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The AMX Races at the Phillips County Fair featured plenty of suspense as 22 racers raced in the event’s Super and Stock Classes on Saturday, August 5 at the Dodson Grandstand during the 102nd Annual Phillips County Fair. It was the first AMX event of the year due to the first event being cancelled due to a broken water line in early June. The fair’s Super Class A Main (championship) was won by Brett Jaynes of Dodson, after a controversial call in which Havre’s Duke Thomas was black flagg...
In its third edition, the annual North Country Basketball Camp hosted plenty of talented coaches and athletes from all over Montana. There were 78 campers present over the four day event which started on Monday, July 24 and concluded on Thursday, July 27. "We are up about four or five kids from last year," Whitewater Schools Superintendent and Camp Counselor Darren Cummings said. "We've got kids from Turner, we have kids from Froid, kids from Belgrade, Kalispell and Harlowton. They are coming...
The Malta Mustangs hosted their annual Mustangs Football camp last Monday, July 24 through Thursday July 27. The event featured twenty-five football players that saw plenty of time on the field that week. First year Mustangs Head Coach Jim Benn and his coaching staff took the week to take a closer look at the team, while also going over the new offensive and defensive sets the team will use this season. "They are doing pretty good," Coach Benn told the PCN at the conclusion of the event. "I...
The 2017 Marian Hills Golf Open Golf Tournament featured twenty-one teams despite the hot and dry weather conditions last Saturday, July 29 and Sunday, July 30. "Our tournament went extremely well," Marian Hills Golf Course owner Jane Ereaux said. "We had twenty-one teams and expected less." Ereaux was also pleased with the state of the course, despite drought conditions that have been plaguing the county. "The course was in excellent shape," Ereaux said. "Cory Shelhamer does a superb job...
Though it doesn't garner as big a crowd as the demolition derby or rodeo events, the first event of the Phillips County Fair is already in the books. The annual 4-H Horse Show was held at the Milk River Pavilion last Saturday with about 50 in attendance. Awards were given to a majority of 4-H participants that day as they showed their skills to Judge Melody Bilden from Joliet, Mont. and all that were in attendance. Grand Champion winners for Horsemanship: Gracie Anderson received the award in...
The Malta Swim team took twenty swimmers to last week's Eastern Divisional Meet in Sidney and seventeen of those swimmers will be swimming in the State Meet this weekend in Lewistown. Though the swim team may not have had the same amount of swimmers they had ten years ago, the team advanced eighty-five percent of their team, which had Malta Swim Team Head Coach Cassie Pratt in good spirits during practice. "We lost three, which were two first year Midgets and a Bantum, so I am very happy with...
The Malta Mustangs are currently holding their annual Mustang Football Camp. The event started on Monday, July 24 and will conclude Thursday, July 27. The PCN caught up with Mustangs Football Head Coach Jim Benn before the event to talk about his first official viewing of the team as an almost complete unit as well as his move from Ronan. "It's been going well," Coach Benn told the PCN. "We have gotten settled into living here and have been plugging along. The camp was for high school students...
Though the temperatures at the Hi-Line Dragstrip were close to 100 degrees last Saturday and Sunday, July 22-23, the Phillips County Motorsports (PCMS) Montana Drag Racing Association Race was still on. Ninety-three racers participated on Saturday, while ninety-five came though on Sunday from Canada, ID, N.D., and Mont. Among those racers was Scobey's Wayne Solberg of the Box Super Bro Class, who has been racing exclusively at the Hi-Line Dragstrip for the past six years. "The Hi-Line Dragstrip...
The Demolition Derby has nearly packed out the Phillips County Fair Grandstands in the past two years in Dodson. The event now called "Bash for Cash Phillips County Demolition Derby," has been welcomed back for a third consecutive year and will take place on Saturday, August 5 at 6 p.m. Tickets will be $15 per adult and $5 for children 5-12. Scott Skoyen of Chinook, the event's coordinator, explained what folks will see if they come to the grandstands that night. "We're going to have some stuff...
The Malta Swim team is headed to Sidney for the 2017 Montana Federation of Swimmers East Divisional meet this weekend. Malta’s team is expected to field 26 swimmers in a meet that determines who will make it to the state meet. The event starts at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 29 and will conclude on Sunday, July 30. In last weekend’s meet at Roundup, the team had 16 swimmers, which was a bump up from their previous two meets. “The meet went well,” Coach Pratt said. “It went pretty quickly even though there was a ton of kids there.” She went on to...
The first Houlie Memorial Golf Tournament hosted 17 four person teams, making the event the largest event hosted at Marian Hills Golf Course in 2017. The event was held to honor Donnie Hould, who passed away in December of 2015. "It has been going better than we ever dreamed it would be," said Kay Hould, the widow of Donnie Hould. "Eleven years ago when we had the golf tournament for Donnie's seventy-fifth birthday party, we had 72 golfers and today we have 68." The event was won by the team com... Full story
The Malta Swim Team only had swimmers attend the Glendive Invitational Swim Meet. The low numbers coupled with no relay teams was the deciding factor in the team not placing. Shay Garfield and Jillian O'Brien were the top point earners for Malta Swim Team with 28 points each. Both girls also got their personal best times in the backstroke; Shay in the prelims and Jill in the finals. It was Lauren Tuss, however, who made an impressive cut in her times with each event. Denvyr Tuss' 50 fly was the...
Favorite hobby: Playing sports Favorite post meet meal: Grapes Favorite subject: Math Favorite animal: Dogs Favorite dessert: Vanilla ice cream Dream Vacation: Hawaii Favorite TV Show: Grey's Anatomy Summer of '17 memory: Hanging with my best friend Danie (Rhodes) Fave HS sport: Basketball...
Marian Hills Golf Course was host to 48 golfers who came to support the Malta Athletic Club for their First Annual Golf Tournament despite temperatures rising above a sweltering 100 degrees in the afternoon. "It's not a bad turnout for our first tournament," Malta Athletic Club President Greg Skiff told the PCN. "It's going to get bigger." Close to $2500 was raised for the Malta Athletic Club that day. Kris Kuehn, the Superintendent of Malta Public Schools was among the golfers that day. He and...
The Phillips County Fair will feature a couple of different aspects of rodeo as it will host two events that it hasn't in recent history. The event will open and close with an Indian Horse Racing Relay event that will sandwich a Nile Sanctioned Ranch Rodeo. The Indian Relay is accredited by the Horse Nations Indian Relay Council and sponsored by the Fort Belknap Indian Community / Aaniiih and Assiniboine / Nakoda tribes and the winning team will qualify for the 6th Annual All Nations Indian...
The Marian Hills Golf Course is holding a Houlie's Memorial Golf Tournament this Saturday, July 15 in memoriam for Donnie Hould, who passed away in December of 2015. The proceeds will go to Marian Hills Golf Course to help with improvements and other things the course may need. "(Golfing there) was such a passion of Donnie's," Donnie's widow, Kay Hould said. Donnie was a longtime farmer and rancher in the Malta area, but his love for golf grew as he knew the course had plenty of potential. "It...
Favorite hobby: Play basketball Favorite postgame meal: Hot dog Favorite subject: Math Favorite animal: Tiger Favorite dessert: Ice Cream Cake Dream Vacation: Hawaii Favorite TV Show / Movie: Spongebob Squarepants / Hotel Transylvania 2 Favorite NBA Team: Cavs Fave Athlete: LeBron James or Kyrie Irving...
There are only two meets left before the regular season comes to an end for the Malta Swim Team and beyond that, a divisional meet and state meet. Coach Cassie Pratt hopes to continue getting the team in tip-top shape. “My approach is more focused on doing their sprints, so we will do those in practice while also focusing on technique,” Coach Pratt said. “It’s just the tinkering you need to do with turns and starts, which is a big part of the stroke as well.” The swim team had a meet in Plenty...
The 2017 Little M-ette Volleyball Camp featured over thirty campers who focused on the fundamentals of the game last Monday, June 26 through Wednesday, June 27. "Camp was really great," M-ette Co-Coach Kalli Reintjes said. "We had a really good turnout and we had a large amount of high school students that helped out this week, so they got a lot of one on one with high schoolers." Current M-ettes at the event were Ella Schye, Kloie Marks, Sam Mitchell, Janessa Malmend, Macy Knudsen, Raina...
A dozen moms found out the hard way that their little girls have grown into competitive athletes on the softball field. The Girls team bested the Moms in walk off fashion last Tuesday, June 27 at Trafton Park as Anna Harms smashed a triple down left field that batted in Danika Wilke who had previously reached first base on an error. “We did good,” Harms said. “We beat them by one off of my hit.” Harms believed that their defensive stops in the late innings were the key to their win. “A lot...
The Malta Swim team hosted its annual meet at the City Pool last Saturday, July 1 through Sunday, July 2 as scorching 90 degree heat kept many spectators in the shade. Malta had a few first place finishers including a pair of their senior women who are in their final season with the team. Shay Garfield graduated from Malta High School last May and she was able to win her favorite event the 100 meter breaststroke. Her victory comes despite missing time in the water. She shared how she did it....
Marian Hills will be host to the 1st Annual Malta Athletic Club Golf Tournament on Saturday, July 8. “All of the funds and proceeds minus the expenses we have for prizes and expenses to the Tin Cup will go right to the Malta Athletic Club,” Dean Yeadon of the Malta Athletic Club told the PCN. The event gives golfers a chance to help the local youth in their sporting endeavors. “It’s just a way to raise some money to put in the bank so we can donate and give back to the youth of Malta and hel...
Jerry Benge of Malta completed a course that few have ever even tried to do. He has visited all 30 Major League Baseball Ball Parks as of last May after visiting Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Having gone to several different ballparks out west since experiencing his first Rangers game in July of 1985, Benge came up with the idea of seeing each active ballpark in 2012. Growing up a couple of hours from Arlington, he caught his first Rangers game when he was ten. He became a life-long fan of the...
The Malta Parks & Recreation Softball League is back for a second season after hosting a successful outing in 2016. Registration opened on Monday, June 19 and many have shown interest. “We have had many people ask about it and have picked up packets,” Malta Parks & Recreation Co-Director Julia Tatafu said. “We had five teams last year and we are hoping for more this year.” Even if a potential participant can’t field a full team, individuals are encouraged to sign up. “If you’re not on a team...
Malta Trails and Malta Parks & Recreation recently tag teamed to form the First Annual Phillips County Adventure Relay, a three sport team event that will be taking place on Saturday, July 8 at 12:30 p.m. "Laura Pankratz (Malta Trails) had the idea," said Natalie Judd of Malta Parks & Recreation. "They are really big into kayaking and those events are really well attended." The event will be a three to four person team event in which the teams have one biker go on a ride from the Promises store...
