The Thunder basketball program had a fruitful excursion to Sunshine Bible last Friday. And that's because the NC girls won 45-29 and the boys came home with a 50-31 victory. How did the girls accomplish all that? Well, it's because for one thing...

The North Central Thunder girls basketball team met up with Great Plains Lutheran on Tuesday, Feb. 13 in Aberdeen and would sustain 56-35 defeat from the powerful Watertown-based team. The GPL contingent had got off to an impressive 10-4...

North Central met Leola/Frederick in a key Lake Region Conference girls varsity basketball match on Thursday, February 15 and the Thunder sustained a 60-30 setback in Leola. But the Thunder only trailed 13-9 after a quarter and were still very much i...

The girls basketball Regional season begins next week. The Region 6B play begins on Monday, Feb. 19. The 8 and 9 seed teams play. Play continues on Feb. 20 with finals on Thursday, Feb. 22. Region 6B teams are Faulkton Area, Herreid/Selby Area,...

The Ipswich Boys Basketball team will play the opening game in the Warner Stratford Lions Club Boys Basketball Classic on Saturday, Feb. 17 in the Warner Arena. Ipswich boys will play Aberdeen Roncalli at 4 p.m. The Classic will continue throughout...

North Central swept a home court girls/boys basketball varsity twinbill vs. McIntosh last Monday in Eureka. The Thunder girls defeated their visitors 50-14 and the boys topped their varsity rivals 75-54. The home girls got off to an impressive start...

Ipswich journeyed to Wilmot last Thursday for a non-conference girls varsity high school basketball clash. But the hosts would end up with a 58-42 victory. That was mostly due to Addison Heinje's school record 50 points that included her 25 appearanc...

The Ipswich girls varsity basketball team obtained back-to-back wins last weekend. They indeed topped Waverly-South Shore 43-29 on Saturday during Warner's Classic after edging Sunshine Bible Academy at home on Friday by a 53 to 44 verdict. They...

The North Central Thunder met the Northwestern Wildcats in Lake Region Conference league play last Friday in Mellette. The Thunder girls got off to a great start with their 51-43 varsity win but the NC boys would then drop a 55-28 varsity outcome. Th...

North Central attended a high school basketball extravaganza in Highmore last Saturday. The NC boys would defeat Lyman 57-50 in that event, while the Thunder girls were sustaining a 43-27 setback to Jones County. The Thunder boys had to overcome a...

The Aberdeen Christian Knights girls and boys made a trip over to Bowdle last Tuesday for a Lake Region Conference high school basketball twinbill. And when it was all said and done the visitors would come up short vs the Thunder girls, but the...

Ipswich/Bowdle competed in Lake Region Conference (LRC) wrestling tournament on Feb. 1 in Faulkton. Results were: Faulkton 61, (FAAR) Ipswich-Bowdle 0 (IPBO) 106: Logan Smith (FAAR) over (IPBO) (For.) 113: Sean Roseland (FAAR) over (IPBO) (For.)...

Ipswich traveled to Miller for a girls/boys twinbill last Thursday and sustained a pair of non-conference varsity defeats. The Tiger girls would drop a 38-29 decision and the boys sustained a 75-59 setback. In that girls game the Tigers would trail...

The North Central boys and girls teams will play in the annual Hyde County Action Club Basketball Classic on Saturday, Feb. 3 in the Hyde County Memorial Auditorium in Highmore. The  North Central boys will play Lyman at 12:30 p.m. followed with t...

Ipswich was defeated by Herreid/Selby Area 49-21 in non-conference high school varsity basketball action on January 26 in Selby. The Tigers would trail 17-9, 23-14 and 36-17 at each respective quarter break. They were led in scoring by Marley Guthmil...

The North Central Thunder varsity girls faced a pair of difficult opponents last weekend. First off they would host Strasburg/Zeeland on Friday in Eureka. dropping a relatively narrow 43-36 decision. Thursday in Hoven they would come up on the short...

North Central would split a pair of recent boys varsity basketball appearances. The Thunder boys were defeated by Potter County 62-35 in Hoven on January 25 and were then able to pick up a victory at home in Eureka on Friday vs. Strasburg/Zeeland by...

The Ipswich/Bowdle wrestling team competed in the Groton Wrestling Tournament on Jan. 27. The I/B team earned 66 points for 12th place. Groton won the event with 190 points. I/B wrestler Justin Rohrbach won the 175 division, wrestling Chays...

Ipswich Area Youth Wrestlers competed at the NSU Tournament on Jan. 21 in Aberdeen. Results included: GIRLS Harper Miller, pre K-2nd 34-39 lbs.- 5th place Lorena Geditz, pre K-2nd 41-47 lbs.- 3rd place Parker Opsahl, pre K-2nd 49-52 lbs.- 4th place...