Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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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...
With the time reaching just after 6:30 p.m. in Steele, the valiant three-game run for the SNR Black Sox to try and topple Region 3 power Carrington finally ran out of juice. And, considering where they came from to get there and the multiple opportunities they had to close the Cardinals out, the dejected walk off Pirate Field was even more stinging. The 'Sox and Cards engaged in two wild championship games, but Carrington earned the right to play in the State B Tournament for the fifth straight...
Someone forgot to tell Kelsie Belquist about the line of thinking that seventh graders aren't supposed to do what she's currently doing in varsity track and field. Several weeks of performances at or near the top of the standings in her chosen events make for good copy, but Belquist hadn't quite accomplished the ultimate goal of state meet qualification. Everything came together for the NR-S youngster at the Panther Booster Invitational in Rugby this past Monday, May 13, as Belquist qualified...
Rain kept the SNR Black Sox from completing their three-game obligations, but they still managed to get two quality victories at the Enderlin/Central Cass Jamboree Friday, May 10. In action played at Casselton, SNR earned a 4-3 victory against the Northern Cass Jaguars, behind Nathan Holzwarth’s complete game pitching performance. They then took on the historically-strong Grafton Spoilers, and rode another great outing by Tucker Longnecker to take a 3-1 win. A planned game against the S...
NR-S’s track team went south 16 miles for a small quadrangular meet in Carrington on Thursday, May 9. The Rockets, along with the host Cardinals, Medina/Pingree-Buchanan and Devils Lake were the teams competing. First places came from Hannah Haley in the 100-meter hurdles, Kelsie Belquist in the 400 and Chloe Heinz in the 800-meter runs for the girls’ side. The Rocket boys got wins from Parker Granger (100) and Bo Belquist (400), along with personal bests from Billy Fleming in three events and E...
Carrington scored three runs in the bottom of the first inning of their second Region 3 matchup of the season with the SNR Black Sox. Though the 'Sox scored two runs in the fifth to make things interesting, the visitors were flummoxed by Cardinal pitcher Kyle Leapaldt's fastball to the tune of 14 strikeouts, and went home with a narrow 3-2 defeat Thursday afternoon, May 9, at Carrington's City Park. Leapaldt, a returning All-State player for the Cards, scattered five hits in their victory to...
NR-S Rockets Teddy Allmaras, Joey Gray and Tucker Longnecker were among the top high school senior football players in the state of North Dakota to earn selection to the 2019 Shrine Bowl. The trio will be part of the 9-Man East Team at the event, which will face their western counterparts at 7 p.m. on July 13 at Cushman Field in Grand Forks. The 11-Man game will be held prior to that contest at 4 p.m. Allmaras, a quarterback/defensive back, along with wide receiver/defensive end Longnecker and...
The Sheyenne-New Rockford Black Sox solidified their hold on the number two seed in Region 3 baseball with a trio of victories duirng this past week's play. The first two of that stretch came to the Kidder County Wolves, as the 'Sox rode Teddy Allmaras' arm to a one-hitter and a 5-0 win at Jim Johnson Park on May 2, then endured extra innings to take a 6-3 triumph in Steele four days later. Allmaras struck out eight in the home matchup, and had a pair of runs batted in at the plate. Colt...
As Spike Lee's character in the Nike Air Jordan commercial spots from the late 1980's asserted, "It's gotta be the shoes." Bo Belquist dug into his closet to retrieve the magic spikes his uncle Alex used to set the New Rockford standard in the triple jump back in 2004. He laced the golden kicks up at the CNDC Outdoor Track Meet in Rugby last Tuesday, let himself get airborne with a hop, skip and jump, and listened for the event marshal's distance. Forty-three feet, nine and one-quarter inches....
For the first time in a three-year span, Carrington High School played host to a track meet, welcoming 10 teams to the slightly breezy Kiwanis/Lions Meet Saturday, May 4, under cloudy skies and temperatures in the low 50's. The long layoff between events at the Stadium '76 complex was due to construction of the new elementary school in Carrington, which started classes this past fall just a few hundred meters north of the track. Because of the project, the traditional throwing event staging...
New Rockford-Sheyenne made the trip up Highways 281, 57 and 20 to Devils Lake this past Monday to compete in the Ray McDaniel Invitational track meet, held at the Myron Loberg Track at Joe Roller Field. The Rocket girls scored 62.5 points to finish fourth, led by the efforts of several standout showings. Chloe Heinz emerged as NR-S’ lone event champion at the McDaniel, taking the 1,600-meter run in 5:56.88. While the Rockets did not have any qualifiers at Devils Lake, there was one race that cam...
NR-S' junior high track team, consisting entirely of seventh graders, competed in three meets during their short season. They participated in the Harvey/Wells County Junior High Invitational on Friday, April 26, at the Carrington Junior High Track Meet on Friday, May 3, and the CNDC Outdoor Meet, which was held in Rugby this past Tuesday. Full Rocket results from all three of those meets are listed below. Harvey/Wells County Junior High Invitational Boys' Results - 7th Grade 100-Meter Dash:...
Day one of their home weekend baseball showcase at Jim Johnson Park was a resounding success for the SNR Black Sox, but once Saturday rolled around, good mojo was hard to come by. The 'Sox scored early and late to take a 13-5 victory over the Rugby Panthers on Friday, April 26, but ran into tough opposition in the form of Region 4 state tournament contenders Park River/Fordville-Lankin and Langdon/Edmore/Munich, taking losses of 12-0 and 13-1 the following afternoon. Against the Panthers, SNR ra...
An abbreviated NR-S boys' track team due to the SNR Jamboree, along with a full complement of girls, traveled to the center of the continent to participate in the Mariya Tate Bernhardt Memorial Invitational April 27 at Johnsen Field in Rugby. While the Rockets had no individual event winners or state qualifiers, Coach Cherry Heinz's program turned in some good performances. The girls' team, who came in fifth overall with 64 points, was paced by a runner-up time of 28.55 seconds from Brianna...
One full week after competing in the Lloyd Invitational, the NR-S Rocket track squads found their way back to the Fessenden-Bowdon track complex for the HWC Invitational, held Tuesday afternoon, April 23. Adding another event to his state meet schedule was junior Bo Belquist, as he captured the long jump title with a meet-record 21 feet, eight inch showing. Belquist would also finish in the second spot in all three sprint events, just behind Surrey's Corey Fuchs for the 100 and 200-meter...
When central North Dakota athletic bragging rights are on the line, no lead, regardless of how cushy, can be considered sufficient. Carrington could have easily thought they were in the clear with a 9-2 advantage over the SNR Black Sox with just an inning-and-a-half to play last Monday, April 22, but the boys in black and silver had a few things up their polyester-knit sleeves. The 'Sox went through a pair of Cardinal pitchers in the final frames to score a five-spot in the sixth, but it wasn't...
Though they walked eight Larimore batters and plunked two more, the SNR Black Sox pitchers worked around those difficulties to register an 9-4 nonregion road win over the Larimore Polar Bears on April 18. Colt Soderholm and Johnny Grann drew hill duties for the first game of a varsity/JV doubleheader, and overcame wildness to give up just one Larimore hit in the contest. Grann, along with Luke Ystaas, each went 2-for-3 in the victory to pace the ‘Sox in their nine-hit effort. Teddy Allmaras d...
The first outdoor track meet of the season for the NR-S Rockets opened to balmy temperatures, and the team responded with some impressive showings. At the Clark and Sharon Lloyd Memorial Invitational, held in Fessenden last Tuesday afternoon, April 16, the Rocket boys' team scored 47 points to place fifth and the girls earned a sixth-place tie with 43. Bo Belquist became the Rockets' first automatic state qualifier, winning the triple jump with a 42'4" effort that exceeded the 41'6" provisional...
In action from Saturday afternoon, April 13, the SNR Black Sox earned a 12-5 win over the Max/Garrison/White Shield Cossacks in Garrison. The junior varsity Sox responded in kind in the second game with a 7-1 victory. SNR improved to 2-0 in varsity play, and hold an overall record of 3-1 on the season. Statistics from this game were not available at the time of publication....
NR-S’ Bo Belquist hopes that his first successful outing in his signature event, the triple jump, is a sign of good things to come his way this spring. Belquist soared to a personal-best effort of 42 feet, 11 1/4 inches to win that competition, and also took home first in the 400-meter dash in 55.41 seconds at the Central North Dakota Conference (CNDC) Indoor Track Meet Friday, April 5. The junior would end up scoring 34 of the Rockets’ 35.5 team points, which placed them in sixth overall in...
SNR started their 2019 spring season on the diamond out right with a 4-1 win over the North Star Bearcats Monday afternoon, April 8, at Jim Johnson Park. The Black Sox rode an excellent combined pitching effort from Teddy Allmaras and Bo Belquist, as the duo combined to whiff 10 North Star batters and scatter three singles for a win in the non-Region 3 showdown. Allmaras worked the first four innings for the Sox, and Belquist the remaining three to pick up the save. Coach Elliott Belquist's...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne track team made their way up to Belcourt Tuesday, March 26, for the indoor Turtle Mountain Community High School (TMCHS) Invitational. Both the Rocket boys and girls brought home third-place finishes at the meet. The girls from NR-S scored 63 points and the boys tied with Dakota Prairie for 49. Meet champions were Devils Lake in the boys’ race, while Langdon/Edmore/Munich edged out the Firebirds for the girls’ trophy by five points, 74.5-69.5. Bo Belquist swept the boy...
