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Malta High School's Old Gym was the site on the 2018 3 Pee-Wee 3 on 3 Summer Slam on Saturday, June 30. The event had thirteen teams in separate age groups ranging from kindergarten to third grade. There were teams from Malta, Fort Belknap, Rocky Boy, Hays, Sleeping Buffalo, Whitewater and other communities. The event was put on and coordinated by Caitlin Anderson and Tia Stiles to raise money for youth basketball hoop attachments at the Old Gym. "Growing up in Malta, everybody uses the Old...
On Sunday, January 28, thirty-two young men and ladies participated in the local Knights of Columbus / Don Nevrivy free-throw shoot in Malta. The local winners were Kash Ereaux nine-year-old boys, Kylie Bishop 10-year-old girls, Mason Simanton 10-year-old boys, Elly Anderson 11-year-old girls, Treyton Wilke 11-year-old boys, Kataya Flansburg 12-year-old girls, Carson Ottinger 12-year-old boys, Brylee French 13-year-old girls, Jared Eggebrecht 13-year-old boys, and Rex Williamson 14-year-old...
With only three meets left before the divisional meet in Chinook, the Malta Swim team is gearing up for a post-season that won't feature many swimmers. “Fair is during state, so if you aren't (planning) to go to state, you can't go to divisionals because it takes a place from someone else that could go,” said Malta Swim Team Head Coach Shay Garfield. “We will find out have many kids we think are going this week.” The team only fielded three swimmers at the Glendive Meet last weekend. The meet be...
Almost forty campers attended the 2018 Little M-ette Basketball Camp held at the Malta High School Gymnasium on Monday, June 25 through Wednesday, June 27. The yearly camp, held for youth third grade through eighth grade, taught young basketball players anything from fundamentals to skills that will help them in the sport. "It's the most important thing to start them when they are young," M-ette Assistant Coach Shane Anderson told the PCN. "You have to get them to learn the fundamentals. We...
Malta has had a stack of papers filled with different activities available to the public at the City Hall. One of the newest of those activities is tennis. The Malta Parks and Recreation's first session of Outdoor Tennis Lessons had it's last class of the first session on Thursday, June 28, at the Murray Tennis Courts on the south end of South 1st Ave East. The second session will start on Monday, July 16 and will conclude on Thursday, July 26. Teaching the course is a former high school tennis...
The Malta Swim Team is approaching the midway point of the regular season and the team continues to adjust, faring well in their last meet with only five swimmers. Each swimmer improved their times and / or placings in the Plentywood meet, though only a handful of swimmers attended the meet. "It went really well," Malta Swim Coach Shay Garfield said. "Everyone took times off of their best times and we had everyone took first place in at least one event." Nine-year-old Jahmiah Huffman-LaBrie...
The Saco School Gymnasium brought Phillips County some basketball action on the evening of Wednesday, June 20, as the school hosted the Saco Mini-Tourney. The tournament featured girls basketball teams from in and out of the Phillips County Area, including the Malta M-ettes, the North Country Lady Mavericks, the Roy-Winifred Lady Outlaws, Malta's Junior High, and the Sleeping Buffalo Junior High team. The M-ettes and Lady Mavericks opened up the event. Malta won the clash 48-34. Leading Malta...
The Malta Parks & Recreation Department has not only been busy providing recreational events indoors and on fields this summer but now has branched out to Nelson Reservoir's State Park. On Monday, June 25, the department held it's second kayaking class of the year. The first class was held on Monday, June 11. There is only on more group class scheduled for the summer; it will be held on Monday, July 23. The sessions are taught by Stephanie Nagel of Malta, who the PCN contacted a few days before...
The first Malta Athletic Club Golf Invitational went so well, that the tournament will be held for a second consecutive year on Saturday, July 7 at Marian Hill Golf Course. Typically the fundraising events are for anything from youth related sports to music, but this year has presented the club with a chance to help out a member of the program. "We help the youth all-around," said Greg Skiff, a member and former President of the Malta Athletic Club. "Anything from music, to baseball,...
The 2018 season for the Phillips County Saddle Club's Boots and Saddles Rodeo kicked off last Saturday, June 16, at the Milk River Pavilion in Malta. "So far, so good," said Paul Warren, President of the Phillips County Saddle Club. "There hasn't been any hitches so far." The event was originally supposed to be a Trafton Park, but because of the high probability of rain, the club decided to move the event inside. With a new season, comes a few new, young riders that are eager to show their...
Things are a bout to get a little rowdy at Malta's City Hall on Monday, July 2, as Extreme Midget Wrestling's (EMW), The Baddest Lil Show on Earth, will be in town. "People can expect little four-foot wrestlers doing flips and chaotic wrestling moves," said Chris Penn, Vice-President of Extreme Midget Wrestling. "Expect entertainment, comedy and all that good stuff." Penn went on to say that the event will feature anywhere from six to eight midget wrestlers. According to a poster that EMW had... Full story
The Malta Mustangs football team won't see their first opponent until they see Shepherd on Friday, August 24 in Malta, but the team; current, new and newly graduated have been busy in June. Newly graduated Mustangs Trace Simonson, Trey Simanton, Tel Jensen, and Konner Kuehn recently played their final game in Mustang blue at the 2018 Big Sky Class B All-Star Game in Billings on June 8. In a yearly game that pitted the best of the North against the best of the South, the South defeated the North...
The Skatepark in the City of Malta will eventually feature it's first fleet of trained skateboarders thanks to Malta's Department of Parks & Recreation and a pair of committed teachers. Those instructors will be Travis Rhoads and Matt VanWinkle. “At the skatepark, it can be really intimidating for someone to just come up and try right away,” Rhoads said. “If you try to skateboard by going right into the skatepark, more than likely, you are going to crash and you're going to be afraid of skate...
Barrels- Lead line: 1st-Ivan Taylor, 2nd-Tryan Anderson, 3rd-Casey Green, 4th-Braxlyn Whitegrass, 5th-Lyla Warren, 6th-Taos Anderson, 7th-Rosemary Green - Short Pattern: 1st-Traxton Simanton, 2nd-Trent Blunt - 6 & Under: 1st-Cayden Chapman, 2nd-Maddy McEwen, 3rd-Braylee Whitegrass - 7-8: 1st-Ashlyn Gibson - 9-10: 1st- Morgan McEwen, 2nd- Mylee Bell, 3rd- Blake Ozark, 4th- Kayden Green, 5th- Flint Mcewen, 6th- Jayden Murnion - 11-12: 1st- Kyla Burchard, 2nd- Savanna Jones, 3rd- Addison Young, 4th- Cassie Gibson, 5th- Shelby Schweers, 6th- Elly...
A 1978 Malta High School Graduate and current cross country coach and her husband just participated in the 2018 Synchrony Rock 'N' Roll Half Marathon in San Diego on Sunday, June 3. Thea Solberg and her husband Orvin Solberg participated in the event for the third consecutive year at their third different venue having run the race in 2017 at Washington D.C. and in 2016 at Seattle. They were only two of 13,849 runners and walkers at the San Diego event. "The Rock 'N' Roll Series is a collection...
Malta Parks & Recreation has provided the local community plenty of organized sports activities over the past few years and this summer the department tackled a new category; golf. The 2018 Malta Parks & Rec. department hosted this year's Junior Summer Golf Camp, a three-day event hosted by Marian Hills Golf Course in Malta on Tuesday, June 5 through June 7 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. There were 25 kids present at the event. "This year is a little bit different than last year," Kate Webb, a former...
On Saturday, May 12, the Mayor of Dodson Terri Cole was able to do something she had never done before; win her age bracket in the annual Montana Women's Run held in Billings. Cole ran in the two-mile event placing first in the female 75-79 age bracket. She finished in the top 15 percent of runners overall placing 386th of 3423 and ran the race in 23 minutes and 46 seconds. "I was pretty pleased with my placement overall out of that many runners," Cole told the PCN. "For an old lady that is not...
Time F/P/S Event Place Points Improv /// Time F/P/S Event Place Points Improv Reese Brown (12) M 41.35S F # 25 Men 11-12 50 Free 7 6 -1.00 57.54S F # 35 Men 11-12 50 Breast 4 9 0.55 55.91S F # 65 Men 11-12 50 Fly 6 7 -0.07 Kendall Clausen (10) W 56.39S P # 24 Women 9-10 50 Free 28 --- 1.10 1:01.33S F # 54 Women 9-10 50 Back 10 3 -0.90 Jahmiah Huffman LaBrie (9) M 2:00.96S F # 13 Men 9-10 100 IM 4 9 -1.51 53.67S F # 53 Men 9-10 50 Back 3 10 --- Michael Love (9) M 54.38S P # 23 Men 9-10 50 Free 18 --- -2.26 1:07.34S F # 53 Men 9-10 50 Back 10 3...
The 2018 First State Bank Car Show presented the Psycho Sports Cartel (PSC) with a dangerous situation; shifty winds that could've completely shut the show down. Still they rode. Though it was the most dangerous Malta event the group had seen, Montana native Travis Cady, Cody Cavanaugh of Neenah, Wisc., and Pat Manzi of Las Vegas, Nev., still put on quite the show, giving Car Show attendees a chance to see their high-flying act last Saturday, June 2 at both 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The group also...
Hundreds came out to the Malta Pavillion for Fight For Our Future, a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and Boxing event put on by KillEagle Productions last Saturday, June 2. The night featured eight fights, including three MMA fights, four submission only matches and one boxing match. In the Co-Main Event, Jake French, a former State B Wrestling Champion from Choteau, stepped into the ring to face Busby's Reuben Bam Roundstone, who was in his third match of the evening. Though French showed his...
The Color Fun Run stayed consistent with the average of its first two events in 2016 and 2017, hosting 95 runners on Saturday, June 1, who supported the Malta Parks and Recreation Department. The run raised $910 for the Parks and Recreation department. The winners of the 2018 Malta Color Fun Run 5K Trophy were best friends Carly Prestwich and Bobbi Knudsen, who held hands across the finish line. Independence Bank, the orange station, won the 2018 Color Fun Run's Most Festive Station. "We were...
The Malta Swim Team may have welcomed a new head coach for the 2018 season, but the face is a familiar one as Shay Garfield, a 2017 state placer was offered the position. "The closer it gets, the more excited I am getting," Coach Garfield told the PCN. "I am a little nervous because I have never really coached but for the most part I am excited. Garfield comes with years of experience as a Malta Swim Team swimmer from bantamweight to her final year as a senior swimmer last season. She does have...
The track season came to an end last Saturday, May 26, at the 2018 State B Track & Field meet in Laurel. The M-ettes scored a total of 8.33 points which gave them seventeenth place amongst the Women's teams. The Mustangs failed to reach the boards in this year's State meet, however, Coach Tad Schye is proud of the effort shown by his team. "I thought we competed well," Coach Schye said. "We are very young, so I thought we had a very good state track meet. Things are going to get better for... Full story
Kicking off the 16th Annual First State Bank Car Show is the 3rd Annual Malta Parks & Recreation Color Fun Run. The event that has hosted over ninety runners, walkers, and strollers in both 2016 and 2017 runs, is hosting two races on Saturday, June 2. The Color Run's 5K will start at 8:30 a.m. and will be followed by the Color Run's 1-mile run at 9:15 a.m. "It kind of kicks off our Car Show (event)," Malta Parks and Recreation Co-Director Julia Tatafu said. The two-run format was something that...
Two Phillips County Class C teams were present at the 2018 State C Track Meet in Great Falls this past weekend, as the Whitewater Penguins and Saco Panthers hit the field for the last meet of the school year. Men The Whitewater Penguins were the lone team to put up numbers on the board, thanks to Trace Simonson, who scored ten points for Whitewater in the last action of his high school career. Those ten points came from his first-place finish in discus, which made him the first champion that...
