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It's all about the tempo. And the faster that tempo is, the better the Lady Hawks like it. "Our focus is to have a relentless tempo," Thompson Falls coach Chadd Laws said after his girls had steamrolled Plains (70-36 in Plains Friday) and Troy (64-11 in Thompson Falls Saturday). "We want to be active on defense and trigger scoring opportunities for ourselves in the process. "So far, it has been working," he added. Indeed, the relentless ladies from Thompson Falls took a big lead early in both...
The more basketball the Plains Trotters play, the better they get. Coach Eddie Fultz's young Plains Trotters split a pair of non-conference games last week, falling 70-36 to Thompson Falls in front of a packed PHS gym in Plains Friday and coming back to defeat Darby 45-42 in Darby Saturday. Back in District 14C league play this week, Fultz and his Trotters will host St. Regis Thursday and visit Hot Springs Friday. Fultz thinks the Trotters have a perception problem when playing Thompson Falls....
With one of their most effective court warriors and team leaders on the sideline with a wounded knee, the Hot Springs Savage Heat girls still soldiered on. In spite of losing senior Sage Jackson to an injury during Thursday’s game with the Bulldogs in Mission, which the Heat won 54-50, Hot Springs went on to defeat Valley Christian 56-15 in Hot Springs Friday. Still 1-0 in District 14C play and now an impressive 7-0 overall, the Heat have a conference weekend on tap, hosting Plains Friday and traveling to Noxon Saturday. Coach Richard Jackson d...
The Noxon Lady Red Devils started out 2020 with an encouraging victory, fighting past visiting St. Regis for a 25-18 win in Noxon Friday. In other action last week, coach Cortney Vohs and her Lady Devils absorbed a 62-21 road loss from Charlo Saturday. The Devils are scheduled to play at Clark Fork (the Superior-Alberton co-op) Friday and will host Sanders County rival Hot Springs Saturday. Vohs was impressed with how her Devils responded against St. Regis. “Every girl stepped up to play for the St. Regis game,” she said. “They went out of th...
Winning District 14C conference games in Charlo has always been a challenge for visiting league teams. Winning there without your best player in the lineup during crunch time at the end of a game would seem like an even more daunting task. The veteran of many such contests as a player and then as a coach for both the Noxon boys and girls at various times, Noxon coach Ryan Weltz was excited by what his boys were able to accomplish in defeating Charlo 47-44 on the Vikings’ floor Saturday. Weltz’s high scoring son Rylan Weltz, one of the most pro...
by John Hamilton Although it is only early January, crunch time has already arrived in Montana high school wrestling. With about a month of the regular season remaining, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks will embark on an important stretch of action these next several weeks, attending the Cut Bank Invitational this Friday and Saturday, wrestling in the Choteau Invite the week after that and, finally, hosting the Ted Kato Memorial in Thompson Falls Jan. 25. The Western B-C Divisional meet at Mission Feb. 8 will be the next big thing after that...
The math of everyday life can be confusing. Take our current year of existence, 2020, for an example. Is it now Twenty-Twenty, or is it Two-thousand Twenty? Take the way we pronounce numbers for another example. Heard a promo on TV the other day and I had to do a double-take. The announcer, in my mind, said: “Watch the 60-second Grammys award show on CBS.” What was actually said was: “Watch the 62nd Grammys award show on CBS.” Sure, it was only temporary (60 second?) confusion, but it was confusion nonetheless, and now has me wondering about b...
The Plains-Hot Springs Savage Horsemen did not wrestle in the Florence Invitational last Saturday as it was incorrectly printed they would in the Ledger last week. The Savage Horsemen will wrestle in the Florence Invitational this Saturday as it is correctly printed in the Ledger now. Like almost every other Class B-C or A team in this particular corner of the Big Sky Country, coach Jeff Kujala and his Savage Horsemen grapplers were competing in the Ronan Duals Friday and Saturday, and Kujala was happy with how his athletes in singlets did in...
Since 2006, a group of equine enthusiasts has celebrated the new year with a ride from Beaver Creek to Trout Creek. This year, 14 people joined the group on horseback for the ride last Saturday. They stopped to rest and warm up next to a fire for lunch at the Whitepine Cemetery. The group gets permission from land owners to cross private property in areas where it is unsafe to ride along Highway 200....
