Roller coaster season ends for Ponies

The 2002 football season ended very much like it began for the Havre Blue Ponies with a dramatic finish to a pressure packed game. While the Ponies came within two points of capturing the Class A football state championship, this season will not be measured as a season of "what could have been," but more as a season of "what it was."

The Ponies began the 2002 campaign with a home game against highly ranked Whitefish, and it was a game that took some dramatic twists and turns. In the second overtime period, trailing by seven points, senior running back Levi Briese scored a touchdown on a five-y...