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If you watch college basketball on ESPN, or the NBA each and every night, you'd hardly know that basketball was invented to be a team sport. Today's game features one-on-one basketball more than ever before, and it's certainly entertaining. I won't lie, I like high-flying dunks, long 3-pointers and fast-break basketball that is today's game. It's fun to watch, there's no doubt about that. But in its purest form, the game of basketball is played with passing, strategy and defense, and this year's Montana State University-North...
There is no doubt that Havre High School junior Sammy Evans is one of the top Blue Pony athletes. Evans has been a standout at HHS since her freshman year and has made her mark on the basketball court, volleyball court and, especially, the track. Evans has been a key component of the success the basketball and volleyball teams have found over the last three seasons and has been standout in the track scene. She has made the trip to state two times already and has most recently grabbed a No. 2 finish in the triple jump last...
Sometimes the season Conservation District to meet June 12 The Hill County Conservation District's June meeting has been moved to Sunday June 12. It will take place at 10 a.m. at the Fireman's Campground in Beaver Creek Park. In the event of inclement weather or Park closures, the meeting will cancelled and re-noticed for a later date For more information on the Hill County Conservation District please call 265-6792 ext. 101. just doesn't play out how a team would like. This season, that was unfortunately true for the Havre...
It may not look like it or feel like it outside, but spring has sprung, and that means a brand new Havre High boys and girls track and field season. A late and unwelcome winter storm may have put a damper on the new spring sports season, but the Blue Ponies are still hard at work. And while the track may still be somewhat of a soggy mess at ties, HHS participants and new head coach Trever VanCampen are eager to get a new season underway. VanCampen has been a part of the track and field team in the past as the sprinters...
For over a decade, the Havre High boys and girls tennis teams have been the epitome of consistent. The HHS boys have brought a trophy home from the Class A state tournament for 14 straight years, while the Pony girls have captured a trophy in seven of the last eight seasons, and have won two state championships in the last four years. But as is always the case in high school sports, the names change as kids come and go. However, HHS ninth-year head coach George Ferguson says the goals never change at Havre High as the Ponies...
Unfair media coverage? This newspaper reports on all sides Our View — The Havre Daily News Based on a story from Tuesday's front page, "GOP claims unfair media coverage, " some of your area Montana legislators want you to believe that the media in general, and specifically the Havre Daily News, is conspiring against them. Speaking for the Havre Daily News, nothing can be further from the truth. Rep. Kris Hansen, Rep. Wendy Warburton and Sen. Rowlie Hutton and other officials can write a guest column, on a monthly basis in o...
While winter may not have loosened its grip on the Hi-Line yet, the high school spring sports season will begin today. At Havre High, track and field, tennis and softball will begin practices today in anticipation of season-opening events which are two weeks away. The weather will play a role in how much Blue Pony teams can get outside right away, but all three sports will begin the season on time, in gyms and other indoor venues if necessary. Area track and field teams in Rocky Boy, Harlem, Chinook, Turner, Big Sandy,...
From the beginning of October to the day the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team boards the plane to head to Kansas City for the 2011 NAIA national tournament, there's been one word used to describe why the Lights have been so successful. Family. And it's an interesting word considering back in August very few of the Lights new each other. After all, Northern didn't return a single starter to this year's 24-8, Frontier Conference championship team. In fact, only two Lights, sophomore Devin Jackson and...
The Havre Daily News took home several major awards in the annual Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Montana Newspaper Association on Saturday. The MNA annual convention was held in Lewistown over the weekend. The Havre Daily News finished third in the Award for Excellence in the division that included the state's largest weekly and smaller daily newspapers. The Havre Daily News finished behind the weekly Missoula Independent and the Flathead Beacon of Kalispell in the overall excellence competition. The first-place...
An already outstanding recruiting class just got better for the Montana State University-Northern football team. Earlier this week, Northern head coach Mark Samson announced the signing of 10 more new Lights, including a Havre High standout. Heading the list of five in-state signees and five out-of-state players is Blue Pony senior Corderro Strickland. Strickland was a Central A All-Conference wide receiver and cornerback at HHS, and could play either position for the Lights. He has been at Havre High for three years and has...
Evan Hinebauch has always wrestled like he has something to prove. He's always wrestled like he's on a mission. In fact, the former Havre high standout has always wrestled with 100 percent heart, courage and determination. He takes no wrestling match for granted. And those are just some of the intangibles which carried Hinebauch to his first collegiate national championship, which he captured last Saturday night when he beat longtime rival Michael French of the University of Great Falls for the NAIA 184-pound championship in...
Often times a person is fortunate enough to find their niche in life. They find what they love to do, they do it well, and they find great success doing it. For former Havre native and Havre High Blue Pony standout Tom Reynolds, he found his niche in basketball. Reynolds has had a life filled with basketball. As a kid his father was the Athletic Director at Montana State University-Northern, so he grew up in a gym and he grew up playing basketball. In fact, it was his dream from the very beginning to become a PE teacher and...
SHELBY — The Rocky Boy Stars are used to big games. After all, the Stars were the defending Class B state champions coming into Friday night's big game with the Wolf Point Wolves. However, when it came down to big shots, it was the Wolves who made them count. Friday night in Shelby, the top-ranked and undefeated Wolves got a pair of 3-pointers from Mechiah Zilkoski in the final minute to lift Wolf Point to a 49-47 win over Rocky Boy in the Northern B semifinals. The victory pushed Wolf Point into the championship game w...
With high expectations can come even bigger disappointments. And in some cases, that's exactly the story of the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team's 2011 NAIA national tournament. The Lights took a group of 10 wrestlers, including two top-ranked individuals into the national championships this past weekend in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but came away with a disappointing 10th-place finish. Northern did crown three NAIA All-Americans and saw Havre Blue Pony great Evan Hinebauch win his first national championship, but...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team has been as successful as any Frontier Conference men's program inside the border of Montana over the last nine years. And that success was never more evident than on Saturday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse, as the Lights beat UM-Western 72-60 in the conference semifinals in front of capacity crowd. The semifinal win was something only one other Lights' team in Huse's nine years at Northern had been able to do. The Lights crushed Carroll College in the...
Former Havre Blue Pony Evan Hinebauch is a big-match wrestler. After all, the Montana State University-Northern junior has already been in an NAIA national championship match as a freshman, and has three Class A state championships to his credit in high school. But on Saturday night in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when Hinebauch stepped on the mat against UGF's Michael French for the final time in their storied rivalry, the former Blue Pony great was in this biggest match of his life. And to no one's surprise, Hinebauch came through...
In every postseason basketball game, there's always some tense, nervous moments. And the Montana State University-Northern Lights certainly had their share in their Frontier Conference semifinal game against the UM-Western Bulldogs. But when it mattered the most, and with a chance at a Frontier championship hanging in the balance, the No. 22 Lights were at their best. Northern defeated the Bulldogs 72-60 in front of a capacity crowd Saturday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse, and in the process, advanced to the...
The Rocky Boy Stars are not just the defending Class B state champions, but the defending Northern B state champs as well. And they got their Northern B title defense off to a good start Thursday in Shelby. In the opening round of the 2011 Northern, considered the most difficult tournament in all of Montana high school basketball, the Stars took care of the Glasgow Scotties 62-40, setting up a semifinal date with No. 1-ranked Wolf Point tonight. Glasgow stayed with Stars for a quarter, but then Rocky Boy turned on the jets. T...
Nate Welch is one of many Havre Ice Hawks hoping to grab a state title this weekend in Bozeman. He has been a standout hockey player for Havre, as well as made his mark in baseball and soccer as a junior at Havre High. Welch and the Ice Hawks have had an up-and-down season but are playing well heading into this weekend's state high school hockey tournament in Bozeman. Here's five questions with an Ice Hawk looking for one last weekend of fun with his friends HDN: What are your goals as a hockey player at any level? Welch: "I...
The Havre Ice Hawks hockey team got off to a slow start this season, starting out 0-5. But with the state tournament awaiting the Ice Hawks this weekend, Havre is hoping to continue their turnaround and bring home a trophy. After losing their first five games of the season, the Ice Hawks finished off their season 9-10-1. And now headed to Bozeman to compete today, Saturday and Sunday as the No. 6 seed, the Ice Hawks are hoping to put the finishing touches on what has turned out be a solid season. "I think we just need to go...
If you like college basketball, if you like postseason intensity, then you better not miss Saturday night. And if you like budding rivalries, then you're in for even more of a treat if you happen to get to the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse for Saturday night's Frontier Conference semifinal game between the 22nd-ranked Montana State University-Northern Lights and the UM-Western Bulldogs. First and foremost, games just don't come with much more on the line. Both the Lights (21-8) and Bulldogs (21-8) are fighting to get into the NAIA...
It wasn't the start the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team was looking for, but never-the-less, the Lights will battle on. Northern finished the first day at the 2011 NAIA national wrestling tournament in ninth place overall with 16.5 points. Interestingly, the Lights are tied with rival UGF for ninth. However, MSU-N has just two wrestlers still with a chance to win national championships this weekend. As expected, former Havre Blue Pony and top-ranked 184-pounder Evan Hinebauch blasted his way into the...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team played nearly flawless basketball in Wednesday night's Frontier Conference quarterfinal thrashing of the Rocky Mountain College Bears. In their 91-68 win, the Lights were better than 50 percent from the field and from the 3-point-line and missed just two free throws all night. Northern also won the rebounding battle, the turnover battle and played hard-nosed defense all night long. In short, it doesn't get much better. But the win didn't guarantee the No. 22 Lights...
It might have been an up-and-down season for the Havre High girls softball team, but the year didn't come without some outstanding individual performances by several Pony players. The Central A released its 2011 All-Conference list on Wednesday afternoon and four Havre High players made the cut. Leading the way for Havre is sophomore pitcher Davee McLeod who was named Central A First-Team All-Conference. McLeod started every game for the Ponies on the mound this season and carried the pitching workload. She also was one of...
Rebuilding a program takes time. And even after first-year head coach of the Havre High track program Trever VanCampen put his first complete season behind him, he, as well as the rest Blue Pony squad are still in the beginning stages. The Central A Blue Ponies are fresh out of another track and field season. And while the young Havre High squad didn't burst onto the scene with divisional or state hardware, it appears the Ponies are right where they need to be as they continue to build towards the future, a future that will...
