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PABLO – Call it the power of positivity. The upbeat Plains Trotters, after a season of rediscovering how fun basketball can actually be, accorded themselves quite well in the District 14C tournament in Pablo last week, winning three games and taking eventual conference champion Charlo virtually to the limit before dropping a tough 37-33 decision in the semifinals Friday. After battling back to earn a date with St. Regis in the consolation final Saturday, the Trotters dismantled St. Regis in t...
PABLO – The battles won along the way will make the journey even more memorable. The never-say-die Plains Horsemen pulled off two stunning comeback wins on their way to winning third place in the District 14C tournament in Pablo last week. After opening with a 59-55 win over St. Regis Thursday in the first big comeback, coach Tyrel Allen and his Horsemen went into the fourth quarter tied with Charlo 36-36 before losing that tourney semifinal game 53-42, then defeated Noxon 40-32 in loser-out a...
Fresh off a confidence-building loss, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk boys will open the Western B divisional tournament against Deer Lodge at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Ronan Event Center. Coach Jake Mickelson and his Hawks will be hoping to use Saturday’s final home game with Bigfork, a game the Hawks were not truly out of until the Vikings went on a 23-11 run in the fourth quarter to end a 60-38 victory, as impetus for this week’s Western B. “We gained some confidence against Bigfork,” Mickelson said. “We will still have to scratch and claw for...
Looking to make some post-season noise, the Thompson Falls Lady Hawks will open the Western B divisional tournament in Ronan against Loyola Thursday at 9:40 a.m. The Lady Hawks completed regular season play with a strong effort in a 33-21 loss to Bigfork in Thompson Falls Saturday. Coach Doree Thilmony thinks she has a plan for dealing with dangerous Loyola, only one of several strong teams from the eastern side of the Western B. “The District 6B side of the conference is pretty cutthroat, there are several dangerous teams from the other s...
PABLO – The Hot Springs Savage Heat boys fought the good fight in the District 14C tournament in Pablo last week, winning two of four games and finishing in fourth place. After opening the tourney with a 57-48 win over Sanders County rival Noxon in the first round Thursday, coach Cameron Barber and his Heat fell to the top-seeded Arlee Warriors 87-55 in the semifinals Friday before fighting back to eliminate St. Regis in a loser-out game Saturday morning. The Heat's tournament run ended with a 5...
PABLO – The ones that get away make you play harder the next time you get a chance. The Hot Springs Savage Heat girls, after a disastrous second quarter led to a 57-38 victory for St. Regis in the first round Thursday, dropped a loser out game to Plains 52-41 Saturday and completed season play at the District 14C tournament in Pablo. After defeating St. Regis twice in the regular season, coach Richard Jackson and his still-young Savage Heat were hoping for bigger and better things in Pablo. “I guess it wasn’t meant to be this season,” Jackson...
As one wrestling season ends, another begins. With the high school wrestling season officially over with the conclusion of the Montana All-Class meet in Billings two weeks ago, the youth wrestling season has now started up. Members of the local Blue Hawk youth wrestling club competed in two tournaments in Butte last weekend, grappling in the junior high meet there Saturday and in the annual Cyclops tournament Sunday. In the junior high tourney Saturday, Paul Sundstrom took second in the 68 pound division, Elijah Ratliff won third at 130 pounds...
PABLO – For a few Lady Devils this was the end but for others it was a new beginning. Although seniors Delaney Weltz, Madison Koonce and Kali Murray played their last high school basketball games ever, and fellow senior Kristina Brown, who was out with illness, also watched as it happened, coach Ryan Weltz and his otherwise very young Lady Devils completed season play at the District 14C tournament in Pablo last week. The Lady Devils, after falling to Plains in the first round Thursday, came b...
PABLO – The Noxon Red Devil boys completed season play at the District 14C tournament in Pablo last week, falling 57-48 to county rival Hot Springs Thursday and being eliminated 40-32 by another county foe Plains, Saturday. A slow start against Hot Springs may have been the ultimate difference in that game as the Heat led 10-0 by late in the first quarter and still led 10-2 at the end of the first quarter. “We came back a little there to tighten things up and then Hot Springs went on another little run,” Devil coach Bart Haflich said, “but...
It’s been a wild season on both the girls’ and boys’ sides in District 14C this season, the question is: Can it get any wilder this weekend at the combined 14C tournament this week? Hoping the answer to that question is yes, 14C teams will gather at Joe McDonald Gym in Pablo for the conference tourney beginning Thursday and wrapping up Saturday. If challenge games are required, those will be played Monday. All three schools and six 14C teams from Sanders County will be in action Thursday in the first round. The No. 4 seed in the girls brack...
The Plains Trotters wrapped up the regular season with a pair of District 14C conference wins, defeating Noxon 56-32 in Noxon Friday and closing out with a 68-11 senior night win over Two Eagle River in Plains Saturday. The No. 3 seed for this week’s conference tourney in Pablo, coach Eddie Fultz and his Trotters will open the tourney Thursday at 6 p.m. in a rematch with No. 6 Noxon (see other story for a tournament preview). Leading only 27-22 at halftime in Noxon, the Trotters outscored the Lady Devils 20-3 in the third quarter to take f...
The Hot Springs Savage Heat girls split their last two District 14C conference games, edging St. Regis 46-43 in Hot springs Thursday and falling, but only 40-30, to league-leading Charlo in Charlo Saturday. Coach Richard Jackson and his Savage Heat will now open the 14C tourney as the No. 4 seed and will play No. 5 St. Regis again at 11 a.m. Thursday in the first round. Please see the tournament preview story for more. The Heat defeated St. Regis for the second time this season as McKennzie Cannon bucketed 14 points and Katelyn Christensen and...
The survivor series continues. Four Thompson Falls Blue Blue Hawk wrestlers survived Saturday's Western B-C tournament by placing in the top four in their weight classes, and now move on to the State B-C tournament, part of the Montana All-Class meet to be wrestled in Metra Park in Billings Friday and Saturday. "Surviving is the name of the game, you have got to get there to do anything at state," Hawk coach Ian Taylor. "These four kids have earned this opportunity, now it is matter of going...
It's crunch time in the wrestling season and the Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen have gotten rolling at precisely the right time. After placing five P-HS grapplers at the Western B-C divisional tournament in Thompson Falls Saturday, the Savage Horsemen will take those five – Taylor Angle (second at 103 pounds), Peter Carey (third at 120), Conrad Vanderwall (second at 132), Josiah Vanderwall (the division champ at 138) and Steven Yother (third at 285) – into battle at the State B-C tou...
Although they had a chance at winning in the late going, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk boys fell 42-41 to the Eureka Lions in Eureka Friday. Coach Jake Mickelson and his Hawks also dropped a 72-23 decision to Loyola in Missoula Thursday. With only two weeks of regular season play remaining, the Hawks will host Mission Thursday in their only game this week. Mickelson said scoring was the problem in Eureka, even though Thompson Falls still had a chance to win, but missed two free throws that would...
The bounce-back effect can be strong in basketball. Witness the Plains Horsemen’s experience with it last week as they were bounced 66-35 by the Savage Heat in Hot Springs Friday and then promptly bounced back with a convincing 83-54 win over the visiting St. Regis Tigers in Plains Saturday. In the stretch run of a fight for seeding position into the District 14C tournament in Pablo Feb. 14-16, the Horsemen have two more 14C games this week, at Noxon Friday and versus Two Eagle River in Pablo Saturday. “This is the time we need to be pla...
They are like a heat wave, burning in District 14C. The Hot Springs Savage Heat boys are heating up as evidenced by their strong performance last week in torching the Plains Horsemen 66-35 in Plains Friday and then burning the Red Devils 36-29 in Noxon Saturday. Obviously playing their best basketball of the season, coach Cameron Barber and his Savage Heat boys hope to keep up the heat on their opponents this week in another pair of 14C games, hosting St. Regis Thursday and completing regular season action at Charlo Saturday. Barber said the...
It’s all about getting to the basket and establishing a presence there. If you can get to the rim and get some shots down the rest will take care of itself. Coach Bart Haflich’s Noxon Red Devils had trouble getting to the rim last and lost twice, 72-27 to the two-time defending State C champion Arlee Warriors in Arlee Friday, and 59-44 to the Hot Springs Savage Heat in Noxon Saturday. Nearing the end of the regular season, the Devils will wrap it up this week hosting Plains for Noxon’s senior night. “We have no excuses,” Haflich said. “Ar...
The Hot Springs Savage Heat girls split District 14C conference games last week, falling to Sanders County rival Plains 51-46 in Hot Springs Friday and churning out a 36-29 road win over Noxon Saturday. Coach Richard Jackson will guide his Savage Heat through two more 14C contests this week, hosting St. Regis Thursday and visiting league-leading Charlo Saturday in their final games before the conference tournament the following week. “The more games we can win, the better position we can put ourselves in for the tournament,” Jackson said. “Ou...
The Noxon Lady Red Devils are very young and inexperienced but getting better every time they step on the floor. Coach Ryan Weltz and his precocious Devils took two more learning steps last week, falling 61-22 to District 14C-leading Arlee in Arlee Friday, before returning home and being outlasted 36-29 by the visiting Hot Springs Savage Heat Saturday. The Devils will complete regular season play hosting Plains Friday. “We are a young team that is kind of learning about playing in game situations as we go,” Weltz said. “We are playing hard,...
The hard work is beginning to pay off as the number of turnovers continues to trend downward and the ball handling improves but it still wasn't enough as coach Doree Thilmony and her Lady Hawks fell twice last week, losing 72-35 to Loyola in Thompson Falls Thursday and 56-32 to Eureka in Eureka Friday. Thompson Falls has only one scheduled game this week, hosting Mission Thursday. "We are getting better," Thilmony said. "We are handling the ball better, breaking pressure defense better and...
The shots weren’t falling last week, and the end result was a win (51-45 in Hot Springs Friday) and a loss (49-41 to S. Regis in Plains Saturday) for coach Eddie Fultz and his Plains Trotters. The Trotters will finish up regular season play with another pair of 14C conference games this week, visiting Noxon Friday and hosting Two Eagle River for senior night Saturday. Fultz said he didn’t think his girls played very effective defense in either game last week, and looks for the Trotters to improve in that area in what is left of the regular sea...
Only the best wrestlers get the opportunity to compete on the sport's biggest stage in Montana at storied Metra Park in Billings in the State All-Class Tournament, and the road to Billings runs through Thompson Falls this time around. Hoping to qualify for the most important tournament of this or any season, Western B-C grapplers will gather in Thompson Falls Saturday where they will face a simple math test counting one to four – if you finish in the top four of your weight class, you are in, a...
When you are missing a few players, with a couple of them being starters, you need the others on the roster to step up when given the opportunity. With several of those "other" players turning in big-time efforts, the Thompson Falls boys basketball team played very competitively last week, dumping Troy 54-46 Friday to clinch second place in final District 7B standings, and playing well enough to win but being bumped off 60-59 by Anaconda Saturday. Both of those games were played in Thompson...
The Lady Hawks got after the Troy Trojans in a big way in Thompson Falls Friday, and ended up running the Trojans out of the gym 48-19 by the time it was over. “Pressure defense was the key,” coach Doree Thilmony said. “We were able to force some turnovers and dictate the pace of play.” Megan Baxter recorded yet another double double to lead the Hawks to the win, scoring 12 points and securing 12 rebounds, besides swatting away four Troy shot attempts and coming up with three steals, Jody De...
