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NR-S vs. Four Winds-Minnewaukan Part II didn't deviate much from the first game's plot, but the score suddenly got significantly closer this time around. The Indians, ranked fourth in last Monday's Class B poll, won their eighth consecutive District 7 Tournament title at the tournament held at the Devils Lake Sports Center, playing a hard-fought slugfest with the eighth-ranked Rockets and taking a 54-49 victory on Feb. 25. Aiming to atone for an 11-point loss in Fort Totten on Jan. 14, NR-S...
In his first full season as a varsity wrestler for Carrington, 106-pound competitor Matthew Duchscherer turned some heads on both sides of the Eddy/Foster county line with his potential. All those late evenings in the wrestling room honing his craft paid off with a fifth-place finish in his weight class at the State Class B Individual Tournament, held Feb. 14-16 at the Fargodome. Duchscherer, the son of Todd and Renae Duchscherer of New Rockford, concluded his winter season with a record of...
Time to let the cards fall where they may. New Rockford-Sheyenne put themselves in prime position to succeed in the glaring lights of playoff basketball with a 17-2 record, and ended their regular season with two big victories. Facing the Midkota Mustangs, the Rockets rode a quintet of double-digit scorers for an 83-47 win February 14 in Glenfield, and finished off their season with a makeup game this past Tuesday against Rolette-Wolford. NR-S took that one in easy fashion as well, 73-38. Top...
This week, there was no recipe to make up for a sizable first quarter deficit, and the NR-S Rockets' girls' basketball season finished with a one-and-done defeat at the Region 4 Tournament last Monday night. At the penultimate postseason event before this weekend's State B in Grand Forks, the Rockets were blitzed out of the gates by the Dunseith Dragons, and the District 8 runners-up maintained a double-digit lead throughout the night to end NR-S' run, 62-50, in the quarterfinals at the Sports C...
The peaks and valleys of the season for the New Rockford-Sheyenne Rocket girls' basketball team are but a memory, and now it is do-or-die time in the heat of the Class B postseason. NR-S saved some of their best ball for the District 7 Tournament at Four Winds High School, and the result is a berth in the Region 4 at Devils Lake starting today (Feb. 18). The Rockets took a come-from-behind 68-51 win in the first round of play Friday, Feb. 8, against Dakota Prairie. In that game, Coach Mandy...
The boys’ basketball game between NR-S and Rolette-Wolford in Rolette, originally slated for Thursday, Feb. 7, has been postponed until Tuesday, Feb. 19. It will be the final regular season game for both teams. Junior high play begins the proceedings at 4:30 p.m., followed by junior varsity and varsity games....
Eighth-ranked New Rockford-Sheyenne took care of business in the game that counted, but nearly fell victim to what would have been one of the biggest statewide upsets this season on Tuesday night. The Rockets completed their District 7 run with five wins in six games to earn the number two seed in the upcoming tournament at Devils Lake with an 80-56 win over Benson County in Leeds on Saturday, Feb. 9, utilizing five double-figure scoring performances. In New Rockford three nights later, the...
As postseason tuneups go, it was one that neither team would probably want to use as a springboard. New Rockford-Sheyenne played nondistrict opponent Medina/Pingree-Buchanan close for a majority of the first half, but the bottom fell out for the home team in the third quarter and the Thunder sent the Rockets into the tournament season with a 50-33 defeat last Monday night, Feb. 4. M-P-B, currently the third seed in District 6 with an 11-8 record, was cold from the field in the first quarter,...
The line between euphoria and deflation is often a thin one, and those conflicting emotions often play out in the high school sporting scene. New Rockford-Sheyenne played one of their better efforts in weeks in their 67-30 nonconference home win over Midkota on Friday, February 1, but it took heartbreak the night before to get the Rockets some extra motivation. The catalyst ended up being a two-point defeat to the Lady Bison of Barnes County North, 45-43, a game in which NR-S carried a...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne boys’ basketball team’s winning streak reached seven games, and the Rockets have won 10 of their last 11 with their most two recent victories over St. John and Hatton-Northwood. NR-S scored an 81-35 triumph on Feb. 2 over the Woodchucks, and followed that up three calendar days later with a 78-69 win against the Thunder. Both games were played in the NR-S Gym. At this time last season, the Woodchucks were hitting fifth gear, and their uptempo brand of basketball, hel...
Talk about spreading the wealth around. Twelve different New Rockford-Sheyenne players got at least two points in the scorebook, and a whopping seven of those boys hit double digits in a big 98-69 win over the Lakota Raiders in New Rockford on Friday, Jan. 25. With the win, the Rockets’ record bumped up to 11-2 for the season and 4-1 in District 7 contests. Lakota saw their overall mark fall to 1-10 and 0-3. The running-and-gunning Rockets exploded for 55 points in just the first half. Senior g...
It only seems like Warwick’s Madison Leaf has been playing high school basketball forever. The all-everything 5’5” senior guard for the Lady Warriors, author of over 2,000 points in her distinguished girls’ hoop tenure, was nearly unstoppable in a second-half surge for her squad with 33 points, including 10-of-11 from the foul line, to help Warwick earn a pivotal 56-46 win over the NR-S Rockets on Thursday, January 24. The District 7 clash, played at Warwick, featured several first-half lead ch...
Both New Rockford-Sheyenne Rocket teams were in action for a trip up north to Langdon Area High School Saturday afternoon, Jan. 26. The fifth-ranked Langdon/Edmore/Munich Cardinal girls had little problem earning a 60-30 win against the Rockets, while NR-S, just outside the top 10 of the boys’ poll this past week, used a third quarter push to get past L/E/M, 68-51. The first game featured 12 points from Rocket sophomore Cassie Longnecker, the only local to net double figures. Callie R...
His heart bleeds New Rockford-Sheyenne's Columbia blue and gold, but Matthew Duchscherer has made his mark on the high school grappling circuit wearing the Rockets' rivals' colors. Competing in the singlet of the Carrington wrestling program, Duchscherer, a freshman at NR-S, has so far put together an impressive first varsity season. The 106-pounder has accumulated a record of 33-8 after this last tournament, the Nick Storhaug Tournament in Lisbon Jan. 18-19, in which he placed fourth. 19 of his...
The ball didn’t quite bounce in the New Rockford-Sheyenne girls’ favor during this past week’s worth of basketball action in the District 7 slate. First, the Rockets let a potential victory against the Benson County Wildcats slip away when they were outscored 27-16 in the second half and the visitors stole a 43-39 win on Jan. 18. It didn’t get any easier for NR-S when the district frontrunners, the Four Winds-Minnewaukan Lady Indians, brought their brand of roundball wizardry to the Rockets...
w Rockford-Sheyenne took firm control and cruised to an 85-50 win in Harvey over the HWC Hornets Tuesday night, January 22. The Rockets went on a 20-0 run to begin the District 7 contest, with Teddy Allmaras scoring 10 of those points, and NR-S’ run-and-gun offense kept on tickling the twine for the rest of the night to easily put away a young Hornets team with just one senior on their roster. For the second straight outing, Hunter Thompson was the leading scorer for the Rockets with 22 p...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets returned back to their winning ways with a 17-point win in Cando over the North Star Bearcats on Thursday, Jan. 17. After a 67-56 loss to Four Winds-Minnewaukan three nights earlier, the Rockets dropped out of the Class B poll, and sat at 8-2 overall. NR-S put four players into the scoring column with double digits to their names against the Bearcats, with much of the offense coming from junior forward Hunter Thompson’s 18 points. A trio of Rockets, Teddy A...
Open house set for Tuesday during home girls basketball game A few cosmetic touches are still to be applied, but the brand-new addition to Midkota High School in Glenfield has, at long last, opened its doors. Upon the arrival of students back from the holiday break on Wednesday, Jan. 2, the recently-completed 10,500-square-foot eastern wing at MHS was officially inaugurated. It sits adjacent to the current 1964 building. Midkota plans to hold an Open House to show off the new renovations to the...
A nightmare start for the Rockets on Thursday, Jan. 10 led to 22 straight Hornet points, a run which extended beyond the first quarter when HWC laid a goose egg on the NR-S offense, 19-0. The Hornets never looked back, defeating the locals 65-20. The Rockets' Cassie Longnecker would end up as the team's leading scorer with eight points, and she would account for six of NR-S' seven second quarter tallies to pull within 39-7 at the half buzzer. Kindra Jacobson, with three points, was the only...
Fresh off a humbling defeat two games before, the NR-S girls' basketballers got back into District 7 play, hopeful of maintaining pace towards the top tier in the conference. At Lakota this past Tuesday evening, Jan. 15, the Rockets regained some of that lost mojo with a 66-37 win over the Raiders to boost their district mark to 2-1 and improve to 6-5 on the year. Senior Alli Dockter had a big fourth quarter with 11 points, and ended the night as the Rockets' scoring leader with 18. Dockter's fo...
Fast-break offense was the theme for the NR-S Rockets in an 89-66 District 7 win in New Rockford over the Dakota Prairie Knights Friday night, January 11, and two players in particular darkened the scorebook with regularity. Bo Belquist and Teddy Allmaras had nearly-matching stat lines of 30 and 29 points for the Rockets, and NR-S also got a decent evening from Hunter Thompson with 13 points. With 35 field goals in the contest, the booster boys suffered no letdown from their previous 96-point...
Center Bronson Walter’s 24 points sparked the fourth-ranked Indians to a 67-56 win over the ninth-ranked Rockets this past Monday evening in Fort Totten, and gave them an early lead in the District 7 regular season race. The Rockets (7-2, 2-1 in district play) couldn’t withstand FW-M’s trademark pressure in the first half, as the Indians, still smarting from a last-second 58-57 loss at Hillsboro-Central Valley on Jan. 11, put together a 40-21 advantage at the half. In the final 16 minut...
A full day's worth of roundball action at the Devils Lake Sports Center and Sweetwater Elementary on Saturday, Jan. 12, was the drawing point for the annual Class B Day jamboree. Both NR-S Rocket programs were in action at the two venues, and each team came away with a victory over Region 2 opposition for their efforts. The Rocket boys' team continued rolling with a 77-47 rout of Park River/Fordville-Lankin, while the girls used a second-half surge to get past Cavalier, 52-43. NR-S, ranked 10th...
When everything comes together offensively, playing basketball can be a fun endeavor indeed, not to mention a treat for the fans. The newly-minted 10th-ranked team in Class B, New Rockford-Sheyenne, blitzed the Warwick Warriors out of the gates for 31 first quarter points, and kept up the tempo for a full 32 minutes to take a 96-58 rout Tuesday night, Jan. 8 in New Rockford. The District 7 opener for both teams featured a shooting exhibition from the Rockets, in which they connected on 12...
Others may get more of the publicity at times, but NR-S sophomore Dani Bjerke hasn’t necessarily shied away from the spotlight in the past when called upon for an offensive spark. Her game-winner in the 2018 District 7 Tournament first round this past Feb. over Lakota comes to mind, where the then-freshman buried a three-pointer to give the Rockets a 40-39 stunner against Lakota. Bjerke put together her biggest boxscore as a varsity player Friday night, Jan. 4, scoring 27 points to lead the R...
