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Hosted by the Scobey Stingrays at the Roseland Park Pool, the 2026 Eastern Divisional Swim Meet took place on July 25–26 in Scobey, Montana. At that event, three Chinook Lions Swim Team members were honored. In addition to participating in a Parade of Athletes, Kolton DePriest, Walter Schoen, and Lotus Taly joined in the Senior Recognition Walks. To close out their season, the three seniors swam their final races at the State Swim Meet in Plentywood on August 1-2. The son of Scott and Heather D...
The Chinook Lions Swim Team had 29 swimmers travel to Scobey for the Eastern Divisional Swim Meet. The Eastern Divisional Meet had 316 swimmers vying to earn their spot to advance to the State Swim Meet. Swimmers finishing in the Top 12 in the event move forward to the State Swim Meet in Plentywood. The Lions finished in 4th place overall as a team, behind Scobey, Sidney, and Glendive. The Lions will compete in the Class A Division at State, which includes Lewistown, Glasgow, Shelby, and...
What a postseason it was for the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team. After winning the Northern A District championship, the Northstars made a push for a Class A state title last weekend in Dillon. Havre started off the 2026 State A Tournament with a loss to Miles City in the first round last Wednesday. The Mavericks beat the Northstars 8-1in the opening round as the Northstars managed just three hits. Kaden Wall took the loss for Havre. The pitcher went three innings, allowing three runs on six hits, striking out two and walking...
As August arrives, the Montana State University-Northern football team will begin gearing up for another season under head coach Jerome Souers. And it won’t be an easy schedule for the Lights, who will start training camp in just a few days. Northern will open the season with a historic Thursday night game at arch rival Carroll College on Aug. 27. It will be Northern’s first Thursday night game in over a decade, and it willl be the first time the Lights have played Carroll under the lights at the remodeled Nelson Stadium in Helena. The fol...
The Sugarbeeter Foundation recently received a generous donation from the Davies Family Endowment. Perhaps because of its symbolism, the gift stands apart. For 93 years, Chinook High School has been making Sugarbeeters out of the Davies family. Since 1938, the Davies have grown ten Sugarbeeters, and by 2031, the Davies family will have graduated a dozen members: • Reginald Davies, Class of 1938 • Jack Davies, Class of 1963 • Mark Davies, Class of 1965 • Rick Davies, Class of 1972 • Dan Davies, Class of 1975 • Jeni Davies Gillespie, Class of 19...
The Chinook Lions Swim Team had another strong performance at the Glasgow Kiwanis Invitational Swim Meet. After three years without a pool, Glasgow hosted 264 competitors from across the Eastern Division. Chinook brought 22 swimmers, including Brynn Brennan, Ashtyn DePriest, Kolton DePriest, Amanda Finley, Bernadette Frye, Calvin Frye, James Harry, Shirley Harry, Beatrice Harwood, Pepper Harwood, Sylvi Harwood, Justin Huravitch, Mariah Huravitch, Lois McKenzie, Harper Matkin, Brinlee Sederdahl,...
The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club has won that elusive Northern A District championship they had been chasing. Last Sunday, Havre beat the host Great Falls Chargers for a second time in as many days to claim the 2026 district title. Havre crushed the Chargers 19-9 in the championship game, giving head coach Ben Made a championship in his first season in the Havre dugout. In the title game, Havre pounded out 16 hits and scored six runs in the first inning. Havre did let a big...
Swimming in Lewistown were Chloe Beck, Brynn Brennan, Ashtyn DePriest, Kolton DePriest, Amanda Finley, James Harry, Shirley Harry, Bernadette Frye, Calvin Frye, Beatrice Harwood, Pepper Harwood, Sylvi Harwood, Justin Huravitch, Mariah Huravitch, Harper Jones, Ember Jones, Brinlee Sederdahl, Kamille Shackelford, Tyler Stephens, Colson Turner, Livia Turner, and Lucas Whitney. The Lions had three High Point earners in Lewistown: Sylvi Harwood in the Girls 9-10 Division, with three 1st place...
Thanks to some red-hot baseball during a heatwave, the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball club had a chance to win the Northern A regular season title on the final day of the season. The Northstars got to that point by sweeping the Lethbridge Miners last Tuesday in Lethbridge. Havre won game one of the road doubleheader, 9-6, then they blew out the Miners 18-4 in the nightcap. The very next day, Havre was in Conrad where the Northstars crushed the Tri-County Cardinals twice, winning game one 18-12 and game two 14-0. Then came the final...
I don't closely follow sports and never wrote much about sports. But when Ken Schubert, a fellow coffee drinker at the Chinook Senior Center, began talking about he and wife Evelyn's trip to the 2026 Montana East-West Shrine game in Butte, his story piqued my interest. Turns out the Schuberts' main reason for going all the way to Butte was to see their grandson, Asher Knopik, play in the Montana East-West Shrine game. Asher, who just graduated high school, was a standout offensive and defensive...
Three Havre High softball players have been invited to play in the annual Veterans Memorial Softball Classic next month in Belgrade. Havre’s Bree Hanson will play for the Air Force, while Ainsley Courtnage will play on the Navy team and Riley Doney will compete for Marines team. There are five teams in the tournament, one for every military branch, and they will compete in a 3-game round-robin tournament over two days. There will also be individual events like a special skills contests, a Home Run Derby and, on Saturday, the Catchers Pop to P...
It was another busy week for the Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team. Last Monday, the Northstars swept the Tri-County Cardinals in a doubleheader at Legion Park. Havre beat the Cardinals 7-0 in the opener in Havre. Kaden Wall didn’t allow a single in the win. Wall allowed just five hits. Tyson Brandon collected three hits in four at bats in the win for Havre. Brandon tripled in the sixth inning, singled in the fifth inning, and singled in the third inning. Quinn Elliot and Brayden McLain each collected multiple hits for Havre. B...
The Great Northern Fair is here, and that means plenty of sport's action this week in Havre. As always, the annual Havre Junior Rodeo kicks off the fair. This year's Junior Rodeo took place on Wednesday night. Following the Havre Junior Rodeo, the annual Great Northern RAM Rodeo hits the arena tonight and Friday night, with each performance starting at 7 p.m. The Great Northern RAM Rodeo is part of the NRA summer circuit and will feature 10 events each night in the Great Northern Arena....
The start of July marks the stretch run of the 2026 American Legion baseball season, and it’s a busy time for the Havre Northstars. Last Wednesday, the Northstars traveled to Great Falls, where they split a doubleheader with the Chargers A. Kody Standiford drove in five runs on three hits to lead the Havre Northstars A 18U past the Great Falls Chargers, 15-4, in game one. Standiford singled in the first, scoring two; doubled in the fifth, scoring two; and singled in the fourth, scoring one. The Northstars got on the board in the top of the f...
Head Coach Brockton Elliot, along with assistant coaches Bridgette Brennan and Dentin DePriest, are busy this season guiding 42 swimmers with the Chinook Lions Swim Team. The assistant coaches are in their first official year in the positions while Elliot is returning for his second year as head coach. All three coaches grew up in Chinook and graduated from high school there. Elliot and DePriest swam during their senior year with the Havre High School program and helped the team to a...
Chinook three-sport standout Jameson Nordboe will be taking his talents to Dickinson State University when his Sugarbeeter days are over. Nordboe recently announced his commitment to the Blue Hawks, where he'll likely play wide receiver. Nordboe was Chinook's leading receiver in 2025 and helped lead the Sugarbeeters to the 8-man playoffs. He was also a starting cornerback on defense and will return for the 2026 season as one of the top players for the Beeters. Nordboe also starred on the...
The Chinook Lions Swim Team continued their impressive swim season with another 1st place team finish at the Malta Swim Meet. Chinook had 25 swimmers participating in the meet. Swimming in Malta were Chloe Beck, Brynn Brennan, Ashtyn DePriest, Kolton DePriest, Amanda Finley, James Harry, Shirley Harry, Beatrice Harwood, Pepper Harwood, Sylvi Harwood, Harper Jones, Ember Jones, Lois McKenzie, Harper Matkin, Garrett Miller, Walter Schoen, Brinlee Sederdahl, Kamille Shackelford, Rachel Stephens,...
Long before the first tip-off of the winter season, the work that shapes a basketball team is already underway, often in quiet gyms, on summer weekends, in games that don't count in any standings. That was the scene in Chester and Joplin on June 26 and 27, where more than two dozen boys and girls teams gathered for a two-day summer tournament hosted by CJI's basketball program. To a casual fan it might have looked like ordinary basketball, but summer ball runs by different rules and serves a...
Sisters Amara Cochran and Ciana Johnson, coaches for the 2026 Harlem Swim Team, have the experience to prove that they are well suited for their roles. This is Cochran's first year at the helm as head coach after serving last year as an assistant coach. She has been part of the team for a decade having been a swimmer herself for eight years. "The reason why I wanted to coach was because I love swimming," said Cochran. "I made lifelong friends over the years. I went to college for swimming and I...
We had seven swimmers go to Sidney this weekend for the meet. Rachel Stephens and Tyler Stephens were both awarded high point, with 1st place finishes in all three individual events. Tyler finished with two 1st place finishes and a 2nd. The swimmers competing in Sidey were Brynn Brennan, Kolton DePriest, Ashtyn DePriest, Piper Skoyen, Maverick Skoyen, Rachel Stephens and Tyler Stevens. The Swim Team competed in Malta June 27 and 28. See next week's paper for updates....
The Havre Northstars American Legion baseball team spent last weekend playing four Northern A District games in Lethrbridge. Last Saturday, Havre split with the Lehtbridge Miners, losing a wild first game 15-14, before rebounding for a 10-5 win in the second game. In the opener, Havre scored nine runs in the third inning to lead 9-6, but the Miners took the lead right back in the fourth. In the seesaw affair, the Northstars had the lead going into the bottom of the seventh, but the Miners walked the game off with a two-run hit. Despite the...
Several members of the Montana State University-Northern men’s and women’s rodeo teams competed at the College National Finals Rodeo last week in Casper, Wyoming. Northern’s Cayda Dodginghorse took 18th place in the barrel racing with an average of 42,59. She just missed out on making the finals. Northern senior Brooklin Baukol also placed 22nd overall in the breakaway roping, while senior Georgia Orahood took 54th and Kenra Staham was 61st. As a team, the Skylights finished in 32nd place overall with 15 points. It was another strong seaso...
The Chinook Lions Swim Team has started the 2026 season strong, earning first-place finishes at its first two meets of the summer. The Lions spent their first two weeks of practice traveling to Havre while renovations at the Chinook pool were being completed. With the work now finalized, the team is excited to be back in the Chinook pool. Brockton Elliot returns as head coach for the 2026 season, with Dentin DePriest and Bridgette Brennan serving as assistant coaches. The team opened its season...
Many players from he Hi-Line took part in the annual Montana East-West Shrine Game, which was held for the 79th time last Saturday night n Butte. All of the area players playing in the annual football all-star game competed for the East squad, which well to the West 20-6. It was the sixth straight victory for the West. Playing in the game from the Hi-Line, included Chester-Joplin-Inverness' Cooper Street playing defensive back, as well as Montana's Dawson Hammond, also playing DB. Hammond is...
HAVRE, MT - The Frontier Conference recently announced that Chris Mouat, head women's basketball coach at Montana State University-Northern, has been selected as the recipient of the Ron "Swede" Kenison Award for the 2025-26 academic year. The Ron "Swede" Kenison Award is the highest honor presented by the Frontier Conference. It recognizes individuals nominated by member school administrative officers for their outstanding, long-term contributions to the growth, well-being, and promotion of...
