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Red Devils rising
The Red Devils are rising, and they are not done yet. The rising Noxon track and field teams enjoyed measurable success at the District 14C meet in Missoula last week and, as a result will be looking to make memories again this week at the combined...
Young Plains track team competes, advances
The Plains track and field teams are the young and the restless; and you can expect to hear a lot more from them in the next few years. Coaches Denise Montgomery and George Sherwood led the Trotters and Horsemen into the combined District 13C/14C/6B...
Carley Von Heeder wins Big Sky title
Carley VonHeeder is not just a local legend anymore, she also is now a Montana State athletic icon. A fifth-year senior at Montana State University, VonHeeder, who graduated from Plains in 2016, put her name in the Bobcat record books last week by wi...
Kassidy Kinzie is MVP
Talk about taking softball to a new level; how about clear to the MVP level? Kassidy Kinzie, a 2019 Plains High School graduate who led the Trotters to third place in the State B-C tournament that sea...
Easy Street leads Tuesday action
Easy Street Autoworks shot the low team gross and Noxon Quik Stop the low team net as Custom Ventures stayed atop the standings in Tuesday Night Men’s League golf action at River’s Bend last week. Ron Beaty, Dave Garr, Charlie Hooten and Rusty Hag...
Ostwald leads team to Wednesday win
With Ryan Ostwald leading the way with the low individual gross of 38, the Hagedorn Land Surveying team – which also includes Paul Flemmer, Kelly Kovarik and Bernie Groshong – copped low team gross honors with a collective round of 175 in Wed...
Blue Hawks heat up, win 4 of 5
There is no such thing as a halfway swing in softball – either you swing at the ball with authority or you don't – there should be no in-between. Getting back on their game and swinging their bats wit...
Trotters looking ahead
The Plains-Hot Springs Trotters softball team has had a season of growth, of getting to know their new coach and teammates better as they go. Taking their cues from new coach Dani Crowe this season,...
Combined District 13C/14C track and field meet this week
Plains, Hot Springs and Noxon track and field teams will be in Missoula at the combined District 13C/14C meet Friday and Saturday hoping to earn trips back to Missoula the following week. With the top five athletes in each event earning their way on...
Hawks head to Eureka for District 7B meet
The final tune-up before the champions are determined. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawk track and field squads completed regular season action at the Kim L. Haines Invitational meet in Missoula Saturday w...
Jody Detlaff signs with Tech
For Jody Detlaff, there are just not enough sports in the world. But, with high school graduation rapidly approaching and her prep sporting career finally nearing its productive, busy ending, Detlaff...
Hawks win in Seeley Invite
It all comes down to the Western B. With an optimism based on some fine late-season results from the Seeley-Swan Invitational at Double Arrow Golf Course Thursday, coach Gary Thompson and his Blue...
Surging Plains golf teams earn way to State C tourney
It’s that kind of smile that makes it all worthwhile. The kind of smile we are talking about here, “that” kind of smile was all over Brandt Snead’s face as he met coach Lisa Brown after shooting perhaps the golf round of his life at the Seeley-...
Highlead holds on to Wednesday lead
Taking the high road by shooting the low team net of 142, Highlead golfers Jesse Mosher, Chadd Laws, John Mosher and Steve Fairbank kept their team in first place in Wednesday Night Men’s League action at River’s Bend last week. Golfing for Hag...
Blue Hawks are Top 8 great
Top 8 great. Saying "some great things happened" with her team at the Top 8 meet in Eureka last Tuesday, April 27, Thompson Falls coach Trenna Ferris and her charges now concentrate their efforts on...
DREAM TEAM
Someone should pinch Denise Montgomery; she thinks she might just be dreaming. The long-time coach of the Plains track and field team, Montgomery has an excuse for feeling like she must be dreaming right now, her current band of 12 thinclads has...
Heat head to big finish
Coach Andrew Leichtnam and his Savage Heat thinclads are working towards a big finish to the season, aiming for the combined District 13C/14C meet in Missoula May 21-22 as the place to begin that big ending. Hot Springs will warm up for the district...
VanVleet, Morgan set Top 8 records
Those record setting Red Devils. Noxon’s Cade VanVleet and MacKenzie Morgan made quite the small-school splash at the Top 8 meet in Eureka April 27, as VanVleet obliterated meet records in the d...
Thill's Breakers hand Hawks two tough losses
The Thill of victory, the agony of defeat. Guided by the legendary Otto Thill, the man with the acerbic tongue who built Florence into a formidable softball force in the early 2000s, the Loyola...
Baxter sisters, Pardee lead Hawks in St. Regis
Led by the Baxter sisters with the girls and Kade Pardee with the boys, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks played through at the St. Regis Invitational played at Trestle Creek April 29. Megan Baxter, a...
Plains golfers show potential
You ain’t seen nothing yet. Lisa Brown, who co-coaches the Plains High School golf team along with Don Stamm, thinks her golfers have only just begun to scratch their potential as the season winds down. “These kids have been putting a lot into the...
Tuesday league off to smashing start
Feed-N-Fuel shot the low team gross and Noxon Quik Stop the low net as Quik Stop ended play with the league lead in Tuesday Night Men’s golf action at River’s Bend last week. Leading the Tuesday nighters around the Bend, Ryan Ostwald of team Fee...
Highlead, Moore Oil win Wednesday
Highlead pulled down the lead, First Security Bank shot the low team gross and Moore Oil the low team net in the first week of play in Wednesday Night Men’s League golfing action at River’s Bend last Wednesday. Leading First Security in was Mike Bax...
Over the Hill returns to River's Bend
It had been a long time coming, this round of Over the Hill golfing, but it was well worth the wait in retrospect. As the cloud of COVID-19 slowly passes over, the locally famous Over the Hill gang golfers were finally able to return to River’s B...
The Gary Thompson Invite!
Don't call it the Thompson Falls Invitational anymore, call it the Gary Thompson Invitational from now on. Since his name is pretty much synonymous with Thompson Falls golf anyway – being as he c...
