Wrestling: Yates, Raper excel in North Dakota

Published 2:07 am Monday, July 13, 2026

Carson Raper. Rhett Hoy photo.

Staff report

FARGO, N.D. – Carson Raper, a rising sophomore at South Rowan, and Braylen Yates, a rising sophomore at East Rowan, did very well on a national stage in the 16U Junior Nationals held over the weekend in the Fargodome.

Yates wrestled at 175, while Raper wrestled at 113.

Yates finished fourth (out of a field of 128 wrestlers) to earn All-America honors.

Yates dominated his first three matches before winning a close quarterfinal. He lost a 4-0 decision to a Minnesota wrestler in the semifinals and a 6-2 decision to an Illinois wrestler in the third-place match.

Raper won his first two matches by technical fall before losing to a Missouri wrestler in the Round of 32.

Raper bounced back in the consolation bracket to win two more matches. He lost a 12-10 decision to a Florida wrestler to end his run in the tournament. Raper was the youngest in his weight class.

Raper won a 4A NCHSAA championship last winter, while Yates was a state runner-up in 5A.

They have big futures.

FARGO, N.D. — Farmers, crop advisers, agribusiness professionals and community members are invited to a field day hosted by North Dakota State University’s North Central Research Extension Center on July 15. The annual event will provide the latest research-based information on crop production, livestock, soil health, pest management and agricultural markets from NDSU Extension specialists and researchers.

The annual field day highlights current research addressing the challenges and opportunities facing North Dakota agriculture.

“The NCREC field day is the opportunity to see how the research and Extension efforts at NCREC directly benefit producers,” says James Rogers, interim assistant director of NDSU’s North Central Research Extension Center. “It is a great opportunity to interact with researchers and Extension specialists.”

Registration and the morning program begin at 8:30 a.m. with a pest clinic, educational display booths, and coffee and donuts. The official program starts at 9 with welcoming remarks and presentation of the NDSU Partnership Award. The morning continues with a market outlook presented by Frayne Olson, NDSU Extension crops economist and professor, offering attendees insights into current agricultural market trends and economic conditions.

Participants will then travel by trailer to a series of field stops featuring the latest NDSU Extension and research recommendations:

• Forage and livestock management updates – Rogers and Lacey Quail, NDSU Extension livestock management specialist
• Weed control strategies – Brian Jenks, weed scientist at the North Central Research Extension Center
• Corn weed management updates – Joe Ikley, NDSU Extension weed specialist
• Soil health trailer demonstration – Carlos Pires, NDSU Extension soil health specialist
• Soybean and canola production updates – Ana Carcedo, NDSU Extension broadleaf crops agronomist
• Hard red spring wheat variety research – Andrew Green, associate professor in NDSU’s Department of Plant Sciences
• Small grains disease management – Andrew Friskop, NDSU Extension plant pathologist
• Insect management updates – Jan Knodel, NDSU Extension entomologist

The field sessions conclude at noon with lunch, providing attendees an opportunity to visit with NDSU specialists and fellow producers.

For registration and additional information about the field day, visit ndsu.ag/NCREC-fieldday26 or contact the center at 701-857-7677.

— NDSU Extension

Today in History revisits the Tuesday, July 12, 1932, edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story of rumors growing in North Dakota about tornadoes obliterating cities, hail pounding crops into the ground, towns in ruins. Turns out the rumors were flying around faster than any wind in the forecast.

It started with a little rumor. It reached the proportions of a major tragedy, with three towns in North Dakota swept away, property and crops destroyed, persons killed and injured, (estimates to suit yourself), and ere it goes further the truth must out.

It’s a story about a person or several persons who started rumors that there were storms, yea verily, tornadoes, and cyclones of great proportions in the vicinities of Cando, Devils Lake, Towner and other points throughout the Northwest.

Early Monday came queries about the tornado that left Devils Lake’s business district a complete wreck. Through the afternoon, far into the night they continued, the questions varying in respect to the exact whereabouts of the storm.

There were those who heard that Towner had been razed; another who had talked with a traveling salesman, just in from Rugby by motor, who reported that Cando was in ruins; still someone else who was informed that crops throughout the entire district had been driven into the ground by hail.

By the hundreds these rumors came to the Herald for verification, more information. This is the dope:

The Devils Lake Journal reports only slight showers throughout the day, no wind, no hail, no damage.

The Towner railway agent says all is quiet along that front, no storms, not even any indications.

The Cando telephone operator gives the information that, contrary to rumors, all buildings are in their places, there are no dead or injured, the townspeople hadn’t heard about the storm.

Stories and rumors to the contrary, notwithstanding, the Northwest is not strewn over the countryside and blown to bits by wind. A few showers is the best it can do.

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