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NR-S guard Dani Bjerke splashed in five three-pointers and finished with 27 points to help the Rockets defeat the Griggs/Midkota Titans, 58-37, in non region play at the NRS Gym on December 28.- Four of those treys came in the first half for Bjerke, and Cassie Longnecker added another three-ball in the second quarter, enabling the Rockets to take a 35-19 lead at the half. Also in double figures for New Rockford-Sheyenne was Chloe Heinz, who ended her night with 10 points. Also adding eight and...
New Rockford-Sheyenne was wholly unprepared for the surprise the Shiloh Christian Skyhawks had in store for them. The Region 5 private school powerhouse had their way with the visitors, rolling to a big 79-33 win in east Bismarck Monday night, January 4. Taking a 12-4 lead after one, the ‘Hawks expanded that to 37-12 at the half, and steadily built their margin thereafter. Shiloh hit eight threes in the game, with three each from Luke Wanzek, who led all scorers with 17 points, and Khael D...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets improved to 4-1 on the still-young season with a 61-51 win in Kensal Tuesday night, December 22, over the Griggs/Midkota Titans. Johnny Grann got the Rocket train rolling with 11 first quarter points, as his efforts provided an out sized portion of a 17-10 first quarter lead for NR-S. Grann had two threes in that period. The Rockets kept the Titans at bay in the second, with six Evan Ulrich tallies and five from Nick Berglund. That made the score 30-22 at the ha...
Mya Cudworth finished with nearly half of the Rockets' points in a 35-28 win against Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier Monday night, December 21, in Edgeley. Cudworth, a junior, had 15 points, including a three-pointer, and the Rocket defense held the Rebels to nine points combined in the second and third quarters to get their first victory of the season. NR-S would emerge victorious in spite of a six-point difference at the foul line (2-for-4) compared to E-K-M (8-for-13). The Rebels of Region 3 and...
In just over a quarter century's worth of her life, Carrington's Maartje Murphy has learned, either by immersion or by practice, the nuts and bolts of international business. Just over 2 1/2 years ago, Murphy set out to make her own legacy, creating a successful offshoot company, Duchessa Gelato, from her parents' dairy farm. Her travels to establish that business took her to gelato's birthplace, Italy, and to a specialized course in Chicago taught by Carpigiani Gelato University of Bologna....
Once the disappointment of a marathon first round game that didn't go their way subsided, the NR-S Rocket boys' basketball team regrouped for a respectable fifth-place finish in the Central North Dakota Conference (CNDC) Tournament, held December 17-19.The Rockets fell in three overtime periods to the Rolla Bulldogs, 88-87, at the NR-S Gym Thursday night, December 17, but came back the next two nights to defeat Harvey-Wells County, 65-36, and St. John by a final tally of 57-48. Two out of three...
University of Jamestown recruit and NR-S center Evan Ulrich has a little bit more incentive this year to prove himself worthy of the Jimmies' attention lavished upon him. The 6'7" post player made the start of his 2020-21 boys' basketball season count, pouring in 19 points and 10 rebounds to go along with four assists and two blocks to help the Rockets to an easy 52-23 win over Carrington in the season opener for both teams Monday evening, December 14 in New Rockford. The Rockets were never...
A low-scoring first half for Carrington and NR-S turned one team's way in the third quarter, and that eight minutes was the deciding factor in opening night play for girls' basketball Tuesday evening, December 15. The Cardinals held the Rockets to three points in that stanza, and scored 16 points to build an insurmountable lead and eventually defeat NR-S, 53-36, after the offensive floodgates opened up in the last period. Each team struggled to get any offensive flow in the first quarter, and...
NR-S senior Kayahna Hopfauf will be suiting up for the Lake Region State College Lady Royals' volleyball team in 2021. The 5'10" middle hitter, who accumulated 455 kills, 96 blocks, 27 aces and 74 digs during her career with the Rockets, will join Coach Steve Waddell's program next fall. Kayahna, the daughter of Brian and Angie Hopfauf of New Rockford, had this to say about her decision, in a press release distributed by LRSC: "I love the game of volleyball, and did not want to say goodbye to...
Evan Ulrich, son of Chad and Kali Clelland of New Rockford, has signed a letter of intent to play men's basketball at the University of Jamestown beginning in 2021. The 6'6" center, who will begin his senior season at NR-S this month, averaged 13.2 points last season for the Rockets, along with 9.4 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game in his first year as a full-time starter. He has also shown some pop from beyond the arc, as one of the Rockets' top three-point shooters with 45 treys. Last year,...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets did some tweaking to their boys' and girls' basketball schedules, as the COVID-19 pandemic complicates matters in an ever-fluid situation. Originally, the start of the winter sports season in North Dakota was postponed until December 14 by an executive order from Governor Doug Burgum on Friday, November 13, but that decision was later changed to allow sports practices to begin on November 30 and games to start on December 14. As their season begins first, the...
New Rockford-Sheyenne senior offensive/defensive lineman Hunter Johnson was selected to the Nine-Man All-State Football Second Team, members of which are chosen by the North Dakota High School Coaches' Association (NDHSCA). The 6'2", 240-pound Johnson, son of August and Georgia Johnson and Rhonda Miller, highlighted play for the Rockets in a season ultimately cut short to just five games by the COVID-19 pandemic. Johnson was named to the All-Region 2 First Team the previous week, along with...
Third-seeded New Rockford-Sheyenne, following their victory over HWC in the first round of the Region 4 Tournament on Tuesday, November 10, faced the same team that dealt them a three-set loss in the last regular season match nine days earlier. In the same gym where they took a 19-25, 20-25 and 15-25 defeat at North Star's hands, the Rockets and #2-seed Bearcats met on November 12 in Cando with the stakes much higher this time around, a spot in the championship match up for grabs. Things didn't...
New Rockford-Sheyenne's regular season came to an end Tuesday evening, November 3, and their four-match winning streak went by the wayside to North Star, 19-25, 20-25 and 15-25. In the loss, both Chloe Heinz and Kayahna Hopfauf led the Rockets with nine kills each. Dani Bjerke led both in assists, with 19, and hit the Bearcats' back court for three aces. Hopfauf elevated for four stuff blocks, and Cassie Longnecker finished with 17 digs. The Rockets (11-5) earned the number three seed in the...
The Midkota Elementary Gym in Binford was the site of one of the most tightly-contested matches the area has witnessed this fall last Monday night, October 26. Griggs/Midkota held on to a 2-0 lead after the first two sets, but the NR-S Rockets got the last word in with three-set triumphs to take a big 3-2 non-region victory by scores of 22-25, 23-25, 25-21, 25-23 and 15-9. The Rockets' Kayahna Hopfauf finished with 17 kills and Chloe Heinz hit for 11 more to offset a 27-kill evening by Griggs/Mi...
Chloe Heinz was the top individual finisher for the NR-S Rockets' cross country team at the State Class B meet in Cooperstown Saturday afternoon, October 24. The senior took 43rd place overall with a time of 21 minutes, 44.4 seconds at the event, which was moved to Cooperstown Golf Club from the planned venue of Parkhurst Recreation Area north of Jamestown and split from the Class A competition due to COVID-19-related precautions. The Class A meet remained in Jamestown. Katie Allmaras placed...
Necessity is the mother of invention, as the saying goes. Because of their date with the HWC Hornets being postponed on two occasions, the NR-S Rockets were forced to come up with a different solution to ensure that all their Super Region 4 matches would be played. So, the Rockets elected to play a rare two-team varsity-only doubleheader last Tuesday night in the NR-S Gym, facing the Hornets the same night as their scheduled match with Langdon/Edmore/Munich. NR-S had a competitive first set...
Thirty-eight service aces in two matches makes for quick bus rides, or at least as quick as they can be when hitting the pavement to the northwesternmost reaches of Super Region 4. That was one of the big signs of success for the New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets, who took a pair of quick victories against Rolette-Wolford (25-11, 25-3, 25-6) and St. John (25-17, 25-7, 25-13) on October 15 and 19 to keep their points string untouched at 6-0 (3-0 in Region matches) and improve to 6-4 for the season. S...
New Rockford-Sheyenne's Chloe Heinz, by virtue of her 17th place finish at the Class B East Region Cross Country Meet in Cooperstown, has earned All-Region status. Heinz, a senior and the daughter of Jon and Cherry Heinz of New Rockford, crossed the finish line at Cooperstown Golf Club in a time of 20 minutes, 57.3 seconds. Two other runners competed for the Rockets in the girls' race, those being Ava Peterson, who took 84th overall (24:03.1), and Katie Allmaras (24:11.0), just two places behind...
New Rockford-Sheyenne returned to the volleyball court for the first time since Sept. 21 after observing a 14-day COVID-19 quarantine, and shook off the rust with a 3-0 Super Region 4 sweep over Dunseith Thursday, Oct. 8. Mya Cudworth and Kayahna Hopfauf each pounded down 10 kills in the match, which NR-S took by 25-18, 25-15 and 25-19 scores. Chloe Heinz had seven kills. The top player in both the dig and ace statistics was Cassie Longnecker, with 20 and six, and Madisen Myhre went to the net...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets have announced the dates for three volleyball matches that were rescheduled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at the school, and the team's resulting two-week quarantine. The Rockets' Super Region 4 match against HWC, which was slated for Thursday, September 24, has been moved to Saturday, Oct. 17. Another regional match against Benson County (September 29) will now be played on Friday, October 30, and one with St. John (October 1) was rescheduled to Monday, October...
On paper, it was a four-set defeat to their geographic rivals 16 miles to the south. But New Rockford-Sheyenne showed at times that they can be every bit the team that historically-tough Carrington has shown over the past decade, if they can put all phases of their game together. NR-S fought to extend the match after falling to a two-set deficit by besting the Cardinals, 25-18, in set three, but couldn't maintain that momentum and ultimately fell, 19-25, 21-25 and 16-25 in the other three sets....
Rarely has it been the case, at least in recent New Rockford-Sheyenne football lore, when a game has turned against them to the extent that the Rockets aren’t even competitive at the final horn. The North Border Eagles accumulated 368 total yards, 304 of those on the ground, and shut out NR-S from the first quarter on en route to a runaway 50-8 win over the visitors in Pembina Friday night, September 18. Already trailing by a 14-0 score in the first quarter, the Rockets got their lone points on...
New Rockford-Sheyenne took a 3-0 win over Medina/Pingree-Buchanan Monday, September 21, but were unable to play their Tuesday match with Drake-Anamoose due to positive COVID-19 tests within the school. The team, coaches and all involved with the program have been placed in quarantine until October 7. Matches affected by the shutdown also include HWC (September 24), Benson County (Sept. 29), St. John (October 1) and TGU (October 3). Schedule revisions will be printed in the Transcript when they...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne Rocket volleyball team had one victory and one defeat in last week's action, and each match lasted four sets. Barnes County North bested NR-S by 25-14, 16-25, 23-25 and 23-25 scores on Thursday, September 10, and the Rockets bounced back two days later with a 25-18, 25-23, 22-25 and 25-21 Saturday triumph against the Kidder County Wolves. Both matches were non-Region 4 affairs, and were played at the NR-S Gym. The Rockets leaned heavily on the attack from senior hitter...
