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The gridiron has been waiting for the return of Montana sports and when it comes to Class A, the Havre High football team is ready to make some noise once again this season. There were plenty of great moments in 2019, as the Blue Ponies fought their way to a semifinal appearance in the Class A playoffs. In fact, with a strong veteran core returning to the field, as well as some young and hungry new players, Havre is primed to have another great season in 2020. The Eastern A...
COVID-19 put the 2020 fall sports season in doubt for some time, but not for long, as many high school programs are ready to get back to it, including the Havre High volleyball team, who have been waiting to step on the court this season and give it their all. After a push to make it to the Class A State Tournament as the No. 4 seed from the Eastern A back in 2019, there will be plenty of high expectations for the 2020 squad. And under new head coach Steph Huse, the Blue Pony...
It's a new normal right now for high school sports, with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But, in the case of the Havre High cross country teams, it's also a new era. Friday, the Blue Ponies will host Time Trial at the MSU-Northern course, thus beginning the season under new head coach Kari Filius. Under Filius, Havre will be ready for another exciting year on the course. With practices showing plenty of progress, the Ponies will look to turn some heads in 2020, which is...
High school football in the COVID-19 era on the Hi-Line has begun. After falling to the Park City Panthers in the 2019 season, the Chinook High football team was ready to get some revenge and start off the 2020 year right. That's exactly what the Beeters did, pulling away with the win over the Panthers 30-24 in Park City for a great start to the season. Park City did start off the game strong, though, as the Panthers battled to put up two touchdowns in the first quarter, with...
After a rollercoaster of emotions and uncertainty about the 2020 fall football season along the Hi-Line due to COVID-19, the fall season was given the green light to go forward. With many of the Class C schools heading back to school at full-capacity, the 8-man and 6-man football teams will look to go at their season in that way, too. With that, Class C teams along the Hi-Line will be competing tonight and Saturday in their season-openers. The first weekend of football for the...
Across the state of Montana, as fall sports seasons loom, counties and school districvts have been annoucning plans on how to conduct sporting events amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tuesday, Havre Public Schools announced theirs. As per Havre High athletic director Brian Kessler, there will be limited attendance at Blue Pony games for the fall season. There were specific guidelines and rules set in place for all fall sports, with most of the guidelines sharing similarities, while...
Last week saw the Havre High football and volleyball teams push through their first week of official practices during the COVID-19 era. After putting in a lot of work throughout the week, the two teams wrapped up a great week of practice with the annual Blue/White Day scrimmages, which brought about plenty of positives for the upcoming season. The weekend started off with the football scrimmage up at Blue Pony Stadium Friday night, where the Ponies suited up and took the...
It will be some time before September comes around, which has been deemed the new start to the fall season for the Havre High football and volleyball teams, but do not worry, the two teams will get to have some fun this weekend. Tonight and Saturday is when the annual Blue/White Day for the Blue Pony football and volleyball scrimmages will take place. Tonight will see the football team take the field at 6 p.m. at Blue Pony Stadium, followed by the volleyball team taking the...
4 has been arguably, one of the most hectic years in sports history. COVID-19 has ravaged the world of sports. It canceled the spring sports seasons for high schools and colleges across the country, it temporarily postponed many major sports for months and it threatened the lives of athletes, coaches and fans. The pandemic has put many things at risk already and still is threatening to do so. But there has been some light in the darkness this summer. That shining light just...
Last week, the Frontier Conference made the difficult decision that many people were anticipating. There will be no football in the league this fall. Still, while the league will try for a spring season due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, since we here at the Havre Daily News had already started our annual position by position Frontier Conference previews, we intend to continue, and finish it. So, we continue on with a look at the top wide receivers in the Frontier, and the...
If you want to move the football, you gotta have the road graders up front to help your offense do it. And over the years, the Frontier Conference has had some outstanding offensive linemen. And, the 2020 season, which is inching closer to training camps opening, should be no different when it comes to the offensive lines. At Montana State University-Northern, the offensive line has had its ups and downs in recent years, but third-year head coach Andrew Rolin is excited about...
The fall sports season is right around the corner for Havre High School. After the spring sports season was wiped away by the COVID-19 pandemic, the future of high school athletics was hanging in the balance. But, after the state of Montana went into Phase II of its re-opening plan, things were looking brighter. And recently, the Montana High School Association put forward a set of guidelines and restrictions in place for the fall sports season, as well as a plan to have at...
After falling to the Billings Blue Jays in the Class A State Tournament opening round, the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club would have to climb its way through the loser’s bracket to stay in the tournament and continue its season. Down in Lewistown at Ryan Sparks Field, the No. 2 Northstars were walking the wire. But this weekend saw the end to Havre’s season, as the No. 2 Bitteroot Buccaneers defeated the Northstars 18-13 in a high-scoring shootout in the los...
Legion Field is a historic stadium, not just on the Hi-Line, but in Montana, too. Decades of baseball have been in the ballpark on the hill, where memories have been made for many. The rich history surrounding Legion Field is definitely massive, especially when it comes to the work that has been put into the ballpark over the years. Like many stadiums and complexes, Legion Field went through many different changes throughout time. As the years went on, there were updates that...
The Class A State Tournament kicked off Thursday morning, as eight teams from across Montana journeyed to Ryan Sparks Field in Lewistown for a shot at winning the 2020 state title. The best-of-the-best from the North, South, East and West were ready to collide, one of those teams being the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club. The Northstars entered the state tourney as the No. 2 seed of the North, with their first opponent being the East’s No. 1, the Billings B...
The year of 2020 has been a wild ride for many. And at Havre High School, there have been many changes seen to its athletics. Not only have new coaches for sports programs throughout the year been approved and implemented, but the Blue Ponies have a new athletic director, as well. Brian Kessler, who will serve as the activities director and assistant principal, now a combined position, will be a part of the Havre staff. Coming from Helena High School, where he served six...
The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club is hot. After pushing through a tough Northern A District Tournament to make it to the Class A State Tournament, where the Northstars will look to fight all the way to the top to win a state chipper. After not being in the tournament since 2005, Havre is ready to get cracking and put on a show. Down in Lewistown at Ryan Sparks Field, the Northstars will be representing the North as the No. 2 seed, with their opening round oppo...
It has been some time since the Havre High football has gone to work on the field, but even so, many of the athletes that make up the Blue Ponies have been working hard to make their futures become reality. But for one Havre High standout, his dream is being realized. Upcoming Blue Pony defensive lineman and running back, senior Kellen Detrick, has been wreaking havoc on the field and working hard to help Havre go far, but as of Monday night Detrick moved forward with a big dr...
After a good fall season back in 2019, the Havre High cross country teams were excited about the coming season. And now, that bright future will be led by new head coach Kari Filius for the 2020 season, as the Havre High School Board approved her new position recently. With Filius now leading the program, there will be a new path for the runners to follow. Filius has had some previous experience as a coach, as she coached a lot of basketball at Havre Middle School and...
GREAT FALLS - After coming back against the No. 4 Great Falls Lightning Wednesday evening, the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club was in high spirits at the Northern A District Tournament. Things were looking up for Havre Thursday, where the No. 3 Northstars put on quite the show at Centene Stadium in Great Falls. First, Thursday started off with a shutout revenge win over the No. 2 Tri-County Cardinals 8-0 in the morning, which gave Havre a spot in the championshi...
The Havre High volleyball team is anxious for the fall season to start. And, the Blue Ponies will have a new head coach in Stephanie Huse. Huse was announced as the new head volleyball coach at HHS Tuesday. Huse, who was a high-level volleyball athlete for Montana Tech back in the 1990s, where she played for the Orediggers on scholarship for four years, while earning a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering in 1999 and then a master's degree in counseling from Montana...
The postseason arrived Wednesday for the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club, as Havre arrived at Centene Stadium in Great Falls for the Northern A District Tournament. Four teams, the No. 1 Lewistown Redbirds, the No. 2 Tri-County Cardinals, the No. 3 Northstars and the No. 4 Great Falls Lightning were ready to throw down in the Electric City. As for Havre, it split its Wednesday games. First, the Northstars took a rough loss to the Cardinals 8-5 Wednesday...
The regular season has passed for the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club, as the first leg of the postseason will be upon them Wednesday and Thursday. It will be a grueling two days at the Northern A District Tournament in Great Falls at Centene Stadium, where Havre looks to punch its ticket to the Class A State Tournament in August. Wednesday will be the start of the tournament, with the No. 3 Northstars playing against the rough-and-tough No. 2 Tri-County Cardina...
The Havre Youth Baseball Association had a lot in mind when it came to their leagues' seasons for 2020, with the plan to be able to finish all of them if things went in the right direction. Luckily, things did fair well for the HYBA, which had its final championship match for the Babe Ruth league Thursday evening at Legion Field. And at the end of the night, the Havre Optimist Club came out on top, shutting out PJ's 6-0 to win the Babe Ruth championship for the 2020 season....
After what looked to be a rallying series of games that would give the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club a good position going into the Northern A District Tournament, things went south as the Northstars were plagued with a series of road games that did not go as Havre had hoped, including the season closer on the road against the Tri-County Cardinals to end the regular season. It has been tough as of late for the Northstars when it comes to road games and the...
