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Put in your best effort and give winning a chance. Noxon boys basketball coach Bart Haflich wanted his Red Devil boys to show a little more of that effort that Noxon is famous for in Plains Friday after a lackluster 48-36 loss to Troy in Troy the night before. Haflich got the effort he wanted and his Red Devils almost knocked off the Horsemen, losing only 40-33 by the time their latest hoop test was over. "The kids played hard, we gave ourselves a chance in that game," Haflich said. "And that's...
Now you see it. Now you don't. Now you see it again... After dominating most of the way, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk boys played peekaboo with the lead at the end before finally coming back to see through to a 59-53 win over District 7B rival in overtime at TFHS Saturday night. The Hawks led the visiting Lions 40-23 at one point early in the fourth quarter before the Lions charged back to make things interesting in the game's final minutes and on into overtime. Thompson Falls had several...
The pressure got to the Lady Hawks last week; dealing with that kind of pressure has now become Job No. 1 for coach Doree Thilmony and her young squad. Thompson Falls fell to two pressure-defense teams last week, dropping a 69-53 decision to Loyola in Missoula Thursday and losing 50-33 to Eureka in a District 7B conference game in Thompson Falls Saturday. The Hawks face two more worthy opponents with the possibility of pressure D again this week, visiting Bigfork for another 7B game Friday and...
HOT SPRINGS - Cameron Barber has been harping on defense with his team ever since he took over as the coach of the Hot Springs boys at the start of the season. And that attention to defensive detail paid off in spades Thursday night as his Savage Heat shut down the Noxon Red Devils' offense on the way to a 52-37 win over their county rivals in Hot Springs. "That's the best defense we have played this season," Barber said. "I have been telling the kids that we have to win on the defensive end...
by John Hamilton After a slow start, the Hot Springs Savage Heat girls are now off to the races for the remainder of the 2019 portion of their hoop schedule. Seeming to be in need of a jump start to their offensive engine, the Heat struggled past an equally cold-shooting Noxon squad 27-25 in Hot Springs Thursday, and then lost 48-40 to the Trotters in Plains Friday. Coach Richard Jackson and his Heat have two more District 14C games this week, at St. Regis Thursday and against Charlo in Hot...
Basketball is difficult enough without putting undue pressure on yourselves. The nervous Noxon Lady Red Devils lost a pair of District 14C conference games last week, falling 27-25 to the Savage Heat in Hot Springs Thursday and 67-28 to Arlee in Noxon Saturday. Noxon coach Ryan Weltz thinks his Lady Devils have been too hard on themselves mentally, that they are not simply enjoying the opportunity to go out there, play and well, just have fun. "I've been trying to tell them, this is just a...
Sometimes you have to fight for the right to win. Coach Tyrell Allen’s Plains Horsemen fought past District 14C foes St. Regis and Hot Springs last week, topping the Tigers 57-49 in St. Regis Thursday and defeating Hot Springs 58-47 in Plains Friday. Back in fighting form after the holidays, Allen and the Horsemen will continue their 14C conference basketball battles this week hosting Noxon Friday and visiting Two Eagle River in Pablo Saturday. The Horsemen escaped the Tigers in St. Regis last week by blowing open a tight game in the fourth qua...
Trae triumphant! Again. Thompson Falls freshman Trae Thilmony won the individual title at 113 pounds to lead the Hawks at the Cut Bank Invitational last weekend. The 27-team tournament began Friday and ran through Saturday. The Blue Hawks finished a very respectable tenth in team scoring among the 27 Class B-C and A squads. In addition to Thilmony’s championship run, sophomore Roman Sparks won six straight matches after falling in the second round to come back and win third place at 120, Seth Alarcon grappled down fourth in the heavyweight d...
It’s difficult to compete in a dual tournament when you only fill eight of the 13 weights. It becomes even more difficult when a couple of those eight wrestlers are sick, reducing your roster to only six. The undermanned Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen, who were able to fill less than half of a complete lineup, still wrestled gamely in the Western Montana Duals tournament in Ronan Friday and Saturday. “It’s hard to compete in duals when you have a small number of kids, and our numbers were reduced even more by a little bit of the flu bug,...
Sometimes it is not so much about winning as it is about surviving. Plains Trotter coach Eddie Fultz had that feeling after his team eked out a win in what he called an ugly outing in St. Regis, which resulted in a 38-33 victory for Plains. “I don’t know if it was the fact that we were rusty after the holiday break or what,” he said, “but it seems like we survived that game more than won it. Both teams had trouble taking care of the ball that night.” Fultz pointed to the 34 turnovers his girls committed, and to the 33 St. Regis had on the other...
It may have been Keg Bowl Lite but it was still the Keg Bowl. The 39th annual Keg Bowl was played at its traditional home at Ainsworth Field Saturday and, in spite of low turnout numbers which forced the sharing of the quarterback position and a slight altering of the rules, the game was considered a rousing success. With old Keg Bowl legend Roger Willhite and new Keg Bowl legend Nate Pavlik sharing the quarterback duties (each played for the Silver Bullets when not under center) for both...
Let's get this party restarted. Fresh off the shutdown holidays, area prep sports teams will hit the mats and the courts this weekend to resume the 2018-2019 seasons. Although the federal government seems far away from resolving the wall or no-wall conflict that has sent many folks into extended vacation, the Montana sports season will resume on schedule. In wrestling, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks, originally set to appear in the Western Montana Duals in Ronan Friday and Saturday, will instead...
Life happens. And sometimes it happens in the most unexpected ways. As usual in the sports world there were some changes last year as there always are from year to year - new heroes reaching new heights, new teams reaching championship goals but, in 2018, the biggest sports event of the season for Thompson Falls Blue Hawk fans did not happen on a field, a mat or a court - it happened at a meeting of the Montana High School Association board of directors in Helena. At that regularly scheduled meeting of the MHSA, it was decided that Thompson...
It was a tale two big comebacks at TFHS Thursday night, with the hometown Lady Hawks rallying to win over the Trotters in the first game and the Plains Horsemen coming back to prevail over the Blue Hawk boys in the second. In the girls' game, the Lady Hawks trailed the Trotters 28-23 going into the fourth quarter, but outscored their Plains rivals 24-14 down the stretch to win 47-41. Jody Detlaff netted 11 of her game-high 19 points in the fourth quarter and Megan Baxter, who totaled 14, scored...
Football is a game for young men but some pigskin crazies in this part of the world think they can play the demanding sport forever if they want to. Those kind of crazies will be out there trying to prove they can still play (or maybe find out that they really can’t anymore?) again Saturday in the 38th annual Keg Bowl, set to kick off at 1 p.m. Dec. 29. The Keg Bowl has traditionally been held on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year’s Day for almost four full decades now. Although deep, fluffy, footspeed-slowing, ground-cushioning sno...
It’s not too late to think about getting your early entry in for the 2019 New Year’s Day Fun Run next Tuesday, but time is quickly running out on that chance. The 20th annual Fun Run will, as always, be headquartered out of the Elks Lodge just east of Thompson Falls and will begin promptly at 10 a.m. Jan. 1. Also, as always, proceeds raised from the race will be used to benefit Sanders County school cross country programs and the Clark Fork Valley Running Club scholarship fund. Packet pick-up and race day registration begins at 8:45 a.m. and...
High school running partners who pushed each other to new heights during their prep careers in Plains in the late 1990s, Anders Brooker and Casey Jermyn just can’t seem to run away from each other in their adult lives as both have become standout cross country coaches in Montana. Though still close friends, they have also now become heated rivals when it is cross country season in Montana. Brooker and Jermyn were recently named as the girls and boys 2018 Class AA coaches of the year by the Montana Coaches Association for their efforts this p...
Maybe you’ve seen the TV show depicting the marauding, conquering Vikings, those war-machine men and women depicted as being intent on ruling the entire known world centuries ago. In current-day Montana, we have the Charlo Vikings and Lady Vikings, warriors intent on ruling District 14C basketball right now. For the second straight week, the Vikings invaded Sanders County and won a pair of important conference hoop battles, as the Charlo boys defeated the Noxon boys 62-52 and the Lady Vikings topped the Lady Red Devils 47-25. The Vikings had p...
All wrestling considered, it was a pretty good weekend for the Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen in Eureka. Coach Jeff Kujala and his Horsemen wrestled in a mixer in Eureka Friday night and then competed in the Buzz Lucey Invitational tournament at Lincoln County High School Saturday, winning sixth place in team scoring while crowning two individual champs and placing two others second and third. The amazing mat brothers, junior Conrad and senior Josiah Vanderwall, led the Savage Horsemen again in the Lucey, winning the 132 and 138 pound...
Consider the sport of wrestling a working-man's vocation; and the holidays are never a vacation for athletes trying to maintain their edge and hold their weight for the second part of the season. Coach Ian Taylor's Blue Hawk grapplers were out on the road putting in the work right before the holiday break last week, visiting Florence for a quadrangular mixer match there Tuesday and then joining up with several other local squads in St. Ignatius Saturday for the Mission Mountain Classic. The...
Yea, though they walk through the valley of the Eagle, no Savage Heat player shalt fear those District 13C birds of Missoula. The 14C Hot Springs Savage Heat boys and girls ventured into Missoula Friday to complete the 2018 portion of their schedule with non-conference games against the Valley Christian Eagles. The Hot Springs girls won their game with Valley 52-24 while the boys lost theirs 40-31. McKennzie Cannon went off for 30 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Lady Savage Heat to their win, Lizzy Fisher added six points, Sydney...
PLAINS – The Charlo Lady Vikings' game is to take you out of yours. To force you into making bad passes, to make you pull up on your dribble and travel, to get you to take shots at the basket you would not normally attempt. If long-time coach Bret Thompson's Vikings are successful in taking you out of your game, you are now playing theirs. Thompson has made a living of making life miserable for Charlo opponents over the years and Saturday's win over the Trotters in Plains is only the latest e...
PLAINS – Baby, it's cold outside... and, as it turns out, it's cold inside, too. Pretty much ice-cold through most of the game, the Plains Horsemen seemingly could not beg, borrow or steal a basket for much of the night and lost to the visiting Charlo Vikings 32-28 in District 14C conference action at Plains Saturday. The ice-cold shooting of the Horsemen gave the Vikings the opportunity to pull out the win in spite of missing a bunch of free throws in the closing minutes. "We just couldn't s...
It’s not the Phil and Will show anymore, but the Arlee Warriors are still a basketball powerhouse. Showing that they don’t miss the All-State services of departed leaders Philip Malatare and Will Mesteth (the main trigger-men on Arlee’s past two State C championship teams) too badly, the still-potent Warriors leveled the Hot Springs Savage Heat 76-29 in Arlee Thursday. In other action last week, the Heat fell 54-48 to Two Eagle River in Hot Springs Saturday. Coach Cameron Barber said that an injury to Brandon Knudsen – a possible concussion suf...
As long as the effort is there, Hot Springs Savage Heat girls basketball coach Richard Jackson is not going to complain. And he was not complaining early this week while talking about last week’s games – a 49-26 loss to Arlee in Arlee Thursday and a 47-18 win over Two Eagle River in Hot Springs Thursday. “The score from the Arlee game in no way indicates how we played,” he said. “We played with absolute hustle and never gave up at any point. Arlee is a good team but I cannot complain about my girls, they gave it their all.” Freshman Ka...
