ALEXANDER, N.D. (AP) - The Alexander High School Comets sports teams will once again be blazing their own way.
The school board in the oil patch city has decided to bring back football, basketball and volleyball teams in the fall now that the school has enough students to field teams. Enrollment has more than tripled since the recent oil boom began, to about 180 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.
Alexander has dissolved an athletic cooperative agreement with Watford City so it can begin competing on its own. School board member Lashell Tjelde says that restoring the athletics program is a point of community pride.
The football program will start small, entering six-man competition with nearby Montana teams.