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Ipswich-Edmunds Central is indeed entering the 9A high school football play-offs this Thursday, Oct. 18 with an overall 3-5 record after an upset win over North Border on Friday, Oct. 5 that closed out the Tigers' regular-season schedule. (They had a bye-week in the last week of their season.) They are one of four at-large teams making the playoffs in 9A. The top three teams in each of the four regions automatically qualify for the post-season plus the next four teams seeded teams statewide and Ipswich-EC was one of those four. Being an...
Ipswich dropped a hard-fought 3-0 decision to Lake Region Conference rival Faulkton Area on Monday in the Tiger Den. It was the last home match for the seniors and they and their parents were the honorees on Senior Night. The initial set was highly contested throughout the set with several ties. The last tie was at 26-26 but the visitors closed out the set with a pair of points for a 28-26 win. The second set wasn't quite so close, though, as Ipswich was defeated 25-16. But the third set was...
Getting ready for its huge LRC battle with Faulkton, the Ipswich volleyball team won a 3-1 non-league road decision at Hitchcock-Tulare last Thursday. In that one, the Lady Tigers got off to a great start with back to back wins, 25-17 and 25-19, respectively. But the hosts weren't quite ready to turn off the gym lights quite yet and regrouped for a hard-fought 26-24 win. But Ipswich sealed the deal with another close outcome of 25-23. The visitors from Ipswich were 209-221 in hitting with 49 kills. Abby Grabowska was 89-94 at the net,...
KELO sportscaster Sean Bower presented the KELO Cup to some Ipswich senior girls at a recent football game. The KELO Cup recognizes the champions of South Dakota high schools. The award is given to a school in each class. Ipswich was the Class B winner, St. Thomas More was the Class A winner and Lincoln was the 2018 Class AA winner. Schools earn points with each first, second and third place finish in state for each sport. First place is worth five points, second place is worth two points and...
Ipswich won the Lady Tigers volleyball rivalry on Monday in the IHS Tiger Den with a 3-0 sweep of the visiting Mobridge-Pollock Lady Tigers. Ipswich faced an early 6-1 deficit in set one, but eventually won it 25-18. The hosts knotted it at 7-7 and took their first lead, 8-7, with a block. They gradually extended their lead to the final margin. Set number two went even more convincingly for Ipswich with a 25-16 win, capped by an Abby Grabowska tip kill. Ipswich then pulled away for a third-set...
The Ipswich Lady Tiger volleyball team finished third at the Battler Tournament, an invitational tourney in Gettysburg last Saturday. Ipswich finished 3-1 in the event with its lone loss being to Faulkton, which went on to win the entire tourney over runner-up Faith. Ipswich indeed lost its opening pool match to the Trojans 25-17 and 25-16. But the Lady Tigers regrouped for a 25-14, 25-13 win over Timber Lake, as well as a pool-play win over McIntosh 25-11, 25-16. That sent Ipswich into the third-place placement match against Herreid-Selby...
Led by Aleah Steger's course-record-setting clocking at the Lake Region Conference cross country meet at Split Rock Country Club in Ipswich last Wednesday, the IHS Lady Tigers cruised to a 10-point 9 to 19 team win over their nearest competitor Aberdeen Christian in less than optimal weather conditions. Steger's amazing 18:36.37 clocking indeed topped the previous record-holder IHS graduate Macy Heinz, now at USD, by some 14 seconds. "Aleah sure had a good run," said IHS coach Todd Thorson....
Down through the years, successful PAT plays can be hard to come by in nine-man football. And the lack of conversion points can come back to haunt you in a close game between otherwise quite equally matched teams. That is just what happened to North Border last Friday, resulting in a 14-12 Ipswich-Edmunds Central win in Eureka. Actually Ipswich-EC had gotten a real decent opportunity to take an initial lead after a scoreless first quarter where each team had tested the other teams' defense in a...
Ipswich-Edmunds Central played host to a non-conference foe, Kimball-White Lake, on Senior Night last Friday, honoring the Tiger seniors and their parents. But the visitors eventually did their own celebrating with a 37-0 win over the Tigers. They methodically drove for a pair of first-quarter scores, culminated by Carter Fredericksen's two-yard and three-yard scampers, respectively. Wyatt Talbott kicked the PAT after the second touchdown for a 13-0 WildKats lead. The visitors added a second-qua...
The Ipswich Lady Tiger volleyball team earned a pair of wins in two recent appearances. The Lady Tigers edged Edmunds Central 3-1 last Thursday in Roscoe and then topped Eureka/Bowdle 3-1 on Monday in the Tiger Den. That was a Lake Region Conference affair. A sidenote to the win over Edmunds Central, according to coach Trent Osborne, was that this year's senior players had played varsity volleyball as ninth graders with the head coach from EC, Langley Secker Manzey. "Also last night (against EC)...
Ipswich-Edmunds Central hosted LRC rival Warner Area for an Ipswich homecoming event last Friday, but the visitors eventually celebrated with a 27-2 victory over the Tigers. They might have started their celebration after an early interception planted them on the Tiger 39-yard line! And shortly thereafter the Monarchs did dent the Tiger endzone with a one-yard pass play from Ben Fischbach to Daylin Simon. (Spencer Ketterling kicked the PAT for a 7-0 lead with 8:37 showing on the scoreboard...
The Ipswich Lady Tigers kept their season team win streak alive with a 33 to 59 varsity team win over runner-up Kimball/White Lake at the Miller Invitational on Monday in Miller. Their effort was led by Aleah Steger, who finished third in the individual standings at 19:59.11. Tessa Kilber was right behind her in fourth place, clocked at 20:33.47 and Emily DeRaad was 12th in 21:49.84. Next was Ashley Ptacek, who also landed in the Top 15 in fifteenth place with a 22:10.88 effort. And Kari Kanable was next in 22nd with her 22:52.51 effort. There...
The Ipswich Lady Tiger volleyball team sustained a couple of difficult homecourt defeats last week. The Lady Tigers were competitive and then some, but couldn't quite close things out, especially in a Tuesday match against a potential regional rival, Potter County. It ended up to be a 3-2 win for the visitors, thanks to their comeback from a 13-8 deficit in the tie-breaker set. Ipswich was then within an eyelash of forcing a fifth set against LRC rival Langford, but the Lions rallied for a 25-22...
What a difference a year makes! Last year the Ipswich Lady Tiger netters were 1-3 during a high school volleyball invitation at Britton-Hecla. This year, though, the IHS volleyball team improved to 3-1 at the meet, losing only to Langford Area. That gave Ipswich second-place honors at the event and also congratulations go to Ipswich coach Trent Osborne for his 150th career volleyball victory. Against Leola-Frederick, Ipswich won 25-10 and 25-16. Abby Grabowska was 36-40 in hitting and included a dozen kills. Lindsey Grabowska added four kills...
In preparing for last Saturday's Britton-Hecla volleyball invite, Ipswich dropped a pair of Lake Region Conference decisions, one at home and the other on the road. The Lady Tigers lost in straight sets in both instances. They lost a home-court 25-8, 25-11, 25-21 outcome to Warner and then two nights later at Northwestern the host team topped Ipswich 25-6, 25-16 and 25-15. Against Warner, though, despite the eventual setback, things progressively got better for the Lady Tigers. Especially...
Ipswich-Edmunds Central traveled to Miller for a non-conference high school football game last Friday, but the hosts weren't very generous. Miller/Highmore-Harrold jumped off to a 14-0 first-quarter lead. They added three second-quarter scoring opportunities, while I-EC got on the board once before the half to face a 36-8 halftime deficit. The hosts also outscored the Tigers 12-8 in the third quarter for a comfortable 32-point lead and neither team was able to score in the final stanza, resulting in a 48-16 hosts' win. For I-EC, Ben Kulesa...
Tim Gillick was the first winner of the Ipswich Tribune Football Contest. Tim and Ed Miller were tied with two misses, but Ed had the tie breaker incorrect. The contest will be in the Tribune throughout September and October....
A group of boys from Ipswich play in the third grade YMCA tackle football league. Pictured are, back row, Lane Braun, Jace Stiles, Stetson Weigel, Shay Knust; front row, Hayden Schlosser, Brady Kilber and Tate Hogie....
Ipswich swept both the girls' and boys' varsity team races at an invitational Cross Country meet hosted by Potter County in Gettysburg last Saturday. Starting with the girls' event, Ipswich topped runner-up Cheyenne-Eagle Butte 7 to 17 in the team standings and the Lady Tigers also featured the top two individual girls in the race. Aleah Steger was first in 19:18 and Tessa Kilber second in 19:58. Emily DeRaad placed fourth among the 26 individual runners and her time was 20:47. Next was Ashley...
Barb Gillick had a hole-in-one at the Split Rock Country Club golf course on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. It was five years ago when Barb's sister Gail had a hole-in-one on the same hole. Barb said the ace was a birthday gift. She used the five wood she recently received for her birthday. The feat was witnessed by her husband Tim and Hugo Grosz....
Ipswich-Edmunds Central dropped a 40-8 Lake Region Conference high school football showdown to Faulkton Area last Friday in Ipswich. The hosts were really stingy defensively for much of the first half, but so was Faulkton. Especially after the Trojans had fumbled on their own 37, recovered by Josh McQuarie on Faulkton's opening possession of the game! That would be the first red zone bullet the Trojans would dodge, but not the last. Later in the half, the visiting defensive unit stopped a Tiger...
Ipswich won both of its two high school volleyball matches last week and again fed off senior Abby Grabowska's relentless net attack. Grabowska had entered the week needing just 12 kills to become a member of the 1000 career kills club and the first-ever IHS player to be a member of both the 1000 career digs club and the 1000 career kills plateau. Abby Grabowska got her necessary kills and then some against Sully Buttes here last Tuesday in a highly contested non-league battle, which featured a...
History repeats itself! Just as last year, the Ipswich varsity cross country program swept its own invitational meet last Saturday at Split Rock Country Club. Both the IHS girls and boys ran well, especially the Lady Tigers, who featured their three scoring runners with a perfect 1-2-3 6-point score to outpoint runner-up Miller with 18 points. Indeed Lady Tiger senior Aleah Steger crossed the finish line first in 19:10.66, followed by Tessa Kilber in second at 20:06.36 and Emily DeRaad, third...
Ipswich split a pair of 3-1 non-conference high school volleyball outcomes last week, both on the road. Last Tuesday the IHS Lady Tigers lost to their Groton counterparts in three really close outcomes -- 25-23, 25-20 and the fourth set 26-24, respectively. But Ipswich stayed alive with a 25-22 win in the third set. The Lady Tigers then got back into the win column two nights later in Waubay. And Ipswich coach Trent Osborne wasn’t really all that disappointed with the loss to Class A Groton. “The girls played great,” he said. “Groton is a to...
Ipswich-Edmunds Central got on the scoreboard first, but eventually succumbed to Langford Area 34-14 in a Lake Region Conference "Battle of the Big Cats" high school football game in Langford last Friday. The Tigers’ two touchdowns were respectively produced by that first-quarter scoring drive, capped by Ben Kulesa’s four-yard strike to Daniel Braun and a two-point conversion hook-up by the same duo and then a short fumble-recovery return to paydirt by Jacob Nierman in the third quarter. That latter TD temporarily lifted Ipswich-EC into a 14-...