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The North Country Maverick volleyball team picked up a pair of wins last week, defeating the Class B Malta M-ettes JV team 3-0 on Friday, September 20, and the Nashua Lady Porcupines 3-0 on Saturday, September 21. In North Country's win over Malta's JV team, the scores were 25-18, 25-15, and 25-20. Individual Stats: Aces: Team 10, Gracie Wasson 3, CharLee and BaiLee McColly each with 2. Kills: Team 30, Gracie Wasson 8, BaiLee and CharLee McColly each with 7. Assists: Team 25, Kennedy Simonson...
The Malta M-ette volleyball team traveled to Wolf Point and picked up a 3-0 win over the Lady Wolves on Saturday, September 21. “We came ready to play,” Malta Head Coach Tasha Hines told the PCN. “We relaxed a little too much in the third set but pulled it together.” The M-ettes were scheduled to host the Poplar Lady Indians on Tuesday, September 24. They are scheduled to play the Shelby Lady Coyotes in Shelby on Friday, September 27, and will compete in the Choteau Mid-Season Invitat...
Honorable Judge Dan Wilson of Flathead County's District Court in Kalispell is running for Montana Supreme Court justice in the 2024 Election. Wilson, a man with ties to Malta, stopped into the Phillips County News on Wednesday, August 21, right after a meet and greet event that his campaign held at the Great Northern Hotel in downtown Malta. "My great-granddad (Hurley Wilson and wife Edna) homesteaded south of Malta in 1913," Wilson told the PCN. "My folks grew up here in Malta. Met and married... Full story
The Malta Mustangs (3-0) football team sent a shock wave through Class B football as they took down the Jefferson Panthers (2-1), a team that was ranked first or second by many around the state. "I'm so proud of this team," Malta senior Stockton Oxarart told the PCN after the game. "This is the best team I've ever played on. This is just a crazy, crazy win." When asked about the team's key to victory he shouted out his offensive line. "Upfront, our line was crazy," Stockton said. "They were...
The Malta M-ettes volleyball team played their first two games of the regular season last weekend, which included a 3-0 Homecoming win over the Harlem LadyCats last Saturday, September 14, in Malta. The M-ettes fell to the Glasgow Lady Scotties 2-3, in Glasgow in the team's first game of the regular season. The M-ettes will head to Wolf Point on Saturday, September 21, to face the Lady Wolves. The M-ette JV and C teams will see action against North Country on Friday, September 20. In Malta's win...
The Malta Mustang football team is 2-0 in their 2024-25 campaign after defeating the Baker Spartans 54-14 on Friday, August 30, and the Red Lodge Rams 21-18 on Friday, September 6. This year's group returns plenty of talent from a team that went 5-5 and made the playoffs last season. The Mustangs will be without Bow Saint-Louis, Clayton Hallenberg, Kyle Darrington, and Mason Sjostrom, who all graduated last spring. Despite losing several starters from last season, the Mustangs have a lot of...
The North Country Lady Mavericks Volleyball team graduated their top two hitters from their 2023 season that ended with the team taking third in the State C tournament for the second season in a row. The team will be without Teagan Erickson, Paige Wasson, and Kendall Scheffelmear, who graduated last spring. All three earned All-Conference honors last season. Erickson and Wasson were All-State selections. The team welcomes back junior BaiLee McColly who was an All-Conference selection in 2023....
The Dodson Coyote Cross Country Program features 10 high schoolers and five middle schools in 2024. The Coyotes have one senior this season; Junior Stiffarm. Stiffarm is in his second year of running cross country. "His goal is to do his best and PR at every race," Dodson Head Coach Tianna Bloomer said. "He is very encouraging of his teammates. This is the largest boys team I have ever had, I have six boys running this year." The Coyotes have three juniors this season including Donovan Posey,...
The Malta M-ette Volleyball team has retained plenty of talent for their 2024 campaign. Last season the M-ettes' postseason run ended at the 2023 Northern B Divisional in Malta. The team lost Elly Anderson and Kataya KillEagle to graduation, but brings back plenty of familiar faces including seniors Ava Hanson and Kelbie Nelson. Hanson is an outside hitter and Nelson is a defensive specialist. "Ava and Kelbie definitely bring experience and high expectations to the table," Malta Head Coach...
The Whitewater Penguins Cross Country team has three runners this season, including the 2023 State C Champion. Shelbi LaBrie won the title in Kalispell with a time of 19:52.5 last season and returns as the team's lone senior in 2024. "I've seen a lot of maturity in her leadership since the season started," Whitewater Head Coach Carly Hammond said. "She's been pushing her teammates in the workouts, giving encouraging words when runs get hard, sharing advice with the younger kids, and just...
The Malta Cross Country team consists of four runners this year, a smaller group but one with plenty of running experience. Mustang Kash Stiles and M-ette Megan Morser are Malta's seniors this season. Malta Head Coach Thea Solberg spoke about both of her seniors; "Kash Stiles comes in as the senior for the boys and comes in with many years of experience. He began his running career at Sidney, while in middle school. He really enjoys running and what it does for him to prepare for basketball...
The Malta Mustang football team started their season off with a strong 54-14 victory over the Baker Spartans in Baker last Friday, August 30. Malta will travel to Red Lodge to face the Rams, who just defeated the Whitehall Trojans 46-8 last Friday. The Mustangs were led by senior quarterback Stockton Oxarart, who completed 10-of-11 pass attempts for 264 yards and five touchdowns. Senior Blaine Downing led the rushing attack with 169 yards and two touchdowns on seven attempts (24.1 YPC). He had...
Last week Phillips County Sheriff Jerry Lytle sent a letter to the Phillips County News and to social media that understandably caused some concern. The PCN caught up with Sheriff Lytle to talk more about the letter, urging locals to contact the Phillips County Commissioners in regards to higher pay for his deputies and dispatch; this has been ongoing since he took office in 2019. The situation has gotten more severe for PCSO because after the letter was released on Monday, August 19, Sheriff...
It is August 28… So before I forget. Happy birthday to my father Hernando Bibbs. Love you and it was good to see you last week. Last week, I had the opportunity to fly out to my hometown, Bolingbrook, Illinois, to visit my mother, father and my stepmother. It was a good trip overall. It was full of highlights. There was some sadness because the family I grew up with has gone their separate ways, but we made the best of it and spent some time with my mother and father. One highlight was going t...
The Malta Mustangs football team held their annual Blue and White Scrimmage at Mustang Field last Friday, August 23. The scrimmage featured a mixture of varsity and junior varsity Mustang football players going against each other to prepare the team for the regular season, slated to kick off Friday, August 30, against the Baker Spartans in Baker. Mustang senior Stockton Oxarart, the team's quarterback was asked how he felt the event went. "It was good," Oxarart said. "We evened up the teams so...
The Malta M-ettes volleyball team held their Blue and White Scrimmage last Friday, August 23, at the Malta High School Gymnasium. The teams consisted of a mix of varsity and junior varsity teams. Though the team has been practicing since August 16, it was the first time that the team played an organized game. Blue won both games with the scores being 25-16 and 26-24. M-ette Head Coach Tasha Hines seemed pleased with the result of their Blue and White game. "Honestly, that was the first time...
Last Saturday was the last day of open swim at the Malta Municipal Pool, but the Hi-Line Future Foundation is hoping that the pool can open its doors in 2025 and beyond! In conjunction with the final swim of 2024, the Hi-Line Future Foundation hosted their first big fundraiser for the pool and raised a total of $5,343.35. The event provided local youth and onlookers with much to smile about as educators at Malta Public Schools took pies to the face, and Julie Snellman of Arts Furniture & Carpet...
Can you win a medal for dance by busting out one single move? I can confirm that the answer is yes! Our second night on the Carnival Freedom ended up being a lot more nostalgic than I had planned as we attended the 90’s Music Trivia Night event. I will not lie… I did not want to go. I am not a fan of popular music. Not then and not now. But I joined my wife and the adults in her family for the event. I did get more answers right then wrong in the trivia portion of the event, but for Susan and...
Last Friday, Malta's Jim Fauth set out to stock his freezer with salmon from Fort Peck Reservoir. He did, just not in the way he was expecting. By the end of his fishing expedition with his wife Nancy and friends Tony and Emily Simonsen, Jim landed a fish of a lifetime; a state record-setting Chinook salmon that officially weighed in at 32.62 pounds by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The fish was measured at 38-inches long with a 28-inch girth. The record was last held by Greg Haug, who...
Malta High School senior Stockton Oxarart had a chance to showcase his talent and hard work at the 2024 Junior Day National Football Showcase at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a couple of weeks ago. The showcase featured 250 athletes from 47 states across the country. Oxarart, the son of DoDee and Dennis Oxarart of Malta, was one that stood out amongst the rest as he was awarded Player of the Championship Game, Player of the Game for another game, and Offensive MVP for his team. "It...
Temps reached over 100 degrees during the Phillips County Fair Indian Relay and Chariot Races, but that didn't stop the event from filling the stands last Friday, August 2, in Dodson. The event, organized by the Northeast Corner Committee, was ultimately won by BirdinGround Relay Team from the Crow reservation. The PCN caught up with rider Tristan BirdinGround, who had been riding in relays since he was 15 years old. He has competed at the PC Fair with River Road in past years, and was second...
The 2024 PC Fair Ranch Bronc Riding event provided plenty of excitement and qualified eight-second runs as a welcome intermission for the 2024 Indian Relay Race event at the PC Fair Arena last Friday, August 2. The broncs were provided by Jim Orahood. Nineteen riders were featured in the opening two sections of the event and only four made the short go by way of their scores in the first ride. The event was won by Rocky Boy's Tyrus Lamere who had a 73 point ride in the short go, as the final... Full story
The 2024 Phillips County Fair AMX's A Main Event was won by a driver that has been a part of Dodson AMX for 20 years, but hadn't secured the top prize until Sunday, August 4. Frank Kindle was able to do a victory doughnut after winning the 12-lap event in a car that he had fixed up a few days before the races. "It feels good. It really does," Kindle told the PCN. "It's like it feels really good considering that I put the car together in three days, along with watering the track and trying to...
I never ever, ever, ever, thought that I would miss instant coffee, but I do. Not necessarily the flavor, but what it brought to our trip to the Bahamas. Upon leaving Malta, I brought a couple of bags of my coffee just in case I did not like the coffee on vacation. One bag was spoken for and the other went to a bandmate that lives in Florida. More on that at another time. So, there I was coffee-less on a ship. Or so I thought. Thankfully, the ship had coffee that I could buy by the cup or...
Malta AAU Wrestling held their 2024 Malta Summer Slam Wrestling Camp at Malta High School under the Direction of Great Falls CMR Coach Aaron Jensen and Malta Coach Kris LaBrie. The free camp for wrestlers from 1st grade to 12th grade was held on Sunday, July 21 through Tuesday, July 23, at the Malta High School Gymnasium. The group hosted just under 60 wrestlers, which is the most in its' history. This is coming off of a record year in which Malta's AAU hosted 90 wrestlers, not including high...