The Langdon Blades Junior Gold hockey team had their first home league game of the season on Dec. 13, hosting the Fargo Phantoms. In an exciting game from start to finish, the Blades won the game in overtime, 4-3.

Christmas time is here We have made it to Christmas 2025 for our area. It’s been a strange weather holiday season so far - we have had 40 degree temperatures and an actual chance of rain was coming to us on Dec.

Last week, the PCN boys wrestled at a dual tourney and it was a special one called the “Kyle Hardy Dual Tournament,” which featured teams from PCN , Belcourt and Watford City. Hardy was a former Braves coach and teacher, who passed away earlier this spring. The entire Hardy family came out for the night, along with fans from the teams involved. The Grizzlies and Braves surrounded the mat in a remembrance of Coach Kyle Hardy.

The Langdon-Munich Cardinals moved on in the non-conference portion of their schedule when they hosted the Cavalier Tornadoes on Dec. 11 then played at Dunseith Dec.16. The Lady Cards beat Cavalier 63-39 then won over a stingy Dragons team, 54-47. Langdon-Munich is 3-1 on the season. They played at Larimore on Dec. 18 then have another road game at Park River-Fordville- Lankin as part of a boys-girls basketball double header in PR on Dec. 22.

The North Border Eagles boys basketball team is coming off a State B tournament appearance from last season, where they took eighth place. The Eagles did get some bad news; junior Weston Cosley will be unable to play this year due to having surgery on a torn labrum in his shoulder, an injury that was suffered during high school football season this past fall.

The wrestling season has started to get busy for the Pembina County boys and girls teams. The boys wrestled at a dual tourney in Belcourt on Dec.

Langdon-Munich makes it back to The first real snow of the season has arrived Well, it took a while this year, but the first real snow for our area came on Dec. 9. As we write on the evening of that day, it’s still coming down. I always marvel at the people that measure this stuff. Did we get three inches of snow, four inches, more? It’s hard to tell when things drift up, get moved around, etc. This is the first time the front end loaders, snowblowers and side by sides have been out in full force to clear everything. It’s never a good thing when an east wind comes to our area with the snow, as that seems to fill up the whole town. Let’s remember, this could have happened on Oct. 9 and stayed all winter. This snow does mean good things for the Frost Fire ski area, which is scheduled to open up this weekend and for our number one winter tourism draw - snowmobiling. Our dog, Bimbo, got his first real taste of snow, and he loved it until he didn’t. He and the rest of us will get used to it, too, as this won’t be the end of winter storms for 2025-26. Let’s just hope it’s not one after the other.

The 2025-26 hockey season got underway on the weekend of Dec. 5-7 for the Langdon Blades Junior Gold boys and 19U girls hockey teams. The boys played at the Buffalo Wild Wings Woodchipper Classic in Fargo, which featured teams from North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota. The girls played at a jamboree style tourney in Bottineau, which had a USA versus Canada format with teams from North Dakota and Manitoba.

The start of the 2025-26 girls basketball season for the Langdon-Munich Cardinals got off with two non-conference home games, playing Edgeley- Kulm-Montpelier on Dec. 5 then hosting Central Cass on Dec. 8. The Lady Cards played well in both contests, beating the Rebels 48-40 but losing to a good Squirrels team, 5645. Langdon-Munich continues a busy December. They hosted the Cavalier Tornadoes on Dec. 11 then will travel to Dunseith for their first road game of the season on Dec. 16. They will also play at Larimore on Dec. 18. Here is a recap of the Cardinals first two games of the season:

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