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The Big Sandy Pioneers are contributing twice as many wrestlers in 2021 to their co-op squad with Fort Benton as they did in a successful season a year ago. The Fort Benton/Big Sandy combined team earned third place in the state at the Class C level, with Bayley Genereux representing Big Sandy at the state meet in the 138-pound division. Genereux returns as a senior, wrestling up to 145 pounds this season, along with Tannin Baumann, a sophomore hoping to earn his own spot at state at 132 pounds...
With back-to-back three-pointers from Pioneers young (freshman Lane Demontiney) and old (senior Kade Strutz), Big Sandy halved what had once been a 20-point deficit against visiting Chinook-Joplin-Inverness as about three minutes remained in Friday's boys basketball tilt. Pioneer fans could perhaps smell a whiff of what became the team's signature dish in 2020: a comeback special. Freshman Wylee Snapp got that familiar sense. Snapp scored the Pioneers' final 8 points of the second quarter in...
Big Sandy faced perhaps its most frustrating league foe Friday in the form of the Chester-Joplin-Inverness Hi-Line Hawks. Two years ago, the Pioneer girls came up short by two points twice against CJI. Last season, the Hawks edged Big Sandy in overtime in Liberty County. This time around, a CJI team filled with returning talent took advantage of a young Big Sandy squad and prevailed comfortably, 67-20. The matchup looked destined for another nail-biting finish after the first quarter. Lainey...
In a sense, Big Sandy boys' basketball is picking up just where it left off. The Pioneers faced Fort Benton with a divisional title and state playoff berth on the line in their penultimate game of 2020, so why not start off with the Longhorns to tip off 2021? Unfortunately, the season opener Saturday in the Pioneers' home gym ended with Big Sandy on the wrong end of the final score again. The Longhorns were the only District 9C foe the Pioneers never solved last season and they found them just...
There are no easy games in the District 9C, as the Big Sandy girls have found out again and again on the hardwood in recent years. Though there are somewhat less challenging games than those against the Fort Benton Longhorns, who came up north and began their redemption tour Saturday. The lone blemish in a 24-1 season in 2020 left them out of the state playoffs and Fort Benton is determined not to be denied this time. The Longhorns, led by MSU-Billings commit Aspen Giese, a senior, made quick...
Raw talent more accustomed to rubber mats than a rubber ball refined its way to a respectable season on the hardwood in junior high boys’ basketball at Big Sandy. First-year coach Katie Nicholson led a team loaded with athleticism that finished just shy of .500 ball despite little experience in the game. With Little Guy wrestling postponed until after the New Year, the hoops team took shape in the form of a lot of wrestlers keeping in shape for that sport. “This is just a group of kids who are just really good athletes,:” Nicholson said. “Our...
It took a fair amount of scheduling gymnastics to permit Big Sandy to complete a full junior high girls basketball season in 2020. The Pioneers proved able to defeat nearly every opponent they faced, COVID-19 included. The pandemic forced last-minute cancelations left and right but the purple and gold chased down games wherever they could be found. “(Athletic Director) Melanie Schwarzbach did an amazing job getting us games for a (full) season,” Pioneers coach Travis Baumann said. “Parents were great about it … nobody wanted a six-game junior h...
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It's hard to find the right words to express the wide range of emotions felt Saturday in Medicine Lake as the Pioneer's championship hopes came to an end in a devastating loss to Froid/Medicine Lake. The Pioneers got off to a great start with Brady Plenninger striping the ball on the Redhawks first possession before Kade Strutz would rush in from 4 yards out the put the Pioneers up 6-0. Again the Pioneers would force another fumble and recovery on the next possession. Still, uncharacteristic pen...
Adversity builds character, it's a simple truth, and if you had the privilege to watch this weekend's football game, you witnessed that firsthand as the Pioneers pushed past the visiting Bridger Scouts 36 – 12. In what felt like a real-life version of the movie "Groundhogs Day," the Pioneers took the field the begin their playoff run with another Proulx hobbled on the sideline. Senior Parker Proulx suffered a season-ending knee injury on the second play of the game during last week's win over W...
Saying this season was unconventional is an understatement. With all the Covid rules, limited seating, masks, and the always looming questions of "Are we going to get to finish the season?" The Pioneer Volleyball team played each game like it might be the last. The Pioneers took on the task to host half the District tournament this year, the other half was played in Fort Benton. Big Sandy played their first game of the tournament Thursday night, taking on the Northstar Knights. The Pioneers...
It's not quite the bustling holiday season but Big Sandy is already toiling away at vanquishing the Ghosts of Postseasons Past. The first specter appeared against a backdrop of powdery white in the form of the 2018 6-Man football champs and last year's runner-up, the Wibaux Longhorns. The Longhorns proved just a phantom of their former selves, however, and left Big Sandy with a 57-6 defeat to conclude an uncharacteristic 2-4 season. It's not that they didn't know what was coming at them. They ju...
The Pioneer volleyball lineup that took the court a week prior to Saturday's regular season finale at home didn't look much like the one from a week prior. It probably won't look much like the one they put out to open the District 7C tournament Thursday at their home gym either. Big Sandy pieced together a squad without three crucial players, leading hitter Amiya Griffith, versatile Tavie Wortman and Wortman's anticipated substitute, Malaysia Baumann, all out due to injuries or quarantining....
Big Sandy is set to host play in the first two rounds of the District 7C volleyball tournament Oct. 29 and 30. "That's huge," Pioneers coach Brittany McKenney said. "We've never hosted tournaments here." The bottom half of the bracket, featuring the second-seed facing off against the seventh and the third-seed against the sixth, would begin Oct. 29 with subsequent semifinal and consolation matches featuring those teams in the Big Sandy gym. In the final rounds, the remaining teams would join...
Eighty three (83) youth from ages 5 to 13 participated in the 17th annual Rotary Punt, Pass & Kick competition at the Big Sandy High School football complex on Friday October 9th. "Weather conditions for this year's event were perfect", said Richard Roth who has helped put on the event since its inception. "It is great to see kids, parents, teachers and volunteers getting out to help and enjoy the fun and sun." The Big Sandy Pioneers football team was on hand to help with the event too. "It's a...
SAND COULEE — The Big Sandy Pioneers are seeing improvement as their regular season on the volleyball court nears completion. Big Sandy 3, Centerville 0 The Pioneers went down to Sand Coulee and swept Centerville on Tuesday, Oct. 7 for their second consecutive win in thrilling 25-20, 25-23, 25-21 fashion. “I definitely think we’re going up,” junior Tavie Wortman said in an interview after the match in which she led her team with 9 digs. “Winning two games in a row is really going to send us up and give us some encouragement, I think.” T...
The football season at Big Sandy is playing out like a great drama. In Act I, the Pioneers were matched with bit players and the action lacked suspense as they rolled to 3-0. After a three-week long intermission, Big Sandy met opposites with whom they could have some give-and-take. And the second act climaxed Friday with a second consecutive North Division title for the Pioneers, won 46-29 on their home field against Power/Dutton-Brady. Finally, the Big Sandy starters were challenged to play...
It just took a bit of time to soak in oil country before Big Sandy could be free of the rust of three weeks without football and claim a 74-34 win Friday night in Sunburst. A mistake-filled end to the second quarter left the Pioneers only a touchdown ahead of the host Refiners at the break. Seniors Parker Proulx and Kade Strutz returned to their usual form and helped their team pull away with 20 unanswered points in the first 3 minutes, 7 seconds of the third quarter. "I took a lot of it...
A little home cookin’ got the Big Sandy spikers back on a winning track Saturday. Coming off three straight away matches, the Pioneers took advantage of a homecourt edge at last and beat Dutton/Brady, 25-18, 25-15, 25-6. “It was an exciting night both individually and as a team. The girls brought a lot of energy and fun to the court,” said Big Sandy coach Brittany McKenney. “It felt good to win. We still have a lot of areas to improve on but I am proud of the progress we are making.” Individual team records for a match fell in the dominant...
As Yogi Berra said, "It's like deja vu all over again." For the first time in 2020, Big Sandy matched up on the volleyball court Saturday against an opponent they had seen earlier in the season. This time on the road, they ended up with a remarkably similar result against the North Star Knights. That's good and bad. On the plus side, again the District 7C foes played a marathon set for the ages after a fairly close one, while another went disastrously for the Pioneers in a 3-0 sweep. They just...
The Big Sandy Pioneers’ varsity volleyball squad collected its first victory on the road in District 7C play Friday in Hays before dropping a hard-fought match Saturday at Chester. The Pioneers won their second match of the season much as they did their first: convincingly. Big Sandy swept away the host Thunderbirds of Hays-Lodge Pole 25-17, 25-18, 25-23. The Pioneers’ previous win had been in straight sets on their home floor against Box Elder. Big Sandy got another strong performance from Alicia Bjornestad, the team leader with 10 ass...
Two weeks after it started, the Big Sandy Pioneers football regular season is halfway done. In yet another 2020 oddity, the home slate is two-thirds complete following Friday’s 68-13 romp over Bear Paw country rival Box Elder. Fourteen days after the season kicked off, Big Sandy improved to 3-0 and faces two of its last three scheduled contests on the road before a likely fourth consecutive trip to the state playoffs. The Pioneers’ dominance against their guests from just 10 miles north became evident from the opening drive. Brady Ple...
There’s no night like Parent Night to pick up a win. Upon recognizing the support of their folks, the Big Sandy varsity and junior varsity volleyball squads each swept visiting Box Elder Thursday night. The victory is the first on the season for the varsity girls after a harrowing start against the division’s top contenders. Senior Amiya Griffith led the Pioneers with 7 kills and underclassmen Caydence Pleninger and Malaysia Baumann each served up 4 aces in a 25-19, 25-9, 25-17 varsity victory. “That was pretty exciting for Malaysia becau...
