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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...
The Malta Swim Team competed at the Montana Federation of Swimmers State Meet in Sidney last weekend and came home with a third place trophy in Class C. "I thought the team did great," Malta Head Coach Danika Wilke said. "There were only four teams competing for Class C at state and we managed to get a 3rd place trophy even though there were four of us swimmers. That being said, if we got 3rd place with only four swimmers you could only imagine what we could do with more. "All the Malta...
They came ready and pumped up. They came ready to take the world on. "They" were at the Big Sky State Games held in Billings, Montana over the weekend. From east to west and north to south, families and individuals converged on Billings and added not only to the traffic, they opened their wallets for lodging, food, shopping, entertainment and fuel. The most popular sport continues to be basketball, which attracted 1,500 athletes; volleyball is the second most popular bringing about 800 athletes...
The Malta Swim Team competed at the 2024 Montana Federation of Swimmers Eastern Divisional meet in Glendive last weekend, and all four swimmers qualified for the State meet in Sidney this weekend. Due to their size, Malta will compete in the Class C Division at state. “Overall for the amount of kids we had I believe we did a great job,” Malta Swim Team Head Coach Danika Wilke said. “We were the smallest team to compete in the eastern divisional swim meet with only having three swimmers.” The tea...
Phillips County Motorsports held three racing events from Friday, July 12 to Sunday, July 14, at the Hi-Line Dragstrip in Malta. On July 12, racers were able to complete a race that they started on Saturday, June 15, but could not complete due to weather. This time around, the weather was a different extreme. “It was very hot but it went well,” PCMS President Dan Stout told the PCN. “It was the Montana Drag Race Association race. We had about 70 cars of which about 11 were junior drags...
On Saturday, two wee pound wrestling whizzes traveled to Spearfish, South Dakota. They were bound for the 2024 Blackhills Night Brawl, a unique wrestling event. It is held on a football field, where mats are laid out and the youth wrestle "under the lights." The two mighty mouses were Sidney (age 6) and her little sister, Teddi (age 5), of Malta. Apparently, they didn't get enough wrestling in during the season, or they just love the sport. Wanna make any bets...to win, lay it on their love for...
At Trafton Park, it wasn't no kids' rodeo. This was where the boots, hats, and butts hit the ground...it was another rodeo put on by local rancher, Jerey McEwen, and a host of hands that made it seem to go like clockwork. Felicia Bruckner opened the event on Saturday by singing the national anthem, followed by a prayer by the announcer. On Sunday, Sommer Green of Whitewater sang the anthem. The pickup men were Ted Brown and Reed Pankratz. It wasn't much of a "Cowboy Christmas" at the rodeo for...
