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by John Hamilton A game to remind everyone of what football is supposed to be – a whole lot of fun. Five Thompson Falls Blue Hawks – Cody Burk, Roman Sparks, Kade Pardee, Lucas Andersen and Will McPherson – and one Plains Horsemen – Tucker Foster – received the chance to play one more high school football game at the Bob Clevery Class C 8-Man All-Star game in Butte Saturday and had a blast with it, undoubtedly leaving all six Sanders County senior gridders glad that they played this one last gam...
Fueled by the night’s low individual gross round of 37 shot by Ryan Ostwald, the Feed-N-Fuel foursome of Ostwald, Mike Normandin, Kelly Kovarik and Dave Petteys posted the low team gross of 168 in Tuesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Big Sky Pantry golfers Gary Thompson, Bill Nolen, Howard Morkert and Scott Rasor shot the low team net of 147 and Kevin Sparks collected low individual net honors with a 31. In other Tuesday play, Normandin rolled in the long putt and put his tee shot closest to the pin on No. 5, Ostwa...
Tina and Katrina shot the low individual scores, as Tina Wheeler and her partner Jeanne Holleran stayed in the overall lead in Women’s League action at River’s Bend Thursday. Wheeler led league players around the Bend with the low gross of 48 while Katrina Nygaard shot the low net of 30. Nygaard and her partner Sara Fairbank finished with the low gross team round of 101 and Wheeler and Holleran had the low team net of 66. In other highlights, Wheeler was closest to the pin in 4 on No. 2, Jan Thompson was good with the long putts on Nos. 3 and...
Hagedorn Land Surveying shot the low net of 166 and Highlead the low team net of 140 as Highlead stayed ahead of the field in Wednesday Night Men’s League play at River’s Bend last week. Hagedorn golfers Ryan Ostwald, Paul Flemmer, Rick Hagedorn and Kelly Kovarik teamed up for the low net while Pete Bugnatto, Jesse Mosher, John Mosher and Steve Fairbank combined links forces for Highlead. Kevin Sparks shot the low gross round of 38 and Jesse Mosher the low net of 31. In hole play, Ostwald was closest to the pin in 3 on No. 2 and busted the lon...
Talk about stepping out in style. Thompson Falls track and field seniors Cody Burk and Justin Morgan finished their prep careers in the sport on high notes at the State B meet in Laurel last week. A throwing specialist for Blue Hawk coach Jake Susic the past four years, Burk presented Susic the first individual State B title one of his throwing pupils has ever won when he claimed the shot put with a best throw of 49 feet, 11 inches. Saying it was worth the wait, Susic has been guiding Hawk...
MISSOULA – Led by MacKenzie Morgan with the girls and by Cade VanVleet with the boys, Noxon track and field teams made an impressive showing at the State C meet in Missoula last week. New to Noxon track this spring, Morgan, a senior, continued her outstanding campaign by winning second place in the 1600 meters (in 5:19.39), third place in the 800 (2:19.29) and sixth in the 3200 (12:27.14). Morgan also ran the anchor leg, joining Skye Irgens, Maygan Swanson and Emily Brown in winning fourth p...
MISSOULA – Kyle Lawson never quits competing; the Savage Heat standout is always ready for another game or contest of athletic skill. One of the more accomplished athletes in western Montana this past school year (after earning All-Conference and All-State honors in football last fall, and All-District 14C recognition in basketball), Lawson topped off an outstanding track and field campaign for Hot Springs at the State C meet in Missoula last week by placing in both hurdles races. Scoring all si...
One more time for all the old times… Accompanied by coach Jared Koskela, five members of the 2020 Thompson Falls Blue Hawk football team, which advanced all the way to the State 8-Man semifinals before falling in Scobey last fall, will play in the annual Bob Cleverly 8-Man All-Star game in Butte at 7 p.m. Saturday under the lights on Montana Tech’s Bob Green Field. Freshly graduated from TFHS just this past week, Kade Pardee, Roman Sparks, Lucas Andersen, Cody Burk and Will McPherson were set to travel to Butte earlier this week for a few day...
Tina and Jeanne would not be denied and now are the league leaders. Tina Wheeler shot the low individual gross of 48 and Jeanne Holleran the low individual net of 33 as those two teamed up to post the low team net of 67 to move into first place in Women’s League standings at River’s Bend last Thursday. Holleran and Wheeler were also the only league players to connect on chip-in shots last week, with Jeanne getting one on No. 5 and Tina getting hers on No. 6. The previous league leaders, Jan Thompson and Connie Brown shot the low team gross of 1...
The usual suspects did the low scoring at River’s Bend last Wednesday. With team Highlead (Chadd Laws, Jesse Mosher, John Mosher and Steve Fairbank) shooting the low team net of 147 to remain atop Wednesday Night Men’s League standings, Hagedorn Land Surveying golfers Ryan Ostwald, Paul Flemmer, Kelly Kovarik and Bernie Groshong shot the low team gross round of 168 to remain in second place. Ostwald was typically hard on River’s Bend, pushing through with a round of 37 for low individual gross honors, while Kovarik factored in his handi...
Montana’s Best Builders are Tuesday’s best golfers, at least for one week anyway. Led by Brian Foster, who shot the low gross of 39, and Kevin Sparks, who shot the low net of 33, Montana’s Best Builders (whose team also includes Nathan Snead and Mike Thilmony) posted the low team gross of 176 in Tuesday Night Men’s League play at River’s Bend last week and moved into first place in the standings. The previous league leaders, Custom Ventrues (Scott Pardee, Ty Pardee, Doug Fisher and Russ Yeager) stayed in the game with the low team net of 15...
Showing up is one thing, showing up to compete is another. Showing up to compete for every point in every event, the Thompson Falls track and field turned in stellar performances at the Western B divisional meet in Missoula last week. Only six strong, the Hawk girls impressively won second place in the Western B as all six of those girls made vital contributions. And it really wasn't even that close; Bigfork won the meet with 201 points, Thompson Falls was a strong second with 91 and Eureka a...
All it takes is a little true grit. Displaying lots of that right stuff, coach Andrew Leichtnam's gritty Hot Springs Savage Heat enjoyed a very productive Western C divisional track and field meet in Missoula last week. Riding the running, hurdling and pole vaulting of Kyle Lawson and Bert DeTienne, and using two effective relay run efforts, the Heat boys scored 45 points and finished an impressive sixth in team scoring. Leichtnam said the collective effort by his boys led to Hot Springs...
The biggest highlight was in getting there, to the Western B-C divisional tournament. The Thompson Falls-Noxon Blue Hawks edged rival Plains-Hot Springs 2-1 in Thompson Falls in a play-in game May 18 to clinch a berth in the Western B-C and then went on to play in the divisional tourney in Florence last week. Coach Jared Koskela and his Hawks bowed out in Florence, falling 15-0 to the hometown Falcons Thursday, and 12-1 to Eureka in loser-out action Friday. Florence went on to win the Western...
Easy Street Autoworks shot the low team gross again and Montana’s Best Builder the low team net but, in the end, Custom Ventures held on to the league lead in Tuesday Night Men’s league play at River’s Bend last week. Easy Street golfers Ron Beaty, Dave Garr, Rusty Haggard and Charlie Hooten teamed up to post the low gross of 180, while the Best Builders foursome of Brian Foster, Nathan Snead, Mike Thilmony and Sean Kelly collected low net honors with a 142. Foster shot the low individual gross of 40 and Kelly the low net of 32. In hole play,...
Highlead still leads the standings, but First Security Bank (Ben Mummert, Bill Nolen, Michael Scharfe and Dan Whittenburg) shot the low team gross of 169, and TRL (Rusty Sharp, Shawn Morgan, Gene Wooden and Jay Dowell) the low team net of 136 in Wednesday Night Men’s League play last week. Ryan Ostwald shot the low individual gross of 37 while Chuck Manry used his handicap to arrive at the low individual net of 29. In other Wednesday highlights, the legendary Jesse Mack was the man closest to the pin in 3 on No. 2 and shot down the long putt o...
Thompson Falls' team of three made big noise at last week's State B golf tournament at Eagle Rock golf course in Billings. As Thompson Falls was without enough players for scoring teams, Megan Baxter, a senior, and little sister Ellie Baxter, a sophomore with the Hawk girls, and Kade Pardee with the boys were playing for individual honors only. And earn honors they did, and in Pardee's case almost did. Megan Baxter shot 88 the first day of the tourney and 93 the second to end up with a total of...
Jeanne Holleran and Tina Wheeler shot the low team gross of 109 and Liz Morkert and Lana Nolen the low net of 83 to highlight play in last week’s Women’s League golf action at River’s Bend. Connie Brown shot the low individual gross of 48 while Wheeler collected low-net honors with her well-adjusted round of 35. The team of Brown and Jan Thompson remains atop the Women’s League leaderboard and Holleran and Wheeler are now in second place. In individual hole play, Brown was closest to the pin in 4 on No. 2 and rolled in the long putt on No. 3,...
What a golf season for Plains sophomore Kimmy Curry. Curry, new to the Plains golf team this year, earned All-State C honors at last week’s State C golf tournament at Riverside Country Club in Bozeman, finishing seventh overall, leading the Trotters to eighth place in final team standings. Shooting 101 the first day and 98 the second, Curry wound up with a total of 199 to earn her seventh place finish. Also competing for the Trotters in Bozeman were Kaylee Cole (115-114 – 229), Grace Horton (138-130 – 268) and Lexa Craft (146-133 – 279). F...
Noxon High School will be well represented at the State C track and field meet in Missoula this week. Making sure that the Red Devils will be represented, the one-two punch of MacKenzie Morgan and Emily Brown with the girls, and Cade VanVleet and Jared Webley with the boys, led the Noxon girls to 45 team points (and sixth place in team scoring) and the boys to 18 points. Morgan was Noxon’s only official champion, winning the 3200 meter run, in addition to placing second in the 800 and 1600, and third in the 400. Besides Morgan, Brown made it to...
Fillies and colts this season, they will return as fully mature Trotters and Horsemen next year. At least that is what coach Denise Montgomery is counting on. Led by Mason Elliott, who won fourth in the 300 meter hurdles, Plains track and field teams competed gamely in the Western C divisional meet in Missoula last week. Nicholas Hill, Joseph Martin, Brenden Vanderwall, Jaelyn Carr, Adelle Ercanbrack, Alexis Helterline and Peyton Wasson, who along with Elliott all competed in Missoula, should all return next year to form the core for the 2022...
Rivalry games are important in their own right, but this one has some extra incentive built right in. The winner lives to play another day, while the loser will be forced to call it a season. The Thompson Falls-Noxon Blue Hawks were set to host their Sanders County rivals, the Plains-Hot Springs Trotters in a one-game, winner-take-all, Western B-C softball play-in game Tuesday evening (see accompanying story) to see which local team will advance on to the Western B-C divisional tournament in Flo...
All things considered, another fine effort by the Thompson Falls track and field teams. Using outstanding efforts from across the track and field in Eureka Saturday, the Hawk girls scored 104 points to win second place in the District 7B meet and the boys scored 90 to place third. Bigfork dominated both sides of the meet, winning the girls side with 277 points and the boys with 258. Eureka (104) finished second with the boys, Mission (70) fourth and Troy (16) fifth. Eureka (93) finished third...
The best sister-sister act in Western B golf, and maybe in the entire state of Class B golf, Blue Hawks Ellie and Megan Baxter finished third and fifth individually in the Division 3 tournament at Eagle Bend in Bigfork last Wednesday to automatically qualify for this week’s State B tourney. A sophomore, Ellie carded a 97 and Megan, a senior, shot 102 in Bigfork last week. On the boys side of the Division 3 tourney, senior Kade Pardee fired an 83, good for fourth place individually. Tristan Subatch (113), Cael Thilmony (117) and Jesse C...
Coach Andrew Leicthnam’s track and field team is burgeoning, flourishing into the best team they can possibly be at the best possible time. Led by the multi-talented Kyle Lawson, who won three individual events and ran legs on both relays, Leicthnam’s Savage Heat boys scored 100 team points and finished third in the District 14C portion of the combined 13C/14C/6B meet held at MCPS Stadium in Missoula Friday and Saturday. Paced by the one-two punch provided by rising stars Josie Uski and Lauryn Aldridge, who both placed in four events each, the...
