One Nation, Under God
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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...
Psycho Sports Cartel (PSC) is back! The group of high flying freestyle motocross riders are on their way back to Malta to bring their death-defying act to the 16th Annual Phillips County Car Show on Saturday, June 2 and then to the Hi-Line Dragstrip on Sunday, June 3. "I think they are very pumped," said Shane Carnahan, the event's coordinator. "They love it up here. Everybody treats them so well. It's literally becoming their second home." According to Carnahan, the hospitality that Malta has s...
Phillips County Motorsports (PCMS) is set to kick off its 12th season of racing at the Hi-Line Dragstrip in Malta, as part of The First State Bank Car Show weekend. "Car shows and drag racing kind of go hand-in-hand," said PCMS Board Member Dylan Bergos. The first PCMS event kicks off on Saturday, June 2, after the conclusion of the Car Show. That afternoon PCMS will hold a test and tune event. "Hopefully we have a good car count," Bergos said. "We should have around 100 if not more cars at the...
Sean Ryan, A Montana Tech grad student is spending his summer in marathon fashion as he has embarked on a journey that will take him to every active golf course around the state of Montana. He is calling the campaign, "Montana's Longest Drive." That drive brought him to play all nine of Marian Hills Golf Course's holes on Monday, May 14. "I'm trying to play every golf course in Montana in one summer," Ryan said. "I ball-parked that at 104 golf courses." The idea came to Ryan last March. "I was...
The Malta Mustangs and M-ettes are sending a total of nineteen athletes to the 2018 State B Track Meet in Laurel this weekend. This comes after the M-ettes were able to take home second place with 81 points at the 2018 North-East Divisional Meet at Great Falls High School on Saturday, May 19. The Mustangs took fifth place in the men's event with 41 points. "We thought we would have a chance at third or maybe fourth with both the boys and girls," Malta Coach Tad Schye said. "We overachieved with...
Three of six Phillips County Class C track teams placed within the top ten of their respective events at the 2018 Eastern C Divisional Meet in Glasgow on Thursday, May 17. The Whitewater men took seventh as a team with 25.5 points. Scobey won the men's event with 147 points, Richey-Lambert was second with 107, and Circle was third with 53. Saco scored 12 points, which enough eleventh place. The Saco Lady Panthers took eighth place in the women's event with a total of 27. Whitewater was tenth...
Malta’s City Hall became the home of the first Malta Opportunities Inc. (MOI) Special Olympics Recreation Day on Wednesday, May 16. The super-hero decorated event went from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. “We didn’t really have a theme, it’s just everyone can be superheroes or stars,” said Sherry Salveson of MOI. “They can do what they want to and they will be successful no matter what.” The big Special Olympics of Montana event took place from Thursday, May 17 through Saturday, May 19 in Great Falls. “This is our MOI activity day that we planned because...
The trio of Phillips County golfers saw their season come to a close at their respective state golf meets on Wednesday, May 16. Malta’s Grayson Waters and Chloe Hunter each golfed at the State B Golf Meet in Billings, at the Eagle Rock Golf Course, while Saco’s Jada Sudbrack golfed at the Fairmont Golf Course in Anaconda. “State golf was a good experience for our golfers,” Malta Head Coach Travis Somerfeld said. “They gained good experience that will help them for next year. Both of our golfe...
The Malta Mustangs and M-ettes track teams fared well in Glasgow last Saturday, May 12, as they both took home the second place trophy at the 2018 District 2B Track Meet. Thirteen M-ettes and twelve Mustangs will represent Malta in the 2018 Northern B Divisional in Great Falls on Saturday, May 19. Glasgow won both 2B meets with a total of 254 in the Men's event and a total of 224 in the Women's event. The Mustangs had a total of 132 points, while the M-ettes posted a total of 160. Wolf Point...
For seven months, one-year-old Payton KillEagle of Dodson fought liver cancer and conquered it, having spent time in Seattle, Wash. for treatment, while staying at the Ronald McDonald House. Now, KillEagle Productions is putting on a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event to bless the many families that are going through the same situation that Payton, her father Wes KillEagle Jr., and their family went through not too long ago. "These kids are fighting for their lives over there," Wes KillEagle Jr....
All four Phillips County teams had at least one student participate in the 2018 North East Top 10 Track and Field Meet in Glasgow on Tuesday, May 1. Women For the women, Malta's Erica Smith, a freshman, was the only athlete from Phillips County to take first place in an event, having won the triple jump event. She had a mark of 33-11.75, a new personal best. "I had gotten my board perfectly the day before at practice and I was like, 'I gotta get this one right,'" Smith said of the jump. "I did...
The 2018 Whitewater High School track meet is in the books, which is something that didn’t look like a possibility earlier this spring. “It dried up finally,” Whitewater Head Coach Charlene Wasson said. “The snow went away and the wind came. It dried everything up.” Whitewater and Dodson were the only two teams present. Other teams included Lustre, Turner, and Hays-Lodge Pole. “Things are going pretty good,” Coach Wasson said. “We have kids doing events. It’s a small meet, which is kind of nice. You don’t have to do much and the kids are ha...
The Dodson Coyotes, Saco Panthers, and Whitewater Penguins track teams saw plenty of action last week, with all three teams participating in both the Cal Wearley Memorial (CW) in Havre on Wednesday, April 25 and the Glasgow Invitational on Saturday, April 28. Saco saw additional action, attending the Richey-Lambert Fusion Invitational (RL) on Friday, April 27, at the Lambert Sports Complex. BOYS In the boy's action, Whitewater's Trace Simonson took first place in both discus events, with a...
The Malta Golf team has seen a pair of meets this season after a late start due to the amount of snowfall Eastern Montana had over the winter. The team's first meet was in Shepherd on Saturday, April 21. They were in another meet in Glasgow on Friday, April 27, and their most current meet was played on Saturday, April 28, in Plentywood. The Malta M-ettes golf team took second in the Glasgow Golf Invitational with a total of 477. The boy's team did not place but had 432 strokes. "Friday was a...
The Malta Mustangs fared well last week, picking up fourth place finishes in the Cal Wearley Memorial (CW) in Havre on Wednesday, April 25 and at the Fergus High School Invitational on Saturday, April 28. The team had 64 points at the Fergus meet and 39 points at the CW meet. Fairfield won the CW meet with 75 points, North Star took second at their home meet with 74, and Fort Benton was third with 41. Malta’s JV team took sixth place in the JV meet with 43 points. Fergus won their home meet w...
Needing to make up for lost time, Malta's track teams participated in the Nashua Porcupine Invitational Meet last Friday, April 20, held at Scottie Field in Glasgow. The Mustangs and M-ettes, the event's lone class B Teams won both of their respective events. The M-ettes won the women's event with a total of 159 points. The Mustangs won the men's event with a total of 115.5 points. Turner took second place in both events with 102 points in the men's event and 65 in the women's event. Saco took...
The Porcupine Track and Field Invitational Meet hosted by Nashua High School in Glasgow gave Phillips County Class C Schools a chance to compete with other Class C talent as well as Class B's Malta High School last Friday, April 20. Malta would eventually win both Men's and Women's meets. The Saco Panthers would take third in both events with a total of 66 in the Men's meet and 62 in the Women's meet. The Whitewater Lady Penguins would take seventh with a total of 22 points. Dodson's Lady...
Glasgow’s Scottie Field served as the site for the Porcupine Middle School meet on Friday, April 20. Though there were not team scores, there were several top finishes amongst the three Phillips County Class C Schools. In the girls events, Saco’s Jaycee Erickson won a haul of events, taking first in the 100 meter hurdles with a personal record (PR) time of 19.04 seconds, first in the 200 hurdles with a season record (SR) time of 34.54, first in pole vault after clearing 7-6 (PR), and taking fir...
A few local basketball standouts are trying to prove they still have plenty in the tank while using their talents to raise money for the Malta Area Chamber of Commerce. On Monday, April 23 at 7 p.m., the Phillips County Air Ballers will take on the Flight Squad, a Professional Exhibition Basketball team as part of a Spring fundraiser for Malta's Chamber. The event will be held at the Malta High School Gymnasium. The Air Ballers will consist of Jesse Simonson, Carly Bishop, Shane Anderson, Jace...
