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Like drives down the fairway, chip shots out of the bunker and putts into the cup; so pass the days of our golfing lives. Coach Mike Bates said his Thompson Falls golfers made the most of their day in the Plains Invitational at Wild Horse golf course Saturday, as the Dylan Beckman-led boys battled to the team title, and the Elsie Brown-led Lady Hawks also played well. Beckman was crowned as the Plains Invite individual boys' champ by playing through with an almost even-par round of 73, while...
They are Plains' self-proclaimed Fab Five, and they are coming to a golf course near you. New Plains golf coach Lisa Brown, who jokingly suggests that she is the assistant to her assistant Don Stamm (who once or twice actually head-coached the Plains team in the past), says she loves her new job guiding the Plains program. Five freshmen – Duncan Chisholm, Nick Gumm and Parker Flock with the boys, and Kaylee Cole and McKenna O'Lexey with the girls – are Brown's Fab Five, and she says they mak...
PLAINS – High school softball is getting to be a more important thing in Plains all the time. Witness the spiffed-up playing facilities and the fact that the legendary voice of Plains sports, Randy Garrison himself, now has a platform from which to announce Trotter games from for proof. By all measures, it is now easy to see that the Trotters have reached the big-time of PHS sports, even if Garrison's announcing platform is currently an old red Ford truck backed up to the backstop (a more p...
When it came right down to it, there was no way that Erik Digby was not going to run in the Boston Marathon Monday, even if it meant running through a frigid, driving rainstorm that forced thousands of others off the course and out of the race. A physical therapist who operates out of offices in Thompson Falls and Plains in his everyday life, Digby, 49, who says he has now run a total of 12 marathons in his life (including one previous Boston Marathon in 2006), finished the m...
Don't look outside right now, it might be snowing or raining, but get ready Thursday for sunshine and warm temperatures as the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks will host their annual Thompson Falls Invitational at Previs Field, set to begin at 11 a.m. That is, if the current forecast holds and spring weather finally visits this little part of the world in northwestern Montana. Getting ready for their big homecoming meet last week, coach Trenna Ferris and the Hawks competed in two meets outside of this...
Bigger is better when it comes to track and field. The more athletes you have the better it is for so many people in so many different ways. Just ask Plains track and field coach Denis Montgomery, who says 25 Plains student-athletes, 14 boys and 11 girls, are out for this year’s team. “It has been a really fun spring, this is biggest track and field team Plains has had in years,” she said. “And the kids have been great, willing to try new events and working really hard in practice.” Making that work pay the most handsomely, senior Jessica T...
Track and field is alive and well in Noxon. Coach Matt Havens, who is joined this year in guiding the Red Devil thinclads by Scott Richardson, reports that he has 19 athletes (11 boys and eight girls) out this spring and that things have been going well so far. “Our boys are spread out across most of the events while our girls are challenging in each other in some of the same events,” he said. “And all of them are competing very well, getting mentally tougher with each meet.” Both Noxon squads competed in the Libby Invitational Saturday, with t...
"It's a soccer palooza," said Erika Lawyer, who had two boys and one girl in an all-day soccer competition at Amundson Sports Complex in Plains Saturday. Twenty-three teams from Helena, Kalispell, Missoula, Polson, Frenchtown, Whitefish, Libby, Stevensville, Hamilton, and Sanders County gathered at the complex for the competition, which ran from 8:45 a.m. to about 6:45 p.m. The competition included four teams from Sanders County, a coed U14 team, a girls U11, a boys U11 and a coed U18 team....
The continuing improvement process continues with the Thompson Falls Lady Hawks. Taking baby-bird steps through the first several weeks of the season, coach Jared Koskela says his Lady Hawk softball team is slowly learning to fly on the field of play as the season progresses. In their only action last week, the Lady Hawks dropped a doubleheader to Eureka in Thompson Falls Saturday, losing the first game 13-3 and the second 12-2 to the visiting Lady Lions. Koskela found solace in the fact that the Hawks are playing better softball each and every...
The Tuesday and Wednesday night men’s leagues started season play last week with a pair of fun nights at River’s Bend. With the Tuesday men, team Feed N Fuel shot the low gross round of 31, Kelly Kovarik was closest to the pin on No. 8 and Howard Morkert and Scott Pardee knocked down chip ins, Morkert on No. 7 and Pardee on No. 8. With the Wednesday night players, Hagedorn Land Surveying scored the low team gross round of 31, Steve Anderson converted the long putt on No. 3, Pardee was closest to the pin on No. 5, Mike Gilmore ran in the lon...
Jason Mahlen of Kalispell took the lead in the 2018 Spring Mack Days over the weekend, leading the anglers with 1,154 lake trout caught. Mike Benson of Lonepine is in second place with 1,116 and Steve Benson of Spokane Valley, Washington rounds out the top three with 826. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes event continues through May 13. A total of 20,475 have been caught, which is about 600 fish short of this time last year. Sam Cusker of Bigfork is fourth in the Top Ten Anglers category with 781 fish, followed by Felix Gauci of...
Project ASCENT, a Thompson Falls non-profit that teaches kids about the outdoors, held a "Camping is In-Tents" fundraiser Saturday, April 14, at the Clark Fork Valley Elks Lodge. The event featured live and silent auctions, with auctioneer Gene Johnson at the microphone. Project ASCENT raised $12,500 at the fundraiser. An authentic Cuban dinner was served to attendees, featuring roast pork, rice, beans and plantains. The meal was created by Carlos and Amy Fernandez of Great Falls. Their...
Anna Pallister is getting an early start on a career in community service. As a seventh-grader, she's the youngest to ever be chosen to serve on Montana Governor Bullock's Youth Leadership Council, where she's spearheading a "Fight Childhood Hunger" campaign right here in Sanders County. The big day for Anna and her project, which is a 4-H sponsored event, will be Sat., April 21. Anna will host a "Fight Childhood Hunger" Fun Day at Thompson Falls Dog Park from noon to 2 p.m. As a dog owner who...
The saga on recycling continues. As of Feb. 15, Sanders County had to stop taking plastics for recycling, due to the high costs of shipping and the extremely poor market value. We recommended that residents continue recycling plastics, and directed efforts towards Republic Services and Pacific Recycling in Missoula. Unfortunately, as of May 7, Pacific Recycling will no longer be able to receive plastics. Republic Services will still take #1 PET or PETE, best known as the clear plastic used for soft drinks, water, juice, mouthwash, sports...
