Sportsrube wrote:I was a part of the old North Star Conference. It was made up of Minot Ryan, Bottineau, Belcourt, Rugby, Devils Lake, Valley City, Grafton, Langdon and Harvey. Devils Lake and Valley City pretty much dominated the Conference. The WDA and EDC sent their top 3 to State and the North Star sent their top 2 to state. There were many years where the two North Star teams went 2 and out at state. Devils Lake had Doyle Heisler who was a terrific player and Valley City had Mike Jewitt (SP?) who was a really good post player. Minot Ryan had a set of twins who were good in the post, Grafton had Lance Anderson who was really good, Belcourt had Kurt Keplin who could score from anywhere in the half court and Bottineau had Neil Onarheim (SP?) who was a big strong post player. It was a very competitive conference but we couldn't hang with the WDA or EDC on a regular basis.
gvmearees wrote:The North Star was a conference during the time Carrington was class A. The difference was the North Star conference did not send a team to state until the late 70's early 80's. The teams within the North Star conference were in seperate Regions for qualifying for state purposes. Example Carrington, Devils Lake were in the North Star conference and the Northeast region for state qualifying purposes, Harvey, Rugby were in the North Star conference and the Northwest region. Conference vs Region Hope this clears it up
ndlionsfan wrote:There are still conferences in ND in which the teams involved are in different districts/regions. It's certainly not as common as it once was as most conferences are obsolete now. The CNDC has teams from both regions 4 and 6, with the teams in region 4 from two different districts. They just have a tournament each year, but they also used to play everyone in conference and crown a regular season conference champ about 20 years ago.
gvmearees wrote:The North Star was a conference during the time Carrington was class A. The difference was the North Star conference did not send a team to state until the late 70's early 80's. The teams within the North Star conference were in seperate Regions for qualifying for state purposes. Example Carrington, Devils Lake were in the North Star conference and the Northeast region for state qualifying purposes, Harvey, Rugby were in the North Star conference and the Northwest region. Conference vs Region Hope this clears it up
Mandan wrote:gvmearees wrote:The North Star was a conference during the time Carrington was class A. The difference was the North Star conference did not send a team to state until the late 70's early 80's. The teams within the North Star conference were in seperate Regions for qualifying for state purposes. Example Carrington, Devils Lake were in the North Star conference and the Northeast region for state qualifying purposes, Harvey, Rugby were in the North Star conference and the Northwest region. Conference vs Region Hope this clears it up
I think I get it now... so Class A used to be like Minnesota with their conferences for regular season play, but for the postseason they have the Sectional tournaments/playoffs where they compete against some different teams.
I always thought that setup was kind of dumb whenever I read about Minnesota schools, I'm glad we got away from it.
So would it be accurate to say that during this period there were three conferences (WDA, EDC, and North Star) but 4 Regions? Or was there a fourth conference as well?
senditin wrote:Anyone have info on what the district were 10 years ago? 20? 30? I remember district 7 was Ft. Totten, Esmond, Sheyenne, Minnewaukan, Leeds, Churches Ferry, Maddock. Think there may have been 1 more team. This was back in the 80's.
winner-within wrote:NE corner of ND late seventies early eighties was,
and I dont know what the actual number was, dist.10 maybe?
Pembina
Neche
Walhalla
Cavalier.. turned class B in 79
Milton-Osnabrock...consolidated in 80...
Valley...hoople/crystal
Drayton
St.Thomas
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