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For Thompson Falls cross country runners and their fans, this is the most wonderful time of the year. Running into the heart of their 2019 schedule, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk harriers have the opportunity to compete in two of the better races of any season this week – the Rebecca Farms Invitational in Kalispell Saturday and the Thompson Falls Invitational at River's Bend golf course Tuesday. The Falls Invite is scheduled to begin running at 2 p.m. Sept. 17. The Hawks kept busy last week by ru...
Now that Sunburst’s bubble has been burst, it’s time to take aim at the Rebels. The Hot Springs Savage Heat burned Sunburst 52-6 in Sunburst Friday and will take their 2-0 non-conference record into battle this week with the likewise 2-0 Shields Valley Rebels in Hot Springs Friday night. For argument’s sake, the Savage Heat were ranked No. 3 among all Montana high school 6-Man teams in the most recent 406mtsports.com football rankings while Shields Valley checked in at No. 9. Which clearly makes this marquee matchup a key early season game...
Head east young men, and don’t stop until you reach faraway Reed Point, just this side of Chicago, uh, maybe we mean Billings. Fresh off an easy 64-7 season-opening win over the visiting Heart Butte Warriors last Friday, coach Bart Haflich and his enterprising Noxon Red Devil football team will now travel some 400 miles one way to go and play the Reed Point-Rapelje Renegades in Reed Point this Friday. At least the Devils do not have to go the extra 30 miles or so they would have been required to travel had the game been in Rapelje (...
The end of fire season appears near, but it isn't here just yet. The Welcome 1002 fire, named after a forest road number in the area, a 30-acre blaze caused by lightning last weekend about 2.5 miles southwest of Hot Springs, was being managed by the CSKT Division of Fire earlier this week. With smoke visible to residents of the valley, the fire was attacked by a combination of forces, including firefighters on the ground, smokejumpers from the air and helicopters equipped with buckets for water...
PHILIPSBURG – When push came to shove, the Hawks pushed back, and shoved their way to an emotional win. Playing Thompson Falls' first 8-Man football game in at least 60 years, the Blue Hawks jumped out to a big lead early, watched that lead evaporate and then traded punches with the Choteau Bulldogs in the second half before rallying for the win. Now 1-0 in non-conference action, coach Jared Koskela and his Hawks will host Victor in a Western Division conference game at Previs Field Friday at 7...
What a great way to start a cross country season – at a beautiful, historically significant place in Montana. Thompson Falls coach Sarah Naegeli guided her Blue Hawk harriers into the Deer Lodge Invitational held at the historic Grant Kohrs Ranch outside of Deer Lodge to open the running season Saturday. Though the views were majestic the weather was a little on the hot side being late summer and all. "It really is a beautiful place, and a beautiful course they had set up, we are glad we got a...
HOT SPRINGS – Playmakers make plays, it's what they do. Savage Heat leaders Luke Waterbury, Brandon Knudsen and Kyle Lawson made timely plays at a key juncture and made a difference in the game as Hot Springs stormed to a 34-12 win over the visiting Harlowtown Engineers in the teams' season-opening 6-Man football game in Hot Springs Friday. Now 1-0 in non-conference play, coach Jim Lawson and his Heat will be looking to make some more plays on the road this Friday as they travel to take on t...
Everyone is hoping for, and helping out Harlee Salmi in any way they can. Everybody, no matter where they are from, is on Harlee’s side in all this craziness, against this monster which is trying to control her young life. And it’s not a fight that an innocent five-year-old girl should ever be forced to take on. You see, Harlee has been diagnosed with DIPG, a short name for an awful malady, an aggressive, incurable brain tumor. The daughter of Hot Springs High School alumni Matt and Taylor (Wood) Salmi, Harlee has had a busy summer this yea...
By John Hamilton In the end, the Double H Dirt Works guys buried the competition; and the Tuesday Night Men’s League celebrated the occasion with their annual, season-ending play night at River’s Bend last week. Double H Dirt players Jake Helvey, Ty Pardee, Scott Pardee, Russ Yeager and Tom Kirkland marked the winning moment by shooting the low team gross round of the week for old time’s sake. In hole play, Rusty Haggard sank the long putt on No. 3, Howard Morkert was closest to the pin off the tee on No. 5, Dave Petteys put the long putt...
With the Wild Coyote team declared the season winner, the Wednesday Night Men’s League players gathered at River’s Bend for one more night of golfing fun last week. Showing the other teams what might have been, the Hagedorn Surveying team of Rick Hagedorn, Randy Hagedorn, Ryan Ostwald, Paul Flemmer and Bernie Groshong shot the low team gross for the evening. In hole play, Gary Thompson dumped in the long putt on No. 3, Chuck Manry was closest to the pin on No. 5, Jesse Mack added to his legend by knocking down the long putt on No. 6, Mark Ter...
The wait was clearly worth it. Coach Sandra Kazmierczak and her Lady Hawks were on a waiting list for years trying to get into the Choteau Invitational volleyball tournament and then, several seasons ago they finally did gain entry. Now, Kazmierczak says, you would have trouble getting the Hawks out of the Choteau tourney as there would be much kicking, screaming and dragging of the feet to stay in. “I love this tournament and am so glad that we were finally able to get in it,” she said. “There are always a lot of good teams and we alway...
Even an ugly win is beautiful, especially if it is on the road in Charlo, traditionally one of the toughest places to play 8-Man football and win in Montana. Winning ugly in just such a beautiful way, the Plains Horsemen opened the 2019 campaign with a gritty 8-0 victory over Charlo in Charlo Friday. “It definitely was ugly,” Plains coach Eddie Fultz said. “Our defense was pretty good but we were all over the place on offense, made lots of miscues – dropped passes, turnovers, a fumble – we still have a lot of work to do.” Fultz said the Horseme...
The Noxon Lady Red Devils will open District 14C conference play with a pair of matches against Sanders County foes this week, hosting Hot Springs Thursday and visiting Plains Saturday. The 2019 Noxon Lady Red Devil netters will again be coached by Teri Wilkinson, who will again be assisted by Toni Richter. Jenna Freeman, Elizabeth Lampshire, Alivia Hill, Kendra Torti and Grace Robinson are the seniors on the Lady Devil roster, Chelsea Vohs is a junior, Arianna Wood, Riley Richter and Vanessa Horner are sophomores and Avery Burgess and Emily...
Don’t let what has been a slow fire year turn into a late intense one. The local 2019 wildland fire season has been a relatively quiet one, and local officials would like to see it kept that way through the final stages of what is normally fire season in these parts. “There is still a chance for fires, the forecast calls for hotter and drier conditions through the rest of the week,” Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District Fire Management Officer Scott Schrenk said Monday, “and we have had a lot of human-caused fires this summer. “With the fair...
It's seasons greetings as the fall high school sports seasons begin this week across Montana. These are greetings not for the seasons that come with Christmas every year, but for the fall sports seasons that also appear annually, only around Sept. 1 rather than during the holidays. But it is like the holidays for high school sports fans who have now gone months waiting, without any official games, matches or meets to watch. In the annual early Christmas present to all prep sports fans in Montana...
Let’s talk about sports in-laws. From one end of Sanders County to the other, these relatives by marriage, and blood, are huge impact players in the coaching world around these parts. Let’s start in Plains with head football and girls basketball coach Eddie Fultz, who is married to Rheanna (Rhe) Padden, who is sister to Lisa (Padden) Mickelson, the new junior varsity volleyball coach for the Thompson Falls Lady Hawks. This makes Jake Mickelson, the athletic director and head boys basketball coach at Thompson Falls and husband to Lisa, spo...
Just a different kind of tee for two. The locally famous group of gregarious golfers known as the Over the Hill gang went at each other with a friendly game of two-person scramble at River's Bend this past sunny Monday morning. Playing the two-person format the best, Al Luckow and Darrel "Torgy" Torgrimson captured first place honors with a 24, followed by the Ron Belger-Chuck Manry duo who scored 25 and the Larry Eddy-Dennis Gripp combo who totaled 26. In other play of the day, Sam Bernhardt...
One more round of golf will settle it once and for all. Sparky’s Gutter Time golfers held on to first place through the last week of the second half of regulation play and have forced a playoff with first half winners Double H Dirt Works. That Tuesday night golf grudge match was set to be played earlier this week. Bear Muscle Fitness golfers Steve Fairbank, Steve Anderson, Cody Mosher and Ricky Hagedorn shot the low team gross of 179 and Double H Dirt Works linksters Scott Pardee, Ty Pardee, Russ Yeager and Jake Helvey posted the low team n...
It was the Wild Coyotes in the beginning and it is the Wild Coyotes in the end. The Wild Coyotes claimed the 2019 Wednesday Night Men’s League crown last week by winning the second half of season play – after winning the first half as well – at River’s Bend. The Coyote quartet of Gary Thompson, Kevin Sparks, Scott Pardee and Howard Morkert put a ribbon on the season by gunning down the low team gross of 168. Ron’s Running Dinos quartet of Bruce Sterling, Darrel “Torgy” Torgrimson, Dan Kier and Mark Terrazas shot the low team net of 141. Kier co...
Heat rises. A fact of science taught in every school everywhere, the Heat rising in Hot Springs right now refers to something else other than the laws of physics – this is the laws of athletics. Fresh off a third place finish in last year’s District 14C volleyball tournament and with virtually everyone back from that team, coach Alisha Pablo and her girls are busy getting ready for what they hope will be a banner year. “We are pretty excited,” Pablo admits. “We have a lot of returning talent and the girls are hungry for more. They are ready...
Start slow and finish strong; that is the way the Plains Trotter volleyball team has played these last few years. Coach Jesse Butcher and her Trotters have struggled out of the gate somewhat the past several seasons, but always seem to be playing their best when it means the most – at tournament time. Last fall at the District 14C tournament in Hot Springs, the Trotters, after a mediocre regular season where they showed flashes of brilliance but seemed to lack consistency, swept to the conference championship. After no other team had d...
The Noxon Lady Red Devil volleyball squad is set to open season play in the Mission Invitational tournament in St. Ignatius Saturday. Coach Teri Wilkinson’s net Devils will play their first home match Thursday, Sept. 5 against Sanders County rival Hot Springs. Flush with promising young talent that received a lot of quality playing time last fall, the Devils will have to go without the services of District 14C All-Conference selections Delaney Weltz (who was also name All-State C) and Kristina Brown this time around....
Jens Jantzen and Kim Pardee drove, chipped and putted their ways to the 2019 River’s Bend individual club championships Saturday. Jantzen won the men’s low gross title with an 80 and Pardee carded a 99 to claim the best women’s gross score and the River’s Bend crown at Thompson Falls’ favorite place of golfing business. Ron Belger and Connie Brown claimed the individual net titles with well-adjusted rounds of 62 and 73, respectively. Jantzen and Belger actually ended up tied for low gross honors with identical 80s, but Jantzen eventuall...
Fire season is not really done yet, in spite of recent rains which have temporarily knocked back the danger. Warily eyeing this week’s weather forecast, which calls for a stretch of several hot summer days, local fire managers caution folks to maintain their vigilance as the 2019 fire season winds down. “We are still in High fire danger with some warm weather ahead,” Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District Fire Management Officer Scott Schrenk said earlier this week. “We expect that we could still get some new starts, and are ready to respond if...
With Project Ascent the main beneficiary of this year's event, the 11th Annual Avista Charity Scramble was played in near-perfect weather at River's Bend Saturday. The tournament featured 13 men's teams and five women's teams of four this time around River's Bend. A total of 72 golfers played in this year's Avista tourney On the men's side, the fearsome foursome team of Dylan Beckman, Mike Bates, Brett Damaskos and Brandon Damaskos put the hurt on the Bend with an out-of-sight round of 56. With...
