For decades, the narrative around Minot United and other hockey programs across the West Region as a whole was that the Western teams were nothing more than a warm-up for the East Region at the first round of the state tournament. It didn’t matter how dominant of a regular season a team ...
Minot United girls hockey co-head coach Chris Stokke was at a 2-year-old’s birthday party when he learned his team’s postseason fate. Stokke had one eye on the party and another eye on the Grand Forks-Jamestown contest going on 175 miles away at John L. Wilson Arena in Jamestown. A Blue ...
The Minot State men's and women's basketball teams both traveled out of town on Wednesday night, Feb. 25, for their first rounds of the 2026 NSIC Men's Basketball Tournament and the 2026 NSIC Women's Basketball Tournament. The Beavers women's basketball team traveled to Winona, MN to take on ...
It wouldn’t be a Class B Region 3 Tournament without a matchup between the Berthold and Kenmare-Bowbells girls basketball teams. In all three years of the new-look Region 3 landscape under the 3-class system, the Bombers and Honkers have crossed paths with one another. Kenmare-Bowbells ...
After falling in the Region 3A Tournament semifinals last season, the South Prairie-Max Royals are back in the region championships, scheduled to take on the Rugby Panthers after their upset win over the Turtle Mountain Community High School on Tuesday night, Feb. 24. The first-seeded Royals ...
Shayne Simons didn’t want Monday’s Region 3 Tournament quarterfinal game to be her last and neither did any of her teammates or coaches. And it wasn’t. The lone Berthold girls basketball senior is guaranteed at least two more games in a Bombers uniform after they staved off a gutsy ...
