After tournaments started on Saturday, officiall volleyball matches began this week.
Benson County and North Star each won two matches and one district match. Both teams are undefeated in the early going.
Devils Lake volleyball won a pair of non-region matches to get its season going. The Firebirds have won their first six sets of the season.
There was some additional positive news regarding Firebird athletes. Devils Lake football player Casey Brown revealed his college destination, while a pair of hockey players came up big in an offseason tournament.
Read more below along with all the latest scores and results from the Lake Region, from Sept. 1-3:
Aug. 29
Two Firebird hockey players had a good weekend.
In a 4-2 victory for Team North Dakota 16U Tier 1 — which is associated with the North Dakota Amateur Hockey Association Player Development Program — Nash Riggin scored the game-winning goal, and Hayden Volk added an empty-net goal.
Riggin and Volk are both juniors at Devils Lake High School. Their team went undefeated in a tournament last weekend.
According to Elite Prospects, Riggin and Volk are tied for the team lead with five points through three games. Riggin has three goals and two assists, while Volk has two goals and three assists. The team is based in Fargo.
Sept. 1
High school volleyball
Bottineau 0, Devils Lake (1-0) 3
- 16-25, 11-25, 10-25
- Kinley Johnson: 12 kills, 4 aces, 11 digs
- Emma Hofstad: 8 kills, 7 digs
- Brynlee Wolf: 1 ace, 15 assists, 2 digs
- Riley Remmick: 1 kill, 4 aces, 11 assists, 1 dig
- Head coach Tangella Martinson: “I really liked their energy. This whole season, they’ve come in with just a positive energy, especially my older girls for these younger girls. They just have come in and been team players. And when there is adversity, they face it like a champ. You wouldn’t know that they’re facing it.”
North Star (6-0, 1-0) 3, Dunseith 0
- 25-5, 25-14, 25-12
- Claire Jorde: 17 kills, 1 ace, 10 digs
- Genevieve Ahlberg: 6 kills, 4 aces, 12 digs
- Blake Nicholas: 4 kills, 4 aces, 32 assists
- Avery Elsperger: 8 aces, 4 assists, 22 digs
New Rockford-Sheyenne (0-1) 0, Griggs/Midkota 3
- 20-25, 18-25, 20-25
- Kaci Weisenburger: 5 kills
- Emmie Belquist: 3 kills, 2 aces
- Madison Hultgren: 3 aces
- Schumacher: 3 kills, 1 ace
Four Winds (1-4, 0-1) 0, Benson County (1-0, 1-0) 3
- 9-25, 8-25, 15-25
High school football news
Devils Lake senior center Casey Brown has committed to play football at the University of Jamestown, he announced on social media Tuesday.
Brown anchored an offensive line that put up well over 2,000 yards in both passing and rushing last year, leading to a Division AA state championship. It was the first football state title in Devils Lake history.
Brown also had offers to Minnesota State Moorhead and Valley City State.
Jamestown is a new member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The Jimmies went 1-9 last fall in their first season in the NSIC North.
In a recent story for the Devils Lake Journal, Brown said he was looking to make his decision by Week 4 or 5 of the season. After talking with his family and Jamestown head coach Tom Dosch, Brown ended up announcing his decision during Week 2.
High school cross country
Carrington Meet
Boys
Devils Lake: 71 (1st place out of 16 teams)
- Aiden Ackerman: 17:32 (2nd out of 137 runners)
- Zane Bennett: 17:58 (3rd)
- Ty Kremer: 19:11.44 (21st)
- Blake Nelson: 19:14.78 (22nd)
- Rylan Bennett: 19:21 (23rd)
- Alexander McLaurin: 20:18 (37th)
- Draike Haugland: 20:52 (49th)
- Keifer Wanner: 20:53 (50th)
- Max Bergeron: 21:39 (70th)
- Brady Halvorson: 25:08 (123rd)
- Ian Du Plessis: 27:54 (134th)
Langdon Area/Munich: 234 (8th place out of 16 teams)
- Prestyn Bodnar: 19:12.41 (20th out of 137 runners)
- Logan Mackall: 20:50.02 (45th)
- Ty Ramberg: 20:56 (51st)
- Chase Girodat: 21:09 (58th)
- Tyler Borgen: 21:41 (72nd)
- Ryder Moser: 21:42 (73rd)
- Noah Foster: 22:22 (83rd)
- Terner Askvig: 23:55 (109th)
Four Winds: 290 (14th place out of 16 teams)
- Aiden Charboneau: 18;42 (10th out of 137 runners)
- Isaac Wegener: 20:51.47 (47th)
- Calden Greywater: 21:58 (76th)
- Ayden Jackson: 22:28 (85th)
- Kale Yankton: 24:07 (112th)
- Dwayne Jackson: 29:30 (135th)
- Damien Shaw: 30:41 (136th)
- Levi Omen: 34:24 (137th)
New Rockford-Sheyenne: 369 (15th place out of 16 teams)
- Gabe Smith: 18:22 (7th out of 137 runners)
- Seth Greiner: 22:07 (79th)
- August Meier: 24:30 (119th)
- Todd Foster: 26:05 (129th)
- Theodore Hall: 26:44.15 (130th)
Girls
Devils Lake: 86 (3rd place out of 7 teams)
- Riley Schmiess: 19:46 (2nd out of 61 runners)
- Jossalin Carpenter: 23:39 (24th)
- Randi Toso: 23:53 (27th)
- Ealynn Yoder: 23:55 (28th)
- Rachel Vaagen: 24:12 (31st)
- Aubree Kavli: 25:37 (43rd)
- Aria Greybear: 31:20 (60th)
New Rockford-Sheyenne: No place
- Liza Steele: 22:20 (14th out of 61 runners)
- Elise Guler: 25:56 (45th)
Four Winds: No place
- Stella DuBois: 25:36 (42nd out of 61 runners)
- Lavida Cavanaugh: 27:25 (52nd)
Langdon Area/Munich: No place
- Olivia Lorenz: 24:23 (32nd out of 61 runners)
Sept. 3
High school football
Warwick (0-3) 26, Mandaree 38
High school volleyball
Devils Lake (2-0) 3, Turtle Mountain 0
- 25-11, 25-8, 25-6
- Kinley Johnson: 16 kills, 1 block, 3 aces, 1 assist, 12 digs
- Emma Hofstad: 14 kills, 6 aces, 14 digs
- Riley Remmick: 14 assists, 4 digs
- Jossy Lamb: 3 aces, 9 assists, 2 digs
- Brynlee Wolf: 2 aces, 8 assists, 2 digs
- Sara Kraft: 4 kills, 3 blocks
- Kaigen Olson: 1 ace, 5 assists, 19 digs
TGU 0, Benson County (2-0) 3
- 17-25, 8-25, 18-25
- Lacie Fautsch: 10 kills
- Addisyn Faul: 5 kills, 1 block, 5 digs
- Liberty Streyle: 4 aces, 20 assists
- Kaitlyn Maddock, Hailey Baker: 4 aces each
- Head coach Sheri Stuberg: “We had some amazing energy for the first two sets, and I thought we were unstoppable in those. It was the best teamwork that I’ve ever seen us do. We worked as a team. We covered everybody. Everybody did what they needed to do. We served when we needed to serve. We hit when we needed to hit. And they’re running smarter plays than we’ve ever run before.”
Drayton/Valley-Edinburg 0, North Star (7-0) 3
- 17-25, 5-25, 23-25
- Genevieve Ahlberg: 12 kills, 2 aces, 16 digs
- Claire Jorde: 5 kills, 13 digs
- Nora Ahlberg: 5 kills, 2 digs
- Tatum Elsperger: 2 kills, 2 blocks, 5 aces, 5 digs
- Teegan Knudson: 3 aces, 5 digs
- Blake Nicholas: 2 kills, 2 blocks, 3 aces, 27 assists, 8 digs
- Avery Elsperger: 1 ace, 15 digs
Langdon Area/Munich (7-0) 3, Grafton 0
- 25-11, 25-14, 25-20
Minnewaukan/Warwick (1-5) 0, St. John 3
- 10-25, 12-25, 11-25