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Although the powers in Washington said today that a deal is close in the battle to raise the nation's debt ceiling, two Montana U.S. lawmakers remain at odds on how that battle should be resolved, while Montana's senior member of Congress is calling on all lawmakers to work together to find a solution. "There are a lot of good ideas out there, on both sides of the aisle. Now, when the stakes are so high, it's all the more important that that we listen to each other, find a solution, and work together to get something done,"...
MISSOULA — When facing the field at the state track meet, athletes are facing the best of the best. And while the Havre High track team may not have had its best showing this weekend, the Blue Ponies are still hopeful for the future. The Central A Blue Ponies spent the weekend in Missoula at the Class A State Track Meet. The meet was held at the MCPS Track Complex on the campus of Big Sky Highs School, where a total of 19 Blue Ponies competed. On the boys side of things, it was Columbia Falls finishing No. 1 with 98 p...
Havre Daily News/Daniel Horton Chinook's Kayla Hanson (middle) leads the pack in the girls 300-meter hurdles at the Class C state track meet this weekend in Missoula. Hanson won state championships in both hurdle races, and many local Class C athletes earned medals at the meet. For full results from the Class C state meet, see Tuesday's Havre Daily News. MISSOULA — It is no secret that the Hi-Line houses some of the best athletic talent in the state. And after another fantastic showing at the Class C State Track Meet by local...
GREAT FALLS — For an inexperienced Havre High girls tennis team, the 2011 Class A state tournament couldn't have gone much better. The Blue Ponies took just three girls into last Thursday and Friday's state tournament in Great Falls, and while they may have combined to score just two points, Blue Pony head coach George Ferguson saw plenty of upside. Havre Daily News/Daniel Horton Havre High senior Christina Mack hits a backhand during a State A girls singles match last Thursday in Great Falls. Mack closed out her career at HH...
Winter is nowhere near gone, but the Havre High boys and girls tennis teams still made their 2011 season debut this weekend. On Saturday in Cut Bank, the Blue Ponies participated in a modified Cut bank Invitational, as Havre played two duals inside Cut bank's Willie DeGroot Gymnasium with shortened matches. Early Saturday morning, HHS took on Cut Bank. The Havre boys won just two matches against the talented Wolves, with Justin Jensen and Brayden Grimson both winning in singles. On the girls side, HHS won just once against...
The Class C houses some of the smallest basketball programs in the state, but this weekend in Havre, the Class C also proved that they house some of the biggest talent. Over the weekend, the Armory Gymnasium on the campus of Montana State University-Northern was home of the 25th annual Hi-Line Invitational Tournament (HIT). And on the girls side of the action, it was the Class C squad coached by Jeff Graham claiming the championship for the second straight year. In the championship game the Class C defeated the Class A...
For the last five years, the Westminster College women's basketball team has been at or near the top of the Frontier Conference. And in that time, the MSU-Northern Skylights have had their chances to upset the Griffins. Perhaps no chance was better than Friday night as the Skylights led the No. 9 Griffins 66-64 with just five seconds left in the game. But Westminster has a big-shot team and that came back to haunt the Skylights as Griffin sophomore Nicole Yazzie raced the floor, pulled up and buried a 3-pointer at the buzzer...
Frontier Conference men's basketball games don't get any bigger than when the Montana State University-Northern Lights play host to the Westminster Griffins. They don't get any bigger that is, unless the conference championship is at stake, as was the case in Northern's dramatic 64-58 win over the Griffins Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The Lights needed a win over Westminster in order to set up having a chance to claim at least a share of the regular season Frontier title on Saturday night – and that's e...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team suffered an emotionally devastating loss to Westminster College on Friday night. In fact, it doesn't get any more difficult than getting beat at the buzzer. Then the Skylights had to turn around and say goodbye to senior greats Samm Schermele and Taylor Keller before Saturday night's regular season finale against No. 10 Lewis-Clark State. And if that wasn't emotional enough, Northern then suffered its second straight heartbreaking loss to boot. On Saturday night...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team got a huge win when the Lights knocked off the Westminster Griffins on Friday night. On Saturday night however, the Lights needed one more. In order to ensure the Lights would tie for the frontier Conference regular season championship, they had to beat Lewis-Clark State in the regular season finale, and while it took an extra five minutes, the Lights got the job done. Northern claimed its second Frontier regular season title in four years by beating LC State 70-65...
A champion has yet to be crowned in the Havre Youth Basbeball Association Babe Ruth Baseball tournament, but the stage is set. Chinook's Connor McCalmont bats against Wells Fargo during Friday night play in the 2011 Havre Youth Baseball Babe Ruth tournament at Legion Field. The tournament is down to the final two teams as Wells Fargo takes on Northern Montana Hospital in tonight's championship game at 5:30 p.m. Today at 5:30 p.m. Wells Fargo and Northern Montana Hospital will face off at Legion Field in Havre for the Babe...
Another baseball champion has been crowned in Havre. On Sunday morning at Elks Park, Independence Bank was crowned the 2011 Havre Youth Baseball Association B-League champion. Independence Bank defeated Bob's Greenhouse 8-1 Sunday morning to wrap up the three-day, five-team tournament. Havre Daily News/Daniel Horton Joey Bender, of Independence Bank swings at a pitch during Sunday morning's HYBA B-League championship game at Elks Park in Havre. Independence Bank beat Bob's Greenhouse 8-1 for the B-League championship. The...
For the second straight year, Montana State University-Northern's Samm Scheremele has received the NAIA's highest honor. On Tuesday night, the NAIA realeased it All-American Team for the 2010-11 season, and Schermele, a senior at Northern was named NAIA Honorable Mention All-American. The senior from Great Falls High also received the honor last season. Schermele just recently wrapped up one of the most prolific careers in Northern women's history. She led the Frontier Conference and was eighth in the NAIA in scoring this...
GREAT FALLS — To say the Chinook girls basketball team is on a roll right now would be an understatement of epic proportions. First the Beeters had never won a 9C tournament before — until last Saturday night. Then, they had never played in a Northern C Divisional before — until Wednesday afternoon. Now, they have a win in the Northern C. On Wednesday afternoon, in the first round of the Northern C tournament at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, the Sugarbeeters captured a narrow win over favored Winifred-Roy, 43-42, adv...
The Havre North Stars American Legion baseball club is still fighting to find a turning point in their season. But as a long stretch of Northern A games just got under way, a quick two-game stop at home wasn't the answer. Wednesday afternoon the North Stars hosted the Fort MacLeod Royals in two Northern A games. And while fans and players couldn't have asked for a better day for baseball games, the North Stars continued to struggle with two league losses. In game one, the Royals defeated Havre 5-4 and in game two of the...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team returned home from Kansas City and the NAIA men's national tournament on Sunday afternoon, their magical season over with. But it will be almost impossible for the Lights, their fans and anyone else who witnessed it, to forget what Northern accomplished this season. There's an old adage when it comes to postseason sports, and it goes something like, unless you win your very last game of the year, you're going to be disappointed. And that may sum up the Lights, as...
It's not every day an athlete like Havre High senior and prep wrestling standout Duell Stadel comes along. He has torn through the prep ranks over the last four years, and Blue Pony fans have been treated over and over to his skills and success on the mats. Stadel was a four-year varsity letter winner and placed at the Class A state tournament all four years as well. Last year Stadel grabbed an individual title at 112 pounds, and most recently he grabbed his second straight title, this time at 119 pounds. Stadel also took...
So many of the girls Hi-Line basketball players shined this season, and their skills weren't overlooked. Coming out of the 9C, the Box Elder Bears, Hays-Lodge Pole Thunderbirds, North Star Knights, Big Sandy Pioneers, Chinook Sugarbeeters, and Box Elder Bears all grabbed post-season honors. Grabbing District 9C All-Conference honors for the 2010-2011 season for the Bears was junior guard Aricka Wolf Chief and senior guard Megan Parker. And for the Thunderbirds, senior forward Anita Denny and junior forward Kristie Runsabove g...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team drew the last game of the two-day first round in the 2011 NAIA national men's tournament. The Lights also drew the Biola Eagles, and the Eagles made sure the last game of the first round was also Northern's last game of the season. Despite a heartfelt second half comeback, the No. 19 Lights fell to the No. 13 Biola Eagles 59-48 in a defensive battle Thursday night at the NAIA men's national tournament inside Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City. The loss was the last...
The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning through midnight. According to the weather service, strong southeast winds will continue over central and north-central Montana through the evening hours. Sustained southwest winds of 30 to 45 mph with gusts to 65 mph are expected through the evening hours. Strong winds will cause locally hazardous conditions for trailers and high profile vehicles. North to south oriented roads will be particularly hazardous. Locations affected include: Havre, Big Sandy, Fort...
Trevor VanCampen has been a key component to the Havre High track and field program for a while now. In past years he has been responsible for developing the Blue Pony sprinters. But now he's taking on the task of heading up the whole operation, as he enters his first season as the head coach. And it's been a tough transition for VanCampen, only in terms of having to fight terrible spring weather in his first year at the helm. Still, VanCampen is an enthusiastic and dedicated coach and he's poised to point the Blue Pony...
Things were just a little bit different for the Havre High girls basketball team this week. Sitting at 1-5 overall and 1-3 in league play, the Central A Blue Ponies are taking a good long look in the mirror. And in preparation for not only their next two games, but maybe even the remainder of the season, the Ponies are focusing on themselves. Tonight the Ponies will host the conference rival Browning Indians at the Havre High gymnasium at 7 p.m. And on Saturday, the Ponies will return to action as they take to the road to...
For the second straight year, former Havre high wrestling standout Myles Mazurkiewicz has earned NAIA All-American honors. Mazurkiewicz finished off his 2011 NAIA national tournament by finishing in fifth place at 141 pounds on Saturday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The UGF sophomore garnered a second-place finish at the national tournament a year ago. After enduring injury problems this season, Mazurkiewicz, who moved up to 141 pounds this season, came into the tournament unseeded and ranked 8th nationally. He ran into rival Tommy...
Three-sport athletes don't come along every day in the prep ranks, but when they do, they seem to make an impact in each sport they play. Christina Mack is no exception, as she has made a name for herself as Blue Pony basketball, volleyball and tennis star. In Mack's four-year career at HHS she has been a key asset to each of the three varsity squads. She gave the basketball team an outside presence with her jump shot and gave the volleyball team a deep defense with her ability to earn the tough digs. And now, coming off of...
To help prevent impaired driving and encourage motorists to buckle up, the Havre Police Department in partnership with Montana Department of Transportation will provide extra traffic patrols over the Fourth of July. "Driving impaired is not worth it," Interim Chief of Police Gabe Matosich said in a press release. "Whether you've been floating, boating, picnicking or camping, make sure that the person driving home is sober and alert. I want everyone traveling to drive safely and defensively — and that includes making sure e...
