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SPORTS RecapCass County Reporter
Sports coverage for Central Cass, Finley-Sharon/Hope-Page, Kindred, Northern Cass, and Maple Valley
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January 12, 2011Section B
SportsScheduleBoys’ Basketball
Thursday, Jan. 13-Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page at Kindred, 6:00 p.m.; Enderlin at Central Cass, 6:15 p.m.; Maple Valley at Oak Grove, 6:00 p.m.; Northern Cass at Richland, 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 15-Central Cass vs. Oak Grove (FargoDome), 3:30 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 17-North Sar-gent at Kindred, 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 18-Central Cass at North Sargent, 6:00 p.m.; Lidgerwood-Wyndmere at Maple Valley, 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 20-Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page at Northern Cass, 6:00 p.m.; Central Cass at Kindred, 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 22-Kindred vs. WAO (Fargo Civic Shootout), 3:15 p.m.; Maple Valley vs. Han-kinson (Fargo Civic Shootout), 5:00 p.m.; Central Cass vs. Haw-ley (Fargo Civic Shootout), 6:30 p.m.; Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page (Fargo Civic Shootout), TBA
Girl’s BasketballFriday, Jan. 14-Kindred
at Oak Grove, 6:15 p.m.; Cen-tral Cass at Richland, 6:00 p.m.; Maple Valley, Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page and Northern Cass at Barnes County Tournament (TBA)
Saturday, Jan. 15-Maple Valley, Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page and Northern Cass at Barnes County Tournament (TBA)
Tuesday, Jan. 18-Thompson at Northern Cass, 6:00 p.m.; Val-ley City at Kindred, 6:00 p.m.; Maple Valley at Central Prairie (Medina), 6:00 p.m.; Hillsboro at Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page (Page), 6:00 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 21-Enderlin at Northern Cass, 6:00 p.m.; Kin-dred at Richland, 6:00 p.m.; Cen-tral Cass at Oak Grove, 6:00 p.m.; Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page at Ma-ple Valley, 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 22-North Sargent at Maple Valley, 6:00 p.m.
WrestlingThursday, Jan. 13-Central
Cass at Carrington, 6:30 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 15-Central
Cass and Kindred at Mayville In-vitational, 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 18-MayPort-CG at Kindred, 6:30 p.m.; Central Cass at Oakes, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 21-Central Cass and Kindred at Lisbon KQLX Tournament, 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 22-Central Cass and Kindred at Lisbon KQLX Tournament, 9:30 a.m.
Boys’ Basketball
District 2 District OverallOak Grove 3-0 10-0Kindred 3-0 8-1Central Cass 2-1 6-3Maple Valley 2-1 8-2Richland 1-1 7-2Enderlin 0-2 1-6Northern Cass 0-3 2-7FSHP 0-3 1-10
Wild Rice Conference Conf. OverallOak Grove 4-0 10-0Wynd-Lidge 4-1 8-2Kindred 2-1 8-1Richland 2-1 7-2Central Cass 2-2 6-3North Sargent 1-1 5-1Milnor 2-3 8-3Hankinson 1-2 4-4Sargent Central 0-3 5-5FCT 0-4 1-8
Standings
Girls’ Basketball
District 2 District OverallKindred 2-0 5-2Central Cass 1-0 7-0Northern Cass 1-0 4-1Richland 1-0 6-2Enderlin 0-1 3-1Oak Grove 0-0 4-1Maple Valley 0-2 2-3FSHP 0-2 2-3
Wild Rice Conference Conf. OverallCentral Cass 3-0 7-0Oak Grove 1-0 4-1Richland 3-1 6-2Milnor 2-1 6-2Kindred 2-1 5-2North Sargent 2-2 2-3FCT 0-1 6-1Sargent Central 0-2 1-3 Wynd-Lidge 0-3 0-7Hankinson 0-2 0-8
By Randy BuntrockThe Webster Bearcats scored 234 points, 18 better than runner up South Border
to claim the 40th Annual Lettermen’s Tournament held in Casselton Friday and Sat-urday, Jan. 7 and 8.
Webster had 12 place winners in the 14 weight classes and finished with three champions, including Logan Storley, who claimed his fifth Lettermen’s tournament championship.
Storley is the first ever five time champion and is heading to the University of Minnesota next year.
Lisbon’s Hunter Mairs also reached a milestone, picking up his 100th win in the semifinals with a 7-6 decision over Scott Schiley of Webster in the 140 pound class.
The Squirrels Zach Odden-Lemar and Adam Dullea both made it into the finals of the tournament. Odden-Lemar defeated Seth Anderson of Rolla-Rock Lake 13-5 to claim the 285 pound championship, while Dullea was runner up in the 130 pound class after his fall to Brady Coleman of Oakes.
Kyle Schultz and Jared Jensen each had fourth place finishes for Central Cass, while Preston Koenig and Ben Birrenkott placed sixth.
Kindreds’ Austin Dahlgren pinned Chad Sjurson of Webster to finish third in the 215 pound weight class, while Race Heitkamp fell to Michael Finn of Larimore to finish fourth at 160 pounds.
Dalton Nelson place fifth for the Vikings at 135 pounds while Ryan Thompson, after suffering an opening round loss, went through the wrestlebacks to finish sixth at 145 pounds.
Central Cass finished seventh, while the Vikings were 10th in the 16 team field.Webster’s Nolan Richie was named the most valuable wrestler in the light
weights, while teammate Logan Storley was the heavy weight most valuable player. Michael Nord of Lisbon received the honor in the middle weights.
Complete results of the 40th Lettermen’s tournament were:
Team: 1. Webster, S. D. 234; 2. South Border 218; 3. Lisbon 187; 4. Oakes 161.5; 5. West Fargo JV 144.5; 6. Hillsboro 131; 7. Central Cass 118; 8. North Border 113; 9. LaMoure 80; 10. Kindred 75; 11. Ellendale 63.5; 12. MayPort-CG 41; 13. Rolla-Rock Lake 31; 14. Grafton 28; 15. Larimore 21; 16. Fargo South JV 12.5.
103Championship Round
First Round: Andy Nolz (SB) decision over Michael Zink (KIN) 5-0Second Round: Jacob Aberle (LIS) pinned Brandon Henn (HILL) :58; Nathan
Volk (CC) technical fall over Bradyn Horgan (NB) 16-0, 5:00; Erik Loepp (OAK) pinned Reed Cronin (WFJV) :40; Caleb Dorich (LAM) pinned Shawn Kemmer (CC) :44; Bradley Lemann Jr. (WFJV) pinned Jeseb Mogen (CC) 2:19; Kalem Sell (OAK) decision over Andy Nolz (SB) 6-0; Sawyer Blumhardt (ELL) pinned Jordan Abraha-mson (NB) 2:38; Nolan Richie (WEB) pinned Sam Kleven (MPCG) 1:02.
Quarterfinals: Jacob Aberle (LIS) pinned Nathan Volk (CC) :53; Erik Loepp (OAK) decision over Caleb Dorich (LAM) 4-1; Bradley Lehmann Jr. (WFJV) pinned Kaleb Sell (OAK) 1:28; Nolan Richie (WEB) major decision over Sawyer Blumhardt (ELL) 10-0.
Semifinals: Jacob Aberle (LIS) decision over Erik Loepp (OAK) 4-1; Nolan Richie (WEB) pinned Bradley Lehmann Jr. (WFJV) 1:10
WrestlebacksMichael Zink (KIN) decision over Reed Cronin (WFJV) 6-1; Jordan Abrahamson
(NB) pined Sam Kleven (MPCG) 3:58; Andy Nolz (SB) pinned Jeseb Mogen (CC) 2:27; Michael Zink (KIN) pinned Shawn Kemmer (CC) 1:55; Brandon Henn (HILL) decision over Bradyn Horgan (NB) 4-3; Caleb Dorich (LAM) pined Jordan Abraha-mson (NB) 1:37; Andy Nolz (SB) pinned Nathan Volk (CC) 1:48; Sawyer Blumhardt (ELL) decision over Michael Zink (KIN) 7-0; Kaleb Sell (OAK) technical fall over Brandon Henn (HILL) 16-0, 5:00; Andy Nolz (SB) decision over Caleb Dorich (LAM) 7-3; Kaleb Sell (OAK) decision over Sawyer Blumhardt (ELL) 6-2; Bradley Lehmann Jr. (WFJV) decision over Andy Nolz (SB) 9-3; Erik Loepp (OAK) pinned Kaleb Sell (OAK) 2:33.
Championship: Nolan Richie (WEB) major decision over Jacob Aberle (LIS) 14-4.
Third Place: Erik Loepp (OAK) decision over Bradley Lehmann Jr. (WFJV) 5-3.
Fifth Place: Kaleb Sell (OAK) decision over Andy Nolz (SB) 3-2.112
Championship RoundFirst Round: Camron Flick (CC) pinned Logan Rhode (FSJV) 1:12; Caden Cole-
man (OAK) pinned Tanner Thompson (KIN) 1:50; Kollin Kragnes (WFJV) pinned Calvin Bourbanis (NB) 1:42; Jaron Lunday (GRAF) decision over Grant Johnson (LIS) 7-6; Tucker Meidinger (SB) pinned Anthony Nemer (FSJV) 1:26; Jeff Ulvog (NB) pinned Lane Berg (CC) 1:46; Brent Hebl (LAM) pinned Keegan Elliott (MPCG) 3:25.
Quarterfinals: Jace Berg (LIS) major decision over Camron Flick (CC) 9-0; Kollin Kragnes (WFJV) decision over Caden Coleman (OAK) 7-5 OT; Jaron Lunday (GRAF) decision over Tucker Meidinger (SB) 7-1; Brent Hebl (LAM) major decision over Jeff Ulvog (NB) 15-2.
Semifinals: Jace Berg (LIS) decision over Kollin Kragnes (WFJV) 9-7; Brent Hebl (LAM) decision over Jaron Lunday (GRAF) 6-4.
WrestlebacksTanner Thompson (KIN) pinned Calvin Bourbanis (NB) 3:17; Grant Johnson
(LIS) pinned Anthony Nemer (FSJV) 2:26; Lane Berg (CC) pined Keegan Elliott (MPCG) 3:45; Jeff Ulvog (NB) technical fall over Logan Rhode (FSJV) 17-1, 4:35; Tucker Meidinger (SB) pinned Tanner Thompson (KIN) 1:12; Grant Johnson (LIS)
decision over Caden Coleman (OAK) 8-6; Camron Flick (CC) pinned Lane Berg (CC) :27; Jeff Ulvog (NB) technical fall over Tucker Meidinger (SB) 20-5, 5:00; Grant Johnson (LIS) pinned Camron Flick (CC) 3:52; Jeff Ulvoy (NB) deci-sion over Kollin Kragnes (WFJV) 8-7 OT; Jaron Lunday (GRAF) decision over Grant Johnson (LIS) 2-1.
Championship: Jace Berg (LIS) pinned Brent Hebl (LAM) 1:42.Third Place: Jeff Ulvog (NB) decision over Jaron Lunday (GRAF) 11-7.Fifth Place: Kollin Kragnes (WFJV) decision over Grant Johnson (LIS) 3-1.
119Championship Round
First Round: Blake Bosch (SB) pinned Marcus Welk (FSJV) 1:31; Taylor Busche (LIS) pinned Ricky Wilson (MPCG) 1:44; Weston Dobler (WFJV) technical fall over Robert Schmit (OAK) 16-1, 4:35; Tyler Wagner (WEB) decision over Joel Weber (SB) 8-5; Logan House (CC) pinned Jared Power (WFJV) 1:31; Jesse Schur-man (NB) pinned Jose Chavez (KIN) 2:30.
Quarterfinals: Blake Bosch (SB) pinned Taylor Busche (LIS) 3:55; Weston
Dobler (WFJV) major decision over Wesley Wendel (LAM) 11-0; James Rothwell (WFJV) pinned Tyler Wagner (WEB) 1:48; Jesse Schurman (NB) decision over Lo-gan House (CC) 9-4.
Semifinals: Blake Bosch (SB) technial fall over Weston Dobler (WFJV) 20-5, 6:00; James Rothwell (WFJV) pinned Jesse Schurman (NB) 1:01.
Wrestlebacks Marcus Welk (FSJV) pinned Ricky Wilson (MPCG) :51; Jose Chavez (KIN)
pinned Jared Power (WFJV) 1:38; Logan House (CC) technical fall over Marcus Welk (FSJV) 15-0 3:46; Tyler Wagner (WEB) decision over Robert Schmit (OAK) 5-1; Wes-ley Wendel (LAM) pinned Joel Weber (SB) :30: Taylor Busche (LIS) pinned Jose Chavez (KIN) 2:33; Tyler Wagner (WEB) decision over Logan House (CC) 5-1; Wes-ley Wendel (LAM) decision over Taylor Busche (LIS) 9-3; Weston Dobler (WFJV) decision over Tyler Wagner (WEB) 8-1; Wesley Wendel (LAM) pinned Jesse Schur-man (NB) 2:10.
Championship: Blake Bosch (SB) decision over James Rothwell (WFJV) 8-4.Third Place: Weston Dobler (WFJV) pinned Wesley Wendel (LAM) 2:09.Fifth Place: Jesse Schurman (NB) decision over Tyler Wagner (WEB) 3-0.
125Championship Round
First Round: Deven Loepp (OAK) pinned Dustin Brandner (SB) :54; Chris-tian Ramberg (WFJV) decision over Jesus Flores (GRAF) 3-2; Preston Koenig (CC) pinned Mitchell Moe (FSJV) 1:27; Chris Miller (NB) pinned Donald Stewart (GRAF) 3:27; Spencer Rausch (WEB) technical fall over Gabe Schill (NB) 17-0, 6:00; Logan Elliott (MPCG) pinned Joshua Thompson (GRAF) 4:00; Nash Bettenhausen (SB) pinned Peter Rodriguez (WFJV) 1:14; Dylan Urbach (LIS) pinned Cole Schmidt (LAR) :51.
Quarterfinals: Deven Loepp (OAK) pinned Christian Ramberg (WFJV) 1:22; Preston Koenig (CC) decision over Chris Miller (NB) 6-2 OT; Spencer Rausch (WEB) major decision over Logan Elliott (MPCG) 12-3; Dylan Urbach (LIS) pinned Nash Bettenhausen (SB) 1:12.
Semifinals: Deven Loepp (OAK) injury default over Preston Koenig (CC); Spencer Rausch (WEB) pinned Dylan Urbach (LIS) 6:39.
WrestlebacksDustin Brandner (SB) pinned Jesus Flores (GRAF) :40; Donald Stewart (GRAF)
major decision over Mitchell Moe (FSJV) 9-1; Gabe Schill (NB) decision over Josh-ua Thompson (GRAF) 13-8; Peter Rodriguez (WFJV) decision over Cole Schmidt (LAR) 4-3; Nash Bettenhausen (SB) pinned Dustin Brandner (SB) 1:16; Logan Elliott (MPCG) pinned Donald Stewart (GRAF) 2:27; Chris Miller (NB) pinned Gabe Schill (NB) 2:20; Christian Ramberg (WFJV) technical fall over Peter Rodriguez (WFJV) 19-4, 3:40; Nash Bettenhausen (SB) decision over Logan Elliott (MPCG) 6-2; Chris-tian Ramberg (WFJV) decision over Chris Miller (NB) 11-5; Nash Bettenhausen (SB) injury default over Preston Koenig (CC); Dylan Urbach (LIS) decision over Christian Ramberg (WFJV) 7-0.
Championship: Deven Loepp (OAK) decision over Spencer Rausch (WEB) 8-3.
Third Place: Dylan Urbach (LIS) pinned Nash Bettenhausen (SB) 1:41.Fifth Place: Christian Ramberg (WFJV) injury default over Preston Koenig
(CC).
Webster claims 40th Lettermen’s Tournament titleBearcats’ Storley first five time champion
Photos by Randy Buntrock/The ReporterThe Squirrels’ Preston Koenig attempts to get a take down of North
Border’s Chris Miller in the quarterfinals of the 125 pound class. Koenig went on for a 6-2 decision in overtime.
Logan Storley tries to get Justin Deede’s shoulder down for the pin in the 171 championship match. Storley won the match and became the first ever five time champion at the Lettermen’s Tournament.
The Squirrels’ Zach Odden-Lemar drives Seth Anderson of Rolla to the mat in the 285 championship match. Odden-Lemar won a 13-5 major decision in the match.
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The Vikings’ Austin Dahlgren has control over Jamison Jangula of Ellendale in the 215 pound quarter-final match. Jangula turned the match around and recorded a 6-3 decision over Dahlgren.
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130Championship Round
First Round: Brady Coleman (OAK) pinned Travis Dolan (GRAF) 5:16; Dalton Hamlin (LAM) pinned Colton Rohrich (FSJV) :58; Sebastian Schill (NB) pinned Levi Schulz (WFJV) 2:27; Branden Kuntz (SB) pinned Mark Wiley (WEB) :51; Wyatt Aberle (LIS) pinned Brandon Desau-tel (MPCG) 3:07; Adam Dullea (CC) pinned Luis Chavez (KIN) 1:19.
Quarterfinals: Brady Coleman (OAK) ma-jor decision over Dalton Hamlin (LAM) 16-4; Sebastian Schill (NB) decision over Austin Grout (WEB) 7-3; Branden Kuntz (SB) decision over Wyatt Morten (LAR) 6-4; Adam Dullea (CC) de-cision over Wyatt Aberle (LIS) 7-4.
Semifinals: Brady Coleman (OAK) major decision over Sebastian Schill (NB) 12-0; Adam Dullea (CC) pinned Branden Kuntz (SB) :33.
WrestlebacksTravis Dolan (GRAF) pinned Colton Rohrich
(FSJV) :26; Luis Chavez (KIN) pinned Brandon Desautel (MPCG) 3:33; Wyatt Aberle (LIS) deci-sion over Travis Dolan (GRAF) 9-8 OT; Wyatt Morten (LAR) major decision over Levi Schulz (WFJV) 15-2; Austin Grout (WEB) pinned Mark Wiley (WEB) 1:42; Dalton Hamlin (LAM) pinned Luis Chavez (KIN) 2:05; Wyatt Aberle (LIS) de-cision ovedr Wyatt Morten (LAR) 7-2; Dalton Hamlin (LAM) major decision over Austin Grout (WEB) 11-0; Wyatt Aberle (LIS) major decision over Sebastian Schill (NB) 10-2; Dalton Hamlin (LAM) decision over Branden Kuntz (SB) 5-3.
Championship: Brady Coleman (OAK) pinned Adam Dullea (CC) 2:44.
Third Place: Wyatt Aberle (LIS) decision over Dalton Hamlin (LAM) 10-4.
Fifth Place: Sebastian Schill (NB) injury default over Branden Kuntz (SB).
135Championship Round
First Round: Cody Idso (MPCG) pinned Peter Isakson (FSJV) :32; Nathan Duerre (WEB) technical fall over Nathan Horter (LAR) 15-0, 4:25.
Quarterfianls: Cody Voegeli (OAK) techni-cal fall over Dalton Nelson (KIN) 16-0, 4:60; Kyle Schultz (CC) decision over Cody Idso (MPCG) 6-4 OT; Michael Wolf (SB) pinned Nathan Du-erre (WEB) 1:30; Brett Schurman (NB) pinned Talyor Olson (LIS) 1:14.
Semifinals: Cody Voegeli (OAK) major de-cision over Kyle Schultz (CC) 8-0; Brett Schur-man (NB) pinned Michael Wolf (SB) 3:10.
WrestlebacksNathan Duerre (WEB) pinned Peter Isakson
(FSJV) 1:57; Cody Idso (MPCG) pinned Nathan Horter (LAR) 3:13; Nathan Duerre (WEB) major decision over Taylor Olson (LIS) 14-1; Dalton Nelson (KIN) decision over Cody Idso (MPCG) 8-5; Kyle Schultz (CC) pinned Nathan Duerre (WEB) :45; Michael Wolf (SB) major decision over Dalton Nelson (KIN) 13-0.
Championship: Cody Voegeli (OAK) deci-sion over Brett Schurman (NB) 8-2.
Third Place: Michael Wolf (SB) decision over Kyle Schultz (CC) 6-0.
Fifth Place: Dalton Nelson (KIN) decision over Nathan Duerre (WEB) 9-7.
140Championship Round
First Round: Taylor Gibson (NB) pinned Logan Hackmann (CC) :42; Cole Ehrlin (OAK) pinned Jeric Houdek (MPCG) 1:28; Hunter Mairs (LIS) major decision over Austin Betten-hausen (SB) 15-3; Scott Schiley (WEB) technical fall over over Jeffrey
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Kindred’s Race Heitkamp tries to roll over Webster’s Mark Meland in 160 pound quarterfinal action, Heitkamp when on to pin Meland in the match and eventually finished fourth for Kindred.
The Vikings’ Austin Dahlgren has control over Ja-mison Jangula of Ellendale in the 215 pound quar-terfinal match. Jangula turned the match around and recorded a 6-3 decision over Dahlgren.
Kindred grapplers splitmatches at triangular
The Kindred wrestlers split a pair of matches at a triangular meet held in Edgeley Tuesday, Jan. 4.
The Vikings downed Ellendale-Edgeley-Kulm 45-28, but lost a close 40-34 contest with Linton.
Individual results of the two matches were:Kindred 45, Ellendale-Edgeley-Kulm 28
103-Sawyer Blumhardt (EEK) pinned Michael Zink (K) 5:22
112-Ty Casey (K) won by forfeit119-Jose Chavez (K) decision over
Matthew Bosch (EEK) 9-6125-Riley Enander (K) won by
forfeit130-Luis Chavez (K) won by for-
feit135-Dalton Nelson (K) won by
forfeit140-Trai Kautzman (K) won by
forfeit145-Dustin Hildebrand (EEK)
pinned Ryan Thompson (K) 1:26152-Ryan McCollum (K) won by
forfeit160-Race Heitkamp (K) pinned
Wade Anliker (EEK) 3:56171-Raymond Orwig (EEK)
pinned Tanner Dahlgren (K) 1:32189-Dylan Schnabel (EEK)
pinned Jamie Dougherty (K) 1:32215-Jamison Jangula (EEK) ma-
jor decision over Austin Dahlgren (K) 8-0
285-open
Linton 49, Kindred 34Josh Scholsser (L) decision over
Michael Zink (K) 6-3112-Chase Jacob (L) pinned Ty
Casey (K) 1:21119-Andrew Leier (L) pinned
Jose Chavez (K) 2;49125-Jared Schumacher (L) pinned
Riley Enander (K) 3:08130-Luis Chavez (K) pinned Lo-
gan Gross (L) :11135-Dalton Nelson (K) pinned
Garret Roemmich (L) :55140- Brock Nagel (L) major deci-
sion over Trai Kautzman (K) 12-0145- Clay Jacob (L) pinned Ryan
Thompson (K) 3:39152-Michael Oien (L) decision
over Ryan McCollum (K) 13-9160-Tanner Dahlgren (K) won by
forfeit171-Race Heitkamp (K) won by
forfeit189-Jamie Dougherty (K) major
decision over Ethan Roemmich (L) 13-0
215-Austin Dahlgren (K) won by forfeit
285 Levi Roemmich (L) won by forfeit
Kindred Vikings open new year with wins
The Kindred Vikings got back on the winning track with a pair of vic-tories to open the new year.
Kindred defeated Wyndmere-Lidgerwood 63-41 in a Wild Rice Conference match up Tuesday, Jan. 4 and then won a District 2 contest against Enderlin 55-39.
The Vikings out scored the Ender-lin Eagles 18-6 in the second quarter to open up a 35-18 lead at half time.
Kindred came out in the second half and shut down the Eagles, hold-ing them scoreless in the third quar-ter.
Enderlin out scored the Vikings in the final quarter, but Kindred’s went on for the 55-39 district win.
Braidy Dahl led the Vikings of-
fensively with 14 points, while Casey Allmaras and Brooke Graff each added 11.
The Eagles were led by Megan Trautman with 13 points.
Kindred 17 35 44 55Enderlin 12 18 18 39
Kindred: Casey Allmaras 11, Brooke Graff 11, Kellie Schmit 9, Harlee Glasow 4, Jacey Otterson 4, Braidy Dahl 14, Kyla Bugner 2.
Enderlin: Krista Thielges 8, Mackenzie Hamre 1, Megan Traut-man 13, Alexa Dixson 5, Courtney Lautt 7, Kelsey Laufenberg 5.
No statistics were available from the Wyndmere-Lidgerwood game.
Vikings, Raiders pick up district winsThe Kindred Vikings and Maple
Valley Raiders each picked up Dis-trict 2 wins in boys basketball Fri-day, Jan. 7.
The Vikings defeated the North-ern Cass Jaguars 78-40, while the Raiders upended Enderlin 70-51.
The visiting Vikings jumped on the Jaguars early taking a huge 22-8 lead after one quarter of action.
The Vikings kept the pressure on Northern Cass throughout the contest and cruised to the 78-40 vic-tory.
The Vikings had four players reach double figures with Eric Bach-meier leading the way with 17 points. A. J. Luick added 15 and Tanner Kretchman and Michael Haberman each had 11.
Colton Hill led the Jaguars with 14 points.
Kindred is now 8-1 on the season and 3-0 in district play, while the Jaguars fall to 0-3 in district action and 2-6 overall.
Kindred 22 38 60 78Northern Cass 8 15 28 40
Kindred: Tanner Kretchman 11, Brady Kappes 2, Michael Haberman 11, Tyler Holland 2, Sean Cose 8, Eric Bachmeier 17, A. J. Luick 15, Jack Plankers 2, Casey Reinke 10.
Northern Cass: Adam Teegarden 3, Craig Kyllo 7, McKenzie Cargile 8, Colton Hill 14, Spencer Syming-ton 4, Brent Crane 4.
The Maple Raiders used a bal-anced scoring attack to pull away from the Enderlin Eagles and take the 70-51 win.
Ty Smith scored seven first quar-ter points to help the Raiders build a 17-8 lead after the first quarter.
The Raiders upped their advan-tage to 36-22 going into the locker room.
Enderlin’s Thomas Lindgren scored 10 points in the second quar-ter to try and keep the Eagles in the contest.
The Raiders’ Jesse Behm had a strong third quarter scoring 10 points in helping Maple Valley ex-tend their lead to 54-32.
Maple Valley finished strong and took the 70-51 win.
Jesse Behm led the Raiders with 18 points with Ty Smith right be-hind with 16. Ethen Preston added 13 and Jordan Haseleu chipped in with 10.
The Eagles were led by Thomas Lindgren with 17 points.
Maple Valley is 2-1 in district play and 8-2 overall.
Maple Valley will be back in ac-tion when they travel to Oak Grove to battle the unbeaten Grovers Thursday, Jan. 13.
Maple Valley 17 36 54 70Enderlin 8 22 32 51
Maple Valley: Jesse Beilke 1, Jesse Behm 18, Ty Smith 16, Wade Steidl 6, Ethen Preston 13, Jordan Haseleu 10, Travis Pfau 2, Andrew Kapaun 4.
Enderlin: Coltin Huus 7, Daniel Lindgren 3, Gareth Hanson 6, Matt Luther 3, Tanner Groth 3, Thomas Lindgren 17, Taran Langland 6, Justin Kittelson 3, Brady Gibson 3.
By James R. JohnsonFinley-Sharon-Hope-Page’s de-
fense kept May-Port CG from at-tacking the basket, while Taylor Palmer’s scoring spree easily se-cured a 34-19 Spartan victory Jan. 4 in Mayville.
Three outside baskets by FSHP senior forward Megan Roller gave the Spartans an early 8-2 second quarter lead. Later, Spartan senior
guard Taylor Palmer scored 10 un-answered points, including a pair of treys from the top of the key. Palmer had a game-high 13 points.
The Patriots picked up their in-tensity on both ends of the floor in the second half. Jocie Kyllo kept at-tacking the lane off the dribble and through cuts. Three lay-ups gave her a team-high eight points.
The Patriots’ scrappiness led to a
light moment in the fourth quarter when the Spartans’ Heather Ny-gaard shot at her own basket. The attempt missed and everyone, in-cluding Nygaard, had a laugh.
In other girls’ basketball action, a low-scoring second quarter cost Cen-tral Valley a 54-42 loss to Grafton on Jan. 3, while Griggs County Central posted 42 points in the second half of a 60-34 victory over Hillsboro on
Jan. 4.
FSHP 6 17 4 7 34MPCG 2 2 4 11 19FSHP – Debbi Thompson 5,
Megan Roller 8, Amber Montag 2, Taylor Palmer 13, Taylor Tysdal 2, Madison Koenig 4.
MPCG – Jocie Kyllo 8, Sarah Lorenz 3, Dani Elliott 2, Paige Gran-dalen 2, Kari Ust 4.
First-half surge paces FSHP girls winThe Patriots’ Katelyn Bjerke (24) clears the double-team and pre-
pares to feed Dani Elliott (44).MPCG’s Sarah Lorenz (22 in white) guards FSHP’s Chauna Ihry
(20) while the Patriots’ Paige Grandalen (10) tries to deny the Spar-tans’ Debbi Thompson (1).
The Patriots’ Nick Rygg (20) and John Baldwin (40) had their hands full protecting the lane against the Spartans’ Austen Archer (23).
By James R. JohnsonIt only took a minute of play for
the Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page boys to take charge of a Spartans 41-38 basketball win over May-Port CG in Mayville on Jan. 4.
“Once the game got close, we started losing our focus,” said MPCG senior guard Sam Preus af-ter the 41-38 loss. “Our basketball I.Q. went down.”
The Patriots had their hands full keeping the Spartans Austen Archer out of the lane. The smooth-shooting 6’4” sophomore scored 13 of his game-high 21 points in the first half.
“We tried a 1-3-1 zone, something we usually don’t do,” Preus said.
After leading 22-21 at the half, the Patriots’ shooting began to go cold at the start of the second half and the Spartans pulled even at the end of the third quarter, setting up a hectic final eight minutes.
MPCG starting junior guard Quentin Scallon popped off the bench after a rest and sank a pair of jumpers from the same spot on the left baseline. His effort was matched by FSHP senior forward Alex Rall, who hit a three from the top of the key. With a little more than four minutes remaining, the game was tied at 33-33.
Then came the minute of play the Spartans will want to remember.
The defense lost track of Archer underneath, then Rall brought the visiting Spartan fans to their feet by converting a feed from senior guard
Jalen Hashbarger. Their cheers grew louder when Rall spiked a shot attempt by Preus, who hesitated in left corner. Preus was held to a sin-gle point in the second half.
“When you’re not making shots, it’s a big part of losing focus,” Preus said. “Then the defense stopped communicating.”
Rall snuck in the back door of the zone for two and the Spartans’ lead was six with 3:23 to play.
In the closing seconds, MPCG’s freshman center Levi Elliott con-nected from 15 feet to narrow the lead to three and the Patriots had a chance to tie after Archer, for a rare moment on this night, lost his focus and fumbled away a chance at a clinching lay-up with eight seconds to play.
The Patriots got the ball to Rygg, but his arching 28-footer bounced off the iron and time expired before MPCG could get another shot off. Preus, however, remained upbeat, realizing the Patriots have time to refocus before district playoffs.
“We’ve just got to encourage each other and keep communicating,” he said.
FSHP 12 9 7 13 41MPCG 13 9 6 10 38FSHP – Alex Rall 11, Austen Ar-
cher 21, Kyle Mehus 3, Austin Bring 3, Alex Aberle 3.
MPCG – Sam Preus 16, Quentin Scallon 7, Ryan Ust 4, Nick Rygg 5, John Baldwin 4, Levi Elliott 2.
FSHP Spartans pull away in a minute’s play
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Central Cass sweeps Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page
By Randy BuntrockThe Central Cass girls and boys
basketball teams started fast and kept the pressure on to sweep a dou-bleheader from the Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page Spartans Thursday, Jan. 6 in Casselton.
The girls ran their record to 6-0 and picked up their first district win with a 61-21 victory.
The boys used full court pressure to force Spartan turnovers and easy baskets to jump out to a 26-4 first quarter lead and go on for the 80-25 win. The boys are now 5-3 on the season and 2-1 in district play.
Taylor Kraft scored 11 first quar-ter points in helping the Squirrels jump out to a 20-3 lead.
The Spartans offense stalled when Amber Montag picked up her second foul just 2:30 minutes into the game and was forced to the bench.
The Squirrels offense kept roll-ing in the second quarter and de-fensively shut down the Spartans to increase their advantage to 31-11 at half time.
The third quarter was more of the same with Central Cass putting 17 points on the board while holding the Spartans to four.
The Squirrels went on for the 61-
21 victory.Taylor Kraft led Central Cass
with a game high 25 points, while Courtney Dixon and Haley Weber added 10 and nine respectively.
The Squirrels dished out 25 as-sists as a team, had 10 steals and 26 rebounds.
The Spartans were led by Amber Montag with nine points.
“Our defense definitely fueled our offense,” stated Central Cass coach Barb Kraft. “It was our first district game, so it’s good to come away with a win.”
“Their good,” stated Spartan coach Chad Satrom. “ Barb really has the girls playing well.”
“We made mistakes early and didn’t box out very well, but once we started running our offense we got the motion going,” added Satrom.
FSHP 3 11 15 21Central Cass 20 31 48 61
Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page: Amber Montag 9, Taylor Palmer 2, Madison Koenig 4, Taylor Tisdal 6.
Central Cass: Taylor Kraft 25, Hannah Breske 8, Courtney Dixon 10, Haley Weber 9, Bethany Voss 2, Anna Morris 3, Carmen Titus 2, Sydney Radermacher 2.
Matt Zimmerman got the Central Cass boys on the scoreboard first and Ellery Brenahan quickly added a steal and lay up to give theSquirrls a 4-0 advantage.
Austen Archer cut the Squirrel lead in half with a turnaround jump-er in the lane.
Spartans’ Alex Rall made the Squirrel lead 8-4 after a bucket fol-lowing field goals by Squirrels’ Joey Ueland and Zimmerman.
Central Cass then closed out the quarter on an 18-0 run to open up a 26-4 lead after one quarter of play.
The Spartans had some chances early in the second quarter, but the shots just wouldn’t drop for them. The Squirrels went into the locker room with a comfortable 43-15 lead.
Central Cass opened up the sec-ond half on a 21-0 run, including three, 3-point basket by Bresnahan.
Jake Ihry broke the run and Ar-cher hit a field goal after a Jordan Kressin bucket for the Squirrels to give Central Cass the 66-19 lead go-ing into the final stanza.
The Squirrels cruised to the 80-25 win.
Adam Ratchenski led Central Cass with a game high 20 points, with Matt Zimmerman and Ellery Bresnahan each adding 14.
The Spartans were led by Jake Ihry with seven points and Austin Bring added six.
Jordan Kressin, Jalen Ham and Josh Roesler hauled in five rebounds each. Bresnahan and Ham each dished out six assists for the Squir-rels.
“I was happy with the way we ran the court,” stated Squirrels coach Troy Roesler. “We had good ball pressure and shot well from the outside. We had a lot better flow in this contest.”
FSHP 4 15 19 25Central Cass 26 43 66 80
Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page: Aus-ten Archer 4, Alex Rall 4, Kyle Me-hus 3, Jalen Hashbarger 1, Jake Ihry 7, Austin Bring 6.
Central Cass: Matt Zimmerman 14, Ellery Bresnahan 14, Joey Ue-land 2, Adam Ratchenski 20, Jalen Ham 7, Ben Sundquist 7, Jordan Kressin 7, Josh Roesler 2, Garrett Ebach 5, Kenny Toah 2.
Taylor Kraft (15) gets inside of Spartans’ Debbi Thompson (1) for an easy two points, Kraft had a game high 25 points in the victory.
Spartans, Jaguars suffer Saturday road lossesThe Northern Cass Jaguars and
Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page Spartans both suffered road losses in boys bas-ketball contests Saturday, Jan. 8.
The Jaguars traveled to Thompson and were defeated 53-24, while the Spartans were downed by Midkota 62-44.
The Jaguars fell behind early and struggled to get the offense going and catch up to the Tommies.
The Tommies out scored Northern Cass in each quarter enroute to the win.
The Jaguars were led by McKenzie Cargile with eight points.
Zach Waxvik had 17 points to lead Thompson and Jarad Syrstad added 11.
The Jaguars are 2-7 on the season and will travel to Richland for a Dis-trict 2 match up Thursday, Jan. 13.
Northern Cass 3 9 17 24Thompson 15 31 43 53
Northern Cass: Adam Teegarden 1, McKenzie Cargile 8, Colton Hill 5, Spencer Symington 5, Brent Crane 3, Casey Springer 2.
Thompson: Trais Bengs 3, Brody Hjelmstad 4, Jarad Syrstad 11, Zach Waxvik 17, Connor Weber 6, Jake Adam 4, Adam Monson 2, Andy Nass 4, Jace Strand 2.
Midkota jumped on the Spartans for 22 first quarter points and defen-sively held the Spartans to just four points.
The Spartans got the offense going in the second quarter, but couldn’t get out of the hole they had dug for them-selves in the first quarter and trailed 33-12 at half time.
The Spartans played Midkota even up in the second half, but lost the game 62-44.
Austen Archer led the Spartans with 14 points, while Kyle Mehus and Alex Rall each added 13.
Logan Harding led Midkota with 19 points.
The Spartans will travel to Kindred to take on the Vikings in a district con-test Thursday, Jan. 13.
FSHP 4 12 26 44Midkota 22 33 52 62
Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page: Alex Rall 13, James Simpson 2, Austen Ar-cher 14, Kyle Mehus 13, Austin Bring 2.
Midkota: Alex Miller 12, Tanner Overby 11, Logan Harding 19, Dalton Ehlers 9, Austin Monson 7, Zachary Gilbertson 4.
Raiders cruise past Barnes County NorthMaple Valley picked up a win
over Barnes County North in a make up contest from December 20.
Maple Valley wasted little time putting up 20 first quarter points and holding Barnes County North to just two points.
The Raiders continued the domi-nation in the second quarter and took a 33-8 lead into the locker room.
Maple Valley’s defense comlplete-ly shut down Barnes County North
in the third quarter to hold a 47-8 advantage going into the final quar-ter.
The Raiders cruised to the easy 56-18 win.
The Raiders were led in scoring by Ethen Preston with 16 points and Jesse Behm followed with 14..
Garrett Steckler led Barnes County North with seven.
Barnes Cty North 2 8 8 18Maple Valley 20 33 47 56
Barnes County North: Austin Jorrissen 3, Cody Christ 2, Jacoby Kramlich 2, Derek Fletcher 2, Gar-rett Steckler 7, Wyatt Steckler 2.
Maple Valley: Jesse Beilke 2, Jesse Behm 14, Ty Smith 2, Dylan Lerud 2, Wade Steidl 2, Ethen Pres-ton 16, Jordan Haseleu 7, Reed Er-ickson 3, Andrew Kapaun 6, Dacotah McGough 2.
Maple Valley drops pair of contestsThe Maple Valley Raiders dropped
a district contest 52-24 to the Richland Colts Thursday, Jan. 6 in Tower City.
The Raiders also dropped a contest at Valley City Tuesday, Jan. 4, 77-49.
Richland doubled up the Raiders in the first quarter to hold a 10-5 advan-tage. The Colts broke the game open in the second quarter doubling their score to 20, while holding the Raiders to just two points to go into the locker room with a 20-7 lead.
The Colts defensively shut out sev-enth grader and Raiders leading scorer Rylee Nudell in the first half.
The Raiders still struggled offen-sively in the third quarter and trailed the Colts 36-12 going into the final quarter.
Nudell scored nine points for the Raiders in the final quarter, but the Colts took the game 52-24.
The Colts defensively allowed only three Raiders to reach the scoring col-
umn with Rylee Nudell leading the way with 12. Cassie Pautz and Abbie Tinjum added seven and five respec-tively.
The Colts were led by Olivia John-son with a game high 23 points and Mackenzie Frankl adding 18.
Maple Valley is now 2-4 on the sea-son and 0-2 in district action.
The Raiders will be back in action in the upcoming week at the Barnes County Tournament in Valley City. The Raiders will open the tournament Tuesday, Jan. 11 against Valley City at 3:00 p.m.
Richland 10 20 36 52Maple Valley 5 7 12 24
Richland: Janet Julson 5, Sena Sjkefte 1, Mackenzie Kinneberg 3, Mackenzie Frankl 18, Olivia Johnson 23, Mackenzie Roob 2.
Maple Valley: Cassie Pautz 7, Ab-bie Tinjum 5, Rylee Nudell 12.
The Valley City Hi-Liners took a decisive 77-49 win over the Raiders.
Valley City jumped out to a 41-22 lead and the Raiders couldn’t close the gap in the second half.
Abbie Tinjum paced the way for the Raiders with 19 points and Rylee Nudell added 15.
Valley City was led by McKenzie Schwietzer with a game high 24 points, Haley Larson had 15 and Mariah Ol-stad added 13.
Valley City 41 77Maple Valley 22 49
Maple Valley: Katelyn Zaun 4, Staci Hovland 2, Katelyn Pueppke 2, Cassie Pautz 7, Abbie Tinjum 19, Rylee Nudell 15.
Valley City: Haley Larson 15, Tori Enstad 2, Megan McDaniel 4, Amanda Tangen 7, Jenna Jacob 6, Mariah Ol-stad 13, Sammy Johnson 4, McKenzie Schwietzer 24, Allyson Suhr 2.
Jaguars roll over PatiotsThe Northern Cass Jaguars rolled
over the MayPort-CG Patriots in non-district action Thursday, Jan. 6 in Mayville.
Whitney Ward and Alexis Johnson each scored six first quarter points to help the Jaguars jump out to a 19-7 advantage.
Northern Cass extended their lead in the second quarter taking a 33-17 lead into the locker room.
Both teams struggled offensively in the third quarter, but the Jaguars maintained their lead and went into the final quarter up 42-23.
The Patriots out scored the Jaguars
in the final quarter 20-12, but the dam-age had already been done and North-ern Cass went on for the 55-43 win.
The Jaguars were led in scoring by Alexis Johnson with 14 points. Lexi Zieske and Whitney Ward added 11 and 10 respectively.
Zieske and Carley Ward each pulled down five rebounds and Zieske had four steals in the win.
The Patriots were led by Sarah Lorenz with 13 points.
Northern Cass is 4-1 on the year and 1-0 in District 2 play.
Northern Cass will be at the Barnes County Tournament this week opening
on Tuesday in a match up with Griggs County Central at 4:45 p.m.
Northern Cass 19 33 42 55MayPort-CG 7 17 23 43
Northern Cass: Carley Ward 4, Lexi Zieske 11, Brianna Olson 7, Paige Verwest 3, Whitney Ward 10, Ashlee Burgad 3, Hailey Verwest 3, Alexis Johnson 14.
MayPort-CG: Paige Grandalen 1, Jocelyn Kyllo 5, Sarah Lorenz 13, Katelyn Bjerke 4, Kari Ust 8, Megan Walden 6, Dani Elliott 6.
Spartans, Jaguars suffer Saturday road lossesThe Northern Cass Jaguars and
Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page Spartans both suffered road losses in boys bas-ketball contests Saturday, Jan. 8.
The Jaguars traveled to Thompson and were defeated 53-24, while the Spartans were downed by Midkota 62-44.
The Jaguars fell behind early and struggled to get the offense going and catch up to the Tommies.
The Tommies out scored Northern Cass in each quarter enroute to the win.
The Jaguars were led by McKenzie Cargile with eight points.
Zach Waxvik had 17 points to lead Thompson and Jarad Syrstad added 11.
The Jaguars are 2-7 on the season and will travel to Richland for a Dis-trict 2 match up Thursday, Jan. 13.
Northern Cass 3 9 17 24Thompson 15 31 43 53
Northern Cass: Adam Teegarden 1, McKenzie Cargile 8, Colton Hill 5, Spencer Symington 5, Brent Crane 3, Casey Springer 2.
Thompson: Trais Bengs 3, Brody Hjelmstad 4, Jarad Syrstad 11, Zach Waxvik 17, Connor Weber 6, Jake Adam 4, Adam Monson 2, Andy Nass 4, Jace Strand 2.
Midkota jumped on the Spartans for 22 first quarter points and defen-sively held the Spartans to just four points.
The Spartans got the offense going in the second quarter, but couldn’t get out of the hole they had dug for them-selves in the first quarter and trailed 33-12 at half time.
The Spartans played Midkota even up in the second half, but lost the game 62-44.
Austen Archer led the Spartans with 14 points, while Kyle Mehus and Alex Rall each added 13.
Logan Harding led Midkota with 19 points.
The Spartans will travel to Kindred to take on the Vikings in a district con-test Thursday, Jan. 13.
FSHP 4 12 26 44Midkota 22 33 52 62
Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page: Alex Rall 13, James Simpson 2, Austen Ar-cher 14, Kyle Mehus 13, Austin Bring 2.
Midkota: Alex Miller 12, Tanner Overby 11, Logan Harding 19, Dalton Ehlers 9, Austin Monson 7, Zachary Gilbertson 4.
Central Cass downs Polar BearsThe Central Cass Squirrels picked
up a non-district win at Larimore downing the Polar Bears 60-43 Friday, Jan. 7.
The Squirrels started slow against the Larimore zone defense, but still managed to hold a slim 12-10 lead af-ter the first quarter.
Midway through the second quarter Central Cass began to pull away and opened up a 27-20 lead at half time.
The Squirrels kept stretching the lead and went on for the 60-43 win.
Matt Zimmerman led the way for the Squirrels with 13 points and Adam Ratchenske added 10. Jordan Kressin and Joey Ueland each added nine.
Travis Pearce led the Polar Bears with 12 points.
The Squirrels 6-3 overall and 2-1 in District 2 play.
Central Cass 12 27 43 60Larimore 10 20 28 43
Central Cass: Matt Zimmerman 13, Ben Sundquist 5, Jalen Ham 2, Adam Ratchenski 10, Jordan Kressin 9, El-lery Bresnahan 8, Joey Ueland 9, Josh Roesler 4.
Larimore: Travis Pearce 12, Carson Anderson 9, Kyle Kleven 7, Kyle Hunt-ley 6, Chris Arvin 8, Paul Peterson 1.
Squirrels remain unbeatenThe Central Cass Squirrels came
out on top of a 49-35 victory over the Fairmount-Campbell-Tintah Rebels Monday, Jan. 10.
The two teams were both unbeaten and had 6-0 records coming into the contest.
Central Cass built an 18-12 lead af-ter the first quarter.
The Squirrels gradually increased the lead to double digits and held it to the end to take the 49-35 win.
Courtney Dixon had a strong game inside for the Squirrels scoring a game high 20 points. Hannah Breske chipped in with 13 and Taylor Kraft added 10 for Central Cass.
Kraft also pulled down 10 rebounds and blocked five Rebels shots. Dixon added nine rebounds for the Squirrels.
Bethany Voss dished out six assists and Riley Camas had a pair of steals in the win.
The Rebels were led by Kenzie
Church with 12 points.Central Cass 18 30 40 49FCT 12 19 26 35
Central Cass: Riley Camas 2, Beth-any Voss 2, Hailey Weber 2, Taylor Kraft 10, Hannah Breske 13, Courtney Dixon 20.
Fairmount-Campbell-Tintah: Kate-lyn Campbell 6, Kenzie Church 12, Jamie Burlison 2, Paige Meyer 5, Han-nah Ross 6, Nicole Sikorski 4.
Sports January 12, 2011Cass County ReporterB-4
Ryan Toop, Casselton, is the new president of the Cottonwood Golf Club, Casselton.
Toop, who replaces Bill Rutz as club president, was elected to the office dur-ing a meeting of Cottonwood’s Board of Directors following the club’s annual meeting Wednesday, Jan. 5.
Other officers for 2011 are Ted Chizek, vice president, and Deb Bartholomay, secretary-treasurer. Other board members are David Narum and the newly-elected Troy Roesler.
Chizek and Roesler will head the board’s grounds committee, while Bartho-lomay and Narum are in charge of the clubhouse. Mike Utt will again serve as club manager and Ralph Nelson will be the course superintendent during the 2011 season.
Dues, cart rental fees and trail fees for 2011 will remain the same as last year. However, board members have decided to raise daily green fees by $2.00. This means green fees will be $12.00 for nine holes and $17.00 for 18 holes on Mon-day through Friday and $17.00 for nine holes and $24 for 18 holes on weekends this season.
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Muzzle Loaders Convention and Historical Trade Fair
Step back in time by attending the North Dakota Muzzle Loaders Convention and Historical Trade Fair. This event is a learning experience for all ages with displays and demonstrations of trades and crafts from the 1700’s and 1800’s. Vendors from several states will have historical items such as trade beads, black smithing, brain tanned leather, clothing, muzzleloaders, beeswax candles, and trade silver.
This year’s scheduled presentations include: foot powered wood lathe dem-onstration by historical re-enactor Roger Pilsner from Prentice WI, Traditional Muzzleloading, Trade Silver, and Primitive Fire Starting, an original Civil War cannon and Civil War era firearms display.
The trade fair will be held at the Agriculture Building on the Red River Valley Fairgrounds, West Fargo. This event is open to the public from 9:00 am through 5:00 p.m. Saturday and 10:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. Sunday, January 15-16. There will be a small admission fee. Children 12 and under free on Sunday.
Join us for this unique and historical learning event. For more information contact Darrell at 701-428-0104 or [email protected].
Lisbon too much for Northern CassIt was a cold night at Northern Cass High
School, but despite the Jaguars’ best effort to heat up the courts, the boys basketball team fell to Lis-bon 57-43.
The Broncos gained the lead early, and the score at the end of the first quarter was 6-12. The Broncos maintained that lead through the rest of the game, although the Jaguars tried to stage a comeback in the fourth quarter.
At the end of three, Lisbon led Northern Cass 40-20, but the Jaguars racked up 23 points in the fourth quarter to end the game with 43. The late rally wasn’t enough to top Lisbon, which an-swered with 17 points in the fourth to make the final score 57-43.
Twelve of Northern Cass’s points came from McKenzie Cargile, the only Northern Cass player to rack up double digits in scoring. Colton Hill
scored seven and Taylor Kyllo had five, while Ben Hudson and Spencer Symington had 4 each. Adam Teegarden, Joey Strauss and Maverick Syming-ton each scored three.
The Jaguars will face Richland 6:00 p.m. Thursday at the Richland High School.
Northern Cass 6 13 20 43Lisbon 12 32 40 57
Out of Boundsby Stephen Bartholomay
I read Steve Swiontek’s opin-ion piece in the Sunday Fargo Forum and realized that I dropped the ball, big time, in terms of coaching kids in Casselton.
Swiontek, the Devils Lake school superintendent and a North Dakota High School Activities Association board member, wrote about requir-ing anyone who coaches North Dakota kids in grades 7 through 12 to be certified by the fall of 2013.
Swiontek’s idea makes great sense. The plan he endorses would require junior high and high school girls’ and boys’ coaches to take an approved coaching fundamentals class, complete a Red Cross first aid course and high school federation-approved sports concussion training.
I’m not sure what a fundamen-tal of coaching class entails and I’m not sure I want to. Either you know the game or don’t. Besides, any coach worth a damn is go-ing to tell you that they know it all already. Just ask me. I’ll tell yah.
The second two requirements are the ones that interest me the most. I’ve been coaching junior high boys at Central Cass for four years and know next to nothing about what to do in the event that one of our players collapses or sustains some type of head injury.
I would think, too, that the lo-cal parks and rec director should have some basic medical train-ing as well, just in case a kid gets hit in the head by a ball dur-ing a summer league game.
The coaching landscape in North Dakota has changed some in the last 10 or 15 years. There are more coaches out there like me, people who enjoy being around the game and the kids and who have the time to take on additional duties in the winter.
More and more schools are hiring coaches from outside the system. Don’t ask me why. Maybe there aren’t as many teachers in-terested in coaching as there used to be, younger ones, especially.
There are also a lot of veteran teachers working who coached a variety of sports for a lot of years and finally said enough is enough. In case you didn’t notice, no one coaches for 30 years anymore, and who can blame them? The money isn’t great, it can eat up a lot of your free time and there can be headaches involved. Why hassle with all that if you don’t have to?
For those reasons and a variety of others, a lot of teachers aren’t coaching, which is where people like Nathan Scher, Nick Voss and I come in. We try to do the best we can with the junior high kids every day even though none of us are “trained” coaches certified by any athletic organization.
That probably should change, and if Swiontek and the rest of the high school activities associa-tion board have its way, it will.
I’m not going to wait until 2013, though. I’m going to try and find some time this winter to get first aid certified and concussion ap-proved, so if one of our kids gets hurt I have some idea about what to do, or not. Sometimes the ac-tions coaches don’t take in emer-gency situations are the ones that do our athletes the most good.
It will help in the parks, too, with things like our men’s winter basketball league, and all spring and summer long with our youth programs. I’m not always around when injuries happen, but I need to be prepared for the times I am on the field and something happens.
Some will argue that coaches, especially those working outside of school systems, won’t take the time or pay any extra fees to become certified. That’s garbage, in my opinion, and if coaches don’t want to take those steps to insure that our players are safe, they shouldn’t be on the sidelines in the first place.
If it’s good for the kids, we need to make it happen.
State B boys tickets go on sale Jan. 19
Tickets for the 2011 State Class B Boys Basketball Tournament open to the general public for purchase Wednesday, Jan. 19 at noon.
All purchases are final and nonre-fundable for the tournament, which is set for March 3-5, 2011 at the Minot State University Dome.
Tickets can be purchased in four ways.
*Customers who choose to use the internet can log on to (www.msudome.com) and follow the instructions pro-vided.
*Ticket orders may be made by phone by calling the Minot State Ath-letic Department at 701-858-3041.
*There will be walk up sales begin-ning at noon Wednesday, Jan. 19 and running Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. following the initial date at the MSU Athletic Department main office at the MSU Dome.
*Finally, customers can order tick-ets by mail by sending a check payable to “ND State Boys BB Tournament”
postmarked on or after Tuesday, Jan. 18, to the following address:
Rick HedbergAthletic DirectorMinot State University500 University Ave WMinot, ND 58707When ordering tickets by mail,
there is a handling and shipping fee. Please include your mailing address, the number/type of tickets requested and add the fee to your check. Any requests postmarked prior to Jan. 18 will be returned unfilled. There is a limit of eight tickets per individual and all purchases are final and nonre-fundable.
Sessions for the 2011 tournament are Thursday, March 3 and Friday, March 4 begin at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5 sessions are set for 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.
For more information and to view a seating map, please log on to (www.msudome.com) or call the MSU Ath-letic Department office at 701-858-
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Craig Kyllo (44) shoots a layup early in the first quarter.Cody Quittschreiber (11) shoots after making a break down the court against Lisbon.
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ESTATE AUCTION
TRACTOR & BLADE 1977 JD 2640, diesel, open station, ROPS, 70 hp., 8 spd., 4 reverse, 2 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, 15-5-38 sgls, JD 146 hyd. loader & bucket, 1,853 actual hrs. Box blade, 10’, hyd. lift, fits JD 2640
TRAILERS 2006 Haulmark Thrifty Hauler tandem axle enc. trailer, 16’x 8-1/2’, rear swing door, front side door, slight hail damage on one side Spartan sgl axle trailer, 5’x8’
LAWN TRACTOR & GOLF CART
JD F911 with front deck mower Yamaha golf cart, gas engine SHOP EQUIPMENT&TOOLS
Woodworking lathe Shop Smith planer & multi workstation, band saw, fence B&D chop saw PowerCraft power band saw Woodworking tools Shop Master planer Bench&floor model drill presses Little Giant Ultra Step&ladder Syst. Sears Craftsman tool chest
Delta crossbox toolbox Composite Lock toolbox Generac generator, 4000 watt Century AC/DC welder Oxyacetylene torch set Kamas portable parts washer Homelite 330 chainsaw DeWalt rotary hammer drill, torque screwdriver, 18VXR impact, 1/2”, 18v circle saw, plate jointer Porta Cable router Drill Doctor bit sharpener DeWalt purge router Craftsman 19v jig saw Hyd. jack, Clark shop vac, B&D chop saw, Work Sharp wood tool sharpener, power sander, grinder, & large asst. of tools
ALL CLAD COOKWARE 10 piece set including 10” sauté w/lid, 11” skillet w/lid, 8” sauté w/lid, 4 qt. & 2 qt. sauce pans w/lids New 12” round grill pan Sauce pans, boilers, sauté pans, dbl steamer stacks, stir fry pan, skillets, fryer/strainer, pasta pot, slow cooker & more
FARM SUPPORT ITEMS
KITCHENWARE & SMALL APPLIANCES
Includes names brands of Le Creuset, Capresso, Weston, Krups, Pyrex, & more
GUNS 1991 Ducks Unlimited Beretta Model A390 ST semi-auto shotgun, 28” barrel, 12 gauge, 3”, new, never fired Ducks Unlimited Winchester Model 1300 pump shotgun, 12 gauge, camo composite stock, 2-3/4”-3” Winchester Model 1200 pump shotgun, 3” Marlin 15YN rifle, .22 cal. Marlin Model 780 rifle, .22 cal. w/Weatherby 4x50 scope&3 clips (2) gun cases
COLLECTIBLES Wildlife prints by Jim Hansel, R Colebrook Keirstead, Robert K. Abbett, Geoff Hager, Terry Redlin, James Hautman Ducks Unlimited Items Fishing items, lg asst. of books & magazines, Versatile toy tractors & much more!
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Crop return projections positive for 2011Strong crop prices more than offset higher costs
to project profit for 2011 in all regions of North Da-kota, according to Andy Swenson, North Dakota State University Extension Service farm manage-ment specialist.
Another positive revenue factor is that crop yields have been increasing through time. For example, in the east-central region, the yield used for wheat in-creased from 34 bushels per acre in the 2006 budget to 44 bushels per acre in the 2011 budget. The pro-jected corn yield increased from 89 to 104 bushels per acre during this period. However, soybeans re-mained flat at 30 bushels per acre.
However, soybeans projected the best profit in the northern and southern Red River Valley and the southeastern and east-central regions because of a strong soybean price and substantially less fertilizer costs relative to wheat or corn. Corn was competitive with soybeans in these regions. Wheat ranked third in the northern Red River Valley, with a $66 return to labor and management. Confectionery sunflowers ranked third in the southeastern and southern Red River Valley regions, followed by wheat.
Canola looks best in the northeastern region with an $83 return to labor and management, followed by confectionery sunflowers, flax, soybeans, malting barley and wheat, with returns from $76 to $57 per acre. The top five ranked crops in the south-central region (confectionery sunflowers, soybeans, malting barley, canola and winter wheat) project returns to labor and management greater than $60 per acre.
Lentils project returns close to $100 in the north-central and western regions. Small chickpeas and corn in the western regions and confection sunflow-ers and soybeans in the north-central region look strong.
However, corn in the western regions has high production risks, and crop insurance is only avail-able by written agreement. Other crops projecting returns to labor and management greater than $50 per acre are malting barley and canola in the north-western region, malting barley in the southwestern region, and canola, malting barley, dry beans, flax and winter wheat in the north-central region.
“A negative for 2011 are costs,” Swenson says. “Production costs have been a roller-coaster the past few years. On average, total costs per acre were up nearly 30 percent in 2008, fairly level in 2009 and declined about 10 percent in 2010. In 2011, total costs are projected to increase about 15 to 20 percent for canola and small grains, such as barley, wheat, durum and oats; 10 to 15 percent for corn, sunflow-ers and flax; and 5 to 10 percent for soybeans, dry beans, lentils and field peas.”
Fertilizer is the main cost culprit, with producer outlays expected to be 50 percent greater than last year. Fuel and crop insurance expenditures probably will increase by 20 percent or more. Seed costs are mixed. For example, projected seed price increases are 40 percent for flax, 30 percent for small grains and about seven percent for canola but only three percent for soybeans. Corn and field pea seed will be
nearly unchanged, and dry bean seed will cost less than one year ago.
On average, pesticide prices will be similar to last year. However, with good profit potential, it is ex-pected that producers will be more willing to spray and/or select better products to protect their crops.
Swenson cautions that projections are best guesses at a point in time (Dec.15). One year ago, projections for 2010 were substantially lower than current projections for 2011. However, yields and prices were better than projected for 2010.
“Yields and crop prices will, as usual, be the main wild cards in determining the accuracy of 2011 pro-jections,” Swenson says. “I encourage producers to develop their own budgets. It also is important to evaluate your crop insurance and consider the finan-cial downside risk, as well as the upside potential of different possible yields and prices.”
It is important to note, when considering crop selection, that these budgets do not provide a pure apples-to-apples comparison among crops. Differ-ences in operator labor and management require-ments, and in production and marketing risk, are not considered. Also, rotational advantages, such as nitrogen credits for soybeans and pulse crops, and rotational disadvantages, such as the potential some crops have for disease buildup, are not considered.
The budgets are available on the Web at http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ecguides.html and county NDSU Extension Service offices.
Richards named 2011 ASA/DuPont Young Leaders
The American Soybean Association and Pioneer Hi-Bred Intl., Inc., a Du-Pont business, are pleased to announce Ryan and Jessica Richard, Horace, have been named 2011 ASA/DuPont Young Leaders. They were chosen to represent North Dakota in a program involving producer participants from 22 other states and Canada.
The ASA/DuPont Young Leader Program targets soybean farmers who are innovative, assertive, “young in leadership” and looking to make their mark in agriculture. Now in its 28th year, the program has a tremendous record of success. Program alumni have assumed significant leadership responsibilities in state and national soybean associations and promotion boards as well as national, regional, and state agricultural organizations. Nearly all are making a difference in agriculture, by ensuring the voice of the American farmer is being heard.
The 2011 class of ASA/DuPont Young Leaders participated in a chal-lenging and educational leadership
development experience December 5-8, 2010, at Pioneer headquarters in Johnston, IA. This four-day seminar included advocacy and media training, group casework on soybean industry policy issues, communication style analysis, presentations on the econo-my, biotechnology, soybean traits and product development, and tours of Pioneer’s research facilities. Partici-pants also gave presentations on their farm operation, and networked with the other producers and their spouses, from around the country and Canada. Class members will complete Phase II of their training March 1-5, 2011 in Tampa, Florida, in conjunction with the annual Commodity Classic Con-vention & Trade Show. Young Lead-ers will receive leadership recognition awards at the ASA Awards Banquet Friday, March 4, rounding out a full week of learning, networking, and personal growth.
Grain dealers to convene in FargoThe North Dakota Grain Dealers
Association will hold its 99th Annual Convention & Industry Show at the Fargo Holiday Inn Jan. 16-18. Ap-proximately 950 people are expected for the event, consisting of grain eleva-tor managers, farmers, grain industry personnel, suppliers and spouses. The meeting includes educational sessions, business meetings, and a trade show of 82 companies providing products and services to the grain industry.
Program topics and speakers in-clude:
• Regulatory compliance, with an emphasis on OSHA - Mike Maslowski with OSHA’s Area Office in Bismarck and Stu Letcher, NDGDA Safety and Health Director.
• Protecting the business when dealing with a bankrupt party - Lowell Bottrell, Fargo bankruptcy attorney.
• Grain elevator relationships with railroads, domestic grain companies and exporters - John Brooks, GM, US Grain & BioFuels, CP Railway; Rick Dusek Manager, North American Grain Desk, CHS; and Kip Callahan, Vice President, Columbia Grain Inter-national.
• Health insurance in an era of more federal control - Grain Dealers Insurance Consultant Ralph Botnen and Ray Sanders, ND Blue Cross Blue Shield.
The Association is governed by a nine-man board of elevator managers from around the state. Current As-sociation officers, directors, and staff are:
Dan DeRouchey, Berthold, presi-dent; Paul Lautenschlager, Beach, first vice president; David Fiebiger, Finley, second vice president; Roger Wagner, Grafton, director; Cameron Erickson, Russell, director;
Carrol Duerr, Colfax, director; Steve Hepper, Bismarck, director; My-ron Jepson, Oakes, director; Joe Peter-son, Bowbells, director; Steve Strege, Fargo, executive vice president;
Cheryal Welle, Fargo, executive as-sistant; Stu Letcher, Hatton, safety & health director; Hal Grieve, Buffalo, sr. safety specialist; Ned Davis, Wen-dell, Minn., safety specialist; Sue Ben-son, Fargo, office assistant.
The NDGDA office address is 118 Broadway N., Suite 606, Fargo, ND 58102.
NRCS extends sign-up periodNatural Resources Conservation Ser-
vice (NRCS) State Conservationist Paul Sweeney today announced the ranking period cut-off date for producer applica-tions in NRCS’s Conservation Steward-ship Program (CSP) has been extended from Jan. 7 to Jan. 21, 2011.
“We’re extending the deadline for applications to CSP to provide agricul-tural producers more time to complete their applications,” said Sweeney. “This will help farmers and ranchers by giv-ing them more time and hopefully allow even more producers to participate in this program.”
CSP provides many conservation benefits including improvement of water and soil quality, wildlife habitat enhancement and adoption of conser-vation activities. All producers are en-couraged to apply for CSP. The program, authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill, offers payments to producers who maintain a high level of conservation on their land and who agree to adopt higher levels of stewardship. Eligible lands include
cropland, pastureland, rangeland and non-industrial forestland.
Financial and technical assistance offered through CSP will help producers improve, manage, or maintain the con-servation practices currently on their property, as well as help plan for the future.
Please contact your local NRCS office for more information or visit the North Dakota NRCS Web site at http://www.nd.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/.
Soybean producers interested in in-tensive soybean management should plan to attend one of four Getting it Right meetings scheduled for Wyndmere, Car-rington, Cando and Valley City.
At the meetings, North Dakota State University Extension Service faculty and staff will discuss soybean research and 2011 production.
“These are soybean educational meetings that can help producers with soybean production decisions and an-swer questions about soybean man-agement for 2011,” says Hans Kandel, NDSU Extension agronomist.
The meeting dates are:*Tuesday, Jan. 25, from 10:30 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. at the Wyndmere Commu-nity Center
*Wednesday, Jan. 26, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Carrington Re-search Extension Center meeting room
*Thursday, Jan. 27, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Cando Armory
*Friday, Jan. 28, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Valley City Eagles Club
Sam Markell, NDSU Extension pa-thologist, will provide an update on the disease outlook for 2011 and results from field research conducted in 2010. Two topics covered will be an update on soybean cyst nematode and how to manage white mold in soybeans. Markell will team-teach with Michael Wunsch, NDSU plant pathologist at the Carrington REC. Kandel will address variety selection, the latest information about iron chlorosis prevention, impor-tance of good nodulation, fertility issues and water management.
Greg Endres or Lionel Olson, NDSU area Extension specialists/cropping systems, will discuss intensive soybean management, no-till and strip-till versus conventional-till planting rates, planting dates, plant populations, seed sizes, dif-ferent soybean production products on the market and weed management is-sues. NDSU Extension county agents Julie Hassebroek (Wyndmere), Joel Lemer (Carrington), Crystal Martodam (Cando) and Randy Grueneich (Valley City) will be the hosts and provide local crop updates.
The programs and lunches are spon-sored by the North Dakota Soybean Council, which oversees promotion, re-search and marketing programs funded by soybean check-off dollars.
The programs are free and open to the public. Preregistration is not neces-sary.
NDSU schedules meeting for soy-bean producers
Public Notices/Classifieds January 12, 2011Cass County ReporterB-6
STOP DRIVING TO FARGONorthwest Tire has two full-time openings. Ideal candidates should
be career minded, have good math and customer service skills. Forklift experience and a CDL a plus. Must be able to regularly lift
50 pounds and pass a pre-employment drug screening.
TIRE TECHNICIANApplicants will be responsible for performing
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Northwest Tire offers a competitive wage and benefit package:• 401K • Paid Holidays • Paid Vacation •Sick Leave • Blue Cross/Blue Shield
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RN or LPNSheyenne Care Center has openings for full time RNs or LPNs for the evening and night shifts. We pay an additional $.25 per hour for eveings and $1.00 per hour for working nights. There
is also a $4,000 sign on bonus.Contact Emily Peterson at the Sheyenne Care Center
(701) 845-8247 or Email : [email protected] can be picked up at 979 Central Ave. N., Valley City
or by going on line at www.sheyennecarecenter.com.
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The Buffalo City Council held their regu-lar meeting January 3, 2011. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Mjor at 6:00 p.m. Council present were Babcock, Beilke, Jager, and Richman. Employees present were Audi-tor Beilke and PWS Howitz. Also present were three visitors.
The following motions were made and ap-proved unanimously (unless otherwise stat-ed):
•To approve the December 6, 2010 min-utes.
•To approve the agenda as stated.•To pay the bills as follows: Cass Rural Water, $1,599.08; CC Reporter,
$36.45; City of Fargo, $14.00; Dakota Plains Coop, $131.17; ICTC, $119.99;
KG Repair, $180.19; Metro Disposal, $1,616.00; ND One Call, $3.90; Ohnstad Twichell, $250.00; Ottertail, $929.40;
Xcel, $122.98; Wanglers, $2.32; Lisa Beil-ke, $3.29; Mike Mjor, $20.08; Thelma Hinrichs, $9.42; Payroll, $4,492.50.
•To approve appointment of Jodi Combs and Ione Johnson to the Library Board.
•To invoice Phil Weshnevski for the Moore Engineering bill, through certified mail; MC (3-yes, 2-no).
•To increase the garbage rate $5.00.•To recognize receipt of the ND Rural Wa-
ters Drought Management Plan.•To estimate water meter readings Janu-
ary through March.•To recognize employees with a gift cer-
tificate.•To remove tabled items.Other items of interest: The increase in
the monthly garbage charge from Metro Dis-posal to the city effective January 2011 will be $564 ($6,768 per year). Citizens are concerned about the amount of snow this year and poten-tial spring flooding issues.
Motion to adjourn at 9:06 p.m. Next regu-lar council meeting is February 7, 2011 at 6 p.m.
Lisa BeilkeCity Auditor(Minutes are condensed for publication)___________________________________
The Kindred City Council held their regu-lar meeting January 5, 2011. Mayor Lunder called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. with council members Schock, Grossnickle and Wolf present. Wanner was absent. Also attending were PWS Ken Blilie, CPA Harold Rotunda and City Auditor Twila Morrison. Guests were Amanda Gades, Bob Clarke, Kitty Blilie and Ron Ness.
Meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. The following motions were made and carried unanimously unless otherwise recorded.
*To approve the minutes of December 1, 2010 and December 2, 2010.
*To approve the financials and unpaid bills of $49,030.11.
*To approve Kindred Wildlife raffle permit request and Dewey’s offsite permit request.
*To approve the Cass County Sheriff con-tract for 2011.
*To cover registration fee for Mark Erick-son to attend the RR Basin Conference.
Checks and bills approved:Advanced Business Methods, $162.18;
AFLAC, $241.15; CCEC, $882.00; Cass County Treasurer, $8,946.93; CC Reporter, $46.17;
Cass Rural Water, $4,467.75; Dacotah Paper, $67.41; Dakota Hills Electric, $210.93; Dawson Ins., $5,131.00; Display Sales, $51.03;
Express Lane, $221.11; Harold Rotun-da, $2,800.00; KNDPA, $170.00; Laneys, $22,650.00; Moore Engineering, $231.76;
MFOA, $30.00; ND Rural Water, $75.00; ND Water Users, $100.00; Ohnstad Twichell, $1,400.00; Reardon, $143,77; Rustads, $944.00;
State Fire and Tornado, $10.66; Verizon, $47.26.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:04 p.m. The next regular council meeting is Febru-ary 2, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at City Hall. (Agenda deadline is noon Wednesday the week prior.)
(Minutes subject to Council approval. Min-utes summarized. Full detail available by re-quest or at www.cityofkindrednd.com.)
Twila Morrison,City Auditor__________________________________
Motion made and carried to adjourn the Dec. 4, 2010 meeting of the Leonard City Council. The Jan. 4, 2011 meeting was called to order by Mayor Ryan Johnson. Lamberson, Hahn and Jacobson present.
Secretary and treasurers repors read and approved.
Motion by Hahn to approve the Change or-der No. 3 in the amount of $6,949.45, seconded by Lamberson. Motion carried.
Motion by Lamberson to approve Partial Payment No. 5 to Quam Construction in the amount of $103,818.45, seconded by Jacobson. Motion carried.
Motion by Hahn to approve two bill-ings from Ohnstad-Twichill in the amount of $5,813.80, seconded by Jacobson. Motion car-ried.
Motion by Hahn to approve payment to Moore Engineering in the amount of $17,400.15, seconded by Lamberson. Motion carried.
Motion made and carried to adjust the Tax Exemption for Damon Disrud storage building to a five year exemption.
Auditor will advertise for a part-time per-son for snow removal from Nov. to April.
Motion made and carried to pay the Au-ditor and Mayor $1,000.00 each for the extra time spent on the Sewer Replacement Project.
No report from the Cass County Sheriffs Dept. this month.
Following bills approved to be paid;Camas Sand and Gravel, $660.00; ND
Dept. of Transportation, $397.64; Cass Co. Electric, $1,264.00; Metro Disposal, $1,318.00; Cass County Reporter, $79.64;
Sheyenne Valley Lumber, $137.12; N.D. One Call, $68.00; Farm Plan, $130.94; M. Wendling, $318.90; R. Johnson, $221.28;
Bills Classics, $50.00; R. Johnson, $160.39; T. Jacobson, $200.00; O. Johnson, $200.00; T. Jacobson, $239.64;
Cullin Ind., $1,905.00; M. Hahn, $207.57; M. Wendling, $1,000.00; R. Johnson, $1,000.00.
Meeting recessed.Next meeting will be Monday, Feb. 7, 2011
at 7 p.m.M. WendlingAuditor___________________________________
An emergency storm meeting of the Ma-pleton City Council was requested by Mayor Mark Anderson December 31, 2010. Present were Anderson, Hillman, Dell, and Kartes. Absent: Dietz (not notified). Others present were Saari, Fire Department: Warner, Han-son, Nogosek, Kading, and other members.
Purpose: coordinate efforts ensuring needs of the city met during blizzard, after, and Fire Dept. concerns future emergency situations.
Discussions and determinations made.Generators:Community Center - placed permanently
on cement slab - ASAP 2011. Fencing or enclo-sure considerations at that time.
Sanitary Lift Stations - in place during power outages, minimum three hours, depend-ing on development served.
Mayor’s recommendation - checked at least hourly to ensure running and operational with manning schedule established at hookup time.
Fire Department - training on hookup and operation before spring thaw with absolution of liability if damage incurred.
Communication:Fire Chief Warner designated Emergency
Manager and work closely with mayor during emergencies.
Modes before and during emergencies include: E-mail blasts, website notifications, newsletters, water bill notes, Media news out-lets, phone call center and potentially Code Red notifications.
Removal PW for snow removal or other critical functions.
Office staffed to receive calls.Equipment and Fuel:City Shop: PW and portfolio holder de-
termine bulk tank size (per regulation) current tank too small to service generators & equip-ment during times of power outages. Mayor suggested old pump house as secondary loca-tion (can be heated) with 250 gal. Min.
City: assign and provide debit or credit cards to Fire Dept and City for emergency fuel and purchases. Office staff to research. No in-dividual name assignment.
Chains - dump truck: Hillman purchase ASAP. Care in frequency of use to avoid dam-age to streets. (next agenda)
To enforce existing ordinance rules regard-ing Emergency Snow Route parking, installa-tion of signs designating Emergency Snow Routes.
City Emergency Response Plan:Mayor and Fire Chief/Emergency Man-
ager will create emergency city response plan. County Plan used when needed.
Review of other community response plans incorporating relevant items into Mapleton plan.
Particular areas of concern: Established command centerCommunication system to accommodate all
areas of need, (community notifications, media outlet notifications, security/law enforcement, and fire department communications).
Other areas of concern:Community Center readiness – Hospital-
ity Center: Kitchen supplies. Replacement tables. Re-
pairing electrical circuits, possibly public bed-ding options.
Cleaning after local usage (next agenda).Creating list of local individuals/families
to donate time, resources, and facilities.Expense list purchases for approval/disap-
proval (next agenda). Supplies for permanent placement of gen-
erator behind Community Center:Concrete, rebar, fencing, and building sup-
plies. (Larry Dell)Code Red fees (Denise H, Anderson)150 gallon bulk storage tank (alternate
storage site if 250 gal tank too large for city shop) (Klatt, Kartes)
250 gallon storage tank (inside shop if al-lowed) in lieu of 2 --125 gallon tanks (Klatt, Kartes)
Debit/Credit card fees (Mary, Sara)Chains for Plow (Hillman)Emergency Snow Route SignsKitchen supplies (primarily pots, pans,
utensils)Replacement Tables (up to 10 at $150/
table max) (medium quality) (Klatt, Kartes)Electrician bill for investigating/repairing
kitchen and fire hall circuits (Klatt, Dell)Mark AndersonMayor Eric HillmanPresident____________________________
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF CASS COUNTY,
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTAProbate No. 09-2010-PR-324
In the Matter of the Estate of Florence M. Anderson, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORSNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within three months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be presented to Sherri L. Polansky, Personal Representative of the Estate, c/o Jean P. Hanning & Associ-ates, P.A., One North Second Street, Suite 122, Fargo, ND 58012, or filed with the Court.
Dated this 5th day of January, 2011. /s/ Sherri L. Polansky, Personal Representative of The Estate of Florence M. Anderson, deceased
Jean P. HannigND License Number: 04316Hannig & Associates, P.A.One North Second Street, Suite 122P.O. Box 2707Fargo, ND 58108-2707(701) 232-5051Fax (701) 232-8040Attorney for Personal Representative
(January 12, 2011)______________________
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Separate sealed bids for Construction work for the new Kindred High School, will be received by the Kindred Public School District at the office of Superintendent, Kindred Pub-lic Schools, 55 1st Avenue South, Kindred ND 58051-4027 until 2:00 p.m. local time Thurs-day, January 20, 2010.
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2A EARTHWORK2C PAVING AND SURFACING2E SITE UTILITIES2H LANDSCAPING3A CONCRETE – BUILDING3C PRECAST CONCRETE – MATERIALS3D PRECAST CONCRETE – ERECTION4 MASONRY5A STRUCTURAL STEEL – MATERIALS5B STRUCTURAL STEEL – ERECTION6A GENERAL WORK AND LABOR6C MILLWORK - MATERIALS6D SCIENCE ROOM MILLWORK - MATERIALS7A MOISTURE PROTECTION7C EXTERIOR INSULATION FINISH SYSTEM7G SEALANTS8A HARDWARE / DOORS / FRAMES8C OVERHEAD DOORS8E GLASS & GLAZING / ALUMINUM FRAMES9B DRYWALL9C TILEWORK9D TERRAZZO (ALTERNATE)9E ACOUSTICAL9F WOOD FLOORING SYSTEMS9G RESILIENT FLOORING / CARPET9I PAINTING10A METAL LOCKERS - MATERIALS11B ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT11D THEATRICAL STAGE EQUIPMENT12B WINDOW TREATMENTS – MATERIALS & INSTALLATION12C BLEACHERS13 PREMANUFACTURED GREENHOUSE14 STAGE LIFT21 BUILDING SPRINKLER22 PLUMBING23A HVAC23B GEOTHERMAL25 TEMPERATURE CONTROLS26 ELECTRICAL
The Information to Bidders, Form of Bid, Form of Contract, Form of Bid Bond, Form of Performance Payment Bond, Drawings, Speci-fications, and other contract documents may be examined at the following places: The office of Steve Hall, Superintendent, Kindred, ND; Zerr Berg Architects, Inc., Fargo, North Da-kota; MBA Development Co. – the Construc-tion Manager, Fargo, ND; and the Builders Ex-changes of Fargo, Bismarck, Minot, and Grand Forks, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Da-kota; Minneapolis, St. Paul, F.W. Dodge Com-pany, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Copies may be obtained at the office of MBA Development. Co, located at 505 North Broadway, Fargo, North Dakota upon pay-ment of $150.00 for each set. Any unsuccessful bidder, upon returning such in good condition within 15 days, will be refunded his payment.
The Owner reserves the right to waive any informality or to reject any or all bids.
Each bid shall be accompanied by a sepa-rate envelope containing a bidders bond in a sum equal to five percent (5%) of the full amount of the bid, executed by the bidder as principal and by a surety company authorized to do business in this state, conditioned that if the principal’s bid be accepted and the contract awarded to the principal, within ten days after notice of award, the principal will execute and effect a contract in accordance with the terms of the bid and a contractors bond as required by law the regulations and determinations of the governing board.
All bidders must be licensed for the high-est amount of their bids, as approved by Sec-tion 43-07-05 of North Dakota Century Code. A copy of the bidder’s contractors license must be included in the bid bond envelope.
No bid will be read or considered which does not fully comply with the above provisions as to bond and licenses, and any deficient bid submitted will be resealed and returned to the bidder immediately.
No bidder may withdraw this bid within 30 days after the actual date of the opening thereof.
BY Steve Hall Superintendent December 20, 2010
(December 29, 2010, January 5 and12, 2011)____________________________
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Notice is hereby given that the Maple-ton Park District of Mapleton, North Dakota, will meet at Mapleton City Hall, 651 2nd St, Mapleton, ND 58059 at 9:00 a.m. on the 27th day of January, 2011 for the purpose of open-ing bids for the construction of Maple Pointe Playground Improvement District #2010-1; in accordance with the plans and specifications which are on file with the Mapleton Park Dis-trict of said City and Moore Engineering, Inc. Bids will be received until the above set forth time.
Digital project bidding documents will be available at www.mooreengineeringinc.com/bidinfo or www.questcdn.com. You may down-load the complete set of digital documents for a nonrefundable fee of $20.00 by locating eBid-Doc™ #1429003 on the website. Please con-tact QuestCDN.com at 952-233-1632 or [email protected] for assistance in free member-ship registration, downloading and working with this digital project information. An op-tional paper set of project documents is also available for a nonrefundable price of $100.00 per set. Please make your check payable to Docunet Corporation and send it to 2435 Xe-nium Lane North, Plymouth, MN 55441. You may contact Docunet at 763-475-9600 if you have any questions.
The work includes the following approxi-mate quantities:
Base Bid1 Each Tower; 1 Each Frame Swing; 2
Each Spring Rider; 2 Each Picnic Table; 455 S.Y. Topsoil - Stripping & Spreading; 80 L.F. Pipe - 4” Perforated PVC; 65 L.F. Pipe - 4” Solid PVC; 2 Each Concrete Pipe Collar; 400 S.Y. Geotextile Separation Fabric; 135 C.Y. Pea Rock Base; 240 L.F. Surfacing Border; 45 L.F. Water Service Line - 1”; 1 Each Corpora-tion - 1”; 1 Each Curb Stop & Box - 1”; 1 Each Yard Hydrant - 1”; 1 Each Sign - Entrance; 17 S.Y. Erosion Control Blanket - NDDOT ECB 2; 1,600 S.Y. Seeding; 1,600 S.Y. Seeding - Hy-dromulch and other miscellaneous items.
Alternate Bid810 S.F. Sidewalk - Concrete; 100 S.Y.
Topsoil - Stripping & Spreading and other mis-cellaneous items.
Bids must show the total bid for all pro-posal quantities. Any contract award shall be on the basis of the amount of the total bid or base bid only and shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. One contract will be awarded.
Each bid must be accompanied by a sepa-rate envelope containing a bidder’s bond in a sum equal to five percent of the full amount of the bid executed by the bidder as principal and by a surety, conditioned that if the principal’s bid is accepted and a contract is awarded to the principal, the principal, within 10 days after notice of the award, shall execute a contract in accordance with the terms of the bid and a contractor’s bond as required by law. A coun-tersignature of a bid bond is not required un-der that section. Each bidder must be licensed for the full amount of the bid. A copy of the contractor’s license or certificate of renewal shall be in a separate envelope attached to the outside of the bidding document.
No bid may be read or considered if it does not fully comply with the requirements of Section 48-01.2-05 of the North Dakota Cen-tury Code and that any deficient bid submitted must be resealed and returned to the bidder immediately.
The work for said project shall be complet-ed by June 1, 2011.
The Mapleton Park District reserves the right to hold all bids for a period of forty-five (45) days after the date fixed for the opening thereof, and to reject any or all bids and to waive any irregularities.
Dated this 15th day of December, 2010.Denise HansenSecretaryMapleton, North Dakota
(January 12 and 19, 2011)____________________________
IN THE DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CASS,
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTAIN RE: THE NAME CHANGE OF ALICE
DAWDSON
NOTICE OF NAME CHANGECivil No. 09-2010-CV-04402
Walter Lee Tufte, Petitioner.
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE1. That on or about December 16, 2010
a verified petition was filed in the above en-titled court for an order changing the name of Walter Lee Tufte, Petitioner, residing at 1114 Main Avenue #5, Fargo, North Dakota to Alice Dawdson.
2. Any objections to the change of name of Walter Lee Tufte to Alice Dawdson should be filed in writing with the Clerk of the Dis-trict Court at the Cass County Courthouse, 211 Ninth Street South, PO Box 2806, Fargo, North Dakota, on or before February 28, 2011.
Dated this 7th day of January, 2011.Alisha Ankers118 Broadway N., Suite 812Black BuildingFargo, North Dakota 58102(701) 476-6578Attorney for PetitionerNorth Dakota ID# 4975
(January 12, 2011)______________________
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Question: The produce manager I spoke with at the grocery store said the yams in the store are definitely yams, not sweet potatoes. He said the yams come in many different sizes and grades, depending on the soil and climate where they are grown. He says sweet potatoes have less color and the flesh is more firm than yams. The sweet potato is the more nutritious of the two. They seem to me to come in various shapes and bake well. Can you confirm this information with a produce manager where you and your wife shop? (e-mail reference)
Answer: This discussion prob-ably will go on forever but never be resolved. There is a website at http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/sweetpotato.html that may or may not clear up this confusion. There is a more technical description of these two vegetables at http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-23-a.html. This website at http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_dif-ference_between_a_sweet_pota to_and_a_yam also does a commend-able job of explaining the differences. What’s my take on all of this? We are eating sweet potatoes 99.5 percent of the time in the U.S. I had this ham-mered into my thick skull while at the University of Georgia working on my master’s degree. Yes, they are called yams, but botanically they are sweet potatoes, so “a sweet potato by any other name still is a sweet potato.” I’ll check with the produce manage at our local grocery store the next time we’re there to see what name the store is us-ing.
Question: We have a tall Norway spruce in our front yard. It’s a great tree, but during the last couple of months, it has been shedding newer growth. We were told it was squirrels, but we haven’t seen much squirrel ac-tivity in the tree. Could the tree just be old? I would really like to keep the tree if possible. (e-mail reference)
Answer: It takes just an army of one red squirrel to do the damage. I don’t know why squirrels pick on a particular tree unless it has some-thing to do with their brains telling them to gnaw on something. Try to distract the squirrel with some corn or peanuts in a shell. Squirrels love that stuff, so they will give up working
on your tree to savor the good taste of the peanuts or corn. If or when you observe the furry friend eating the peanuts or corn, you can set a live trap and do whatever you wish from that point on.
Question: I came across your name while searching for possible causes for the bad condition of my blue spruce trees. I am hoping you can help determine what may be wrong. I noticed this summer and fall that one of my trees is much sparser on the backside (facing west). The other three trees also are not as full but not as bad. The trees don’t get any sun on the west side due to heavily wooded trees near the spruce trees. I suspect needle cast disease is the problem and have attached some photos for you to look at. Thank you in advance for any insight you may have. (e-mail refer-ence)
Answer: I could not detect from your photos whether this is a disease of any kind. However, evergreens don’t thrive under deciduous tree canopies. I would encourage you to contact a Michigan State University Extension agent in your area to get a better diagnosis.
Question: Our Santa Rosa plum tree fruited this season. There are about 100 green plums on the leafless tree. Should I pull them off? (e-mail reference)
Answer: Yes, remove them. They will not mature in time for consump-tion and will be an energy drain on the tree.
Question: I found something weird in some tomatoes I bought at the store. When I sliced one of them, I looked at the seeds and saw that they were sprouting. It was one of the to-matoes on the vine in the store. I am curious about why this happened. (e-mail reference)
Answer: This is not unusual but also not common. The tomato was overripe and ready to propagate itself. My bet is that it didn’t taste very great, either.
To contact Ron Smith for answers to your questions, write to Ron Smith, NDSU Department of Plant Sciences, Dept. 7670, Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108-6050 or e-mail [email protected].
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Red Baron Loungeand Pizza Pub
The 100% Real Cheese Pizza Place
Downtown Casselton
347-4333
The RED BARONCasselton’s Beer, Wine, Liquor & Pizza Pub
Saturday, February 12th
Karaoke by Litton Entertainment
MONDAYS - $3 Pounders of BeerTUESDAYS - Colorado Bulldogs $3.50
WEDNESDAYS - Captain Morgans $2.25THURSDAYS - Lynchburg Lemonade $3.50FRIDAYS - Import & Specialty Beers $2.75SATURDAYS - Long Island Iced Teas $2.60
Coors Light Chili Cook OffComing:
Vets ClubCasselton, ND
347-5502ALWAYS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Casselton Boostersstop in after games! Wear your red &
enter weekly & monthly drawings!
$3 POUNDERSATURDAYS
2pm - Close
SUPER SUPPERS
Friday, Jan. 14 @ 7:30
TRIVIA
Thursday, Jan. 13 @ 6:30pm
Free Darts - MondaysFree Pool - WednesdaysWednesday, January 12
MeatballsMonday, January 17
Soup & SandwichWednesday, January 19
Liver or Ham
Served @ 6pm
Coming! Fri., Jan. 21Brother Jukebox8:30pm - 12:30am
Sat., Jan. 22Below Zero to Hero
Motorcyle RunDonations go to homeless vets.
Come & support the riders! 2:00pm at the Vets Club.
No Bingo Saturday!
H a p p y H o u r :Monday - Friday: 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Tuesday Nights $1.50B u r g e r N i g h t
In-house only
DEWEY’S BAR & GRILL
KINDRED, ND 428-3331
OPEN SUNDAYS! Noon - 6pm
P u l l t a b sFree Texas Hold’emThursdays @ 7:30 pm
Gaming byARC
COMING!
B I N G O Tues @ 7:30 & Sat @ 4:30
Saturday, Jan. 15
Karaoke by Karaoke Lady
9pm - 1am
January 29Karaoke by
Bakko Meg-A-Mix9pm - 1am
*Free water park pass with purchase of meal
4pm - Close
(next to Governors’ Inn)
701-347-4544
6AM - 9PM7 Days a Week
Every Wednesday!Family Fun
Night
2 Conference Rooms available! Book your next
gathering today!HAPPY HOUR: M-F: 4 - 6pm
620 Front Street, Casselton • 347-4431
Major Brand Beer Sale!All Major Brands $19.50+ tax for 24 pk cans
Buy 3 and get $1.00 OFF/per case
30 Packs - CansHamms - $13.90+ taxSchmidt - $16.75+ tax
Busch Light - $18.50+ taxKeystone Light - $18.50+ taxMiller High Life - $15.75+ tax
Come in for
Saturday Football!
2 Big Screen TV’s!
A Big Thank You
Mississippi’sTower Bar
Tower City, ND
749-2571
Saturday, January 22
COYOTE HUNTRegistration @ 8am - $10
* Karaoke by Ruby 9:30pm - 1:30am!
COMING!
Open Sundays @ Noon
Hagge’s BarMapleton, ND 282-5200Exit 338 - 5 miles west of West Fargo
Wed. Nights @ 7:30Texas Hold ‘em
and Grill
Restaurant Hours:Mon-Fri: 11am - 8pm
Sat: Noon - 8pmBar Hours:
Mon-Fri: 11am - 1am Sat: Noon - 2am
Daily Lunch Specials!
Part-time Cook & Bartender/Server Needed
Friday, Jan. 14Ardy Steele Retirement Party
Stop in & greet Ardy!• “Brother Jukebox” 9pm-1am
Fri., Jan. 21 - “Smokin Guns” 9pm-1amSat., Jan. 22 - SnoJam, “Blues Tonic” 9pm-1am
Com
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Saturday, Jan. 15“Fuse” 9pm - 1am
Hunter C & I Hunter, ND874-2305
4th Annual “Dam” Open4-Man Best Ball Tourney
Saturday, January 22Register @ Hunter C&I - 1:00pm
Coming!
By Amanda GadesAfter another recent dose of snow,
area residents may feel cabin fever starting to set in. The winter months may be especially hard for those who love being outside and walking or biking with their family, but for some, cross country skiing may be just the sport needed to get a workout and connect with other people.
“It’s good exercise,” said John Irby, of Casselton. “It’s very relaxing.”
Irby has been cross country skiing for more than 35 years. “It gives you a reason to be outside during the winter. I’ve been skiing when it’s 20 below. The only time I really avoid skiing is when it’s really windy. Not only is it cold, but the snow fills in the trail.”
The swish of the skis through snowy paths is an excellent cardio-vascular work out according to Dr. Dan Ostlie, a doctor of sports medi-cine at Essentia Health. “It’s a very good low-impact work out.”
Stamina, upper body and arm strength are needed, explained Julie Burgum, of Casselton, who has been skiing for about 20 years.
But, almost everyone can cross country ski. “If you can walk, you can cross country ski, with some prac-tice,” said Mike Bindas, of Oxbow.
A wide range of ages and lifestyles have been known to participate in the sport. “Everyone from youth to middle-aged and senior citizens go cross country skiing,” Ostlie said.
Risk of injury is very low. Ostlie cited the possibility of lower back pain and shin pain. This can often be prevented by stretching prior to hit-ting the trails.
“There can be trauma accidents if you go down hills, but there are not many hills in the Fargo area,” Ostlie added. Get set up with the right equip-ment
If you’re a beginner to the sport, you may want to rent skis first to see how you like the sport.
“Rentals are usually in the $15 range,” explained Irby. “Don’t spend $200 or more on equipment before you know if you will like it.”
There are several rental locations in the area such as Scheel’s, Fargo and Edgewood Golf Course, Fargo.
Once you’ve tried it a few times and have decided it’s the winter sport for you, check out a local sporting goods store such as Scheel’s or Play it Again Sports.
“The sport is pretty affordable to get into,” said Eric Netland, manager of Play it Again Sports, Fargo. “A new set costs about $175. A used set runs $65-75, but used items go quickly.”
New sets are fairly similarly priced at Scheel’s. Although, avid cross country skiers “can spend as much as $1,000 on equipment,” said Greg Hinsverk, of the 45th Street Scheels store.
While each store carries a differ-ent brand name, both said waxless skis are the best option for novices.
Netland and Hinsverk said the stores have seen a rise in equipment purchases for cross country skiing.
“We’ve sold way more than nor-mal,” said Hinsverk. “The snow came early and is staying around.”
Neland said, “It’s been a good year because of all the snow.”Hit the trails - slowly
If you have all of the equipment you need, suit up and get ready to go.
• Start slowly, go to trails that are groomed to ease into the sport, suggests Irby. “Skiing is all about the ‘glide.’ Stomping over a snow covered field with skis on your feet is not re-ally cross country skiing.”
With experience, you’ll get much faster and may even be willing to try more challenging aspects of skiing such as going downhill.
• Bring a friend or family member who has experience. He or she can help you if you have any questions about the sport. They may also be-come a ski partner in the future.
Bindas believes cross country skiing is a great social sport. “My wife and I usually go together. It can be done individually but I would say its a lot more enjoyable if you have someone with you.”
• Go the speed you feel com-fortable with, recommended Julie Burgum.
• Maintain a positive attitude as you learn the new sport, suggested Tim Kraft, who taught the sport for several years at Central Cass.
• Dress in layers - You want to keep warm, but you don’t want to
overheat. • Carry a map - If you’re going
to a park or golf course you are not familiar with, have a map with you so you do not end up going in circles for hours.
• If you want to make it an ‘all’ day event, carry a backpack and put your lunch in it. Stop whenever you want. Cross Country ski trail ‘hot spots’
Area skiers recommend several lo-cal and regional ski trails including:
• Cottonwood Golf Course, Cassel-ton
• Casselton Reservoir, Casselton• Edgewood Golf Course, Fargo• Oxbow Country Club, Oxbow• Itasca State Park, Park Rapids,
Minn. • Maplelag Resort, Callaway,
Minn. (northeast of Detroit Lakes, Minn.
• Voyageurs National Park, Inter-national Falls, Minn.
Going for a leisure winter ski
The newest versions of cross country skis have rounded tips and wider skis. “This keeps you on top of the snow better,” said Eric Netland, manager of Play it Again Sports, Fargo. “It’s also easier for someone new to the sport.”
• Skis• Boots• Bindings• Poles• Hat• Gloves• Bibs/snowpants
• Goggles• Jacket• Socks• Leg covers• Ski bone• Ski bag
Equipment needed for X-country skiing
Source: The Play it Again Sports website, http://www.playitagainsports.com/snowsports.aspx