Ponies open with defending champs

No one on the Havre High boys basketball team has been here before. If Blue Pony head coach Mark West has anything to be concerned about heading into Thursday's Class A state tournament in Belgrade, it's his team's complete and total lack of state tournament experience.

It has been five years since a Havre High basketball team has qualified for a state tournament, but the 2004 Blue Ponies not only qualified for the state tournament, they did it in dominant fashion by winning the Central A divisional tournament going away two weeks ago in Butte.

Even without a single player on the roster having...