Archive - Apr 20, 2012
As a lifelong gymnast, Valley City’s Taylor Johnson is no stranger to pulling off a routine.
But entering this weekend, the USA Gymnastics Level 8 athlete had a few butterflies.
Rather than a small competition at one of the numerous gyms around North Dakota, she’ll be taking the floor at the Minneapolis Convention Center for the USAG Region 4 Championships.
“I’m probably just going to get a good experience out of it,” Johnson, 13, said. “It’d be cool if I placed.”
It’s a trip that only a handful of members of the Valley Twisters have ever taken.
GIRLS TEAM SCORES
1) Valley City .......................... 183
2) LLM ...................................... 88
3) Barnes Co North .................. 77
4) Griggs Co Central ................ 72
5) Northern Cass ...................... 68
6) Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page ... 53
7) Maple Valley-Enderlin .......... 48
8) Montpelier ............................ 23
GIRLS 100 METER DASH
1 Molly Willson – VC 12.75
2 Bailey Madocks – NC 13.28
3 Cheyenne Hanson – NC 13.74
4 Kenzi Bickford – LLM 13.78
5 Taylor Miller – VC 14.06
6 Maylee Ringuette – Mont 14.19
7 Chelsea Benedict – FSHP 14.34
BOYS TEAM SCORES
1) Northern Cass .................... 130
2) Griggs Co Central .............. 124
3) Barnes Co North .................. 89
4) Maple Valley – Enderlin ....... 87
5) Valley City ............................ 77
6) LLM ...................................... 45
7) Montpelier ............................ 37
8) Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page ... 36
BOYS 100 METER DASH
1 Jesse Beilke – MVE 11.30
2 Wyatt Steckler – BCN 11.43
3 Colin Naeseth – VC 11.59
4 Austin Dixson – MVE 12.00
5 Chris Miller – Mont 12.06
6 Dereck Durheim – VC 12.20
7 Brandon Bohmert – NC 12.24
Special to the Times-Record
Bismarck’s Dakota Wizards basketball team, a developmental league team for the Golden State Warriors, has taken on a new opponent, bullying.
Earlier this month, the Wizards invited Griggs County Central students to their final home game to assist in their game plan to send out the message “stop bullying now.”
At the game, students took a pledge to treat people fairly, be inclusive and take action when bullying is happening to others. Additionally, the team highlighted a new North Dakota’s new anti-bullying law, “Cassidy’s Law”, which goes in effect this July.
VCSU football signees:
Anthony Frison – OL - Fessenden Bowdon High - Fessenden, ND
Danny Hangaard – TE – Hankinson High - Hankinson, ND
Honors: All-Region, 2nd Team All State
Jed Hansen – K – Northern Cass High - Fargo, ND
Jordan Morrissey – LB – Ellendale High - Ellendale, ND
Honors: SE Conference and Region Team 2011
Jake McElroy – DL – Lakeville North High – Elko, MN.
Team Achievements: Section Champions, Conference Champions
Son of Jill and Dave McElroy
Jerrico Turner – DB – West Valley High - Fairbanks, AK
Chris Handgis — FB – Mountain Pointe High – Phoenix, AZ
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Compiled by Scott Schlaufman
Sorenson to golf at VCSU
Valley City High School golfer Ben Sorensen has signed a letter of intent to attend Valley City State University and join the Viking golf team, VCSU coach Nathan Stover announced Wednesday night.
Sorenson has been a key member of the Valley City High School golf team lettering every year since eighth grade. During that run he had the second best scoring average on a team that won the 2010 Class B state championship. Sorenson has won two high school tournaments and has nine top-ten finishes.
Photo by Deb Beilke/Special to the Times-Record
For the past two weeks, I’ve been instructing a course on fly tying and lure making combined with a Fishing 102 of sorts for area youth age 12 to 15 which introduced them to light tackle fishing and the basics of the fly rod. After seeing the world that this generation has grown up in (and I know I’m starting to sound old) with cell phones, Xboxes, and a multitude of other distractions, I had my concerns that it would be tough to hold their attention. After all, sometimes it takes me, with my short attention span, an entire winter just to decide what lures to make in April.
Each week I close my column with my contact email information. Later, when the inbox dings to signal a new message has arrived, I’m never certain what the pretense for the email is, but I do enjoy the electronic communication.
Recently a reader took issue with an explanation I previously provided regarding harvest of big fish in the spring prior to the time that either walleyes or northern pike have spawned for the year.
Special to the Times-Record
Families--try the unthinkable—go screen free for an entire week! April 30-May 6 is Screen Free Week. The Young People’s Healthy Heart Program at Mercy Hospital is inviting any family who would like to go ‘screen free’ to call them at 845-6456 for more information and ideas.
Why go ‘screen free’? The facts are amazing. Students ages 8-18 spend 7 hours each day in front of a screen:
* an average of 4.5 hours watching TV,
*1.5 hours using computers (outside of homework),
*over one hour playing video games.
