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This time of year most prep athletes are gearing up for the start of the spring sports seasons. But before track, softball, and tennis get too far into their schedules, standout basketball players are still competing on the hardwood at tournaments all over the state. The annual Hi-Line Invitational Tournament returns to the Montana State University-Northern campus this weekend. Several area standouts, both boys and girls, will play at the 28th annual HIT at the Armory Gymnasiu...
Drew Lesnik of State Farm of Chester, right, looks for a shot during a Jason Groseclose Memorial Basketball Tournament game Sunday in Rudyard. The annual tournament, which attracts men's basketball teams from all over Montana, ran Thursday-Sunday....
After winning the Class A girls state tournament earlier this month, it should come as no surprise that six Havre High Blue Pony athletes, including all five starters, were honored with postseason awards. Both Peyton Filius and Brandy Lambourne led the Pony efforts this season as seniors. Both are also playing for Montana State University-Northern next season, and both were also named Class A All-State and Central A All-Conference First Team in their final season of high...
The young Havre High boys basketball team turned in a stellar season in 2013-2014, a season that ended with a berth in the Class A state tournament, and the program’s first state victory in eight years. And in head coach Curt Leads’ second season at the helm, the Ponies continue to produce standout athletes. Dane Warp had as good of season as any player in his sophomore year with the Ponies and he earned Class A All-State honors and First-Team Central A All-Conference hon...
It may have been eight years since the Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball team last played in an NAIA national tournament game. But the Skylights haven’t lost their first-round touch. The No. 21 Skylights pulled off an impressive upset over the No. 3-seeded Columbia College Cougars (Mo.) 56-55 in the first round of the 2014 national tournament Wednesday afternoon in Frankfort, Ky. The win boosts the Skylights record to 22-9, while the loss ended the Cou...
The best part about seeing a local high school team win a state championship is that the excitement doesn’t fade or get lost in the shuffle. No matter how many times the accomplishment is reached by Havre High teams, and by surrounding schools, it never gets old. Just recently, I was somehow fortunate enough to watch the Blue Pony wrestling team win a Class A state title, the Box Elder Bears win a Class C boys state basketball title, and most recently, of course, the Blue Pony...
Daniel Horton Havre Daily News sports writer [email protected] As far as 1-2 punches go on the basketball court, Havre High’s Peyton Filius and Brandy Lambourne have become pretty good at playing together. No, after four high school basketball season’s together, they’ve become one of the best and most dangerous tandems in Class A. And it has been that way for the last six years, since the two began playing together in the seventh grade. Since that time at Havre...
Heading into its third straight Class A state tournament, the Havre High girls basketball team is sitting in pretty good position to make an exciting run at a Class A state championship. Two weeks ago the Blue Ponies followed a regular season title with a divisional title in Belgrade. The Central A title was also the third straight for head coach Dustin Kraske and his Ponies. And if the trend of winning continues, the Ponies are also looking to return to Havre with a state...
All prep careers must come to an end. Fortunately for Havre High senior Haley Ohm, her final prep basketball and track seasons could end on a couple of high notes. Ohm is currently rounding out her final season as a Blue Pony basketball player. It has been a four-year career that will come to an end this weekend at the Class A state tournament in Great Falls. As the Ponies’ post player, her play could be crucial in how HHS does at the Four Seasons Arena. This season, Ohm is a...
BUTTE - Dreams really do come true. For Box Elder fans, coaches and players, 24 years of dreaming of a Class C state championship finally came true Saturday night at the Butte Civic Center. The top-ranked Bears capped off a perfect season with a 74-54 win over Westby-Grenora in the 2014 Class C state championship game. The championship was the first for a Box Elder boys team since the Bears won the 1990 state championship. "Tonight all of the hard work that paid off for these...
BUTTE — It’s settled, the Box Elder boys basketball team is the best Class C team in the state of Montana. And as it turned out, it wasn’t even close. And nearing the end of one of the greatest seasons in state history, at any level, there wasn’t much argument heading into the Class C state title game Saturday night at the Butte Civic Center. The District 9C Bears capped off an amazing 2013-2014 season with an incredible 74-54 win over the Westby-Grenora Thunder. It is the...
BUTTE — Basketball means different things to different people, but one thing is for certain, basketball sure does mean a lot to the Box Elder players and coaches, the Box Elder high school, the community of Box Elder, and the entire community of the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. That is what makes the first Class C state title in 24 years by the Bears such a landmark win in so many people’s lives. Saturday night in Butte, the Bears pummeled the Westby-Grenora Thunder 74-54...
If fans were wondering if the red-hot Box Elder Bears were going to be tested once they reached the Class C state basketball tournament in Butte, those fans will have to wait at least one more day to find out. Thursday afternoon at the Butte Civic Center, the top-ranked Bears defeated Drummond 88-60 in the first round of their first state tourney in 24 years.. It appears that the Bears have picked up right where they left off at the Northern C last weekend in Great Falls. The...
The 2014 Havre High boys basketball team ended an eight-year drought of playing in the Class A state tournament Thursday afternoon. But this weekend also marks the anniversary of another Blue Pony boys team that ended an even longer drought. And in 1994, that drought ended with an improbable state championship. Taking a look back 20 years at the Havre High boys basketball team, the recipe for success used to win the 1994 Class A state title stands out loud and clear. That...
The Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team is headed back to the state tournament this weekend and are hoping to return home with some hardware. Today through Sunday the Ice Hawks will be skating in Billings. Also joining the Ice Hawks this weekend will be No. 1 Great Falls, No. 2 Helena, No. 3 Bozeman, No. 4 Billings, No. 5 Missoula, No. 7 Glasgow and No. 8 Flathead. The Ice Hawks enter the tournament as the sixth seed, and will have a tough first game waiting for them....
Jeremy MacDonald has a longstanding history at both Rocky Boy and Box Elder high schools. MacDonald was a student at both, an athlete for both, and now an employee for both schools. MacDonald is back on the Hi-Line as the current head coach of the Box Elder Bears boys basketball team, a team that is state tournament-bound for the first time since the Bears captured the 1990 state championship. MacDonald and the No. 1 ranked Class C Bears will spend the weekend at the Butte...
Right now, there is no reason for anybody to doubt that the No. 1-ranked Box Elder Bears have what it takes to win a Class C state championship. The Bears have been ranked No. 1 nearly all season long and cruised through the regular season, District 9C tournament in Havre, and even the Northern C Divisional tournament in Great Falls last weekend. Now, with a flawless 23-0 record heading into the Class C state tournament at the Butte Civic Center, the Bears continue to be the...
For the first time since the 2006 season, the Havre High boys basketball team is going back to the Class A state basketball tournament. And it is a new and exciting experience for everybody, as second-year head coach Curt Leeds prepares for state with a very young Blue Pony squad. It was an up-and-down regular season for the Ponies who enter the weekend at 7-13 overall. Wins were tough to come by, but the Ponies found a way to punch their ticket into state as a No. 2 seed....
GREAT FALLS — When a team is as hot as the top- ranked Box Elder Bears, prep basketball fans don’t typically have to look too far to see a new page being written in the history books. All a local fan had to do Friday was simply watch the District 9C Bears in the Northern C divisional championship game at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls. A 24-year absence from the Class C state tournament and a 24-year gap since the last time the Bears were named divisional champions was...
GREAT FALLS — The District 9C champion Chinook girls basketball team had waited all season for its chance at the Belt Huskies. And the Sugarbeeters got it Friday night. Playing at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, the Huskies defeated the Beeters 44-30 in the Northern C semifinals. The loss was especially tough since the Beeters looked to be in control of the contest through the first quarter. The Beeters lead started at 2-0 on a Makhayla Famer field goal, and it w...
The Havre High boys basketball team came just one win away from taking the Central A title in Belgrade. But despite losing a tight matchup in the Central A championship game, the Blue Ponies are headed back to the Class A state basketball tournament for the first time in a very long time. In the 2005-2006 prep season, the Ponies punched their ticket to the state tournament as a No. 2 seed. Now the Blue Ponies are finally going back to state, a tournament which will be played...
Two wins was all that the Havre High girls basketball team needed to bring a third consecutive Central A divisional title back to Havre. And the Blue Ponies took care of business in a big way as they dominated the Central A field in Belgrade over the weekend. The Ponies first took care of the Belgrade Panthers 56-33 in the semifinals Friday night. That punched the Ponies’ ticket to the championship game where they then defeated the Browning Indians 51-50 Saturday night. The P...
The Havre High boys basketball team knows it is right in the thick of things among the rest of the Central A, but the Blue Pony boys also know they will have to be at their very best if they hope to reach the state tournament. The Blue Ponies finished the regular season as the No. 3 seed and with a 4-4 record in the Central A. The Belgrade Panthers ran away with the No. 1 seed, finishing 7-1, while the Browning Indians took the second seed with a 5-3 league record. The...
The Havre High girls basketball team is no stranger to success at the Central A Divisional tournament. And the Blue Ponies are gunning for more of it this weekend. After a 61-38 win over conference rival Browning to end the regular season, the Central A Blue Ponies are headed back to the divisional tournament in Belgrade as the No. 1 seed for the second consecutive year. But as the reigning champions, the Ponies will also look to defend their title at the divisional...
While the district 9C boys basketball tournament brought several local teams to Havre, three other Hi-Line squads were also taking on postseason action over the weekend. In the second half of the season the 1B Rocky Boy Stars turned into the team to beat, and proved to maybe even be a strong contender for another state title. The Stars took that one step further in Cut Bank when they were crowned district 1B champions Saturday. The Stars defeated Fairfield 72-65 in the...
