In a rescheduled game from before Christmas, the Langdon-Munich Cardinals girls basketball team hosted the number one Class B team in the state, the Benson County Wildcats, in Munich on Jan. 3. After falling behind by double digits in the third quarter, the Lady Cards made a late comeback but lost 63-54. The loss is the fourth in a row for Langdon-Munich, who are now 3-5 on the season. After playing at St. John on Jan. 9, they will host Midway-Minto on Jan. 14 then travel to North Star on Jan. 16 to begin the District 3 portion of their schedule.

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The Langdon Blades Junior Gold and 19U girls hockey teams finally got a weekend when they were both at home for games at Dakota Spirit Arena the weekend of Jan. 3-5. The boys won two thrilling games over Crosby 4-2 on Jan. 3 and in overtime over Fargo 4-3 on Jan. 4. The girls won a nailbiter 4-3 against Bottineau-Rugby on Jan. 3 then lost to top-ranked Hazen- Beulah 3-1 on Jan. 5. The Junior Gold team is off until they play three games out west the weekend of Jan. 17-19. The Blades girls are at home on Jan. 10 for Senior Night versus Crosby at 6:00pm, where Catelyn Goodman and Alora Berke will be honored with their parents. They will then host Richland on Jan. 11 and travel to Bottineau on Jan. 12.

The Langdon-Munich Cardinals and Grafton Spoilers were both undefeated when they met at the Langdon Area High School gym for boys basketball on Feb. 6. The Cards were 3-0 in Class B and the Spoilers 2-0 in Class A. Grafton, who's front line stands 6' 6' or taller, ended up winning the game 66-48. Langdon-Munich now plays at home versus Larimore on Jan. 10, at Lakota versus Nelson County on Jan. 13, then travel to Park River on Jan. 17.

Back on the clock for 2025 We have hit the ground running for the new year, as the month of January, as we’ve talked about, is one of the busiest months of the local sports year. We can report that the trip back from Williston went way better than the trip out.

Here’s to 2025, Happy New Year to all As we are writing these words of non-wisdom this week, it’s actually not quite to the new year but Dec. 30.