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The Porcupines took their high school girls team and both junior high teams to the Poplar Invitational cross country meet on Sept. 4. Lone high school runner Alyssa Murdock competed for Nashua. The senior ran a 32:29.36 to finish in 62nd place. Alexus Ponder was the only middle school Porcupine to run for the girls team. The sixth-grader ran an 18:07.05 1.5 mile to finish in 71st place. Nashua took three middle school boys to the meet. Sixth-grader Joseph Youpee ran a 10:52.50 and finished in 22nd place. Jackson Abern, seventh-grader, finished...
The Glasgow volleyball team started their 2021 season in the traditional way – at the Choteau Invitational. Last year’s tournament was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, as were all the big tournaments which hurt the team according to head coach Somer Hoerster. Though, one might be forgiven for not noticing given how well the team played in their season opener. Glasgow came up against some tough competition but gave better than they received, finishing in fifth place after making the gold bracket and with a 7-5 overall record. The final...
One game a season does not make. The Scotties may have dropped their home opener against Shepherd on Aug. 28, but the season is a long way from over. "Our heads are held high," said head coach Patrick Barnett. The Scotties head coach took full responsibility for the 28-14 non-conference loss. "I didn't prepare the guys as well as I should have," he ruminated. "As a coach I failed the team so that loss is on me." While Barnett critiqued himself, he was generous with praise for his team. "We had...
The Glasgow cross country team started their 2021 season at the prestigious Billings Invitational on Aug. 27. The Scotties more than held their own as they went up against some of the best schools in the state. The boys team took ninth place overall out of 26 schools and claimed the top slot for Class B schools with 273 points. Junior Reed Larsen led the boys team, finishing in 39th with a time of 18:06.65, just barely eclipsing fellow Scottie Lane Thompson at the finish line. Thompson, also a...
The North Country Mavericks kicked off their 2021 volleyball season in Malta on Aug. 28. The team had two pool play matches and three tournament bracket matches, finishing in fourth place overall. In pool play, the Mavericks lost to Plentywood 26-24 and defeated Poplar 25-8. North Country split a match with Harlem, 25-12, 24-25, winning by total number of points. They fell to the host Mustangs 12-25, 24-25. That set them up to face Circle for the consolation game. In a tight contest the teams split with Circle winning a game 25-21 and the...
The Lustre Christian High School volleyball team started their 2021 season in Culbertson on Aug. 28. The team played Savage, Culbertson and Scobey in pool play and faced Froid/Medicine Lake in the the tournament round game. Aubri Holzrichter led the Lions in assists, 3; digs, 9 and aces, 2. Alexa Redding had two kills and two blocks for Lustre....
The Nashua and Frazer cross country teams started their 2021 season at the Wolf Point Invitational on Aug. 27. Frazer sophomores Anthony Jackson placed 31st and teammate Ty Fourstar placed 33rd for the Bearcubs boys team. Junior Alyssa Toce Blount placed 22nd in the girls race. Sophomore Shakira Beston placed 27th followed by fellow sophomore Kalianna Toce Blount in 28th. Another Bearcub sophomore, Angel Nelligan, placed 35th. “I know we were pretty excited as coaches,” said Frazer’s Cody Larson, who coaches the boys team, “we thought our kids...
JANICE RORVIK FOR THE COURIER We started off our first weekend of volleyball participating in the Culbertson Tournament on August 28th. There were eight teams invited and Nashua ended up playing pool play on the east court against Scobey JV, Froid/Lake, and Bainville. All of the pool play sets were played to 15. Our first match in pool play was against Scobey JV. We ended up losing to Scobey in two with scores of 15-5 and 15-14. Our second game we played Froid/Lake and lost in two with scores of...
FOR THE COURIER Glasgow Middle School's girls cross country runners finished a single point out of first place in their first meet of the season, a 1.55-mile course in Wolf Point last Friday. The Scottie boys, with only five runners, finished in fourth place. The girls were paced by 8th grader Kimber Dulaney, who took second place overall with a time of 10:30. The Scotties' other scorers were Haleigh Huntsman, who placed 6th overall in 11:10, just ahead of Josie Kemp, 7th in 11:22. Jensina...
Glasgow's newest fitness offering is a trap. Well, it's a trapeze, several of them in fact, courtesy of Skye Fitness. Shauna Stringer is the owner of and teacher at Skye Fitness. "I think this is perfect for this little town," she said. "I"m excited about doing something new." The yoga trapeze studio uses inversion slings to offer a modified take on traditional yoga. Use of slings relieves pressure on the body that can inhibit some practitioners from full participation in traditional yoga....
Competing for fun and bragging rights, 15 couples hit the links on Aug. 16 in the final night of co-ed golf. The just-for-fun league split into two flights and spread out across the course after two months of league play. After a round of alternate shot play to close out the season, Ed and Shelley Hopfauf claimed the first gross title in the X-flighter side, shooting a 261. Tyler and Heather Fox took second place gross, with a score of 290 over the the summer league. Marc and Deb Swanson scored a 266.18 to win the first place net title for the...
The best of Sunnyside met up with the best of Marion Hills on Aug. 21 for the annual Ryder Cup showdown. Twenty-four men made the cut to defend Sunnyside's title, earned in Glasgow two summers ago while last year's competition fell to the wayside in the wake of coronavirus outbreak. Unfortunately for representatives of Glasgow, the Ryder cup did not make the return journey to Sunnyside Golf and Country Club. After a round each of best ball, alternate shots and singles match play, more scorecards...
Low Water. That was the theme of the 11th Annual Missouri River Catfish Clash held in Williston, North Dakota over the weekend. The event came into question mid-week due to the low water levels and issues with the boat launch at tournament headquarters. Thankfully, Montana Cats worked collectively with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department to ensure safe access for all the anglers and assured that the event would go on as planned. Despite conditions that had not been seen over the last...
Glasgow is a wrestling town. Boasting back-to-back state championships and a level of community support that other towns only dream of cultivating, this town turns out for its grapplers. Therefore, it's only fitting that the Glasgow Wrestling Camp is quickly becoming one of the preeminent and gold-standard camps in the state. Under the direction of Jory Casterline, head coach for the Scotties, the Glasgow Wrestling Club and Derek St. John, head assistant coach at Iowa State University, the...
Sunnyside Golf and Country Club held true to their slogan and produced sunny skies for the Colbrese Memorial Golf Tournament this past weekend. With not a cloud in the sky, golfers hit the links to try their hands at the grand prizes for gross and net scores as well as hole prizes. At the end of the day Todd Truscott, Jake Hughes, Joel Smith and Chris Richter walked away with First Place Gross bragging rights and the $2,000 prize. The quartet combined for a score of 99 in the 18-hole Glasgow...
FOR THE COURIER Glasgow, Montana (8/3/2021)- The Hi-Line Hyzers Disc Golf Club are pleased to announce that the second annual Hi-Line Hyzers Fall Fling Disc Golf Tournament will be held at The Fortress Disc Golf Course in Fort Peck, Montana on September 25, 2021. The tournament is sanctioned by the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA). The PDGA is the international governing body for the sport of disc golf and sanctions well over 3,100 tournaments in 49 states and 29 countries each year for professional and amateur disc golfers. Disc... Full story
The Canadians may have brought their "Eh" game to the Northeast Montana Fair's rodeo this year, but Montanans claimed the most number of top spots. Montana competitors won bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling – go-rounds 1 and 2, and barrel racing. The 2021 PRCA Rodeo, back on this year after a COVID-19 hiatus last year, featured top rodeo contenders from all across North America. Contestants from as far away as Louisiana showed up in Glasgow to earn points on the rodeo c...
Colter Barnett, of Fort Peck, raced away with the top slot in the Maah Daah Hey 100 MTB Race in the 25 mile competition. The 17-year-old placed first overall in the race with well over 100 competitors. He also won in the male 13-19 category. Barnett finished the race in 2:24:54.07, more than four minutes ahead of his nearest competition. The Maah Dahh Hey 100 MTB race takes place in Medora, N.D., taking racers over a single-track trail through the famous Badlands. The full trail runs 107 miles...
Scottie softball star Davyn Myrick signed with Scottsdale Community College in Arizona to continue her sports career at the collegiate level on July 27. The 2021 Glasgow High School graduate will be playing corners and any other positions she can fill for the team. "I chose Scottsdale because it was a great option and the coach really wanted the change the program and make it great again," Myrick said. "I was honored that she wanted me to be a part of that." Myrick, who has been playing...
The Glasgow Kiwanis Thunder Swim Team traveled to Columbia Falls fro the 2021 State Swim meet July 31 and Aug. 1. The team returned with one state champion and a number of swimmers who cracked the top five. Combined, the boys and girls earned 249 points and placed ninth out of the 20 teams at the meet. The Glasgow boys earned 40 points and a 16th place finish while the Thunder girls racked up 209 points and a sixth-place finish. Hadley Edwards, 7-years-old, earned the only first-place finish...
The annual Mow ‘Em Short golf tournament was held on Saturday at Sunnyside Golf and Country Club. Golfers from around the region hit the links for three rounds of golf, playing a single round each of scramble, best ball and alternate shot play. Beautiful weather accompanied the last day of July and the golfers as they made their rounds under a sunny haze. Todd Truscott and Jake Hughes walked away with the top spot in the gross competition with a score of 105 while Cal Kemmis and Nate Hopstad earned top honors in the net category with their s...
