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The Thompson Falls Young Hawk junior high football team trounced Troy 42-6 Saturday at Previs Field in Thompson Falls. Now 1-1 on the season, coach Michael T. Allen and his boys were to have visited Charlo for a game Tuesday afternoon and will host Mission Saturday at Previs Field at 10 a.m. The Young Hawks scored early and often against Troy. Hayden Hanks started the point barrage for the home boys with a three-yard touchdown run and Elijah Ratliff added the 2-point conversion run. Later on in...
NOXON – It was a great game to win for White Sulphur Springs but a very tough one to lose for the Noxon Red Devils. The visiting Hornets from White Sulphur Springs scored an improbable win over the Devils at Jenny Lampshire Memorial Field in Noxon Friday night, scoring nine points in the last three minutes of play to pull out a 32-27 victory and stay in control of the Western C 6-Man playoff race. Now 1-1 in Western C action, Bart Haflich and his Devils face another crucial game this week w...
The more the Lady Hawks play together, the better they get. And that should be a scary thought for the rest of the volleyball teams in the Western B division. The young Lady Hawks split a pair of home matches with Western B teams last week, falling 18-25, 15-25, 25-23, 25-15, 15-4 to Deer Lodge Thursday and scrapping past Anaconda 20-25, 32-30, 25-15, 19-25, 15-13 Saturday. Coach Sandra Kazmierczak and her Lady Hawks will play their first District 7B conference match of the season at Eureka Satu...
It was hot and windy but the course was grassy with gradual hills; all in all, a pretty good tradeoff for cross country running. Fighting off the effects of the heat and running through the wind, the Thompson Falls cross country team had a great day at the Kalispell Invitational run on the grounds of the scenic Rebecca Farm horse-jumping facility Friday in the varsity, junior varsity and junior high races. Highlighting the high school varsity's efforts, Josey Neesvig won tenth place in the...
This one could go down as the one that got away from the Horsemen. Expecting to play the Tigers in Darby Saturday in another competitive Western C football game, the Plains Horsemen instead came out flat, had two of their key players get injured early on and were surprised by the homestanding Tigers 54-6. Now 1-2 in Western C 8-Man action, coach Eddie Fultz and his wounded Horsemen host 3-0 Arlee in a must-win kind of a situation this Friday. “It will really be an uphill climb to get in the playoffs if we lose this game,” Fultz said. “I hate...
The Eureka Lions, the two-time defending State B champions, have a habit of winning football games. The visiting Lions were true to form Friday night at Previs Field, fighting through a tough first quarter to go on to defeat the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks 51-6. Coach Jared Koskela’s Hawks played well in the first part of the game, but concussion injuries to starting center Brad Lantz and running back Nate Wilhite in the first half thinned the ranks of available players and eventually led to Eureka pulling away and winning. “We went all in in the...
If you can’t beat ‘em, why not join ‘em? Always looking for new blood, the Over the Hill golfing gang engaged in another day of fun play Monday morning at River’s Bend as 33 league members, plus two visiting pros, were canvassing the course this time around the Bend. Mike Gilmore had the best scratch round of the day for the men with the low gross of 37 and Sam Burt factored in his handicap to arrive at the low men’s net of 27. Liz Morkert carded the low women’s net of 33. In pin play, visiting pro Bill Nolen was closest to the flag in 2 o...
The big games just keep coming, and we’re not even halfway through September yet. The Hot Springs Savage Heat, fresh off a 50-18 win over previously unbeaten West Yellowstone in Hot Springs Friday, face another game with Western C playoff implications this Friday as they go on the road to take on Noxon. Now 2-1 overall and 1-1 in Western C action, the Heat will try to get past the Noxon Red Devils, who fell 32-27 to White Sulphur Springs in Noxon Friday (see other story), one week after the Heat lost to White Sulphur 20-18 on the road. The D...
Blue Hawk football coach Jared Koskela thought there was plenty of room for improvement, and his boys went out and proved him right versus Cut Bank Friday night at Previs Field. Showing what he called "a ton of improvement" from what they showed in Townsend the week before, the Hawks lost 57-32 to the Wolves, but fought the visitors from the Northern B division pretty much straight-up all Sanders County night long. Koskela felt the Hawks had a lot to prove to others and themselves after losing...
The coach of some of the best volleyball teams in Thompson Falls history – Who can forget the 2016 Lady Hawk team that earned the only State trophy a Sanders County team has ever won by placing third that year? – Sandra Kazmierczak knows a good team when she has one. Well, Coach K may have another tiger by the tail with this season's group of Lady Hawk netters. Although still very young and playing with only two seniors, the Lady Hawks won two of their first three matches last week, stopping a v...
This one was about taking the defensive side of the field back. The Plains Horsemen defeated the Seeley-Swan Blackhawks 36-6 in Western C football action at Seeley Lake Friday, playing the kind of defense coach Eddie Fultz likes to see his Horsemen play. “We took the defense back, played a lot better on that side than I felt we played the week before against Charlo,” Fultz said. “I thought we were a little timid defensively last week, but really played strong in Seeley.” Fultz said that Seeley-Swan ran a power formation on offense but that th...
It's called the Big Sky Coaches Invitational, and it's a place where the cross country runners from small schools like Class B Thompson Falls can kind of get lost in the crowd in a sea of Class AA runners. "Placing at this meet is kind of deceptive," Hawk XC coach Sarah Naegeli said. "When you compete against Hellgate, a team with 130 runners, you can run an outstanding race and still be back in the pack. Then add Big Sky and Sentinel and that's a lot of AA runners!" Running notably well in...
They are a young team but are wise beyond their years. The precocious Hot Springs Lady Savage Heat opened up the 2018 campaign with a pair of District 10C conference wins, knocking off the Sanders County rival Plains Trotters 25-15, 20-25, 25-22, 25-21 in Hot Springs Tuesday and taking St. Regis’s measure 25-14, 25-7, 25-16 in St. Regis Thursday. Now 2-0 in 10C conference play and overall, the Heat were to have hosted Victor in a non-conference match Tuesday, will visit Noxon for a 10C tilt Thursday and will host Valley Christian in another n...
PLAINS – It could have went either way but, in the end it fell to the Lady Red Devils. Coach Teri Wilkinson's Noxon Lady Red Devils withstood a mid-match swoon and came back to defeat coach Jesse Butcher's Plains Trotters 25-27, 25-15, 12-25, 25-23, 15-9 in District 10C volleyball action in Plains Saturday. Senior Delaney Weltz led the Lady Devils at the net with a match-high 12 kills and a block, freshman setter Riley Richter directed Noxon's attack with 22 set assists, Kristina Brown, Kali M...
Seems awfully early in the season to be talking about the playoffs, but Friday’s game in White Sulphur Springs between the hometown Hornets and the visiting Hot Springs Savage Heat ended up playing out like one. A semifinal team in the State C 6-Man playoffs last fall, the Hornets squeaked out a 20-18 win over the Heat. Now 0-1 in Western C conference action and 1-1 overall, coach Jim Lawson and his Heat will host 2-0 West Yellowstone this Friday night in Hot Springs. Last week’s physical game in White Sulphur Springs left Lawson looking for...
HOT SPRINGS – This is how 6-Man football is played down under the Canadian/American border. Back in the 6-Man game for the first time since winning the Montana State C championship in 2016, the Hot Springs Savage Heat rambled past the visiting J.C. Charyk Hanna Hawks from Hanna, Alberta 43-8 in Hot Springs Friday. Now 1-0 in non-conference play, coach Jim Lawson and the Heat will travel to White Sulphur Springs Friday for a key league game against the Hornets. Lawson was happy with how things w...
PLAINS – The Horsemen hung tough for awhile but, in the end, the Landers Smith-led Charlo Vikings were just a little too much for the young Plains football team. Charlo defeated Plains 42-6 in the Western C conference opener for both teams in Plains Saturday night. Sitting at 0-1 in Western C play, the Horsemen will travel to Seeley Lake Friday for a game with the 1-0 Seeley-Swan Blackhawks. Second-year Plains coach Eddie Fultz was impressed with how his guys played early against powerful C...
At the road’s end was Townsend. Coach Jared Kosekla and his Blue Hawk football team opened the season with a brutally long road trip to Townsend Friday and received a 45-0 beating from the powerful Bulldogs. Koskela knew Townsend was going to be a challenge, but expected his boys to respond better than they did. “We have to focus on the fundamentals, when you are unsure of yourselves you should always be able to fall back on the fundamentals,” he said. “And we just never did gain our footing in Townsend. We made way too many simple, simple...
Better than advertised. It’s hard to argue with that assessment of the Noxon Red Devil football team after the West End boys ran over and squashed flat the visiting Lincoln Lynx 70-0 at Jenny Lampshire Field in Noxon Friday. “The boys played a lot better than I expected them to right out of the gate like that,” coach Bart Haflich said. “That was a good way to start the season.” Now 1-0 in Western C 6-Man action, the Red Devils do not play again until Sept. 7 when they host White Sulphur Springs, another team with State C playoff hopes, in...
So much for pool play; let’s have some real matches. Fresh off pool play tournaments in Choteau, Mission and Drummond-Philipsburg, area volleyball teams will get into the swing of actual one-on-one matches this week. The Thompson Falls Lady Hawks are set to play three matches in five days. Coach Sandra Kazmierczak and her Hawks were to have hosted Stillwater Christian Tuesday, will visit Loyola in Missoula Thursday and will entertain Florence Saturday. Coach Jesse Butcher and her Plains Trotters were to have played at Hot Springs Tuesday and w...
It was supposed to be in Libby but ended up being in Bonners Ferry. The Thompson Falls cross country teams, forced out of the Libby Invitational by heavy wildfire smoke in that area, instead ran in the Bonners Ferry Invitational Saturday. Liking the only slightly less smoky air of Idaho more than that in Montana, Josey Neesvig and Rachel Ribeiro turned in the best performances for the Hawks, finishing second and fourth in the girls varsity race, with Neesvig clocking 21:55 and Ribeirio crossing...
The sports of fall are upon us, and it will be a race to the finish from here on out as football, volleyball and cross country teams will hit the ground running with a spate of games and matches this week. The four volleyball teams of Sanders County will play in three different tournaments. Coach Sandra Kazmierczak and her Thompson Falls Lady Hawks, always one of the better coach-and-team acts in the Western B division, will start their 2018 campaign in the Choteau Tournament Friday and Saturday...
Juniors will lead the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk football team this fall. With no eligible seniors and only a handful of incoming freshmen on hand, Thompson Falls coach Jared Koskela says that juniors will form the backbone of this year’s, and next year’s Blue Hawk football team. “We have zero local seniors, we have several seniors that will not be able to play varsity but, other than that we do have a huge junior class,” he said. “This is a team we can grow with, we just have to get some games under our belts.” The growth of this year’s team...
Six-Man football is back in Hot Springs, and the coach and his players could not be happier. “We’re back,” long time head coach Jim Lawson said of his Savage Heat returning to the 6-Man game, where Hot Springs has won two State C titles in the past several years. “We are happy to be back in a place where we feel like we can be competitive again.” Hot Springs was forced into 8-Man football last year based on the school’s enrollment, but not many of those extra bodies they had in high school wanted to play football. As a result, the Savage Heat...
Just a Saturday night special. The Plains Horsemen football team, fresh off a 6-4 season and a rare State C playoff appearance in 2017, open the 2018 campaign with a very special game right out of the chute, facing the Landers Smith-led Charlo Vikings Saturday night in Plains. Coach Eddie Fultz, who guided the Horsemen to the post season in his first year at the helm last fall, knows what he is up against with Charlo, which made it to the quarterfinals of the State C 8-Man playoffs with Smith, the Western C co-offensive player of the year, keyi...
