Articles

Season of Hope: Butterfield and Hoffmann families bonded by Dickinson softball, breast cancer battles

Certain events happen in life that put everything else in the backseat. Such events happened in the lives of two Dickinson High softball coaches.

• Mackee Hoffmann and Haley Butterfield

Southwest ND sees no winter kill for second year

With the weather shaping up and starting to give way to the spring feeling, anglers in North Dakota set foot on lakes, rivers and ponds around the state.

Friez battles injury, qualifies in 5 events

Mott-Regent senior Marah Friez, who has placed in the 100- and 200-meter dashes at the Class B state track and field meet since she was an eighth-grader, had doubts of even competing this season.

• Marah Friez

Heth continues to search for new heights

Failing to make the Class B state track and field meet in the pole vault last year was all the motivation Dickinson Trinity’s Mason Heth needed coming into this season.

• Mason Heth

Dickinson Trinity’s Keator qualifies in 100, 200 dashes during Trinity’s Last Chance Invitational

Throughout a majority of the season, Dickinson Trinity freshman Kennedy Keator has been within less than a half-second of qualifying for the Class B state track and field meet in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.

• Kennedy Keator
• Austin Mack

DHS learning to win consistently

The oldest player for the Dickinson High girls tennis team is a junior.

• Lindsey Bakken

CRP general signup begins Monday

The number of plots is substantially less, but the overall importance remains high.

Kostelecky hits record in pole vault

Dickinson Trinity co-head track and field coach Andrew DesRosier yelled, “Stay back.” And that’s exactly what senior pole vaulter McKenzie Kostelecky did.

• McKenzie Kostelecky
• Hunter Weinreis

Life at the plate: Dutchak has been Dickinson’s mainstay at catcher for the last 2 years

Throughout the last two seasons, the Dickinson High baseball team has had a high level of stability behind the plate.

• Brady Dutchak

Titans take win, but they aren’t satisfied

Though the Dickinson Trinity boys golf team accomplished its task, the team is far from satisfied.

• Nathaniel Knopik

Columns

No. 3 Sports Story of the Year: Underdog Roughriders make regional run

The promise was there. The potential was there. All the Dickinson Roughriders American Legion baseball team needed was a little confidence. Or perhaps a swift kick in the right direction.

• James Kary

Winter wonderland finally makes it to North Dakota

Last winter was a treat, a present, but it was so painful. Painful?

No. 10 Sports Story of Year: Gordon steps down after tremendous career

The past 26 years, the Dickinson Trinity football team had three state titles, 201 wins and one head coach.

• Randy Gordon

McGregor: Rec Center expansion could vastly improve hockey in Dickinson

I wasn’t born into hockey, but over time it’s grown to be my favorite sport.