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The oft-used sports phrase "a game of inches" certainly came into play in the SNR Black Sox Babe Ruthers' final at-bat on the second day of the Class B Tournament at the Rough Rider Center in Watford City. Down 3-2 in the top of the seventh to the LaMoure A's with two outs and Connor Knatterud at first base, Johnny Grann hit a sinking line drive to deep left center. A few inches in front or to the left, and it would have resulted in a tie game, and maybe even a lead if the ball got past to the...
Either way, someone's "Sox" were about to get knocked off. Five early runs may have lulled the SNR Babe Ruth Black Sox into a false sense of complacency against the Surrey Blue Sox, but they made the plays late when it was most paramount. In their first game in the loser's bracket after a tough one-run loss to LaMoure the day before, the 'Sox took the field for the Sunday morning opener opposite the runners-up from District 1. Early misplays led to a opening run for Surrey, but the SNR batters...
It didn't take long for the Raymond B. Thorn Post 30 Black Sox to get their feet underneath them for the start of the postseason battles. The 'Sox, the number two overall seed at the District 4 Tournament at City Park in Carrington, wore a path around the bases with nine steals, scored 10 first inning runs, and had no issues getting past seventh seed Wishek/Linton Post 87, 14-0. The first round game was played Wednesday afternoon, July 24. Leadoff hitter and center fielder Bo Belquist set the...
Alex Harrison throws a one-hit shutout against Rugby to give Babe Ruth team a berth in the state tournament. Full coverage of the District 2 Tournament can be found here: First and second round: https://www.newrockfordtranscript.com/story/2019/07/22/sports/top-seeded-snr-ruthers-begin-with-two-tourney-wins/3188.html Championship game: https://www.newrockfordtranscript.com/story/2019/07/22/sports/sox-headed-to-watford-for-state-babe-ruth/3187.html...
There were no pre-tournament jitters to be found when the SNR Babe Ruth team stepped onto their home turf for the first two rounds of the District 2 Tournament. The top-seeded Black Sox junior nine immediately displayed the form that vaulted them to 12 wins in 14 league contests as well as a 14-3 overall record, and took easy victories of 19-2 over Harvey and 14-4 against Bottineau at Jim Johnson Park to advance to the winner's bracket semifinals Tuesday afternoon at Harvey's L.C. Loerch Field....
SNR Babe Ruth Baseball Thursday, July 11 District 2 League Game SNR 12, Towner 0 at Towner SNR 300 36 - 12 13 0 Town. 000 00 - 0 4 2 Alex Harrison and Koby Duda; Cy Luna and Jake Cargo. W - Harrison. L - Luna. SNR: Harrison CG, 4 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 8 K; 2-4, double, run, 4 RBI; Kaden Jensen 3-4, 2 SB, 3 runs, 2 RBI; Caden Price 2-3, double, run, RBI; Johnny Grann and Duda 2-3, RBI; Hayden Meier 1-2, 2 runs; Hunter Jacobson 1-4, run; Connor Knatterud run. Towner: Luna 2-3; Alexis Duran and Brady...
Three graduated seniors from the NR-S Rocket football program put on the pads one last time for the annual North Dakota Shrine Bowl, which was held Saturday, July 13, at Cushman Field in Grand Forks. Rocket representatives at the game were quarterback Teddy Allmaras, and defensive ends Joey Gray and Tucker Longnecker. The three were part of the Nine-Man East squad coached by Thompson's Brady Schwab. All three played roles in the East Team's 28-18 win over their Western counterparts, completing...
In the end, the aggregate talent level on the SNR Black Sox Babe Ruth team outmatched the rest of District 2 and made the ultimate tournament result feel like more of a coronation than anything. But try telling that to a group of kids making the program's first earned state tournament berth in 17 years, and the first utilizing exclusively home-grown players. The Black Sox rode the fastball of Alex Harrison to 11 Rugby strikeouts and just one hit allowed over seven innings, and had two big...
The Raymond B. Thorn Post 30 Black Sox of New Rockford took care of some late-season business with District 4 American Legion league victories July 15 and 17. Last Monday, it took well into the late hours, but Post 30 took a 12-6 win in Steele over Kidder County Post 231 in nine innings, and followed that up two days later with a doubleheader sweep on the road over Victor B. Wallin Post 12 of Washburn by scores of 7-2 and 6-5. Boxscores from the three games were unavailable at press time. The...
New Rockford-Sheyenne's Bo Belquist, who will be entering his senior season for the Rockets this fall, has elected to sign a letter of intent to play for the University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team. Belquist, a 6'1", 165-pound wide receiver/cornerback/punt returner, made the announcement via his personal Twitter feed, @BelquistBo, on Wednesday, July 10. He will suit up for the Hawks and Head Coach Kyle "Bubba" Schweigert beginning in 2020, when the team begins their first season...
A game that wasn't on the original published schedule for Raymond B. Thorn Post 30 transpired for the Black Sox with another impressive outing on the hill, this one coming from Teddy Allmaras. Southeastern diamond power Kindred Post 117 came to Jim Johnson Park, and left town with only three hits to their credit off Allmaras in a 4-0 loss to the Sox on Wednesday, July 3. The senior ace limited the Vikings to two singles and a double by fellow Class B All-Stater Trenton Duchscherer. Sawyer...
Big hits ruled the day in the latest chapter of the New Rockford- Carrington diamond rivalry, but, as it seems to go lately in the series, it was Post 25 who got the last salvo. As he did in the Region 3 championship during the spring season in extra innings, Payton Smith hit the go-ahead double for Carrington in an eventual 8-6 defeat for the Black Sox at Jim Johnson Park which effectively gave visitors a straight path to the top overall seed in the upcoming District 4 Tourney. In spite of a...
The Post 30 Black Sox of New Rockford put some distance between themselves and some of their other pursuers in the District 4 seeding race with three wins this past week. On Friday, June 28, Teddy Allmaras made the most lasting impact with New Rockford’s only two hits, and shut out Harvey Post 28 to three hits in a 2-0 win for the Legionnaires of Raymond B. Thorn. Allmaras did not walk a batter, and struck out seven. Gage Balfour pitched admirably for Harvey, still winless in District 4, n...
Thursday, June 27 District 2 League Game SNR 20, Rolette-Rolla 6 at Rolla SNR 103 005 (11) — 20 15 1 R/R 000 060 0 — 6 3 6 Nick Berglund, Alex Harrison (5) and Koby Duda; Isaac Herbal, Justin Hudson (6), Cade McCloud (7) and Blake Mattson. W — Harrison. L — Hudson. SNR: Kaden Jensen 5-5, triple, 3 SB, 5 runs, 5 RBI; Duda 3-6, 2 runs, RBI; Berg-lund and Harrison 2-6, 4 RBI; Trevor Waldo 1-3, 3 runs, RBI; Connor Knatterud and Johnny Grann 1-4; Hunter Jacobson and Caden Price one run each. Rolette/...
Inning by inning, baseball fans taking in action at Jim Johnson Park in New Rockford will be able to see for themselves the results of the ebbs and flows of Babe Ruth, high school and American Legion baseball games. The Raymond B. Thorn Post 30 Black Sox debuted a shiny new Daktronics scoreboard Monday, June 24, just beyond the left-center field fence. To get it running, Post 30 Coach Elliott Belquist said that the board was mounted into place Sunday evening, and since electrical service has...
In a pair of home games last week, New Rockford Raymond B. Thorn Post 30 found themselves on both ends of the win-loss spectrum. Cando Post 79 broke open a pitcher's duel in the fifth, and scored seven late runs to surge past the Black Sox by a 7-2 final score Monday night, June 24. Following failure to score in the first few innings with several runners on, the Bearcats used some small ball and slipshod Post 30 defense to take a 3-0 lead in the top of the inning and chase starter Bo Belquist....
Monday, June 24 District 2 League Game SNR 9, Cando 1 at New Rockford Cando 000 100 0 — 1 3 1 SNR 350 001 x — 9 13 1 Koby Duda and Alex Harrison; Karson Simon, Jack Ahlberg (2) and Garrett Westlind, W. Duda, L. Simon. SNR: Duda 3-5, double, run; CG, 3 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 3 K; Harrison 2-3, 2 runs; Trevor Waldo 2-3, run; Caden Price 2-4, 2 runs, 2 RBI; Nick Berglund and Johnny Grann hit, run, RBI; Kaden Jensen and Connor Knatterud one hit each. Cando: Ahlberg 1-2, run; Westlind 1-3, RBI; Simon 1-3...
Meeting for the first time as District 4 competitors after sharing space in the old Central Region for their first few years of Class B American Legion baseball, the New Rockford Post 30 Black Sox and Carrington Post 25 renewed hostilities at the latter's City Park Tuesday night, June 18. Carrington had all of the early momentum with an 8-0 lead after two innings, but Post 30 made a game of it with a four-run fourth. That would be all the 'Sox could muster, as the 25's remained unbeaten in...
SNR Babe Ruth Baseball Thursday, June 6 SNR 17, Cando 6 at Cando SNR 343 70 — 17 12 3 Cando 020 31 — 6 3 7 Alex Harrison, Kaden Jensen (4) and Jensen, Koby Duda (4); full Cando battery unknown. W — Harrison. L — Zach Jorde. SNR: Caden Price 3-3, triple, double, 3 runs, RBI; Nick Berglund 3-3, triple, double, run, RBI; Jensen 2-4, triple, 2 runs; Harrison 1-2, 3 SB, 4 runs, RBI; Duda 1-2, 2 SB, 2 runs, RBI; Hunter Jacobson and Caden Hilbert hit, SB each. Monday, June 10 SNR 16, Rolette...
By Erik Gjovik Fresh off a near-miss of a trip to the Class B state tournament during the high school season, many of the same boys of SNR put on the spikes for Raymond B. Thorn American Legion Post 30 to stare down the dog days of North Dakota summer. The overriding goal for the summer Black Sox will be to write a story with a happier ending, and they started the first chapter with a pair of victories in a new conference. Tucker Longnecker’s no-hitter in the first game of the season on W...
They gained most of their notoriety on the football field, and led the NR-S Rockets to a state basketball appearance this winter. This spring, Teddy Allmaras and Bo Belquist proved that their game-changing abilities extended to the baseball diamond as well. Allmaras, a senior for the SNR Black Sox, was named to the Class B First Team All-State squad, and Belquist, a junior, was honored with a Second Team award as part of statewide selections announced on June 2. In his previous athletic...
As much as it’s tempting to drive the narrative that Bo Belquist would break his own uncle’s school record in the triple jump, it turns out that assertion was pure fantasy. In articles published in the “Transcript” over a period of several weeks, Alex Belquist’s 2004 mark of 43’7”, which has since been surpassed by his nephew during both the regular track season and on Bo’s state title-clinching 45’ 6 1/2” leap in late May, has now been revealed to be incorrectly reported as NR-S’ top historica...
Just like his uncle, Alex, did 15 years to the day, NR-S junior Bo Belquist surpassed what even he may have thought possible. Over two days of the State Track and Field Meet at the MDU Resources Community Bowl Friday and Saturday, May 24-25, Belquist, in addition to the two short sprints, aimed for glory in his best events, the long and triple jump. He did more than that, capturing the state long jump crown on Friday with a 21' 8 3/4" effort, then obliterating his own school record in the...
The final weeks of the high school boys' golf season were the time for NR-S' Ben Schaefer to show his progression as a budding competitor on the links. Following a second-place performance in the individual standings at the Region 2 Golf Meet in Carrington, the Rocket junior put together 18-hole rounds of 79 and 84 for a score of 163 and 14th place overall at the State Class B Boys' Golf Meet at Jamestown Country Club last Tuesday and Wednesday, May 28-29. Schaefer finished just 13 strokes...
At the North Central Region track meet in Rugby on Friday, May 17, NR-S put the finishing touches on their list of performers for this past weekend's State Track Meet at the Community Bowl in Bismarck. The Rockets got eight new event qualifications to add to the five accumulated by the Belquist siblings, Bo and Kelsie, in regular season meets. The junior Belquist won the regional titles in the boys' 100 (11.40 seconds) and 200-meter dashes (23.21) for automatic qualification by placement as...
