T-Birds Flying High

When the Hays-Lodge Pole Thunderbirds get their running game going, they're hard to stop. The Chester-Joplin-Inverness Hawks saw that first hand in the first game of the District 9C boys basketball tournament.

Thursday morning inside the Havre High School gymnasium, the T-Birds began their postseason run, by running past the Hawks 72-33, setting up a semifinal showdown with North Star this afternoon.

The T-Birds scored 54 first-half points, got 20 steals in the first 16 minutes and had the clock running the entire second half in the victory.

"When we get running like that, when we get ou...