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The Color Fun Run featured plenty of fun and color in its third year. The run serves as a yearly fundraiser for the City of Malta Parks and Recreation Department. This year’s event, which hosted 70 runners, had a new route, a reversed version of last year’s route. This was done in order to bring runners to the Short Oil Road hill earlier in the run instead of near the end. Nine-year-old Regan Stuart was the first to cross the line of the 20 5K runners, leading the race for a majority of the tim...
The Malta Swim Team has kicked off their season, a little smaller than usual with only three swimmers at the Harlem Meet, but the team will grow stronger weekly with twenty signed up. “A lot of kids still have other camps that they are going to and other family things,” Malta Swim Team Head Coach Cassie Pratt told the PCN. The three swimmers present last week were Jahmiah Huffman-LaBrie, Nolan Moore, and MaRae Smail. Smail swam with Malta in 2017, and made it for the 2018 Malta meet last sea...
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The track season ended for the Malta Mustangs Track Team at the 2019 State AA-B Track and Field Meet in Kalispell from Thursday, May 23, through Saturday, May 25, scoring a total of 12 points and placing twelfth. "The kids did a great job," Malta Head Coach Jim Benn said. "They set personal bests across the board in their events. We were able to break through and get some kids on the podium and that's always a positive at the end of the season." Coach Benn went on to mention that between the...
Seven athletes from Phillips County participated in the 2019 State Class A-C Meet in Laurel from Thursday, May 23, through Saturday, May 25. The Dodson, Saco, and Whitewater track teams were each represented by at least one member at the event. The Whitewater Lady Penguins were the only team to get on the board, with sophomore Kelsee Cummings taking fifth place in shot put. Cummings had a throw of 34-01.50 in the event. "Is has been pretty fun and last year I placed seventh, so I moved up a litt...
The City of Malta Parks and Recreation Department is holding their 3rd Annual Color Fun Run this Saturday, June 1. Last year’s run hosted 95 runners and raised over $900 for the department. The annual fundraiser remains one of the biggest annual fundraisers for the department that has brought over a dozen events and sports events to the community of Malta. “It really does help our department out a lot,” Malta Parks and Recreation Director Julia Tatafu said. The run will feature five color stati...
The Phillips County Motorsports group is officially ready to kick off their 2019 racing season on Saturday, June 1, at the Hi-Line Drag Strip located south of Malta. The first racing event of the season is set to start at the conclusion of the 2019 First State Bank Car Show that will be held on First Street. The PCMS event typically kicks off their season with exciting acts from all around the motorsports spectrum. “This year we will have the Chuck Haynes Jet Dragster,” PCMS President Dan Stout...
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Eight Phillips County Class C athletes will be represented at the State C Track and Field meet in Laurel on Thursday, May 23, through Saturday, May 25. The Dodson Coyotes, Saco Panthers, and Whitewater Penguins track teams fared well at the Eastern C Divisional meet in Lambert last weekend, placing at least one state qualifier their boys and girls teams. The Whitewater Lady Penguins placed highest amongst the six Phillips County squads, taking fifth place in the girls meet with a total of 47...
The 2019 Montana high school golf season concluded on Wednesday, May 15, in Missoula, and Malta was represented by seniors Kloie Marks and Grayson Waters. Amongst the girl golfers, Marks finished fourty-first with a two day toal of 233. Marks shot a total of 123 on the first day of the event on Tuesday, May 14. She saw her stroke count drop by 13 on day two as she had a total of 110 on Wednesday, May 15. Grayson Waters took forty-fifth amoungst the boys golfers with a two day total of 199. He shot a total of 104 on the first 18 holes and 95 on...
The Malta Mustangs took second place in the 2019 Northern B Divisional meet held last Saturday, May 18, on a cold and windy day in Glasgow. The Fairfield Eagles won the meet with a total of 116 points. Malta was second with a total of 107. Glasgow was third with a total of 104, Wolf Point was fourth with 65, and Shelby was fifth with 59. Malta was led by sophomore Cormac Benn who won the long jump title with a leap of 20-03. He also won the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 43.37. Benn was fifth...
The Malta M-ettes are headed to the 2019 State A-B Track Meet in Kalispell on Thursday, May 23, through Saturday, May 25. The team took second place in the 2019 Northern B Divisional meet in Glasgow last Saturday, May 18, at Scottie Field. The Glasgow Lady Scotties won the event with a total of 132 points. Malta was second with 83.5 points, Wolf Point took third with 69, Fairfield was fourth with 63, and Cut Bank tied with Harlem for fifth with 36. The M-ettes were led by freshman Justine Lamb...
Despite the threat of rain and the reality of a cold and sunless day, the First Annual Malta Beer Run, hosted by Blue Ridge Brewing and Malta Parks & Rec was a success. "We would have done it no matter what because we had so many people that signed up to run," Malta Parks and Recreation Director Julia Tatafu said. Over 50 runners and over 20 patio participants were present at the event on Saturday, May 18, at the Blue Ridge Brewing. "We actually had a better turnout for the run than we...
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Malta High School held their annual Athletic Team Awards Banquet on Thursday, May 9, at the MHS Auditorium. The following is a list of the awards presented to athletes at the event. M-ETTE CROSS COUNTRY: 2018 Hardest Worker ~ Jillian O'Brien, 2018 Most Improved Runner ~ Kaycee Bond, 2018 Spirit of Cross Country ~ Reese Sjostrom, 2018 Most Valuable Runner ~ Leslie Young. MUSTANG FOOTBALL: 2018 Outstanding Lineman ~ Franky Werk, 2018 Outstanding Offensive Player ~ Kevin Henry, 2018 Outstanding...
The Malta Mustangs took second place at the District 2B Meet in Wolf Point last Saturday, winning nine events, on a day that was not as sunny or warm as it was forecasted. The Mustangs will see action this Saturday in Glasgow at the 2019 Northern B Divisional Track Meet. Not only did Malta sophomore Cormac Benn retain his district titles in high jump and long jump, Benn also won the 300 hurdles. "We have been doing really good today," Benn said. "Everybody is working hard this season." Benn and...
The Saco Panthers, Dodson Coyotes, and Whitewater Penguins track teams each will be represented in the 2019 Eastern C Divisional Meet in Lambert this Saturday. Every girl from every Phillips County team qualified in each event they entered at the 3C District Meet on Saturday, May 11, in Wolf Point. Scobey won the girl’s meet with a total of 117 points. Lustre Christian scored 86 and took second. Hinsdale was third with 78, Whitewater was fourth with 66 points, Nashua was fifth with 53, Saco w...
Several M-ette tracksters are set to head to Glasgow for the 2019 Northern B Divisional track meet this Saturday after qualifying at the 2B District meet last Saturday, in Wolf Point. As a team, the M-ettes took third place with a total of 113 points. Glasgow won the event with 178 points, Wolf Point was second with a total of 124, Harlem was fourth with 59 points, and Poplar was fifth with 48. Individually, M-ette sophomore Erica Smith pulled a hat trick winning long jump, triple jump, and the...
A pair of Malta golfers have punched their tickets to the 2019 State B Golf Meet in Missoula from Monday, May 13 through Wednesday, May 15. M-ette Kloie Marks and Mustang Grayson Waters took care of business at the 2019 Class B Division I Meet in Wolf Point last week, both placing in the event. Marks shot a team-best 92 strokes, placing sixth amongst the girls' golfers. “My front nine was alright,” Marks said. “It was in the high forties and it was pretty good. Then I did better with my short...
Malta was one of 28 schools that were represented in the North-East Top 10 Invitational track meet in Glasgow on Tuesday, April 30. The Mustangs placed in 13 of their 17 entries, while the M-ettes placed five of their nine entries. MUSTANGS For the Mustangs, junior Tanner Smith led the effort, sweeping all three jumping events by taking first place in the high jump, long jump and triple jump. Smith posted a new personal best of 41-10 in triple jump, a leap that is over a foot-and-a-half further...
A few days prior to the 2019 Northern B Divisional Golf Meet, two Malta golfers placed in the top ten at the Harlem Invitational on Friday, May 3. Mustang Hayden VanWichen took first place among the boys’ golfers with a score of 95, while M-ette Camryn Messerly took ninth place with a score of 116. “Hayden has been playing really consistent golf for us all season,” Malta Head Coach Travis Somerfeld said. “He has been shooting consistently mid-90s all season so that's been a pretty good sign. Camryn has also been a very consistent golfer...
University of Montana senior and Whitewater High School graduate Kiera Simonson has earned the title of 2019 Big Sky Region Women's Barrel Racing Champion....
The Mustangs and M-ettes teams swept the Havre Invitational varsity track meets on Saturday, May 4, with each team scoring over 100 points. Headed into the district meet, the Malta track teams have gone back to back weeks with multiple meets. "We were pretty tired Saturday and still performed fairly well," Malta Head Coach Jim Benn said. "We didn't have a lot of personal bests but with having four meets in two weeks that's generally not going to happen." Coach Benn believes that the team may per...
The Phillips County 3C high school teams saw plenty of action last week and will be headed to Wolf Point this weekend for the district tournament. Saco, Dodson, and Whitewater each had representatives in the North-East Top Ten Meet in Glasgow on Tuesday, April 30. After the Top Ten event, Dodson and Saco headed to the Gene Nelson Memorial meet in Wolf Point on Friday, May 3 and then the Jean Dreikosen Memorial Meet on Saturday, May 4, in Glasgow. At the North-East Top Ten meet, Whitewater's...
The Malta Athletic Club Golf Invitational Meet was cold, windy, and featured occassional spouts of drizzle but teams held on to complete the event. "It's sad we didn't have this meet last year but we are glad to have it this year," senior Grayson Waters said. "Too bad the weather isn't better but we are happy to be here." Waters and sophomore Hayden VanWichen, who both scored 99, and were pitted against each other in a championship chip-off round. Waters won the 35 yard chip at hole nine, which...