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Heading into Halloween week, Plains Horsemen coach Eddie Fultz is haunted by the Darby Tigers. If those darned Tigers had not defeated his Horsemen 41-26 way back in the third week of the season, Fultz and his Horsemen could be playing for a berth in the upcoming State 8-Man playoffs this week. As it is, the Horsemen, now 3-4 after a very respectable 46-12 loss to unbeaten, No. 2 ranked Clark Fork Friday in Superior, will complete season play hosting 1-7 Troy this Friday. “That Darby game is haunting us right now,” Fultz said. “If we would...
Zeroing in on an 8-Man football playoff bid, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks cannot afford to falter now. Sitting in a tie for second place with Mission (both teams are 5-1 in Western Conference play and 6-1 overall), the Hawks hit the road this week for a rare Thursday night game at 1-5, 1-5 Troy, while Mission hosts 4-2, 5-2 Flint Creek in a crucial league tilt Friday. When you are in the middle of a fight for playoff position, every game becomes critical, especially when you are also battling...
Consider this a playoff game, before the playoffs actually begin. A marquee, top-ten meeting of Montana 8-Man football powers will be played in Hot Springs Friday as the No. 4 ranked Savage Heat (3-0 in Western conference play and 7-0 overall) host the No. 8 ranked White Sulphur Springs Hornets (3-0, 5-2). Although this game could help decide the Western conference regular season champions, the No. 10 ranked Noxon Red Devils (2-1, 4-2) will also have their say in that matter as the Devils visit White Sulphur for another key league game Oct. 26....
When one thinks of homecoming it usually brings to mind things like football games, parades and royalty. But homecoming isn't just for the football team and its backers; it is for the whole student body and all school sports teams. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawk cross country team, represented beautifully by queen candidate Reagan Hanks at the big football game Friday night, celebrated homecoming with their classmates last week and completed their regular season running schedule by participating...
People are starting to sit up and take notice of the Noxon Red Devils. Coach Bart Haflich’s Red Devil football team improved to 4-2 overall and 2-1 in conference play Saturday with a 59-31 road win over the Elijah Byrd-led Gardiner Bruins Saturday, and were rewarded for their efforts by earning enough votes to enter the latest 406mtsports.com power poll at No. 10 in the Montana 6-Man rankings. Trying to lock up one of the Western Conference’s four State playoff spots, the Devils will host 1-6 Valley Christian Friday night in the West End. The...
For every volleyball action, there is an equal and opposite net reaction. Well-versed in the back-and-forth required in this sport, Thompson Falls coach Sandra Kazmierczak took her intrepid Lady Hawks into battle twice last week, edging past Stillwater Christian 25-15, 25-27, 25-13, 25-9 in Kalispell Tuesday, Oct. 8, and falling 25-19, 23-25, 25-22, 25-20 to Eureka in Thompson Falls Saturday. "Volleyball is a game of reaction," she said. "We played well last week, managed to defeat a very good...
A rare home win just in time to produce a sweet homecoming victory. Plains Horsemen football coach Eddie Fultz was looking for a little homecoming revenge against the Victor Pirates in Plains Friday night and, by the time the king and queen were crowned, the game was played and the lights were dimmed, the Horsemen had won 66-6 to cap a perfect fall evening. It was Plains’ first home win since the 2017 season, Fultz said, and soundly avenges a 44-34 loss to the Pirates in Victor’s homecoming game last fall. Improving to 3-3 in Western Con...
It's time to play with heart and grit, and never quit. At least that is the way Hot Springs coach Alisha Pablo sees it, and wants to see her team playing volleyball. The District 14C race took several interesting turns last week and Pablo and her talented Savage Heat netters were part of the topsy turvy action as the Spa City girls turned back the surging Noxon Red Devils in three sets in Hot Springs Oct. 8, before going to Charlo and being upset by the Lady Vikings in three sets. In another...
It's officially unofficial, and Thompson Falls cross country coach Sarah Naegeli likes it that way. The unofficial Western B-C Divisional cross country meet will be held at River's Bend Golf Course west of Thompson Falls Wednesday, Oct. 16. The meet is officially the final one of the season until the Montana All-Class Meet in Great Falls arrives on Oct. 26. Naegeli likes the fact that Thompson Falls will again be hosting the divisional meet, and she also likes the fact that it is not a true...
PLAINS – The Black-and-Blue Game is back. For the first time since 2014 and for the first time possibly ever as 8-Man teams, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks and Plains Horsemen renewed gridiron acquaintances in Plains Friday night, and the Hawks ended up leaving with a 66-18 win over their sworn rivals. "It's nice to play Plains again," Thompson Falls coach Jared Koskela said, "and it's good to have the Black-and-Blue trophy in play again." The Blue Hawks won the last edition of the Black-and-Blue...
Maybe they should be called the Bash Sisters. If you put the ball in front of them up at the net, they will gladly bash that tri-colored ball right back at you, again and again, until it finally does not come back. And then they will wait patiently, until the next bashing session arrives, and repeat the process. The Thompson Falls Lady Hawks bashed out two more easy District 7B volleyball wins last week, trouncing Troy 25-13, 25-14, 25-13 in Thompson Falls Thursday and traveling to Bigfork...
For real. If there were any doubts before, there aren't anymore – the Hot Springs Savage Heat are a powerhouse team – a for-real deal in the world of Montana 6-Man football. Coach Jim Lawson and his No. 3 ranked Savage Heat were at their 6-Man best Friday night in Hot Springs, turning a highly-anticipated showdown with fellow contender Noxon into a runaway and moving to the 67-28 Western conference win. "We have been waiting for a game like this," Lawson said. "A game against a quality opp...
This is only a test, a test to measure the playoff desires of a certain West End team. Coach Bart Haflich and his Noxon Red Devils have passed a lot of gridiron tests so far this season, many of them in the friendly confines of the West End of Sanders County. Trekking to Park County this week, the Devils will go down to Gardiner Saturday for an important afternoon game with the Elijah Bird-led Bruins. Both teams will enter the battle with 1-1 records in Western 6-Man conference, and both are...
How about a little revenge, served up homecoming style? Coach Eddie Fultz and his Plains Horsemen (2-3 in league play and overall) will host the winless Victor Pirates (0-5, 0-6) in Western 8-Man conference football action under the lights in Plains Friday, and Fultz is hoping for a little homecoming-type revenge. Fultz is glad that it will be the Horsemen’s homecoming game this time around. The memory of a 44-34 loss to these same Victor Pirates, in that school’s homecoming last year, remains burned into his memory. “They beat us last year...
Chalk up two more wins for the Noxon Lady Red Devils. Coach Teri Wilkinson’s Lady Red Devil volleyball team swept past Darby 25-27, 25-22, 22-25, 25-13, 15-10 in Darby Thursday and then returned to Noxon and downed Victor 25-18, 25-15, 25-5 Saturday. In other action this week, the Devils were to have visited Hot Springs Tuesday, but results of that match were not available. Up this coming week, the Lady Devils will host Plains Saturday and visit Charlo Tuesday in a pair of District 14C conference matches. Again nominated for Western Montana P...
Western Montana’s newspaper had it wrong; thankfully, the Hot Springs Savage Heat girls made it right. The Heat’s Saturday night match with Darby was reported as a straight-set loss to the visiting Tigers when it was actually a straight-set win with the Spa City heroines pounding out a 25-12, 25-11, 25-21 victory. “It was actually my fault, I entered the score wrong,” coach Alisha Pablo explained. “I got it corrected on the 406sports site but not in time for the newspaper, but we actually won the match.” Katelyn Christensen was again a big...
Call it the bounce-back effect. Coach Jesse Butcher’s Plains Trotter volleyball team has not lost a match since falling to Sanders County rival Thompson Falls on the road way back on Sept. 17. Since that fateful day in Thompson Falls, the Trotters have bounced back in a big way, defeating Clark Fork, Arlee, Charlo, Lincoln and probably Victor, although results of Saturday’s match in the Bitterrroot could not be found. The win over Lincoln came in Plains Thursday as Emma Morgan led the Trotters at the net with six kills and two blocks. Izzy But...
Maybe the Flint Creek Titans should be placed in concussion protocol, just to make sure they are all okay. After all, those Granite County boys were looking mighty dazed and disoriented after that Previs Field beat-down, maybe they should be checked out by a professional. The physical Thompson Falls Blue Hawks knocked off the Titans in Thompson Falls Friday night, turning the highly anticipated battle between Western C 8-Man football powers into a rout early and ending the cool, wet fall night...
Simply super. Playing some lights-out volleyball, the Thompson Falls Lady Hawks pounded out two easy home wins last week, storming past Mission 25-15, 25-15, 25-17 in District 7B conference match Thursday and putting down Arlee in three sets in non-conference play Saturday. Looking like one of the better teams in western Montana right now, the Hawks have two 7B matches on tap this week – hosting Troy Thursday and playing at Bigfork Saturday – and will visit Stillwater Christian in Kalispell for...
The Noxon Lady Red Devils are gaining new net notoriety with every passing match. Most notable of all, Noxon’s sophomore setter Riley Richter, earned Western Montana Athlete of the Week honors last week for her fine play in leading the Lady Devils past Valley Christian 26-24, 17-25, 25-23, 25-21 in Noxon last Tuesday and past St. Regis 25-7, 25-16, 25-16 also in Noxon Saturday. Up this week, coach Teri Wilkinson and her net Devils will visit Darby Thursday, host Victor Friday and travel to Hot Springs next Tuesday. Against Valley Christian l...
The Red Devils are rising, and the rest of the 6-Man football teams in Montana had better take notice. Coach Bart Haflich and his Noxon Red Devils took down the Sheridan Panthers 49-8 in Western Conference action in Noxon Friday. Now 3-1 overall and 1-0 in conference play, the Devils go to Hot Springs Friday for a key league game with the 5-0, 1-0 Savage Heat. Coach Jim Lawson's Heat have earned respect for that school's program as evidenced by their body of work over the last several years,...
The Horsemen's coach wonders if he has the horses to match those that Thompson Falls has. Plains Horsemen football coach Eddie Fultz was on the sidelines watching the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks dismantle the Flint Creek Titans 64-24 in Thompson Falls Friday. He will be on the sidelines in Plains Friday coaching his Horsemen against those suddenly red-hot Hawks. Facing off on the gridiron for the first time in many seasons, the Horsemen, 2-2 in Western 8-Man conference play and overall, will enter...
by John Hamilton The Eagles have landed, with a resounding thud, thanks to the powerful Hot Springs Savage Heat, who brought the Valley Christian Eagles back down to earth Saturday. Coach Jim Lawson’s Savage Heat dumped the Eagles 47-13 in Alberton to improve to 1-0 in Western 6-Man conference play and 5-0 overall. Ranked No. 3 in the most recent 406mtsports.com power poll, the Savage Heat will host 1-0, 3-1 Noxon in Hot Springs Friday in what is shaping up to be one of the more important games of the season. Lawson was in Noxon Friday watching...
The cross country season is all downhill from here. Okay, maybe not all downhill, every course has an equal amount of up and down travel, but the season is now a little more than half over and heading to its inevitable conclusion at the All-Class State meet in Great Falls Oct. 26. Coach Sarah Naegeli and her Blue Hawk harriers tripped the light fantastic by running in the prestigious Mountain West Invitational Saturday, quite possibly the biggest cross country meet of any season in Montana. The...
The Hot Springs Savage Heat volleyball team hammered out two more Western C wins last week, taking down Lincoln 25-10, 25-14, 25-4 in Hot Springs Tuesday (Sept. 24) and spiking Seeley-Swan 13-25, 25-10, 25-16, 25-14 in Seeley Lake Saturday. “We had a very solid week of volleyball, especially against Lincoln,” coach Alisha Pablo said. “Every contact they had was phenomenal, they mixed it up, everyone was hitting really well and our passing game was top notch.” McKennize Cannon clobbered eight kills and blocked two shots in that match, Katelyn...
