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The cross country teams of Malta and Whitewater raced this past weekend in Havre, while the Dodson runners were in Scobey last Thursday. Havre Cross Country Invitational The Havre Invitational was held at the Prairie Hills Golf Course for the second year in a row. Malta Head Coach Thea Solberg said, “Meeting at this beautiful green oasis between farmland and the Milk River has proved to be a boon to our runners who all dropped time from the previous meet.” The top runner for Malta was Kirsta Meisdalen in 22nd place with a time of 24:42. “Ki...
It was a busy weekend for the PCMS crew over the Labor Day weekend. With races on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, as well as the fundraiser banquet on Saturday night. On Saturday, the Quick 16 was run. The quickest eight qualifying door cars and the quickest eight qualifying dragsters. Both sides paired off in bracket racing until it came down to the fastest door car vs. the fastest dragster. On the door car side, it came down to Wayne Solberg vs John Enno, with Enno winning with a .012 reaction time and an elapsed time of 5.8937 vs a dial-in of...
The The Malta Mustangs Football team is looking to pose a challenge to teams in the Northern B, after retaining plenty of talent in 2021. "The Northern B looks to be a very competitive division again this year," Malta Head Coach Nick Oxarart said. "Fairfield is still the team to beat. Cut Bank, Glasgow, and Conrad will all be tough to beat as well." The Mustangs ended their 2020 campaign in a playoff loss to the Manhattan Tigers, who eventually won the Class B Title. Malta went 6-2 last season,...
The North Country Mavericks lost a few strong hitters to graduation, but the team has returned plenty of young talent for their 2021 campaign. "I think we feel pretty confident," Mavericks Head Coach Charlene Wasson said. "We are pretty experienced even though we are young." The Mavs welcome back only two seniors this year, including their only returning All-Conference athlete senior Jaycee Erickson, and Zandora Longtree. The team's other 2020 All-Conference selections; Kia Wasson, Kaitlyn McCol...
Dodson Coyotes head coach, Tianna Bloomer, is in her seventh year coaching cross country. This year, the majority of runners on her team are in their first year of running. "I've got a really young squad this year," said Bloomer. "The majority of them are brand new to the cross country world. It's going to be a while before I know what we've really got." On the boys' team, there are no returning runners. They are all first-year runners. The girls' team has one returning runner, but she just...
The Malta M-ettes Volleyball team is primed and ready to go for the 2021 Volleyball season. "They are excited that it is more of a regular season this year and they have some high goals," Malta M-ette Head Coach Tasha Hines said. The team has returned plenty of talent including two of three 2020 All-Conference selections. The team will be without it's only All-State selection, Erica Smith, who graduated. The team also lost Kylie Hunter and Sidney Meeks to graduation last spring. Returning to thi...
I've got four girls out for cross country this season; Shelbi Labrie, Ava Hanley, Kendra Cummings, and Sammie Wisher. Three of these girls are veterans with Shelbi being our newest addition. We've had three solid weeks of practice and attended the Poplar Invitational this previous weekend. We went into the meet with the mindset of slowing ourselves down in order to balance out our split times. One of the hardest things to do as a runner is to be disciplined enough to SLOW down in order to cut...
The Malta Cross Country team has a few new faces this season and a couple of familiar ones in 2021. "This year is definitely different," Malta Head Coach Thea Solberg said. "It's new, there are a lot of changes." The only familiar thing is that the team welcomes back juniors Kirsta Meisdalen and Izzie Hallenberg, who have been a part of the team since the 2019 season. "They are good, solid girls that bring good experience to the team," Coach Solberg said. The team welcomes junior Kira Beck, a...
The overall winner of the high school girl's 5k, 3.1 mile race of 43 runners was Annie Kaul of Plentywood, who cruised over the Airport Golf Course speedily with a time of 19:51. Second place went to Mya Green of Scobey, who ran 20:55 over the course and was followed by third place finisher Jazmin Gorder of Poplar, who ran a time of 21:37. The Malta Mette's placed as follows: Kira Beck was fourteenth with a time of 25:40, Kirsta Meisdalen was seventeenth with a time of 26:23. Megan Morser was th...
Last Saturday, August 28, Marian Hills Golf Course was the host of the 30th Annual First State Bank / Ezzie's Wholesale Golf Scramble. The event featured eighteen four-person teams (divided equally by handicap) that had golfers from Malta, around the county, state, and even golfers from Arizona. "It was a great turnout," said Terri Skiff, representing First State Bank of Malta. "The weather was perfect and the course was in wonderful shape, and everyone had a lot of fun." Team 2, consisting of...
The Malta M-ettes hosted the 2021 Malta Invitational Volleyball Tournament last Saturday, August 28, at the Malta High School Gymnasium. The event featured six teams; the M-ettes, Plentywood Wildcats, North Country Mavericks, Harlem Wildcats, Poplar Indians, and Circle Wildcats. Plentywood defeated Malta in the Malta Invitational's championship game, the scores were 25-16 and 25-16. Circle placed third by defeating North Country 25-21, 25-24 in the third-place match. Harlem was fifth after...
While other Class B Schools kicked off their regular season last Friday. August 27, the Malta Mustangs held their annual Blue and White Scrimmage Game, for the second year at Mustang Field. The practice was open to the public, and the crowd experienced plays that the Mustangs have been working on as the Malta varsity and junior varsity teams mixed and matched their squads to better themselves before their first game of the season on Friday, September 3, against Huntley Project. After Malta ran...
Publisher's Note: This is the correct information about the in-person and online field day event that was published last week. We apologize for the misprint in last week's edition of the Phillips County News. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Hunter Education course dates have been set for Glasgow. An in-person classroom course runs Sept. 13-17, and an optional online field day, for those that completed the online course, will be offered on Sept. 17. All hunter education classes are free of charge. In-person, instructor-led hunter education...
Saturday the 21st, Malta hosted the 24th annual Ryder Cup matches against the golfers from Glasgow. 24 players from each team competed for the right to hold the Cup at their respective club until the other is able to take the cup away. Glasgow has had possession of the Cup since 2019, when they defeated the Malta golfers at the Sunnyside Golf Course in Glasgow. This years competition saw 24 golfers from each town compete in three formats, (Bestball, Alternate Shot, and Match Play). The Malta...
The Malta Mustangs Football team started practices on Monday, August 16, but one highlight of the week was day two, a day that featured a college-style combine event. During this event, last Tuesday, August 16, athletes were timed and reps were taken down to gauge where the athletes were heading into the 2021 Class B football season. According to Malta Football Head Coach Nick Oxarart, every Mustang participated. The team was tested in five different events. These events were the bench press,...
Earlier this summer, the Malta M-ette Volleyball team tasted sweet victory as they won the 2021 Missoula Team Volleyball Camp. That taste has the group of spikers hungry for more. "It gave them confidence," Malta M-ette Coach Tasha Hines said. "I feel like they were always chasing the buck with volleyball and it was there. They just needed to own that." Last Monday, August 16, the team started holding their first regular-season practices, and the hunger to perform well has been seen on the...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Hunter Education course dates have been set for Glasgow. An in-person classroom course runs Sept. 13-17, and an optional online field day, for those that completed the online course, will be offered on Sept. 17. All hunter education classes are free of charge. In-person, instructor-led hunter education classroom courses are available to anyone age 10 and older and provide new hunters with a hands-on learning experience that can be particularly beneficial for...
The Second Annual Craig Mangis Rough Stock Memorial featured plenty of action last Saturday night at the Trafton Rodeo Arena in Malta. The event is in memory of Craig Mangis who passed away on May 27, 2019. Amongst the hundreds at the event were Mangis' wife Mary Mangis, daughter Katie Skiff, son Matt Mangis (who lives in South Dakota), and Skiff's children McKinley and R.C. Skiff was asked about the event. "I think it's awesome," Skiff said. "It is very cool that they are doing this and we as...
Skateboarding enthusiasts of all ages had a chance to come out and be a part of a free clinic put on by Girls on Shred last Thursday, August 12, at the Malta Skatepark. The PCN had the chance to talk to a couple of members of Girls on Shred during the event. "I am a teacher and a skateboarder, so I love getting out to skateparks and helping kids learn," said Girls on Shred instructor Kim Petersen. Though they spend much of their time at the numerous parks in Missoula and other nearby towns,...
