George Ferguson: Blue Pony boys' trip to state was a huge step

MISSOULA ­­— As Havre head coach Walynn Burgess said, postseason basketball is about getting hot at the right time. His Blue Ponies did that the last three weeks of the 2022 season.

Unfortunately, the hot streak came to an end at the Class A state tournament Friday morning in Missoula.

In a Class A state tourney loser-out game inside Dahlberg Arena, the Blue Ponies fell to Polson 74-58. Havre got an outstanding effort from junior Xavier Butler, but it wasn’t quite enough to upend the Pirates, one of many tough teams from the Western A.

Still, the loss should not, by any stretch of the imaginat...