While I agree with you about Beulah and their big school status, Kindred gets a pass? Beulah has 218 kids and Kindred has 211.
I seem to remember hearing quite the complaints from Thompson fans about having to come to state babe ruth in hettinger a few years ago, but I forgot, only those of us west of 281 complain about travel! How stupid of me to think otherwise.
No, Kindred doesn't get a pass. However, Kindred is not the team that was Class A as recently as, what, 10 years ago, or so?
But you're right, Kindred is not a "Class B" team. They are a middle class team, if only there was such a thing.
As far as Babe Ruth, I hadn't heard that, but if it happened, I'd say the same thing back to fans that didn't want to travel distance.
That being said, Jamestown didn't have hotel space for a tournament, and they were taken off the list. If the complaints were about lack of places to stay, that would be a legitimate complaint. Grand Forks does not have that problem, and it was Hettinger parents that were complaining SOLELY about distance.
By the way, its 160 more miles, or 2 hours, more from Hettinger to Grand Forks than it is from Abercrombie to Minot. Does Fairmount still play in ND? If so, when they make it, or Hankinson makes it, I doubt they will complain about the trip to Minot.