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The 2021 wrestling season was still in a questionable status at the start of the year. The dedicated athletes, coaches and parents of the Pioneer Wrestling family elected to forge ahead and keep our program growing. This was done early in the year when there was no guarantee that any other programs were going to compete this year. Our decision put us ahead of all other programs in our district this year. Some programs elected to cancel their whole seasons, others started late, our program thrived. A recap of this season and how successful the...
Mother Nature finally cooperated and gave the Pioneers a perfect day for a spring track meet in Choteau. The Big Sandy girls placed 6th with 40 points and the boys placed 11th with 17. Eva Wagoner had a big day on the girls' side, scoring 19 teampoints. She placed 2nd in both the 100m hurdles and 300m hurdles, 5th in the 200m and 6th in the 100m. Jaycee Worrall added 4 points by placing 4th in the 400m and Amy Gasvoda placed 4th in the 800m. The 4x100 relay team (Wagoner, Worrall, Lainey Terry...
It was cold and windy-a typical track day in Havre, Montana. As one parent put it, 'It's better than no season at all," as was the case last year, with the entire year was lost. This track meet was the Lion's Invitational held at the Havre Middle School and was a big all-class track meet with 23 schools present representing class A, B, and C schools. Placing in the races was a significant achievement as each event had numerous athletes. I got the track meet results online, and to be honest not t...
Big Sandy Pioneer track was canceled last year, so the start of a new season is exciting. Head Coach for the Big Sandy Pioneers is Melanie Schwarzbach. Helping her this year is Charlie Klimas throws, Wendy Taylor-sprints, and Shersteen Cline. “Track helps every sport. Not everybody does track for the love of track, but track will benefit every sport,” Melanie said. “They are coming out knowing they need to get faster for football.” According to Melanie, “We are using a really cool newsprint program.” She learned about it at the coach’s clinics....
Sophomore, Kody Strutz has bee selected to the 9C Basketball Alll Conference...
Senior, Kade Strutz Senior, Parker Proulx Senior, Cameron Schwarzbach Senior, Brady Pleninger and Pioneer Head Coach- Larry Jappe...
This year the grade school basketball season shorten but at least held. Coaching the girl's basketball this year was Jamie Worrall and Katie Heppner. Jamie Worrall said, "It was a great year we had 14 girls out. This was a great group of girls. They were really fun to work with." After visiting with a few of the brand new basketball players said it was a lot of fun. They won a number and lost a few, but everyone got to play. Next year, they are looking forward to next year when the 6th graders...
The Little Pioneer Wrestlers and their coaches were committed to their sport this year! They are to be congratulated for their efforts. They worked tirelessly for three months. Most of their meets were held in Big Sandy, which took another committed group of parents and volunteers. As the group picture shows, the smallest of wrestlers learned how to participate in the sport for the first time. It's entertaining to see the youngest wrestle. As they get older, they get good at the sport, which...
4--Trevor O`Hara (17-8) placed 4th and scored 14.0 team points. • Quarterfinal - Trevor O`Hara (Fort Benton/Big Sandy) 17-8 won by fall over Damon Adkins (Glasgow) 27-9 (Fall 3:35) • Semifinal - Riley Davis (Baker) 14-3 won by fall over Trevor O`Hara (Fort Benton/Big Sandy) 17-8 (Fall 5:59) • Cons. Semi - Trevor O`Hara (Fort Benton/Big Sandy) 17-8 won by fall over Jaron Lingle (Baker) 6-11 (Fall 2:34) • 3rd Place Match - Teagan Anderson (Huntley Project (Worden)) 25-8 won by fall over Trevor...
Big Sandy completed the girls' basketball season without a win but finished with a flourish in the final contest of 2021. The Pioneers (0-14) took the long road Wednesday to Hays-Lodgepole and produced a more fruitful effort than their regular season finale generated four nights earlier at home. "We didn't let the press kill us quite like it did when we played them in Big Sandy," Pioneers coach Pete Jerrel said. "We calmed down ... we trusted each other to make some plays." The Thunderbirds...
HAVRE - Big Sandy did not get to resume the role of lovable, scrappy underdog in a run to the divisional boys' basketball tournament in Great Falls as understudy Chester-Joplin-Inverness upstaged the Pioneers in the District 9C consolation semifinal. The Pioneers were the "Cinderella" story last March but became the first victim of the upset-minded sixth-seed Hi-Line Hawks in a tournament that had gone chalk all week until Friday afternoon's showdown at the Blue Pony Corral. C-J-I's Kyle Harmon...
Big Sandy boys basketball coach Thomas Dilworth has been preaching the same message all season to his young squad and the Pioneers looked ready Saturday night to don their choir robes in response. Be playing your best basketball come tournament time. Big Sandy undoubtedly produced its most dominant effort all year in the regular season finale, as 11 Pioneers made it into the scorebook en route to an 88-54 win against Hays-Lodgepole. Sophomores Braydon Cline and Kody Strutz each poured in 23...
The Big Sandy girls concluded a winless regular season Saturday on the hardwood but went out with their best offensive production over the course of a weekend. The Pioneers have had to battle to eclipse the 30-point mark this season but hit it Friday in a 64-30 defeat at District 9C power Turner. In a balanced offensive effort, every player who got on the court for Big Sandy scored. Eva Wagoner led the way with 8 points, followed by Jaihven Baumman with 6, Madison Terry with 5, Angie Sant with...
Big Sandy wrestlers are beating their foes on the mat but the toughest test may be the injury bug as superdivisionals loom. “We are a little banged up right now,” said Tucker Taylor, the head coach of the Fort Benton-Big Sandy coop program. Taylor said senior Bayley Genereux and freshman Reinhard Bold were each nursing ankle injuries by the end of last week. Genereux got hurt earlier in the week but had returned to the mat to compete by Thursday’s mixer in Fort Benton. Taylor said in his second match of the night, Genereux defeated an oppon...
Check "season series sweep" off the to-do list for the Big Sandy boys after a 68-55 win Saturday against North Star in varsity basketball. The Pioneers moved to 4-7 with their first home-and-away sweep of a District 9C foe. The opportunity remains open to do the same against Turner in Friday's rematch on the road. On "Parents' Night," when graduating seniors in particular were honored, Kade Strutz fittingly led Big Sandy with 22 points. The year-end celebration bumped up as Saturday's home final...
Better foes outmatched the Big Sandy girls on the basketball court on Friday and Saturday as the difficult 2021 season winds down. The Pioneers fell 79-24 on Friday at Box Elder and 65-8 to North Star on Saturday at home. The visit to the Bears represented one of the better offensive outputs this season for Big Sandy. "We came out a little scared," Pioneers coach Pete Jerrel said, as the Pioneer girls struggled against the Bears' 2-2-1 full-court press and superior height. "After we settled...
Big Sandy High School wrestlers get one opportunity a year to perform in front of a home crowd and let the light shine on their efforts. The Pioneers, accordingly, made a grand entrance Thursday evening. "This year, we did the walkout," said senior Bayley Genereux. "That was fun. Having the home crowd here, that's nice. It gets you a little more adrenaline going." Genereux has staked out a 14-7 record in his final season, aiming to get back to the state tournament and get a win after appearing...
The Big Sandy girls displayed the essence of Pioneer spirit in playing their most complete basketball game of the season Saturday on the heels of arguably their most difficult one. The Pioneers posted their best offensive output of the season against visiting Chinook. They cracked the 30-point barrier for the first time with almost two and a half minutes still to play in regulation as Amy Gasvoda sank a hook shot. The Sugarbeeters still won, 66-33. Yet the young Pioneers’ team could point to some crucial baby steps that indicate advancement i...
The regular season in District 9C boys basketball has clearly become a two-team race for the top seed to the tournament followed by six teams that really could knock any of the others off on any given night. Big Sandy wants to emerge in the league's upper half and took an important step in that direction Friday with a thrilling 58-57 win at Chester-Joplin-Inverness. The Pioneers (3-6) thus avenged a 15-point loss at home to the Hi-Line Hawks earlier in the season. The win gave notice neither CJI...
The high school wrestlers from Big Sandy are on a roll. That’s good timing, coming into the week in which they will get their one chance for the year to compete in their home gym. A trio of Pioneers, combining with Fort Benton as a coop team, competed in Conrad on Friday and Shelby on Saturday. The joint squad had a scheduled match Tuesday after press time in Lewistown. They will next hit the mat at 6 p.m. Thursday for their only home meet of the season. Bayley Genereux and Brady Pleninger will be honored as graduating seniors with a special pr...
With dos consecutive wins, the Big Sandy boys could make a case for being the most interesting basketball team in the world. They don't always have a size advantage, but when they do ... The Pioneers put up plenty of points in the paint to punish visiting Turner on Friday, prevailing 70-61. Outscoring their foes down low 48-26, Big Sandy capitalized on a 40-27 rebounding advantage that included almost a 2-to-1 edge on the offensive glass. Fresh off a win at North Star, the Pioneers' final tilt...
The Big Sandy girls returned to their home floor Friday night coming off their best offensive performance of the season in the friendly confines. Unfortunately, matched with the Turner Tornadoes, ranked fourth in the state in Class C by 406MTSports.com and blemished only by a loss to No. 1-ranked Fort Benton, the Pioneers produced their lowest output of the season in their latest home outing. Big Sandy fell to 0-6 on the year as the towering Tornadoes, paced by 20 points from 6-feet, 1-inch...
The Pioneer boys produced their first win of 2021 when they went on the road Saturday to North Star. Big Sandy bested the boys from Rudyard 52-45 in an afternoon tilt to get the monkey off their back and try to spark a run through the last three opponents they had yet to face in the District 9C this season. The Pioneers (1-4) complete their first go-round through the league slate with a 6:30 Friday tipoff against Turner before traveling Saturday to Hays-Lodgepole. Both teams are beneath Big...
Big Sandy produced its most prolific offensive output of the season Friday but it was not enough as the Pioneers fell 76-29 to Box Elder in girls basketball. The Pioneers went on the road Saturday and were downed 70-14 by North Star. Facing the Bears at home, Big Sandy spotted their guests a 21-0 lead, missing about a dozen shots before getting one to fall. "We shot five times from 2 feet on our first (possession) of the game and couldn't get one of them to go," said Pioneers coach Pete Jerrel....
Cheerleading began fashionably late this school year but has been fashionable as of late. The Big Sandy Pioneers boast a six-girl squad this winter sports season after a fall hiatus. The cheer crew were largely busy in autumn playing volleyball. Returning squad members are Amaya Edwards, Jozlyn Baumann and Haley Schwenke. Tavie Wortman, Kodi-Jo Phillips and Teagan Cochran are newer additions. The girls donned aloha-themed duds for "Hawaiian Night" at the last basketball home game Friday. "We're...
