-23 in Rapid City. He scored 8.0 team points. Carter made it look easy in his first match. He pinned Preston Norrid of Winner Area in 28 seconds. His other matches throughout the two-day tournament included: Quarterfinal - Garrett Heil (Hot Springs) 45-5 won by fall over Heinz (Fall 1:49) Consolation Round 2 - Heinz won by fall over Grady ONeill (Groton Area) 17-25...
University of South Dakota senior Ethan Fenchel and sophomore Macy Heinz broke program records in their respective events on Friday afternoon at the Nebraska Tune-Up inside the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Heinz clocked 1:32.71 for 600 meters, which just edged out a seven-year-old record held by fellow South Dakota native Emma (Erickson) Ladwig. Senior Mallory Fine just missed Ladwig’s time herself by six-hundredths of a second. Fine crossed the finish line in 1:33.66 for third place. Fenchel launched the weight throw 68 feet, 11 ¾ inches to br...
The Region 2B girls' high school basketball tournament action got underway this week and the upper-bracket semifinals on Tuesday pitted the overall #1 seed Ipswich vs. the winner of an #8 vs. #9 Monday confrontation Potter County. Number-four Sully Buttes also hosted #5 Highmore-Harrold in that bracket's other semifinal on Tuesday. In the bottom bracket, Edmunds Central traveled to Faulkton on Tuesday, as the overall sixth-seeded team, hosted by the #3 Trojans in a bracket semifinal. The other...
The Region 2B boys' high school basketball tourney looms big on the horizon with the 2B girls' event already in progress this week. And not a whole lot can be pinned down regarding the exact bracketing in the two parallel brackets, which will each furnish a 2B champion for the SoDak 16, as of our newspaper deadlines. The regular-season standings determine those regional pairings and several teams, including Ipswich, will have had to play three games this week partially due to weather postponements, according to IHS AD Dan Knust. Check with...