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Bull riders came to Havre in search of prize money and the perfect ride, as well as to help raise money for the Montana State University-Northern Rodeo Team. And this year's Bull Dazzle didn't disappoint. On Friday and Saturday at the Great Northern Fairground's Bigger Better Barn, 60 riders competed in two night's of bull riding, with nearly $4,000 on the line, and there was plenty of excitement for bull riding fans in the area. Dustin Jenkins captured the average with a total score of 173.50, just edging out Steven Turner,...
With good weather holding, the Montana State University-Northern football team took full advantage. In their first full scrimmage of the spring, the Lights moved the ball well on offense, made several big plays, and all-in-all had a strong first week of drills, which concluded with Sunday's scrum at the Havre High practice fields. In a the situational, almost 90-minute scrimmage on Sunday afternoon, the Lights' offense scored four times and had five big plays. The battle for starting quarterback position is underway at...
Marc Mariani has called Montana home for the last 23 years. But over the last two years, Mariani has spent a lot of time in the state of Tennessee, first, playing in two FCS title games with the Montana Grizzlies, then with workouts for the Tennessee Titans. Now, he'll try to make Nashville his new home. Mariani, a seventh-round draft pick of the Titans back in April, is about to embark on a brand new, and most harrowing journey — his first NFL training camp. And in order to be able to take up residence permanently in the M...
Montana State University-Northern women's basketball coach Chris Mouat is losing a top-notch assistant coach to an NCAA Division I program. But Mouat has found an excellent replacement. Longtime MSU-N assistant Anna Bateman recently accepted a job at Big Sky Conference member Northern Colorado University, and Mouat recently announced the hiring of former Malta prep star and University of Montana basketball standout Juliann Keller. Keller replaces Bateman, who worked as the lead assistant in the Skylight program the past five...
The highly-anticipated baseball showdown between perhaps two of the top teams in the American Legion Class A's Northern District turned out to be a bumpy ride for the Havre North Stars. On Monday afternoon at Legion Field, the North Stars were swept by the Great Falls Electrics, solidifying Great Falls as the top team in the league standings in the process. Pitching wasn't Havre's issue in its two losses on Monday, and at times, neither was hitting. Instead, it was defense and a failure to move runners across the plate which...
The heat of a warm summer's night was certainly intense. But it wasn't nearly as an intense as the heat inside the Great Northern Fair Arena on Sunday night. As always, the annual Jaycees Demolition Derby closed out the Great Northern Fair, and Sunday's demolition derby closed the 2010 Great Northern Fair with plenty of fireworks. A capacity crowd of 1,736 fans watched 10 drivers reach the championship heat in Sunday night's derby. And of those 10 drivers, two stood out. Ryan Erickson, the 2009 derby champion battled Ben...
This week in Hi-Line girls high school basketball saw some excitement, and disappointment. Friday and Saturday's snowstorm across the state brought plenty of cancellations, but there was hoops still played. On Thursday night, the in a new Class B rivalry game, the upstart Harlem Wildcats downed the Rocky Morning Stars 64-46 in Harlem. The Wildcats broke open a 27-24 game in the third quarter via a 16-8 run. Harlem carried that momentum into the fourth quarter and went on to win going away. Hypatia Getten scored a game-high...
If the newly formed Class AA Great Falls Chargers are supposed to be the best American Legion baseball team in Montana this summer, than the Havre North Stars can feel good about where they're at this spring. On Sunday afternoon at Legion Field in Havre, the North Stars made their home debut, and although they dropped both games of the nonconference doubleheader, the scores didn't reflect how the North Stars played, or pitched. "Overall, I'm happy," Havre head coach Steve Fanning said. "We had a couple of bad innings in the...
Knowing it was unlikely he was going to be selected at any time during the first two days of the 2010 NFL Draft, former Havre High and University of Montana superstar Marc Mariani had a long wait before he found out his NFL future. But, as the saying goes, good things come to those who wait. Mariani, a two-time Class A All- State football player at Havre High, and a two-time FCS First Team All American selection as a wide receiver and kick returner at Montana was picked by the Tennessee Titans in the seventh round of the...
It wasn't easy, but the Rocky Boy Stars are still unbeaten after the their first District 1B tournament. On Saturday night in Shelby, the Stars pulled out a one-point thriller, 40-39 to claim the district championship in their first season of Class B basketball. Rocky Boy got 11 points from Erik Schildt and nine from Leisin Oats in the close win over the Coyotes, improving to 20-0 on the season. The Stars, who also beat Cut Bank 73-48 in Friday's semifinal round, will move on to Thursday's Northern B Divisional in Glasgow....
The 2010 Great Northern Fair is underway, and opening night for the sporting events at the fair was, as usual, a big success. As always, the annual Havre Junior Rodeo opened the five nights of sporting events, and on Wednesday night at the Great Northern Fair Arena, cowboys and cowgirls of all ages took center stage. Over 100 participants competed in the rode which featured flag racing, barrel racing, steer riding, ribbon untying, breakaway roping, pole bending, goat tying and team roping. Competitors range din age from four...
George Ferguson Havre Daily News sports editor [email protected] The Havre American Legion baseball team is in the midst of one of its busiest parts of the 2010 schedule. The North Stars will embark on a three-day Canada road swing on Wednesday, only days after returning from Three Forks with a 3-2 record this past weekend at the Gallatin Valley Tournament. Havre opened the tournament with a 5-3 win over the Lewistown Redbirds on Friday. The North Stars road a complete-game pitching performance from Roman Surber as...
Former Havre High and University of Montana star wide receiver Marc Mariani has already lived out one childhood dream. Now, with one phone call, he's about to embark on another. Mariani recently wrapped up the most prolific career by a wide receiver and kick returner in Montana Grizzly history. What began as a walkon situation where he had to fight for every rep in practice and every chance to get on the famed turf of Washington-Grizzly Stadium turned into a career spanning four years, many UM records, ultimate team success...
To say the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team will be happy to be on its own maroon and gold mat tonight might be an understatement. The No. 13 Lights haven't wrestled at home since the first week of December, and not only have they been on the road, but they have been riddled with injuries which have left them depleted. Still, the season marches on and tonight at 7, the Lights will take to the mat against the Northwest College Trappers at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The Trappers are one of the premier powers...
After an 0-2 start to the Frontier Conference season, the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team needed a win. Not only did the Skylights need a victory to erase last weekend's difficult road trip, but they needed to stay within striking distance in the early conference race. Northern accomplished those missions and then some on Saturday night by crushing the University of Great Falls Argos 63-36 at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. "I was very pleased with how we played for 30 minutes tonight," MSU-N head...
His team came up two points shy of a victory, but on Saturday night at Quest Field in Seattle, Marc Mariani left the playing surface all smiles. Mariani made his NFL debut in front of more than 65,000 fans Saturday night as the Seattle Seahawks edged the Tennessee Titans 20-18 in the preseason opener for both teams. Never-the-less, the preseason is more about getting ready for the rigors of an NFL campaign, and in rookies' like Mariani's case, getting their feet wet in a live game, and even more so, making plays in those...
There's always a few surprises when it comes to the District 9C girls basketball tournament. But as area teams get set to invade Havre for the 2010 9C girls tournament this week, things have never been more wide open. Big Sandy has had a stranglehold on the 9C girls championship for the better of a decade, and when the Pioneers weren't on top, it was the Rocky Boy Morning Stars. But Big Sandy comes into this week's tournament at the Havre High gymnasium as the No. 3 seed, something a little unfamiliar to the Pioneers, and...
Pitching has been a trademark of the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team all season long. But now that Havre's bats have become more than consistent, the North Stars are becoming awfully dangerous. And on Wednesday afternoon at Legion Field, the North Stars showed yet again just how dangerous a team they've become by sweeping the Vauxhall Spurs with great pitching and bigtime hitting in a Northern District doubleheader. The North Stars beat Vauxhall by scores of 7-2 and 11-7 to run their current winning streak to...
The race is on. It's now just one month from postseason basketball play, and things are going to get interesting in girls hoops along the Hi-Line. This past week started with the Rocky Boy Morning Stars picking up a nonconference win over Box Elder on Thursday night in Box Elder. The Morning Stars edged the Bears 47-36 behind solid defense a strong second half. Falene Russette scored 13 points and Jordan Big Knife had 100 11 for Rocky Boy. In the loss, Box Elder got 12 points from Aricka Wolfcheif. Thursday night also saw...
A slow start to their weekend didn't prevent the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team from finding ultimate success. Going 4-1 over the course of three days, the North Stars captured the title at the Cullinan Memorial Baseball Tournament this weekend in Glendive. Havre opened tournament play with a loss to Lewistown on Friday, but then reeled off four straight wins to take the tournament title with the best overall record among all teams in attendance. "Good weekend of baseball," Havre head coach Steve Fanning...
What a start. First the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team matched its 2009 win total in its first three weeks of the season. The Skylights went an outstanding 7-3 this preseason. And on Thursday night in Butte, Northern kept things rolling by sweeping the Montana Tech Orediggers in the Frontier Conference opener for both teams. The Skylights beat the Orediggers by scores of 25-18, 29-27 and 25-20 to go to 1-0 in league play. Northern finishes its first conference road trip tonight against UM-Western in...
Mother Nature does its share of controlling the game of golf. Weather, no matter if its rain, wind, cold, heat or snow, it can all get in the way of a golfer's plans, and it most certainly has its affects on a golf course. But nowhere has that fact been more evident this summer than Havre's Beaver Creek Golf Course. An unusually heavy amount of rain fell on the Hi-Line area late in the spring and that rain, mixed with the usual snow melt and runoff from another harsh winter created flooding conditions this year unlike...
The Montana State University- Northern volleyball team has added two new recruits to an already outstanding recruiting class. This week, second-year MSU-N head coach Bill Huebsch announced the signing of two high school and outstanding club players from Canada. Joining the Skylights will be Samantha Hutcheson of Brandon, Manitoba and Aneta Fabianova of Calgary, Alberta. Hutcheson attended high school at Crocus Plains Secondary School where her varsity team won back-to-back provincial championships the past two seasons....
For the Montana State University- Northern men's and women's basketball teams, October began a season of two teams searching for a new identity. Now, the Lights and Skylights start a new journey as Frontier Conference play begins tonight in Salt Lake City. The MSU-N women kick off the Frontier schedule tonight at 5:30 against the No. 20 Westminster College Griffins. Westminster (11-4) is the defending Frontier regular season champion having gone a perfect 14-0 in league play a year ago. Included in that run was two wins over...
There is no doubt, the 2010 Frontier Conference football season will feature a league loaded with individual talent. But perhaps no position in the league is more talented from top to bottom then the most prestigious position of them all — quarterback. And this season, the Frontier might have the best crop of quarterbacks in all of NAIA football. Heading into the season, which gets under way on the final Saturday in August, five of the six teams in the league return their starting signal callers, and all five of those p...
