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It's been a long time between games, but the Thompson Falls-Noxon Lady Hawks are finally ready to play some softball again. Robbed of their 2020 season like everyone else due to the pandemic, coach Jared Koskela and his Lady Hawks were set to open the 2021 season Tuesday hosting Sanders County rival Plains-Hot Springs Tuesday for a single game Tuesday, but results of that game were not available at press time. Not knowing a whole lot about the other teams and just learning about his Lady Hawks...
The new head coach for Hot Springs track and field, Andrew Leichtnam already knows a thing or two about Savage Heat sports. An assistant coach for the powerful Heat football team for the last five years and an assistant in other sports as needed during that time, Leicthnam was also a legendary athlete during his playing days in Hot Springs, winning a State B-C wrestling championship for Plains-Hot Springs, starring for the football team and winning a third place medal in the State C shot put as a senior for the Heat in 2002. Now he gets his...
Noxon track and field teams began season action competing in the Eureka Time Trials Saturday. Leading the way for the Red Devil boys, junior Cade VanVleet enjoyed a banner day, tying for first place with Thompson Falls’ Cody Burk in the shot put, winning second in the discus and 100 meters, and claiming third place in the javelin. Josh Baldwin won third place in the shot put and fourth in the javelin for the Noxon boys, and Wyatt Lackner went the distance in placing third in the 3200 meters, fifth in the 800 and sixth in the 1600. For the L...
There will be some new faces on the field and on the bench for the Plains-Hot Springs Trotters softball team this spring. Leading that list of new faces will be head coaches Kati Mitchell and Dani Walker Crowe. In an unusual arrangement, Mitchell will be head coach for the first week of the season and Crowe will take over the program after that. Both Mitchell and Crowe have previously served as assistants for Michele Bangen, who has since stepped down. In her last season as head coach in 2019, Bangen led the Trotters to third place trophies in...
The Plains High School golf teams have been busy getting ready for the 2021 season of play. Coached by Lisa Brown and Don Stamm, as they were two years ago before the COVID-19 interruption of 2020 when no high school sports were played, the Horsemen and Trotters should both have full squads for team scoring this spring. For the Horsemen, seniors Duncan Chisholm, Nathan Feliksa and Nick Gumm, sophomore Drew Carey and freshman Brandt Snead will carry the clubs, and for the Trotters, senior Kaylee Cole, juniors Lexa Craft, Grace Horton and Tessa...
Eight girls and six boys have turned out for the 2021 Plains track and field team. Coached by long-time mentor Denise Montgomery, the Horsemen and Trotter thinclads made their season debut at the Eureka Time Trials Saturday, and will participate in the Bigfork Invitational Saturday. Tucker Foster is the only senior out for Plains track and field, and Adelle Ercanbrack the only junior. Sophomores Levi Blood, Mason Elliott, Nicholas Hill, Alexis Helterline and Lillian McDonald, and frehsmen Joe Martin, Brendan Vanderwall, Olivia Easter, Amy...
Noxon seniors Jared Webley and Josh Baldwin have earned invitations to play for the Blue team in the annual Montana 6-Man All-Star Game to be played in Highwood June 5. Both All-State C players for the Red Devils last fall, Webley and Baldwin helped lead coach Bart Haflich’s team into the State 6-Man playoffs, and will be joining 14 other players from the Western Division on the Blue team in Highwood. The Red team is made up of all-star players from the Eastern Division of Montana 6-Man football....
THOMPSON FALLS MONDAY NITE GALS W L Dolls with Balls 63.5 40.5 Dangerous Dames 63 41 Rock’n Bowl 55 49 Nascar Freaks 47 57 Balls to the Wall 41 63 Talk of the Town 39.5 64.5 Team Scr. Game: Dangerous Dames, 489; Scr. Series: Dangerous Dames, 1318; Hcp. Game: Dangerous Dames, 699; Hcp. Series: Dangerous Dames, 1948; Inv. Scr. Game: Wendy Kelley, 217; Scr. Series: Wendy Kelley, 561; Hcp. Game: Shawna McKinney, 278; Hcp. Series: Wendy Kelley, 717. BOWLING BEAUTIES W L Lane Blazers 68 36 Sunflower Gals 56.5 47.5 Aspire PT 43 61 Gardner Ranch 4...