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The Dodson Coyotes Basketball team made history last season, winning their first divisional tournament game since 1966, according to Dodson Public Schools. The team was 17-7. This season, the team that consists of 17 athletes, who hope to improve on their 2018-19 stint, in which the team earned hardware at the district tournament, taking home third. The Coyotes did so at the expense of North Country, who they defeated 58-50 in the consolation finals. Though the team lost starting guards Tyrese...
The Malta M-ettes will look to improve upon their 2018-19 outing in which the team went 11-11. Doing so may prove to be tough in a strong 2B district. "Right now, we are focusing on our first week, but longer-term we are trying to be the best team in the district and then go from there," Coach Nate Hammond told the PCN. "I believe the 2B will have five super teams, all capable of being competitive at the state level." The team will have to do so with a new look because the M-ettes graduated...
The North Country Lady Mavericks roster remains virtually the same this season, losing only one athlete to graduation while returning plenty of talent. The team hopes to improve on their 12-10 outing from last season that ended in the Eastern C Divisional by losses to Plentywood and MonDak. "It was ugly," Coach Amber Erickson said of the 2019 Eastern C Divsional. "We couldn't make anything." The team returns all three All-Conference Athletes from last season, including junior Kaitlyn McColly,...
The Dodson Lady Coyotes went through some changes in the off-season, as the team is under new direction for the 2019-20 season, while Coach Deserae KillEagle takes a year away from basketball. The Lady Coyotes will be led by Head Coach Frank Benson, who will be doing double duty this season as coach of the boy's team and girls team. He is joined by Assistant Coach Francine KillEagle, who has served in that position for years. The team is also without two of three All-Conference athletes as...
The Malta Wrestling Team is under the watching eye of newly hired coach Steve French, who led Malta into a wrestling event for the first time since 1995. Coach French described what his first weekend as a Mustang Coach in over 20 years was like in Havre last Friday and Saturday. "It went about how I expected," Coach French said. "I knew that our technique wasn't going to be smooth. But for the most part, I enjoyed the effort from the kids, and I was pretty happy with it." Coach French knows...
The Malta M-ettes won five State B titles in the 90's. Tuesday, December 3, marked 25 years since Malta won the State title in 1994, a trophy that would eventually be lost forever as the school burned down in 1995. Though the hardware is lost, the memories are not and as we prepare to enter the 2019 season of M-ette basketball, the PCN caught up Linda (Cummings) Hudyma and Beth (Welch) Young, a pair of All-State athletes from the 1994 championship team. Hudyma and Young were two of five M-ettes...
The 1994 and 1995 Whitewater Lady Penguin teams reached the State C Championship games in both years, but fell short, taking home second place. The 2019 basketball season marks 25 years since the 1994 state contending team, and the PCN caught up with Krystal (Simonson) Olson now of Billings, and Ella (Anderson) Yeadon who currently lives in Malta. Both Olson and Yeadon were named to the Class C All-Conference team that year. The team had four athletes named on the All-State selection list includ...
The Malta Wrestling team welcomed back a familiar face and a local legend as newly re-hired Head Coach Steve French led his first practice on Thursday, November 21. "I feel good to be able to coach in my hometown," Coach French said. "I think it will be a really gratifying feeling. I hope it goes well. With Choteau, I was in the teaching system and I grew up with those kids. It will be hard to replicate that but I hope that I am more than just an old guy yelling at them. I hope we can build...
The Malta Parks and Recreation Youth Basketball league featured a gymnasium full of kids, their parents, and spectators last Tuesday, November 26, at the Malta City Hall. Teams met in their usual leagues, with the Navy and Royal third-fourth grade squads facing each other. Navy would win the clash, capitalizing on great defense and fast break scoring. The Navy and Royal teams were third and fourth grade teams chosen a couple of weeks ago. The PCN caught up with Regan Stuart and Jace Tollefson of...
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Sophia Stiles, a former M-ette standout and starting point guard for the University of Montana Lady Griz, has returned to action in the 2019-20 season. "It's pretty amazing," Stiles said of being a part of the Lady Griz. "The fans are just crazy. It's really what makes being a Lady Griz so cool." Being a part of the University of Montana Lady Griz is something Stiles wanted since she was a young child. "Growing up, I just wanted to play here, so getting to has been a dream," Stiles said. "The...
The Saco High School Gymnasium was the site of the 3C District Boys Junior High Basketball Tournament. The event eventually saw two Phillips County boys squads pitted against each other as the two-time defending 3C Champion Dodson Coyotes and North Country Mavericks squared off in the semi-finals. The game, which featured teams making only 11 of their combined 41 points, ended with a score of 19-18 in favor of the Coyotes who would go on to their third championship in three seasons. Despite...
Before a loud firework was set off by the Malta Volunteer Fire Department at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 23, The Malta Chamber of Commerce had it's own night of shenanigans, as the Chamber hosted the Eighth Annual Malta Putt Crawl. "It's great," Malta Chamber member Jessica Cebulski said of the event. "Everyone is showing up with excitement. There are some groups dressed up and some newcomers that aren't dressed up but their reactions to the dressed-up people are great. I think it gets...
As things have cooled down outdoors, the City of Malta’s Department of Parks and Recreation has started plenty of indoor activities to keep the community active. The Parks and Rec Youth Basketball League started on Monday, November 4, and will conclude on Tuesday, December 10. The first through sixth grade youth basketball league consists of 12 teams. The league consists of kids from Phillips County as well as a few kids from Turner and Harlem. “It’s a wonderful turnout,” Malta Parks and Recreation Director Sally Wright said. “We love to s...
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Editor's Note: In 2016, the PCN caught up with sisters Hailey and Jada Nicholson at the Armory Gymnasium on the campus of Montana State University in Havre after the annual Hi-Line Invitational. The story, Sister Act: Double Trouble was published in the March 30, 2016 issue of the PCN. This story took place in the same location only a few years later, but with the duo playing for the Skylights. The Montana State University-Northern Skylights are currently 4-0 in the 2019-20 regular season and...
The Malta Middle School Jamboree teams performed well in their home event last Saturday, November 16, at the Malta High School Gymnasium and Old Gym. The Malta Eighth Grade Girls' team defeated Wolf Point 36-33 and Poplar 44-26. Before Saturday, Malta had lost to Poplar twice. The Malta Seventh Grade Girls' team defeated Glasgow 44-10 in their first action of the day and the Scobey team 43-25 later that day. In the eighth graders' win over Wolf Point, Malta was led by Anna Harms who had 11...
1st Team All-Conference Sarah Billmayer Harlem 12 Keely Fossum Glasgow 12 Rachelle Glaser Glasgow 11 Lindsey Nefzger Wolf Point 12 Taylor Pederson Glasgow 12 Taeshon Scheaffer Harlem 12 Nevaeh Spotted Eagle Harlem 12 2nd Team All-Conference Aspen Baker Harlem 12 Kylie Hunter Malta 11 Tori Nygard Wolf Point 12 Anika Peters Glasgow 12 Laura Ross Glasgow 12 Layla Skidmore Harlem 12 Sasha Youngman Poplar 12 All-State Keely Fossum Glasgow 12 Rachelle Glaser Glasgow 11 Nevaeh Spotted Eagle Harlem 12...
The 2019 campaign ended for the Malta Mustangs football team in Red Lodge, as they fell 35-6 to the undefeated Red Lodge Rams on Saturday, November 9. The Mustangs reached the quarterfinal game against the Rams after defeating the Jefferson Panthers 26-7 in the opening round of the State B Football Playoffs on Saturday, November 2. After a successful 8-2 season, that ended with Malta ranked seventh in the state, Malta Head Coach Nick Oxarart reflected on his first season back at the helm. "I...
The North Country Mavericks volleyball team put on quite a show in their 2019 postseason run, but their season ended on Friday, November 8, at the Eastern C Divisional in Sidney. The Mavericks defeated the Ekalaka Bulldogs 3-2 in the opening round of the Eastern C on Thursday, November 7. The team would then fall to the Plentywood Wildcats 3-0 in the second round the same day. The season ended the next day, on Friday, November 8 as North Country fell 3-1 to the Wibaux Longhorns. "We did a good...
The season ended for the Malta M-ettes volleyball team as they fell 3-0 to the Glasgow Scotties in the elimination bracket of the Northern B Divisional in Wolf Point on Friday, November 8. The Lady Scotties would go on to defeat the Fairfield Eagles and Shelby Coyotes, to punch their ticket to the championship game. They would lose to Choteau in three games. The Malta M-ettes squared off against the Choteau Bulldogs and lost in three sets on Thursday, November 7. The scores were 25-5, 25-9, and...
The fourth annual Tom Knudsen Memorial brought in 40 men and 10 women despite the threat of a winter storm that eventually hit Northern Montana. The memorial event that celebrates the life of Thomas Knudsen, who passed away in September of 2015, also served as a fundraiser for David Jaynes of Wagner who was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma (a form of cancer) earlier this fall. "We had an excellent turnout for the fundraiser for him," said Susan "Peanut" Green, owner of the Mint Bar. "When things...
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The North Country Mavericks Volleyball Team entered the 1C District tournament as the tournament's seventh seed and finished as third place trophy winners at the end of the three-day event in Plentywood on Saturday, November 2. "I knew going into it that we could compete with the second through eighth seed teams, so it didn't surprise me but it felt good," Mavericks Head Coach Charlene Wasson said with a smile. In finishing third, the Lady Mavericks punched their ticket to the Eastern C...
The Malta Mustangs football team was able to protect their home field against the Jefferson Panthers last Saturday, November 2, but things will get tougher for the team who has to travel 270 miles south to take on the 9-0 Red Lodge Rams on Saturday, November 9. The Rams were the Eastern Conference Champions this past season, and the team most recently edged out the Bigfork Vikings 28-25 in Red Lodge in their first playoff game on Saturday, November 2. "They have a really experienced group of...
