Havre Public Schools foundation holds annual Holiday Hoops

Press release

Havre Public Schools Education Foundation held it's 12th Annual Holiday Hoops Blue Pony Alumni Games Monday, Dec. 26, at Havre Middle School.

An outstanding turnout of alumni players and fans were in attendance. Fans were asked to donate a nonperishable food item as their fee for the evening. The Foundation is pleased to announce that 99 pounds of food was delivered to the Havre Food Bank following the games.

HPSEF would like to thank the generous event sponsors that made the evening possible. Thank you, Havre Laundry & Dry Cleaning, Bear Paw Credit Union, D.A.Davidson, Duck Inn Inc., McDonald's, Stockman Bank, Triangle Communications, Valley Furniture, PJ's Restaurant, Walmart, Gallery Lounge, Steve Mariani Insurance and Stromberg Enterprises. Several prizes were donated of which one was given to the oldest female and oldest male alumni players. The remaining prizes were given to spectators whose name was drawn. Thank you for the great prizes, Bing 'N' Bob's, Ben Franklin Crafts, Havre Ford, Independence Bank, MSU-Northern Bookstore and Carol Gabrielsen.

Before the games began many of the fans filled up on delicious chili provided by PJ's, including chips from MSU-Northern food service and cookies from Havre Public Schools. The main event of the evening, the games, would not have been possible without Patch Wirtzberger and Grayson Winsor. A big thank you to them for spending weeks contacting alumni to participate and handling necessary details as well as being 2 of the 30 players. The rest of the participating alumni are CJ Evans; Tanner Veis; Jared Weigel; Billy, Gary and Dani Wagner; Nate, Kade and Shawn Rismon; Jared Boles; Austin After Buffalo; Kevin Tibbetts; Andy Kiem; Jason Castillion; Jeremy Giardina, Paige Henderson; Tori and Morgan Mazurkiewicz; Michael Sharp; Andy Pester; Chris Brandt; Jonathan Faber; Tray Trahant; Michael Compton; Tanner Lowe; John Shennum; Ramsay Drew; and Wyatt Lindbloom. Also, thank you very much for the game officials Clay Vincent and Lindsay Eagleman and the score/time keeper, Cori Winsor. Thanks also to New Media Broadcasters and Havre Daily News for helping get the word out about the games.

Please accept an apology if anyone was inadvertently left out.

HPSEF is very pleased the players and volunteers shared their time and talent with the community and so many fans came out to cheer on their favorite alumni. The Foundation is very proud of all past, current and future Blue Ponies.