’August 16, 2021 .
Members of the St. John Woodchuck football team hustle through some
early-season drills.
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year,” Davis said. “We had‘a good offseas
to step up and ready to play.”
Davis said an early concern he has is depth. He explained his team has tal-
ent at several key spots, but has yet to determine if that talent is only
one or
two players deep.
“Depth is always a concern and we’re always trying to develop subs and
backups that can come in and play when needed,” Davis said. “We think
we
week.
ready to contribute at the varsity
level. ‘
“We’re trying to prepare everyone
and let them know they could get
asked to play at any moment,” De-
Coteau said. “We’ve had some in-
stances in the past where we’ve had
to turn to guys and they weren’t as
ready as they could have been and we
want to change that this year.”
Senior Ethan Morin and freshman
Jeremy Laducer will be the team’s
quarterbacks. Chad Parisien, Dante
Davis and Jacob Thifoe will carry the
ball while Boston Davis, Jason Davis
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and Rylie Delonais will run the re-
ceiving routes. DeCoteau added
Chad Parisien could be used as a re-
ceiver and is poised to have a break-
out year.
“He’s the type of player that we
' can put anywhere and he can find a
way to help us. He has big upside this
year and we want him involved as
much as possible.” i -
The Dragons will compete in Re-
gion 3 this year, alOng'with North
Prairie, St.» John, Bottineau and
Towner¥Granville-Upham. The top
three teams in the region will qualify
on and these younger kids are ready
have afew guys that will be able to come in and give others a few breaks
when they need it.” .
St. J ohn will open the season on the road against Nelson County in Lakota.
The Woodchucks will play in Region 3 along with North Prairie, Bottineau,
Dunseith and Towner—Granville-Upham.
“It will be fun to play all the Turtle Mountain teams and, along with
Bot—
tineau and Towner, it should make for a fun season,” Davis said.
Dunseith'Dragon players go through offense versus defense drillsduring
a practice session last
for the postseason.
Others teams on the Dragons
schedule include North Star, Nelson
County, Benson County and Four
Winds.
The Dragons will open the season
this Friday on the road with a game
r against the Bearcats in Cando.
“We had a lot of unknowns last
'year with COVID and everything
else so We’re excited to get this year;
going and see, where we are at,” De-
Coteau'said. “We had a nice team
camp and we have some athleticism
so we’ll see how it goes.”
Rolla SChOOI forms yet another ‘i
co-op, conductssurvey onicolors
The Rolla School Board approved a one-sport coop-.
erative with North Star School at last week’s meeting previous year.
The board voted 5-0 to allow the Cando—based school r
to send one student overto participate in wrestling. Rolla
and St. John combined several years ago to form the
Northern Lights wresting squad.
Princpal and athletic director Randy Loing said St:
John officials had no issue with the idea and it'will not
lead to any extra costs for either school. The Cando stu-
dent, who is a junior in high school, will provide his own
transportation.
Loing said the ND. High School Activities Associa-
tion is waiving a late fee for registering the cooperative
it
because North Star did not sponsor the sport during‘the
Also relating to sports, Loing inforrned‘the board of a
school; colors survey taken by students'and parents. The
electronic poll gave options for new colors for the Rolla-
Rolette (North Prairie COugars)all~sports cooperative
that will begin in 2022-2023. " ; ’ ‘ ‘ j ‘
Among students 47 percent were in favor of the navy‘ V
blue and white color scheme while 37 percent approved
of a black and silver combination.
Adults were more inclined to stay loyal to navy blue
and white with 53 percent approving of those colors. Just
31 percent wanted to convert to silver and black.
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never tempt fate, especially when base-
ball is involved.
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took a trip to Wisconsin Dells_.,-We
drove through Minneapolis and as luck
' would have it, the Minnesota Twins
were playing a home game at noon. the
day We were Coming home. Although
the Twins are terrible, it was too good of
an opportunity to pass up. '-
We didn’t expect a 'win but 'my
goodness is this year’s Twins team
awful. In the bottom of the fourth the
Twins managed to fall behind 10-0.
. It was 90 plus degrees and we were
hot, tired and depressed. None more so
than Jack, my 11-year. old baseball fa?
natic.
Miraculously, the home team roared
back with six runs in the bottom of the
fourth. Included in the outburst was a
grand slam. Just like that, we were rid-
ing high.
The good feelings didn’t last long,
however, as the Tigers added three
more runs to take a 13—6 lead.
The Twins did nothing offensively
the next three innings. After the sev-
enth, Jack andI were outvoted 3—2 and
we decided to head for home.
I knew better than to leave a game
early. I hoped the last two innings
would be quiet and uneventful but I
knew it was wishful thinking.
Jack was upset with the decision but
like a trooper, he hopped in the back of
. the van and opted to listen on the radio.
We climbed into our ride just as the
Twins were getting ready to bat in the
bottom of the’eighth.
What happened next Was one of the
most wrenching 20 minutes I’ve lived
in a really, really long time.
The leadoff batter hit a homerun.
Jack was mified but it was only one run
and the score was still 13-7. Then the
next batter hit a home run and now we
were all starting to wonder if we made
a really big mistake.
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That made the score 13-10 and no
Jack was really hot. '
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then, improbably, the Twins hit another
homerun, making the score 13-12. It
was the first time in around 25 years the
Twins hit four homeruns in a single in—
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It was also about this time the radio
announcer said he felt sorry for anyone
who was at the game and decided to
leave early.
Jack was beside himself and at that
rare moment in time, he had his brother
and sister, along with his mom, in the
palm of his little hand. If Jack ever
wanted anything in his life, this was the
time to make that request. .
The game moved into the ninth
where the Tigers added four more runs
to take a comfortable 17-12 lead.
Of course the leadoff batter for the
Twins in the ninth got on base, and that
was followed by a two-run home run,
making the score 17-14.
Thankfully, that turned out to be the
final score. I’m not exactly sure how we
would have handled it had they come
back to win.
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clared that if he ever has kids and brings
them to a game, they’ll never leave
early. He hasn’t cashed in on that re—
quest yet either, but I’m sure it’s firmly
in his back pocket. I can only imagine
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