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The Red Devils are rising, and they are not done yet. The rising Noxon track and field teams enjoyed measurable success at the District 14C meet in Missoula last week and, as a result will be looking to make memories again this week at the combined Western C/Western B divisional meet at MCPS Stadium. Led by running phenom MacKenzie Morgan, who won the 400, 800, 1600 and 3200 meter races, the Red Devil girls piled up 112 team points to just nudge out Charlo (111) for second place to Clark Fork (178). St. Regis (45) placed fourth, Hot Springs...
The Plains track and field teams are the young and the restless; and you can expect to hear a lot more from them in the next few years. Coaches Denise Montgomery and George Sherwood led the Trotters and Horsemen into the combined District 13C/14C/6B meet in Missoula last week and will be leading many of those same athletes into MCPS Stadium again this week for the combined Western C/Western B divisional meet Friday and Saturday. Led by Mason Elliott, who qualified in three individual events and the 1600 meter relay, the Horsemen finished the...
Carley VonHeeder is not just a local legend anymore, she also is now a Montana State athletic icon. A fifth-year senior at Montana State University, VonHeeder, who graduated from Plains in 2016, put her name in the Bobcat record books last week by winning the Big Sky Conference championship in the javelin in Ogden, Utah, destroying the previous school record with a monster throw of 173 feet, 10 inches and winning the 2021 Big Sky crown. The second-place throw was almost 10 full feet behind VonHeeder’s winning effort. VonHeeder was named the out...
Talk about taking softball to a new level; how about clear to the MVP level? Kassidy Kinzie, a 2019 Plains High School graduate who led the Trotters to third place in the State B-C tournament that season, was named MVP of the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) Region XIII tournament after leading the Miles City Community College regional championship last month. The Miles City CC Pioneers' primary pitcher during their run to the Super Regionals, where they lost twice and were f...
Easy Street Autoworks shot the low team gross and Noxon Quik Stop the low team net as Custom Ventures stayed atop the standings in Tuesday Night Men’s League golf action at River’s Bend last week. Ron Beaty, Dave Garr, Charlie Hooten and Rusty Haggard made it look easy for Easy Street, combining to shoot the low team gross of 181, while Rusty Sharp, Shawn Wilkinson, Bruce Haflich and Scott Garr put together the low team net of 147 for Noxon Quik Stop. Scott Pardee carded the low individual gross round of 39 for the evening and Carter Meyer the...
With Ryan Ostwald leading the way with the low individual gross of 38, the Hagedorn Land Surveying team – which also includes Paul Flemmer, Kelly Kovarik and Bernie Groshong – copped low team gross honors with a collective round of 175 in Wednesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Although the Highlead foursome held onto the lead in the latest standings, Ron’s Running Dino’s (Dan Kier, Bruce Sterling, Jesse Mack and Ryan Craven) had the low team net of 145 for the week. Chuck Manry bagged low individual net honors with...
There is no such thing as a halfway swing in softball – either you swing at the ball with authority or you don't – there should be no in-between. Getting back on their game and swinging their bats with focused abandon, the Lady Hawks won four of five games last week, pancaking Priest River 29-2 and 28-2 in Idaho Thursday, driving past Troy 12-2 in Thompson Falls Friday and splitting games with Eureka in Lincoln County Saturday, dropping the opener 25-15 but coming back to win the second game 16-...
The Plains-Hot Springs Trotters softball team has had a season of growth, of getting to know their new coach and teammates better as they go. Taking their cues from new coach Dani Crowe this season, the Trotters had a period getting-to-know-you-getting-to-know-me earlier on, but now seem to have settled into a solid softball rhythm. Trending towards winning lately, the Trotters reeled off four straight victories last week, traveling to Anaconda and defeating the Copperheads 5-4 and 20-5 last...
Plains, Hot Springs and Noxon track and field teams will be in Missoula at the combined District 13C/14C meet Friday and Saturday hoping to earn trips back to Missoula the following week. With the top five athletes in each event earning their way on to the Western C divisional meet May 21-22, the stakes will be high for those athletes hoping to still be competing in the coming weeks. Several of Sanders County’s finest athletes made their presence felt in the final regular season meet of 2021 in the Kim L. Haines Memorial meet at MCPS Stadium S...
The final tune-up before the champions are determined. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawk track and field squads completed regular season action at the Kim L. Haines Invitational meet in Missoula Saturday with strong performances by both the girls and boys teams. Ringing up 18 personal best marks and times, the boys racked up 55 points and finished fifth in team scoring, while the Hawk girls posted five personal bests and scored 35 points, also claiming fifth in final team standings. As usual this sea...
For Jody Detlaff, there are just not enough sports in the world. But, with high school graduation rapidly approaching and her prep sporting career finally nearing its productive, busy ending, Detlaff has decided on a school of higher learning, and on the sports she wants to concentrate on in college. Soon to be graduating with honors from Thompson Falls (she carries a cumulative 4.0 grade point average), Detlaff recently signed her national letter of intent (or NLI) to attend Montana Tech in...
It all comes down to the Western B. With an optimism based on some fine late-season results from the Seeley-Swan Invitational at Double Arrow Golf Course Thursday, coach Gary Thompson and his Blue Hawk boys and girls were set to play in the Western B (also called Division 3 by the MHSA) tournament at Eagle Bend in Bigfork Wednesday. Thompson was impressed with how his golfers performed at Double Arrow last week and will be looking for some of that same kind of fine play at Eagle Bend Wednesday....
It’s that kind of smile that makes it all worthwhile. The kind of smile we are talking about here, “that” kind of smile was all over Brandt Snead’s face as he met coach Lisa Brown after shooting perhaps the golf round of his life at the Seeley-Swan Invitational at Double Arrow golf course Thursday. By carding a 91 on Double Arrow, Brandt, a freshman pared almost 20 strokes off his previous best effort and automatically qualified for the State C tournament at Riverside Country Club in Bozeman and will now make plans on joining teammate Duncan...
Taking the high road by shooting the low team net of 142, Highlead golfers Jesse Mosher, Chadd Laws, John Mosher and Steve Fairbank kept their team in first place in Wednesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Golfing for Hagedorn Land Surveying, Ryan Ostwald, Paul Flemmer, Rick Hagedorn and Bernie Groshong stayed in second place in the standings by shooting down the low team gross of 174. Flemmer collected low gross honors with his round of 40 and Bruce Sterling shot a well-adjusted round of 33 for low net. In other Wed...
Top 8 great. Saying "some great things happened" with her team at the Top 8 meet in Eureka last Tuesday, April 27, Thompson Falls coach Trenna Ferris and her charges now concentrate their efforts on the rest of the regular season, which continues Saturday in Missoula at the Kim Haines Memorial meet at MCPS Stadium Saturday. The Hawks warmed up for what's left by rising and shining in the Top 8 meet in Eureka. A recent signee to the Montana Tech track and field program, senior Jody Detlaff...
Someone should pinch Denise Montgomery; she thinks she might just be dreaming. The long-time coach of the Plains track and field team, Montgomery has an excuse for feeling like she must be dreaming right now, her current band of 12 thinclads has brought her so much joy this spring. “This is a dream team, probably the perfect team to have after coming off a pandemic like this,” she said. “For me it has been an ideal situation. We have very eager kids that are willing to listen and learn, that all work hard, that get along with each other, and t...
Coach Andrew Leichtnam and his Savage Heat thinclads are working towards a big finish to the season, aiming for the combined District 13C/14C meet in Missoula May 21-22 as the place to begin that big ending. Hot Springs will warm up for the district meet competing in the Kim Haines Memorial at MCPS Stadium in Missoula Saturday, in the final regular season meet of the spring. Junior Kyle Lawson has been a team leader for the Heat this season and is currently ranked fourth in the state Class C ranks in the 110 and 300 meter hurdles. Leichtnam...
Those record setting Red Devils. Noxon’s Cade VanVleet and MacKenzie Morgan made quite the small-school splash at the Top 8 meet in Eureka April 27, as VanVleet obliterated meet records in the discus and shot put on the boys side, and Morgan set a new standard in the girls 400 meter run. The third-ranked discus thrower in Montana in any class up to this point with a best mark of 154-3 earlier this season, VanVleet set a new record in the event at Eureka with a toss of 143-7. Ranked No. 8 in t...
The Thill of victory, the agony of defeat. Guided by the legendary Otto Thill, the man with the acerbic tongue who built Florence into a formidable softball force in the early 2000s, the Loyola Sacred Heart Breakers came into Thompson Falls last Thursday and swept a doubleheader from the Blue Hawks 10-7 and 9-0. Complete with Thill's customary running commentary from the Breaker dugout and the third base box, the games were a lesson in the art of small-ball tactics and walking the talk while...
Led by the Baxter sisters with the girls and Kade Pardee with the boys, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks played through at the St. Regis Invitational played at Trestle Creek April 29. Megan Baxter, a senior, shot a season-best 89 to win first place and little sister Ellie, a sophomore, carded 101 for fourth place overall. The Hawk girls did not have enough golfers for team scoring. Plains won the girls title with a team score of 452 and Seeley-Swan was second at 459. Pardee shot a 95 to place...
You ain’t seen nothing yet. Lisa Brown, who co-coaches the Plains High School golf team along with Don Stamm, thinks her golfers have only just begun to scratch their potential as the season winds down. “These kids have been putting a lot into their golf games and are getting better every week,” she said. “Our younger players are really coming along. It will be exciting to see how everyone ends up playing here late in the season.” Hoping to putt more of that links potential to work this week, Brown and Stamm will guide their young charges i...
Feed-N-Fuel shot the low team gross and Noxon Quik Stop the low net as Quik Stop ended play with the league lead in Tuesday Night Men’s golf action at River’s Bend last week. Leading the Tuesday nighters around the Bend, Ryan Ostwald of team Feed-N-Fuel (which also includes Kelly Kovarik, Mike Normandin and Dave Petteys) shot the low gross round of 38, while John Mosher nabbed low net honors with a 34. Kevin Spark, Shawn Wilkinson, Rusty Sharp and Scott Garr put together the weekly winning round for Noxon Quik Stop. In other Tuesday com...
Highlead pulled down the lead, First Security Bank shot the low team gross and Moore Oil the low team net in the first week of play in Wednesday Night Men’s League golfing action at River’s Bend last Wednesday. Leading First Security in was Mike Baxter, who carded the low individual gross of 37, while Paul Flemmer used his handicap to arrive at the low net of 33. Ben Mummert, Michael Scharfe and Dan Whittenburg were the other golfers for First Security Bank last week, while RT Brown, Gary Moe, Bary Moore and Larry Eddy were the clu...
It had been a long time coming, this round of Over the Hill golfing, but it was well worth the wait in retrospect. As the cloud of COVID-19 slowly passes over, the locally famous Over the Hill gang golfers were finally able to return to River’s Bend Monday, after missing the 2020 season all together while staying all apart in the name of good health. Returning to Hill play with a kick in their step and maybe an extra yard or two in their drives, Rick Kendall shot down the low men’s gross of 41, Dave Petteys factored in his handicap to arr...
Don't call it the Thompson Falls Invitational anymore, call it the Gary Thompson Invitational from now on. Since his name is pretty much synonymous with Thompson Falls golf anyway – being as he coached the boys program to its only State B title in 2015, and has been a guiding light for Hawk golfers as their mentor for countless years – Thompson watched the annual prep tourney played at River's Bend be renamed in his honor at a special ceremony at the event two years ago. That honor is well des...
