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Berthold defends Region 3 title, returns to state

The Berthold girls basketball team celebrates its Region 3 championship title with its fans after defeating Tioga 71-61 on Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Minot Municipal Auditorium. Berthold's Ella Brown led all scorers with 25 points, knocking down five 3-pointers. Addison Neshem poured in 21 ...

MSU basketball ends with NSIC tournament first round losses

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 ...

Beavers softball sweeps home double header

The Minot State Beavers swept the Bismarck State College in a double header in their first games at home since their annual Bubble Invitational to open the 2026 regular season in late January. The Beavers and the Mystics faced off under the protective cover of the MSU Bubble on Wednesday night, ...

Minot United girls to make most of state tournament opportunity

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 ...

Minot United boys seek to continue recent success at state tournament

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 ...