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The Big Sandy Pioneer football team and head coach Ronnie Simpson have high expectations for this season and took a step in the right direction Friday evening. The Pioneers came from behind to edge Noxon 28-26. Big Sandy got on the scoreboard first with freshman Kade Strutz finding paydirt from eight yards out. Senior Duke Darlington converted the extra point kick and the Pioneers were up 8-0 entering the second quarter. Noxon scored twice in the second sandwiching another Strutz touchdown but i...
The Big Sandy Pioneer Volleyball team began play this past Friday in Centerville and Saturday the girls were in Belt for their annual pre-season tournament. The Miners defeated Big Sandy in straight sets Friday 25-19, 25-14 and 25-17. Saturday the girls split pool play matches with Centerville and the Belt JV going 0-2-2 in pool play. They fell in bracket play to Power. Centerville 25 25 25 Big Sandy 19 14 17 Big Sandy – No stats available Centerville – Kills: Maddie Urick 6; Aces: Urick 3, Ariana Marshall 3, Abby Jaynes 3; Assists: Hailey Chr...
Big Sandy Pioneers are once again under the direction of Head Coach Shersteen Cline and will look to challenge the rest of the District 6C-East this fall. Big Sandy will begin the season this Friday when they take on the Centerville Miners in a non-conference road match. Saturday the team will head to Belt to play in the Husky Preseason Invitational. The Invitational is a great way for the team to gage where they are on the court and will provide the team with a great opportunity to face a...
The Big Sandy Pioneer Football team challenged the rest of the Northern C Six-Man football division last fall finishing with a 4-4 record. This season they expect even bigger and better things. Head coach Ronnie Simpson has a seventeen athletes out this fall and his team will surely be ready for the season opener when they host Noxon this Friday. The Pioneers have missed the postseason the past few seasons but this year they expect to be in the thick of it when the first round starts October...
Voters headed to the polls on Thursday, May 25 to fill the congressional vacancy left by President Trumps appointment of former Congressmen Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior. The Special Election included three names on the ballot: Republican, Greg Gianforte, Democrat Rob Quist and Libertarian Mark Wicks. Gianforte won the election with 50% of the vote (189,473), while Quist was second with 44% (166,483) and Wicks third with 6% (21,509). In Chouteau County Gianforte claimed victory receiving 1,234 votes or 58% to Quists 33% (715) and...
The Big Sandy Pioneers girls and boys basketball teams concluded their 2016-17 basketball seasons this past week at the District 9C Tournament in Havre. The teams, both under the direction of head coach Ronny Simpson played hard throughout the season and continued to do so at the District Tournament. The girls entered as the No. 8 seed and opened the tournament with a first round contest against the top seeded Box Elder Bears. The Bears depth showed as they took a 57-16 win over Big Sandy...
The Big Sandy Pioneer basketball teams concluded the regular season this past weekend. The Pioneer boys picked up a 72-54 win over the Turner Tornadoes and fell 64-38 to the North Star Knights. The girls dropped a pair of contest to the Tornadoes 56-38 and to the Knights 71-40. In the boys win over Turner it was again junior Bryant Jones leading the way. Jones poured in 41 points for the second weekend in a row. Jones scored eight first quarter points, knocked down a triple in the second, added...
There is just one week remaining in the District 9C regular season before the Big Sandy boys and girls teams head into post season play. This past weekend the Pioneer boys got a huge performance from junior Bryant Jones who tossed in 41 points in Big Sandy's 56-52 win over Chester-Joplin-Inverness Saturday night. Big Sandy led 9-8 early and 27-25 by intermission. The Pioneers doubled up the Hawks in the third quarter to extend their advantage to 39-31 with the fourth quarter remaining. The Hawks...
The High School basketball season has just two weeks remaining in its regular season schedule heading into the District 9C Tournament February 15-18. The Pioneer boys and girls currently hold the number eight seed heading into the tournament following a pair of weekend losses to the Denton-Geyser-Stanford Bearcats and the Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds over the weekend. The girls trailed the Bearcats 11-8 early and were competitive throughout the contest but saw the lead grow each quarter of a...
The Big Sandy Pioneer girls and boys basketball teams dropped a pair of District 9C contests over the weekend to the Chinook Sugarbeeters and Fort Benton Longhorns. The regular season has just three full weekends left and the District 9C tournament gets underway on Wednesday, February 15 and runs through Saturday, February 18. It's been a struggle on the hardwood for head coach Ronnie Simpson and his boys and girls to say the least, but they show up and compete every night. Both the girls and...
The Big Sandy Pioneer boys and girls basketball teams fell in a pair of District 9C contest against the Turner Tornadoes on Friday and the North star Knights on Saturday. The girls were paced by sophomore Jaylyn Cline with 8 points in their 56-26 loss to Turner and 13 points in their 59-31 loss to North Start. The boys dropped a highly competitive back and forth contest 81-74 to Turner as junior Bryant Jones led the way with 26 points. Saturday it was eighth graded Kade Strutz leading the...
The Big Sandy Pioneer girls and boys basketball teams concluded 2016 with a pair of contests against the Denton-Geyser-Stanford Bearcats and the Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds. The girls played step for step with D-G-S early on trailing just 8-11 after eight minutes of action, but the Bearcats kept adding to the lead bit by bit en-route to a 51-28 win over Big Sandy. Wednesday the girls faced the Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds and played very well start to finish. Sophomore Jaylyn Cline poured in...
The Pioneers face some talented competition over the weekend as District 9C conference play got underway. Friday they welcomed the Fort Benton Longhorns to town and Saturday hosted the Chinook Sugarbeeters. On the girls side it was a challenging weekend facing to of the top teams in the conference right out of the gate. The Longhorns opened a six point lead 17-11 to start the contest as Big Sandy matched the intensity early. A 24-4 run in the second quarter separated the teams by halftime but...
Basketball season is in full swing as the Big Sandy Pioneer boys and girls teams began play this weekend at the Chester Tip Off Tournament. The girls played very well over the weekend earning a split following a tough loss Thursday morning to the Power Pirates 30-27. Saturday the girls bounced back with a hard fought 28-24 win over the Valier Panthers to begin the season 1-1 Sophomore Jaylyn Cline led the effort against Power scoring a team high 14 points in the contest. Junior Cally Demontiney...
Now that the Volleyball and football seasons have been completed with State champions being crowned the time has come where post seasons awards are handed out. Four Big Sandy athletes were recognized for their play on the court and on the field this past fall. Senior Lawrence Allderdice and Junior Weston Allderdice were rewarded with Northern C Six Man Football All-Conference and All-State selections. Lawrence has been a standout for the Pioneers all four years and left his mark on the program...
The 2016 Big Sandy Pioneer football team finds themselves under the direction of first-year head coach Ronnie Simpson. Simpson played collegiate basketball for the MSU-Northern Lights for two seasons but is not unfamiliar to Pioneer athletics or to the game of six-man football. Simpson is most familiar to local sports aficionados roaming the sidelines on the basketball court. Over the past few seasons he has guided the Junior High boys basketball program and last year was at the helm of the high...
The Big Sandy Pioneer Volleyball enters the 2016 campaign under the direction of new Head Coach Shersteen Cline. Cline should be familiar to those folks within the community and who follow Pioneer athletics. A 2008 Big Sandy High School graduate Cline first attended the University of Montana before transferring to Montana Tech her sophomore year. Cline played volleyball for the NAIA Frontier Conference Orediggers for four years prior to graduating in 2013. From there she took over as head coach...
Paula Reynolds, a friend, co-worker and a great ‘Ad Lady’ lost her life suddenly due to a heart attack Wednesday, February 26. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her. If you were a business on the Hi-Line from Malta to Fort Benton and your phone rang with Paula’s unique voice on the other end, you knew immediately what she wanted. Paula didn’t mess around, she might ask you how your day was going but in the end she did her job and did it very well. Hearing a customer say ‘No’ didn’t bother her, she thanked them for taking her call and m...
The Big Sandy Pioneer basketball season came to end at the District 9C tournament in Havre following a pair of losses by both the boys and girls teams. Both teams faced the top seeded Box Elder Bears in their opening contest. Box Elder defeated the girls by a score of 59-8 sending them into a loser out contest Friday morning. The girls were then defeated by the Chester-J-I Hawks, 56-28 ending their season. The boys fell to Box Elder by a score of 112-21 in the opener and were defeated by the...
The Big Sandy Pioneer girls and boys basketball teams have concluded their regular season schedule and now turn their attention to the District 9C Tournament. The girls finished the season 1-13 in conference play and 1-17 overall but gave every opponent their best effort for 32 minutes. The boys failed to win a game but they are young and improved over the course of the season. Both teams enter the tournament as number eight seeds and will take on the top seeded Box Elder Bears in their first...
The Big Sandy Pioneer girls and boys basketball teams failed to pick up a win this past weekend as both teams fell to the Chester-Joplin-Inverness Friday at home and Saturday in Box Elder to the Bears. The Hawks defeated the girls by a score of 57-23. The Bears topped Big Sandy by a 81-11 margin. The boys fell Friday to Chester J-I by a 64-20 margin. Saturday the Bears were 92-27 winners over the Pioneers. The teams will travel north to Turner for games with the Tornadoes Friday night and play...
The Fort Benton/ Big Sandy wrestling co-op participated in the Northern B/C Divisional wrestling tournament his past weekend in Chinook. Five wrestlers qualified for the state tournament this weekend held in Billings. Connor DeBruycker had his best tournament of the year by winning all his matches and became the 145 pounds champion. Joining him at state is Logan Taylor, who placed fourth at 152 pounds, Josh Solf of Big Sandy, he placed 4th at 160 pounds, Matt Blansett, placed fourth at 205...
The boys and girls basketball teams didn't find the win column over the weekends as both fell Friday to the Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds and Saturday to the Denton/Geyser/Stanford Bearcats. The girls had defeated Hays/Lodge Pole in their first meeting but were unable to turn the trick again as they fell 49-38 in the District 9C contest. The boys faced a red hot Thunderbird team and never got going in a 77-23 loss to the Thunderbirds. Saturday the girls played well defensively but struggled...
The wrestling co-op of Fort Benton and Big Sandy will head to Chinook Saturday to wrestle in the Northern B/C Divisional where the top four placers in each weight class will advance to the State Tournament in Billings next weekend. The team has been wrestling hard throughout the season and will put their efforts to the test when they take to the mat Saturday Morning. The Big Sandy contingent on the team includes senior Josh Solf who will compete in the 170 pound division. Joining him will be...
The Pioneer boys and girls basketball teams each suffered a pair of District 9C losses over the weekend. Friday the teams made the trip to Fort Benton to face the Longhorns. The girls fell 52-17 with freshman Jaylyn Cline leading the team with five points in the contest. The boys fell in their contest with the Longhorns by a score of 46-20. Junior Laurence Allderdice led the Pioneers offensively with 13 points. Saturday the teams hosted the Chinook Sugarbeeters with similar results. Senior...
