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The Malta cross country team headed west on a crispy cool Friday morning to Missoula, MT for the state cross country championships and participated in the Class B races on Saturday the 26th. The state cross country championships are the finale of a ten week season of hard work. This is what you work towards all season, and it is an exciting time, filled with apprehension and nervousness until the starting gun fires and all the runners explode into a sea of colorful uniforms representing many schools from all over the state of Montana. The...
The Malta Cross Country team traveled west to Harlem on a chilly autumn morning for the last meet of the season. The Harlem Cross Country meet takes place at the Harlem Golf Course, a relatively flat 3.1 mile course. This is a great meet and a great place to test your skills you've practiced all season, and hopefully give you a little mental boost and help you gain confidence for the state meet the following weekend. In the past, I have dubbed this the "flat as a pancake" course, one in which yo...
The Malta cross country team headed east early Saturday morning to Fort Peck, the site of the annual Scottie Cross Country Invitational meet. While we drove east, the wicked west wind pushed us along and we soon arrived there at the Downsteam Campground (Kiwanis Park) there below the Fort Peck Dam. The races would start at the north end of the parking lot of Fort Peck Dam and Interpretive Center. The start of the races would mean that all runners would face the west and the wind and would run into it for over 400 meters or more until you got...
The Malta Cross Country team traveled nearly 950 miles this past week and not all of it took place over a golf course. The team traveled to Frazer on Thursday, September 26 for the annual meet there, a beautiful area over looking the Missouri River at what is called Clarks Hill, in the middle of farmland and prairie. This meet is known for its figure eight running course where you go up and down the hills, running on dirt roads. It's one of the most spectator friendly courses we compete on,...
The Malta Cross Country team participated in the Fergus Cross Country Invite on Friday September 20 at the Pine Meadows Golf Course in Lewistown. This was an impromptu meet for us as we had found out the weekend before that the Frazer meet had been rescheduled for the following week and therefore we had no meet on the schedule for this week. So with a little research, we found the Fergus invite, registered the runners and then made our way south and west to the center of the state. This was a...
The Malta Cross Country team traveled west to the Havre Invitational Cross Country meet, last Saturday, where teams from up and down the Hi-line met on a beautiful late summer morning with cool temps, overcast skies and a nice breeze. The meet takes place at Prairie Farms Golf Course north of Havre, a green oasis in the middle of farmland. This meet has been a great meet to test the skills you've been practicing and see how you fair on this fairly flat golf course. The Mustang Cross Country team...
The Malta High School Cross Country Team ventured west on a beautiful autumn morning to Kalispell for the 60th MHSA State Cross Country Championship meet which was to be held at Rebecca Farm, an equestrian (horseback riding) facility that hosts one of the largest equestrian eventing competitions in the United States. But this Saturday’s event would be the state cross country races. “Third time’s the charm” I thought as we were riding along in the bus. This was the Malta Cross Country team’s third time to compete at the state meet in Kalispell....
The Malta Cross Country team headed west on a crispy cool autumn morning on Friday the 13th to the annual Harlem Invitational Cross Country Meet, which took place out at the Harlem Golf Course, a flat 3.1 mile course. As luck would have it, this meet would be a boon to runners as they tested their skills they have worked on all season. This is the last race many of the runners will participate in before heading into the post season and a trip to the state meet in Kalispell on October 21. The...
Fort Peck's Downstream Campground below the Fort Peck Dam was the scene of the Glasgow Scottie Invitational Cross Country Meet, held on a very windy and cool Saturday, September 30. Many teams from all over northeastern Montana were invited to run one of the fastest courses around the area. The very flat paved Nature Trail weaves around ponds, cat tails and views of the powerhouses. The start of the race was changed this year from the prairie area to the parking lot near the Interpretive...
The Malta Cross Country Team didn’t have a doubleheader, but we doubled up this week. We had a meet in Shelby on Monday and then another one in Frazer on Thursday, all in the same week. It is not very often we participate in two meets in one week, but that’s how the schedule worked for us this year. And we capitalized on the fact that we had a free weekend, so we focused on getting in some good solid practices this past week and that paid off. We headed west on Monday to the annual Shelby Cross Country meet which is always a fun and fes...
The Malta Cross Country team ran at the Poplar Invitational last Saturday, September 2. Individually, Kash Stiles finished thirty-fourth with a time of 23:05, Kael Young was thirty-fifth with a time of 23:06, Michael Mayer was forty-fifth with a time of 24:51, and Megan Morser was twenty-second with a time of 26:51. Poplar won the boys' meet, Trinity Christian (Williston) was second, Scobey was third, Wolf Point was fourth, Frazier was fifth, and Glasgow was sixth. The girls' meet was won by...
The Malta Cross Country team competed in their first meet of the season on Friday, August 25, in Wolf Point. Megan Morser is Malta's lone M-ette and was able to post a time of 30:04 and placed twenty-sixth. For the Mustangs, Kash Stiles crossed the line in twenty-ninth place in the boys race. Stiles' time was 22.58. Kael Young was thirty-third with a time of 24:05. Michael Mayer was fifty-fourth with a time of 29:11. The following is a write-up by Malta Head Coach Thea Solberg. The first race...
The Malta Cross Country teams headed west to Missoula for the final meet of the season, the state cross country championships, which were to be held on Saturday, October 22. Kirsta Meisdalen led the M-ettes, finishing 92nd with a time of 24:59. Megan Morser was 133rd with a time of 28:20. Izzie Hallenberg was 147th with a time of 33:37. Kael Young led the Mustangs with a time of 23:14 and Kash Stiles had a time of 25:08. The state meet was predicted to be a wet one so we prepared as best we coul...
The Malta Cross Country team headed west on Friday the 14th to the annual Harlem Invitational Cross Country Meet, which took place out at the Harlem Golf Course, a very flat 3.1 mile course that is a boon to runners as they test the skills they have been working on all season. This is the last race many of the runners will participate in before heading to the state meet on Saturday, October 22. Malta runners headed to state include M-ettes Kirsta Meisdalen, Megan Morser, Izzie Hallenberg, and Ki...
The Frazer Cross Country Meet had been previously scheduled for September 22, but had been postponed because of some much needed rain to the area and the results of that lovely rain event caused a very muddy area for running. But on Tuesday, October 4, the Malta Cross Country team traveled on a very beautiful fall day over to the area called Clark's Hill, just a few miles southwest of Frazer overlooking the beautiful Missouri River. Today's running course was dry and provided just the right...
The Malta Cross Country team competed in the Shelby Invitational last Friday, September 30. The team is also set to host the Malta Athletic Club Invitational on Saturday, October 8, at Marian Hills Golf Course. Races start at 10 a.m. The day will also serve as the team's senior recognition day for senior runners Izzie Hallenberg, Kirsta Meisdalen, and Olivia Negus, who will be honored at 9 a.m. For the M-ettes, Meisdalen led the team by taking 11th place with a time of 25:30. Morser was 25th...
The Malta Cross Country team performed well at the Scottie Invitational with almost the entire team posting their best performance of the season. "This is a very exciting meet because the competition is great and the course is fast." Malta Cross Country Coach Thea Solberg said. "This is the race that a person can run and post one of your best times of the season." This is not the usual cross-country course with grass and dirt roads that you might find at a golf course. Once you get over the prai...
The Malta Cross Country runners competed at the Havre Cross Country Meet on Saturday, September 10. The overall winner of the girl's varsity 3 mile race at the Prairie Farms Golf Course in Havre was Tanae Baker of Glasgow who ran the race in 19:30. Her teammate Emily See was the second place runner and ran in with a time of 19:38. Shelbi LaBrie of Whitewater was the 3rd place runner and she ran in with a time of 19:41. Kirsta Meisdalen led the M-ettes with a time of 24:52 and a 19th place...
The Malta Mustang and M-ette Cross Cross teams competed in the Poplar Invitational Cross Country Meet on Saturday, September 3. The M-ettes consisting of five runners, placed 8th with 192 points and the Mustangs were not able to score, only having two runners. The overall winner of the high school boy’s 3 mile race was again Peyton Summers who sailed over the very hot course with an impressive time of 16:56. He is a fun runner to watch because he makes it look so easy and effortless. Being the leader, he sets the pace and if you are c...
The overall winner of the high school girl's 5k, 3.1 mile race of 43 runners was Annie Kaul of Plentywood, who cruised over the Airport Golf Course speedily with a time of 19:51. Second place went to Mya Green of Scobey, who ran 20:55 over the course and was followed by third place finisher Jazmin Gorder of Poplar, who ran a time of 21:37. The Malta Mette's placed as follows: Kira Beck was fourteenth with a time of 25:40, Kirsta Meisdalen was seventeenth with a time of 26:23. Megan Morser was th...
The Malta High School Cross Country Team participated in the wintry 2020 State Cross Country meet held at Rebecca Farm, an equestrian event facility in Kalispell on Friday, October 23. The M-ettes placed 15th as a team with a total of 503. Broadwater won the meet with 59 points, followed by Manhattan who had 60, and Red Lodge who had 99. M-ette senior Leslie Young ran her last race of her high school cross country career. She posted a time of 24:26.81. She gave it her all in the wintry...
A few of the Malta M-ettes ran at the First Nemont Invitational Cross Country Meet on Thursday, October 15. The meet was held at the flat and fast Fort Peck course. Next action for the M-ette Cross Country team is the state meet at Kalispell on Friday October 23. Iris McKean of Glasgow, who posted a time of 19:32, was the overall winner of the fast paced high school girl's race that took place on the paved trails of the Downstream Nature Trails below the Fort Peck Dam on a cold autumn morning. S...
I would like to recognize the team. Seniors Kaycee Bond and Jillian O'Brien, juniors Danie Rhodes and Leslie Young, freshmen Izzie Hallenberg and Kirsta Meisdalen. A special thank you goes out to Assistant Coach Fallon Handley for all your dedication in making M-ette Cross Country a fun sport. I would like to thank all of you student-athletes who took up the challenge to run cross country this past season. It takes a special kind of person to be able to make it through this tough endurance...