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Consider this the final rehearsal before the real thing. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawk track and field teams competed in the Bigfork Invitational Saturday in preparation for this week's big deal – the Western B divisional meet in Frenchtown Thursday and Friday. The Western B and Western C meets will run concurrently in Frenchtown. The Falls boys scored 66 points and the Lady Hawks tallied 54 as both teams finished fourth in team scoring in the eight team meet. The Lady Hawk 1600 meter relay quart...
There is a dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call... the Twilight Zone. Black-and-white television dramatics aside, the Plains-Hot Springs Trotter softball team lived through an episode of the Twilight Zone in...
Even without one of their best, they are still among the best. Competing without their defending State C champion Jessica Thompson (who won the C shot put and discus titles in 2017), the Plains Trotters still scored 110 team points and finished second to Charlo, which scored 212, in the two-day District 14C meet in Missoula Friday and Saturday. Making one of their strongest track and field district meet performances in years this season, the Plains Horsemen scored 102 team points to finish third with the boys. In Thompson’s absence, the T...
If you really want to get to the next level, this week's divisional track meets in Frenchtown are the final opportunity to make those wishes reality. The Western B and Western C divisional track meets will be run in concert together in Frenchtown Friday and Saturday and all four Sanders County high schools will be there hoping to send their athletes on to the State B and C meets the following week. Thompson Falls thinclads will be the only county teams competing in the Western B meet, while...
The Noxon Red Devil track and field teams made quite a splash in last week’s two-day District 14C meet in Missoula, winning a strong second place in final boys team standings and pulling down a third place trophy with the girls. Coach Matt Havens and his Devil thinclads now head to Frenchtown for the Western C divisional meet Thursday and Friday, to be held in conjunction with the Western B divisional meet. “I am pretty proud of these kids,” Havens said. “Winning second and third in the district with only 10 and six athletes on each team is...
The Hot Springs track and field team doesn’t have a lot of bodies to throw at the competition, but the ones they do have know how to compete. Led by Tyler Carr, the Hot Springs boys scored 28 points, while the Elena McAllister-led Lady Savage Heat scored eight points in the District 14C meet in Missoula Friday and Saturday. Coach Bethany White and her Savage Heat now make plans to participate in the Western C divisional meet in Frenchtown Thursday and Friday. Carr qualified for this week’s Western C divisional meet in three events and pla...
The Plains-Hot Springs Trotters have the pitching and the hitting and, as a direct result of doing those two things so well, have been winning a lot of games lately. Coach Michele Bangen and her Trotters won three of four games last week, splitting a doubleheader with Mission-Arlee-Charlo (MAC) in Mission Tuesday, losing the first game 7-4 before coming back to win the second 13-8, and returning to Plains Friday and sweeping the visiting Lady Trojans 11-1 and 14-0 in that twinbill. Having...
Go out there, play ball and have some fun. The Thompson falls Lady Hawk softball team lived the dream last week, went out and played ball and had some fun, winning a game from Loyola Thursday and playing Manhattan tough before dropping an 8-7 decision in Drummond Friday. Now looking at a Western B-C divisional tournament play-in game, either at Troy or at Eureka next Monday, coach Jared Koskela and his Lady Hawks, were set to complete regular season play with a game against Drummond in St....
Sanders County high school athletes will be as busy as bees this week as the spring sports schedules rapidly wind down towards their inevitable conclusions. In track and field, the post season begins in earnest for Class C teams as thinclads from Districts 13C and 14C will gather up in Missoula for the maiden voyage of a combined district meet format Friday and Saturday at MCPS Stadium. District 7B will not have a conference meet this season and teams will instead wait for the Western B divisional track and field meet in Frenchtown May 17-18....
The annual Archie Roe Invitational track and field meet in Kalispell has a well-earned reputation as one of the toughest meets of any in Montana, at any high school classification. Usually attended by schools large and small from all around western Montana, the Roe Invite is generally regarded as one of the showcase meets of any season in the Big Sky Country. If you can do well in the Roe, chances are you can do well in any meet in Montana. This season, there were 14 schools represented,...
Sanders County's three District 14C track and field teams wrapped up regular season action competing in the Kim Haines Invitational at MCPS Stadium in Missoula Saturday, and will all now make plans to attend the combined District 13C/14C meet, again at MCPS Stadium Friday and Saturday. From Plains, all-around sports star Jessica Thompson, who is also a most valuable player for the Plains-Hot Springs softball team, was the only event winner from Sanders County in Saturday's Haines Invite, claimin...
Quietly yet effectively going about their golfing business, Thompson Falls seniors Dylan Beckman and Elsie Brown put exclamation points on their standout senior seasons by winning first place honors in the St. Regis Invitational played at Trestle Creek golf course last Thursday, May 3. Now they can start making their post season golfing plans for Bigfork and Shepherd, where the divisional and state tournaments will be played in the next few weeks. Two of the best in the Western B-C ranks this se...
Thompson Falls and Noxon thinclads participated in the Eureka ABC meet in Lincoln County last Tuesday, April 24, and Plains' Jessica Thompson went it alone in the Russ Pilcher Top 10 Meet in Missoula that day. The State C leader in the shot put and the discus, Thompson won the shot put in the Top 10 with a best put of 40 feet, 1 inch, beating the next closest competitor (Brooke Kearns of Missoula Big Sky) by over a foot. In Eureka, Nate Thibeault of Thompson Falls and Levi Brubaker of Noxon...
The Thompson Falls girls scored 24 points and the Hawk boys 21 in the Whitefish ARM Invitational track and field meet Saturday. The Lady Hawks were led by freshmen Jody Detlaff and Josey Neesvig, who won first in the high jump and second in the 3200 meter run, respectively, while Cody Garrison placed in three events and Danny Hoisington two to pace the boys. Detlaff, who also plays on the Lady Hawk softball team when not busy with track and field, cleared 4 feet, 10 inches to win the high jump based on fewer misses as three other girls also...
At an all-time high. The Plains-Hot Springs Trotters' team confidence has risen to a new level recently, in large part due to late-inning wins like the one over visiting Eureka in the first game of a Western B-C doubleheader Saturday. That 4-3 win, secured when the Trotters rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh, coupled with a 16-11 win in the second game Saturday, puts coach Michele Bangen and her Trotters one slim win away from clinching a spot in the rapidly upcoming Western B-C...
It was walk, walk, walk and then hit, hit, hit for the Lady Hawk softball team as Thompson Falls softball scored its first win of the season in Mission Friday, taking down Deer Lodge 19-4. Coach Jared Koskela said his team came out ready to play against Deer Lodge and were able to pull away for the win as a happy result. The game was a makeup contest after the teams’ scheduled meeting earlier this season was cancelled due to weather. Koskela said Deer Lodge had trouble with their first pitcher and then had more with the next one. “Their fir...
The Thompson Falls golf team hopes to squeeze every possible swing out of this rapidly disappearing season. In Missoula early this week for the Loyola Invitational, to be played at the Ranch Club Monday and at the Canyon Creek course Tuesday, coach Mike Bates and his Hawk linksters will complete regular season action at the St. Regis Invitational at Trestle Creek Thursday. The Western B divisional tournament will then become the next big thing and will be played at Eagle Bend in Bigfork next...
The end is near. Don’t look now but the high school golfing season is heading for its ending, and Plains coach Lisa Brown and her Fab Five team of freshmen will need to raise their games some if they hope to keep playing. For Class C boys, that means shooting a 100 or lower and for the girls it means scoring 120 or lower in order to qualify for the State C tournament in Fairmont later this month. The St. Regis Invitational to be played at Trestle Creek Thursday will be the final regular season tournament of the spring. After that, area Class C...
One shining moment to cap one shining day. The Thompson Falls track and field program enjoyed a rare day in the sun this cooler-than-normal spring during the school's annual Thompson Falls Invitational at Previs Field last Thursday, and ended up coming away with titles in all four divisions – boys varsity and junior varsity, and girls varsity and JV – of team competition. Enjoying her first season as head coach for Thompson Falls this spring after stepping in behind the legendary Randy Sym...
It's good to be back home again; especially when you win. The Thompson Falls boys made a triumphant return to River's Bend Saturday, hosting and going out and winning the boys side of the Thompson Falls Invitational. "We are pretty excited to finally win this thing," coach Mike Bates said. "And to top it off, we shot our lowest round of the season on our home course." Dylan Beckman and Kade Pardee led the Hawks, each scoring 78 to tie for second place. Pardee won in a playoff on hole No. 9....
For being a relatively small team, the Noxon Red Devils pack a lot of scoring power. Coach Matt Havens guided his Devil girls and boys through two meets last week, in the Thompson Falls Invitational Thursday and in the Seeley-Swan Invitational at MCPS Stadium in Missoula Saturday. The Devil boys scored 63 points to tie Clark for third in team scoring in the Thompson Falls Invite while the Lady Devils scored 68 points and finished fourth on that side of the meet. Aaron Raynor won second place in...
Learning to work your way out of jams is one of the traits of a good softball team. Taking their lumps but learning a lot along the way, the Thompson Falls Lady Hawks dropped a doubleheader with Mission-Arlee-Charlo in Mission last Tuesday, falling 15-0 in the first game and 6-2 in the second, but came away from that twinbill with a newfound sense of team unity and resolve. Coach Jared Koskela said his team was down on themselves before finally fighting their way back in Mission. “We were intimidated in that first game, fell behind 11-0 in t...
What a big game to win, and what a great way to do it. The Plains-Hot Springs Trotters won a key Western B-C softball contest in Plains Thursday, scoring two two-out runs on a double by Natalee Deschamps in the bottom of the extra inning eighth to escape the dangerous Anaconda Lady Copperheads and walk off the Trotters’ home field with a 7-5 victory. Kassidy Kinzie went the distance in picking up the pitching win, scattering eight hits allowed across the eight innings, Deschamps finished the game with two hits and drove in three runs, and S...
Call them Sanders County’s fantastic four of track and field, and they have already clinched berths in the State C and B meets next month. Plains Trotters Jessica Thompson, Kara Altmiller and Lindsay Laws have all earned early invitations to the State C meet in Great Falls and Danny Hoisington of Thompson Falls has already punched his ticket to the State B meet in Laurel by surpassing standards set before the season began. Thompson, who recently announced her intention to attend BYU to concentrate on her track and field career (she is also a s...
The Hot Springs boys scored 13 team points and the Lady Savage Heat one in the varsity portion of the Thompson Falls Invitational track and field meet in Thompson Falls Thursday. Although coach Bethany White’s Savage Heat athletes did not score a lot of points in the varsity meet, Hot Springs athletes also took advantage of the junior varsity meets that were run concurrently to the varsity proceedings in Thompson Falls. In the varsity meet, Tyler Carr placed third in both relay races and Kawika Ilac took sixth in the 110 hurdles for the b...
