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After the split doubleheader with the Great Falls Lightning last Wednesday evening, the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club was aiming to find some more wins and to gain experience in their next challenge, which was their first road games of the season, as well. The Northstars competed in the Gallatin Valley Tournament Friday and Saturday in Three Forks, putting up a 1-3 record in the tourney, putting their overall record at 3-9. Havre beat the Lewistown Redbirds 13...
Wednesday night saw Legion Field packed with excitment once more, as the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club took the field for what would be an exciting series against a newer opponent in the Great Falls Lightning. The Northern A doubleheader showdown at was looking to spell good tidings for Havre, but at the end of the day, it was only half good for the Northstars. In the doubleheader against the Lightning, the Northstars won the first game of the evening 14-9 in...
Havre hosts Great Falls in a Northern District double-dip The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club has been back in action and the community is eating it up. On top of that, another year of baseball, especially in such uncertain times such as these, means another year of watching athletes give it their all on the field. And example of that kind of athlete is junior - soon-to-be-senior at HHS - Carson Lunak. Lunak is a lineman for the Havre High Blue Ponies football...
It’s rodeo season, even if it is a little different. And high school rodeo had to wait a long time to get back into the heat of the competition due to COVID-19, but once they got the all-clear, there were quite a few kids who made their stake at the Montana High School Rodeo Finals last weekend in Baker. And most notable were performance from local Havre competitors Cole Hould and Mary Gibson, who both put up and impressive weekend in the arena. Hould, a senior at Havre H...
Summer has seen sports take the field again and the Havre community is glad to see it back in action. With that, there has been a lot more hope that the fall 2020 season will have the same result, with the Havre High football team getting back into action in Blue Pony Stadium this year, all the while, hopefully, avoiding another roadblock caused by COVID-19, an obstacle that led to the 2020 spring sports season going under. The pandemic has held sports, business and social...
After tough battles with the Lewistown Redbirds last Tuesday, the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club had a four-game weekend next on its schedule as part of the Havre Jamboree that went from Friday to Sunday at Legion Field. Havre was up for a big weekend full of action at home. The Northstars started off the jamboree right with a 10-6 win over the Glendive Blue Devils Saturday evening, but then fell to the Gallatin Valley Outlaws 12-1 right after. Then Sunday,...
It was a big day for local sports, as the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club got to take the field for the first time in 2020. COVID-19 certainly posed a threat to the Northstars chances of playing at first, but Havre got on the diamond Tuesday night at Legion Field for its season and home opener against Class A North District rival, Lewistown Redbirds. The doubleheader showdown was exciting as the Northstars were playing Havre's first varsity sporting event since...
The 2020 season is right around the corner and the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club is ready to take the field. The season has been long-awaited for the team and fans, who have pushed through the struggles of the COVID-19 pandemic to be able to play baseball this summer. As a bonus, the season will start off with a series of home-games for the Northstars. Legion Field will be bustling this week, as the home and season opener for Havre starts tonight against the...
It has been a long time since football has been on the field, but with summer kicking off, many teams, including the Havre High football team, are usually putting in work for the summer training season in hopes of sharpening their skills to do well in the coming season. And, the 2020 season is getting closer by the day, but with COVID-19 still at the forefront, there has not been much for the Blue Ponies to do. In times like these, though, it is a journey to look back on the...
COVID-19 had plans to disrupt the 2020 Montana American Legion baseball season, but the league improvised, adapted and overcame the obstacle to move forward with a summer season, which means that the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club will be taking to the field once again for another year. Last season, the Northstars ended up with a 13-11 conference record and a 23-18 overall record to rank at No. 4 in the Class A North District standings. It may not have been...
Time is ticking away on the youth baseball season, and the start of summer is here. Since the last time the Havre Youth Baseball Association updated the public on how it's proceeding during the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple aspects of the possibility of a season have changed, especially on the more positive side. HYBA was already working toward making a plan to allow a season to take place. Many pieces of the puzzle have been put together since then, but back in the beginning...
The Havre High volleyball program is now looking for its next head coach. Longtime Blue Pony head coach Tamecia Jarvis said she was not renewed for next season. Havre High Activities Director Dennis Murphy appreciated Jarvis for her work as the head coach for the Ponies. "I want to thank her for her time as the Havre High volleyball coach," Murphy said. Jarvis became the Blue Ponies' head coach in 2015. This past season, she led Havre High to a fourth-place finish at the Class...
It has been a rollercoaster of a spring for the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club, with a mix of uncertainty and hope that a season will come about in 2020. After all, summer baseball has been a huge passion in the local community for years. Now though, with Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announcing in his press conference Tuesday afternoon that Phase II of the re-opening of Montana is to begin June 1, the Northstars have an even bigger shot at the season starting as...
This was to be the biggest week in the season. The week that would have been the 2020 Class A State Softball tournament. Before COVID-19 struck down the spring sports season in Montana, the Havre High softball team had plenty of goals, including being a part of the state tournament this weekend. But that chance will not come this year, which is quite a painful thing to experience for the many teams that were ready to get back out on the field. Havre has been to plenty of...
Havre, and the state of Montana for that matter, know just how good Marc Mariani and Gary Wagner were on the gridiron many years ago. The duo was a big part of the Havre High football team that rocked their way to a Class A state championship title, etching their names in the history books. Mariani and Wagner are still considering one of the best combos in Blue Pony sports history. But, Mariani and Wagner were not just a force to be reckoned with on the field, as another...
FORT BENTON - There have been plenty of family tie sports stories across the Hi-Line over the years, but there are some bonds that change and evolve over time in a different way, especially when it comes to the bonds that siblings share in the sports world. Most recently, the Hi-Line and the District 9C have seen a pair of sisters that have made some noise in their shared senior seasons. Fort Benton has had a lot of talent in girls sports and in the 2019-2020 season, the...
Comebacks are always a great story in the world of sports. The most notable and often recognized comebacks come from teams that defy the odds placed before them, but what often can be overlooked is the comebacks that individual athletes have. What better feeling is there than watching a player climb his way back to game, where they leave a lasting impression? When it comes to the Hi-Line, Big Sandy's own Brock Proulx has put his name in the books as an athlete that never...
COVID-19 has taken a lot away from the world of sports, its fans and its players, including the ambitions of Havre High senior Quinn Springer - at least for the spring anyway. Springer has been a star on the football field for the Blue Ponies as a lineman, both protecting his quarterback and going after the opposing quarterback. Springer was a big part of the 2019 fall season and the run to the Class A quarterfinals for Havre, making his case as a productive lineman for the...
Last weekend ended with an out-of-nowhere move by the American Legion Baseball National Organization, which has canceled the 2020 season for all teams that are a part of the organization across the United States. Originally, the national association only canceled the American Legion World Series and all regional tournaments last month, and left regular seasons and distrcit tournaments up to individual states. However, the association reversed course over the weekend. But even...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights wrestling team has been a pillar of success in the NAIA. Northern has put up some impressive seasons on the mat and has gained the attention as a team that can compete till the very end. The Lights have been growing stronger over the years and the 2019-2020 season showed that climb. MSU-Northern finished the year with a 6-4 overall dual record but crushed it at home, going undefeated at 4-0 in the Armory Gymnasium. There were many...
It has been roughly three months since the first moments that the sports world fell victim to the COVID-19 concern. Even if Montana was one of the last states to cancel multiple seasons and events, there has still been much missed since then. Spring sports have been canceled, summer sports are iffy and the future of sports is still relatively uncertain. These past three months have been tough for high school sports especially, where the spring season would have been the first...
It has been some time since the spring sports season was canceled, with many athletes mourning the loss of the season that never came. This year, like always, would have seen many student-athlete's standout year in their respective sports. But now, that will not happen. Regardless, many athletes like Havre High softball senior Savannah Dawson have been pushing through and making the most of their last moments of high school. Not having a senior season hurts, but it has not...
The high school spring sports season got shut down due to COVID-19, but there was a possibility that the summer sports can still go on. Originally, the American Legion baseball in Montana had its season on hold, but after a decision last week to green-light practices, and with permission from local health boards, hope came back for the teams. In the case of the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club, the Hill County Health Board approved the plan that was presented to...
It has been almost a couple months since the world of sports stopped due to the COVID-19 concern. It feels like it has been forever since the day sports halted, but in reality, it has not been too long. Regardless, the lack of sports has been harsh for many across the state of Montana. And since that day, many local and state events have been canceled. The first event to fall at the hands of COVID-19 was the Montana High School Association State basketball tournaments. The...
There are many things that have been lost with the official cancellation of the spring sports season. There will be no games, meets or events. And student-athletes, especially seniors, have been left to wonder: What might have been? For a good majority of the seniors in high school sports, it has been a long time of dedication and hard work to go far in their sport, including Havre High tennis players Reese Bulkley and Jake Huston. Bulkley and Huston have been a doubles team...
