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Malta has been host to many foreign exchange students over the years, but 2020 has presented the world with a complex issue that ended the school year early. This week, the PCN caught up with Mario Sanchez-Pando of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to see things from his point of view. Sanchez-Pando was excited to participate in track and field this season, but due to the COVID-19 virus shutting down school and sports on Monday, March 16, his dream of competing never happened. Instead, he was sent...
Though many sporting activities have been shutdown due to the COVID-19 virus, Marian Hills Golf Course gives locals a chance to stay active. In past weeks, the course had only been open to club members, but on Tuesday, April 14, the course amended their rule and has since opened to the public. "We are very excited to be open because the golfing season has started," said Jane Ereaux, owner of the Marian Hills Golf Course. "Even though the Coronavirus is a concern, we have figured out a way to be...
It took a crisis for us to consider “cutting the cord.” A couple of years ago I was excited about getting cable television because I wanted to watch live sports again. I’m a Chicagoan and have spent most of my life watching Bulls, Bears, and White Sox games. I even watched quite a bit of hockey when the Blackhawks were under former Head Coach Joel Quenneville. I enjoy sports on every level, so watching the local sports teams has kept my mind occupied, but I had missed my Chicago sports teams...
Malta senior Kelbee Denham will be wearing white and blue next year as a member of the Miles Community College (MCC) Pioneer Women's basketball team in Miles City. Denham, daughter of Morris Denham and Stephanie (Fried) Denham of Malta, will be the third of three siblings to play collegiate basketball. Kylee Johnson, the oldest of the three played basketball at Montana State University Billings in the 2009-2010 season and then finishes her career at Montana State University-Northern from...
Since the 1971 State B Championship, the Malta Mustangs have won eight titles in eight attempts. A few weeks ago, the Phillips County News caught up with former Malta Mustang basketball head coach Mike Woodman, who coached Malta to the 1985 State B Championship. This week, the PCN reached out to Mike McNamara (who was a senior), Brian Henderson (who was a junior), and Brant Young (who was a senior); a trio of players that were on the team that won the State B title that year in the infamous...
The COVID-19 Virus has triggered a Stay at Home order by Montana Governor Steve Bullock and with that came temporary closings of gyms around Phillips County and the state. Dan Bain, the physical dducation teacher at Malta Elementary School has a couple of ideas on how to keep the family active during the governor's order, which is slated to continue to Friday, April 24. "Kids can definitely get out of shape because they're not as active as they would be during a typical school day and they might...
Hard work pays off; That's the message that Dodson High School senior Corbin LoneBear and his parents Pat and Sarah Ditmar want to send. LoneBear, a 6'5" Dodson Coyote standout, has signed his letter of intent to play basketball at Dawson Community College in Glendive, as a Buccaneer in the 2020-2021 season. In doing so, LoneBear has made a dream come true; to play basketball at the next level. "In seventh or eighth grade, I knew I wanted to keep playing ball, more and more," LoneBear said. "I... Full story
Things have been strange since we have arrived home from the State Basketball Tournament. With the potential spread of the COVID-19 virus, came many businesses temporarily closing their doors to the public, and many people around America staying home with their families. For a second it seemed as though democrats and republicans worked together. Facebook posts were plentiful and not full of the typical garbage that divides our country. America’s boredom and creativity were seen as funny memes a...
Duchscher Kapperud Insurance (DKI), a company in Havre gave the Hi-Line a very important question to be answered through social media; who has that best school mascot in Northeastern Montana? According to voters in the Duchscher Kapperud Insurance Mascot Madness competition on Facebook, the answer was in fact, the Malta Mustangs. The Mustangs edged out the Box Elder Bears on Friday, April 3, in a competition that featured 16 teams including the North Star Knights, Box Elder Bears, Chinook...
4 has presented high school spring sports athletes around the country with a huge obstacle; will they compete this season? The Montana High School Sports Association postponed the high school spring sports season on Monday, March 16, to coincide with Montana Governor Steve Bullock's announcement to close schools during the COVID-19 virus pandemic. The Malta Mustang and M-ette Track teams were originally scheduled to compete in their third track meet of the season but the season is in doubt...
Malta High School has welcomed a pair of familiar and experienced faces as coaches for the now pending spring sports season. With Travis Somerfeld stepping down as golf coach and taking on the role as Activities Director at Malta High School, the school has hired MHS and MMS counselor and former Whitewater Golf standout, Kate Webb, as head coach. Webb was the team's assistant coach last season and was hired in the fall of 2019. Coach Webb's staff includes her husband Gordon Webb who won the...
There are only a couple of seniors trying to make it back to the Class C State Track Meet amongst the Dodson Coyotes, Saco Panthers, and Whitewater Penguins track teams. The Penguins have an at-home program provided by Coach Charlene Wasson, which will be in the PCN soon, but that team has no seniors this season. Dodson's Christina Jaynes and Saco's Brady Albus were kind enough to answer a few questions about how they are dealing with the possibility of missing track in their senior year thanks...
This is the second part of our experience with the COVID-19 virus. Being away from home while everything around us was starting to shut down, was not fun. It seemed and felt like something from a movie. After the State Basketball Tournament in Butte, we drove through an intimidating amount of snow heading home. Before leaving for the tournament, we knew that snow was in the fore-cast. We were just hoping that the weatherman was wrong. I drove extremely carefully through the mountains on the way...
The 2019-20 season may not have ended in the state tournament for Malta, but the Mustangs basketball team fought hard and ended their season fourth in the division. This all occurred in lieu of a season plagued with injuries. "We were always battling something," Malta Head Coach David Costin said. "When Tanner Smith came back, and then Rex Williamson came back there was always another injury. We battled illness all year." Prior to the team's last two games, Malta lost Connor Tuss to a knee...
Though the spring sports season is in question for 2020, the Malta Mustangs and M-ettes track and field teams welcomed home a familiar face at the helm. Prior to the current worldwide threat of the Covid-19 virus, Malta High School hired former M-ette standout Kaitlyn Smith as it's newest head coach. "It means so much," Coach Smith said about being Malta's Track Coach. "I am so excited because Malta has a great tradition of excellence. To be back and to be able to coach is a great opportunity...
Since the Mighty Malta Mustang Co. won their first title in 1971, the Malta Mustangs boys Basketball team has won eight Class B Championship games in eight attempts. Of those wins, one of the most infamous games occurred during the 1985 season, as the Mustangs defeated the Browning Indians 95-90 in a triple-overtime thriller at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls. The PCN caught up with former Malta Head Coach Mike Woodman, who coached at Malta from 1982-1986. Coach Woodman is most recently...
Former Malta High School and Montana State University Billings basketball standout Kendall Denham has completed his first season as head coach of the Tri-Cities (Hobson, Moore, Judith Gap) Titans. Denham, who is the son of Moe and Steph Denham, is also the physical education teacher at Hobson, as well as the co-op's Athletic Director, a position that he accepted this past fall. As Athletic Director, Denham who recently married his high school sweetheart Amber Reeve, oversees and connects the...
I know it’s obvious, but the last couple of weeks have been strange. Praise God, that at this moment (Monday morning) there are no positive cases within Phillips County, but that does not mean that we haven’t been affected. The COVID-19 virus’s first effect in our family’s lives was during the 2020 State G Girls’ tournament in Butte. I had the suspicion that maybe the MHSA would follow suit with the NBA, MLB, and NHL, which canceled sporting events across the coun-try, so that the virus wou...
The Malta M-ettes ended the season on a high note, with a win over Bigfork on the last day of basketball in the state of Montana. The team ended the year 15-9, with a home record of 8-3 and an away record of 7-6. The team was scheduled to play against the Shelby Coyotes at the 2020 State B Tournament on Saturday, March 14, before the MHSA canceled games that day due to the COVID-19 virus reaching Montana. Malta Head Coach Nate Hammond was asked about the incident that eventually cost the team a...
The Lady Mavericks found themselves in the consolation finals in the Eastern C Divisional last February, but fell to Froid-Lake, missing out on state this year. The team proved to be a force in the 3C District, and that was evidenced in the 3C All-Conference list, as the team took three of the twelve spots. Scobey was the only team that listed more players with four Lady Spartans named. Named in order of votes received, Lady Maverick junior Kaitlyn McColly was number two on the list. Fellow...
The Lady Coyotes landed a pair of familiar faces on this year's District 3C All-Conference list. Senior Christina Jaynes and junior Melony Fetter were both named to the 2020 All-Conference team. Jaynes also earned a spot on the five-person Defensive team. Both Athletes have made the 3C list in previous seasons. Jaynes made the list in 2019 and was an honorable mention in 2018. Fetter was named to the 3C list in 2018, prior to playing a year of basketball in Harlem. Dodson Coach Frank Benson...
The Malta M-ettes basketball season ended with a victory, but unfortunately, the team and other teams that were still in the 2020 Class B tournament Consolation bracket, have no hardware. The tournament came to an end last Friday night amid the National crisis caused by the 2019 strain of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). While other national sporting events were canceled days prior, the Montana State Basketball tournaments went on for two out of the three scheduled days. Four cases of the virus were...
It’s been 50 years since the Saco Panthers took third place in the 1970 State C Boys Basketball Tournament. The PCN caught up with a couple of athletes from that team, starting forward Brian DePuydt, who was a junior at Saco High School and guard Will Eklund, a senior. The team was led by local legend Rocky Tollefson, who passed away in August of 2005 to cancer. “He was 6-6, he could handle the ball like a guard, and he could shoot from the outside real well,” DePuydt said. DePuydt said that...
That escalated fast. One minute I was trying to catch my breathe from running to Glasgow and back to cover the Northern B and Eastern C Divisional Tournaments, to the next minute hoping that our girls would do well in Shelby. The Girls Northern B Divisional was in Shelby last week. While I was pretty sure that they could beat Rocky Boy in the opening round, I didn’t want to get too far ahead of myself. I listened to that game on the radio while everyone else in the slept. At the conclusion of t...
For the first time since 2017, not only are the Malta M-ettes headed to state; there are headed to state as the Northern B Divisional Champions. The M-ettes defeated the hometown Shelby Coyotes 47-38 in the divisional championship game last Saturday, March 7, at Shelby High School. "It means the world," Malta senior captain Kelbee Denham said. "We have worked so hard these past few years. Everyone underestimates us and it is just good to come out here and show them what we are made of and what...
