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The Malta Parks and Recreation Softball League had plenty of action last Tuesday, June 25, in Trafton Park. The first week of the two week double elimination tournament kicked off that day. Given their are four men's teams the opening round was also the semi-final round. Goonsquad and Where My Pitches At? and Goonsquad each punched their ticket to the Championship game on Tuesday, July 2, at 7 p.m., at the west field. Phillips County Insurance (PCI) and Heavy Hitters faced each other in the...
Malta High School Junior and Olympic Developmental Program of Montana athlete Kendrik Wright spent a few days sharing a wealth of knowledge with youth aged four to 14 during his first Soccer Camp last week. "It's fun and it's fun to teach people," Wright said. "I just like soccer a lot and I thought it could be something they could have like I had when I was their age." The camp was a collaborative effort by Wright and Malta's Department of Parks and Recreation. The event was held on Wednesday,...
The Malta M-ettes team and coaches hosted the 2019 Little M-ette Basketball Camp along with former M-ette and Montana State University Billings Yellowjacket Bobbi Knudsen. "Awesome to be able to see the rising young talent the M-Ettes have year after year," Knudsen said. "My goal is to encourage those girls to be even better then what they think they can be. I feel very fortunate having the opportunity to come back and to be able to interact with them. As always, I appreciate Nate (M-ette Coach...
For the second week in a row, the Malta Swim Team has been extremely short handed, being represented only by 15-year-old Darrow Messerly at the Plentywood Swim Meet. The meet was held on Saturday, June 29 through Sunday, June 30. As Malta's lone competitor, Messerly scored 29 points. He took second place in the Boys 15-19 100 Meter Breaststroke finals with a time of 1:22.88. He had a time of 1:24.18 in the prelims. Messerly took third in the 200 Meter IM finals with a time of 3:01.30. He also...
Reese Brown Age 14, Malta Swim Team Fave Hobby: Playing Fortnite. Favorite TV Show / Movie: Spongebob / The Longest Yard. Fave Animal: Rhino. One Superpower: Going Invisible. Dream Vacation: Disney World. Dream Car: A Lambo. What Are You Looking Forward To This Summer: Hanging out with friends....
The 2nd Annual Malta Peewee Summer Slam Tournament filled the Malta High School Old Gym with 40 young basketball players on Friday, June 21. The annual event put on by Tia Stiles and Caitlin Anderson, is a fundraiser for the City of Malta's Department of Parks and Recreation youth basketball program and since it's first run in 2018, the Peewee Summer Slam has raised $2755. "The thing that we are really excited about is that we advocate for Phillips County youth sports," Anderson said. "We are...
The Malta Swim team only brought three swimmers to the Roundup Meet last Saturday, June 22 to Sunday, June 23, but that didn't stop those swimmers from each posting over 21 points. "The dedication and commitment my three swimmers showed this weekend heading down to Roundup is always refreshing to see and I couldn't be prouder of them," Malta Head Coach Cassie Pratt told the PCN. The only boy swimmer for Malta was ten-year-old Jahmiah Huffman-LaBrie who scored 42 points, tying high point for his...
The Trafton Park Softball/Baseball field hosted a new event last Tuesday, June 18, as the Malta 12U girls became the first youth softball team to play at Trafton in recent history. “We started traveling this year because we are just one team; having just enough girls for 12 and under,” Malta Coach Dean Yeadon told the PCN. “It was great and the Malta Parks and Rec Department did a great job on that field.” After finding that they had enough girls to field a team Yeadon reached out to Glasgow’s t...
Press Release- Mr. Jim Benn has resigned as the head football coach and teacher at Malta Highs School, citing “(a decision) I felt that I must make for my family.” Mr. Benn has taken a job in Missoula. Benn was the Mustangs football coach the past two seasons, leading the Mustangs to two consecutive playoff appearances. The Malta School District is currently taking applications for the vacated coaching and teaching position....
A wealth of knowledge was imposed on Malta’s young grapplers as Scott Filius of Havre, a 12-time state champion coach taught at the Malta Summer Slam Wrestling Camp last week. For three days, Monday, June 17, through Wednesday, June 19, Malta High School’s Gym was flooded with over 50 wrestlers aged 6 to 15 to learn the fundamentals of wrestling. “They are having a blast, so it is a good time,” said Coach Filius, who currently coaches at Montana State University Northern in Havre. “We are reall...
The Malta Department of Parks and Recreation held the first session of their 2019 Jumnior Golf Camp last week at Marian Hills Golf Course in Malta. The event hosted 12 third through fifth grade students from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 11 through Thursday, June 13. The counselors explained that the youth campers were working on some of the basics and fundamentals of the game of golf. Those fundamentals included putting, gripping, hitting, how to stand and when and where to use certain...
There are two weeks left of Milk River Baseball, Malta's youth baseball program and the PCN caught up with coaches from the red and blue T-Ball teams last Wednesday at Trafton Park. "It's a lot of teaching them hand and foot coordination," Red team Coach Jade Malmend told the PCN. "They are just learning the basics." The T-Ball group is the youngest of the three Milk River Baseball Leagues, allowing youth ages four to seven to learn the basics and fundamentals of the game for one hour a game....
Malta’s beautiful Marian Hills Golf Course has a dozen events listed for the 2019 golf season. This Saturday, June 22, kicks off the open tournament season as Marian Hills is scheduled to host the Ladies and Gents Tournament, a mixed doubles event. It’s an event where teams consisting of one man and one woman play three rounds in three different formats. “The great thing about these events is that they get people out on the course,” said Cory Shelhamer of Marian Hills Golf Course. “We have quit...
Just two weeks into the 2019 Malta Parks and Rec Men's Softball season sees the four teams right where they started 14 days ago ... everyone tied for first. The four teams comprising the Men's League this year are Where My Pitches At? (WMPA?), Phillips County Insurance (PCI), Heavy Hitters, and The Goon Squad. The league is in its second season and was started after the Co-ed Softball season of 2017 when there were so many interested players that a new league was formed for men only in 2018 (as...
The Malta swim team almost tripled in size, as the team brought eight swimmers to the Chinook meet in Saturday, June 8, through Sunday, June 9. "I am pretty proud of what the kids accomplished last weekend," Coach Cassie Pratt told the PCN. The team was led by Jahmiah Huffman-LaBrie who was the team's high-point earner. Huffman had an unofficial time of 46.98 in the 50-Butterfly. He entered the event with a time of 49.16. Despite only having two practices in the pool this season, fourteen-year-o...
The Malta Royals Legion baseball team (3-5) picked up a pair of wins last week in their home opening double-header against the Wolf Point Yellow Jackets on Thursday, June 6, at Trafton Park. "The kids were super stoked and excited," Malta Coach Ryan Judd told the PCN. The Malta American Legion Post 57 team also faced a heavy-hitting team from Laurel on Saturday in Malta and lost game one 35-2 and game two 31-0. "The competition that we have in this league is going to be really good," Coach Judd...
The Milk River Baseball and T-Ball Season have reached the mid-point of the season and the co-ed league saw the Red and Yellow ages seven through nine teams square off last Wednesday, June 5. The game served as a learning event as every team batted through their lineup in every inning, unless three outs were called. After the game, the PCN caught up with Shaun Bleth, coach of the Yellow team. "We are trying to teach them the rules of the game because a lot of kids just don't know the rules of...
Last week the Malta M-ettes volleyball team hosted their Annual M-ette Volleyball Camps at the Malta High School Gymnasium. The three day event started on Wednesday, June 5, and concluded on Friday, June 7. A youth camp was hosted for campers in third grade to eighth grade. The youth camp's counselors consisted of Malta High School Co-Coaches Tasha Hines and Kalli Rummel, as well as several M-ette volleyball players. "It's been going pretty good," Senior M-ette Hitter Macy Williamson told the...
Phillips County Motorsports hosted their first racing event of the year last Saturday, June 1, through June 2, at the Hi-Line Drag Strip. Chuck Haynes of Billings was the main attraction last week, as he took his jet-powered dragster down the track at an astounding 210.97 miles per hour (mph). Haynes is a familiar face at the Hi-Line Dragstrip, even owning a track record for a jet car of 233.28 miles per hour, which he set on June 9, of 2012, the last time he had come to the track. "This is such...
The Milk River Pavillion was host to the second annual Fight For Our Future MMA/Boxing event. The event featured six matches filled with action, suspense, and excitement for a crowd of close to 200 people. Fight For Our Future II was put on by KillEagle Productions to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House charity in Seattle Wash., to pay tribute to their hospitality shown to three-year-old Payton KillEagle and her father Wesley KillEagle Jr. of Dodson. Payton was diagnosed with liver cancer...
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...
Fave Hobby: Playing sports. Fave Marvel Movie: Avengers: Endgame. Favorite Subject in school: Math What do you want to be when you grow up: An NBA player. Fave Pro Sports Team: The Buffalo Bills. What are you looking forward to this summer: The Fair. Fave P.C. Spot: City Gym....
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...
