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Fear the relentless ones, for they can never be satisfied. Unrelenting to the visiting Darby Tigers from the get-go Saturday, the persistently relentless Thompson Falls Blue Hawks swamped the Tigers 56-0 on Previs Field. Far from satisfied, the unbeaten (4-0) and No. 4 ranked Hawks wing to Arlee Friday to hopefully continue their relentless quest for a Western 8-Man playoff berth against the 2-2 Warriors. Arlee defeated Victor 34-12 Saturday. "I look at Arlee as kind of a dark horse in the...
Make no mistake about it, the 2020 Thompson Falls Invitational cross country meet will be unlike any cross country meet ran at River’s Bend Golf Course ever before. Of course all races held in 2020 have to be different to accommodate the circumstances of a global pandemic. The 18th annual Thompson Falls Invitational will held at River’s Bend Golf Course west of Thompson Falls Thursday and will be conducted in sessions to keep everyone as separated as possible. In addition to that, unlike races in previous years, no course walkthroughs will be...
Up in smoke, the first big Western Conference 6-Man game of the 2020 season – the one between unbeaten, second-ranked Hot Springs and 1-0 Noxon – had to be rescheduled due to extremely unhealthy air in western Montana last week. Originally scheduled for Hot Springs last Friday, the game has tentatively been moved to Oct. 9, but the coaches from both schools were unsure of exactly when the big game will be now played. “There was a change of plan and we have had to roll with that,” Noxon coach Bart Haflich said Monday. “It would have been nice to...
It's not just the fact that the Lady Hawks have All-State B and All-Western B players like Scarlette Schwindt, Jody Detlaff and Riley Wilson in their lineup. And it's not also just the fact that the Hawks are also receiving incredible contributions from the likes of Elli Pardee, Cheyla Irvine, DanniJo VanHuss, Ariana Wood, Abbi Lane and Caity Alexander. And it's not even the proven coaching of long-time Lady Hawk leader head coach Sandra Kazmierczak and her valuable assistant coaches Lisa Mickle...
The Plains Trotters dropped a pair of volleyball matches last week, falling 25-11, 25-12, 25-8 to the Lady Hawks in Thompson Falls Tuesday, and 25-18, 25-20, 25-23 to Clark Fork in Plains Thursday. Against Thompson Falls, Madison Elliott hit two kills and block to lead the Trotters at the net, Izzy Butcher hit three assists and an ace, and Lexa Craft had 32 digs. See Thompson Falls story for Lady Hawk stats in the match. Versus Clark Fork, Elliott had three kills and Craft 34 digs. Sorren Reese...
And the Heat goes on… Coach Alisha Pablo and her way better-than-average Hot Springs Savage Heat netters scored two more Western C wins last week, pounding out a 25-17, 25-5, 23-25, 25-17 victory over visiting St. Regis in Hot Springs Thursday, and then taming the Darby Tigers 25-15, 25-14, 25-13 in the Bitterroot Valley Saturday. The Heat have two more Western C matches on tap this week, hosting Seeley-Swan Thursday and visiting the Plains Trotters next Tuesday. Killing machine Katelyn Christensen had another big night for the Heat against St....
The Lady Hawk JV volleyball team won one of three home matches over the past two weeks, falling 26-24, 27-25, 15-13 to Deer Lodge Sept. 10, dropping a 20-25, 25-12, 15-12, 15-4 decision to Anaconda Sept. 12 and winning 25-15, 25-19, 15-10 over Plains Sept. 15. Against Deer Lodge, Abbi Lane totaled six kills, three aces, a block and two aces, Julissa Bonney hit six aces and eight assists, Cella VanHuss had three aces and three kills, McKenzie Robins hit two assists, Trinity Riffle had a block and Blakely Lakko two digs. Versus Anaconda, Lane...
It's not just COVID-19 now; it's also this blasted smoke. Already battling the impositions instituted by the implementation of COVID-19 rules, coach Jared Koskela and his No. 4 ranked Blue Hawks were left wondering if they would be able to host the Darby Tigers later this week. The Hawks moved to 3-0 on the season with a 52-0 thrashing of Seeley-Swan at Previs Friday. For their part, the Tigers defeated Victor 30-22 in Darby Saturday. Unhealthy levels of wildfire smoke from numerous blazes...
The Lady Hawks may have lost to Anaconda Saturday at TFHS gym, but you will not hear coach Sandra Kazmierczak complaining about it. In fact, it was just the opposite. "Wasn't that a great match?" she asked. "Anaconda is a very solid team with a good bench. We played well but they played a little better. We will take this as a positive learning experience and move on; we will be fine, we just need to keep playing together." Moving on this week means hosting Plains Tuesday (results of that match w...
Led by Justin Morgan and Josey Neesvig, who won individual titles, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk boys and Lady Hawks swept both team titles at the Flathead Lake Monster Triad in Bigfork Saturday. Morgan clocked 18:40.7 to win the boys' crown while Neesvig crossed the line in 23:18.1 to claim the girls' Monster Triad tiara. With Morgan winning in fine 5K time, Brooks McAfee placing third in 20:37.0, Cael Thilmony taking seventh in 21:31.7, Nathan Cottingham tenth in 23:48.0, Andy Koonce eleventh...
It’s big game time in Montana 6-Man football. With both teams hoping to strike an early blow for playoff position, the 2-0 Hot Springs Savage Heat, fresh off a 51-0 road conquest of the Gardiner Bruins, will host the 1-0 Noxon Red Devils Friday night in the Spa City. Coach Bart Haflich and his Devils had the week off last week, giving the West End boys time to ponder ways to finally get to the elusive Savage Heat, who have fairly well dominated the series since Noxon moved down to the 6-Man level five years ago. Interestingly, Noxon had a...
The Plains Horsemen have an official bye this week; the rest of the teams in this part of the world may have had unofficial byes by the time the weekend ends. Originally scheduled to play at Ennis, coach Eddie Fultz and his Horsemen had that game cancelled before the season even began, but Fultz thinks it may not matter anyway. “The way it looks right now, everybody could be sidelined this weekend,” he said in view of the heavy wildfire smoke blanketing western Montana. “We lost the game with Ennis due to all non-conference games being canceled...
The Hot Springs Lady Savage Heat took one on the chin, after their leader, Katelyn Christensen took one to the nose. In an early-season matchup of District 14C contenders, the Charlo Vikings stopped the Savage Heat 25-14, 22-25, 25-18, 25-15 in Hot Springs Saturday. Along the way, early in the match, with Hot Springs playing well, Christensen took a hard spike to the face and suffered a bloody nose, which forced her to the sidelines for a time. “That kind of took the wind out of our sails, sort of ruined our mojo for a while there,” Hot Spr...
The Falcons won round one but there is still a lot of volleyball to play. In a much-anticipated meeting of Western B powers, the Florence Falcons topped the Lady Hawks 25-21, 25-23, 25-22 in a non-conference match in Thompson Falls Thursday. The second-place team in the State B tournament last fall, the Falcons have another talented, veteran team. The third-place team in the Western B last fall, the Lady Hawks are also wildly talented, they just have some seasoning to do. "We are a solid team...
Thompson Falls coach Jared Koskela didn't quite know what to expect taking his 1-0 Hawks into battle against 1-0 Clark Fork in Superior Friday, but he did expect a battle as Clark Fork was rated No. 3 in the initial Montana 8-Man rankings. Revamping his defensive scheme to take away Clark Fork's vaunted passing attack, the No. 7 Hawks stunned the homestanding Mountain Cats 42-0 to score a key early-season Western Conference win. By early this week, the Hawks were now ranked No. 4 and the Cats...
Who ordered the ground chuck? Turning almost exclusively to their ground game and grinding out over 350 yards of total rushing, the Plains Horsemen officially opened their 8-Man football season with a 44-0 win over Troy in Plains Friday. Denied their first game with Flint Creek due to a COVID-19 scare in Granite County two weeks ago, the 1-0 Horsemen will now travel to Charlo Friday for a game with the always dangerous Vikings. Plains Coach Eddie Fultz thinks the game at Charlo could be a pivotal one. “This could be kind of an early season m...
Fresh off a 51-0 whitewashing of the Gardiner Bruins in Noxon Friday night to open the season, the Red Devils will now lie in wait for the Hot Springs Savage Heat. Since much of the Devils' original schedule was lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including next week's contest, coach Bart Haflich and his boys are free to start game-planning for one of the biggest games of the season, in Hot Springs Sept. 18. The State 6-Man champs in 2012 and 2016, the Savage Heat went 10-1 last year and won the...
Valley Christian turned out to be a little bit more than bargained for but, in the end, the visiting Eagles were just what the Hot Springs Savage Heat needed. Rallying back from a surprising early deficit, the No. 2 ranked Heat fought past Valley 53-38 Saturday night to open the Montana 6-Man football season. Now 1-0 and the second ranked 6-Man team in Montana according to the latest 406mtsports.com poll, the Heat will visit 0-1 Gardiner Saturday afternoon. Gardiner opened their season with a 51-0 loss in Noxon last week. Hot Springs coach Jim...
That still looks like volleyball, but that isn’t quite the way folks are used to seeing the Plains Trotters playing it. Retooling the Trotter attack after graduation claimed All-State C hitter Kylee Altmiller, the last in the long line of 6-footers to patrol the net, long-time Plains coach Jesse Butcher says that a change in philosophy was in order. As a result of that change, the Trotters have taken on a meaner, leaner, well, shorter demeanor this season. “We’ve had a history of having some big front-line players over the years,” Butcher...
Cross country running is not for the faint of heart; it is for the strong of heart. Being as they are from the mountainside community of Thompson Falls, coach Sarah Naegeli and her running Blue Hawks are looking forward to the challenge of the Flathead Lake Monster Triad in Bigfork Saturday. The Bigfork coach told Naegeli that some hills on the course will "build memories" for the competitors. Naegeli knows her Hawks will not be daunted by a few hills, even if the Bigfork coach thinks so....
Denied one race, the Thompson Falls cross country team created their own; and then went out and ran like the wind. Thompson Falls coach Sarah Naegeli and some of her running cohorts quickly set up a course and organized the event when the Deer Lodge Invitational, the race the Hawks were originally going to run in, was canceled. Led by seniors Justin Morgan and Josey Neesvig, who cruised to wins on the boys and girls side, Thompson Falls hosted Mission for a 5K dual meet run in Thompson Falls...
When we get to the end of this season and look back, this football game in Mission Friday with the hometown Bulldogs that Thompson Falls just won 38-32, could loom very large indeed. With the Western 8-Man division looking fairly wide-open this season after a slew of talented players from all corners of the conference graduated away this spring, Blue Hawk coach Jared Koskela could be excused that the win in Mission could take on a little extra meaning later on this fall. “The way I see it, Mission an us are both potential playoff teams, and b...
When the going got tough, the Easy Street boys got going, and ended up toughing it out. Capping the Tuesday Night Men’s League title with a one-round playoff win over the doubly good Double H Dirt Works team, Dave Garr, Ron Beaty, Jens Jantzen and Rusty Haggard are the team members for the championship Easy Street Autoworks team. Sparky’s golfers Kevin Sparks, Sean Kelly, Tom Holleran, Brian Foster and Caleb Bates won the play night scramble round with a combined round of 30. In other Tuesday night action of the final night of the season on...
As the sun waned in the western sky quickly dropping toward Flat Iron Ridge, this was the last men’s league golf war that would be waged on Wednesday night at our own natural treasure at River’s Bend, this historic, socially distant year of 2020. And the winners of the 2020 River’s Bend swan song round were Ron Beaty, Rick Kendall, Rusty Sharp, Randy Hojem and Chuck Manry – those guys who played Wednesday Night Men’s League championship golf for Whitefish Credit Union this summer - wrapping up the title with a playoff win last week. Whitefish...
Long live the new king and queen! At least until the summer of 2021. Ryan Ostwald and Lana Nolen were crowned royalty Saturday after the 2020 River’s Bend Club Championships were played. Ostwald fended off a strong challenge from Dan Kier, with Ostwald shooting a 79 and Kier carding 80, to win the men’s low-gross title. Rick Hagedorn finished third with 83. Largely unchallenged and now the undisputed queen of the Bend, Nolen stood alone as the women’s champ with the low gross round of 94. Tina Wheeler copped the women’s low-net crown with a...
