The 405 Aired Sept 11th, 2025

Today its all about past Malta Mustang football state championships. O.K. lists some of the great players from back in 2006 & attempts to inspire our 2025 season players to go on an win tomorrow's homecoming game against the Conrad Cowboys. 

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Episode Transcript

OK Solberg (00:00):
I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee
Break, guys. Thursday, get yourcup of coffee, glass iced tea,
bottle of water, let's seewhat's happening. Spring Wheat,
$5.14 a bushel. 550 poundsteer calf, believe it or not. I
found a price currently paysBillings $4.12, $4.12 50 to be

(00:25):
precise.
Butcher Hog in Iowa, 59¢ apound, and a 100 pound fat lamb
in Billings, $2.02. They'recoming up just a little bit. But
guys, there's more, much more.Okay. I have my top hat handy,
and I'll throw in multipletopics into the hat.

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You know, a top hat just likeAbraham Lincoln wore. And the
topics are thrown in so I canchoose what to talk about today.
We have local history stories orbaseball, making quilts, why our
fingernails grow faster than ourtoe nails, music, cars,

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fictional writing, the reasonold men get fat, and football. I
wanna keep this program wideopen on the fun topics we can
discuss. So I'm reaching inright now, the top hat, mixing
them up without looking.
I hear someone say, I hope itisn't baseball. I hear another

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thinking, I hope it's quiltingtrivia. Oh, and here it is. It
says local football. Hey.
That sounds very appropriate aswe're having homecoming tomorrow
and the Conrad Cowboys arecoming to town. And the other
good news is that homecoming ishere this year, not away. Did

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you see the new sign above theentrance to the football field?
It's a thing of beauty. It trulyis.
We thank the athletic club forthis wonderful new addition to
our football field. The new signreads, home of the Malta
Mustangs, 1996, 2000, 2006, and2024 state champs. Well, that

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gives me an idea. I just happento have some information from
one of those statechampionships. It was in 2006.
You remember back in ott six?Ott six, Malta Mustang football
season, one of the years thatthey won the state championship.
Listen, as I quote from theNovember 15 edition of the PCN

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from way back in ott six. Thefront page has a picture, and
below the picture it reads,we're number two, question mark?
Malta student Mike Krasco isn'tsignal signaling that the Malta
Mustangs are number two.
The two fingers are for the twopoint extra point play scored by

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Malta's Chance Demarais to givethe Mustangs a 35, 34 win over
Huntley project Saturdayafternoon, and the crowd went
wild. End of the quote from thefront page. Now let's turn to
the sports page. And I quote,same newspaper. Sure, we were

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playing a team called the RedDevils, and yes, the clouds did
part and the heavens opened andthe sun shone down on the field
in those final two minutes.
But did God really intervene onthe side of the Malta Mustang
Saturday afternoon on a footballfield at Huntley Project High

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School? Well, it sure seemedthat way as the Malta football
squad pulled off one of thegreatest come from behind
playoff game victories in schoolhistory to win 35, 34, and
advance to the championship gameSaturday against Loyola in

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Missoula at 1PM. Down thirtyfour twenty with two minutes and
eighteen seconds to play. Sorry.I have to say that again.
Down 34 to 20 with two minuteseighteen seconds left to play in
the game. The Mustangs scored ontwo long passes from quarterback

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Kazz Siewing to Curtis Darrahand got the winning two point
conversion on a superblyexecuted trap play that saw a
junior running back, ChanceDemarais, dive into the end zone
with four seconds left. End ofquote. Oh, it was a game of a
lifetime. It certainly wascomparable to the Malta Mustang

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basketball team way back from1985 against the Browning
Indians in triple overtime atthe 4 Seasons Arena.
So they traveled to Missoula thenext week and were playing for
the state championship and thePCN Reads, and then there was

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one. Mustangs down Loyola, 34-12for third state title. Now I
realize I don't have much timeleft, but I would like to list
these names from the district tobe all conference teams.
Mitch Ereaux, Zeb Olson, AaronDeVries, Trent Morgan, Curtis

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Darrah, Chance Demarais, JakeJones, Jason Spencer, Reed
Pankratz, Michael French, LoganSims, Cohen Ereaux, Ryan Flat,
Kazz Siewing, Jeff Handley, andCruz Siewing. Great football
players from back way back inott six right here in Malta,

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Montana.
Go Mustangs. Good luck tomorrownight in your homecoming game.
Oh, wait. I need to have a bibleverse. How about John 11:35
Jesus wept. The shortest versein the bible and what I wanna do
if I ever forget the Bibleverse. So until next time, as

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you go out there, remember now,don't be bitter.