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The Malta Musang Basketball team held their annual basketball camp for students from third grade to eighth grade. The camp was held from Monday, June 29 through Wednesday, July 1. The group was led by Malta High School Basketball Coaches and athletes, including Head Coach David Costin, and Assistant Coaches Travis Somerfeld and Zach Handley. The camp was also taught by Rocky Mountain College Hall of Famer Jake Stuart. “It was nice to have Jake Stuart at camp,” Coach Somerfeld said. “Just like ou...
Hopefully, everyone had a good Independence Day. Even as a kid, we didn’t make a huge deal of the 4th of July, but one thing was sure; there would be barbeque or grilled meat. Our kids aren’t too big yet, so we keep it simple when we “que”, and this year we bought some baby back ribs. I may or not have sung the Chili’s song, inserting the words “Peezy’s Baby Back Ribs” where Chili’s Baby Back Ribs goes. As far as cooking the ribs went, I tried to ignore them for the most part instead of the ty...
The Malta Mustangs held their annual Little Mustang Football Camp on Saturday, June 27, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Malta Mustangs Practice Football Field. "We had a great turnout for our Little Mustang Football Camp with 24 campers," Malta Mustangs Head Coach Nick Oxarart said. The camp for students third to fifth grade, was directed by Coach Oxarart with help from his assistant coaches Travis Somerfeld, Aaron DeVries, and Zach Handley. The camp also featured help from several Mustang...
Dodson's Juliun Benson did something that can't be said of a Phillips County baseball player in a long time; he pitched a 5-0 shutout for the Havre Northstars against Lewistown on Tuesday, June 30. The American Legion baseball season had been canceled for Malta because the team didn't have enough players, but that hasn't stopped Juliun and his older brother Jeramiah from traveling to Havre to play ball. "They are most experienced because they play baseball more than the kids in Malta, but it...
The Malta Barrel Series took a break for the Independence Day weekend but one week prior on Saturday, June 27, over 40 riders competed at the Trafton Rodeo Arena. Though they have had more riders in the past, event coordinator Chrissy McEwen was happy with the turnout. "There were not as many runners as the week before but the ground was great thanks to Jerey (McEwen), and Landon Shettel who watered the arena," C. McEwen said. In every race this past season, the group has been able to pay out...
MENS LEAGUE The second half of the Marian Hills Men's Glad League has started and there are only four more spots up for grabs as the season continues. Already qualified for the tournament are Team Prairie DeSigns, Team Mint Bar, Team Art's Furniture, and Team Marian Hills Golf Course. Prior to week 6 on Wednesday, June 24, Jim Heikens of Team Ed Buechler hit a hole in one at hole #4 using a 7-iron. "I just got over the water and didn't even see the ball go into the hole," Heikens said. "It was...
I originally started writing about social media bickering, but I instead thought that maybe I would share a little of what has been on my mind. Take it or leave it. I don’t expect people to have the same opinion that I do, because they haven’t seen life through my eyes. How can you know a problem exists, if you haven’t experienced it? I may have said this before, but I am appreciative of those who have reached out to myself and Susan about current social issues. It has not been easy. Again...
The Malta M-ettes Basketball team hosted their annual Little M-ette Camp last week with a total of 50 campers present. The three-day camp started on Monday, June 22, and concluded on Wednesday, June 24. The event was for girls in third grade to eighth grade. Malta Head Coach Nate Hammond led the camp with assistant coaches Shane Anderson and Mardee Scott. The coaches were also joined by MHS graduate Kelbee Denham, and current M-ettes Erica Smith and Kylie Hunter. "I think camp went great,"...
Last weekend, competitive basketball was seen at the Malta High School Gymnasium as former Malta High School standout Moe Denham hosted the 9th Annual Malta Summer Shootout. Denham shared how the event was started back in 2011. "Kendall was going to be a senior, and I had mentioned to his coach Dave Costin that we should do an event here in Malta," Denham said. "We always travel all summer and we have one of the nicest gyms." Though many of the local coaches didn't have a chance to do the first...
Last Wednesday, June 24, 11 young barrel racers attended a clinic put on by Carmel Wright, a PRCA rider who has won many titles in the US and her native country New Zealand. Wright, who has lived in Roy, Mont. with her husband Dave and their children since 2002, came to the Trafton Rodeo Arena to pay things forward to the next generation of Barrel Racers, not charging one cent for her instruction. "It's about giving back to the community," Wright said. "Our children did junior rodeo. We used to...
Though it was a very hot day, the Malta Milk River Baseball season started on Wednesday, June 24. Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 virus this year's tee-ball and youth baseball meetings have been informal, and the event lasts two more weeks. "We typically have sign-ups at the end of March and early April and teams are figured out and practicing by early May," Dean Yeadon of Milk River Baseball said. "Due to COVID-19 we had no idea if we'd be even able to have anything this year so it's...
First of all, Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife Susan. Her birthday week always marks a couple of milestones in our lives. First off, on June 21, I moved to Montana as a surprise to Susan. We knew that we would start our life together here, but I moved here months earlier to be with the woman that I love. It has been the greatest eight years of my life. I proposed to my wife one day before her birthday, because I didn’t want her to go into her birthday without knowing that I was 100 percent c...
On Saturday, June 13, the Dodson Speedway was open as the sights and sounds of AMX racing were seen and heard around the Fairgrounds. The event drew a larger crowd than normal according to Dodson AMX Racing President Keith Cowan and several other locals. There was a total of 12 cars. "For it being the first event of the year, and dealing with everything that we have had to deal with throughout the last few months, I think it's going good," Cowan told the PCN. "We have a fair amount of drivers an...
After six weeks of the 2020 Men's Golf League at Marian Hills, Team Prairie DeSigns still leads all teams with a total of 114 points. The runner up so far is Team Mint Bar, who has 108 points. Team Art's Furniture made the largest jump in the standings last week leading from sixth place to third with a day-high 21 points. Though in last place, Team Valley Drug had the second-highest amount for points, scoring 18. This Thursday, Team Art's will go head-to-head with Team Prairie DeSigns in a...
Malta Parks and Recreation hosted it's second annual Malta Soccer Camp instructed by local MHS senior Kendrik Wright. The three-day camp started on Tuesday, June 16, and concluded on Thursday, June 18. The camp featured children ages four to 14. "It's pretty fun teaching the campers," Wright told the PCN. "I really like it because I went to a lot of camps when I was younger. I just think that it's really cool that I am doing it now." Wright said that campers worked on dribbling, passing, and...
Over the last few weeks, the Trafton Park Rodeo Arena has seen plenty of action over the month of June, and the arena is set to host the 2020 Malta NRA Rodeo, an event that welcomes rodeoers within a 200-mile radius. The NRA stands for National Rodeo Association, which holds rodeos throughout Montana. The NRA welcomes riders from Montana and part of Wyoming. The rodeo will feature stock contracted from Treasure State Rodeo. The two-day event, features Slack events on Friday, July 10 at 6 p.m....
I am glad to see that things are getting back to normal. With the potential threat that the COVID-19 virus presented, I understand why precautions were taken throughout the spring and through the early part of the summer, but it is good to see people being active again. I could only hope that the threat has been minimized. At the time that I wrote this, in Montana, there were 561 total cases of COVID-19 since it’s beginning and only 56 active cases, and seven hospitalizations. There were no a...
Typically in golf, if your average goes up, things aren't looking good for the golfer, but this year's Malta Golf Camp at Marian Hills Golf Course added 19 new campers, which was exciting for Camp Leader and Malta High School Golf Coach Kate Webb. "It's just good to see kids out here to confirm that golf is not a dying sport," Coach Webb said. "To see that there are kids still interested in golf and that we are able to foster a program." Malta Golf Camp for students in sixth through twelfth...
The Men's Golf League at Marian Hills held their fifth game of the 2020 season last Thursday, June 11. The Women's Golf League held their third meeting on Wednesday, June 10. The PCN caught up with Sheriff Jerry Lytle who plays for Team Bank of Malta, and has been golfing well over the past weeks, scoring the highest point total in weeks three and four. At the time Bank of Malta was in fourth place. "I think we are improving because everyone comes up here a couple of times a week to practice,"...
The Malta Barrel Series held their second event last weekend at the Trafton Rodeo Arena. The event featured over 50 racers from grade school to adult. The series featured barrel races as well as pole bending races. Though event one was held in the Milk River Pavilion, event two was moved outside to the Trafton Arena because it is summertime. "Jerey McEwen has done all of the work of getting the arena ready so that we could use it and get some events going on down here so we don't see the arena...
The fun is over. My wife Susan and I left the Keto Diet a month ago, well I hate to say it but, we are currently back on the diet once again. About a month ago we finally came to a realization that the diet was hard to stay on. In the first nine months or so, we would only have a monthly cheat day. Things were going great. We were both down 70 pounds and then we started to ease up a little bit. A once a month cheat meal became a once a week cheat. And in April we realized that we were cheating...
The Malta Department of Parks and Recreation introduced an organized backyard game to 20 participants last Friday night at the Malta City Hall. Cornhole, a game that has been featured on ESPN became Malta's latest sport and in the first week of the event, Lance Henderson and his teammate Dylan Bergos (MSYH) became the first winners of the game in Parks and Recreation history, defeating WH, a team consisting of Tommy Erickson and Les Jones. The score was 2-1 after three games. The matches were...
Things took a turn back into normalcy as Men's Golf League held its fourth match of the season last Thursday, June 4, at Marian Hills Golf Course. In prior weeks golfers were only allowed to have one person to a cart at Marian Hills GC due to Stage 1 Social Distancing Guidelines, but in week four State 2 guidelines were followed and two golfers were allowed to ride in a golf cart, as it has been in past years. "The County Health Department said that we could ride together which is cool because...
Former Malta M-ette and current University of Montana Lady Griz guard Sophia Stiles earned an award for her efforts in the 2019-20 season. Last Monday, June 1, the school announced that Stiles had been voted as the Julie Deming Outstanding Defensive Player. It is an honor that Stiles also earned during her freshman season in 2017-18. Despite playing the season with a torn labrum in her right shoulder, Stiles led the team in steals with 46 and was second in assists with 61. Stiles had a...
The Malta Municipal Pool has been under repairs last week, and the City is hoping to open up the pool on Wednesday, July 1. Due to the COVID-19 virus, pools around the state have been adjusting to social distancing measures. Kelly Cederberg, the Malta Municipal Pool Manager is well-versed in the stage 2 guidelines set in place by CDC, so we drafted a page of pool guidelines that have been checked out and approved by the County Clerk and the Health Board. "We are prepared," Cederberg said. "We...
