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The Havre Youth Baseball Association held another league championship this week and it culminated Wednesday with the Minors championship game at Elks Park. Chinook and Stromberg Sinclair emerged from the six-team field to meet in the title game and it turned out to be an exciting affair that went down to the final pitch. Stromberg Sinclair scored three runs in the first inning and eventually build a 6-2 lead heading into the bottom of the fourth inning, which was the last...
Summer may not feel like the time for football but there will be plenty of football activities taking place at the Montana State University-Northern practice field this week as the Lights host a pair of youth camps this week. MSU-N and head football coach Andrew Rolin are holding a K-5 camp, which goes from 9 a.m. till 11 a.m. and also a future Lights camp that features middle-school aged participants from 1 to 3 p.m. Both camps are running for four days, Monday through...
When it comes to being the head coach of a college football program, even in the NAIA, there is very little downtime. There is always some task ahead, and Montana State University-Northern's Andrew Rolin knows that as well as anyone. Rolin is getting set to enter his second season as head coach of the Lights, who will kick off their 2019 campaign Aug. 31 at Arizona Christian University. If you didn't know, that's less than 100 days away, which means there is a lot of work to...
Patch Wirtzberger, the head coach of the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team, had a lot of goals for his team heading into the three-day Havre Jamboree that took place at Legion Field over the weekend. Going 4-0 wasn’t necessarily one of those goals. Yet, despite trailing at some point in each of their four games over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, that’s exactly what the Northstars did, knocking off Fort Macleod twice, Medicine Hat and then the Montana Reg...
The Hi-Line United U19 soccer team concluded its season at the 2019 Montana Classic Cup last weekend in Miles City. The team representing the Hi-Line on the soccer pitch took part in the statewide 19U cup and competed in a six-team field that also included Sidney, Lewistown, Miles City, Red Lodge and Big Timber. The tournament got underway last Saturday with the start of group play that included three matches for each team as the six teams were split into a pair of three-team...
The Havre Youth Baseball Association season is in full swing in Havre and the first of many city championships were decided Wednesday night as the Babe Ruth league played the championship game of its double-elimination tournament at Legion Field. FLC, Frank Leeds Construction, ended up winning the Babe Ruth city championship after defeating Optimist twice Monday night. FLC came through the losers bracket to reach the championship game and won the first game against Optimist...
One of the many traditions of the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team is the jamboree they host every summer, and the 2019 Havre Jamboree is set for this weekend, with the three-day, 12-game baseball extravaganza scheduled to start Friday night. The first game will feature the Medicine Hat Knights and the Montana Regulators. The Northstars will then play the first of four games in three days as they will take on the Fort MacLeod Royals Friday night at 9 p.m. The Nor...
For anyone who has ever participated in high school sports, you will know there is something special about it. It's a rare opportunity to take part in organized athletics and for most, doing it in high school is the last chance they will get. Yet, there are those rare athletes that are talented enough to advance to the collegiate level. Along the Hi-Line, we have been blessed over the years to have been able to watch our fair share of them, and this past year was no...
With the school year coming to a close this week, that means that the hiatus on Havre High sports begins. In fact, it actually started a couple of weeks ago when track, tennis and the other spring sports wrapped up their seasons. Looking back, it was another incredibly successful year for Havre High athletics as the Blue Ponies not only captured Class A state championships in both girls basketball and boys swimming, HHS also had 32 different athletes earn Class A All-State hon...
After already losing once to Medicine Hat, a two-game sweep by the Knights seemed inevitable, especially with a 9-2 lead over the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team headed to the bottom of the seventh inning in the second game between the two teams Sunday afternoon. Another loss for the Northstars would have meant three in a row during their four-game home stand at Legion Field over the weekend against Fort Maceod and Medicine Hat. Havre split with the Royals...
It’s still early in the season for the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team, but with four critical games on tap for this weekend at Legion Field, it’s not too early to send a statement to the rest of the Northern A District. Havre (4-2) will enter the weekend with a 2-0 district mark following a home sweep over Tri-County earlier in the season. Yet, with Fort Macleod and Medicine Hat in town for doubleheaders Saturday (2 p.m.) and Sunday (1 p.m.) respectively, the...
The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team is about to hit the heart of its district schedule, and if the team is going to make some noise in the Northern A District this season, it will need young players to step up, players like Eli Cloninger. Cloninger, who also played golf last fall for Havre High, as well as basketball, is entering his second season of Legion baseball. During 2018, his first with the Norhtstars, Cloninger logged 20 games but this season, after a...
The season may still be in its infancy for the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team, but that didn't stop last Wednesday's game in Great Falls from turning into undoubtedly one of the most exciting games of the season. The Northstars paid a visit to the Electric City Wednesday to take on the Chargers AA squad, a team Havre beat one week earlier. This time around, in another non-conference matchup, Chargers won a wild one, 18-17 thanks to a run in the bottom of the...
Doubles has been a strength for the Havre High tennis teams for a long time now. And, on the final weekend of the 2019 season, it was yet again. Ten Blue Ponies made their way to last week's Class A state tennis tournament in Kalispell, and for the third consecutive year, a Havre boys doubles team came home with Class A All-State honors. Senior Tommy Brown and junior Tyrel Kjersem, fresh off a Central A championship two weeks ago, made a great run in Kalispell, reaching the...
It has been a long time since the Havre High girls track team has crowned a state champion in track and while the Blue Ponies didn't get one at the 2019 Class A state track meet, they came closer than they have in years. Coming into the weekend, the Ponies expected to contend for state championships in both the 400 and 1,600-meter relays and HHS did just that, finishing as the runner-up in both events to Whitefish. The 400-meter relay team finished second after Loy Waid, Grace...
Winning trophies at the Class C state track meet is nothing new for the Fort Benton girls. However, this past weekend in Laurel, the boys team also got its hands on a team trophy as both Longhorn teams finished third. Seeley-Swan finished first in the girls Class C state track meet, taking home the state championship with 90.33 points. Charlo finished second with 48 and Fort Benton, which won the state championship in 2017 and finished second in 2018, was third with 43. In...
Over the past three seasons, the Fort Benton Longhorns have collected plenty of hardware on the track and this weekend, at the Class C state meet, both the boys and girls teams will be looking for more. The Fort Benton girls are no stranger to winning trophies at state. Two years ago, the Longhorns won the Class C state track meet and they did it in Laurel, the same site where the competition is being held Friday and Saturday. "We have really been building some nice...
All season long, the Havre High girls track team has dominated when it comes to the relay races, and this weekend, at the Class A state meet in Laurel, the Blue Ponies will look to finish at the top of the podium again. During the track season, the Havre girls have competed in 19 relay races in 10 different track meets. The 400-meter relay team, which will consist of Jessa Chvilicek, Grace Loftus, Loy Waid and Katie Wirtzberger this weekend, has finished first in 10 out of 10...
It has been an exciting season for the Havre High track teams and ahead of the Class A state meet this weekend in Laurel, head coach John Ita has one message for his team: Have fun. "This has been an incredibly fun track season," Ita said. "This senior class has been tremendous to work with and the kids have just been great all year. They have all worked really hard and even the kids that didn't make it to state, most of them got PRs (personal records) and so for the kids...
When it comes to sports, people tend to use the word dynasty a little too loosely. But with all the divisional and state championships won by the Havre High boys tennis teams in doubles, the word dynasty might just be appropriate. Dating back to 2002, Havre High has dominated Class A boys tennis in doubles. In the previous 17 state tournaments, Blue Pony teams have won the state championship seven times in addition to playing for the state championship a total of 10 times,...
The Class A state tennis tournament has always been a place the Havre Blue Ponies have thrived. In just the last 17 seasons, the Pony boys and girls have combined to win six state championships and bring home 18 top three trophies. So, it would stand to reason that the 10 Ponies headed to this weekend's 2019 Class A state tournament in Kalispell, have a great chance to add to the trophy case in the hallowed halls of HHS. And the tournament, which runs Thursday and Friday, has...
The Havre High girls track team has taken a big step forward this season, and this past weekend in Belgrade, at the Eastern A Divisional meet, the Blue Ponies demonstrated again how far they have come. In addition to qualifying for 21 events at the Class A girls track meet, the Pony girls also captured three first-place finishes at divisionals and finished fourth in the team competition with 55 points. Laurel took home the Eastern A team title in the girls competition,...
The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team wasn't even supposed to play at home Sunday. Instead, they were supposed to play the Tri-County Cardinals on the road. Yet, due to poor weather in Conrad, the Northern A District doubleheader was moved to Legion Field and in the first conference games of the season, the Northstars took care of business, sweeping the Cardinals Sunday by the scores of 8-4 and 4-2. The Northstars fell behind 2-0 in the first game as Tony Antley...
The Havre High boys and girls tennis teams had little time to get ready for the 2019 Central A Divisional Tournament, with weather pushing the event ahead two days. And yet, it didn't bother the Blue Ponies in the least. In Lewistown last Tuesday-Wednesday, the Blue Ponies racked up trophies and hardware, as usual, with the Havre boys winning their 10th straight Central A team title, and the Pony girls finishing a close second to Livingston. Individually, the Ponies also...
The Havre High softball team had two chances to earn the one win it needed to reach the Class A state tournament. Unfortunately, for the Blue Ponies, that win never came. Playing in what will be the final Central A Divisional softball tournament with Belgrade moving to Class AA next season, Havre traveled to Lewistown last Thursday, hoping to get back to yet another state tournament. But an 8-1 loss to Belgrade in the opening game left Havre taking on Livingston for third...
