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Talk about finishing up in style. The Thompson Falls Lady Hawk volleyball team completed regular season play with one of their best efforts of 2018, taking down the Troy Lady Trojans in convincing fashion 25-9, 25-16, 25-7 in Thompson Falls Saturday. The easy win over Troy was only part of the story for the Hawks during their final week of District 7B conference play as they also fought past Bigfork 22-25, 25-15, 21-25, 25-23, 15-7 in Bigfork Thursday, reversing an earlier loss at home to those...
They did the Mash… They did the Monster Mash… Seventeen local youth wrestlers from this little corner of the wrestling world will travel to Denver this weekend for the Monster Mash, an annual wrestling tournament featuring some of the best grapplers in the country. Mike Thilmony, who is one of the coaches and parents accompanying the contingent to the Monster Mash, said several Thompson Falls High School wrestlers (Trae Thilmony, Garrett Jones, Roman Sparks, Nathan Ostwald and Dakota Irvine), three Libby prep grapplers (Trey Thompson, Zach Mor...
For the Noxon Red Devils, the payoff was making the playoffs for the second straight time; the rest was just ice cream and gravy. Proving that ice cream and gray don’t really go that great together in spite of the fact that they are both tasty treats when consumed individually, the Red Devils lost their State C 6-Man playoff game 51-14 to Geraldine-Highwood in Highwood Saturday. Noxon coach Bart Haflich harbored no bitterness towards Geraldine-Highwood afterwards. “Geraldine-Highwood is a really good football team,” he said. “They played...
After a season in gridiron exile, the Hot Springs Savage Heat have returned to the throne and are champions once more. Coach Jim Lawson and his Heat, who were forced into an 8-Man experiment by the MHSA which failed in 2017, clinched the Western C division 6-Man regular season title with a 69-0 bashing of the visiting Lima Bears in Hot Springs Friday. Completing regular season action with 7-1 record in conference play and 9-1 overall, the Heat will open the State C playoffs as the No. 1 seeded...
For the first time in Noxon High School history, the Red Devil football team is going back-to-back. As in back to the Class C 6-Man playoffs for the second straight time. Coach Bart Haflich and his dangerous Red Devils downed the Valley Christian Eagles 54-16 in Alberton Friday to clinch the Western C's fourth and final playoff spot. Now 5-3, with all three of those losses to other playoff qualifiers, the Devils will travel to Highwood Saturday to take on the 8-1 Geraldine-Highwood Rivals at 1...
Another season to remember. The Thompson Falls cross country team completed a memorable season of running at the Montana All-Class meet at the University of Montana golf course in Missoula Saturday. "For many of our runners, this was a first experience with a state competition," coach Sarah Naegeli said. "The hard work over the season, and the drive at this final race was a great end to our 2018 season. The 2019 season looks quite promising." The Hawks' top finisher in each race will be...
The Lady Hawks have been right on the precipice, right on the edge of becoming a very good volleyball team all season. Coach Sandra Kazmierczak is thinking that now is as good a time as any to finally make that leap of faith and for the Lady Hawks to be all that they can be. "These girls are very capable of being a very good team," she said. "We have all the necessary players – the setters, the hitters, the back row players – we just have to learn how to finish points and games better." Getting...
by John Hamilton Is this inglorious ending what leads to a new beginning? The Thompson Falls Blue Hawk football team ended season play with a 46-13 road loss to the Anaconda Copperheads Friday as the Hawks complete the season with an 0-9 record, including a 0-6 mark in Western B conference games. The ‘Heads finish 1-5 in conference and 1-7 overall with the win. “Thompson Falls football teams don’t go winless very often,” Hawk coach Jared Koskela said. “This is a wakeup call for this program and our kids, and I am interested in seeing how we re...
The local Little Guy wrestling season kicked off with a tournament in Bonners Ferry Saturday, and several Falls Little Guys competed in the Idaho meet. Thompson Falls coach Mike Thilmony, who is being assisted by Dan Sundstrom, Ashley Block, John Mosher and several high school wrestlers, said the numbers for the Bonners Ferry tourney may have been low due to soccer commitments, but that he expects participation numbers to increase in the coming weeks. Thilmony said local Little Guy grapplers are headed to a tournament in St. Maries this...
Round and round it goes, where it stops, nobody knows... The District 10C volleyball carousel will continue to spin in Hot Springs later this week with the district tournament but, by Friday evening, the top two teams in the conference will be determined and those squads can start making plans for the Western C divisional tournament in Manhattan Nov. 1-3. Sanders County squads Hot Springs, Noxon and Plains will enter the fray in Hot Springs all thinking they have a chance of being one of those t...
The story of the Plains Horsemen's 2018 football season could have been quite a bit different with a few different circumstances along the way. As it is, coach Eddie Fultz and his Horsemen completed the campaign on a high note with a 70-30 road win over Troy last Thursday night. Plains finishes the season with a 2-7 record. Fultz couldn't help but to reflect on what could have been. "Looking back on it, we didn't catch any breaks this season," he said. "We lost a few games we felt we should...
What a beautiful day for running; and what a wonderful performance by the home team. The Western B-C Divisional cross country meet was held at River's Bend golf course Thursday and the host Hawks and Lady Hawks enjoyed great meets in the last tune-up before the Montana All-Class meet in Missoula Saturday. Bigfork won the Western B girls title and Eureka claimed the boys crown at River's Bend, but that was not the real story in Thompson Falls coach Sarah Naegeli's mind. "(It was) probably the...
The Lady Hawks are only getting better, the question is, will they have enough time to realize their full volleyball potential this season? The Lady Hawks lost a pair of five-set matches they could have just as easily won last week, falling 18-25, 25-15, 24-26, 25-13, 15-12 to the Lady Bulldogs in Mission Oct. 9 and 25-22, 18-25, 25-23, 15-25, 15-12 to Eureka in Thompson Falls Saturday. The Hawks have only one non-conference match this week, at Kalispell against Stillwater Christian Thursday....
There is nothing left to do now but go out and play football. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawks will wrap up season play at Anaconda Friday night against the Copperheads. Since both teams are winless up to this point, something will have to give. And that will likely be by the team that wants to win more after seasons full of losses to this point. The Hawks completed their home schedule with a 49-6 Western B conference setback to Florence Friday on Previs Field. Securing a playoff spot with the...
Defense is not normally the name of the game in Montana 6-Man football. After all, how do you find enough bodies to cover everyone when there are only six players on each side and the field is so wide open? As a result, 6-Man games are often high-scoring affairs where racking up a lot of points and not allowing quite as many is the way to win. Coach Jim Lawson and his Hot Springs Savage Heat have been busy setting that conventional wisdom about all-offense and no-defense on its ear this season. Witness the Heat’s 67-0 shutout win over Valley C...
Has anybody seen our old friends Jacob and Rusty? Two of the mainstays for the Plains Horsemen football only a few weeks ago, Jacob Peterson and Rusty Stuart have been lost for the season, leaving some very large shoes to fill, particularly on defense, for coach Eddie Fultz. And Fultz really could have used his old friends Jacob and Rusty in the Clark Fork Mountain Cats’ 76-34 win over the Horsemen in Plains Friday. “Without those two in there, we are really at a disadvantage, especially on defense,” Fultz said. “Clark Fork was able to manhandl...
The Plains Trotter volleyball team is gaining steam as the season winds down and the rest of the teams in District 10C had better take notice. Coach Jesse Butcher's Trotters won two matches last week, clubbing St. Regis 25-17, 25-21, 25-22 in a conference match at Plains Thursday, and putting down the Valley Christian Eagles 25-20, 18-25, 18-25, 25-22, 15-5 in a non-conference encounter in Missoula Saturday. The Trotters were set to play their final regular season match against Arlee in Plains...
The Hot Springs Savage Heat volleyball team might not win every match, but they will not back down to anyone at any time either. "These girls are definitely hard workers, they love the fight," coach Alisha Pablo said. "I am proud of the fact that they never say die. Grit is one of this team's favorite words, they just love competition." The Savage Heat split a pair of hard-fought matches last week, dropping Arlee 25-23, 22-25, 19-25, 15-11 in Arlee Thursday and falling 20-25, 25-22, 25-12,...
When was the last time a team scored 72 points in a football game and lost? In western Montana, the last (and possibly first?) time it ever happened was in Noxon Friday night when the West Yellowstone Wolverines gave up 72 points to the Red Devils but still won by scoring 82 themselves. Believed to be one of the highest scoring games in Montana prep history – and at the very least certainly the highest scoring grid contest in Red Devil history – the 82-72 victory left West Yellowstone tem...
Let the run fun begin! The high school cross country season begins to end this week with the running of the Western B divisional meet at River's Bend Golf Course west of Thompson Falls Thursday, with racing set to begin at 1 p.m. "With the solid times we ran in the wind and cold at Mountain West (in Missoula two weeks ago) and the nice, quick relay legs at Eureka (last Thursday), I'm really looking forward to some great racing at divisionals," coach Sarah Naegeli said. "So now the fun begins!" A...
The Noxon Red Devil football team is in control of its own destiny. If coach Bart Haflich and the 4-2 Devils are to make the playoffs – and they are right in the thick of the race to do just that – they will almost certainly need to knock off the 6-1 West Yellowstone Wolverines in Noxon Friday night to reach that goal. The Devils' two losses this season are to other teams involved in the frantic Western C 6-Man race, to White Sulphur Springs and Hot Springs, both in Noxon back in September, whi...
Round and round it goes, how it ends nobody knows... at least not right now, but we will in the coming weeks. The ultra-competitive District 10C volleyball league race continued last week with a bunch of seemingly conflicting results reflective of the conference's parity. In Plains Thursday, the Hot Springs Savage Heat, after falling behind the Trotters 14-4 in the first set, came back to win that set and eventually the match in five sets, winning the decisive fifth 15-8 to score the key Sanders...
In the end, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks were not going to go away without a fight. And what a fight it turned out to be as the Deer Lodge Wardens scored a last-second touchdown to pull out a crazy 54-50 win over the visiting Blue Hawks in Western B football action at Powell County High School in Deer Lodge Friday night. Almost given up for dead a few times after falling behind 26-0 at one point and 34-8 at another, coach Jared Koskela's Hawks fought back fiercely in the second half and in...
This one turned out to be for the younger kids. The red-hot Hot Springs Savage Heat defeated the Heart Butte Warriors 52-7 in Hot Springs Friday in a non-conference 6-Man football game. Now 5-1 in Western C standings and 7-1 overall, coach Jim Lawson and the Heat will play Valley Christian in Alberton Friday in a game with playoff implications. The Eagles, who have been in the running for a playoff spot all season, lost 42-28 to White Sulphur Springs Friday, damaging those playoff hopes...
It's the one time, the one day a year that it is really all right for even he-men to wear pink, and it is coming to Thompson Falls Saturday night. Coach Sandra Kazmierczak's Lady Hawk volleyball team will host its annual Pink-out night in support of breast cancer awareness in a District 7B conference match with Eureka, and all fans are urged to join the Falls players in wearing pink for the occasion. "Our seniors are responsible for promoting our Pink night," Kazmierczak said referencing the...
