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The Whitewater Penguins headed to the Havre Invitational on Saturday, September 14th to compete at Prairie Farms Golf Course. It was a nice, cool morning with a little bit of a breeze, so the conditions were great for running. We had four runners compete, Shelbi LaBrie and Sommer Green for high school, and Barrett Wasson and Henson Hellie for junior high. Tyler Scheffelmear could not compete due to some aches and pains; we are managing with rest. The high school girls competed at 10:45 AM with...
The Malta Mustang football team is 2-0 in their 2024-25 campaign after defeating the Baker Spartans 54-14 on Friday, August 30, and the Red Lodge Rams 21-18 on Friday, September 6. This year's group returns plenty of talent from a team that went 5-5 and made the playoffs last season. The Mustangs will be without Bow Saint-Louis, Clayton Hallenberg, Kyle Darrington, and Mason Sjostrom, who all graduated last spring. Despite losing several starters from last season, the Mustangs have a lot of...
The North Country Lady Mavericks Volleyball team graduated their top two hitters from their 2023 season that ended with the team taking third in the State C tournament for the second season in a row. The team will be without Teagan Erickson, Paige Wasson, and Kendall Scheffelmear, who graduated last spring. All three earned All-Conference honors last season. Erickson and Wasson were All-State selections. The team welcomes back junior BaiLee McColly who was an All-Conference selection in 2023....
The Dodson Coyote Cross Country Program features 10 high schoolers and five middle schools in 2024. The Coyotes have one senior this season; Junior Stiffarm. Stiffarm is in his second year of running cross country. "His goal is to do his best and PR at every race," Dodson Head Coach Tianna Bloomer said. "He is very encouraging of his teammates. This is the largest boys team I have ever had, I have six boys running this year." The Coyotes have three juniors this season including Donovan Posey,...
The Malta M-ette Volleyball team has retained plenty of talent for their 2024 campaign. Last season the M-ettes' postseason run ended at the 2023 Northern B Divisional in Malta. The team lost Elly Anderson and Kataya KillEagle to graduation, but brings back plenty of familiar faces including seniors Ava Hanson and Kelbie Nelson. Hanson is an outside hitter and Nelson is a defensive specialist. "Ava and Kelbie definitely bring experience and high expectations to the table," Malta Head Coach...
The Whitewater Penguins Cross Country team has three runners this season, including the 2023 State C Champion. Shelbi LaBrie won the title in Kalispell with a time of 19:52.5 last season and returns as the team's lone senior in 2024. "I've seen a lot of maturity in her leadership since the season started," Whitewater Head Coach Carly Hammond said. "She's been pushing her teammates in the workouts, giving encouraging words when runs get hard, sharing advice with the younger kids, and just...
The Malta Cross Country team consists of four runners this year, a smaller group but one with plenty of running experience. Mustang Kash Stiles and M-ette Megan Morser are Malta's seniors this season. Malta Head Coach Thea Solberg spoke about both of her seniors; "Kash Stiles comes in as the senior for the boys and comes in with many years of experience. He began his running career at Sidney, while in middle school. He really enjoys running and what it does for him to prepare for basketball...
The Malta Mustang football team started their season off with a strong 54-14 victory over the Baker Spartans in Baker last Friday, August 30. Malta will travel to Red Lodge to face the Rams, who just defeated the Whitehall Trojans 46-8 last Friday. The Mustangs were led by senior quarterback Stockton Oxarart, who completed 10-of-11 pass attempts for 264 yards and five touchdowns. Senior Blaine Downing led the rushing attack with 169 yards and two touchdowns on seven attempts (24.1 YPC). He had...
At the Malta Athletic Club invitational last Saturday, the M-ettes earned the top spot in Pool defeating Harlem and Rocky Boy 2-0, but Malta fell 0-2 to Fairview in the tournament. Chinook won the event, defeating Fairview by a five point differential in the title match....
The Whitewater Penguins have three new runners on the course this season. Our veteran, Shelbi LaBrie, is returning with the addition of Sommer Green (11th), Tyler Scheffelmear (11th), and Barrett Wasson (7th). It's been a fun three weeks leading up to our first race of the year. All four of my runners are so hard-working. They were pretty nervous to compete in their first race, but they did a great job. On Friday the runners competed in 80+ degrees, so it was a hot, miserable one. The Wolf...
The Malta Mustangs football team held their annual Blue and White Scrimmage at Mustang Field last Friday, August 23. The scrimmage featured a mixture of varsity and junior varsity Mustang football players going against each other to prepare the team for the regular season, slated to kick off Friday, August 30, against the Baker Spartans in Baker. Mustang senior Stockton Oxarart, the team's quarterback was asked how he felt the event went. "It was good," Oxarart said. "We evened up the teams so...
The Malta M-ettes volleyball team held their Blue and White Scrimmage last Friday, August 23, at the Malta High School Gymnasium. The teams consisted of a mix of varsity and junior varsity teams. Though the team has been practicing since August 16, it was the first time that the team played an organized game. Blue won both games with the scores being 25-16 and 26-24. M-ette Head Coach Tasha Hines seemed pleased with the result of their Blue and White game. "Honestly, that was the first time...
Malta's Maddy McEwen earned first place at the Jr. Breakaway Roping event at the Chinook Rodeo last weekend. She roped her steer in 5.2 seconds. Malta's Dave Madison and Chris Barthelmess were second in the Team Roping event and Jett Anderson and Jesse Benson were third....
The stands began to fill, and the crowd was ready for a great show with action and they weren't disappointed. As the heat began to release its intensity, those attending were treated to a fine showing of skills, talents and dedication to a sport that is still alive in rural Montana. The 5th Annual Craig is a rough stock rodeo dedicated in memory of Craig Mangis, a long-time supporter of rodeos, kids, family, and ranch life. Saturday night's action started out on a "low" level, so to speak, with...
Last Friday, Malta's Jim Fauth set out to stock his freezer with salmon from Fort Peck Reservoir. He did, just not in the way he was expecting. By the end of his fishing expedition with his wife Nancy and friends Tony and Emily Simonsen, Jim landed a fish of a lifetime; a state record-setting Chinook salmon that officially weighed in at 32.62 pounds by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The fish was measured at 38-inches long with a 28-inch girth. The record was last held by Greg Haug, who...
Malta High School senior Stockton Oxarart had a chance to showcase his talent and hard work at the 2024 Junior Day National Football Showcase at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a couple of weeks ago. The showcase featured 250 athletes from 47 states across the country. Oxarart, the son of DoDee and Dennis Oxarart of Malta, was one that stood out amongst the rest as he was awarded Player of the Championship Game, Player of the Game for another game, and Offensive MVP for his team. "It...
Coaches Char Wasson and Amber Erickson received their Montana Coaches Association Coach of the Year Honors. Wasson is Head Coach of the Lady Maverick Volleyball team and Erickson is Head Coach of the Lady Maverick Basketball team....
Temps reached over 100 degrees during the Phillips County Fair Indian Relay and Chariot Races, but that didn't stop the event from filling the stands last Friday, August 2, in Dodson. The event, organized by the Northeast Corner Committee, was ultimately won by BirdinGround Relay Team from the Crow reservation. The PCN caught up with rider Tristan BirdinGround, who had been riding in relays since he was 15 years old. He has competed at the PC Fair with River Road in past years, and was second...
The 2024 PC Fair Ranch Bronc Riding event provided plenty of excitement and qualified eight-second runs as a welcome intermission for the 2024 Indian Relay Race event at the PC Fair Arena last Friday, August 2. The broncs were provided by Jim Orahood. Nineteen riders were featured in the opening two sections of the event and only four made the short go by way of their scores in the first ride. The event was won by Rocky Boy's Tyrus Lamere who had a 73 point ride in the short go, as the final... Full story
The 2024 Phillips County Fair AMX's A Main Event was won by a driver that has been a part of Dodson AMX for 20 years, but hadn't secured the top prize until Sunday, August 4. Frank Kindle was able to do a victory doughnut after winning the 12-lap event in a car that he had fixed up a few days before the races. "It feels good. It really does," Kindle told the PCN. "It's like it feels really good considering that I put the car together in three days, along with watering the track and trying to...
Malta AAU Wrestling held their 2024 Malta Summer Slam Wrestling Camp at Malta High School under the Direction of Great Falls CMR Coach Aaron Jensen and Malta Coach Kris LaBrie. The free camp for wrestlers from 1st grade to 12th grade was held on Sunday, July 21 through Tuesday, July 23, at the Malta High School Gymnasium. The group hosted just under 60 wrestlers, which is the most in its' history. This is coming off of a record year in which Malta's AAU hosted 90 wrestlers, not including high...
