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The Malta Mustangs Football team is now 3-0 after defeating the Shepherd Mustangs 41-12 in Shepherd last Friday, September 17. "We have had a great start to our season," Malta Head Coach Nick Oxarart said. "We have used our three non-conference games as opportunities to get better and get ready for conference play." The Mustangs will aim for their fourth win of the season in Wolf Point, as they travel to take on the Wolves, who are currently 1-3. The game is the team's first conference game of...
It was a tough week for the North Country Mavericks Volleyball team as they dropped a couple of games. The Mavs fell 0-3 to the Malta M-ettes on Tuesday, September 14, and then 0-3 to the Scobey Spartans on Saturday, September 18. "We had a rough week battling through some rotation changes and missing a starter who was out on Saturday," Coach Charlene Wasson said. "Sometimes it is hard to make changes but you have to do them to see what opportunities you are missing and if the things you think...
The Malta Mustangs football team is now 2-0 after posting a dominant 60-0 win over the Roundup Panthers last Friday night at Mustang Field in Malta. The game served as the team's first home game of the season as well as their Homecoming game. "It feels good," Malta senior receiver Shawn Gilkerson said. "It's our last homecoming and the last time that I will get to do all of that pep rally stuff. It felt awesome." Gilkerson said that things felt normal compared to the 2020 season, where things...
The Milk River Pavilion in Malta was full of spectators last Saturday, September 11, for the third Fight for Our Future event. The Fight for our Future event was started in 2018 by Wes KillEagle Jr., or KillEagle Productions, in honor of his daughter Payton KillEagle, a five-year-old, who battled through liver cancer in 2017. The second installation of the event occurred in 2019, but the third event was postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. "I gotta say, Fight For Our Future III was...
The Malta M-ette volleyball team faced a pair of 2B opponents and split those games, defeating the Poplar Indians 3-0 on Tuesday, September 7, and then losing 3-0 to the Glasgow Lady Scotties on Thursday, September 9. The team is scheduled to play the Harlem Wildcats in Harlem on Friday, September 17. They will then host the Wolf Point Lady Wolves on Saturday, September 18. The M-ettes were scheduled to play North Country in Malta on Tuesday, September 14, at 4:30 p.m. The game recap will be...
The 2021 Saco Fun Days event presented the community and its neighbors a chance to witness its newest venue, a Rodeo Arena! Saco Fun Days, started on Friday, September 3, and concluded on Sunday, September 5, and featured several events for those in attendance. Those events included a pot luck, Pippin DJ, and Karaoke, and cornhole tournament on day one. "It's going great," said Lacey Beil of the Saco Chamber of Commerce. "We had a great turnout for cornhole." The cornhole tournament featured 22...
The The Malta Mustangs Football team is looking to pose a challenge to teams in the Northern B, after retaining plenty of talent in 2021. "The Northern B looks to be a very competitive division again this year," Malta Head Coach Nick Oxarart said. "Fairfield is still the team to beat. Cut Bank, Glasgow, and Conrad will all be tough to beat as well." The Mustangs ended their 2020 campaign in a playoff loss to the Manhattan Tigers, who eventually won the Class B Title. Malta went 6-2 last season,...
The North Country Mavericks lost a few strong hitters to graduation, but the team has returned plenty of young talent for their 2021 campaign. "I think we feel pretty confident," Mavericks Head Coach Charlene Wasson said. "We are pretty experienced even though we are young." The Mavs welcome back only two seniors this year, including their only returning All-Conference athlete senior Jaycee Erickson, and Zandora Longtree. The team's other 2020 All-Conference selections; Kia Wasson, Kaitlyn McCol...
The Malta M-ettes Volleyball team is primed and ready to go for the 2021 Volleyball season. "They are excited that it is more of a regular season this year and they have some high goals," Malta M-ette Head Coach Tasha Hines said. The team has returned plenty of talent including two of three 2020 All-Conference selections. The team will be without it's only All-State selection, Erica Smith, who graduated. The team also lost Kylie Hunter and Sidney Meeks to graduation last spring. Returning to thi...
The Malta Cross Country team has a few new faces this season and a couple of familiar ones in 2021. "This year is definitely different," Malta Head Coach Thea Solberg said. "It's new, there are a lot of changes." The only familiar thing is that the team welcomes back juniors Kirsta Meisdalen and Izzie Hallenberg, who have been a part of the team since the 2019 season. "They are good, solid girls that bring good experience to the team," Coach Solberg said. The team welcomes junior Kira Beck, a...
Last Wednesday was the first day of school for my oldest son and new second-grader, PJ. I also had the privilege of staying at home with my youngest son Lincoln, a three-year-old. Lincoln is an inquisitive young lad, who asks over 200 questions a day. Though I used to joke about a talkative person trying to talk underwater, I almost fell over when Linc told us about a scare that he had on a water slide. He said, “I tried to talk underwater.” Thankfully, mom was there to pick him up out of the wa...
Last Saturday, August 28, Marian Hills Golf Course was the host of the 30th Annual First State Bank / Ezzie's Wholesale Golf Scramble. The event featured eighteen four-person teams (divided equally by handicap) that had golfers from Malta, around the county, state, and even golfers from Arizona. "It was a great turnout," said Terri Skiff, representing First State Bank of Malta. "The weather was perfect and the course was in wonderful shape, and everyone had a lot of fun." Team 2, consisting of...
The Malta M-ettes hosted the 2021 Malta Invitational Volleyball Tournament last Saturday, August 28, at the Malta High School Gymnasium. The event featured six teams; the M-ettes, Plentywood Wildcats, North Country Mavericks, Harlem Wildcats, Poplar Indians, and Circle Wildcats. Plentywood defeated Malta in the Malta Invitational's championship game, the scores were 25-16 and 25-16. Circle placed third by defeating North Country 25-21, 25-24 in the third-place match. Harlem was fifth after...
The Malta Mustangs Football team started practices on Monday, August 16, but one highlight of the week was day two, a day that featured a college-style combine event. During this event, last Tuesday, August 16, athletes were timed and reps were taken down to gauge where the athletes were heading into the 2021 Class B football season. According to Malta Football Head Coach Nick Oxarart, every Mustang participated. The team was tested in five different events. These events were the bench press,...
Earlier this summer, the Malta M-ette Volleyball team tasted sweet victory as they won the 2021 Missoula Team Volleyball Camp. That taste has the group of spikers hungry for more. "It gave them confidence," Malta M-ette Coach Tasha Hines said. "I feel like they were always chasing the buck with volleyball and it was there. They just needed to own that." Last Monday, August 16, the team started holding their first regular-season practices, and the hunger to perform well has been seen on the...
The Second Annual Craig Mangis Rough Stock Memorial featured plenty of action last Saturday night at the Trafton Rodeo Arena in Malta. The event is in memory of Craig Mangis who passed away on May 27, 2019. Amongst the hundreds at the event were Mangis' wife Mary Mangis, daughter Katie Skiff, son Matt Mangis (who lives in South Dakota), and Skiff's children McKinley and R.C. Skiff was asked about the event. "I think it's awesome," Skiff said. "It is very cool that they are doing this and we as...
Skateboarding enthusiasts of all ages had a chance to come out and be a part of a free clinic put on by Girls on Shred last Thursday, August 12, at the Malta Skatepark. The PCN had the chance to talk to a couple of members of Girls on Shred during the event. "I am a teacher and a skateboarder, so I love getting out to skateparks and helping kids learn," said Girls on Shred instructor Kim Petersen. Though they spend much of their time at the numerous parks in Missoula and other nearby towns,...
Last week, young basketball players from the Malta community experienced GROw Training, a basketball camp put on by Ro Wiggins, a coach, and trainer who will soon be in Phillips County to stay. Wiggins, who lives in Boise ID., held a three-day training camp from Monday, August 9, through Wednesday, August 11, at the Malta High School Old Gym. Camp for third through fifth grade was held from 9 a.m. through 10 a.m. Camp for sixth through eighth was held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and high school...
What a week! For starters, my Chicago Bulls are one of the most improved teams on paper after the first week of NBA Free Agency, the U.S. was pretty dominant at the 2020 Olympic Games, racking up a total of 113 medals, 39 of which were gold. China was second in the medal count, winning a total of 88 (38 gold), and the Phillips County Fair was held in Dodson! Even with such a great week of sports, my biggest highlight was seeing my mother. She came to town during Fair week because I told her how...
The 106th Phillips County Fair Indian Relay was held on Sunday, August 8, and though it was chilly in the grandstands, all went well until the last hour of races. Then it turned epic. A torrential downpour at 5:50 p.m., which shut down the Indian Relay event for a half-hour. Despite the rain falling during the Chariot Races, Women's Mile-Race, Consolation Championship, and Championship races, no one was hurt, resulting in a dramatic conclusion to the P.C. Fair. The Men's Championship race was...
The Grandstands at the Phillips County Fair were packed for the AMX Racing and Crash for Cash events on Saturday, August 7, in Dodson. The AMX Super event was won by Willie Bice of Plentywood, who had never raced at the Dodson Track before. Bice edged out Great Falls' Dustin McKinney who had previously won at the P.C. Fair for four straight years. Bice said that he had raced with McKinney and was able to read his moves. McKinney had led in the event for the first four laps before he had a...
The Phillips County Fair Rodeo kicked off Grandstand events with a bang and plenty of action last Thursday, August 5. A few locals were able to participate in the event, including barrel racers Kelsie Robinson of Saco, and Morgan McEwen of Malta. McEwen, who turned 14 on Saturday, August 7, was the lone Phillips County rider to bring home cash, taking third place in the Jr. Barrell Racing Event with a time of 18.57 seconds. She was asked how it felt to perform at the Fair. "It was pretty cool...
The Rural Communities and Agricultural Neighbors (RCAN) held a sanctioned Ranch Rodeo at the 106th Annual Phillips County Fair in Dodson last Sunday, August 8. It was RCAN's second year hosting the event. "I don't think that it could've gone better," RCAN President Katie Brown said of the event. "It went good. No one got hauled out in an ambulance. No livestock were injured, and it went smooth and right on time." The event was in a two-hour time crunch, starting at 2 p.m. and concluding at 4 p.m...
The 106th Annual Phillips County Fair is set to finish on an electrifying note this Sunday, August 8, as the Grandstands are scheduled to host Indian Relay Races and an RCAN Ranch Rodeo. The Indian Relay will be hosted by the NorthEast Corner Committee of Fort Belknap and accredited by the Horse Nation Indian Relay Council, and the Ranch Rodeo will be hosted and accredited by Rural Communities and Agricultural Neighbors (RCAN). The PCN talked to Francine KillEagle, of the Northeast Corner Commit...
On Saturday, August 7, the grandstands at the 106th Annual Phillips County Fair will feature plenty of action in the form of motorsports as the Crash for Cash Demolition Derby and AMX events will combine their events. The dual event is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. with AMX laps. The Demo Derby is set to start their first action at 6 p.m. The PCN caught up with Dodson AMX Racing president Keith Cowan and Crash for Cash Operator Scott Skoyen to talk about their respective events. AMX Racing Cowan...
