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It took eight extra minutes. But the Fort Benton Longhorns defended their Northern C championship Saturday night in Great Falls. The Horns withstood a massive effort from the Belt Huskies in a thrilling 46-45 championship game win in double overtime. Hayden Diekhans made a clutch free throw to send the game to a second OT, setting up a wild finish which also sent both the Horns and Huskies to state for the second straight year. Chinook would end up finishing third with wins...
One week after losing the District 9C championship, the Fort Benton Longhorns won the Northern C championship by beating North Star in a rematch. Saturday afternoon at the Four Seasons Arena, Fort Benton defeated rival North Star 35-31. The Longhorns are in the state tournament with the win, while the Knights have to play Roy-Winifred in a Monday challenge game. The Outlaws beat 9C Box Elder in the consolation game earlier Saturday. In Billings, Havre lost a heartbreaker to...
The Fort Benton Longhorns will get a chance to defend their Northern C crown, but it won't be an all 9C affair in the championship game Saturday night. While Fort Benton did its part by beating Simms in Friday night's semifinal in Great Falls, the Chinook Sugarbeeters lost a one-point heartbreaker to Belt in overtime in the other semifinal. Chinook will now play in a loser-out game Saturday morning, while Fort Benton and Belt will meet in the championship game Saturday night...
The Havre High girls had a thrilling comeback win over Hardin in the Eastern A semifinals Friday afternoon in Billings. That sets up a game with top-ranked Billings Central Saturday in the Eastern A championship on Saturday. The win over the Bulldogs also clinched a spot in the state tournament for the Ponies. Meanwhile, at the Northern C, Box Elder stunned Belt by one point to reach Saturday's consolation game against Roy-Winifred. The win means all three 9C girls teams are...
It's back to the road for the Montana State University-Northern Skylights. After just two home matches in their last six, the Skylights will now play four in a row on the road. That tough Frontier Conference stretch starts with a doubleheader at Rocky Mountain College this weekend. The Battlin' Bears are in first place in the Frontier, while the Skylights come in tied at the bottom, having lost seven straight after starting the season with a win over Montana Western. That...
The Montana State University-Northern men's cross country team will have another Montana runner on its roster next fall. Northern head coach Chad Spangler recently announced the signing of Ronan High School standout Micheal Irvine. The senior at Ronan High has signed a letter of intent to run cross country for the Lights beginning in the fall of 2021. "Michael was a Top 15 runner in Class A during his senior season and is poised to have a great senior track season, too. I'm...
So many things have been different about this high school wrestling season. Many of those things are because of COVID-19. But, an unrelated difference will be seen this weekend as Class B-C has changed its divisional format. Prior to this winter, there were four B-C divisions for wrestling but, Class B-C is now just split into two with an East and a West. And the Eastern B-C Divisional will be where the area wrestling teams will be this weekend, as the divisional tournament...
Out our way, folks know that while there are miles and miles of fence to the pastures, there is only one gate between them. When one pasture is over-grazed and under-watered, it's time for Charlie and me to move the cattle to the fresh pasture - and that means move them to the gate. Now, Big Mike's herd is something of a mix. We have cows and calves and heifers and bulls. Some are red Angus, some are Charolais, and some a mix of various breeds. But when the time comes to move...
We started the season of Lent with a meditation on mortality (Ash Wednesday - Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return), and we end the season on a day also about death (Good Friday, when Christ is crucified). Lent is bookended by death. This year, Lent is also a time of remembering what I'm calling "COVID Anniversaries." A year ago, the lockdown started ... a year ago, the death toll started rising ... a year ago, our lives as we knew them ended. Even without...
The days slip by as time flies on, it's wintertime and cold. Just thinking 'bout some cute stories that our dear friends have told. Pictures do fly across our mind, when we were kids, years back; we crossed pastures on way to school; our lunch was what Mom packed. Away back then in olden days, we had a Prairie School. No modern things like gas for light nor air to keep us cool! At recess time, we five children had whooping hollering day; in class we read, did math, spelling,...
