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The Malta M-ettes Track team had three athletes place in individual events in the 2021 State B Track and Field Meet in Laurel last weekend. The two-day event started on Friday, May 28, and concluded on Saturday, May 29. The M-ettes were twelfth in team scoring with 16 points, led by senior Erica Smith who won the triple jump event with a season's best of 34-6. "It feels awesome. I have been waiting for this, forever!" Smith told the PCN after she heard the final result. "My junior year got...
The Malta Mustangs Track Team was represented by five competitors at the 2021 State Track Meet in Laurel last weekend. Malta was led by junior Cash Salsbery, who was the lone Mustang to earn points, by taking third in the shot put competition. He hit a mark of 49-0.25 in the first throw of preliminaries, a new best. "I feel great but yesterday I had a rough day at discus," Salsbery said. The mark came after Salsbery was unable to place a solid mark in the prelims of discus one day prior. He hit...
The Erickson sisters meant business. Freshman Teagan Erickson and her older sister Jaycee Erickson accounted for five medals at the 2021 State C Track and Field Meet in Missoula last weekend. The Whitewater Penguins were also represented at the podium as Kendra Cummings and Kia Wasson both placed at state. The Saco girls placed highest amongst Phillips County teams, scoring 29 points and tying Fairview for ninth place at the meet. Whitewater tied with North Toole County (Sunburst) for...
Though it was rainy throughout, a thunderstorm did not stop the Malta M-ettes from winning the North/East B Divisional at Memorial Stadium in Great Falls last Saturday. The M-ettes qualified 13 athletes for the 2016 State B meet in Bozeman this Thursday through Saturday. The team won the meet with 189.83 points. Glasgow took second with a total of 108.33. Bigfork won the Western B last Friday in Missoula with 110 points. Roundup won the Southern B last Thursday in Laurel with a total of 78.5...
The Malta Mustangs track team took seventh at the rainy North/East B Divisional at Memorial Stadium in Great Falls last Saturday. The team will have eight athletes at this week's State B Track Meet in Bozeman which starts tomorrow. Malta scored 33.5 points in the event. Glasgow won the meet with 118.5 points. Fairfield was second with 105.5 and Cut Bank took third with 70. The long relay team retained their divisional crown. The team consisting of Jase Galt, Tyson Carney, Ostin and Allen...
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The Eastern C Divisional was hosted last week in Sidney and all three Phillips County Class C teams were represented at the meet. Whitewater was the only team to post points. The Penguins took seventh at the meet with a total of 30 points, qualifying all three athletes for the 2016 State C Track meet in Missoula tomorrow. Richey-Lambert won the meet with 119 points, Fairview took second with 89 and Savage took third with 85. The Penguins were led by Trace Simonson, who placed in four events....
Both Saco and Whitewater girls’ track teams were represented at the 2016 Eastern C Divisional in Sidney last week. Whitewater took eleventh as a team with ten points while Saco took thirteenth with six points. Kayleigh Cummings was Whitewater’s lone placer at the meet, taking first place in shot put with a throw of 32-7, a new personal best. She also participated in javelin and posted an impressive throw of 94-0 but took tenth in the event. Bella Lawless placed eighth in the 3200 with a time of...
The Malta M-ettes had a great showing at the 2015 State B Track Meet in Kalispell, taking fourth as a team. Sophomore Sophia Stiles led the effort, not only retaining her triple jump crown, but taking first place in the long jump as well. In long jump Stiles left a mark at 17-09, which is also a new personal best. Her triple jump distance was 36-09.50. “I feel good and it feels like lots of hard work paid off,” Stiles told the PCN. Stiles also took third place in the 300 meter hurdles with a t... Full story
The Whitewater Penguins competed in their last event as the Penguins at the 2015 State C Track meet in Laurel last Friday and Saturday. The team was led by Junior Tatum Moore, who took fifth place in the 100 meter hurdles after recording a time of 16.64 in the final round and 17.17 in prelims. Moore also placed fifteenth in the long jump. Senior Kourtney Simonson did well in her races taking seventh in the 800 with a time of 2:29.41, which is her best time of the year. Being that the meet was...
The Malta Mustangs faced tough competition at the 2015 State B Track Meet in Kalispell last Friday and Saturday, tying for twenty-fifth place. The long relay team was the recipient of the team’s lone point scored at the meet, taking sixth place with a time of 3:33.12. The team consisted of Ostin Welch, Jase Galt, Tyson Carney and Allen Wlliamson Tyson Carney took tenth place in javelin after leaving a mark at 156.-03, which is also a new personal best. Jace Bishop placed tenth in javelin p... Full story
Though the Malta M-ettes have been dominating meets all year, the team met its match against the Glasgow Lady Scotties last Saturday at the District 2B Track Meet in Wolf Point. Malta took second place after scoring 156 points at the meet. Glasgow was first with 198 and Wolf Point took third, though the Lady Wolves also had 156 points. With only two more meets left, the M-ettes are heating up at the right time. "We're trying to peak each weekend now and traditionally that's worked out very well...
The Whitewater Penguin girls track team has had a strong campaign this season. That continued last Thursday at the District 3C meet in Glasgow as the team took second place with 97 points. All eight athletes qualified for the next level, the Eastern C Divisionals in Glasgow tomorrow. The team was led on that cold and windy day by senior Kourtney Simonson, who won the 800 with a time of two minutes, 35.9 seconds. Simonson's closest opponent was fifteen seconds behind her. This is Simonson's fourt...
The District 3C Track Meet is in the books, and many athletes from Phillips County have made it to the next stage, the Eastern C Divisionals in Glasgow being held tomorrow. All four Whitewater Penguins are in the mix as well as Dodson's Trevor Banyai and Saco's Chandler Pippin. Whitewater's Jeret Warren has been a strong contributor for the school's track team, making it into divisionals all four years of his high school career. "It makes me feel accomplished that I've been able to do it all...
Lady Panther Bailey Funk had a big day at the District 3C meet in Glasgow last week. The freshman qualified for the Eastern Divisional meet in Glasgow tomorrow in four events including winning the triple jump with a length of 28 feet, six inches. "I don't know how I did it, I only did two jumps," Funk said. "The other was a 29-02, definitely not my best." Her best triple jump was a 31-07.50, which she had posted in Glasgow at the North-East Top Ten meet a few weeks ago. Shin splints have run...
The Whitewater Lady Penguins track teams had great outings at the Malta Athletic Club Invitational held last Tuesday, April 21 at Mustang Field and the Jean Dreikosen Memorial (JDM) in Glasgow last Saturday. The Lady Penguins took third at the JDM, scoring 57 points and fourth at the Malta meet after scoring 43. Kourtney Simonson had a great outing at both meets. She took first in the 800 meter run at both meets, posting a time of 2 minutes and 44.20 seconds in Malta and 2:37.65 in Glasgow....
You may call it home-field advantage, but there was no denying the Mustangs and M-ettes track team shined at the Malta Athletic Club Invitational last Tuesday, April 21, at Mustang Field. The M-ettes showed no mercy, racking up 163 points, while their nearest competition, the Chinook Sugarbeeters, took second with a score of 99. The Havre Blue Ponies racked up 74 points and placed third. In the boys action the Mustangs scored 82.5, taking first place in the process. The Havre boys scored 76.5...
The Malta Mustangs weren't too shabby in their home meet, taking first place for the first time this season. The team was led by Devon Raybon, Jace Bishop and the long relay team, each of which placed first in events. Malta dominated the javelin throw taking four of six top placings. Bishop took first in the event after a throw of 153 feet. Tyson Carney wasn't far behind, placing second with a throw of 148-10. Keenan Schipman placed fifth with a throw of 143-05 and Jase Galt was sixth with a...
Led by senior Jeret Warren, the Whitewater Penguins posted 32 points at the Jean Dreikosen Memorial last Saturday in Glasgow, giving them eighth as a team. Warren posted a time of 11 minutes, and 14.11 seconds in the 3200 meter run at the JDM, which gave him one of his two first place finishes. He also won the 3200 with a time of 5:04.29. Warren placed fourth in the 800, with a time of 2:17.69, which was one and a half seconds slower than his personal best. He took fourth in the 800 (2:19), the...
The Malta M-ettes were dominant at the Lewistown Twilight Invitational last Tuesday, April 14. The team scored a meet high 121 points. The team was led by sophomore Sophia Stiles, senior Darby Schye and sophomore Jada Nicholson, each of which placed first in events during the meet. Stiles pulled a hat trick after placing first in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 16.10 seconds, the long jump with a leap of 15 feet, 9 ¾ inches and in the triple jump with a length of 36-9.75. Her triple...
The Whitewater Lady Penguins track team took second place at the Porcupine Invitational track meet hosted by Nashua at Glasgow High School last Friday. Whitewater, who scored 75, only lost by two points to Class B's Wolf Point Wolves who scored 77. The team was led by Senior Kourtney Simonson, who took first place in the 400 meter dash with a time of 1 minute, and 5.9 seconds. Ko. Simonson also took second in the 800 with a time of 2:39.4. She would also take fifth in the 1600 with a time of...
The Malta M-ettes had a great week in Havre, taking first place in the Cal Wearley Memorial last Wednesday, April 8, with a total of 99.5 and third at the Havre Lions Meet last Saturday, with a total of 74. Darby Schye (shot put), Sophia Stiles (long and triple jump) and Jada Nicholson (high jump) all qualified for state thanks to the new state qualifying standards that can be found at MHSA.org. The team was led by Stiles who placed first in every individual event she participated in last week....
The Whitewater Lady Penguins track team took eighth place at the Havre Lions Meet last Saturday, with a total of 33 points. Kourtney Simonson is off to a great start this season taking second in the 800 meter dash at the Cal Wearley Meet. She recorded a time of 2:34, which is seven sconds slower than her personal best,, which is 2:27. "I'm happy with it, I just needed a starting point to improve on, so now I have it," Kourtney told the PCN. She admitted that she still isn't in the best running...
The Malta Mustangs track team took fifth at the Havre Lions meet last Saturday and seventh at the Cal Wearley Memorial last Wednesday, April 8. Malta has a trio of javelin throwers who have all placed in the top six spots in the event in either of the meets last week. Jace Bishop set the tone taking first at the Cal Wearley with a throw of 156-05. The throw is Bishop's new personal best. Before he even had his first throw, Bishop, knew where he wanted to hit and he surpassed his goal. "I'm...