Fall sports are here

Football, volleyball, cross country seasons to begin

 

August 23, 2018

John Hamilton

HAPPY HAWK SENIORS Maya Stiles and Sarah Detlaff, and the rest of the Lady Hawk volleyball team will open season play at the Choteau Invitational Friday and Saturday.

The sports of fall are upon us, and it will be a race to the finish from here on out as football, volleyball and cross country teams will hit the ground running with a spate of games and matches this week.

The four volleyball teams of Sanders County will play in three different tournaments.

Coach Sandra Kazmierczak and her Thompson Falls Lady Hawks, always one of the better coach-and-team acts in the Western B division, will start their 2018 campaign in the Choteau Tournament Friday and Saturday.

Featuring some of the best Class B teams from around the state, the Choteau tourney is widely regarded as the best early-season event to be in for B teams, and Kazmeirczak has liked the competition her teams gets out of it since getting Thompson Falls into the tournament on an annual basis for the past several years.

Seniors Sarah Detlaff and Maya Stiles (a second team District 7B all-conference selection) will lead the Lady Hawks this season, and Brooke Bowlin, Belle Cooper, Jody Detlaff and Riley Wilson also return with varsity experience under their belts.

The Plains Trotters, who ended up winning third place in the Western C divisional tournament and just missed a State C bid, lost a lot of talent from last year's team, but seem to still have a lot on hand.

Coach Jesse Butcher lost the All-State C talents of Jessica Thompson and fellow District 14C all-conference netters Kara Altmiller and Lindsay Laws, but returns 14C first team pick Rachel Huenink and other talented players like Kylee Altmiller, Haley Josephson and Emma Morgan, among others, and looks to rebuild the Trotters into contenders quite quickly.

The Trotters will open the season playing in the Mission Tournament Saturday.

Noxon and Hot Springs will both compete in the two-day Philipsburg-Drummond Tournament played in those neighboring towns Friday and Saturday.

Danielle Cannon, Sage Jackson, Sydney Jackson and MacKenzie Cannon, all all-conference players last year, should return for the Hot Springs Savage Heat, while players including Kristina Brown, Anna Kaiser and Delaney Weltz should be back to lead Noxon.

In cross country, the Thompson Falls Blue Hawks and Lady Hawks, who each finished third in the Western B divisional meet, will open the season in the Libby Invitational Saturday.

Sophomore Josey Neesvig, who won Western B all-conference honors by taking eighth place in the divisional meet, and senior Rachel Ribeiro return to lead the Lady Hawks, while senior Nathan Burwig, Justin Morgan and Nick

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Viera are back for the Hawk boys.

Reagan Hanks is also back for the Lady Hawks, sophomore Megan Baxter has just joined the team and freshman Roni Hanks joins her older sister in running for the Thompson Falls girls.

In football, the Noxon Red Devils, who made the playoffs for the first time in 18 years last fall, will open the season hosting Lincoln Friday night in Noxon.

For more on the other football teams of Sanders County, see those stories. For more on the teams described above, watch coming issues of the Ledger.

 

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