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The Dodson-Whitewater Harriers officially have a team of three runners headed to the State Cross Country Meet as Sophomore Ireland Best qualified for state at the Glasgow Invitational. The meet was held at Fort Peck on Saturday, September 29. Best was the lone Harrier runner at the meet and posted a state-qualifying run of 34:58, two second short of the standard mark for Class C girls runners. "It was the best race that I had seen out of her," Harrier Coach Tianna Bloomer said. "She definitely...
Last Friday, September 21, marked the fifth week for the Malta Mustangs. It also marked a bye week for the 2-2 team. This week the team prepared for their match with the Fairfield Eagles (4-0), who will come to Malta on Friday, September 28, to take on the Mustangs during their homecoming week. "Practices went well this week," Malta Mustangs Head Coach Jim Benn said. "We were able to rest a few players that needed to recover from injuries and we worked on a few areas that needed improvement."...
The North Country Mavericks lost their lone game of the team, as the team faced the Wolf Point Lady Wolves on Saturday, September 22. The team lost in the sets and the scores were 25-10, 25-11, and 25-11. The Mavericks were led by Kaitlyn McColly, who had three of the team's seven kills and five of the team's 27 digs. Elise Strommen led the team in digs with seven. Danika Soper and Emilie Carrillo also had five digs. Soper had three of four team assists and an ace. Sarah Boucher had the team's...
Though the 2018 Phillips County Motorsports' Big Dollar Race was supposed to conclude the racing season on Sunday, September 23, the season was extended due to rain. The makeup race will take place this Saturday, September 29, at 10 a.m. as the Box and No Box classes will take the line for a shot at a pot of $12,000. "We base the payouts on a 100 car count and we had over that this weekend," PCMS Vice President John Carnahan said. "We pay out $3,500 for first, $1,500 for second and $500 for the...
The Malta M-ettes Cross County Team took second as a team at the Shelby Cross Country Invitational on Monday, September 17, with a score of 87 points. The Browning Cross Country Team won the event with a total of 62. Cut Bank was third with a total of 94. Fourteen schools participated with only four teams eligible for points. Individually, the M-ettes placed as follows: Leslie Young took 6th place with a time of 23:31, Nikki Nicholson was fourteenth with a time of 25:13, Jillian O'Brien took...
The Dodson/Whitewater Harriers fared well at the ever tough Havre meet on Saturday, September 22. "They did awesome," Harriers Coach Bruce Warren said. "We are feeling good about qualifying most of our team for state. We just wish we had all of our team, so we could have team scores, but that will come." For the men, Corbin LoneBear ran a qualifying race, placing 50th with a time of 23.25. Teammate Sam Main had qualified last week. Main placed 51st at the Havre meet with a time of 23.26. For...
The M-ettes went to Roundup for the Roundup Invitational on Saturday, September 22. The team lost to Roundup in two games during the opening round of the tourney. The scores were 25-18 and 25-10. The team then went on to lose to Columbus in a pair of games. The scores were 25-21 and 25-16. During the tournament's A.M. Pool Play, Malta won two-of-four games. They defeated Belfry 25-12, lost to Shepherd 25-23, defeated Broadview 25-17 and fell to Roundup 25-18. The M-ettes square off against the...
The Mustangs are now 2-0 in the Northern B conference after defeating their second straight divisional foe in as many weeks. The team currently holds a 2-2 record. Malta will head into bye week and then continue their quest for the playoffs, facing Fairfield for Malta high School's Homecoming game on Friday, September 28. "They are very athletic," Malta Head Coach Jim Benn said of Fairfield. "They have great athletes across the board. They are very good running the ball to the outside and they h...
The Mavericks' volleyball team is focusing on the small things in hope for their bigger aspirations as the season continues. "We are getting better every day and working on the little things like leadership, enthusiasm, and steadiness," said North Country Mavericks Head Coach Charlene Wasson. The North Country Mavericks lost a couple of five-set games last week, falling to the Poplar Indians on Friday, September 14, and then to the Lustre Christian Lions on Saturday, September 15. "We are an ine...
The Malta M-ettes Cross Country team participated at the Golden Eagle Cross Country Meet on Friday, September 14, in Lewistown, Mont. Malta placed eighth with 268 points out of the nine teams that fielded full teams for scoring. The meet was held at the Pine Meadows Golf Course. "This is a hilly course" the meet invitation stated. The course surface was mostly grass and mowed wild grass, a surface that isn't as easy to run as a harder surface such as dirt or gravel roads. So the team was up to q...
The M-ettes were on both side of a 3-0 game last week as the team defeated Harlem on Thursday, September 13, and fell to Wolf Point on Saturday, September 15. The team is scheduled to participate in the Roundup Tournament on Saturday, September 22. In Malta's victory over Harlem, the scores were 25-13, 25-11, and 25-9. The JV and C-Squad teams won in four sets. “Our serves were on,” Coach Rummel said. “Our girls communicated very well and they moved around the floor effectively. They were follow...
The start of this game was nothing like that of Havre, and we didn't come out with the same intensity as our previous game. We quickly gave up a touchdown to Poplar and an ensuing two-point conversion. The tides were not turning, and we were getting marched on again by the tough running of Poplar's offense. Fortunate for us though, we have some ball-hawking defensive backs. Jeremiah Benson gave us a spark with an interception inside our territory. We could not capitalize on the interception and...
The Malta Mustangs are now 1-2 after pummeling the Wolf Point Wolves 42-0 last Friday, September 7. The team will head to Conrad on Friday, September 14, to face the Cowboys. “It has been a slow process because we are a young team but in the past three weeks we have gotten a lot better,” said Malta quarterback Kooper Oxarart. “As a team and individually it has been fun.” Malta's offense accumulated a total of 395 yards and six touchdowns on offense, Oxarart, who had two touchdowns and 208 yar...
The Malta Athletic Club Cross Country Invitational featured changes to the annual meet's course, and strong showing from the M-ettes. The M-ettes took third place as a team with 124 points. Glasgow won the event with 37 points and Havre took second with 49. Sophomore Leslie Young posted a time of 22:13.88, taking ninth place in the varsity race. "I feel I did pretty good," Young said. "I was just trying to be ahead of L'Tia (Lawrence of Harlem) and stay up there." Young had a quick start, taking...
The North Country Mavericks headed east to the Froid / Medicine Lake Invitational last weekend and the young team continued to show signs of growth. The team picked up a few wins in pool play but lost in the first round of the tournament. The event was held on Friday, September 7. "We are starting to gel together," Mavericks Coach Charlene Wasson said. "We worked a lot on passing to the target off serve receive and free ball transition this week really paid off." The Mavs were able to pick up a...
Our first JV game at home was what we as a coaching staff needed to see from our young guys. The boys came out with the right mindset and intensity going into the game. The first offensive series garnered us a touchdown with an eight-yard pass from Connor Tuss to Darrow Messerly. The ensuing two-point conversion was unsuccessful. Unfortunately, all two-point conversions were unsuccessful. We were anchored by solid performances offensively by Cash Salsbery, Connor Tuss, Jeremiah Benson, Darrow...
The Dodson-Whitewater Harriers ran three runners at the 2018 Malta Athletic Club Cross Country Invitational on Saturday, September 8, at Marian Hills Golf Course in Malta. The Harriers were comprised of Sam Main, Ireland Best, and Hannah Hanley. The PCN caught up with Best, a sophomore at Dodson High School, who was the only Harrier to race in the Wolf Point Invitational, only one week prior to the Malta invitational. "I ran here last year and I didn't do as good as I wanted," Best said,...
The North Country Maverick volleyball team opened up the first week of their regular season 1-1 despite facing tough opponents. "We are making strides in the right direction," First-year Mavericks Head Coach Charlene Wasson told the PCN. The team opened up their regular season by defeating Class B's Harlem Ladycats in five sets. North Country was led by Kaitlyn McColly who had the team lead in digs with 10 of the team's 31, in aces scoring five of the team's 14, and in blocks registering six of...
One week after winning the Malta Volleyball Invitational, the Malta M-ettes struggled in the Chinook Invitational thanks in part to injuries to starting athletes. “We were trying a new rotation and we have some injuries right now,” M-ettes Co-Coach Kalli Rummel told the PCN. “So, really we were trying to rest girls so they can get healthy for this next week and throughout the season.” The Malta M-ettes would go 1-3 in the tournament portion of the Chinook Invitational, after entering the tou...
The Malta Mustangs are now 0-2 after falling 56-32 to the Roundup Panthers on Friday, August 31. The team will suit up to face Wolf Point this Friday, September 7, at Mustang Field. "Roundup has good experience and they had good guys at key positions," Malta Head Coach Jim Benn told the PCN. "Their quarterback is a great athlete. So they were able to do some things they haven't traditionally done. They tend to be a run heavy team and they came out in some formations that caused us some...
The Malta Mustangs are set to start a second season under the direction of Coach Jim Benn, and this season the team only boasts five seniors. The team finished 6-3 last season, losing to the Missoula-Loyola Rams in the opening round of the 2017 State B Football Tournament. The team will be without All-State selections linebacker Trace Simonson and offensive tackle Tel Jensen, who graduated last spring. The team also lost several more All-Conference athletes to graduation including tight-end...
The North Country Mavericks will feature a young, athletic cast, which will look noticeably different on the front line and on the sideline as first year Head Coach Charlene Wasson takes the reins. Though Wasson has not coached volleyball on a high school level, she comes equipped with years of volleyball experience including four years as a high school athlete and three years as a junior high coach. As far as high school coaching experience in other prep sports, Coach Wasson has been the Head...
The Dodson-Whitewater Cross Country team is back for another year and this year the squad welcomes back five experienced runners, two of which are new to the team. The team has lost Marty LoneBear and Jasper Doney to graduation, and sophomore Melony Fetter via transfer to Harlem. The team welcomes back two-state performers in Caleb Ditmar and Corbin LoneBear. "LoneBear and Ditmar both qualified for state last year and gave it all they had," said Assistant Coach Natacha Doney. "They are such...
The Malta M-ette Volleyball team has retained plenty of talent from last year as a majority of this year's team either started or logged minutes last season. The team returns five seniors this season; Janessa Malmend, Kyleigh Schipman, Raina Mortenson, Wylee Young and Kloie Marks. The team will be without two of three 2017 All-Conference selections after losing Sam Mitchell and Ella Schye to graduation. Marks will be the team's lone returning All-Conference athlete. "I feel like girls...