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NE Dual Regional Wrestling Tourney in Carrington kicks off Tournament Time Well, ready or not, Tournament Time for the winter of 2025 is here. It all gets started with the Northeast Region Dual Wrestling Tournament to be held in Carrington on Feb. 8. Our area teams, the Pembina County North Grizzlies and Northern Lights teams, will both be competing for a chance to advance to the State Dual Tournament the weekend of Feb. 2022 at the Fargodome. PCN is the third seed in the dual regional, and they will take on sixth-seeded Rugby in the first round at 11:30am in Carrington. Northern Lights is the number twoseed and will go up against Grafton in a first round dual, also at 11:30. Carrington is the top seed in the tournament. We will have results for both teams next week, and we wish them the best of luck.

The Langdon-Munich Cardinals are winding down their regular season with just one more game on the schedule before Tournament Time, and that's at home versus Grafton for Senior Night on Feb. 7. Lady Cards seniors Meredith Romfo and Mikaela Olson will be honored before the game, and the Langdon Pom Squad is also set to perform at halftime. Langdon-Munich had a long drive for a non-conference game at Kenmare, where they lost 49-42 to the Kenmare- Bowbells Honkers on Jan. 30 then closed out their District 3 schedule with a win over Cavalier at home, 62-31. The Cards are now 12-6 on the season going into their last regular season game. They will be the top seed in the District 3 Girls Basketball Tournament to be held in Rolla Feb. 14-17. They will play the first game of the day in the first round at 3:00pm on Feb. 14. Here is a recap of their last two games:

Make a game plan for the big game and commit to sober driving Langdon, N.D.— For the big game on Sunday, February 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Cavalier County Health District, and Cavalier County Sheriff’s Department are teaming up to remind drivers: Fans don’t let fans drive drunk.

The Langdon-Munich Cardinals girls basketball team kept rolling through the latter part of their schedule, as they played at Cavalier on Jan. 24, winning 55-24, then played a highly touted Park River-Fordville-Lankin team on Jan.

It was another busy home weekend for the Langdon Blades Junior Gold hockey team, as they begin the last month of their regular season. The Blades lost a tough game to Grand Forks 2-1 on Jan. 24 then had an epic comeback to defeat Watford City 6-5 in overtime on Jan. 25 after they were down 5-1 going into the third period. Langdon was also supposed to host the Richland Rangers at home on Jan. 26, but that game was postponed to Feb. 1 with a 1:00pm start. The Blades will also travel to Fargo on Jan. 31. The 19U Blades girls team had this past weekend off and will now play in a league jamboree in Watford City Jan. 31-Feb. 2.

On the brink of February, Tournament Time is on the horizon As the majority of you get this paper on Friday’s, you will be getting it on Jan. 31 this week. That means we are just about to the month of February, which means we will be turning the page shortly to Tournament Time, with the first one being the Northeast Region Boys Wrestling Tournament, which will be held in Larimore on Feb. 8. There are just two games left on the regular season schedule for the Langdon-Munich Cardinals girls basketball team, on Feb. 3 and 6, both at home. This time of year also brings lots of fun activities to our area, so let’s tell you about some of them.

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Coming off a close call at home to Midway-Minto on Jan. 21, the North Border Eagles boys basketball team was looking to get back to more convincing wins in their latest three-game run. They did just that by beating Park River-Fordville-Lankin in PR 68-41 on Jan. 23; scorching Hatton-Northwood in Walhalla 80-52 on Jan. 25; then defeating a feisty Cavalier team, also in Walhalla, 51-37 on Jan. 27. The Eagles were ranked third once again this week in the latest Class B Boys Basketball media poll, but this time got two first place votes. North Border plays a big District 3 game at Langdon-Munich on Jan. 31 then in the week ahead will have two home games - in Walhalla versus St. John on Feb. 4 then at the Pembina gym against Nelson County on Feb. 6. Here is a recap of their last three games: