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The Malta M-ettes won the 2021 Northern B Divisional title over the Fairfield Eagles last Saturday night in Wolf Point, earning the team its second division title in two years. "Our seniors have been very excited these last two weekends to have this success their senior year so far," Coach Nate Hammond said when asked of his senior's emotions after the Northern B. "I think it's also pretty sweet for these kids because a lot of this season and a lot of this year has been a question mark."...
Despite having only four wrestlers, the Malta Mustangs Wrestling team ended the year with three wrestlers on the podium, and scored 55.5 points, and placed 11th as a team at the 2021 State B Wrestling Tournament at Shelby High School last Saturday. "I'm really excited," Malta Head Coach Jake French said. "I am really excited for Jaden and excited for all of our wrestlers. They wrestled hard." Senior Jaden Keeling led the Mustangs with a third-place finish in the heavyweight class and 24 points s...
The Lady Mavericks punched their way into the State C Basketball Tournament last Saturday night by defeating the Plentywood Wildcats 63-54 in the Eastern C Divisional Championship game at Sidney High School. "We are pretty excited," Lady Mavericks Head Coach Amber Erickson told the PCN. "And ready to go." The Lady Mavericks also defeated the Froid-Lake Red Hawks 64-19 in the semifinal round on Thursday, March 4, and the Circle Wildcats 64-27 in the opening round on Wednesday, March 3. The Lady...
The season ended for the Malta Mustangs at the Northern B Division Consolation finals, as the team fell 72-54 to the Harlem Wildcats at Cut Bank High School on Saturday, March 6. The Mustangs went 2-2 at the tournament, picking up an opening round 56-50 overtime win over the Conrad Cowboys on Thursday, March 4. The team went toe to toe with the Northern B runner up Fairfield Eagles on Friday, March 5, but fell 47-42. On Saturday morning, Malta defeated Glasgow 64-37, but later fell to Harlem....
The season ended for the North Country Mavericks and Dodson Coyotes at the Eastern C Divisional Tournament in Sidney last weekend, both teams falling to the Fairview Warriors in consolation. The Mavericks lost to the Warriors 45-34 on Saturday, March 6, in the consolation finals, while Dodson lost earlier that Morning 57-53 in the consolation finals. NORTH COUNTRY MAVERICKS The Mavericks went 2-2 at the Divisional Tournament defeating Fairview 48-40 in the opening round Thursday led by the trio...
The Malta M-ettes basketball team earned a 2021 District 2B trophy to match their 2021 2B Conference trophy by defeating the Glasgow Lady Scotties last Saturday, February 27, in Poplar. Malta won the District 2B title for the first time since 2017. In doing so, the M-ettes earned a chance to retain their Northern B crown, having won the 2020 divisional title in Shelby last season. As District 2B's first seed, the M-ettes will take on the Cut Bank Lady Wolves in the opening round of the Northern...
The Malta Mustangs Wrestling team will be represented by four wrestlers at the State B/C Tournament this weekend, after Cameron Mikesell, Camryn Mears, Colt French, and Jaden Keeling qualified at the 2021 Northern B/C Divisional in Glasgow last weekend. The State B/C is scheduled to start on Friday, March 5, and conclude on Saturday, March 6, at Shelby High School. Coach Jake French feels good about how the Mustangs finished considering how tough this year's "Super Divisional" was. "I think...
Last weekend, the Malta Mustangs basketball team won the District 2B Title, to go with their regular season Conference Title. The Mustangs outlasted the Wolf Point Wolves last Friday in Wolf Point 61-54 in the 2B semifinals, and then defeated Glasgow 48-38 in the championship game. The Mustangs will face the Conrad Cowboys in the opening round of the Northern B Divisional scheduled to begin in Cut Bank on Thursday, March 5. The Cowboys were the fourth seed in the 1B District after losing their...
Things have been weird this year. Some good. Some bad. Some odd. I will say. It seems that maybe to some extent, people have been nicer to each other. I think with the quarantines going on, people seem to be putting a lot of their differences aside. Maybe. I see the occasional jabs between Democrats and Republicans on social media, but it seems tamer to an extent. Of course, demeanors have shifted. Hypocrisy is witnessed on both sides. People from one side are saying the exact opposite of what...
For the second time in the team's history, the North Country Lady Mavericks (18-0) earned the District 3C Title last Saturday, February 22, in Malta. "They have worked hard, played very unselfishly and continued to improve all season long, earning them an 18-0 record along with a Conference and District Championship," Lady Maverick Head Coach Amber Erickson said. "They are determined to stay humble and hungry as we enter into our final weeks." The last time that North Country won the 3C Title...
The North Country Mavericks are headed to the Eastern C Divisional in Sidney. The Mavericks earned second place at the 2021 District 3C Tourney held this past weekend in Malta. The Mavericks qualified for the Divisional by defeating the Dodson Coyotes 50-41 in the 3C Semifinals on Thursday, February 18. "I think that everyone could tell that it was building up to that point all year," Mavericks Coach Taylor Olson said. "We had struggled with them early on, then got closer in Dodson, so we knew...
The Dodson Coyotes are heading to Sidney for the 2021 Eastern C Divisional. The team hopes to make history, qualifying for state for the first time since the 1960s. The Coyotes have made it to the Divisional round for the third year in a row, qualifying for the event by defeating the Lustre Christian Lions 56-42 in the District 3C Consolation Finals in Malta last Saturday, February 20. The Coyotes entered the tournament off of a bye, then lost their semi-final game to the North Country Mavericks...
The Malta Mustangs and M-ettes each ended the regular season as Conference Champions in their respective leagues. The M-ettes will head to Poplar for the 2B Girls District Tournament, while the Mustangs will travel to Wolf Point for the 2B Boys District Tournament this week. Both teams set to start their respective games at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, February 26. According to Malta Public Schools, tickets for the 2021 District 2B Basketball Tournaments must be purchased at the tournament sites....
The season ended last Saturday night in the 2021 District 3C consolation finals Dodson Lady Coyotes in Malta, as the team fell 51-49 to the Lustre Christian Lady Lions. The Lady Coyotes defeated the Frazer Lady Bearcubs 65-28 in the opening round of the tournament in Dodson, behind a 25 point performance by freshman Kataya KillEagle. Senior Melony Fetter had 22 points and Lindsey Fetter had 12 points. The Lady Coyotes would then face the Scobey Spartans in the semifinals of the tournament in...
A total of 23 Students between five Phillips County Schools attended the 2021 Phillips County Spelling Bee, and it was the word television that ultimately won the competition. The event, which featured a COVID-19 compliant atmosphere set in the Saco Public School Gymnasium was won by Saco eighth-grader Carter Pippin. Whitewater fifth-grader, Rory Green was the event's runner up. Third place went to Saco's Laynee Simpson. "I had no approach at all," Pippin told the PCN after his win. "I just...
The Malta Mustangs Wrestling team fared well in their final home mixer of the 2021 wrestling season, going 8-1 in their matches on Saturday, February 13, at the Malta High School gymnasium. "I was really impressed because they are just starting to come around and we are seeing a lot of good things," Malta Head Coach Jake French said of the team's performance in Malta. The Mustangs also traveled to Glasgow on Friday, February 12, for mixer action against the Broadus and Glasgow wrestling teams....
The Malta Mustangs basketball team picked up a few wins last week, defeating Wolf Point last Tuesday, February 9, then Poplar on Friday, February 12, and lastly, Harlem in Harlem on Saturday, February 13. In Malta's win over Harlem, senior Kooper Oxarart scored a career high of 38 points, 25 of which came in the first half of the game. Oxarart, and fellow senior Pierce Mortenson, were honored prior to the Poplar game for Malta High School's senior night. The Mustangs were able to celebrate with...
The 2021 3C Girls Basketball Tournament will consist of six teams from Northeastern Montana, who all have their sights set on making the Eastern C Divisional Tournament scheduled to start on Thursday, February 25. The North Country Lady Mavericks enter this week's tournament as the top seed after posting a 16-0 record overall and a 9-0 record against conference opponents. The Scobey Lady Spartans amassed a 15-3 record (7-2 conference) and will be the tournament's second seed, The Dodson Lady...
The North Country Maverick and Dodson Coyote basketball teams will have their hands full as both will try to make it to the Eastern C Divisional against four other teams in Malta this week. The Malta High School Gymnasium will be the site of the 3C District tournament from Wednesday, February 17, to Saturday, February 20. The 18-0 first seeded Scobey-Opheim Spartans and second seeded 10-2 Dodson Coyotes have earned a first round bye. Scobey will face the winner of the Lustre, Nashua game which...
The Malta M-ettes Basketball Team appears to be in mid-season form after picking up three wins last week, defeating Wolf Point, Poplar, and Harlem. The M-ettes celebrated their senior night with a 72-30 win over Poplar on Friday, February 12. The team was led by senior Erica Smith who had 16 points, four rebounds, three steals, and three assists. "We really worked as a team and we all played confident, hustled for every play, and it was just a good feeling," Smith told the PCN after the win....
That was concerning! But things went well for Malta Merchants in December. A couple of weeks ago, the PCN was alerted that the 2020 Christmas Holiday season featured less Malta Chamber Christmas Scrip than in previous years. Despite the seemingly everlasting threat of COVID-19, it may be logical that numbers were down. The scrip total in the 2019 Holiday Season was $239,368. The total for the 2020 Christmas was $189,490, or a difference of $49,878. Despite the deficit of almost $50,000 in the...
The Malta Mustangs Basketball team went 2-1 last week, defeating the Rocky Boy Northern Stars in a game that ended with controversy and with 4 minutes and 32 seconds left in regulation last Tuesday, February 6. The Mustangs would go on to defeat the Roundup Panthers 45-28 on Saturday, February 6, and fall to the Froid-Lake Redhawks 47-44 on Friday, February 5. In picking up a pair of wins, Malta Head Coach David Costin was proud of how the team bounced back after back-to-back losses to Glasgow...
The Malta M-ettes basketball team posted a dominant 73-16 win over the Rocky Boy Northern Stars on Tuesday, February 2, but would split games later in the week. The team defeated Froid-Lake 48-39 in Malta on Friday, February 5, and then fell 47-35 to the Roundup Panthers on Saturday, February 6, in Roundup. In their win over Rocky Boy, Malta was led by Maddie Williamson who scored 15 points. "We just went out there and had a lot of fun," Williamson told the PCN. "The other team played hard and...
The Dodson Coyotes and North Country Mavericks met up in Dodson last Thursday, February 4. Those in attendance at the Coyote Den witnessed a 57-52 nail-biter, as the hometown Coyotes won. "I knew that was going to be a good game because that team is good," Dodson Head Coach Frank Benson said. The teams saw other opponents throughout the week, as Dodson would fall to Scobey on Friday, February 5, and then to Froid-Lake on Saturday, February 6, while North Country defeated Glasgow last Friday and...
The North Country Lady Mavericks are currently 13-0 after defeating the Dodson Lady Coyotes last Thursday, the Glasgow Lady Scotties last Friday, and the Scobey Lady Spartans last Saturday. The Dodson Lady Coyotes would go on to pick up losses to Scobey last Friday and Medicine Lake last Saturday. In North Country’s win over Dodson last Thursday, the score was 64-23. The Lady Mavs were led by Jaycee Erickson who had 19 points, five rebounds, five assists, and three steals. Kia Wasson had nine p...
