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It wasn't so much how they did, it was more about how they carried themselves during the competition. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawk track and field teams completed the season with a strong team showing in the State B meet in Kalispell last weekend. Trey Fisher (a surprising second place in the javelin), Maya Stiles (fourth place in the pole vault), Cody Burk (sixth in the discus) and Jody Detlaff (tied for sixth in the high jump) were the medal winners for the Hawks at Legends Stadium Friday and...
These men and women of Sanders County worked hard at their track and field skills all spring, honing their skills, training their bodies and minds, taking advantage of every opportunity to further their standing in chosen events, specific tests of athletic prowess. Some of them were rewarded with MHSA medals, medals which represent awards for all the effort put in to getting them. Here are some of their stories. *** Trey Fisher just kept throwing it farther and farther and farther, way further than he had ever pitched the javelin before. By...
by John Hamilton Talk about finishing strong and leaving a lasting legacy. Coach Michele Bangen and her Plains-Hot Springs Trotters made softball history for both Sanders County schools with a strong third place finish in the State B-C tourney last week. It is the second State B-C team trophy for P-HS in the last five years as the 2014 Trotters also brought home third place. The 2019 Trotters played some of their best softball of the season when it mattered most Thursday through Saturday at the...
The Hot Springs Savage Heat track and field team completed season action at the State C meet in Laurel last week. Freshman sensation Katelyn Christensen was the star of the show for Hot Springs, recording personal bests to win second in the javelin (with a best throw of 127 feet, 7 inches) and fifth in the long jump (16-2.25). Please see View from the Sidelines for more on Christensen. Tyler Carr and Kyle Lawson carried the colors for Hot Springs on the boys side of the meet. A senior, Carr very nearly earned a medal in the 110 meter hurdles,...
Bear Muscle Fitness duffers flexed their golfing muscles and Sparky’s team members shot the low net to highlight Tuesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Steve Fairbank, Bernie Groshong, Steve Anderson and Cody Mosher covered the links action for Bear Muscle Fitness and Kevin Sparks, Tom Holleran, Mike Thilmony and Doug Czerwinski golfed for Sparky’s. Sparks carded the low individual gross of 41 to lead Sparky’s, and Don Lake scored the low individual net of 29. The Shanks a Lot team still leads league standings with 106....
Whitefish Credit Union and Wild Coyote dominated the action last week and are now on top of the leader board in the Wednesday Night Men’s league standings. Rick Kendall, Randy Hojem, Ron Beaty and Chuck Manry totaled 170 strokes between them as Whitefish CU shot the low team gross, while Gary Thompson, Kevin Sparks, Dave Petteys and Scott Pardee used their handicaps to arrive at the low team net of 141. Kendall fired the low individual gross round of 41 and Hojem captured low individual net honors with a well-adjusted round of 30. As a result o...
If you are good with it, the javelin can take you places. Being good with the spear throw earned Plains athletes Kaylee Altmiller and Malachi Paulsen berths into last week’s State C meet in Laurel. Altmiller followed up her third place finish from a week earlier at the Western C meet by winning fourth in Laurel for Plains’ only team points in the two-day meet, flinging the spear 116 feet, 9 inches to get her medal. The only Plains boy to qualify for the State C, Paulsen finished fourth at the Western C but was unable to place in Laurel, mar...
Dealney Weltz, Levi Brubaker and Edison VanVleet, three Noxon seniors who will be sorely missed during all of the high school sports seasons beginning next fall, led the Red Devils in the State C track and field meet in Laurel last week. Donning the NHS red and white for the final time in her high school career, Weltz made her marks in the shot put (35 feet, 1.25 inches) and discus (106-10) stand up for third and fifth place medals in those events. An All-State C performer for Noxon in volleyball and basketball earlier this school year,...
