Bronco’s sweep Region 1 Track and Field titles for third straight year

 
by Joe Howell
Lisbon’s boys and girls track teams put a cap on a stellar year in Bronco athletics.  The Broncos won seven regional titles during the year with two in track, boys’ cross country, volleyball, football, wrestling, and boys’ basketball. This matches the record total put up by the 1999 school year by Bronco [...]

Spring sports recognize their award winners

by Joe Howell
Lisbon High School’s golf and track teams took time out from their busy seasons to recognize their awards winners recently.
On Wednesday, May 14 the golf teams were awarded their letters at the golf course.
Golf letterwinners were:  Dillon Bishop, Nick Cooper, Loren Dykema, Ryan Hock, Jordan Lee, Brandon Lee, Bryce Noonan, [...]

Bronco boys and Griggs County girls win Oak Grove meet

 
by Joe Howell
The Lisbon boys’ and Griggs County girls’ track and field squads won the team titles at the Oak Grove Last Chance Meet held at Concordia on Monday, May 12, but more importantly two things happened.  The weather allowed track athletes to compete to the best of their ability, and there were many [...]

Bronco girls finish golf season with seventh place at Region 1 meet

 
by Joe Howell
The Linton Lions roared to the Region 1 girl’s golf title by placing three girls in the top seven spots.
Winning medalist honors at the tournament held at the Lisbon Bissell Golf Course was Samantha Peterson of LaMoure-Litchville-Marion.  Peterson was tied by Linton’s Megan Carr as both seniors carded a 96 after [...]

Lisbon boys fourth at Region 1 qualifier

 
Bronco girls finish sixth
Sargent County emerged from a four-team scramble to win team honors with their low score of 340 at the Region 1 boys’ qualifier meet held at the Grand Rapids golf course on Monday, May 5.
Any individual that fired a score of 8 over par or less could qualify for the [...]

Girl’s 400 relay and Heitkamp qualify at Fargo Rotary meet

 
The Lisbon girl’s 400 relay team of Karlene Lorenz, Kali Olson, Ashley Berg, and Karli Freeberg joined Erik Heitkamp in the triple jump as the Broncos newest state qualifiers.
Heitkamp continues to improve dramatically under the coaching of Bronco jump coach, Brad Bittner.  Heitkamp stretched the measuring tape to 41’9” in the triple jump [...]

Local tracksters do well at meets

 
by Joe Howell
The Lisbon track and field teams were busy trying to make up for lost time and track meets as the Broncos competed on back to back days on April 27 and 28 in Moorhead and Wahpeton.
The Broncos were to compete in Wahpeton for the Owen Jensen meet on the 28th, but [...]

Bronco Track & Field Athletes of the Week

 
Anthony Finstad, Erik Heitkamp, and Veronica Munkeby were selected by their teammates as the Broncos track and field athletes of the week for their performances during the weeks of April 20 – 28.
Finstad qualified for state in the 3200 run with his personal best of 10:18.  Anthony was a state placewinner a season ago [...]

Lisbon sweeps Oak Grove Letterman’s track meet

by Joe Howell
The Bronco girls’ track team finally caught and passed their rivals from Milnor-Wyndmere-Lidgerwood.  In three previous match-ups, MWL had taken home the team trophy while the Broncos had come up just short with three second-place finishes.  This time the fourth time was the “charm” as Coach Cori Thielges’ squad outscored MWL 175-172 [...]

District 1 track and field meet postponed

 
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