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The long dog days of summer are not quite here yet but, as a sports fan, I am already beginning to feel a little deprived. After all, with the NBA and NHL seasons concluding last week, we have now entered that uncomfortable time of the year when there is no basketball, no football and no hockey to watch; all we are left with to watch on TV is regular season major league baseball. Or, at this early point in the MLB season, snoozing through it. It’s kind of like a dead zone of sorts out there right now with a dearth of watchable sports available...
Maybe 8-Man football will be a good fit for Thompson Falls after all. Thompson Falls coach Jared Koskela accompanied 12 of his players to Butte last Friday through Sunday for the annual Montana Tech 8-Man Football Camp, and said he walked away from the Mining City feeling encouraged about what next fall – the Blue Hawks' first season as an 8-Man entity – may bring. "It was encouraging," he said. "We were a little behind the curve at first but, by the end, we had learned a lot about the 8-M...
It's Insanity, and it could be coming to a town near you. The Insanity junior and senior league softball teams, featuring several summering high school players from Thompson Falls, Hot Springs and Plains, have a full schedule of games for the next several weeks, culminating with the State tournament in Missoula July 12-14. The Insanity softball teams are made up of players from Ronan, Mission, Charlo, Plains, Hot Springs and Thompson Falls. The Mission Valley Softball Association, of which all...
Feed-N-Fuel shot the low team gross, Bear Muscle Fitness the low team net and Double H Dirt Works held on to the league lead in Tuesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Feed-N-Fuel golfers Dave Petteys, Steve Clark, Doug Gunderson and Mike Gillmore teamed up to tally the low gross of 178 as Petteys led them to it with the low individual gross of 39. Doug Czerwinski calculated out the low individual net of 33. Cody Mosher, Steve Fairbank, Rick Hagedorn and Czerwisnki, representing Bear Muscle Fitness, shot the low team net...
Hagedorn Land Surveying grabbed low team gross honors with a 176 and Ron’s Running Dinos shot the low team net of 140 in Wednesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Rick Hagedorn, Randy Hagedorn, Bernie Groshong and Ryan Ostwald represented Hagedorn Land Surveying on the Bend and Jesse Mack, Bruce Sterling, Mark Terrazas and Dan Kier were the Dinos in action last week. Whitefish Credit Union continues to lead the league with 141 points and Wild Coyote is second at 139. In hole play, Ostwald was closest to the pin in 3 on No...
It was a scratch and scramble day with the Over the Hill golfing gang Monday morning at sunny River’s Bend, and Sam Burt and Carter Meyer emerged from the links fracas with the winning score of 31.5. With the Over the Hill golfers split off into two-man teams, and the final score for each duo determined by dividing their combined rounds by two, Dave Petteys and Gary Thompson (34.5) placed second and Al Luckow and Randy Hojem (35) third. In other Over the Hill news of the day, Thompson shot the low individual gross of 38, besides being c...
Wherever Trevor Paro goes, and whatever sports he competes in, you can count on the championships following, be it in Hot Springs, Montana or Longview, Washington. Since graduating from Hot Springs with significant athletic honors from multiple sports accomplishments in 2017, two more championships and more honors have followed Paro during his time at Lower Columbia College in Longview, where he helped lead the Red Devils to the last two Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) baseball championship...
Double H Dirt Works doubled down on the links competition and jumped back into the league lead in Tuesday Night Men’s League play at River’s Bend last week. With Scott Pardee, Jake Helvey, Tom Kirkland and Ty Pardee doing the swinging, the Double H Dirt guys shot the low team net of 139. Team Feed-N-Fuel – Dave Petteys, Steve Clark, Doug Gunderson and Mike Gillmore – shot the low team gross of 178. Cody Mosher carded the low individual gross of 39 while Kirkland factored in his handicap to arrive at the low net of 32. In other Tuesday night a...
The Wild Coyotes shot the low team gross and took over first place in league standings in Wednesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. With Kevin Sparks, Dave Petteys, Scott Pardee and Howard Morkert doing the golfing honors for team Wild Coyote, the furry, fearsome foursome shot the low team gross of 169. The Coyotes now reside in first place with 122.5 team points while Whitefish Credit Union is second at 112.5. Ron’s Running Dinos – Jesse Mack, Darrel Torgrimson, Bruce Sterling and Dan Kier – teamed up to shoot the low t...
Plains seniors Kassidy Kinzie and Kenzie Angle, and Hot Springs junior Sydney Jackson have been named to the 2019 Western B-C All-Conference softball team. Kinzie and Jackson were further honored by also being named All-State B-C. The Plains-Hot Springs Trotters, after finishing third in the Western B-C tournament, went on to win third place in the State B-C tourney as well, winning the program’s second State B-C trophy ever this spring. All-Conference selections are made by league coaches following the regular season. 2019 Western B-C A...
Plains senior Kassidy Kinzie, who helped lead the Plains-Hot Springs Trotters to third place in the recent State B-C softball tournament, has signed a national letter of intent to attend Miles Community College and join the Pioneers first softball team next school year. The daughter of Kim and Richard Kinzie of Plains, Kassidy plans on pursuing a degree in education at the Miles City school. A pitcher/infielder for the Trotters, Kassidy’s pitching helped lead Plains-Hot Springs to third place at the recent State B-C tourname...
It was a Yellow Ball Scramble day at sunny River’s Bend Monday morning, and the Over the Hill golfing gang made a fun day of play of it. With a member of each foursome required to play the yellow ball on any given hole and the other three playing in a best-ball scramble format, the team of Buck Adams, Rusty Haggard, Russ Wood and Charlie Hooten played the yellow ball best, while the team of Don Hansen, Sam Burt, John Beckman and Lana Nolen posted the lowest scramble score. In other Over the Hill highlights, Dave Garr was closest to the pin i...
It wasn't so much how they did, it was more about how they carried themselves during the competition. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawk track and field teams completed the season with a strong team showing in the State B meet in Kalispell last weekend. Trey Fisher (a surprising second place in the javelin), Maya Stiles (fourth place in the pole vault), Cody Burk (sixth in the discus) and Jody Detlaff (tied for sixth in the high jump) were the medal winners for the Hawks at Legends Stadium Friday and...
These men and women of Sanders County worked hard at their track and field skills all spring, honing their skills, training their bodies and minds, taking advantage of every opportunity to further their standing in chosen events, specific tests of athletic prowess. Some of them were rewarded with MHSA medals, medals which represent awards for all the effort put in to getting them. Here are some of their stories. *** Trey Fisher just kept throwing it farther and farther and farther, way further than he had ever pitched the javelin before. By...
The Hot Springs Savage Heat track and field team completed season action at the State C meet in Laurel last week. Freshman sensation Katelyn Christensen was the star of the show for Hot Springs, recording personal bests to win second in the javelin (with a best throw of 127 feet, 7 inches) and fifth in the long jump (16-2.25). Please see View from the Sidelines for more on Christensen. Tyler Carr and Kyle Lawson carried the colors for Hot Springs on the boys side of the meet. A senior, Carr very nearly earned a medal in the 110 meter hurdles,...
Bear Muscle Fitness duffers flexed their golfing muscles and Sparky’s team members shot the low net to highlight Tuesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Steve Fairbank, Bernie Groshong, Steve Anderson and Cody Mosher covered the links action for Bear Muscle Fitness and Kevin Sparks, Tom Holleran, Mike Thilmony and Doug Czerwinski golfed for Sparky’s. Sparks carded the low individual gross of 41 to lead Sparky’s, and Don Lake scored the low individual net of 29. The Shanks a Lot team still leads league standings with 106....
Whitefish Credit Union and Wild Coyote dominated the action last week and are now on top of the leader board in the Wednesday Night Men’s league standings. Rick Kendall, Randy Hojem, Ron Beaty and Chuck Manry totaled 170 strokes between them as Whitefish CU shot the low team gross, while Gary Thompson, Kevin Sparks, Dave Petteys and Scott Pardee used their handicaps to arrive at the low team net of 141. Kendall fired the low individual gross round of 41 and Hojem captured low individual net honors with a well-adjusted round of 30. As a result o...
If you are good with it, the javelin can take you places. Being good with the spear throw earned Plains athletes Kaylee Altmiller and Malachi Paulsen berths into last week’s State C meet in Laurel. Altmiller followed up her third place finish from a week earlier at the Western C meet by winning fourth in Laurel for Plains’ only team points in the two-day meet, flinging the spear 116 feet, 9 inches to get her medal. The only Plains boy to qualify for the State C, Paulsen finished fourth at the Western C but was unable to place in Laurel, mar...
Dealney Weltz, Levi Brubaker and Edison VanVleet, three Noxon seniors who will be sorely missed during all of the high school sports seasons beginning next fall, led the Red Devils in the State C track and field meet in Laurel last week. Donning the NHS red and white for the final time in her high school career, Weltz made her marks in the shot put (35 feet, 1.25 inches) and discus (106-10) stand up for third and fifth place medals in those events. An All-State C performer for Noxon in volleyball and basketball earlier this school year,...
In track and field, the best time for your best is when it counts the most. Turning in some of their best times, distances and heights when it was the most important, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks responded with a flock of strong performances at the Western B-C Divisional meet in Missoula last Thursday and Friday. Fueled by strong efforts from across the Missoula County Public Schools Stadium complex, the Lady Hawks surged to a fourth place team finish with 70 points, while the Hawk boys scored...
Kyle Lawson and Elizabeth Lampshire are in seventh heaven right now. How could they not be, given that they earned spots in this week’s State C meet at Laurel not by finishing in the top six as usual, but by finishing in the top seven. Given the fact that there are simply more teams out west in the Class C ranks this season than in other parts of the state, Montana High School Association officials decided that the only fair thing to do was to allow the top seven place-winners in each event to qualify for the State C, and Lawson and L...
by John Hamilton Happiness is a Western B-C trophy. The icing on the cake is that along with that sparkling trophy, the third place shiner from last week's Western B-C softball tourney in Anaconda, coach Michele Bangen and her Plains-Hot Springs Trotters also receive a berth into the State B-C tournament. Hoping to have their cake and eat it too, the Trotters will open the State B-C tourney in Belgrade Thursday against Cut Bank, the No. 2 seeded team from the Eastern B-C, at 4 p.m. at the...
Senior Tyler Carr and freshman Katelyn Christensen stood out for the Hot Springs Savage Heat team at the Western C divisional track and field meet in Missoula last week. The senior-freshman duo scored 14 points apiece for the Savage Heat boys and girls teams in Missoula, and will now be joined by freshman Kyle Lawson, who placed seventh in the 300 meter hurdles, in traveling to Laurel this week for the State C meet, to be held in conjunction with the State A at the Laurel Sports Complex Thursday through Saturday. Carr motored to second place...
And a pair of spear-throwers shall lead them. The State C meet will be held in conjunction with the State AA meet at the Laurel Sports Complex Thursday through Saturday and coach Denise Montgomery's Plains track and field team will be represented there by standout javelin throwers Kylee Altmiller and Malachi Paulsen. A junior, Altmiller pitched the spear a career-best 119 feet, 6 inches to win third in the girls' javelin at the Western C meet in Missoula last week, while Paulsen, a senior,...
Thirty-four is a good number, some of the Over the Hill gang players just might remember when that was how old they were. Or maybe not, after all that age may seem mighty long ago to some of the more should-we-say “experienced” golfers in Thompson Falls’ friendliest golfing league. Putting their chronological ages on this earth aside yet again, 34 of the as-young-as-you-feel Over the Hill duffers took another stab at River’s Bend this past Monday morning, and a good time was reportedly had by all. Leading the gang out on the Bend, Dave Garr nee...
