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The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team had a strong showing at last weekend's Arizona Christian Tournament in Phoenix. In the first game of the tourney, the Skylights beat Benedictine-Mesa 74-50. The Skylights took the first quarter 19-11. They pushed the lead going into halftime 39-27. Northern extended the lead in the third quarter outscoring them 22-11. The Skylight kept the lead to win the game. The Skylights was led by with 25 points going 10-13 fro...
In a tough Cascade Conference road dual, the Montana State University-Northern Lights came up short earlier this week. Northern lost to rival Southern Oregon 32-16 on Thursday night in Ashland, Oregon. SOU won six straight matches to start the dual, before the Lights got a victory from Travis Waldner at 165 pounnds. Devin Crawford also won at 174, before Rylin Burns was upset at 184. Austin Vanek (197) and Shane Mattson (285) posted wins for the Lights to close out the dual....
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team is heading to Christmas break after going 1-1 at the Cactus Classic earlier this week in Chandler, Arizona. Last Tuesday saw Northern fall to No. 9 The Masters 76-66. The Lights battled in the first half. The Masters went on a 13-2 run to push the lead to double figures. They extended their lead to 19, as the Lights cut into the lead going into halftime 39-29. The Lights battled in the second half shooting 50 percent...
Playing at home for the first time this season, the Havre High girls dominated last Saturday inside the HHS gymnasium. The Blue Ponies, of first-year head coach Tommy Brown, defeated East Helena 74-39. Sierra Parker scored a game-high 17 points for the Ponies, while Amaya Jarvis had 16 and Ari Gary had 14. The win was a big bounce-back for the Blue Ponies after they lost a heartbreaker at Lockwood last Thursday, 52-51. In the back-and-forth game, the Ponies had one look at a...
The Havre High boys wrestling team is a fixture at the annual Mining City Duals in Butte. And last weekend, Havre was bad in the Mining City for the 2024 edition. Last Friday, Havre competed in Pool 1 where the Ponies were defeated by Billings West 77-3, Three Forks 48-36 and Helena Capital 54-24. Havre also dropped a dual on Saturday to Frenchtown 57-18 before bing eliminated by Missoula Big Sky 54-29 in the consolation bracket. Last weekend also saw the Havre High girls...
The Havre High swim teams finally dove into the pool against other schools last weekend. Havre attuned the Flathead December Invitational last Saturday in Kalispell. In the team competition, the Havre boys took sixth place with 86 points, while the HHS girls were seventh with 100 points. Individually the HHS boys saw Brockton Elliot came in fifth in the 200 freestyle, posting a time of 2:06.51. He also finished fourth in the 100 butterfly, coming in at 1:02.55. Dentin DePreist...
The home opener of the 2024-25 season was a successful one for the Havre High boys basketball team. On Saturday afternoon at the Havre High gymnasium, the Blue Ponies beat the East Helena Vigilantes 68-54. Havre went up by as many as 25 points in the first half and never looked back as Dax Oswalt, Matt Huse and Brayden Ereaux each scored 16 points and Tre Gary added 13 as Havre improved to 2-1 on the season. The Ponies lost their first game of the new season last Thursday as...
Like Havre High head coach Beau LaSalle says, there's really no better way to kick of Blue Pony wrestling season then in the friendly confines of the HHS gymnasium. And the Blue Ponies did just that last weekend as they dominated the Havre Invitational last Thursday and Friday. Havre was outstanding in its season debut all weekend long. The Ponies got a championship from Tucker Stygles at 103 pounds, as he defeated teammate Brady Boucher in the championship. Charlie Buck of...
Make it a clean sweep for the Havre High basketball teams. The Blue Ponies opened the 2024-25 season with a long road trip to Miles City for a Northeast A doubleheader and both teams came home winners. The Havre High girls began the Tommy Brown era with a resounding 52-38 win over last year's Class A runner-up. The Ponies led just 19-17 after one, and the game was still tight at 40-34 going into the fourth quarter. From there, Havre put the defensive clamps on the Cowgirls...
It was an exciting season for the Havre Blue Pony football team, and now, the postseason awards are rolling in. After reaching the Class A semifinals, the Blue Ponies had five players named All-State for 2024. Senior defensive back/wide receiver Tre Gary, senior defensive back/wide receiver Colter Solomon, senior linebacker/running back Tate Nelson, senior offensive lineman Gage Chapman and junior offensive lineman Tommy Lewis were Havre's selections for All-State. For...
Finally back in the Armory Gymnasium, the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams rolled to victory last Saturday. The Skylights beat St. Mary's University of Canada 66-33 last Saturday afternoon to improve to 5-3 on the season. Northern took a 39-22 lead into halftime and held St. Mary's to just 11 points in the second half. The Skylights was led by Taya Trottier with 12 points, six rebounds and six assists. Shyan Krass added 10 points and five...
The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team got plenty of mat time, and racked up a ton of wins last weekend in the Great Falls. Northern opened the two-day event in the Electric City with a 35-18 win over Northwest College in the Argo Duals. After the victory, the Lights returned to the mat on Saturday for the Battle of the Rockies Open, a tournament that featured rival Providence, among other Northwest schools. In that tournament, every MSU-N grappler that took the...
The Havre High boys and girls wrestling teams are set to kick off the 2024-25 season, and it should be another great year for the Ponies on the mat. Havre head coach Beau LaSalle's teams will open the season with the two-day Havre Invitational this Friday and Saturday at the HHS gymnasium. The Pony boys return All-State wrestlers Reed Mantle, Matt Lemer and Tommy Lewis, while the likes of Pierce Caplette, Grady Haney and others will make Havre a strong contender once again in...
I'll just get this out of the way right now. The Montana Grizzlies aren't going to beat the South Dakota State Jackrabbits this Saturday in Brookings, South Dakota. Period. And thus, a weird, wacky and truly disappointing Grizzly football season will come to an end as a result of a beatdown at the hands of the defending FCS champions - in what was a rematch from the 2024 title game. In the immortal words of Forrest Gump: "That's all I have to say about that." However, rest...
It was an exciting season for the Havre Blue Pony football team, and now, the postseason awards are rolling in. After reaching the Class A semifinals, the Blue Ponies had five players named All-State for 2024. Senior defensive back/wide receiver Tre Gary, senior defensive back/wide receiver Colter Solomon, senior linebacker/running back Tate Nelson, senior offensive lineman Gage Chapman and junior offensive lineman Tommy Lewis were Havre's selections for All-State. For...
It's been a rough preseason for the young Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team. And things didn't get any better last weekend in Dickinson, North Dakota. Last Friday, the Lights fell to Valley City State, The first was close until the Vikings went on a 8-0 run to take the lead by 10. The Lights battled back to tie up the game with 1:05 left in the first half. Valley hit a couple shots to take the game by one going into halftime. Valley city pushed the lead...
The Havre High girls basketball program is one of of the great sports dynasties. So each new season holds a lot of excitement. But this season, the excitement will be combined with a big change as longtime Havre High head coach Dustin Kraske retired at the end of last season, while former Blue Pony basketball player and HHS assistant coach Tommy Brown assumes the role of head coach. And while while this season will mark the first time in decades that Kraske won't be on the...
It should be an exciting season for the Havre High boys basketball team. Veteran head coach Walynn Burgess returns a talented group of Blue Ponies as Havre looks to return to the Class A state tournament come March. The Ponies open their new season this weekend, and they'll have some familiar faces leading the way, led by returning Class A All-State guard Tre Gary. A four-year varsity performer, Gary is one of three returning starters for the Pony boys, who finished fourth in...
The Montana Stater University-Northern women’s basketball team returned from the Thanksgiving break with a pair of road games in Dickinson, North Dakota last weekend. Last Friday, the Skylights lost to Valley City State University 74-53 in Dickinson, North Dakota. The Skylights outscored the Vikings in the first two quarters going into halftime up 34-24. Valley City went on a nine and one run cut into the lead after halftime. Diemert hit a three to take the lead with 4:20 l...
It’s been a rough preseason for the young Montana State University-Northern men’s basketball team. And things didn’t get any better last weekend in Dickinson, North Dakota. Last Friday, the Lights fell to Valley City State, The first was close until the Vikings went on a 8-0 run to take the lead by 10. The Lights battled back to tie up the game with 1:05 left in the first half. Valley hit a couple shots to take the game by one going into halftime. Valley city pushed the lead t...
The 2024 NAIA cross country season came to an end with the national championships last Friday in Columbia, Missouri. And that race included one runner from Montana State University-Northern. MSU-N freshman James Stensland-Plymale earned an at-large bid to the NAIA men's national championship and raced in the 8,000 meters. Stensland-Plymale finished 232nd out of 326 runners who crossed the finish line. His official time was 26:08.9 and his pace was 3:11.9. He finished ahead of...
For the first time in schools history, the Box Elder Bears can call themselves state champions in football. Saturday in Bridger, the Bears clobbered the Bridger Scouts in the Class C Six-Man state championship game, 84-56. Box Elder went from 3-5 a season ago to state champions in just over a year's time. The Bears had previously only played for a state title once before, a loss to DGS in 2015. "I think four months ago, there were only a handful of people in the state that...
It wasn't even close. Despite being a Top 10 FCS matchup for the third year in a row, in the 123rd Brawl of the Wild, the No. 9 Montana Grizzlies were simply no match for the No. 2 Montana State Bobcats. In front of a new record crowd at Bobcat Stadium in Bozeman, the Bobcats piled up major rushing yards en route to a 34-11 win over the Grizzlies. The victory was the fifth straight by the home team in the series, while also capping a perfect 12-0 regular season for the...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team returned to the hardwood last Friday and made the most out of their only game last week. The Skylights beat Embry-Riddle 79-73 in Great Falls.The Skylights got off to a slow start going down 22-14 in the first quarter. Northern stayed with the Eagles in the second quarter going into halftime 36-27. The Skylights cut the lead going into the third quarter 53-52. The Skylights take the fourth quarter by seven to take...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights got a much-needed win. And it came on the last day of the 2024 Frontier Conference football season. On senior day at Tilleman Field, the Lights beat Rocky Mountain College 19-13 for their first Frontier Conference win in over two years. The Lights scored 19 unanswered points after trailing 7-0. Devin Shelton caught a 22-yard RD pass and Lucas Thacker scored on a run to put the Lights up 12-7 at halftime. Zach Brooks then capped off...
