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The Havre High boys and girls basketball seasons are in the rearview mirror, but the Blue Ponies recently had their annual awards night, and many different Ponies were honored. On the boys side, senior Anfernee Standing Rock and junior Logan Connor shared the team MVP Award. Standing Rock led the Ponies in scoring at 18 points per game and rebounds with six on his way to Class A All-State honors. Connor averaged 17 points per game and led HHS in assists on his way to Central A First Team honors. Senior Ryan Myers was named...
The Frontier Conference women's basketball season has only been over for a short time, but Montana State University-Northern head coach Chris Mouat is already hard at work on the recruiting trail. Mouat recently announced the signing of Joilet High School standout Rachelle Bennett, an exciting 5-8 guard. Bennett is a star basketball player for the J-Hawks, having earned Class C All-State honors in each of the last three seasons. She's also a stellar all-around athlete, as she has earned all state in track three times and...
Montana State University-Northern senior basketball players Samm Schermele and Taylor Keller might both be from Montana, but they come from two different worlds. Schermele, a product of the bright lights of the Electric City of Great Falls, and Keller from the quiet, rural community of Custer. In basketball, the duo's world were as different as the towns they come from. Schermele was a product of Class AA Great Falls High, while Keller came from the unique world of Class C Montana girls hoops. Four years ago however, their wo...
Eminent domain bill would set dangerous precedent Editor: The Montana House of Representatives recently voted to pass House Bill 198 onto the Senate, giving people the right to use eminent domain to condemn private land once the corporation is granted a certificate under the Major Facilities Siting Act. If the Senate allows this bill to become Montana law, it sets a dangerous precedent for the private property rights of all Montanans. HB 198 would give the right of condemnation, without need for good-faith negotiations, to...
Rising gas prices not from Libyan unrest ? Editor: I have a question I hope someone can answer. First a little background. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, within 24 hours gas prices went up substantially. Then after 100 hours, oil companies told us there would be a six month lag before prices would go down because of the oil in the pipeline. Then my question was why it only took 24 hours for the oil to get from Kuwait to the pumps and six months to get through the pipeline. Now since the people of Libya are trying to oust a...
The Belgrade Panthers are a tough team, but when they are executing their pressure defense the way they did on Friday, they are almost unstoppable. Friday night at the Havre High gymnasium, the Havre Hihg girls played host to the Panthers in Central A play. But it was the Panthers who recorded the 55-28 win in front of Havre fans. The Panther defense played the biggest role in their win and Ponies loss. HHS struggled to get the offense going. The Ponies were held to six first quarter points, but managed nine in the second...
The recruiting season continues for the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team. And MSU-Northern head coach Bill Huebsch has announced the signing of Calgary, Alberta native Sophie Malenfant, a 6-1 middle blocker. Malenfant is a senior at Sophie was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is a senior at William Aberhart Senior High school where she played middle on the volleyball team for three seasons. "Sophie's potential, her room for improvement, her ceiling is unlimited in my eyes," Huebsch said....
While the boys and girls basketball seasons were up and down for the Havre Blue Ponies, several Pony players have been honored for their 2010-11 season. The Central A released its postseason awards and two Pony boys and two Pony girls were honored. Topping the list on the boys side is senior Anfernee Standing Rock, who was not only named Central A First-Team All-Conference, but Class A All-State as well. In his final season at HHS, Standing Rock averaged 19 points and four rebounds per game, was one of the top scorers in...
Montana tea party has strayed from Republican ideals Editor: Nullification? Paramilitary armies? Has the tea party group in Helena gone completely crazy? When Thomas Jefferson first discussed the principle with James Madison, both Jefferson and particularly Madison made clear that the nullification they saw as a right of states was in the form of an advisory resolution. A state legislature could call attention to laws they deemed unconstitutional to challenge, not to defy those laws. It was John C. Calhoun, the infamous...
Warburton's home guard is extremist Editor: Those of you who voted for state Rep. Wendy Warburton probably thought she was a one-issue candidate — that her only goal is to ban abortion, even though it's legal in this country and that most people are pro-choice. She's intent on forcing her religious viewpoint on others. That's not all she's been up to down in Helena. Warburton has introduced a bill to allow armed militia groups to form around the state — with some state funding, no less. Warburton claims that law enf...
Coming into the 2011 District 9C girls basketball tournament, there was no bigger favorite then the Box Elder Bears. After all, the Bears were the defending 9C champions and they brought a sparkling 17-1 record to Havre. However, somebody forgot to tell the Chinook Sugarbeeters about the Bears' 9C coronation. On Saturday night at the Havre High gymnasium, the upstart Beeters, led by legendary head coach Charlie Robinson, stunned the Bears and the rest of the 9C by winning the district championship 47-39. The huge upset was...
The mission for every team entering tournament play is to get off to a good start. To get that first won under the belt. After Thursday night's opening game of the District 9C boys basketball tournament, the Box Elder Bears can say, mission accomplished. Box Elder rode the inside play of Warren Parisian and a stingy defense to a dominating 74-56 win over Hays-Lodge Pole Thursday night at the Havre High gymnasium. The win pushed the upstart Bears into today's semifinal where they'll face Chinook at 2:30 p.m. "It was very...
The Hays-Lodge Pole girls basketball team has been a factor at the District 9C tournament. But it's been a while. However, on Thursday night at the Havre High gymnasium, the T-Birds may have announced that their back, as they took out perennial 9C power North Star 70-65 in the opening game of the 2011 9C girls tourney. And the T-Birds did it in thrilling fashion. The Knights played a flawless first half and were ahead 36-19 at intermission. But with Anita Denny dominating in the post, and 3-pointers raining in from all over...
If the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team is going to make one final push towards the Frontier Conference's postseason, than this weekend would be a good jumping off point. Tonight at 6, the Skylights host the UM-Western Bulldogs, then turn around and play Montana Tech on Saturday night, and a sweep would go a long way towards helping the Skylights improve their standing in the conference as the stretch run ensues. The Skylights (3-5, 12-12) are just a game out of third place in the conference and...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team has been hovering at or near the top of the Frontier Conference standings all season long. Tonight, the Lights get a chance to take the lead in the league all on their own. Tonight at 8 at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse, the No. 25 Lights host the No. 19 UM-Western Bulldogs with first place in the Frontier on the line. Northern also plays host to upstart Montana Tech on Saturday night. "The Western game is a big game," Northern head coach Shawn Huse said. "But so is...
Tuesday night saw plenty to celebrate when it comes to the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team. And while it wasn't something on the Lights' minds at the time, the Frontier Conference also announced it men's Frontier All-Conference selections and season awards while the Lights were winning the Frontier Conference championship at Carroll College. Northern saw four players earn all-conference for the 2010-11 season, with sophomore Devin Jackson and junior Joe Simpson both being selected Frontier First Team...
When it comes to the NAIA national men's basketball tournament, teams have to go in blind most times. First-round opponents are generally very unfamiliar with each other. Luckily for the 19th-ranked Montana State University-Northern Lights, that's been the case almost all season long, so the Lights first-round game with 13th-ranked Biola University next Thursday night in Kansas City won't be all that different to what the Frontier Conference champion Lights have been facing all year. With so many new Lights, this season has...
After a brilliant four-year career at Montana State University-Northern, senior basketball Samm Schermele received one last Frontier Conference honor on Monday night. Schermele earned Frontier First Team All-Conference for 2010-11, the third straight year in which the Great Falls High standout has earned that distinction. The Frontier released its women's postseason awards on Monday night, and Northern junior guard Laramie Schwenke joined Schermele on the all-conference lost. Schwenke, who averaged 11 points, six rebounds,...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team might have already locked up a berth to the 2011 NAIA national tournament in two weeks in Kansas City. However, the Lights would like nothing more than to take the mystery out of their postseason fate. And they can do that and so much more tonight when they take on No. 19 Carroll College in the Frontier Conference championship game in Helena. The winner of tonight's game, which gets underway at 7 gets the Frontier's automatic bid to the national tournament, while...
For four years, Montana State University-Northern point guard Taylor Keller has shown Northern fans she's as tough as nails. As one of the smallest guards in the Frontier Conference, Keller has always played like a giant. But a knee injury originally suffered back in December in Salt Lake City left Keller and Northern fans wondering if her career was unexpectedly over. The answer turned out to be an emphatic no. Keller returned to the floor Saturday night and helped the Skylights crush UGF 77-45, and in the process, made...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team has faced injury problems all year long. And in a game the Skylights had to have, they were again two players down. But instead of faltering, the Skylights again showed why their so tough to beat on their home floor as they raced past the University of Great Falls 77-45 Saturday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The win avenged a road loss at UGF last month and also moved Northern to 3-5 in the Frontier Conference. And perhaps more importantly, it marked the...
One game at a time. That's been the battle cry for the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team, and the Lights showed why against the University of Great Falls. On Saturday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse in Havre, the Lights put two tough road losses last weekend behind them by methodically taking apart the UGF Argos, 68-62. The win over UGF kept the Lights within a half game of first place in the jam-packed Frontier Conference standings, and it also completed another mission – taking care of business a...
The Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears had a little bite to them, but the Montana State University-Northern Lights had the fire. The No. 22 Lights hit 12 3-pointers, had a balanced, five guys in double figures and made 11 of 13 shots to start Wednesday night's 91-68 Frontier Conference quarterfinal win over the Bears at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The Lights put on a clinical offensive display and the Bears just couldn't keep up as Northern torched the nets to the tune of 56 percent shooting from the floor and 52 percent...
For the second time in four days, the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team played Frontier Conference powerhouse Lewis-Clark State very tough. But for the second straight time, the Skylights just couldn't find a way to beat the Warriors, and this time, their season came to an end as a result. On Tuesday night in Lewiston, Idaho, the 10-ranked Warriors beat the Skylights 71-60 in the first round of the Frontier playoffs. The loss eliminated the Skylights from the playoffs and brought a difficult, up-and-do...
The MSU-Northern volleyball team is in the offseason, but it's been a busy time for Skylight head coach Bill Huebsch. The Northern head man has been hard at work recruiting, and it's turning out to be a great offseason for MSU-N. This week, Huebsch announced the signing of three new transfers to MSU-Northern, and all three could have an immediate impact on the Skylights program. Northern has signed Kelsey Williams, a 5-10 outside hitter. Williams, who is originally from Helena and Helena High, will transfer to MSU-N from...
