What a difference a year makes.
The Big Sandy Pioneers exorcised any residual demons of its last matchup with the MonDak Thunder in a convincing 60-14 win Friday at Grenora, North Dakota.
The Thunder, a co-op between Grenora and Westby, Montana high schools, included in their defense of a 2017 Montana 6-man football state championship, a 2018 come-from-behind win at Big Sandy.
The Pioneers evened the home-and-home series with a foe 371 highway miles away by keeping their collective foot on the gas. Big Sandy scored early and often.
“We were tougher than they were,” said coach Larry Jappe. “The...
