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I refuse to believe this, but January is almost over. No matter what calendar, they all say the same. Yes, even the Chinese New Year is finally upon us, including their New Years Day that was actually on Sunday the 22nd. Of course we had to eat some...

Ipswich sustained a Lake Region Conference 45-31 girls' high school basketball loss at Faulkton last Thursday, Jan. 19. The hosts would manufacture a 15-4 lead at the first-quarter ending that the Tigers weren't quite able to totally overcome the...

Ipswich dropped a 45-30 girls high school basketball outcome to James Valley Christian in Huron last Saturday. It was part of a twinbill along with the IHS boys vs. their JVC counterparts. The Tiger girls fell behind 17-4 in the opening quarter but...

The Ipswich boys hosted Faulkton on January 20 in Ipswich and earned a 54-30 Lake Region Conference victory. The visitors were able to obtain a 11-10 first-quarter lead, but the Tigers would sprint out to a more comfortable 21-16 haltime lead of...

Ipswich lost a boys high school basketball outing to James Valley Christian in Huron Saturday, Jan. 21. The final score was 57-52 with the host team on top. This was a hard-fought affair with two well-matched teams going at it. Ipswich would lead...

It won't be too long and the Famous Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil will be making his annual appearance. And I'm betting he will be emerging from his underground burrow again this year. And quite possibly it might be still covered with snow in that...

Ipswich hosted Sully Buttes in a boys' high school non-conference confrontation on Tuesday, January 10 and came away with a relatively easy 63-46 victory especially during the second half. It took that long for the visitors to hang around, trailing...

The Ipswich boys basketball team made a pair of road trips into eastern S.D. and returned with two more wins. They indeed defeated Wilmot 56-33 on Friday and topped Webster there 59-50 on Saturday. In that outing the hosts would hang around and make...

Ipswich lost a 46-28 girls basketball outing last Saturday, Jan. 14 in Webster. The hosts would lead 17-6 after a quarter and 25-14 at the half. They led 40-24 with a quarter to play. They were led by Harley Johnson’s 12 points and six more...

We are quickly approaching mid-January, believe it or not! And that means that a federal Monday holiday will be observed on January 16 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day. And there are plenty of sports events remaining in January. And probably even more...

Can you believe it the holiday season is done and we are actually in a new year, so happy new year. I once had a landlady that would always say "I would like to be the first person to wish you a Happy New Year." The only problem with that was that...

Ipswich raced out to a 67-20 boys' varsity win over McIntosh in a battle of the Tigers last Friday during the Sacred Hoops contest at the Srode Center in Aberdeen. It was a huge win for new head coach Stewart Bohle because it was his 200th career...

Potter County remained undefeated at this juncture of the girls high school basketball season with a non-conference 61-43 non-confer- ence win over Ipswich in the Sacred Hoops Classic last Friday at the Strode Center in Aberdeen. But Gabby Wald...

You all know what time it is. Yes, you still have time to make your New Year’s resolutions. And the #1 resolution, hopefully, will not be a New Year Revolution or worse yet a civil war that would threaten our nation’s experiment in democracy. We...

This column is very often about the weather or sports and this one for obviously reasons will be about both, the weather and the sports (and other extra-curricular events) that had to be postponed (or possibly even cancelled) due to last week’s...

Santa came early this year and it's a good thing he did for obvious reasons. What was his gift, you ask? It was for the North Central Thunder basketball program in the form of a girls/boys varsity sweep of McIntosh on the road over the weekend....

The weather was mild last Sunday for this time of the year, allowing a huge turnout at an Aberdeen Holiday Concert at the Johnson Fine Arts Center. The Medora N.D. summer musical cast were the performers. And they had been in Ipswich with their...

Ipswich opened its 2022-23 girls' high school basketball campaign on Tuesday, Dec. 6 on the road vs. Sully Buttes. Details of that non-conference game weren't available as of our newspaper deadline. The Tiger girls would only win six varsity games...