By Tom Mix
NDHSAA Media Specialist

VALLEY CITY, N.D. – Each Wednesday NDHSAA Media Specialist Tom Mix posts several notable news items, current events and buzz-worthy games upcoming on the NDHSAA prep sports calendar on the NDHSAA NOW website. Keep visiting each Wednesday for all the latest midweek newsworthy items.

• Pair of undefeated, ranked Division AAA football squads meet on gridiron this Friday. Division AAA, No. 1-ranked West Fargo Sheyenne hosts No. 3-ranked Manadan for a 7 p.m. kickoff Friday, September 6 at Essentia Health Mustang Stadium. The Mustangs and Braves are both sporting undefeated 2-0 records entering the matchup that will serve as a big early season measuring stick of where both programs are now that the calendar has flipped to September. Sheyenne is coming off a 24-17 road win against defending Division AAA state champions Minot High last week. Mandan got its season off to a nice start with a 41-28 victory against 2023 Division AAA state runner-up Fargo Shanley. Mandan’s potent offense led by senior quarterback Hudsen Sheldon is averaging 41 points through two games, but Friday’s tilt with the Mustangs will be the squads’ first road game of the 2024 campaign.     

• Jamestown boys soccer off to a strong start in WDA. With its 4-1 Western Dakota Association boys soccer victory over Bismarck High on Tuesday, September 3, Jamestown improved to 6-0-0 this season. The Blue Jays are sitting atop the WDA regular season standings and are outscoring their opponents 27-5 thus far. Against the Demons, senior midfielder Brady Harty scored two goals and senior forward Iddi Ramadhani posted three assists in the match.    

• West Fargo Sheyenne girls golf team picks up seventh win of the season on Tuesday at King’s Walk. Through the first month of competition, the Mustangs are making a strong case as a Class A Girls Golf team state championship contender. West Fargo Sheyenne edged Grand Forks Red River by three strokes on Tuesday, September 3 during a Eastern Dakota Conference regular season meet at King’s Walk Golf Course in Grand Forks. The victory naked the Mustang’s sixth consecutive victory and seventh overall team win this fall. The Mustangs have yet to win a Class A Girls golf team state title in their program’s history and will be in the mix when the Class A Girls Golf State Tournament gets underway September 30-October 1 at Mandan’s Prairie West Golf Club.   

• Class B girls golf regular season state-qualifiers starting to roll in. Several regular season state qualifier rounds in Class B Girls Golf have been played. Currently, a total of 14 individual golfers have already punched their tickets to the State Tournament scheduled for September 30-October 1 at the Fargo Country Club. For a complete list of NDHSAA Girls Golf State Tournament qualifiers visit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ2atVFfmHpkylgOi0PkyawZvXkvaS4z8wPN92NA4F1Xmg9apl6adn8DV4sbLt468_xxilaJgZ8zQnz/pubhtml   

• JOTTINGS. Minot North posted its first varsity boys soccer victory in program history on Tuesday, September 3 – a 1-0 WDA victory over Dickinson. … 2021 Fargo Shanley graduate Emmet Kenney is the starting kicker for Stanford and accounted for nine points in Stanford’s 34-27 loss to TCU on Friday, August 30. Kenney connected for two field goals and three extra points. His long field goal was a 45-yarder.    

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