Sports

Local teams continue to thrive as summer gives way to fall, winter

By Matthew Semisch

01/06/2015

Editor’s Note: This is the second half of the Courant’s two-part 2014 sports year in review series. This portion reflects on the most notable sporting events that involved Bottineau County teams between July and December of 2014.

Bottineau County’s sports teams were just as busy in the second half of 2014 as they were in the first.

JULY

On July 10, Brandon Colvin completed the required paperwork to make him the new director of athletics and head men’s basketball coach at Dakota College at Bottineau (DCB). 

Colvin took over for Cory Fehringer, who became the new head men’s hoops coach at Williston State on May 22.

AUGUST

Lance Schill of Langdon ran away with the Thunder Mountain Speedway (TMS) Wissota Midwest modifieds season championship on Aug. 17 with one race remaining.

Bottineau’s Chris Romfo then won the TMS sport stock season-long chase on Sept. 7.

SEPTEMBER

Bottineau High’s football team struggled to a 2-6 finish in 2014, but the Braves’ first win saw a record-breaking performance.

Senior Braves running back Ethan Kerslake was a machine in BHS’s 52-14 win at Surrey. In the victory over the Mustangs, Kerslake’s seven touchdowns and 282 yards rushing both set new school records.

OCTOBER

The Westhope-Newburg-Glenburn (W-N-G) football team picked up the biggest win of its 2014 season Oct. 3 when it defeated No. 3 St. John 34-18 on Oct. 3.

The Sioux finished the regular season in second place in the nine-man Region 3. W-N-G finished its 2014 season with an 8-2 record following a first-round playoff loss at home to Grant County-Flasher.

NOVEMBER

Former Bottineau-Rugby and DCB hockey standout Seth Sehrienko made his return to Bottineau Community Arena on Nov. 9 when his Iowa State team visited DCB.

The Cyclones senior picked up an assist in ISU’s 4-0 victory.

DECEMBER

DCB’s football team took part in its second bowl game in as many seasons on Dec. 7 when it fell 39-7 to Ellsworth (Iowa) in the Graphic Edge Bowl in Cedar Falls, Iowa.