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The Lady Mavericks opened their 2018-19 campaign with a split as they were able to pick up a 39-34 win over Shields Valley, followed by a 59-29 loss to Roy-Winifred at the Fergus Holiday Showcase in Lewistown last weekend. In the team’s win over Shields Valley on Friday, December 7, the team was led by Kia Wasson, who had 13 points, eight rebounds, two assists, and two steals. Kaitlyn McColly had 11 points, nine rebounds, six steals, and six pass deflections. Kelsee Cummings had five points. Jay...
The 2017-18 season ended in heart-break as the Malta Mustangs basketball team fell to the Glasgow Scotties in the Northern B Divisional Elimination bracket. Since that game, the team has graduated five seniors, two of which made the 2018 2B All-Conference list with Taylor Matthews receiving All-State and first-team honors and Konner Kuehn receiving second-team honors. Other graduates include Tel Jensen, Kendall Koss, and Landon VanWichen, who each were a part of the 2017 State B Championship...
The Mavericks 2017-18 basketball season ended on Friday night of last year's Eastern C Divisional Tournament as the team fell to the Mon-Dak Thunder. This season, the team will feature a new style of play as well as a familiar face leading the charge, as longtime Hinsdale Coach Ralph Ellsworth was named head coach of the Mavericks this season. "We have fifteen kids, so we have the numbers," Coach Ellsworth said of his team. "We have the speed. There is not a lot of height, but they are coming al...
The Dodson Coyotes have four athletes over six-foot, a lot of returning talent, and a lot of good reason to be optimistic in 2018-19. The team lost David Jaynes, five-year player for the team, to graduation. Jaynes helped lead Dodson to a fourth-place finish in the 3C district last year. Last year's team had an 11-11 record, picking up a pair of wins in the district tourney. This year the team hopes to make it to the Eastern Conference Divisional and beyond. With the talent that they have...
The 2017-18 season ended in divisionals for the Malta M-ettes, as Fairfield defeated Malta 36-30 in the consolation semi-finals. Neither team made state, but this season has the potential to be different as Malta has 21 athletes on their roster, many of which have played varsity and sub-varsity for Malta last season. The M-ettes lost Ella Schye to graduation and will be without the help of a few current seniors from last years team. The M-ettes return junior guard Kelbee Denham, their lone...
The North Country Mavericks will have a new look this season, having lost five athletes to graduation from the 2017-18 team. Gone are three of the four all-conference athletes from last season including Jada Sudbrack and Mickayla Johnson, who were selected to the list in three consecutive seasons, as well as Bailey Funk who was named to the All-Defensive team. The team also graduated Sydney Zeller. "We are a different team this year," Coach Amber Erickson said. "We are young, athletic, and...
Last season the Dodson Lady Coyotes fell in a consolation Semi-final game to Lustre in the 2018 3C District Tournament. The Lady Coyotes will have eight athletes this season though the team lost Donna Dale and Kyla Racine to graduation. The team also lost All-Conference athlete Melony Fetter due to her transfer to Harlem. The team returns junior Christina Jaynes who made the list as an honorable mention last season. The team also welcomes back junior Kailee Henry, who made the list as an eighth...
The Mustang Wrestling Team was the first team to see action in the 2018-19 season, having attended the Havre Mixer and Invitational on Friday, November 30 and Saturday, December 1, respectively. The team will also host the first home meet amongst Phillips County Teams this winter on Thursday, December 6, as the team is scheduled to hold a Malta-Fairfield-Simms Triangular at 6 p.m. at the Old Gym. This season the Malta Mustangs hope to win their third straight Northern B title in a row, but they...
The Malta Mustangs football team accounted for thirteen of the sixty-four spots on the 2018 Northern Division All-Conference football list. The Mustangs who had a 5-4 record last season landed eight athletes on the list and were led by seniors Andres Lopez and Kevin Henry who were each selected to the All-State list this season. Lopez returns to the list receiving first-team honors as both a running back and linebacker after being named as a first-team linebacker and second-team running back in...
Malta Parks and Recreation has started a pair of new classes this fall under the direction of dance instructor Sheena Dorak. Around 30 girls aged seven and up take over the Malta City Hall building every Tuesday at 4 p.m. for youth cheerleading an event started by in response to high demand at local basketball games. “I went to a Mustangs game and I saw all kinds of little girls running around wearing their spirit gear and some little girls were practicing some things that they had probably l...
The 3rd Annual Malta Parks and Recreation Co-ed Volleyball season ended in dramatic fashion on Monday, November 19, as the Volley Llamas and the Some Spike It Hot team (Spikers) squared off for the title. The match was won by the undefeated Volley Llamas in sudden death overtime, as the time for the game expired with teams tied in the third set. The match was the conclusion of the Malta Parks and Recreation Eight Team Single Elimination Volleyball Tournament. "The key was getting our communicati...
Sophomore Lady North Country Maverick Kaitlyn McColly was selected to the 2018 District 3C Volleyball All-Conference List. "She is an athlete," Mavericks Coach Charlene Wasson said. "I think overall her best quality for our team this year was her ability to pass the ball in a pretty accurate fashion." McColly was joined by five other selections from 3C, a district only consisting of the Scobey Spartans, North Country, and the Lustre Christian Lady Lions. The list only had first-team selections...
Phillips County was well represented in a few Jamboree Basketball Tournaments over the weekend of Friday, November 16 and Saturday, November 17. The fifth-sixth grade Jamboree Lady Mavericks, eight grade Malta M-ettes, and junior high Coyotes won titles in their respective groups during their district jamboree tournaments. The Lady Mavericks only played nine regular season games, with only being three teams in the 3C District. The team played each district team twice and three teams outside of...
The Malta Boys & Girls Club hosted their 15th Annual Turkey Bowling event on Thursday, November 15, and the tournament took place after a community potluck which was attended by close to 100 people. The winner of the adult group, Laicee Young, was the most animated and the best bowler on the night, picking up two strikes. After every strike, Young did her patented "Turkey Dance." "Epic!" Young said. "It was so freaking awesome and I am super-stoked and I can't wait for next year!" Young was...
It was a big weekend for the Malta Chamber as it hosted many events, but Saturday Night was the group's largest Fall fundraiser, the 7th Annual Malta Putt Crawl. Twenty-four teams, many of which had themes and costumes, visited local bars and restaurants for the cross-town mini-golf event. "We have got some Teletubbies, some Bathing Beauties, we have got some Big Putts, we've got The Price is Right, Pac-Man, and Cards Against Humanity," Malta Chamber Executive Director Ann Sautter told the PCN....
With only one week of the Malta Parks & Recreation Adult Co-Ed regular season left last Tuesday, November 13, teams squared off one last time to determine their seeding in the annual tournament. The league hosted the Fall 2018 Malta Parks and Rec. Volleyball Tournament, an eight-team tourney that will be featured in next week's Phillips County News. The final team standings for the tournament's seeding is as follows: Volley Llamas took first place with a 7-0 record. Oh, My Quad was second at...
The Malta High School Old Gym once again kicked off another season of Fatman Basketball on Sunday, November 11. Though the name implies that its players are obese, the game is just an intramural setting for men 18 and over that play to stay or get into shape. "It's just for us old guys that are out of shape," coordinator Nate Fried said. "The other guys might be fast, but not me. It's only the end of the first quarter and I am ready to call a timeout. Come back at the end of the month and I...
The summer months are over but the recreational activities in the town of Malta are warming up as the Malta Department of Parks and Recreation is hosting several events this fall. Included with this Fall's events is Ultimate Dodgeball, an event that takes place on Thursday afternoons, starting at 3:30 p.m. Close to ninety students have signed up to play. The weekly recreational event is not in a league format, but rather just a time where youth group from Kindergarten to second grade, third...
The M-ettes went down swinging as their season ended in the second round of elimination during the 2018 Northern B Divisional Tournament last Friday, November 2, in Cut Bank. Choteau would eventually defeat Fairfield for the Northern B Championship. Wolf Point would also qualify for state at third place. The M-ettes were off to a rocky start, facing the Shelby Coyotes who had won the 2017 Northern B Divisional championship last year. The Coyotes entered the divisional tournament as District 1B's...
The year-end totals are in for the 2018 Malta Mustangs. Malta (5-4) saw their season come to a close on Saturday, October 27, in a first-round playoff loss to Huntley Project, who lost 56-12 to Missoula-Loyola last Saturday, November 3, in the second-round of the State B playoffs. "We had a very young team that improved each week," Mustangs Football Head Coach Jim Benn told the PCN. "They had an excellent attitude, tremendous work ethic, and trusted the process of daily and weekly improvement."...
The season came to an end for the North Country Mavericks last Friday, November 2, in Sidney, as the team fell in the second round of elimination to Wibaux. The Mavericks finished their 2018 campaign with a final record of 5-15, after going 1-2 at the Eastern C Divisional Tournament. The team started the tournament with a tough 3-0 loss to Ekalaka on Thursday, November 1. The scores were 9-25, 10-25, and 16-25. Kaitlyn McColly led the Mavericks with six kills, 14 digs, and five blocks. Jaycee...
The world of college rodeo found out a few weeks ago what the Loring, Phillips County, and many other parts of Montana already knew. Keira Simonson, daughter of Dan and Judy Simonson of Loring, is a great barrel racer. On Sunday, September 30, Simonson, a senior at the University of Montana and graduate of Whitewater High School, closed the Fall Semester leading the Big Sky Region Barrel Racing event with 577 points. The closest rider to Simonson is Celie Salmond of Montana State University...
The final score of Malta vs. Huntley Project first round playoff, a game in Malta last Saturday afternoon, 30-6, doesn't really tell the tale of how close this gridiron match really was. Timely touchdowns in the contest by the visiting Red Devils made the score seem more lopsided than the final outcome would make it seem and as anyone in attendance will attest to, the Mustangs played with grit, passion, and dedication to one another and to their coaches. The timely touchdowns by Huntly Project...
With their season on the line and their backs against the wall, North Country Libro Elise Strommen left her feet and slid head-first to save a Lustre serve that if had hit the ground would have ended the Lady Maverick's volleyball season. "I felt like I was going to throw up," Strommen said. When asked at which point she thought she'd get sick during the play - before, during, or after - Strommen said "all three." Strommen's save led to a kill by teammate Kia Wasson to stave off what would have...
The M-ettes fought their way back from a first-round loss at the District 2B volleyball tournament to win second place after three straight wins to se-cure a berth at the Northern B Divisional this week in Cut Bank. Malta opens play against Shelby on Thursday, November 1 at 11:45 a.m. Malta faced rival Glasgow in the opening round of play last Friday, the second contest of the District 2B Tournament, and fell in four sets, 25-22, 25-11, 22-25, and 25-18, for the 4-1 loss. The first-round loss...
