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"Their future's so bright, they gotta wear shades," to quote a 1980s classic. A very talented group of Carrington wrestlers, many of whom made their mark in the Pitcrew youth program the last few years, showed their potential with a big-time effort at the 2024 North Dakota Middle School State Wrestling Tournament in Minot Saturday, Dec. 21. Of 11 registered competitors, nine advanced to the finals in their weight divisions, and seven took home championships. That all added up to 181 team...
Two McHenry-raised siblings are making their way into the business world together, with the goal of proving wrong the misconception that small rural communities aren't worth the investment. Kallie (Frappier) Musland and her younger sister, McKenna Frappier, have gone into partnership with McHenry Mercantile, a new business located at 473 Johnston St. in McHenry. Their love of their hometown and other small towns North Dakotans call home, along with a passion for small business, drives Musland an...
It was a tough night for the NR-S Rockets in the first game of the 2024-25 girls basketball season Monday night, Dec. 2, in Carrington. In a cross-classification battle between the Division A Cardinals and the Rockets in Division B, NR-S, with just 10 dressed players throughout the program this season, learned the meaning of pressure. The Cards' relentless man-to-man defense forced 23 total Rocket turnovers, and senior forward Edyn Hoornaert posted double figures in both points (19) and...
Violet Bohl's 1,000th career assist was the individual highlight for the Medina/Pingree-Buchanan Thunder in a three-set sweep over New Rockford-Sheyenne, 25-15, 25-13 and 25-23, Tuesday night, September 10, in the Pingree-Buchanan High School Gym. The Rockets were playing just their second match of the season, and fell to 0-2 with the loss. Both defeats came to Region 3 teams, as they fell to Oakes in their September 5 season opener. Ava Peterson led NR-S with 12 kills, and also was the top...
After taking down Langdon in a thrilling come-from-behind victory, the New Rockford Post 30 Black Sox ran into a few more roadblocks on Tuesday, July 9. Up first was Carrington Post 25, and their pitcher Kael Kovar carried a shutout into the seventh inning, while their offense rode home runs from Grady Shipman and Josh Bickett to take a crucial District 4 win over New Rockford Post 30 at Carrington's City Park Tuesday, July 9. The Redbirds got single tallies in the first, third and fifth...
BY ERIK GJOVIK For some great old-fashioned fun, games and memories, "blaze" a trail over to McHenry for three days of events celebrating a century-and-a-quarter of existence at the 125th Celebration June 28-30. From its start in 1899, the northeastern Foster County town proved its value as the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad's branch starting at Sanborn, and was named in honor of the railway's chief civil engineer, E.H. McHenry. At one time, McHenry the town had seven grain elevators,...
The elements were the X-factor when the best golfers and teams in Class B converged at CrossRoads Golf Club in Carrington for two days of abbreviated action Wednesday and Thursday, June 5-6. A three-plus-inch downpour several hours before play was supposed to begin on Tuesday, June 4, postponed the entire first day of golf to Wednesday. The original plan was to play an 18-hole one day event that day, but flooding on the southern portion of the course shortened the round to just nine holes. With...
Picture this: You're sitting in a boat or swimming on the shores of Juanita Lake, enjoying the pleasant breezes and waves while catching some sun or a few keepers. Then, a sudden pang of hunger or thirst hits you. Or the bugs start biting. Or you just remembered you want to get the grill going. If those essentials weren't available, often times that meant a long jaunt back to Carrington, or New Rockford, or wherever the nearest store happened to be. And that means lost recreation time, fun, and...
With a few clutch hits, pitches and grit, the Carrington softball team advanced the furthest in the postseason they ever have in their three years of existence as a program. Starting from their inclusion in the South Sub-Region play-in game, the Cardinals went on to win a trio of games in the Region II Tournament, on the doorstep for State B Tournament qualification. The Cards rolled past #5 seed Larimore 23-3 at City Park to begin the tournament on Thursday, May 16, setting up a Saturday...
Strong efforts in the final regular season softball games for the Carrington Cardinals put them in position for a few program firsts. On Thursday, May 9, the Cards trounced south sub-Region II opponent Larimore, 25-4, to earn a home postseason tournament matchup with those same Polar Bears this past Thursday. In the first inning, 14 CHS batters came across to score, with 20 coming to the plate against the beleaguered Polar Bear pitchers. Kate Allmaras went 3-for-4 in the win, scoring four runs...
Even with a momentary bout of freezing rain that hit the City Park complex on Thursday, April 11, the Carrington softball team managed to get in a game with the Thompson Tommies. The visitors are a returning Class B tournament qualifier from last spring, and served notice that they should be in the conversation once again with a 20-3 win over the Cards. Thompson rapped out 19 hits in the victory. Sydney Schwabe had three hits from the leadoff spot, and Kya Hurst and Cindy Eliason each scored...
The sun came out Tuesday, April 9, and the Carrington and Harvey/Wells County (H/WC) girls' softball teams met at the field at the Fessenden City Park for the teams' first action of the spring. This is the first year that Carrington and New Rockford-Sheyenne are co-oping for softball. The Hornets kept the pressure on all game long against the Cards, making them deal with their aggressive baserunning, pin-point pitching and timely hitting for a 16-5 win. H/WC scored in every inning, plating...
For Trish (Omoth) Kutz of New Rockford, now living in Williston, running for her health, and later for competition, has served as a type of mental therapy. The 2004 NRHS graduate has withstood personal tragedy on her way to becoming a marathoner, and this past September 28 staked her claim to compete in one of the biggest races in the world. Via e-mail message, Kutz learned that she qualified for the Boston Marathon, to be held on Monday, April 15, known as Patriots' Day to the locals on the...
Drones: They aren't just for photography anymore. Or military applications. Or weather. Or even delivery purposes. The next wave of airborne crop spraying technology has now hit central North Dakota, and Mason Wede of rural Carrington has jumped in on the burgeoning niche business. Wede opened Nodak Drones in an announcement on a Facebook post Monday, March 11, which will operate from his farm just outside Melville and 10 miles south of Carrington at 645 Highway 281 S.E. "I first heard of...
Carrington’s boys wrestlers won one of their three Saturday dual matches at the State Class B Dual Wrestling Tournament Saturday, Feb. 17, and took home seventh place. The Cards were defeated by top overall seed Velva in round one, 37-19. In consolation round action, Carrington had their opportunities to win, but dropped a 40-36 heartbreaker to the Killdeer Cowboys. In the seventh place dual, CHS defeated the Honkers from Kenmare/Bowbells, 45-28. The one three-match winner in the dual tourney w...
The Carrington Cardinals performed about as well as they could have done in the State Class B Individual Boys Wrestling Tournament. Behind a state championship performance from 152-pound junior Corbin Clifton, and six total wrestlers earning placement, the Cards scored 85.5 points to earn fifth place behind a very-loaded top four in the team standings. South Border scored 185 points to win their first individual Class B title in a 10-year span, and their fifth in the Ashley/Wishek co-op...
The two gyms at Carrington Public Schools were rocking from all the excitement, as the Cardinals hosted both of the East Region individual wrestling tournaments Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9-10. The one-class girls tournament was up first on the agenda, and the Cards emerged with a sixth-place finish (121 points) and seven state qualifiers. Topping the list was 130-pound champion and sophomore Khendra Garcia, who earned the number two overall seed for the state individuals in Fargo with a 39-5...
The Carrington boys wrestling team, save for their efforts with the championship opponent, had a very strong performance at the Region 2 Dual Tournament in Larimore Saturday, Feb. 3. CHS finished as the runners-up at the tournament to meet winner Northern Lights, competing in Region 2 for the first time following realignment prior to this season. In round one, the Cards took a 42-8 win over the host Polar Bears. Coach Josh Kerbaugh’s team dropped just two matches in the dual, which had four d...
The traditional end to the wrestling individual tournament regular season came and went at the East-West Tournament in New Salem on January 26-27. The event brings the best Class B male wrestlers from the two longitudinal directions under the Holsteins’ “barn,” for one last head-to-head chance before overall seeding is determined. At East-West, the Cards came in ninth with 98 points, and had two runner-up wrestlers in Dru Carr (114) and Corbin Clifton (145). Three other CHS grapplers came in fo...
Carrington High School graduate Payton Smith has a clear vision in front of him, and he knows very well how to pursue it. The son of Kyle and Layne Smith is currently pursuing a double major in Psychology and Exercise Science at NDSU, all the while excelling on the Bison cross country and track teams. Smith was named as the NDSU Male Athlete of the Week for the week of October 16-23, after leading the Bison to a 7th place finish out of 30 teams at the Bradley Pink Classic in Peoria, Ill. As one...
The full Carrington wrestling program was on the mats for the two-day Nick Storhaug Invitational Tournament in Lisbon Friday-Saturday, Jan. 19-20. The Cardinal girls' team crowned two champions on their side of the tournament, Khendra Garcia at 130 pounds and Ashley Lindberg at 250. Meanwhile, the CHS boys had three runner-up finishers, with Skye Kramlich (107), Corbin Clifton (145) and Brody Weisenburger (285) doing the honors. Both the boys and girls took fourth place in their respective...
The Carrington boys wrestling team remained perfect in Region 2 dual meets with wins of 48-21 and 43-30 over the host May-Port-C-G (MPCG) Patriots and Hillsboro/Central Valley (H/CV) Burros at a quadrangular meet Thursday, January 11. Coach Josh Kerbaugh's lineup also faced a rare out-of-state opponent at the quad in the persons of Crookston, Minn., and defeated the Pirates, 48-27. With the three wins, Carrington improved to 10-4 in duals and 7-0 against regional opponents. All rolling through...
The Carrington Cardinals would drop their first Region 2 head-to-head wrestling matchup of the year to Northern Lights (Rolla/Rolette/St. John), 48-25, but came back in the nightcap for a 48-21 victory against Pembina County North. Tuesday night, January 16 action came from St. John High School, where the three teams participated in a regional triangular. Double winners included Dru Carr (121), Corbin Clifton (145), Max Ciubotareanu (172) and Brody Weisenburger (285), of New Rockford-Sheyenne....
On the strength of four placers, the Carrington boys wrestling team scored 103.5 points to take seventh overall at the Lettermen's Tournament in Casselton, held Friday and Saturday, Jan. 5-6. Corbin Clifton wrestled his way to a second place showing at the Lettermen's at 145 pounds, while Dru Carr took third at 121. Both competitors had just one loss on the weekend, with Clifton falling to a Frazee, Minn. wrestler by pin late in the third period. To make the finals, he got a narrow 3-2 decision...
The Carrington Cardinals, slogging through six consecutive defeats to open their season, were aiming to put together their most complete effort over 32 minutes in hopes of getting into the winner's circle. They just needed the motivation, and the rival NR-S Rockets provided the fuel. It would end up being 32 plus four for Carrington to break through their black cloud, and score a 59-57 upset over the Rockets in the series where overall records don't seem to matter. Josh Bickett's 21 points...
