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Ryan Ostwald went below par with a 35 for low individual gross and Steve Clark posted the low individual net of 32 to highlight action in Wednesday Night Men’s League play at River’s Bend last week. Hagedorn Land Surveying shot the low team gross of 165 and Whitefish Credit Union the low team net of 138 as Whitefish CU held on to the second-half lead in the standings. Ostwald, Paul Flemmer, Randy Hagedorn and Rick Hagedorn were out on the Bend for the Surveyors last week, and Rick Kendall, Wally Gibe, Rusty Sharp and Chuck Manry carried their c...
This what happens when Double H Dirt golfers double down. Doubling down with the low team gross of 182, Double H Dirt Works duffers Scott Pardee, Ty Pardee, Kade Pardee and Jake Helvey shot into the second-half league lead with their big night last week in Tuesday Night Men's League play at River's Bend. Easy Street Autoworks golfers Dave Garr, Jens Jantzen, Rusty Haggard and Charlie Hooten shot the low team net of 149. Garr was Tuesday's man of the day with the low individual gross of 40, and...
What better birthday present to give yourself than to run in your first half-marathon ever? An admitted fitness junkie, who is actually a semi-pro given the "bodybybrigitte" exercise group that she teaches, Briggite Giegling picked her birthday as the day she would attempt the most challenging distance run of her life, and did just that Sunday. Fellow fitness fiend Charlotte Milling, who ran alongside Gielgling and provided much of the spark necessary for Brigitte to commit to the big race, was...
Double H Dirt Works shot the low team gross and Feed-N-Fuel the low team net as the Tuesday Night Men’s League teed off on the second half of season action at River’s Bend last week. Led by the free-swinging Jake Helvey, who shot a 41 for the individual low gross, Scott Pardee, Ty Pardee and Tom Kirkland joined Helvey to post the low team gross of 174 for Double H Dirt Works, while Feed-N-Fuel golfers Mike Normandin, Steve Clark, Doug Gunderson and Dave Petteys added up the low net of 142, led by Petteys’ low individual net of 33. Feed-N-Fuel t...
The CU doesn’t stand just for credit union; it may also stand for “see you” later in the Wednesday Night Men’s League golf race. Whitefish Credit Union (or CU) golfers Ron Beaty, Rick Kendall, Rusty Sharp and Randy Hojem teamed up to shoot the low team gross of 175 last week at River’s Bend, giving the CU-later quartet a healthy 7.5 point lead in the second half standings of Wednesday Night Men’s League play. The T-R-L team of Jay Dowell, Jody Doyle, Wally Gibb and Chuck Manry used their handicaps to arrive at the low team net of 143. In ind...
If you can't be there and run in it, you can be here and run in it instead. Not wanting to be denied their 2020 appearances in the Missoula Marathon, which like most every other sporting event so far this spring and summer has been canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic, 13 local runners from the Clark Fork Valley Running Club (CFVRC), ran the race virtually instead. The competitors lined up at 8 a.m., Saturday, on a course set up along country roads north of Plains in the Lynch Creek area. Most...
There will be an American Legion baseball team in Sanders County, maybe not in 2020 but definitely in 2021. That’s the word from the new Clark Fork Valley Riverdogs and their head coach Jon Zigler. Zigler said an application has been submitted to and accepted by the Montana/Alberta American Legion organization to begin play in 2021. Zigler, who will be joined in guiding the Riverdogs by assistant coaches Sam Carter and Shawn Plakke, and manager/statistician Crystal Dringle, says the ‘Dogs will be based out of Plains, sponsored by American Leg...
In the end, Ron’s Running Dinos simply could not be caught. The reptilian, club-wielding duffers, most commonly seen at River’s Bend during stretches of nice weather over the last several decades, Ron’s Running Dinos did not win the day in last Wednesday Night Men’s league play at River’s Bend, but they did claim the league’s first half championship. Hagedorn Land Surveying golfers Ryan Ostwald, Randy Hagedorn, Paul Flemmer and Bernie Groshong shot the low team gross of 172, while Jesse Mosher, John Mosher, Steve Fairbank and Rusty Sharp led Ty...
Putting regular league hostilities aside for one round, the Tuesday Night Men held a play night last week and Double H Dirt Works stole the show with a combined round of 71. Ty Pardee led last Tuesday’s parade around River’s Bend with a 41 and Mike Thilmony factored in his handicap to arrive at the low individual net of 31. In hole play, Pardee was closest to the hole in 3 on No. 2, Rusty Haggard ran in the long putt on No. 3, Jens Jantzen was the man on the Par-3s, hitting the shots closest to the pin on both No. 5 and No. 8, Rusty Sharp sho...
Wrapping up the first half title with a flourish, Easy Street Autoworks golfers Dave Garr, Ron Beaty, Jenz Jantzen and Rusty Haggard shot the low team gross of 175 in the latest edition of Tuesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. As a result of their continuing fine play, the Easy Street four finished the first half with 160.5 points compared to 153.5 for second place Big Sky Pantry. Those Big Sky Pantry duffers Bill Nolen, Howard Morkert, Scott Rasor and Mike Tessier collected low team net honors with a collective rou...
Led by the hot-shooting Dave Garr, who posted the low individual gross of 41, Easy Street Autoworks shot the low team gross of 172 last week and stayed in first place in Tuesday Night Men’s League standings. Garr was joined by Ron Beaty, Jens Jantzen and Charles Hooten in Easy Street’s latest winning tour around River’s Bend, and Hooten added to the team’s fun by grabbing low individual net honors with a 33. Double H Dirt Works golfers Scott Pardee, Ty Pardee, Russ Yeager and Jake Helvey collected the low team net with a combined, well-adjusted...
Paul Flemmer did the heavy lifting and Ricky Hagedorn provided the chip-in support as Hagedorn Land Surveying shot the low team gross in Wednesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Flemmer shot down the low individual gross, hitting the tee shot closest to the pin on No. 5 and blasting the long 55+ drive on No. 9 on the way to a an unadulterated 39, and Steve Fairbank of Ty’s team factored in his handicap to arrive at the low individual net of 33 for the week. For his part, Hagedorn splashed in chip-in shots on Nos. 13 and 1...
What was that painfully loud howling noise heard at River’s Bend last Wednesday night? Why that was the howl of the lonesome Wild Coyote golf team – Gary Thompson, Steve Clark, Howard Morkert and Dave Petteys – who joined forces to pack up and hunt, shooting down the low team gross of 171 in weekly men’s league action. Whitefish Credit Union golfers Rick Kendall, Rutsy Sharp, Randy Hojem and Chuck Manry tried shooing the pesky Coyotes off the course with the low team net of 146 but to no avail. Ryan Ostwald reeled in weekly low individ...
Who fueled the fire in Feed-N-Fuel? Clearly fired up by something, the obviously well-fed Feed-N-Fuel quartet of Mike Normandin, Steve Clark, Dave Petteys and Dave Garr cooked up the low team gross of 180 in Tuesday Night Men’s League golfing action at River’s Bend last week. Dealing in their handicaps, Double H Dirt Works team members Ty Pardee, Scott Pardee, Russ Yeager and Jake Helvey put their clubs together to dish out the low team net of 147. Garr spurred his team to the weekly team honors with the low individual gross of 39 and Ty Par...
If it can't be real, at least it can be virtual. Cody Burk, denied his high school junior year of track and field competition in Thompson Falls due to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, has found another outlet for his shot put and discus throwing and is, in fact, now a virtual state champion as a result. Tapping into a virtual track and field program started on Facebook by a Three Forks sophomore athlete earlier this spring, Burk recently won the Virtual Track Montana (VTM) state championship in...
This will be a race against racism in America. If we have ever needed a race for domestic peace, now is that time. This is not a first-to-the-finish-line kind of a race, but a simple statement, a collective wish for public harmony. In what may be a first in Montana and maybe in the entire country, local organizers are planning a Race Against Racism event in Thompson Falls this Saturday. The first ever Race Against Racism is scheduled to begin out of the First Security Bank parking lot at 9 a.m. Participants will have an option of a 5k or a...
You know it’s easy, easy like a Tuesday evening… Easy Street Auto Works golfers Dave Garr, Jens Jantzen, Charlie Hooten and Rusty Haggard shot the low team gross of 178 as they maintained their grip on the Tuesday Night Men’s League lead last week at River’s Bend. Shooting the low team net of 146, Big Sky Pantry club swingers Bill Nolen, Howard Morkert, Scott Rasor and Mike Tessier kept their team in second place in the standings. Scott Pardee shot the low individual gross of 41 and Carter Meyer collected low net honors with a 35. In hole pl...
Ron’s Running Dinos kept lumbering along in first place in Wednesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week as the other teams continued to flail away behind the slow-moving fairway beasts. Led by Randy Hagedorn, who blistered the Bend with the low individual gross of 41, Hagedorn Land Surveying (also including Ryan Ostwald, Paul Flemmer and Ricky Hagedorn) collected low team gross honors with a 170. Moore Oil golfers John Torres, Larry Eddy, Bary Moore and Gary Moe used their miniscule handicaps to arrive at the low team net o...
Virtual runs are fun, but it’s hard to beat the real thing. Hoping the summer running schedule can still be salvaged, perhaps in an altered form, but salvaged nonetheless, Clark Fork Valley Running Club president Sarah Naegeli said that plans are still being made for the Huckleberry Run, normally part of the already-cancelled Huckleberry Festival in Trout Creek, and the Missoula Marathon. High level talks between race officials are underway as the situation evolves. “The Huckleberry Run has not officially been cancelled,” Naegeli said. “We a...
There is a flicker of light at the end of this sports-free tunnel we call 2020. The big news in Sanders County last week was the fact that the Montana High school Association announced that Plains High School will be moved back up to Class B for the 2021-2022 school year. Although Class B for all other sports, Plains will be allowed to remain in 8-Man football, much as Thompson Falls, a B school, also plays 8-Man. Of big news in Montana last week, there was a rather inconsequential American Legion baseball game in Helena but it was like the...
Terry Glase is the most courteous courtesy photographer. Famous in the world of botany photography, Terry took that glorious picture of Priscilla on the front page of the Ledger last week several years ago while on autumn hike with a friend. Turns out that was just one of many mountain trail hikes that he has taken, and taken beautiful record of with his camera. Packing his trusty Nikon DSLR pretty much wherever he goes, and he goes to a lot of mountain places around here, Terry has photographically catalogued most of the wildflowers growing...
The wiley Wild Coyotes led the way as Ron’s Running Dinos were right on their heels in Wednesday Night Men’s League play last week. The Dinos had the last laugh, however, as they finished play for the night with the weekly league lead. Jesse Mosher bagged low gross honors with a 39 and Bruce Sterling won low net to highlight action at River’s Bend last week. Wild Coyote golfers Gary Thompson, Steve Clark, Howard Morkert and Dave Petteys claimed low team gross honors with a 174 and Ron’s Running men Dan Kier, Sterling, Marc Terrazas and Darrel ...
The Tuesday Night race is on. Easy Street Autoworks eased into the league lead, Sparky’s Gutter Time shot the low team gross and Double H Dirt Works the low team net as action heated up in Tuesday Night Men’s League play at River’s Bend last week. Bill Nolen shot the low individual gross of 40, and Carter Meyer cashed in on the low net with a 33. Sparky’s golfers Caleb Bates, Kevin Sparks, Tom Holleran and Mike Thilmony teamed up to go low gross with their collective round of 176, while Double H Dirt used the adjusted scores of Scott Pardee,...
When it comes to Priscilla Peak lookout, a change of scenery could do everyone, including the historic building itself, a lot of good. With a project designed to rescue and restore the time-worn Priscilla Peak lookout cabin that currently sits atop its relatively inaccessible perch in a state of disrepair, the U.S. Forest Service is considering plans to remove, refurbish and relocate the building to Driveway Peak, another prominent, historically significant, former fire lookout point in Sanders...
In this tale of two lookouts becoming one, here is the other side of the story. Driveway Peak has been lonely on top for quite a while, without any historic buildings of its own for nearly 30 years; but that could soon be changing with the addition of the Priscilla Peak lookout structure. The future home of Priscilla and its history, which will be carried along to its new location, should only add substance to the long, colorful history that Driveway also has enjoyed from its scenic mountain...
