Archive - Feb 2012
February 27th
It was a far cry from bulls, broncs and cowboys at the Winter Show main arena Saturday night.
In a venue usually accustomed to hosting rodeos and livestock shows, the atmosphere was slightly different, with blaring hip hop entrance music, a scantily clad ring girl and intensely focused fighters pacing the floor in anticipation of the next fight.
Hundreds of fans had come from as close as Jamestown and as far as the Turtle Mountain Reservation to witness a first in Valley City: mixed martial arts cage fighting.
An 18-year-old Valley City man died following a single-vehicle rollover on Thursday night.
A 2004 Chevrolet Silverado driven by Dillon Kapaun, a senior at Valley City High School, was observed driving south out of town on County Road 21 by a Valley City Police Officer who saw sparks emitting from the front left wheel assembly.
A caller to the Valley City Police Department reported a pick-up had hit the bridge on Viking Drive prior to the rollover, and Sgt. Josh Rude with the Highway Patrol confirmed it was the same vehicle.
February 24th
The VCHS Girls' Basketball play-in game on Saturday, Feb. 25, in Devils Lake, has
been moved up to begin at 3 p.m. due to concerns with the weather. This is a change from the original game time of 5 p.m. that printed in Friday's Times-Record.
The Hi-Liner boys will begin their EDC play-in game at Grand Forks Central at 4 p.m. Saturday.
February 21st
Maple Valley boys advance
The Maple Valley boys basketball team advanced to the second round of the Region 1 tournament with a 50-48 win over Lidgerwood-Wyndmere in Fargo.
The Raiders were behind 13-7 at the end of the first quarter but battled back to tie it 22-22 at halftime. The game went back and forth and was tied 38-38 at the end of the third quarter.
Ethen Preston led the Raiders with 15 points, Jordan Haseleu had 14 and Ty Smith had 10.
The Raiders play Central Cass tonight at 7:30 in the tournament semifinal at the Fargo Civic Center.
District 5 girls bracket set
Things didn’t go as well as the Valley City State University mens basketball team would have liked in the final three games of the regular season.
After losing only six of their first 26 games, the Vikings finished the season with three straight losses to Jamestown College, Dickinson State University and Mayville State University.
But with the Association of Independent Institutions conference tournament this weekend, the losses are a thing of the past.
With two crucial games coming up this week, Friday’s 65-34 win over
Lisbon gave the Valley City High School girls basketball team a nice
break from the rigors of Eastern Dakota Conference play.
“This gives us a kind of a new start to the season and our momentum
can build from here,” said Valley City coach Jim McDaniel. “We can’t falter anymore.”
So even though the real test will be the team’s final two games next week
— Tuesday against Fargo Shanley and Thursday against Devils Lake — the
Hi-Liners enjoyed a night against Class B competition.
By Scott Schlaufman
trsports@times-online.com
BISMARCK — Brandon Larson’s 16-0 tech fall win over West
Fargo’s Drew Johnston wasn’t the quickest match he’s had all year.
Heck, a week earlier the senior finished Johnson off in the first
period.
But the final time the two squared off this season was for
the 195-pound state championship, so it wasn’t about how fast
the win was, it was simply that it got done.
After the referee gave Larson his final three points to clinch
the tech fall in the third round at the Bismarck Civic Center, he
February 19th
Even before the NDHSAA State Wrestling Tournament started Thursday at the Bismarck Civic Center, Valley City High School senior Brandon Larson could make a case for his place among the top grapplers in school history.
“He holds school records for most takedowns, most wins, most pins, most everything,” Aaron Larson, Brandon’s father and VCHS coach said earlier this week. “He’s probably the best wrestler the school’s ever had.”
But for all that Brandon has accomplished, his drive for his last tournament as a Hi-Liner this weekend is based on what he hasn’t done — win a state championship.
February 16th
With a spot in the Association of Independent Institutions conference tournament on the line in the last two games of the year, Valley City State University coach Jill DeVries entered Wednesday's game against Dickinson State University hoping to see a little fire from her team.
Although the Vikings showed sparks early in the first half, it wasn't until the second half that those sparks turned into something real, erupting into a 34-3 run in the second half, which gave the Vikings a 77-51 win.
Valley City State University mens basketball coach Jeff Kaminsky didn't have many problem's with his team's efforts trying to make up a large deficit in the second half of Wednesday's 74-65 home loss to Dickinson State University.
What bothered him was that his team trailed 38-20 at the end of the first half.
"We allowed a team that was basically playing a very saggy defense to dictate the tempo and slow us down," Kaminsky said. "We changed that in the second half, but it shouldn't take halftime to do that. That's what disappointed me.
