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Last week, the Fort Benton Longhorns dominated the field at the District 9C track meet in order to wrap up a three-peat, after winning a third straight district championship. While a three-peat is nice, a four-peat is even better and by besting the field at the Northern C Divisional for the fourth consecutive year, that's what the Longhorns pulled off thanks to the 125.5 points they scored Thursday in Great Falls at Memorial Stadium. Belt finished second with 86, followed by...
The Fort Benton Longhorns have a rich history of success in athletics. Recently, much of that success has come in girls basketball and track and one athlete who has been an integral part of that is Leah Gannon. Gannon is a senior for Fort Benton and she is getting ready to compete in her fourth Northern C Divisional track meet this afternoon in Great Falls and if everything goes as planned, she will be heading to the Class C state track meet again in multiple events. Yet, as...
The divisional track meet has always been critical for the Havre Blue Pony track teams, but this weekend at the Eastern A Divisional, Havre is taking an even more serious approach as the girls hope to contend for a team trophy. In order to do that, Havre must finish among the top three teams in a deep and talented field down in Belgrade that includes Lewistown, Laurel, Sidney, Glendive, Miles City and Havre, all teams that are projected to score 18 points or more at the Class...
When it comes to the Central A Divisional softball tournament, the Havre Blue Ponies have one simple objective: Win one game. By winning that one game, the Blue Ponies would head back to the Class A state tournament, a trip that has become routine for HHS. Yet, after finishing fourth in the Central A standings, getting that win won't be easy. Havre will open the tournament in Lewistown against Belgrade. The Panthers are the No. 1 seed and the defending state champs. The first...
Lauren Kato knows a thing or two about executing under pressure and as the ace for the Havre High softball team, she will face plenty of that this Thursday in Lewistown as she tries to pitch her team to the Class A state tournament. Of course, Kato won't be doing anything on her own. She will have a solid defense behind her and an offense led by Kinzee Peterson, who has a school-record eight home runs this season for the Ponies. But if Havre wants to win a game at divisionals...
The Havre High tennis teams wrapped up their regular season Saturday afternoon in Lewistown. But Tuesday morning, the Blue Ponies will be right back on the Fergus High School Tennis Courts for the biggest tournament of the year. With plenty of bad weather on the horizon, the 2019 Central A Divisional Tournament has been moved from Thursday-Friday to Tuesday-Wednesday in Lewistown, which means, there's no rest for the Ponies. "It's not the situation we're used to this week,"...
The Havre High softball team was in Butte over the weekend at the Laverne Combo softball tournament as the Blue Ponies took part in their final competition before divisionals. Unfortunately, things didn’t go exactly as planned for HHS, as the Ponies posted an 0-3-1 record in the two-day tournament, losing to Hamilton 5-4 and Polson 11-4 Friday. Saturday, Havre dropped its third game of the tournament, going down to Ronan 11-2 before rebounding to tie Butte Central 4-4 in t...
This past high school basketball season was an exciting one for local basketball players and two of them recently decided to keep playing the game at the collegiate level. One of those players is former Chinook Sugarbeeters standout Isaac Bell, who will continue his basketball career at the University of Providence in the Frontier Conference. Bell was a two-time Class C All-State selection for the Beeters and this past season, he helped Chinook go undefeated during the...
For years, Havre High head tennis coach George Ferguson has preached that the Central A Divisional Tournament actually starts a week early, at the Lewistown Invitational. And 18 years into his coaching career, nothing has changed, as his Blue Ponies head to Lewistown Saturday for their annual regular season finale. "It's the biggest day of our season thus far," Ferguson said of the Lewistown Invite. "It's a full dress rehearsal for divisionals, and, it's our last chance to...
Fresh off some of the best softball they have played all season, the Havre Blue Ponies will head to Butte this weekend for the Laverne Combo Invitational in a final tune-up for the Central A Divisional tournament. Havre, which has made the tournament hosted by Butte Central an annual stop, will play four games over the course of Friday and Saturday, starting with Hamilton. First pitch in that game is set for 11:45 a.m. HHS will also play Polson Friday (3:15 p.m.), as well as...
Over the past few seasons, the Fort Benton boys track team has been building toward becoming a power in the District 9C once again and at the district meet Wednesday in Havre, the Longhorns finally realized that ambition. While there was still some excitement near the end of the meet in regards to who would finish second, third and fourth, it was clear early on that Fort Benton was going to win the boys 9C track meet, and ultimately, the Longhorns won going away, racking up...
The Fort Benton girls track team is no stranger to success in the postseason. In fact, the Longhorns are pretty used to it and with the way they performed at the District 9C track meet Wednesday in Havre, their run seems far from over. The Longhorns, who entered the 9C meet as the two-time defending champions and the returning Class C runner-up, won 11 of the 17 events held and finished with an impressive 221 points on their way to a third straight 9C championship. Chinook...
When it comes to local track teams, few have more experience than the Fort Benton girls and one of the Longhorns, most experienced and decorated athletes is junior Nicole Axtman. Axtman has been a key contributor for the Longhorns the past two years as Fort Benton has racked up team trophies, winning the District 9C title twice, the Northern C Divisional title twice and the Class C state championship back in 2017, before finishing as the runner-up in 2018. While the Longhorns...
When it comes to the District 9C track meet, few teams prioritize it like the North Star Knights do and that's why when the competition is held again Wednesday at the Havre Middle School track, the North Star boys will come in as the five-time reigning champs. However, North Star isn't the only team with multiple titles recently, as the Fort Benton girls are also two-time defending champs and just as they did last season, both teams will look to successfully defend their...
For the first time in more than 30 years, the Havre High boys and girls tennis teams didn’t start the month of May in Helena. As it turns out though, the schedule change may have been exactly what the Blue Ponies needed. With the Helena Invitational no longer being played, Havre traveled to Billings Friday and Saturday for the Mayfair Invitational, hosted by Billings Central. There, the Ponies dueled all Class A opponents, and this late in the season, head coach George Ferguso...
The Havre High track teams will be off for their traditional pre-divisional break this week. Yet, before the Blue Ponies embarked on their week off from competition, they hosted a number of local teams at the Havre Middle School track last Saturday in the Havre Invitational. The meet featured Malta, Chester-Joplin-Inverness, Conrad, North Star, Rocky Boy, Sunburst, Box Elder and Big Sandy. But when it was all said and done, Malta ended up taking home both team titles. The M-Et...
The Havre High softball team knew that it couldn't do anything to improve its position with the Central A conference heading into the divisional tournament. But what the Blue Ponies can control is how well they are playing heading into the postseason and if Saturday, at the Havre Invitational was any indication, the rest of the Central A should watch out. In two games, against Class B opponents at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field in Havre, the Ponies dazzled their fans with a...
The Havre High track teams have generally taken a week off before divisionals and the Class A state meet, and the Blue Ponies will do that once again in 2019. But before they do, both teams will get in one final competition at the Havre Middle School track Saturday as the Ponies will host the Havre Invitational, which will be the final home meet of the season. It will also be the final home meet for 12 seniors and is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. While the Havre athletes are...
The Havre High softball team will have a couple of objectives in mind this Saturday when the Blue Ponies host the Havre Invitational. One will be getting back in the win column after two straight losses to Livingston. The other is celebrating the seniors who will be playing their final home games at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field. In all, the Ponies will be honoring five seniors from this class, including Lauren Kato, Janae Boles, Kinzee Peterson, Kaitlyn Anderson and Jera Ve...
For a lot of people, sports are a family thing and when it comes to Dave Peterson and his daughter Kinzee, that's especially true. Whether it's watching sports, playing, coaching, working as a referee or umpire, or even just talking about it, much of their lives revolve around sports and they probably wouldn't have it any other way. "It depends on the season," Kinzee Peterson said. "If it's golf season, we talk about golf. If it's hockey season, then we talk hockey and right...
When it comes to individual sports like track or tennis, there aren't home games like in football and basketball because most of the competitions are tournaments or meets. That means that those athletes generally get fewer opportunities to perform in front of their home fans. So when they do, they want to take advantage of it and the Havre High track teams will have that chance this Saturday when they host the Havre Invitational. The meet will be the final home track meet of...
The Havre High girls track team has a lot of talented runners, but the best might be sophomore Loy Waid, who captured another first-place finish at the Glasgow Top 10 meet Tuesday night. Waid and her teammates made the trip to Glasgow for the annual North/East Top 10 meet, pitting the top athletes from Class A, Class B and Class C against each other. Athletes qualify by being among the top 10 in their respective events and in all, more than 30 teams were in attendance. For...
The Havre High tennis teams are officially into the home stretch. And while this weekend will be a big one for the Blue Ponies, it will also be a new one. The first weekend of May was always reserved for the prestigious Helena Invitational, a tournament that featured every Class AA school as well as the Class A Ponies. However, that tournament ceased to exist this season, so the Ponies will head south to Billings instead, where they’ll play in the Mayfair Invitational, h...
For the Havre High track teams, as the season goes on, the competitions get bigger and when it comes to the regular season, few meets mean more to the Blue Ponies than the annual Glasgow North/East Top 10. Both Blue Pony teams should have a strong presence in Glasgow tonight for the prestigious meet, which features more than 30 teams from Class A, Class B and Class C. The field events are scheduled to begin with the pole vault at 3 p.m. The running events will open at 4:15...
The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team was hoping it would get a chance to play four games over the weekend in a jamboree it was hosting at Legion Field. Of course, the Northstars weren’t alone, as there were 10 games scheduled to be played throughout Saturday and Sunday as seven different teams were set to take part in the two-day competition. Unfortunately, the weather wouldn’t cooperate, as rainstorms limited play Saturday to just a few games, while Sunday got...