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The Havre High boys basketball team is back on the road tonight, fresh off a weekend split with Central A rivals Belgrade and Livingston. But tonight's road game will certainly present some difficult new challenges for the Blue Ponies (1-1). HHS is in Great Falls this evening to take on the highly-touted Class AA CMR Rustlers at 7 inside the CMR Fieldhouse. The Rustlers are the two-time defending Class AA champions, and despite losing two-time Gatorade Player of the Year Josh Heustis, who is now a freshman at Stanford, CMR...
High school girls basketball is already proving to be very competitive the Hi-Line. And if this past week was any indication, there's plenty of excitement yet to come. On Thursday night, the Big Sandy Pioneers got the week off to a hot start by crushing Fort Benton, 76-49 in Big Sandy. The Pioneers got 22 points each from Mackenzie Jenkins and Hannah Williams, while freshman Molly Herron poured in 17. Chinook also rolled to a Thursday night win. The Sugarbeeters took care of Dodson 60-15 in Chinook and got nine points from...
A busy weekend of high school boys basketball on the Hi-Line started on Thursday and it isn't over yet. Area teams will play through Thursday as teams finish up the 2010 portions of the schedule. On Thursday night, defending Class C state champion Big Sandy dropped a home game to District 8C rival Fort Benton, 72-39. The Longhorns overpowered the young Pioneers early and never looked back. Big Sandy got eight points from C.J. Hanson in the loss. Friday's action saw the Chinook Sugarbeeters get into the win column with a...
With the holiday break upon us, Havre fans will get their first look at the Havre High girls basketball team tonight. And they'll see the Blue Ponies against one of the toughest opponents they'll go up against all year. Fresh off a season-opening road split, including a Saturday win over Central A rival Livingston, the Ponies will make their home debut tonight when they take on the Class AA CMR Rustlers at 7 inside the Havre High gymnasium. The Rustlers are the defending runners-up in Class AA and return a senior-laden team....
The Havre High boys and girls swim teams had plenty of time in the pool this weekend in Great Falls. The Blue Ponies made two trips to the Bison Fieldhouse Pool this weekend to take on some of the state's best swimmers in two different meets. On Friday, the Ponies competed in the Great Falls Invitational with CMR, GFH and Class A rival Hardin, and Havre showed some strength in the meet. The Pony girls scored 107 points to finish third on Friday afternoon, and perhaps more importantly, they finished ahead of Hardin. Individual...
Having to wait an extra week to play the first game of the season couldn't have been easy for the Havre High boys basketball team. But having to then open the season against a pair of Central A rivals, on the road was even more of a chore. And that's what makes HHS's weekend split with Belgrade and Livingston so impressive. The Ponies faltered against the Panthers Friday night in Belgrade, losing 69-52, but rebounded nicely and took care of the Rangers, 58-52 Saturday in Livingston. Against Belgrade, the start of the game...
Going on the road is never easy in high school basketball. And a two-game, season-opening road trip against two Central A opponents can even be more of a challenge. But the Havre High girls basketball team certainly answered the call this weekend, splitting with Central A rivals Belgrade and Livingston. HHS lost in Belgrade 52-43 on Friday night, but quickly rebounded to beat Livingston 54-40 on Saturday. "Our kids did a really good job," Havre high head coach Dustin Kraske said. "We are pretty pleased to be able to go on...
The Havre High wrestling team is used to competing for the team title at the CMR Holiday Classic year after year. And while the Ponies didn't come out on top this weekend in Great Falls, they certainly gave it their best shot. Through two days of competition at what's considered the toughest wrestling tournament in Montana's regular season, the Ponies scored 171.5 points to finish in fourth place overall. Class AA Great Falls High topped the team title with 195.5 points, a mere six points ahead of Central A power Belgrade. Gl...
Former Havre Blue Pony Gary Wagner has done just about everything a high school and college quarterback can do on a football field. After all, Wagner has been taking snaps at QB between Havre High and Carroll for the last seven years. He's a Class A state champion, he holds many Havre High and MHSA passing records, he played in the prestigious Montana East/West Shrine Game, and now he's even a Frontier Conference MVP. And that's just the short list of all that Wagner has achieved in his illustrious football career. Wagner...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team has played just two games in the last four weeks. But things are about to get very busy for the Lights (6-3). Tonight and Saturday, MSU-N is in Lewiston, Idaho for a tournament hosted by Lewis-Clark State, then Northern will come straight back to Havre in time for its first home game in over a month when the Lights take on Concordia College of Alberta on Sunday night. "This weekend is going to be a challenge for our team for sure," MSU-N head coach Shawn Huse said....
MSU-Northern junior guard Laramie Schwenke has been having a good season for the Skylights. And no one is more excited to be on the floor than Schwenke herself, as she's had to battle injury problems in both her freshman and sophomore seasons at MSU-N. But on Thursday night, in Northern's 86-70 win over UGF in Havre, Schwenke, the former Malta prep star showed just how far she's come, just how versatile a player she is, and how important she is to MSU-N's success this season. Senior guard Taylor Keller went down with an...
A week off, a first home game in over a month and having to overcome injury problems. Those were just some of the challenges the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team overcame in a Thursday night nonconference win over the University of Great Falls. Northern got a huge lift from junior guard Laramie Schwenke and sophomore Jordan Bruursema after losing senior guard Taylor Keller to an injury in the first half as the Skylights turned away the hot-shooting Argos 86-70 Thursday at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse....
It's been a long time since the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team has played a game in the friendly confines of the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. Tonight, the Skylights will get to remedy that when they take on Frontier Conference rival, the University of Great Falls in a nonconference showdown at 7. The last time MSU-N (4-6) played a home game was Nov. 6 against Minot State, and in that span Northern was able to win just once on the road. And while beating the Argos (2-6) will be no easy task tonight,...
With the fall sports season now in the past, it's recruiting season. And the Montana State Uni9versity-Northern volleyball team has announced the first signee for its 2010-11 recruiting class. On Tuesday, MSU-N head coach Bill Huebsch announced the signing of outside hitter Lynnsie Togiai of Pocatello, Idaho. Togiai is currently a senior at Century High School in Pocatello. She helped lead Century to a 2010 state championship in volleyball and was one of the team's top hitters. And hitting is what led Togiai to Havre and to...
The fall sports season on the Hi-Line began just the way it ended. With football fireworks. It's hard to fathom that the Chinook Sugarbeeters put an emphatic stamp on the fall sports season on a snowy and bitterly cold November day when the season began in almost the same manner. Well it began, minus the ridiculously bad weather. The year began with plenty of football optimism when summer was still in the air. On the same Saturday back in August, the Havre Blue Ponies and Montana State University-Northern Lights romped to sea...
The Frontier Conference volleyball season is over, but postseason accolades are still rolling in. And those accolades include three MSU-Northern Skylights. Northern seniors Jordan Merrill and Jenna Frankino were named NAIA Academic All-American's this past week. The due were two of 23 Frontier players selected for the honor, which says student-athletes must maintain a 3.5 or higher GPA. Also last week, Northern senior middle-hitter Kaylee Bossert earned honrable mention all-region honors. Bossert, a four-year starter for...
Hi-Line teams have already shown this season just how good the wrestling is around these parts. And prep squads from the area did so again at the Glasgow Invitational on Saturday afternoon. The Glasgow Tournament featured three-time defending Class B-C state champion and host Glasgow, as well as Class A power Lewistown. But that didn't stop the Chinook Sugarbeeters and Harlem Wildcats from having plenty of success on the mat. No team scores were reported from Saturday's meet, but the Beeters had three individual champions,...
Despite a blizzard and some cancellations, the girls high school basketball season on the Hi-Line is off and running. With tournaments in Havre, Big Sandy and Fort Benton, area teams were plenty busy on the opening weekend of the basketball season. Thursday night saw a pair of District 9C teams open the season in different ways at the Big Sandy Tournament. The host Big Sandy girls toppled Highwood 58-44 on Thursday night, getting the season off on the right foot. The Pioneers broke open a 25-22 halftime game with an 18-6 run...
A pair of Hi-Line prep football products have earned the highest honor a player can achieve for the 2010 football season. Havre High sophomore offensive lineman Danny Roe was selected to the Class A All-State Team for offense. Roe started all nine games on the offensive line for the Blue Ponies this season as a guard and had a standout year for an HHS team which had one of the top offenses in the Central A Conference. Roe also started on defense for the Blue Ponies this season and was also HHS's kicker. The Harlem Wildcats...
Thanks to a nearly flawless performance by the Indianapolis offense, Thursday's night's NFL Network showdown between the Colts and Tennessee Titans saw Havre's Marc Mariani get plenty of chances to show his return skills. The Titans dropped their sixth game in a row, 30-28 to the Colts, despite a valiant second-half comeback by Tennessee Thursday night in Nashville. And while the loss was certainly disappointing to Mariani and to the Titans, he again showed why he's one of the most dangerous return men in the NFL. Mariani...
The high school basketball season is brand new on the Hi-Line. And while stalking the sidelines is nothing new to legendary head coach Charlie Robinson, the man who is only one of seven coaches in Montana boys basketball history to earn over 500 wins, he is in a brand new place. This past year, Robinson, who enters his 38th season coaching high school basketball went from coaching the North Star boys to the Chinook girls. And while Robinson has 559 wins in boys basketball to his credit, coaching girls hoops is nothing new to...
The Tennessee Titans are on a slide, despite the contributions from former Havre High star Marc Mariani. On Sunday, the Titans lost their fifth straight game, falling 17-6 to the Jackson Jaguars in Nashville. Because of the low-scoring affair, Mariani was rendered fairly quite returning kicks. He returned two kickoffs for 36 yards, and one punt for just four yards. He also had four fair catches and two touchbacks. Mariani came into the day leading the AFC in punt returns and was third in the NFL in kickoff returns. Mariani...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team knew it had its work cut out heading into two games at the Westminster Tournament in Salt Lake City. And not having won since the beginning of November, and without their leading scorer on Saturday afternoon, the Skylights responded. On day after losing to GSAC power the Master's College, where point guard Taylor Keller suffered an injury that kept her out of Saturday's game, the Skylights rose up and found a way to get back in the win column, beating William...
Nearly three weeks had gone by since the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team had played in a game. So Northern head coach Shawn Huse expected some rust from his No. 25 Lights as they traveled to Camrose, Alberta for a two-game series with Augustana College. And while the Lights did feel some effects from the layoff, it didn't show in the win-loss column as MSU-N pummeled Augustana in both games. "Our kids played very well after the layoff," Huse said. "I was very pleased with the effort we got from...
It wasn't the kind of home away from home performance the Montana State-University Northern wrestling team was looking for. Instead, the No. 10 Lights went to Great Falls for two days of Battle of the Rockies competition and nearly came home with little to show for it. The Lights lots duals to No. 2 McKendree College and No. 14 Embry-Riddle University on Friday afternoon, then didn't wrestle up to expectations during the Battle of the Rockies open tournament on Saturday. "We had some individual performances that went well,...
