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You cannot script a better regular season football match-up than Century and Sheyenne this week.

With the playoffs starting this week in Class-9B, this will be the final poll of the fall from the North Dakota A.P. Sportscasters & Sportswriters Association.

Your News Leader is recognizing a big accomplishment for a volleyball player at Bishop Ryan. Sydney Upton made her thousandth career kill.

Director of Athletics, Bill Chaves, has announced that head volleyball coach, Jeremiah Tiffin has been placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately.

Moving away from home is never easy, but it’s sometimes necessary. One U-Mary wideout did it three years ago to begin chasing a dream: play professional football.

It did not take long to be around Brent DeKok to realize he was a special person. Brent had a rare form of sarcoma and his battle with brain cancer ended Wednesday.

Monday night, Carson Wentz threw for more than 400 yards for the first time in his N.F.L. career, but you’ll have to excuse him if he’s not rejoicing over it because the Colts lost to the Ravens in overtime.

After winning a piece of the conference in the spring, the University of North Dakota has lost its first two games in league play so far this fall. UND’s latest defeat was on Saturday at the DakotaDome in Vermillion.

Minot State Women’s Hockey is undefeated so far this season at 5-0, but the games scheduled for this weekend are canceled.

With about three weeks to go in the volleyball regular season, teams are starting to separate themselves from the rest of the pack in hopes of making a run in the post-season. One of those teams is Bismarck High.

For weeks, Century and Sheyenne have been ranked first and second in the Class-11AA football poll. We’ll find out for sure on Friday when the Mustangs host the Patriots in West Fargo.

Ezra Hagerott is a member of the Minot High Soccer team that helped take them undefeated to the state tournament and is this week’s United Community Bank Athlete of the Week.

NDSU is moving up the F.C.S. Coaches Poll, and it’s easy to see why. The Bison won this weekend. South Dakota State and James Madison got beat, opening the opportunity to get closer to the top.

There is just one N.F.L. game today and Bismarck’s Carson Wentz is playing in it. The Colts are on-the-road to face the Baltimore Ravens.

UMary (5-0) will next play at Liberty on Thursday.