ND STATE FINALISTS SET

106 Finals: #1 Laken Boese (Bismarck) vs. #2  Reece Barnhardt (St. Mary’s) #1  Clay Gerhardt (New Salem) vs.  #2  Kersey Harris (Bishop Ryan) 113 Finals: #5 Coy Awender (Oakes) vs.  #2  Jeremy Leintz (Beulah-Hazen)  #1  JJ Harms vs. #3  Will Kleinknecht (Mandan) 120 Finals: #1  Ryan Ripplinger (Bismarck) vs. #3  Drew Steidler (St. Mary’s) #1…

Lisbon the Strong B Individual Favorite

With 147.5 projected team points, the Lisbon Broncos are favored to win the North Dakota Class B state tournament by 21 over Hettinger-Scranton.  To achieve each team’s projected point output, seeded wrestlers were given a point value based on the average number of points that seed scored at the state tournament last season.  For top seeded…

Class B First Round Matches to Watch

Last season, six seeded wresters were defeated in the first round of the Class B Individual State Tournament.  That is six of a possible 112 matches, or 5.3 percent.  The following is the list of the closest on-paper matches of the first round in the year’s tournament:   106 Andrew Hoff (LaMoure) vs #4 Kyle…

Carrington Edges PCN in Region 2

In what became a two team race to the finish, Carrington edged Pembina Conty North 219-204 to grab the Region 2 Individual Team Championship Saturday in Mayville.  After an up and down season, the Carrington Cardinals seem to be peaking at the right time.  Head Coach Josh Kerbaugh’s squad won the Region 2 dual title…

Hettinger-Scranton Wins Region 4

As expected, state second ranked Hettinger-Scranton won the the Region 4 individual team title on Saturday, distancing themselves from second place Killdeer by a 27 point margin, with Bowman County third three points behind Killdeer in third.   Though Hettinger-Scranton won the region title without much issue, they did not come out of the tournament…

Carrington Edges PCN in Region 2

In what became a two team race to the finish, Carrington edged Pembina Conty North 219-204 to grab the Region 2 Individual Team Championship Saturday in Mayville.  After an up and down season, the Carrington Cardinals seem to be peaking at the right time.  Head Coach Josh Kerbaugh’s squad won the Region 2 dual title…