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"Young." That one-word answer from coach Jake Mickelson to the question of how the Thompson Falls boys will look in basketball this season pretty much sums up the situation for the Blue Hawks. With first team District 7B all-conference picks Danny Hoisington (who was also named All-State B), Payton Frields and Nathan Thibeault, and second team selection Dylan Beckman all gone to graduation, it will now fall on last year's role players and other up-and-coming ballers to lead the Blue Hawks this s...
There’s a new coach in town and the Plains Trotters will be playing basketball a little differently from now on. Actually not a new coach in Plains – he has coached the Horsemen football team the past two falls – Eddie Fultz inherits a Trotter team which won the District 14C regular season title last year before suffering two upset losses and being eliminated at the District 14C tournament. That team was led by 14C first team selections Jessica Thompson and Lindsay Laws and honorable mention pick Kassidy Kinzie, and important role playe...
Coach Jeff Kujala always has high expectations for his Plains-Hot Springs wrestling team, and the latest group of P-HS wrestlers he has on hand is no exception to that rule. "We have a good group of kids coming back," he said. "We have been looking good in practice. I wish our numbers were a little better, but the kids we do have should do pretty well this season." The Vanderwall brothers, senior Josiah and junior Conrad, P-HS's two returning State B-C individual placers – Josiah placed sixth a...
A new day has dawned for the Thompson Falls Lady Hawk basketball team. Make that, for the Lady Hawk basketball teams. For the first time in several years, coach Doree Thilmony reports that enough girls have come out for the sport that Thompson Falls will field the full complement of three teams – freshman (or C team), junior varsity and varsity – this season. Those three teams will open season play with non-conference games at Libby Saturday. It will be a full day of basketball in Lincoln Cou...
The laws of physics allow heat to rise. The laws of athletics should allow the Savage Heat girls to continue their rise as well. The upstart Hot Springs Savage Heat, who as the sixth seed ended up defeating the top seed in last year’s District 14C tourney before settling for fourth place in the conference, look to continue their rise up through the ranks this season. And the Heat may have the players, with only one starter missing from last season’s starting five and an influx of some other promising young talent, to contend for the title in 14...
Ryan Weltz has been down this coaching road before, only it was with the Noxon boys basketball team, not with the Lady Red Devils. Returning to the sidelines to take over the Noxon girls program, Weltz said he is glad to be back in the head coaching game, after spending the last few seasons serving as an assistant for the Devil boys team. Weltz, a Noxon graduate himself, head coached the Devil boys for several years. One of his teams from that previous coaching stint, led by Noxon hoop legends Daniel Beaudin and Kevin Wilson, advanced all the...
Bart Haflich will only be half the coach he once was this season. Still the head coach for the Noxon boys basketball team, Haflich gave up half of his coaching duties when he relinquished the head girls coaching job in the off-season. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Haflich seems less stressed out now than he was last year at this time when he was struggling to put together game plans for two different teams. The main difference is the amount of free time he now seems to have on his hands. "It does...
Like Mike, Tyrel wants to be like Mike. Stepping into the void created by the retirement of Mike Cole, who is still the athletic director in Plains, Tyrel Allen will have a largely new team of Horsemen to guide this season in his first year as the head man for Plains boys basketball. And Allen will have some work to do to match the last two years of Cole’s storied career as the Horsemen’s coach. Cole guided the Plains boys to records of 20-4 and 20-5 in those seasons and into the Western C divisional tourneys following both of those cam...
DePoe out! Barber in! The Hot Springs Savage Heat boys will play for a new coach this season as long-time head man Ricky DePoe has stepped down due to commitments with his other job in the private sector. DePoe’s brother-in-law Cameron Barber, who was the Hot Springs assistant coach last season, is the Savage Heat’s new main man. Barber has no illusions about what he is stepping into. “Yes, I have some pretty big shoes to fill following Ricky,” Barber said by email Monday. “Especially since he is my brother-in-law!” Barber is married to...
BUILDING UP - The first phase of the new transfer site for Sanders County Solid Waste was recently completed just east of Thompson Falls. Chad Pardee of Pardee Excavating siad that crews worked to build a 28-foot-high platform. The first phase of the project took approximately three weeks....
