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Fear the mighty Lady Hawks. The No. 5 ranked Thompson Falls Lady Hawks flew past the Florence Falcons 55-30 in Thompson Falls Saturday to complete regular season play. Now 13-2 and the No. 2 seed from District 7B into the Western B divisional tournament in Eureka March 3-5, the Hawks will practice this week, preparing for Florence (the No. 3 from 6B) again in the first round of that tourney March 3. And although they just defeated the Falcons soundly, Hawk coach Chadd Laws will be taking...
The Noxon Lady Red Devils made it to the semifinals of the remotely-played District 14C tournament last week before bowing out and completing play for the season. Starting with a 44-27 win over Hot Springs in Noxon Tuesday, the Devils then fell 36-28 to Clark Fork in Superior Thursday and finally lost 38-35 to St. Regis in a loser-out contest in Noxon Friday. Coach Cortney Vohs was proud of her team all said and done. “The girls learned to play well together and learned how to rebound and defend better as the season went on,” she said. “We were...
The Noxon Red Devil boys fought the good fight but that fight came to an end in the District 14C tournament last week. With the 14C tourney played remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Devils first lost to the Savage Heat 54-36 in Hot Springs Tuesday and completed play with a 61-53 loss to Charlo Friday. Against Hot Springs, Cade VanVleet led coach Ben Johnson’s Devils with nine points, Brody Hill scored eight, Derreck Christensen and Jeriko Smith-Roach six apiece, Nate Cano five and Jared Webley two. Versus Charlo, Hill canned a t...
The Hot Springs Savage Heat boys advanced to the District 14C tournament semifinals last week before eventually being eliminated. Coach Scott Fredrickson’s Savage Heat defeated Noxon 54-36 in Hot Springs the first round last Tuesday, February 16, lost 54-28 to St. Regis in the semis Thursday, defeated Plains 45-31 in loser-out play Friday and finally fell to Charlo 46-42 in the 14C consolation game. “I am proud of the kids, they hung together all year,” Fredrickson said. “We hope to have a good off-season, to have a good year in the gym and...
The Plains Horsemen bowed out of the remotely-played District 14C tournament last week, falling 47-38 to the Vikings in Charlo Tuesday and 45-31 to the Savage Heat in Hot Springs Friday. In the game with Hot Springs, Tucker Foster and Parker Flock each scored eight points to lead Plains, Jayden Weeks added five, Garth Parker three, Gabe Gamboa, Gavin Regalado and Nathan Feliksa two apiece and Duncan Chisholm one. Scoring from the Charlo game was not available....
Those refuse-to-lose Blues, better known as the Thompson Falls Lady Hawks. Faced with a serious challenge from Bigfork on their own court Saturday, the Lady Hawks simply would not let the game go, and stayed with it to the end in fighting off the visiting Vals 60-53. Although the final score was fairly close, the Lady Hawks were never really in danger of losing after having built a lead of as many as 18 points early in the fourth quarter. Bigfork junior Emma Berreth did her best to keep the...
Until we meet again then. Hoping for another shot at the Bigfork Vikings in the next few weeks, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk boys fell to those Vikings 67-60 Saturday in the de facto District 7B championship in Thompson Falls Saturday. Since the Hawks had defeated Bigfork in Bigfork earlier this season by only six points, the Vikings' 7-point win was one-point good enough to give Bigfork the tie-breaker, meaning the Vikings will be the No. 1 District 7B seed and the Hawks No. 2 into the Western...
By the time you read this, the District 14C boys and girls tournament semifinals will be set. The 14C boys and girls tournaments are to be played entirely remotely later this week, with the higher seeds hosting. Opening each tournament with first round games played at the higher seeds’ school Tuesday night, the results of those games were not available at press time this week. The semifinals are set to be played Thursday, loser-out games will be contested Friday and the consolations and championships will be on Saturday. If necessary, c...
“It has been a challenging year and people may be overlooking us,” Hot Springs girls basketball coach Richard Jackson said. “But we are still hungry and anything can happen at tournament time.” Heavily impacted by the midseason loss of junior Katelyn Christensen, widely considered to be one of the premier female prep players in any class of western Montana basketball, the Heat completed regular season play with losses to Plains 38-22 in Hot Springs Friday and 52-13 to Noxon in Noxon Saturday. The Savage Heat girls were set to play Noxon again i...
Wrestling great at their best fighting weight. High school wrestling is all about finding your perfect weight for competing, and working to be the best you can be at that particular poundage. Doing their best to perfect their bodies and techniques as the season rapidly winds down, Thompson Falls wrestlers stayed busy again last week, winning 32-6 over Mission-Charlo in Mission last Tuesday, defeating Fairfield (30-24) and losing to Whitehall (54-14) in Whitehall Friday and finishing up the week...
The Noxon Lady Red Devils scrambled the District 14C regular season race by upending Clark Fork 57-42 in Superior last Thursday. Clinching the No. 3 seed into this week's 14C tourney, the Devils will host No. 6 Hot Springs in the first round (see other story for more on the district tourney). "That was a huge win for us and I think it shows that we are starting to come together better as a team," coach Cortney Vohs said. "We are looking forward to the tournament and seeing how we can do there."...
It’s the second season; a time to begin again. Hoping to parlay an up-and-down regular season into tournament success, Plains Trotters coach Eddie Fultz was upbeat early this week. “Whatever kind of season you have had, tournaments represent a new beginning, another chance to do your best,” he said. “It could take a great effort over the course of several games in a short time, but we still have a chance to be one of the top two teams and move on.” As detailed in the 14C tournament story, the No. 4 Trotters were to have hosted No. 5 St. Regis...
Not your average junior varsity basketball team, the Thompson Falls Lady Hawk JV are actually just as good, or better than some of the varsity teams in the area. Proving this fact of basketball life, coach Michael Benson’s very good Lady Hawk JV defeated the Valley Christian varsity 56-36 in Thompson Falls last Tuesday. Chesney Lowe led the Lady Hawks to the win with 22 points, including four 3-pointers, Dannijo VanHuss scored 13, Julissa Bonney six, Roni Hanks five, Abbi Lane and Kenzie Robins three each, and Hattie Neesvig and Cheyla I...
Not just for boys anymore, Montana high school wrestling now has girls as part of the program, and the Montana High School Association will sponsor its first-ever Girls All-State Tournament in Billings this week. Sanders County will be represented in the historic event as four Savage Horsemen Women wrestlers from Plains – namely Olivia Easter, Lily McDonald, Mykenzi Blood and Taylor Angle – will be in the historic event. Plains-Hot Springs head coach Shane Angle will send female assistant coach Keaton Bannout and either one of assistants Jes...
It was a busy day of wrestling for the Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen with Eureka in Florence Friday. Although the Lions won the dual from P-HS 39-22, the Savage Horsemen grapplers got a total of 19 individual matches in during the day including exhibitions. In the dual match, Jacob Schulze of P-HS pinned Eureka's Carson Conard at 1:07 of the 120 pound match and Bert DeTienne scored a 6-0 decision win over Jaxon Hume at 152, while Peter Carey (126), Stephen Schulze (132), Brenden...
What better time than now to get over that proverbial hump? Coach Tyrel Allen and his Plains Horsemen dropped a pair of games last week, falling 72-32 to St. Regis in Plains Thursday before having a shot at tying up the game late before losing 40-37 in Hot Springs Friday. The No. 5 seed in the remote District 14C tournament being played this week, the Horsemen were set to play at No. 4 Charlo Tuesday in the first round of the tourney but results were not available at press time. Allen says his Horsemen have been playing a lot of teams close...
The Hot Springs Savage Heat boys wrapped up regular season play with two tight-fisted games versus county foes, holding off Plains 40-37 in Hot Springs Friday and falling 38-37 to Noxon in Noxon Saturday. Still the No. 3 seed in spite of the loss to the Red Devils, coach Scott Fredrickson and his Savage Heat were set to play No. 6 Noxon again in Hot Springs Tuesday in the first round of the District 14C tournament, but results of that game were not available at press time. For detail on the 14C tourney, please see other story. In the game with...
Maybe they can pull it off again, this time on the other team’s court. Coach Ben Johnson and his previously winless Noxon Red Devil boys put one in the win column in Noxon’s final home game of the year, edging past Sanders County rival Hot Springs 38-37 in Noxon Saturday. Hoping they can pull of the feat again on Hot Springs’ court, the Devils, as the No. 6 seed, were playing at No. 3 Hot Springs Tuesday, but results of that game were not available at press time. The Noxon boys also lost to Clark Fork in Superior Thursday but details on that...
Building towards a big finish in the upcoming post season tournaments, Thompson Falls Blue Hawk wrestlers stayed busy last week, grappling in a mixer along with Bigfork and Arlee in Bigfork last Tuesday, and hosting dual matches with Jefferson County and Clark Fork Saturday. Hawk coach Mike Thilmony said no team scores were kept in Bigfork. Hindered by a lack of a full lineup, Thompson Falls lost both duals Saturday with Jefferson County and Clark Fork, but Thilmony was happy with how his...
Eureka won the dual but the Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen still gained a lot from the day. Grappling a dual with Eureka in Eureka Friday, the Savage Horsemen lost that dual 39-21 but ended up getting 20 valuable matches for their wrestlers before the event ended. “Overall we had a good dual with Eureka,” P-HS coach Shane Angle said. “We got some good looks for some of our boys on where we stand against some state place winning wrestlers.” For the record, Jacob Schulze pinned Eureka’s Carson Conard in 1:07 at 120 pounds and Bert DeTienne wo...
When the smoke finally clears, we will see which Western B boys teams are still left standing. Following a scorched-earth policy on a torrid schedule of late-season games last week, the No. 9 rated Thompson Falls Blue Hawks split games with Western B foes last week, losing a 68-61 decision to Loyola in Missoula Thursday before battling past Eureka 60-47 in a key District 7B contest in Eureka Saturday. Now 6-1 in 7B action and 9-2 overall, coach Jake Mickelson and his Hawks will keep the heat on...
The tournament season will be a little different in 2021. Thanks to the lingering effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, high school sports have been forced to make adjustments, ever since March of last year, when state basketball tournaments across Montana were called off on championship Saturday of the state tourneys. Although that doubled the number of normal state championship teams, it also provided a hint about what post-season basketball may look like in the 2020-2021 school year. In District 7B, the conference tournament has been abandoned al...
Megan to Jody for two. Not just any two points either, the two Megan Baxter and Jody Detlaff teamed up for at the end of the game were the decisive ones in a clutch 55-53 win for the Lady Hawks over the Lady Lions in Eureka Saturday. Taking over first place in District 7B, coach Chadd Laws and his Lady Hawks improve to 6-1 in conference and 9-2 overall while coach Ryan Holder's Lions fall to 5-1 and 8-5. Entering the fray as the No. 6 rated Class B in Montana, the Hawks avenged an earlier loss...
From being discombobulated to playing in perfect harmony – well, almost in perfect harmony. Seeming to make great strides since an early-season home loss to these same Lady Red Devils, coach Eddie Fultz and his Plains Trotters defeated the Devils 51-32 in Noxon Saturday. In their other game last week, the Trotters played well through most of the game but lost to Clark Fork 52-43 in Superior Friday. Heading for a District 14C tournament game next Tuesday (see other story), Fultz and the T...
The future of Noxon Red Devil basketball is not on the horizon – it is out there on the floor right now. Going without two starters and utilizing four eighth graders as high school roster players, the Noxon boys lost a pair of District 14C conference games last week, falling 61-24 at St. Regis Friday and 47-33 to Plains in Noxon Saturday. The Devils wrap up regular season play visiting St. Regis Friday and hosting Plains Saturday for senior night in Noxon. The District 14C tournament will begin next Tuesday (see other story). With one s...
