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Former Malta M-ette and Dickinson State University Blue Hawk Kelly Pankratz was recently inducted into Dickinson State University's Hall of Fame as a part of the 2008-2009 Women's Basketball Team. The announcement was made in September, and the banquet was held in October. Pankratz, the daughter of Bill and Laura Pankratz of Malta, is a 2007 MHS graduate and was a valuable part of Malta's 26-0 team that year. Pankratz was named the 2007 Class B State Tournament's Most Valuable Player. Things...
The love of the sport of hockey has one local family driving 70 miles west to play their favorite sport in Glasgow for the Ice Dawgs. The Negus Family currently has three members of their family playing in Glasgow's HiLine Youth Hockey Association including 12-year-old Hunter Negus (PeeWee), 11-year-old Alyssa Negus (PeeWee), and 10-year-old Brooke Negus (Squirt). Their father Jason Negus, a U.S. Border Patrolman is the head coach for the PeeWee team. The PCN caught up with Hunter and his...
Williston State Head women's basketball coach, Bill Triplett, has announced the signing of Allison Kunze from Malta, Montana. The 5'10 forward has helped lead Malta High School to three consecutive trips to the Montana State Class B basketball tournament with hopes of doing the same this year. Kunze has been awarded all-conference and all-state the last two seasons and was also selected as one of the top sixteen players in Montana by the Great Falls Tribune last spring. "We are pretty excited...
The Malta Junior High Wrestling Team traveled to Lewistown on Tuesday, November 15. Seventeen wrestlers competed in the tournament. Most wrestlers had four people in their bracket, but there were a few with three and a couple of weights only had two wrestlers. The schools attending were Malta, Lewistown and two junior high schools from Billings, Lockwood and St. Francis. Fifth and sixth graders competed in the B Pool. Colby Wright (65-66 lb) won his only match 13-0, taking 1st place. Braun Sims...
The 2022 North Country Mavericks volleyball team added to their history making season by not only competing at the State C Volleyball tournament for the co-op's first time, but earning a third place trophy at the 2022 event after going 3-2 last weekend in Bozeman. "Our first trip to State as a North Country Maverick co-op was a huge success," Mavericks Head Coach Charlene Wasson said. "I feel very blessed to be part of something very special. I'm super proud of all 17 girls on this team and my...
Twelve teams competed in the H.L. Pederson Middle School Wrestling Tournament. Teams competing were Alexander, ND, Circle, Dickinson, ND, Glasgow, Glendive, Malta, Minot, ND, Poplar, Sidney, Watford City, ND, Williston, ND, and Wolf Point. Most brackets had four wrestlers in each bracket and they all got three matches. Malta had three wrestlers competing in the 6th grade division. Colby Wright (65-68 lb) was 1-2 and received 3rd place. Colby won by pin, lost 13-3 and lost a tight match by a 6-5...
For the first time the North Country Mavericks have punched their ticket to the State C Volleyball Tournament starting on Thursday, November 10. "We are over the top excited to be heading to Bozeman for the State Tournament. We have never experienced state volleyball as a Maverick team," Mavericks Head Coach Wasson said. "Saco/Hinsdale (formerly known as the Wildfire) have made a few trips together as a co-op to State and seen some great success at that level. Now it is our turn as Mavericks to...
The season came to a cold and windy end for the Malta Mustangs football team as they lost 48-14 to the Jefferson County Panthers at Mustang Field last Saturday, November 5. The wind was in the low 50s with gusts of over 70 mph in Malta, and though Malta's offense struggled to score, Malta Head Coach Nick Oxarart didn't use it as an excuse. "Besides the 50 mph winds that limited a large part of our offense, Jefferson's size, strength and speed were ultimately what became too much to overcome on...
Coach Mary Grace Kalal summed up her first year as M-ette volleyball coach with, “I couldn’t have been any more blessed as a first-year coach to have the group that I got,” as the girls wrapped up the 2022 season taking third place at Divisionals in Choteau on Saturday. This year only two teams advance to State action this weekend. The M-ettes opening challenge came Thursday afternoon in action against Shelby Wolves. Malta took the first set to 27-29; a game that held the attention of the fans. “It was a clear indication to me that these g...
Twelve wrestlers from the Malta Wrestling Club traveled to Miles City to compete in the Bronco Invitational on Saturday, November 5. The majority of the brackets were a total of five wrestlers where you wrestle everyone in the bracket. The wrestlers were grouped according to skill level but weren't separated according to age. 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders competed against each other. Teams competing were Alexander, ND, Baker, Circle, Forsyth, Glasgow, Glendive, Hardin, Lewistown, Malta, Miles...
The Malta Mustangs led wire-to-wire in their playoff win over Red Lodge. The Mustangs are set to host the Jefferson (Boulder) Panthers on Saturday, November 5, at Mustang Field at 1 p.m. The Panthers are currently on a three-game win streak and are 7-3 this season. Most recently, the Panthers defeated the Eureka Lions 21-6 on Saturday, October 29. In the last two games of the regular season, Jefferson blew out Columbus 48-12 and Three Forks 44-6. Despite giving up a pair of highlight reel...
The North Country Mavericks Volleyball team overcame some adversity in the 1C District Tournament, an event that featured 11 teams each trying to earn one of three spots in this weekend's Eastern C Tournament in Culbertson. The Mavericks will enter the Eastern C as the 1C's second seed after their championship loss to Froid-Lake, a team that defeated the Mavericks twice in the tournament last weekend in Plentywood. Mavericks Head Coach Charlene Wasson was asked how the team felt after last...
The Malta M-ettes will head into this weekend's Northern B Divisional as District 2B runner-up after falling to the Glasgow Lady Scotties 3-1 last Saturday, October 29, in Poplar. The M-ettes hope to take one of only two spots heading to the State B Volleyball Tournament in Bozeman on Thursday, November 10. The M-ettes made it to Bozeman last year for the first time in 20 years. The M-ettes will face the Shelby Coyotes, a familiar foe, in the opening round of the Northern B on Thursday,...
The Malta Wrestling Club traveled to Watford City, ND for a wrestling tournament for grades 5-8. Teams competing were Circle, Glasgow, Glendive, Malta, Poplar, Sidney, Wolf Point, Williston, ND, and Watford City, ND. Wrestlers were put in brackets of 4 according to weight and skill level. Each wrestler had three matches as they wrestled everyone in their bracket. Beckett Squires pinned his first opponent and finished 3rd with a 1-2 record for the tournament. Karsten Davis had a record of 2-1 and was 2nd in his weight class. He had a great...
On their 100th year of football, The Malta Mustangs Football team ended the regular season as the 2022 Northern B Division Conference Champions, a title that they also won in 2021. The Mustangs earned this year's title by going 8-1 overall and more importantly 5-0 in conference games. Glasgow earned the second spot in the North with a 4-1 record in the conference. Fairfield, who the Mustangs defeated 48-20 in Fairfield on Friday, October 21, finished third with a 3-2 record in the conference,...
The Whitewater Penguins and Dodson Coyotes Cross Country teams competed at the 2022 State C Cross Country Meet in Missoula. Shelby LaBrie led the Penguins with a third place finish. LaBrie finished seventh in the 2021 State C Meet. This year LaBrie was joined in the top ten by teammate Samantha Wisher who was eighth with a time of 20:52. Ava Hanley was 81st with a time of 28:43, and Kandra Cummings had a time of 30:31 and was 95th. The team finished in eighth place. For Dodson, Mason LoneBear...
The Malta Cross Country teams headed west to Missoula for the final meet of the season, the state cross country championships, which were to be held on Saturday, October 22. Kirsta Meisdalen led the M-ettes, finishing 92nd with a time of 24:59. Megan Morser was 133rd with a time of 28:20. Izzie Hallenberg was 147th with a time of 33:37. Kael Young led the Mustangs with a time of 23:14 and Kash Stiles had a time of 25:08. The state meet was predicted to be a wet one so we prepared as best we coul...
The North Country Mavericks volleyball team will head into the District 1C Tournament as the Conference Runner-up after compiling a 15-2 record overall, and losing only one conference game to the 1C Champion Froid-Lake Redhawks. The 1C District Tournament is scheduled to start on Thursday, October 27, and conclude on Saturday, October 29. Five of the 14 1C teams will move on to the Eastern C Divisional that will be held in Culbertson starting on Thursday, November 10. Thanks to their efforts in...
The regular season has come to an end for the Malta M-ettes Volleyball Team, but the postseason starts this week in Poplar, as all five teams get ready for the 2022 District 2B Volleyball Tournament in Poplar. The tournament is scheduled to begin on Friday, October 28, and conclude on Saturday, October 29. As the team prepares for the tournament, Malta Head Coach Mary Grace Kalal was asked about the team's approach. "We just have to come out bigger and stronger than we did in the pre-season,"...
The Malta Mustangs (7-1) football team posted a dominant win over the rival Glasgow Scotties (6-2) at Mustangs Field last Friday, October 14. The team will now focus on their final regular season matchup on Friday, October 21, in Fairfield against the Fairfield Eagles 4-3 that feature the stingiest defense in the Northern B. The Eagles have given up only 67 points which is a tie with Bigfork for second in All of Class B. In comparison, Malta's defense, who has given up 72 points, is fourth in th...
The Malta M-ettes Volleyball Team defeated a pair of 2B foes last week, helping them secure a first place finish as the season nears it's end. Malta Head Coach Mary Grace Kalal was asked how she felt her team was doing at this point. "I am feeling pretty good honestly," Coach Kalal said. "The growth that we have had as a team from the beginning till now has been amazing to see." She said that the team has become more consistent and have welcomed the challenge of playing different roles. The M-et...
The Malta Cross Country team headed west on Friday the 14th to the annual Harlem Invitational Cross Country Meet, which took place out at the Harlem Golf Course, a very flat 3.1 mile course that is a boon to runners as they test the skills they have been working on all season. This is the last race many of the runners will participate in before heading to the state meet on Saturday, October 22. Malta runners headed to state include M-ettes Kirsta Meisdalen, Megan Morser, Izzie Hallenberg, and Ki...
On Friday, October 14th, we attended the Harlem Invitational. It was a nice crisp morning with a little bit of a breeze, just the kind we like! After a hard week of practice, the girls were ready for their final regular season meet. This one really lets me know if they are ready for the state meet. We've been working on consistency the last three weeks and I was anxious that they would do well. The Harlem course is a very flat course to run, so we adjusted our splits accordingly. This is a...
