Ponies open season against Sidney

The game of football has been said to be a game of inches. And if it were not for a couple of inches and a mere two points, the 2003 Havre High football team would be going into Sidney on Saturday night as the defending Class A state champions.

Instead, they fell just short. Now the 2002 season is nothing more than a memory and Havre High head coach Troy Purcell and the rest of the Blue Pony players will only use last November's loss to Laurel in the state championship game as motivation for the 2003 campaign, which will get underway on Saturday night when the Ponies hit the road to take on th...