Battling at The Brick: Volleyball teams head to Bozeman for state tourney
The All-Class State Volleyball Tournament gets underway at 10 a.m. Thursday, and Flathead Valley teams won’t waste any time getting warmed up at “The Brick,” as we call Brick Breeden Field House in Bozeman.
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In Bigfork, good things keep arriving in 2s
One of the cool things about Ariel Putman’s time coaching Bigfork volleyball is that she has coached three sets of twins.
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Aggies rally past Griz
UC Davis shook off a slow start with a fine finish Saturday, scoring the final 17 points of their Big Sky Conference showdown with Montana to beat the Grizzlies 30-14.
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Flathead, Glacier take to road with State at stake
Pass the jelly tree: While the Glacier Wolfpack gets to enjoy some home cooking this weekend, the football squads from Columbia Falls, Whitefish and Eureka are on the road.
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Column: Key for Eureka is having a good, even great Day
One of the factors behind Eureka’s long-term success on the high school gridiron is that coach Trevor Utter has been a middle school principal for 18 years.
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Quarterback Carson Gulick earns his position
It was the summer of 2023 and Carson Gulick was at a crossroads.
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Bulldog Determination
It was the summer of 2023 and Carson Gulick was at a crossroads.
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Lions on 464-mile hunt for playoff win
The Eureka Lions’ reward for dropping a pair of Western B football conference games — a rare occurrence around this corner of Montana — is a quick trip to Glasgow.
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Delaney wins A girls title; Wildkats 2nd as team
MISSOULA — Morgan Delaney had the speed and Columbia Falls had the depth.
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State Cross Country: Bissen, Thiel finish third in AA
MISSOULA — Glacier’s Owen Thiel and Lauren Bissen each had run the times to win the individual titles at the AA portion of the State Cross Country Championships Saturday.
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Glacier soccer squads take it up a notch
The going gets tougher for the Glacier soccer teams, who travel to Bozeman to play State AA quarterfinal games Saturday against top-seeded opponents.
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Cross country teams look for perfect ending
The State Cross Country Championships are Saturday at the University of Montana Golf Course, and the weather should be a runner’s dream: 42 degrees at 11 a.m., when the Class B girls start things off; warming up to 55 by 2 p.m., when the AA boys get going.
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Glacier's Reese Ramey right in the middle
Ramey is one of seven seniors on a nine-win Glacier squad that has a State AA soccer playoff game with Helena Capital today at 3 p.m., at Legends Stadium.
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Big Sky notes: The rich get a little richer
Lost in Montana State’s vaunted rushing attack — the Bobcats average 6.59 yards a carry and 311.4 yards a game, both second in the Football Champion Subdivision — is that Julius Davis hasn’t had one carry.
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Fife, Griz drop Lumberjacks
The Montana Grizzlies seem to have the big finish figured out for 2024, after rallying again in the second half of a 31-20 victory over Northern Arizona Saturday in their homecoming game.
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Column: From Rawson to the Grizzlies' Hall of Fame
Dylan McFarland confirmed that he was in Washington-Grizzly Stadium Saturday, watching Weber State prevail over his alma mater 55-48, and he is surprised as anybody that it was the Wildcats’ fifth win in six games against the Griz.
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Bridger Smith happy to be back with the Pack
A budding receiver working out with a who’s-who of Salt Lake City-area quarterbacks, Bridger Smith didn’t figure he’d wind up in Kalispell, Montana, his sophomore year of high school.
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Pack, Braves looking to get right at crosstown
The Crosstown football game, set for 7 p.m. tonight at Legends Stadium, pits two teams yearning to get going in the right direction.
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Weber State wins in OT
The Montana Grizzlies keep setting the wrong kind of records. On Saturday they gave up the most points ever allowed at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, 55, which is what Weber State tallied to take a seven-point Big Sky Conference victory, in overtime.
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Fortunate Son: Sam Engellant enjoys 2 years of fairways and greens
It was Sept. 19, the second round of the Kalispell Invitational golf tournament was winding down, and Sam Engellant was in trouble.
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Crosstown I is Thursday at Flathead
Crosstown I, Volleyball Edition is set for Thursday.
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Big Sky notes: A surplus of yards, on both sides
The Montana Grizzlies gained 701 yards Saturday, in their first win on the red turf of Roos Field, for the second-biggest offensive output in the football program’s history.
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Major decision takes Troupe to rugby pitch
Sawyer Troupe reached the pinnacle of high school wrestling on Feb. 10, pinning Bozeman High’s Hudson Wiens in 2 minutes, 37 seconds in the State AA heavyweight finals.
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Big Sky: Griz try to break through at struggling EWU
You could definitely say that Eastern Washington’s football program had “it” going on this century, with a national title in 2010 and perennial playoff teams behind strong quarterback play.
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Griz, Cats football capsules
When the Grizzlies have the ball: Junior Bergen’s No. 5 jersey showed up last week, and that will help an offense that stalled the second half at North Dakota, but was unstoppable Saturday against Morehead State.
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Big Sky Notes: Catamounts may be tough to tame
The Western Carolina Catamounts, who visit Washington-Grizzly Stadium Saturday at 1 p.m. for a non-conference football game, are tough to figure.
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Marquee Matchup: Crosstown flag football
Legends Stadium is the place to be Thursday night at 7. Or even 6 p.m., or 5.
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Braves look to shake off loss in Missoula
Coming off a baseball score loss, the Flathead Football Braves intend to regroup, refortify and rebound.
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Big Sky notebook: Griz look to bounce back
The weekly Montana Grizzly football press conferences aren’t generally a lengthy affair, and Monday’s edition unsurprisingly — given UM’s second-half performance in a 27-24 loss at North Dakota — was tight.
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Prep Football: Glacier has home opener; Flathead heads to Belgrade
After a promising road win, the Glacier Wolfpack football team heads into its home opener Friday night looking simply to improve.
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Ready at the Net
Volleyball season has officially begun for the Glacier Wolfpack and Flathead Bravettes, and both teams are having to rebuild a bit, each with just 2-3 seniors.
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Flathead soccer teams shoot for success in 2024
With a match under their belt, the Flathead Braves and Bravettes can look ahead to better results this soccer season.
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Column: Samson hits send, lands big fish
It was March of this year that Kyle Samson, seeking a home football game for his Montana Tech Orediggers, did something drastic.
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Notebook: Two hot Big Sky Conference teams
It was a hot one for the Montana schools of the Big Sky Conference Saturday, or rather a hot two.
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Fife, Griz hold off Missouri State
MISSOULA — Keali’i Ah Yat was fine. Logan Fife was finer.
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CMR rides big plays past Braves
It was those one-play drives that were killer.
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Wolfpack teams enter pitch with high hopes
A 13-1 conference record and Western AA Division crown gave way to an early postseason loss for the Glacier boys soccer team in 2023.
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AA Football: Braves picking up speed
The Flathead Braves are still young, as they head into the 2024 football season, but could still be fierce.
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Soccer: C-Falls girls, boys look to make noise
The Whitefish boys and girls had banner soccer seasons in 2023, ending with State A championships for both programs. Now it might be Columbia Falls’ turn.
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Wolfpack still strong on gridiron
The Glacier Wolfpack lost some serious talent off the 2023 squad that advanced to the State AA championship, as in four Division I signees and a guy who caught 1,200 yards worth of passes.
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Column: Short game, short season
Shaun Forrest had all of one season as an assistant before he answered the call to lead the Whitefish golf teams in 2024.
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Big Sky Notebook: Tough to keep up with Bobcats' Jones
The bloom is not off the rose yet for the Montana State Bobcats, who had a pretty clutch finish to their 35-31 football win at New Mexico State Saturday.
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Best on the planet
Add “world champion” to the list of accomplishments for Glacier High wrestler Kaura Coles, after she won her weight class Friday at the United World Wrestling U17 World Championships in Amman, Jordan.
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Soccer: Green and Gold with a couple fresh faces
What happens when your soccer teams score a rare sweep of state championships?
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Column: We've run out of teams... not really
Blaine Baker, Libby Class of 2004, didn’t know what was wrong with him at the Western Divisional basketball tournament his senior year; he just knew he was miserable and had white sores in his mouth and throat.
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From the Yellowjackets to the Red Dog
Libby’s 2003-04 boys basketball season was one for the ages. It began with an opening-weekend loss and ended with about the most epic championship game you could imagine: A 96-89 triple-overtime win over Belgrade, on the Panthers’ home floor.
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Deck wants to deal for 2024 Griz
Northwest Montana continues to be represented heavily on the Montana Grizzlies’ football team, even if most of them are youngsters.
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Column: New AD Bravely steps in at Flathead
If the state of Idaho is a triangle, then you could say new Flathead High activities director Matt Allison has lived in every corner of the Gem State — including the town of Middleton, which isn’t in the middle at all.
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Lakers draw host and defending champion Senators
The Kalispell Lakers shook off a rocky finish to their regular season with three much-needed wins over the weekend, earning a spot in the State AA Legion baseball tournament.
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Twins, Mariners gear up for State A Legion
The Glacier Twins are getting used to this noise: Their 4-1 win over the Kalispell Lakers on Sunday in Florence capped their fourth West A District baseball title in Kevin Slaybaugh’s five seasons as coach.
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Finishing strong: Owens wasn’t going miss last year of Lakers
For someone who plays baseball, a torn labrum — that was the diagnosis, and his right (throwing) shoulder had to be reconstructed — might signal the end for that sport. Not a chance.
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Event 'always on their radar'
The track at The Event at Rebecca Farm includes a 4-star long course, and since the Paris Olympics will use a 4-star course for their equestrian eventing, competitors will get a dose of the real thing.
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Jeff Thompson garners National Coach of the Year
A trip to Bismarck, North Dakota, may not be on everyone’s bucket list, but the National High School Athletic Coaches Association was having its annual convention there and Flathead wrestling coach Jeff Thompson was giving a presentation.
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Column: Bigfork's Benn bids farewell to coaching
Jim Benn has called his last play for the Bigfork Football Vikings, and his departure from the Montana coaching ranks was just the way he wanted it: quiet.
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Wolfpack cleans up at 77th Shrine Game
The Glacier Wolfpack made an impact on the 77th East-West Shrine Game at Daylis Stadium in Billings Saturday night. As in three Most Valuable Player awards.
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Perfect combo: Swagger, and a ‘good human’
Bigfork’s Jack Jensen had a heck of a 2023 track season, capped by him kicking away from his competition to win the State B 800 and 1,600 titles. Then Bigfork High moved up a classification this school year and Jensen figured, Bring it on.
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AA track: Braves finish 2nd; set another record
GREAT FALLS — There was a moment late in Saturday’s State AA track and field meet when the Flathead Braves owned a lead in the boys’ team race.
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AA track: Braves get off to flying start
GREAT FALLS — It was a fantastic start for the Flathead Braves Friday at the State AA track and field meet at Memorial Stadium. The finish was pretty amazing, too.
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Flathead, Glacier thinclads chasing trophies
It’s been a while since Flathead has been soaring this high or running this fast around the track and field oval.
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Bulldogs a double threat, and Wildcats are right there
To the usual suspects at the State A track and field championships in Laurel — the defending champion Corvallis boys and girls, Whitefish, Laurel and Hamilton — add the somewhat unusual.
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Wildkats ready to claw through State A
A year ago the Columbia Falls Wildkats worked around a funnel cloud, lightning delays, a first-day rainout and a malfunctioning sprinkler system en route to the 2023 championship. They should be fine.
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AA Softball: Wolfpack, Bravettes ready to brave elements
The weather isn’t promising for the opening day of the State AA softball tournament — it could be snowing in Belgrade at 11 a.m. Thursday, when the first two games are scheduled — but Glacier coach Abby Snipes isn’t too concerned.
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C-Falls takes third at State baseball
MISSOULA — With one out and a runner on second Saturday, Butte seemed on the verge of a big inning when Matt Donaldson stroked a line drive toward right.
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State baseball: Whitefish loses thriller, Polson falls
MISSOULA — As the State Baseball tournament continues through the weekend, it will be tough to top that opener.
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Column: Bulldogs' Big, Bad Bullet Bob
The memorial for Bob McLeod is Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Whitefish High School gym, fittingly, because he was the basketball coach during that magical 1969-70 basketball season.
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Kroger with a K
Kroger, Sapa and the rest of the Columbia Falls Wildcats are the Northwest A’s top seed into the second-ever State Baseball tournament, which begins Thursday at Ogren-Allegiance Field in Missoula. Kroger will take the mound Thursday against Hamilton at 6:30 p.m.
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Softball senior mainstays
One of the reasons the Flathead Bravettes have trended up as a softball program is the presence of Kaidyn Lake and Laynee Vessar, two senior mainstays who seemingly have been around forever.
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Column: Kai Johnson excels in the no-spin zone
Mark Kessler, assistant track coach and head flag football coach at Glacier High, feels senior athlete Kai Johnson is ahead of her time.
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Carson Krack gives Whitefish another multi-event standout
The comparisons between Carson Krack and a certain predecessor in the Whitefish High School track and field program are easy to see.
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Bigfork's Gunlock commits to BYU
After a banner junior season in which she helped Bigfork finish second at the State A tournament, the Valkyries’ Braeden Gunlock announced Tuesday she has committed to play women’s basketball at Brigham Young University.
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Bigfork's Gunlock commits to BYU
After a banner junior season in which she helped Bigfork finish second at the State A tournament, the Valkyries’ Braeden Gunlock announced Tuesday she has committed to play women’s basketball at Brigham Young University.
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Column: Krause takes aim at Fargo, discus record
About halfway through his six discus attempts on Tuesday, at the Pilcher/Western Montana Top 10 track and field meet, Glacier’s Aiden Krause started verbally adding something extra.
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Prep focus: Zetooney gives 'em a shot
The Whitefish girls track and field team has been blessed with sprinters through the years, going back at least as far as Marlow Schulz, so it should surprise nobody the Bulldogs have some serious speed in 2024.
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Valley athletes break Pilcher Top 10 records
MISSOULA — That was a fast track at MCPS Stadium Tuesday for the 24th Pilcher/Western Montana Top 10 meet. And given what some juniors did, it will be fast again in 2025.
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A Lakers look to pile up innings, victories
The Kalispell A Lakers enter their 2024 baseball season with just three veterans, which even by Class A American Legion standards is a small number.
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Farrell finds her groove
A pick-up player at the ripe age of 9 years old, Ella Farrell remembers being asked to play outfield for a cousin’s softball team in Helena. Which was fine, right up until she saw that player in the pitcher’s circle.
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Column: Walburn finds his stride in the Palouse
Lee Walburn found a gem in the Palouse, as people call the area around Washington State University in Pullman.
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Column: Another Griz Spring Game, another win
A rite of spring back in my Billings Gazette days was that co-worker Bill Bihaus would go to a Rocky Mountain College football scrimmage.
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Lakers begin 2024 season Sunday
The Kalispell Lakers AA American Legion team will field a fairly young lineup when its season begins Sunday at 1 p.m., with a doubleheader at Griffin Field against Missoula.
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Column: Area ADs work among giants
When Libby High graduate Jerek Wolcott, the assistant athletic director at the University of Idaho, needed volunteers for the East Regional of the NCAA Tournament he knew just who to call.
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Softball: Pack shuts out Kats in marquee matchup
COLUMBIA FALLS — Friday’s matchup of state softball champions just about had it all: Dynamic pitching, noisy hits and — despite the chill and brief drizzle — much better weather than the Orioles-Pirates game.
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Evan Epperly picked to lead Glacier hoops
Glacier High School announced its pick for the next boys basketball coach Tuesday, and it is former player Evan Epperly, who has been back coaching with the Wolfpack the past two seasons.
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Bravettes figure to make state tourneys a habit
A solid nucleus from their first state tournament team in 16 seasons, plus a promising freshman class have the Flathead Bravettes thinking big this softball season.
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Champion Wolfpack reload for 2024
The last time we saw the Glacier Wolfpack softball team, they were celebrating the program’s second-ever State AA championship in Helena. A third one is certainly within reach.
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Flathead looks to improve on the track
There are positive feelings surrounding both programs, which begin the season Tuesday with a dual meet at Missoula Big Sky.
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Track preview: Glacier boys aren't going anywhere, girls trending up
The Glacier Wolfpack boys were second at the State AA track meet in 2022 and third last May. They aren’t going anywhere in 2024.
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Column: ‘Fletch’ set for next chapter of baseball life
As Major League Baseball gears up for Opening Day, it’s a good time to give the floor to the Glacier Range Riders’ newest skipper, Paul Fletcher.
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Path becomes clear for Bulldog kicker Ryder Barinowski
Three summers ago Ryder Barinowski was a four-sport athlete at Whitefish High School, and two of the sports were in the fall: Soccer and football. Then one day while working at the Iron Horse Golf Club, things changed.
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Path becomes clear for Barinowski
Three summers ago Ryder Barinowski was a four-sport athlete at Whitefish High School, and two of the sports were in the fall: Soccer and football. Then one day while working at the Iron Horse Golf Club, Bthings changed.
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Vikings notch first win in baseball debut
Carson Parish’s one out, RBI double in the eighth inning broke a 3-3 tie and Bigfork held on to beat Ronan 4-3 Monday, in the high school baseball debut for both programs.
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Valkryies come up just short
BUTTE — The quest of the Bigfork Valkyries got away right at the end Saturday, when Carol Old Bull put back an offensive rebound to give Billings Central a 39-38 lead with 2:15 left.
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Valkryies come up just short in state championship
BUTTE — The quest of the Bigfork Valkyries got away right at the end Saturday, when Carol Old Bull put back an offensive rebound to give Billings Central a 39-38 lead with 2:15 left.
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Sapa goes big, Wildcats take third
BUTTE — A state trophy was a long time coming for the Columbia Falls Wildcats, who beat Butte Central 58-53 Saturday in the State A boys basketball consolation game. So was a big game from Reggie Sapa.
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State A: Davey lifts Valkyries into title game
BUTTE — If the final State A girls basketball semifinal was a slog for the Bigfork Valkyries, well, Ava Davey had just about as fine a 4.9 seconds as you can have.
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State A: Davey lifts Valkyries into title game
BUTTE — If the final State A girls basketball semifinal was a slog for the Bigfork Valkyries, well, Ava Davey had just about as fine a 4.9 seconds as you can have.
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State A: Davey lifts Valkyries into title game
BUTTE — If the final State A girls basketball semifinal was a slog for the Bigfork Valkyries, well, Ava Davey had just about as fine a 4.9 seconds as you can have.
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AA: Wolfpack girls fall to unbeaten Skyview
MISSOULA — Things didn’t look great at halftime at Dahlberg Arena, where the Glacier girls trailed Billings Skyview 29-18 in the first round of the State AA basketball tournament.
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State AA: Wolfpack girls take aim at 21-0 Skyview
The State AA basketball tournaments begin Thursday at Dahlberg Arena on the University of Montana campus, and Kalispell is represented by one upstart squad: The Glacier girls.
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Chasing History
Last March the Bigfork Valkyries put a bow on their final season in Class B, sweeping through three opponents to win the program’s first state basketball championship. A year later? These Vals might just make history.
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Bravettes, Pack girls hope to spring upsets
The Flathead Bravettes and Glacier Wolfpack didn’t figure to be the bottom two seeds going into the Western AA Divisional that starts Thursday in Butte, but that’s how it worked out.
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Frontier tourneys have Flathead Valley feel
As the Frontier Conference basketball tournaments approach, a question is raised: When’s the last time Aubrie Rademacher of Glacier High (Class of 2020) and Maddy Moy of Flathead (‘23) squared off? Turns out it was less than a week ago.
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Tunnel Vision
The Browning Indians boys basketball team has made quite a run, with nine straight wins and its first Northwest A regular-season title in four years in hand.
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Excellent finale
The Glacier Wolfpack have been looking for that signature boys basketball win this season, and Tuesday they got it: A tightly-defended, crushed-them-on-the-glass 63-40 win over the powerful Missoula Hellgate Knights.
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Kiera Sullivan finds her calling
What was supposed to happen was, Kiera Sullivan would keep tackling, shooting and sprinting from the end of her 2022 school year straight through to today.
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State Swimming: Glacier school records fall
The team results weren’t quite what Karen Bouda or the Glacier Wolfpack wanted, but the veteran swim coach for both of Kalispell’s AA schools prefers to stay positive.
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Butte tops Bravettes, Braves at Flathead gym
Flathead’s Braves and Bravettes fell short on the basketball court Saturday afternoon, with visiting Butte closing out one game late (girls) and building a big lead early (boys) for two Western AA wins.
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Prep Hoops: Wolfpack girls win, boys fall to Butte
A mild upset by the Glacier girls seemed to set the host Wolfpack up for a basketball sweep against visiting Butte Friday. The Bulldogs’ Hudson Luedtke had other ideas.
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State Wrestling: Brawlers look to get back to top
The way Jeff Thompson sees it, it’s a four-team race at the State AA boys wrestling meet that begins Friday at First Interstate Arena.
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Thompson Twins ready to roll
Jeff Thompson remembers being surprised that one child turned out to be two, but maybe he shouldn’t have. His wife was a twin, and his mom as a twin, and so it seemed like the odds were in their favor.
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Caging Cousins
This is a story about Mason Kelch and Cohen Kastelitz, first cousins who happen to lead their respective basketball teams — the Whitefish Bulldogs and Glacier Wolfpack — in scoring and rebounding.
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Column: Greenhorns make history on BC ice
The Greenhorns made history on Jan. 21 at Lake Windermere, British Columbia, and it’s at least partly because a group of Whitefish High graduates started playing Wii.
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Coach Cary Finberg retiring at end of season
Cary Finberg, the longtime and legendary basketball coach at his high school alma mater, confirmed Thursday that he is stepping down as coach of the Wildkats’ girls basketball team after the season.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 9 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AGO
Kats' coach Cary Finberg to step down after season
COLUMBIA FALLS — Come December things will look different at the Columbia Falls High School gym.
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Crosstown Hoops: Pack girls want to stop skid; Braves seek first W
Coming into their Crosstown game at 6 p.m. Friday at the Flathead gym, neither the host Bravettes nor the visiting Glacier Wolfpack girls basketball teams have been scoring in bunches.
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A cut above
Kennedy Moore figures she gets her height — she’s 6-foot-2 these days — from her grandfathers, both of whom stand 6-5.
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Crosstown mat battles are set
It wasn’t on purpose that this year’s Crosstown wrestling duals have a little extra build-up: Blame Montana weather, with last week’s blizzard wiping out, among other events, the Rocky Mountain Invitational in Missoula.
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Column: Regrettable detail, remarkable season
The most recent press conference hall of fame moment, where Tampa Bay coach Todd Bowles was asked about playing in frigid Detroit on Sunday — “You do know we play indoors, right?” Bowles answered — has me thinking about last Sept. 2.
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Jackrabbits top Griz for second straight national title
A defense that allowed just 273 yards and sacked Clifton McDowell four times set up the offense nicely.
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Seeing Blue: Grizzlies fall to SDSU 23-3 in title game
Grizzlies fall to SDSU 23-3 in title game
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Montana fans travel far to see Grizzlies in FCS title game
The Montana Grizzlies are back in the NCAA Division I Football Championship for the first time since 2009, and there’s no way Mark Josephson wasn’t going to be there in person.
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Bring on the Jacks
FRISCO, Texas — For No. 2 Montana to pull off the upset of No.1 South Dakota State Sunday, some things are going to have to hold up for the 13-1 Grizzlies.
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Something will have to give when Jacks, Griz battle again
For Montana coach Bobby Hauck, it’s a string of three losses in these games. Meanwhile the defending champion Jackrabbits are looking for their first-ever win over Montana.
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Column: A memorable Texas trip is quite possible
Before there was a trip to Frisco, Texas, there were three voyages to Chattanooga, Tenn.
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The Nuce is Loose
When we checked in with Henry Nuce in August, he was talking about donating stem cells to a cancer patient and accepting that his junior season with the Montana Grizzlies would have to wait.
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Full Count: Fritz Neighbor's top 10 for 2023
As a trip to the FCS title game looms, I wonder at times if I’m getting too old for this.
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We call it, 'Bison': Another Griz win highlighted by special teams
MISSOULA — This is getting to be ridiculous, how special teams, and especially the punt returns of Junior Bergen, keep tilting games in the Montana Grizzlies’ favor.
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Grizzlies prevail in overtime to punch ticket to title game
Corbin Walker’s interception of a two-point pass sealed the win for the Grizzlies (13-1), who will unbeaten defending champion South Dakota State on Jan. 7 in Frisco, Texas.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 11 MONTHS AGO
Grizzlies topple Bison 31-29 in double OT
MISSOULA — For the first time to Frisco go the Montana Grizzlies, who needed two overtimes to get past North Dakota State 31-29 in a wild FCS semifinal game Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
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Grizzlies topple Bison 31-29 in double OT
MISSOULA — For the first time to Frisco go the Montana Grizzlies, who needed two overtimes to get past North Dakota State 31-29 in a wild FCS semifinal game Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
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Grizzlies hunt Bison victory for chance at championship
Bobby Hauck made no bones about it Monday: The North Dakota State Bison looked very good in their 45-17 FCS quarterfinal win last week.
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Glacier, Flathead wrestlers head to Holiday tourney
The local high schools are getting in plenty of action in pre-Christmas break, and no sport is getting more done than wrestling.
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Montana Grizzlies return to FCS semifinals with win over Furman
MISSOULA — To get to their first semifinal home game in 14 seasons, Montana needed Junior Bergen to do something no Griz had done in 21.
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Montana Grizzlies return to FCS semifinals with win over Furman
MISSOULA — To get to their first semifinal home game in 14 seasons, Montana needed Junior Bergen to do something no Griz had done in 21.
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Wolfpack gather forces for another tourney run
Last season was a banner one for the Glacier boys basketball team, which went 17-8 and picked up the second State AA trophy in program history with a third-place finish.
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Bravettes reload after runner-up finish
The Flathead Bravettes have changed coaches and graduated most of their minutes off a team that played in the State AA girls basketball championship last March, but we shouldn’t count them out.
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Where was everyone in ‘01
The Montana Grizzlies’ last title? That came in 2001, 13-6 over a little school in Greenville, South Carolina called Furman. Little, as in 3,000 students were enrolled there at the time.
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Snow blinded: Grizzlies roll past Blue Hens, 49-19
MISSOULA — The snow started right before kickoff Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, and not much else went right for the Delaware Blue Hens from there.
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Snow blinded: Grizzlies roll past Blue Hens, 49-19
MISSOULA — The snow started right before kickoff Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, and not much else went right for the Delaware Blue Hens from there.
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Cats, Griz back at it
The Big Sky Conference will start playing in the afternoon and go well until after dark Saturday, with four teams having Football Championship Subdivision second-round playoff games.
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Flathead wrestlers fine with losing favored status
After two straight State AA championships Flathead’s boys wrestling team slipped to second at last year’s tournament, and now the Brave Brawlers are right where coach Jeff Thompson likes them.
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Glacier grapplers look to replace seniors, fill weights
The Glacier boys wrestling team lost five seniors off last year’s squad, but the good news is one half of its state placers return.
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The Long Goodbye
For many college football players, including those that matriculate through the University of Montana, there is a common refrain: I blinked, and it was over. Garrett Graves is not one of those players.
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Big Sky Notes: Momentous return
For a second in the second half of Saturday’s Brawl of the Wild, the 122nd renewal of the Cat-Griz game, it looked a little like Montana’s trip to Idaho the month before.
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Trending up: McDowell keys Grizzlies’ win over Bobcats
The Montana Grizzlies are No. 3 with a bullet after beating Montana State decisively, 37-7, in the 122nd Brawl of the Wild at foggy Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
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Trending up: McDowell keys Grizzlies’ win over Bobcats
The Montana Grizzlies are No. 3 with a bullet after beating Montana State decisively, 37-7, in the 122nd Brawl of the Wild at foggy Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
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Harrison, Hawks hold off Pack for AA crown
Glacier’s talented, senior-laden squad gave the 12-0 Hawks — last year’s State AA runners up — a run.
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AA football: Pack looks to break through against Bozeman
A second football championship won’t be easy for the Glacier Wolfpack, since they have to go through the unbeaten Bozeman Hawks, and on the road, to make it happen.
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One of a Keim
As State AA semifinal games go, Glacier’s Isaac Keim had a good one in the Wolfpack’s 35-14 win over Gallatin.
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Columbia Falls Wildcats get a rematch for state football title
The Dillon Beavers’ 10-0 mark this season includes a 22-19 win over the Columbia Falls Wildcats, which may or not mean much Saturday.
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122nd Brawl shaping up as biggest ever
It’s a top-five matchup and the Big Sky Conference championship hangs in the balance, so obviously the 122nd Brawl of the Wild needs no hype.
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Big Sky notes: Something's gotta give Saturday
It’s that time of year again: When something has to give.
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Wildcats get windy win over Blue Devils
CORVALLIS — Columbia Falls’ 19-7 win over Corvallis Saturday was as tough as advertised, — and with the usual suspects stymied by a sturdy wind and stingy Blue Devil defense, the play of the game came from a Wildcat who wasn’t supposed to be in there.
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AA Football: Glacier earns title shot, 35-14
Glacier’s 35-14 win over Gallatin, in the State AA football semifinals Friday at Legends Stadium, didn’t have your usual number of explosive Wolfpack plays. Big plays? Plenty of those.
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Prep football: Pack, Wildcats head into semis
Glacier and Columbia Falls have state championship berths in sight, with the Wolfpack seeking their first AA title game since 2016 and the Wildcats chasing their first since winning the 2017 title.
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Column: Brisendine kicks open door to D-1
A few years ago, after watching a 5-foot-4 Glacier freshman bury a game-clinching goal from 70 feet in playoff win over Billings Skyview, a local writer wondered if Reagan Brisendine might someday add her name to the Legends Stadium Wall of Fame.
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State Volleyball: Pack, Bulldogs and Lions rise up
Two of the cool things about Class AA volleyball is the pair of crossover tournaments held during the season, in which the Western AA squads take measure of their counterparts from the Eastern AA.
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AA football: Pack puts away Spartans
The Sentinel Spartans brought more puzzles to solve for the Glacier Wolfpack Friday, but in the end — thanks to four second-half touchdown passes by Jackson Presley — the hosts prevailed 46-12.
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Glacier kicks off football playoff games
The State AA, A and B football playoffs have a plenty of local flavor, along with a bit of mystery.
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Column: Musings of an aging sports editor
On March 10, 2010, I and former fellow Missoulian sports writer Nick Lockridge found ourselves at Tiny’s Tavern in Billings.
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Glacier, Flathead spikers head to Butte
The Western AA Divisional volleyball tournament begins Thursday in the spacious Butte Civic Center, and Kalispell has a pair of teams with the very reachable goal of the State AA next week at Montana State.
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Big Sky Notes: Check out the new guys
Montana wasn’t the only Big Sky Conference football team to unveil a true freshman quarterback this past Saturday — the Grizzlies’ next opponent did the same with more impressive results.
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Columbia Falls downs Whitefish 42-0 in playoffs
Columbia Falls quarterback Cody Schweikert threw for two touchdowns and ran for three, and the host Wildcats beat Whitefish 42-0 on a chilly Friday night.
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Cat-Dog II set for Friday
When Whitefish pinned a 20-14 overtime loss on Columbia Falls on Sept. 15, it marked the first game that first-year Bulldogs’ coach Brett Bollweg went all-in with Carson Gulick at quarterback.
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Cody Schweikert latest in standout C-Falls QBs
In the 12 seasons Jaxon Schweikert has guided the Columbia Falls football program, the Wildcats have had their share of prolific quarterbacks.
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Range Riders pick new manager
The Glacier Range Riders will have their third manager in three seasons in 2024, with the announcement Tuesday that Paul Fletcher will lead the Pioneer League baseball team going forward.
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Fox picked to coach Bravettes basketball
The Flathead Bravettes basketball program has a new coach and she is a familiar face: Kaylee Fox, a longtime assistant at the school.
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Knights, Bison race to AA titles
The State AA cross country landscape has its perennial powers, and it figured that Missoula Hellgate’s girls and Bozeman’s boys would run to state titles Saturday at Rebecca Farm.
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Browning boys heat up; Hardin girls too good for A
It was unseasonably warm at Rebecca Farm for the Montana State Cross Country Championships Saturday, as if the Browning boys needed help heating up.
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Presley, Wolfpack rally past Sentinel
Jackson Presley’s three second-half touchdown passes ended Missoula Sentinel’s win streak over Glacier at six games Thursday.
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State cross country: Backyard battle in Class A
Rebecca Farm is host to the 60th Montana State Cross Country Championships Saturday, and for the first time since 2020.
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Doubling up: Standout Flathead runner Rumsey Eash added soccer to her duties this fall
Lilli Rumsey Eash is a good-bordering on-great cross country runner who came into 2023 with three All-State finishes to her credit.
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Wolfpack welcomes Spartans; Flathead on road to play Hellgate
The Missoula Sentinel Spartans haven’t gone anywhere: The 2020-21 State AA champions still have a battle-hardened quarterback, a pair of Division I receivers and talent besides.
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Glacier’s Henry Sellards is everything you’d want in a left tackle
At 6-foot-5 and 280 pounds, Henry Sellards seems to have popped out of a left tackle mold and onto the gridiron for the Glacier Wolfpack.
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Western A: compelling, mystifying
High school football’s regular season is winding down across Montana, and in this corner of the state, the second-highest classification has some explaining to do.
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Big Sky notes: Get ready for Big Sky After Dark II
Big Sky Conference After Dark put on a great show last Saturday; it figures to do the same this weekend.
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Flathead football falls, 28-7
A mysterious band of football players put together a workmanlike, 28-7 football win over the Flathead Braves Friday. According to the schedule it was Helena Capital.
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Strong on the outside: Brody Thornsberry has been a consistent threat for the Flathead Braves
Second-year coach Caleb Aland is striving to steady the Flathead High football program, one that — including Aland — hired three head coaches in four seasons.
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Braves bring Bruins back to Legends
Looking toward Friday’s Western AA football matchup with Helena Capital, Flathead coach Caleb Aland figures the Bruins probably got their bad game at Legends Stadium out of the way.
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Glacier packs up to take on Big Sky
As the Glacier Wolfpack wound up preparation for a Thursday road game against Missoula Big Sky, coach Grady Bennett was thinking long-term and short.
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Cast of 1000s put Savik on Legends Wall
Lew Savik, 82 years old and officially now a Legend, was asked how he was doing the other day.
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Big Sky Notes: Little Brown (low-calorie) Stein
The Little Brown Stein is at stake this weekend, and if you wondered how the traveling trophy for which the Montana Grizzlies and Idaho Vandals battle came about, well, Libby’s own Jerek Wolcott is here to help.
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Champion Falcons stymie Lions, 35-14
FLORENCE — Whalen Memorial Field, the gridiron shrouded in trees behind Florence-Carlton High School, played out like this for the two-time defending State B champion Falcons Friday: Short field for us, long one for you.
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Wolfpack runs past Braves in 2nd half
Kobe Dorcheus, the junior half of Glacier’s running back tandem, was a tough tackle on Thursday night in the Wolfpack’s 42-6 Crosstown win over Flathead.
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Tristan Butts has become a big-play receiver for unbeaten Eureka
Trevor Utter was a sophomore in high school when Jeff Casazza set Eureka’s single-game record for receiving yards: 193, in 1991. “It was a weird thing,” Utter, in his 12th season as the Lions’ head coach, remembered. “Jeff was fast, and we were at Conrad, and it was three passes. …
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Unique time, look to Crosstown
The 17th Crosstown football game is unique in that it has a Thursday night kickoff instead of Friday. It also sets Flathead’s unique offense against a Glacier team with a unique set of skill players.
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Bobcat running back room continues to make noise
There are running back rooms and there is what the No. 2-ranked Montana State Bobcats seem to have put together this season, enroute to a 5-1 start.
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Grizzlies subdue Bengals, 28-20
Saturday will go down as a bounce-back win for the Montana Grizzlies, who rode Clifton McDowell’s running and throwing to a 28-20 win over the Idaho State Bengals.
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Glacier handles Capital, 56-0
Glacier coach Grady Bennett feels the 2023 Wolfpack are a little more together — and Friday, together, they put a complete thumping on the defending state champions.
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Wolfpack faces big Bruin test
The tests keep coming for the Glacier Wolfpack, who on Friday will host the defending state champion Helena Capital Bruins in a key Western AA football game.
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Seeking gold: Pair of aces lead Pirates’ chase for golf title
This has been quite a run for the Polson boys golfers, a quintet of seniors that will play their final high school meet Friday and Saturday, the State A tournament in Sidney.
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Tudor steps down as Bravettes coach
The Flathead Bravettes basketball team will look to build on last year’s state title game appearance with a new coach: Sam Tudor announced his resignation Wednesday.
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Pack boys chasing Sentinel; Pirate girls aim for A repeat
The Glacier Wolfpack’s run through the AA boys golf campaign took a little detour last week at Bill Roberts Golf Course, where Missoula Sentinel decided to stop the streak.
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Flathead fired up to battle Bulldogs
The Flathead Braves of 2023 have moved the football capably, second-year coach Caleb Aland noted this week. It’s the last 25 yards or so that have been difficult.
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Flathead wrestler Anders Thompson commits to Wyoming
A big spring and summer has taken a little pressure off this coming winter for Anders Thompson, who committed to wrestle for the University of Wyoming Sunday evening.
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Sam Engellant plays big for deep Wolfpack
Heading into the Western AA Divisional golf tournament Wednesday and Thursday at Bill Roberts Golf Course, the Glacier Wolfpack boys are cruising.
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Griz hold off Ferris St., 17-10
It says in the scoring summary that Nick Ostmo’s 3-yard run to the pylon at 1:39 of the third quarter was the difference in Montana’s 17-10 win over Ferris State Saturday.
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Wolfpack finish off Helena, 35-7
Kash Goicoechea started the ball rolling for the Glacier Wolfpack Friday, and Cohen Kastelitz finished things off.
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Pack try to bounce back against Helena High
The Glacier Wolfpack welcomes Helena High to Legends Stadium knowing that a) they didn’t plan to start out 0-1 in Western AA play and b) the Bengals have been tough to beat.
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Glacier’s Griz-bound Goicoechea wants to finish strong
Glacier has won quite a few football games since this senior class came on the scene as sophomores, and yet it’s hard not to notice something. The Wolfpack is a little bit better when Kash Goicoechea is on the field.
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Confident Braves ready for Thursday tilt against Sentinel
The Flathead Braves feel like they’re making up ground on their football competition, and as an example can compare last Friday’s score against Missoula Big Sky — a 21-20 loss — to last year’s outcome.
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Riders thrown by the Ponies down stretch
With the way they played the first half, it should have been a lock that nobody besides Missoula would have a better overall record in the Pioneer League than the Glacier Range Riders.
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Big Sky Notes: Griz face interesting foe in DII power Ferris State
The Montana Grizzlies had the far less strenuous football game last Saturday compared to Montana State, which lost a 20-16 heartbreaker at top-ranked South Dakota State. The roles could be reversed this Saturday. The Griz, who swamped Utah Tech 43-13 last week, brings two-time Division II champion Ferris State to …
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Big Sky tops Flathead 21-20
A couple sophomores stood tall in Missoula Big Sky’s 21-20 Western AA football win over Flathead Friday at Legends Stadium. One was Big Sky’s 6-foot-2 quarterback Avery Omlid. The other was Flathead's 5-7 Jordan Griffin, who did about everything except kick.
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A belated pro debut for Guzman
In 2009 the Daily Inter Lake ran an article on a local boxing gym that featured, among others, an 11-year-old fighter named Dillan Guzman.
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Flathead looks to run record to 2-1 in Week 3
Any football coach will tell you all games are important, but Flathead’s Western AA Conference opener with Missoula Big Sky on Friday has that late-October feel.
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Big Sky Notebook: Griz punt fake was timely
The Montana Grizzlies offense was scuffling a little bit in the first quarter on what became a 35-20 win over Butler Saturday, in that with a 10-0 lead it had produced a tip-drill interception and a punt.
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Griz use 2nd QB to do in Butler
One quarterback started quick, the other finished strong, and 14th-ranked Montana got past a stubborn Butler football squad 35-20 Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
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AA Football: Braves hold off Belgrade 17-14
For a win in their home football opener, the Flathead Braves combined just enough scoring with just enough defense, and added in a killer dose of screens.
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Western AA football: Flathead brings in Belgrade; Glacier on road to face Billings Senior
The Flathead Braves’ 2023 football opener didn’t go as planned and doesn’t look great on paper, but second-year coach Caleb Aland came away encouraged.
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Area cross country teams ready for Flathead Invite
The Flathead Invitational cross country meet is set for noon Friday at Rebecca Farm, which also happens to be the site of this year’s State Cross Country Championships.
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Picking a QB — it’s so 2003
That the Montana Grizzlies haven’t decided on a quarterback might seem news to some, as the squad prepares to open their season against Butler at noon Saturday.
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AA Football: Pack swamps Bison
Glacier quarterback Jackson Presley lived up to the hype Friday, completing 19 of 26 passes in the Wolfpack’s 44-0 runaway win over Great Falls High, at Legends Stadium.
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Flathead gridders have outside shot
It makes sense for the Flathead Braves, a one-win football team a year ago, to be only looking up this season. Especially if they look outside the hash marks.
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Deep Wolfpack ready for banner ‘23 season
The Glacier Wolfpack have played for three State AA football championships and won one, so it’s saying something that this 2023 squad might set the high-water mark for the program.
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Wildcat footballers ready for Western A run
Of the many encouraging things about this football season in Columbia Falls, the biggest is that quarterback Cody Schweikert could be a one-way player.
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Eureka Lions poised to take tough 7-B
The District 7-B received another makeover this school year, with Bigfork moving to Class A and the Whitehall Trojans — not for the first time — moving over from the 5-B.
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Class A golf: Pirates looking for more plunder
The Polson Pirates, to no one’s surprise, are still loaded. And watch out for the Columbia Falls boys.
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Griz finding a punter (again)
In July, Montana Grizzlies coach Bobby Hauck said he had a couple punters transferring in, though because fall camp was a few weeks away — and they were still recruitable — he didn’t name names.
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Defensive end completes a July Hail Mary
Every player that signs with the Montana Grizzlies football program wants to get on the gridiron sooner rather than later, and Glacier High’s Hank Nuce made sure it was sooner.
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Flathead picks Williams as next softball coach
Flathead High has selected its new softball coach, and pending school board approval Brittany Williams will guide the Bravettes in 2024.
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Wolfpack boy golfers win opening meet big
Coming off a second-place finish at last year’s State AA tournament, the Glacier Wolfpack boys golf team had high expectations for 2023. On Monday and Tuesday the Wolfpack made a statement, winning the opening Great Falls Invitational by 22 strokes.
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A title long coming; a little boost at end
You wonder how history might differ if Cary Finberg had been a teacher, which of course was the original plan.
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Wildcats Strike: Columbia Falls’ first boys basketball title 20 years ago didn’t come easy
It’s hard to believe now that Columbia Falls, despite graduating ample basketball talent through the years — Cary Finberg, Mike Caldwell and the late Craig Finberg quickly come to mind — had not won a boys basketball state championship before 2003.
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Glacier's Keim commits to Griz football
The Montana Grizzlies picked up another verbal commitment from a Glacier Wolfpack gridder Thursday, with Isaac Keim announcing that he’s headed to UM.
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Big Sky football: Griz, Cat coaches chew on preseason predictions
When you look at the 2023 Big Sky Conference football preseason polls, it’s important to know that in 2022, the Montana Grizzlies were the pick, and finished 8-5.
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Awaiting the return of Griz DOLA
The acronym used in the 2000s, when the Montana Grizzlies were blowing open lanes for the likes of Lex Hilliard and Chase Reynolds, was DOLA.
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Wolfpack’s Henry Sellards commits to NDSU football
Henry Sellards, who will be a senior offensive lineman at Glacier High this fall, already has plans for college — he gave his verbal commitment to North Dakota State for football Tuesday.
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Big Sky football: Griz, Cat coaches chew on preseason predictions
When you look at the 2023 Big Sky Conference football preseason polls, it's important to know that in 2022, the Montana Grizzlies were the pick, and finished 8-5. Montana State, picked second and third by the media and coaches, and Sacramento State were co-champions.
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Big Sky football: Griz, Cat coaches chew on preseason predictions
When you look at the 2023 Big Sky Conference football preseason polls, it's important to know that in 2022, the Montana Grizzlies were the pick, and finished 8-5. Montana State, picked second and third by the media and coaches, and Sacramento State were co-champions.
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Twins back in their usual spot — at State
The Glacier Twins got a late start to their Legion season, thanks to the first year of baseball as a high school sport in Montana.
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Scarlets no-hit Lakers in State AA opener
The first thing you need to know about the Kalispell Lakers’ State AA Legion opener on Saturday is, Max Holden threw a whale of a game. The rub is that Billings Scarlets’ hurler Drew McDonald was unhittable.
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Libby's Jim Mee to be inducted into Carroll College Hall of Fame
Mee literally took a more circuitous route — roughly 7,000 yards farther than your typical basketball court.
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Nikunen, Lakers head for State AA tourney
It wasn’t a pretty end to the regular season for the Kalispell Lakers, but they head into the State AA tournament starting Saturday in Missoula knowing they’re a handful of runs away from 40-plus wins.
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In first summer, Stumptown sets fast pace
It was during the State A track and field championships, Memorial Day weekend, that Josiah Osborne said the quiet part out loud.
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Dinesen, Coleman shine in second season with Riders
It was last August when Mason Dinesen walked from the short walk to the temporary clubhouse of the fledgling Glacier Range Riders, having been acquired from the venerable BIllings Mustangs.
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Range Riders run win streak to 8
The red tops looked good on the Glacier Range Riders Friday. So do eight straight wins.
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A dog-legged route to Saints’ Hall of Fame
Jim Mee’s original plan was to play on the hardcourt alongside Andy Garland, and it’s fitting that both the Libby Logger, Mee, and Sentinel Spartan are headed into Carroll College’s Hall of Fame in September.
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Royal Sweep: Lakers walk off Billings 3-2 in final home game
To the list of things Max Holden has done well for the Kalispell Lakers this season, add this: An A-plus helmet toss.
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Max Effort: In his third season with the AA Lakers, Max Holden has been a leader on offense and on the bump
When Max Holden got to the AA Kalispell Lakers in 2021, veteran coach Ryan Malmin figured he’d be a pitcher-only player, and Holden himself figures to be a pitcher at the next level.
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Rex, Pete and that elusive playing time
My iPhone, like many out there, is stock full of podcasts, and as I scrolled through the other day I found one I hadn’t finished.
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Avery birdies 18, wins State Juniors
A two-putt from 30 feet isn’t the most exciting way to nail down a Montana State Juniors golf championship.
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East-West Shrine Game: Oakland pulls double coaching duty in Butte
If you’re an extra-celebrated high school football player, June can mean a whirlwind tour of Montana. Same if you happen to coach.
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Third chance paying off for Howell, Range Riders
In 2020 Gabe Howell was enjoying what he called his second chance: Four years after being drafted by the Atlanta Braves, he was hitting .396 for the Savannah Bananas of the Coastal Plains (Summer) League.
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Kalispell School Board officially hires Trageser as Flathead boys basketball coach
The Kalispell School Board made it official at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, approving Dan Trageser as the next boys basketball coach at Flathead High School.
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Glacier Twins reload for busy June, July
In olden times, and we’re referring in this case to last June, the American Legion baseball Glacier Twins would have at least a dozen games under their belt by now.
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Glacier Range Riders win home opener after trailing by 9
Home Opener No. 2 was a lot warmer for the Glacier Range Riders, the outcome a lot more entertaining — and Crews Taylor was on the right side of it both times.
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Range Riders ready for (dry) home opener
It’s a little early to have a formula for winning Pioneer League baseball games, but the Glacier Range Riders are 2-0 when they score six runs or more.
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Wolfpack crushes Helena for softball title
Helena pitcher Faith Howard threw a heck of a game at the Glacier Wolfpack Saturday, in the first championship game of the State AA softball tournament. It was the Wolfpack that owned the encore.
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Glacier boys, Whitefish girls chase track hardware
The state track and field championships are this weekend, and the weather is — it’s Memorial Day weekend, remember — not particularly promising. Such is the case in Butte, where the State AA and B meets will run concurrently.
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Hiring of Flathead hoops coach tabled by board
In another left turn in Flathead High School’s search for its next boys basketball coach, the hiring of Dan Trageser has been tabled by the Kalispell School Board.
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Wolfpack, Bravettes ready for State AA
Glacier’s softball squad is a No. 1 seed into the State AA tournament that begins today at Helena’s Batch Fields, which means they’ll hurry up and wait.
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C-Falls, Libby head into (State A) unknown
It used to be, the top three regular-season teams from four conferences populated the annual State A softball tournament.
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Familar faces lead 2023 Range Riders into opener
Some familiar names dot the 2023 Glacier Range Riders roster ahead of the start of their second season, which begins Tuesday night in Great Falls.
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Trageser picked to lead Flathead High boys basketball
After much delay and little more than a week before summer basketball camp season, Flathead High School has selected a head boys coach: Dan Trageser.
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Fisher pitches, hits Polson to state title
They didn’t announce a most valuable player at the first-ever Montana All-Class State Baseball Tournament, but if they did, it would likely be Espn Fisher.
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Thousands of teammates, pupils and Ws
Gary Evans, the unheralded (and unpaid) pitching coach for the Glacier Wolfpack, figures he’s played alongside a thousand different fastpitch players.
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Ronan hires Flathead grad Sherwood as boys coach
George Sherwood, a former standout athlete at Flathead High School who has been an assistant coach for three sports at Ronan, is the new head basketball coach for the Chiefs.
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Roster cutdown approaches for Range Riders
The 2023 Glacier Range Riders, on the way to Cutdown Day, gather at Flathead Field at 10 o’clock every morning. For five or so hours, they… do what, exactly?
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Wolfpack, Bravettes win rainy Roe titles
The 44th Archie Roe Invitational track and field meet was going to get run, rain or shine. You know which thing happened Saturday.
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Fast start, 8 letters, many 400s
You can make a case for Peyton Walker being the fastest of the Walker triplets, since she arrived in this world one minute before Jackson and two minutes ahead of Robert.
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A heart ailment sidelined Glacier’s Jeff Lillard a year ago; now he’s faster than ever
Jeff Lillard chugged through the turn during the 200 meters of last April’s Swede Dahlberg Invitational and came across the tap in 23.93 seconds, which for most of us is plenty fast.
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Flathead senior Tali Miller closing out an underrated career
Tali Miller was a solid three-sport athlete for the Flathead Bravettes — volleyball, basketball and track and field — before flag football came along last fall.
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Valley athletes shine at Pilcher Top 10
The 23rd Russ Pilcher Top 10 meet brought in solid spring weather Tuesday, along with the best track and field athletes within a 150-mile (or so) radius of MCPS Stadium.
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AA, A Lakers gearing up
With any coaching endeavor there is the possibility of attrition, and this year’s Kalispell AA Lakers won’t have a trio of players that saw plenty of action in 2022 and were eligible to return this summer.
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120 years later, a righthander is remembered
Before Saturday turned the well-dressed into the overdressed, bundled-up local baseball historian Betsy Wood gave a short speech at the corner of 9th Street E and 8th Avenue E in Kalispell.
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Glacier’s Anderson enjoying senior season at third base
If the spring of 2020 seems like a couple minutes ago, you’re not alone. Glacier third baseman Avery Anderson remembers that freshman season, or lack thereof, well.
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Lillard, Glacier boys forge Crosstown split
While some races lacked the usual star power — the Swede Dahlberg meet looms in Butte Friday — there were some personal records at the dual, which the Glacier boys and Flathead girls won at Legends Stadium.
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Lions 9 has roared into first season
There are some understandable and ongoing concerns from American Legion coaches about the addition of baseball as a Montana High School Association-sanctioned sport this spring.
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Nuce, Maroon make waves in Griz spring game
MISSOULA — Asked about defensive end Henry Nuce, Montana Grizzlies football coach Bobby Hauck started with the phrase, “He’s young.”
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Reports: Utah State hiring Bobcats' Sprinkle
Montana State men’s basketball coach Danny Sprinkle, who took the Bobcats to the last two NCAA Tournaments, has been hired away by Utah State according to several reports on Friday.
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A little snow couldn’t hurt his Pro Day
A couple weeks ago, when Patrick O’Connell got back to his hometown, it was a balmy 50 degrees in the Flathead Valley. “Not bad,” he thought.
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Softball season gearing up for valley schools
After snow and more snow, it feels like the 2023 softball season can begin in earnest in the Flathead Valley. Glacier has its home opener Thursday against Missoula Hellgate; the same day Whitefish returns to varsity softball with a trip to Northwest A foe Ronan.
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Whitefish girls look like threat to repeat
The Kelliann Blackburn Era of Whitefish girls track ended in 2022 with the program’s fifth State A championship, and now the Matt Beckwith Era begins.
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Many more road trips in store for Stu Pederson
As luck would have it, Stu Pederson was in the Flathead Valley when news broke that professional baseball was coming to Kalispell.
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Flathead boys basketball coach Johnsrud steps down
Flathead High is looking for a new boys basketball coach, after word came Friday that Dirk Johnsrud will no longer lead the program after three seasons at the helm.
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Flathead alum Osweiler seeks happy campers
Second-year Flathead football coach Caleb Aland figured it couldn’t hurt to reach out to Brock Osweiler, the former Braves quarterback who ventured onto an NFL career.
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Upset-minded Bobcats ready for K-State
A few hours after Montana State’s RaeQuan Battle, Jubrile Belo, Darius Brown II and coach Danny Sprinkle had their press conference in Greensboro, N.C., 15th-seeded Princeton knocked off Arizona 59-55 Thursday at the NCAA Tournament
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Rounding up trophy runs of Wolfpack, Bravettes
Recency bias is a thing, so I have a couple things of note after watching the recent State AA basketball tournaments last weekend at the Butte Civic Center.
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State AA girls: Flathead falls short
A three-point play by Sydney Pierce and a 3-pointer from Kourtney Grossman fueled a late run for the Billings West Golden Bears, who rallied past the Bravettes 48-43 and their first outright title since 2011.
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State AA boys: Wolfpack beats Bozeman in third place game
Glacier is young as Montana high schools go, and while its boys basketball history includes the 2017 State AA championship, that’s the only trophy the Wolfpack had. Until Saturday.
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State AA girls: Bravettes make title game
Kennedy Moore’s 20 points and 10 rebounds stick out in Flathead’s 51-43 defeat of the defending state champion Skyview Falcons, in the late semifinal game at Civic Center. But there was so much more that fueled a dominant second half in which the Bravettes outscored Skyview 28-14.
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State AA boys: Golden Bears’ surge turns away Wolfpack
Up 40-30 late in the third quarter, the Bears (19-4) held off the Wolfpack for a 52-43 win at the Butte Civic Center. They’ll take on Missoula Hellgate for the state championship Saturday around 8 p.m.
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State AA girls: Bravettes use early lead to beat Bozeman
After the Flathead Bravettes put the finishes on a 48-37 win over Bozeman, they didn’t look all that happy. Then their cheering section let them hear it, and some smiles went up.
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Bravettes, Vals lead 6 teams into state tourneys
The Flathead Valley is well-represented at this week’s state basketball tournaments, and at least a couple teams are in it to win it.
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Hard Knocks, Golden Gloves under (sky) lights
Before he racked up a 9-4 record as a professional fighter, Jesse Uhde honed his skills at a place called Kalispell Boxing.
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Wildcats work OT for State A berth
Hunter Goodman scored 15 points, including the go-ahead free throws in overtime, and the Wildcats beat Havre 82-74 Saturday at the Butte Civic Center.
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Chouinard, Bravettes win Western AA at buzzer
The Flathead Bravettes’ won a landmark Western AA title Saturday, on a buzzer-beating shot by Avery Chouinard that didn’t look good when it hit the rim. But then it hit the rim again. And again.
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Hellgate boys dominate first half, beat Glacier
The Missoula Hellgate Knights got a certain measure of revenge Saturday, beating Glacier 57-33 for the Western AA boys divisional basketball title at Flathead gym.
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Bravettes hold off Sentinel for trip to Western AA chipper
It was another tense victory for the Flathead Bravettes Friday, but with a wrinkle.
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Covill, Knights stymie Glacier girls
It was a great start the Glacier girls put together Thursday morning, in the first game of the Western AA Divisional basketball tournament at Flathead High School.
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Confident Wolfpack downs Big Sky again
Glacier’s boys again made pretty short work of Missoula Big Sky Thursday, defeating the Eagles 54-31 to make the semifinals of the Western AA Divisional at Flathead High School.
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Bravettes find a way
The Flathead Bravettes were up against it Thursday evening, trailing 47-40 to a feisty Butte squad intent on serving up the Western AA Divisional’s biggest upset.
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AA hoops: Bravettes' Moy fights back from knee injury
She played in every game as a freshman, and as a junior was critical to the Flathead Bravettes’ first State AA basketball trophy in 15 seasons. So when Maddy Moy went down with a torn ACL and meniscus at Gonzaga’s basketball camp in late June, she was determined not to …
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Big Sky tour nears end for 'TJ'
Not quite a year ago, Tiana Johnson scored 14 points for Idaho against Northern Arizona, in a Big Sky Conference women’s basketball game played in Flagstaff last March 4.
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Chouinard, Bravettes heat up to beat Big Sky
The 14th verse was a lot like the rest for the Flathead Bravettes, who downed Missoula Big Sky 46-45 for their 11th conference girls basketball win Saturday, all of them by eight points or less.
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Hot-shooting Wolfpack bombs Big Sky, 68-38
The Glacier boys basketball has been pretty good at home this season, even before Thursday’s Senior Night battle with Missoula Big Sky.
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7 years later, the Wildcats break through
The Columbia Falls Wildcats’ boys basketball team is 14-3, and if you think they’ve fattened up on Class B competition, we have some context.
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Things have worked out for Olsen, Wolfpack
Before his Helena Capital Bruins lost at Glacier on Jan. 13, coach Guy Almquist told his radio play-by-play man that Glacier’s Ty Olsen was a point guard in a linebacker’s body. He wasn’t complaining; he was just stating a fact.
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Glacier boys, Flathead girls earn tough wins
Crosstown II played to a packed Flathead High School gym Thursday night, and given the physical play on display, it’s fitting that each game was decided by a touchdown.
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This time numbers still add up
For the record, this year’s scoring change for State AA boys did not affect the top of the team wrestling standings.
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Kubi, Bravettes grow into Western AA power
Akilah Kubi, when asked how tall she is, replied: “Five-foot-9.” Then she added, “But you can write 5-10.”
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Brave Brawlers, Bravettes settle for silver, bronze
With their sights set on three straight titles, the Flathead boys and girls wrestling teams have a right to be disappointed with just a place (the Brave Brawlers) and a show (the Bravettes).
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It’s official: Vasquez is a 4-time champ
The goal of a fourth straight state championship seemed pretty much ordained for Glacier wrestling standout Teegan Vasquez.
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MatCats’ time is right now
It’s been a long time since a Northwest Montana team has captured a State A wrestling crown, and even longer for one from Columbia Falls.
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Bravettes sit second while Glacier, others in the hunt
Let the record show that the Flathead Bravettes’ hopes of a third straight state wrestling title were in trouble before the 120-pound quarterfinals.
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Brawlers, MatCats have titles in sight
Another Flathead sweep seems like a long shot after one day’s action at the All-Class State Wrestling meet at First Interstate Arena.
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Windauer, MatCats are going big
A year ago the Columbia Falls MatCats were a formidable team that was beset by injuries as the postseason approached.
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State titles and bonus daughters
One thing you may not know about Amber and Bella Downing — I didn’t — is that they are not related.
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Hot-shooting Wolfpack hits 70, back-to-back
With a defense that is noticeably sturdy, the Glacier Wolfpack’s recipe for victory could be this simple: Score, and you win.
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Flathead rallies past Sentinel for first win
It was a long time coming, the Flathead boys basketball team’s 51-49 win over Missoula Sentinel on Friday. And if it wasn’t the prettiest finish, it still felt amazing.
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Flathead looking for nice round number (20) at seeding tourney
A year ago, on the way to their second straight State AA title, the Flathead Brave Brawlers qualified 24 wrestlers at the Western AA Divisional.
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Flathead’s Noah Poe-Hatten has his sights set on a title
Noah Poe-Hatten has way more wins, 120, than losses in his high school wrestling career, but one of the 21 defeats has stuck with him.
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Brave Brawlers extend dual streak
Senior Day was a breeze for the Flathead Brave Brawlers, who won all but one match Saturday against Missoula Sentinel to roll up a 69-2 wrestling victory at the Boyle Gym.
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Moore, Chouinard shoot down Knights for landmark win
Kennedy Moore went to her signature move and the Flathead Bravettes got a signature win. Moore, Flathead’s 6-foot-2 junior, rebounded a miss by Maddy Moy and flipped in a reverse layup at the buzzer to give the Bravettes a 49-48 win over Missoula Hellgate Saturday afternoon.
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Big Sky pulls away on Flathead by 3s
The Flathead Braves had some things working Thursday, hanging in with Missoula Big Sky thanks to some solid rebounding and polished offense.
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Noah Cummings rises up to lead Flathead hoops
One of the issues for this year’s Flathead Braves was where, in the wake of the graduated Joston Cripe’s 20 points a game, they were going to find points this basketball season.
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Vals too much for C-Falls
COLUMBIA FALLS — Braeden Gunlock scored 14 points to lead a balanced attack, and the Bigfork Valkyries downed Columbia Falls 58-26 Tuesday to stay unbeaten.
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Glacier stays cold in loss to Big Sky
Missoula Big Sky’s girls basketball team looked pretty tough Tuesday, holding down Glacier for a 38-21 Western AA victory at the Wolf Den. Just wait a couple years.
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Bravettes rally for win, Glacier boys cruise
A couple notable things about Crosstown in Kalispell are how many athletes are named Noah, and how both AA schools have a standout with the same phonetic name.
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Girls dual provides the crosstown drama on Braves’ home mat
The Crosstown wrestling dual pretty much packed the Flathead High School gym Thursday; bringing a little extra heat were the girls.
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Glacier counts on Noah Dowler to guard the hoop
At 6-foot-7, you figure Noah Dowler is naturally predisposed to be on a basketball court.
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Christy Harkins back with the Pack
Christy Harkins’ retirement from coaching is apparently over after one year, with the announcement Wednesday that she is returning as Glacier’s volleyball coach.
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Crosstown wrestling set for Thursday at Flathead
The Flathead Brave Brawlers and Bravettes plan to “Cowboy up,” for the crosstown wrestling duals Thursday against Glacier, which begin with weigh-ins at 4 p.m. at Flathead High.
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Ronan Maidens tip off Alaska Airlines Classic
By the time you read this, the Ronan Maidens will have already tipped off against the Metlakatla Miss Chiefs, in the opener of the Alaska Airlines Classic basketball tournament in Anchorage.
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Capital rebounds to beat Braves
The Helena Capital Bruins brought their board-crashing ways to the Flathead gym Saturday, and left with a 58-37 win that favored function way over form.
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Olsen, Kastelitz key Glacier win
The Wolf Den continues to be a tough place for the Helena Capital boys to pull out wins, with Ty Olsen and the Glacier Wolfpack subduing the Bruins again Friday night, this time in overtime, 51-44.
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A Maiden (and Chief) voyage for Ronan hoops
To this point Leina Ulutoa, the leading scorer and rebounder on this year’s Ronan basketball team, hasn’t traveled far for a basketball game.
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Sentinel girls stay hot to beat Glacier
The Sentinel Spartans closed strong Friday, in their girls basketball win at Flathead. The Saturday matinee Spartans were even tougher.
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Second-half surge carries Spartans over Bravettes
It was a hectic battle that bordered on the ragged Friday at the Flathead gym, where the host Bravettes battled Missoula Sentinel in girls basketball.
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Prep sports season restarts after Christmas break
Christmas break has ended and the high school athletic schedule is full this weekend, with basketball and wrestling.
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The unintentional gap years of a Griz tight end
While the Grizzlies and Bobcats announced their football early signing classes Wednesday, one might look back at a spring chicken who committed to the Griz in 2016.
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Bobcats gear up for stingy SDSU
If Brent Vigen is drawing inspiration from Holy Cross quarterback Matthew Sluka’s 212 rushing yards against South Dakota State last week, he isn’t saying.
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No. 3/3 Montana St. at No. 1/1 South Dakota St. Capsules
No. 3/3 Montana St. at No. 1/1 South Dakota St. When: Saturday, 2 p.m.: TV — ESPN2; Web — ESPN+; Radio — Bobcat Radio Network. Where: Dana J Dykhouse Stadium (19,340, AstroTurf) Records: Both teams are 12-1.
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Big Sky Notes: Bobcats face semifinal rematch with SDSU
Montana State coach Brent Vigen has watched South Dakota State on film, and he’s here to tell you the Jackrabbits are still very, very good.
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Patrick O’Connell bet on himself and became a Griz great
Patrick O’Connell’s year at the University of Mary wasn’t misspent: He played 10 football games for the Division II Marauders and scored a defensive touchdown in the 2017 season finale.
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McDonald, Pack boys beat CMR at buzzer
Glacier coach Mark Harkins called time out with 8.1 seconds left in the Wolfpack’s basketball game Saturday and basically told his team, From here on out you’re on your own.
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Flathead shoots for 3; Pack aims to move up
Add 12 state placers to several more with state tournament experience and the Flathead Brave Brawlers just might have the makings of another state wrestling title.
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Browning, C-Falls boast talent to take Northwest A hoops races
The Browning Lady Indians are ready to run, the Ronan Maidens are ready to fly and the Columbia Falls Wildkats aren’t going anywhere.
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Bobcats turn on lights for William & Mary
William & Mary likes to run the ball, sometimes with a quarterback, a lot of times with a running back, all of it behind a young, highly-touted offensive line.
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The Greatest Bobcat and the Wildcat
Steve Kracher was a sophomore in high school when his family moved from Anaconda to Columbia Falls, and in three seasons as a Wildcat drew a bit of attention for his football skills.
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Big Sky Notes: Griz LB O’Connell is Hula Bowl-bound
To the long list of accolades he’s built already, add the Hula Bowl for Montana linebacker Patrick O’Connell, who was invited to the college football all-star showcase this week.
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Glacier boys have the inside out and out; Wolfpack girls are guard-rich
A solid pack of juniors played for last season’s Glacier boys basketball team, and considering it overcame a 3-9 start to make the State AA tournament, that’s not a bad place to start.
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Glacier QB Sliter commits to the Griz
Glacier quarterback Gage Sliter made it official that he’s headed to the Montana Grizzlies Tuesday, announcing his intention to join their football program via Twitter.
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Strong Bravettes should get stronger; Flathead boys young, athletic
The Flathead Bravettes followed up their first State AA basketball tournament appearance since 2013 with their first trophy since 2007, and a host of talented players are returning.
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Griz aim to stun Fargodome crowd
Bobby Hauck’s first game as coach of the Montana Grizzlies was in September of 2003, and it didn’t go as expected.
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Big Sky Notes: Grizzlies, especially the special teams, are on NDSU’s radar
The North Dakota State Bison didn’t roll up nine Football Championship Subdivision football titles in 10 years by taking anyone lightly, and the Montana Grizzlies have their attention.
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Special teams scores carry Griz to playoff win
Lucas Johnson threw for 306 yards and two scores as the Grizzlies (8-4) advanced to a road game with No. 3 seed and defending national champion North Dakota State on Saturday.
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Griz rally past Redhawks
Malik Flowers sparked a run of 31 straight points with a record-tying kickoff return, and the Grizzlies sped past Southeast Missouri State 34-24 in an FCS playoff game Saturday. Lucas Johnson threw for 306 yards and two scores as the Grizzlies (8-4) advanced to a road game with No. 3 …
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Column: Thankful for extra kicks, tackles — and one big win
As we gather around the giant yard bird that accompanies this holiday, the Polson Pirates can give thanks for the seasons they had.
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Polson QB Wilson headed to Montana Tech
Polson quarterback Jarrett Wilson is going to be an Oredigger, after announcing Sunday on Twitter that has committed to Montana Tech to play football.
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Big Sky Notebook: Momentum is a win away for Griz
The Montana Grizzlies head into the playoffs coming off a loss, which isn’t all that unique, even to the Griz, and even under coach Bobby Hauck.
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Cats ground game steamrolls Griz in annual Brawl
Tommy Mellott, Montana State’s superb sophomore quarterback out of Butte, is as direct at a postgame press conference as he is hitting the gap on a zone running play.
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Cats pile up 439 rushing yards in 55-21 rout of Griz
Tommy Mellott, Montana State’s superb sophomore quarterback out of Butte, is as direct at a postgame press conference as he is hitting the gap on a zone running play.
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Focused Bobcats literally carried the day
Bobcat fans showed up for a frigid College GameDay program, and then they got more amped up during Montana State’s 55-21 rout of Montana in Saturday’s Cat-Griz game.
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Mission Bulldogs take on Belt for 8-man title Saturday
Mission’s first 8-man football championship appearance was a long time coming, though superintendent Jason Sargent foresaw it after the 2020 season.
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Griz, Cats set for 121st ‘Brawl’
The players for the Montana Grizzlies and Montana State Bobcats would like to treat the 121st “Brawl” as any other game, and the coaches feel the same. But you have to be there.
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Big Sky Notebook: Time to get those Game(Day) Faces on
So here we are again, staring at a Cat-Griz game that has big stakes outside the old cliche of state bragging rights.
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Libby's Stevenson still has some Saturdays left to play
After rumbling for 792 yards as a junior, Stevenson, 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds, picked up 1,264 this season.
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Griz pummel Eastern, 63-7
After a nightmarish October it’s been a November rain of points for the Montana Grizzlies, who crushed Eastern Washington 63-7 Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
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Polson, Bigfork hunt title berths
Polson and Bigfork, schools (and combatants in the near future) that sit 35 miles apart on the shores of Flathead Lake, are back in the semifinals for high school football.
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Bigfork Vikings trio can air it out
A couple years ago you could count on Bigfork’s football team to run nine times out of every 10 plays, and if it seemed predictable, the Vikings still cranked out seven yards a carry and made the playoffs.
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Polson spikers win 2nd straight divisional title
Turns out Polson isn’t just a football town, because the Pirates volleyball team is 16-2 and owner of back-to-back Western A championships.
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Big Sky Notebook: Bobcats making a habit of tight wins
The Montana State Bobcats are 8-1, ranked third in the Football Championship Division and if all their wins aren’t of the blowout variety, they’re still wins.
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Pirates outlast Locomotives in blustery quarterfinals
POLSON — Tough wind, tough Locomotives, tougher Pirates.
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Saturdays are for football — and Stevenson
If Cy Stevenson was an unknown quantity outside Lincoln County in 2020, it wasn’t really his fault.
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Ostmo, Griz overpower Cal Poly
October is over and the Montana Grizzlies came to play. The Griz wouldn’t necessarily make that connection, but Saturday was a welcome tonic: Nick Ostmo ran for a career-high 221 yards and two touchdowns as Montana crushed Cal Poly 57-0 at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
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AA playoffs: Glacier prepares for Bozeman
Friday’s football game between the host Bozeman Hawks and Glacier Wolfpack picks up a rivalry that went on hiatus more than four years ago.
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Pack, Bravettes ready for divisional volleyball
Glacier would like to at least hold serve at this weekend’s Western AA Divisional volleyball tournament, which starts today in Missoula. Flathead would like to do a little more.
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Big Sky Notebook: Grizzlies aim for happier November
A frightening October — as in, this squad is in danger of missing the playoffs — is over for the Montana Grizzlies, and a common refrain from coaches is to be playing your best football in November.
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Class A football: C-Falls makes short work of Cowboys
One year after a 21-20 loss to these same Miles City Cowboys on this same field, the Columbia Falls Wildcats came out ruthless Saturday.
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AA football: Pack ousts Billings Senior
The Billings Senior Broncs brought a stingy defense into Legends Stadium Friday, and behind four sacks kept the Glacier Wolfpack in range after one half of play. Then the third quarter began.
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AA football: Glacier looks to bust Broncs again
A couple more of these meetings and we’ll have a rivalry. Billings Senior and Glacier are squaring off for the third straight year in the Class AA football playoffs, and for the second straight time in a first-round (play-in) game. The Wolfpack and Broncs kickoff at 7 p.m. inside Legends …
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Hensley hauls the rock
Glacier’s Jackson Hensley (2) is averaging 6.1 yards a carry this season, his first at running back.
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Big Sky notebook: Special teams giveth...
Special teams loomed large over the Big Sky Conference’s marquee games this past Saturday, making a difference in both Montana State’s win over Weber State, and Montana’s loss.
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State XC: Flathead girls, others hunting for trophies
The Montana State Cross Country Championships are Saturday at the University of Montana Golf Course, and fittingly the Flathead Valley’s fastest girl will get things started.
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Big Sky downs Flathead 53-20
Plenty of things went right for Missoula Big Sky and the other way for Flathead Thursday night, but the key stretch came in the second quarter of what was a tie football game.
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Thursday Night Lights: Flathead looks to end on upswing; Glacier faces Missoula Hellgate on road
Flathead broke a 17-game losing streak to start the football season; now it can end on a winning note.
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Big Sky notes: Perhaps we should have known
While the Montana State Bobcats were taking care of business this past Saturday, the Montana Grizzlies were falling flat in their lone October home game.
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Wolfpack beats Flathead 4-0, moves into AA boys quarterfinals
Glacier’s boys went into their AA soccer play-off game minus a key player Tuesday, but still had the firepower, and the magic number, to beat crosstown rival Flathead 4-0 at Legends Stadium.
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Vandals knock off Griz, reclaim Stein
Certainly a majority of the Idaho Vandals weren’t born when their football program last claimed the Little Brown Stein.
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Glacier tops Flathead in crosstown football, 49-14
The Crosstown football game went Glacier’s way again Friday, mainly because Gage Sliter packed an entire game into one half.
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Prep football: Flathead, Glacier ready to battle in crosstown
The Glacier Wolfpack and Flathead Braves are coming off their best football games in a while, so the head coaches are looking forward to Friday at Legends Stadium.
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The Snow Belt: A league whose time has come
Andrew Schmidt, the one-time starting running back for the 2008 Montana Grizzlies, has been telling anyone within earshot that Griz football should be moving on up.
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Heir Unapparent
If you asked Glacier football coach Grady Bennett in 2019 who would be leading not only his team at quarterback but the entire state in passing, he might have guessed anyone but Gage Sliter.
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Big Sky notes: In a QB-rich league, watch for Idaho’s No. 4
Montana Grizzlies quarterback Lucas Johnson has been reminding Big Sky Conference fans why he started at San Diego State.
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Wolfpack pounds out win over Butte
Butte had a measure of momentum Friday night at Legends Stadium, owning both a 27-14 lead over the Glacier Wolfpack and the ball with two minutes left in the first half.
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AA football: Games keep getting bigger for Glacier
The Glacier Wolfpack knew it was going through the tough part of the schedule before playing one-score games with Missoula Sentinel, Helena Capital and Helena High.
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Fynn Ridgeway is literally running things for the Whitefish Bulldogs
Brett Bollweg had big shoes to fill when he took over the Whitefish Bulldogs football team, but any first-year head coach would benefit from having a three-year starter at quarterback.
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2 hours away, the Greatest Show on Turf
The obvious question for Noah Fincher is if she wore pink cleats to match the shoes she’s worn the last couple basketball seasons.
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Big Sky notes: Chambers shines in first start for Cats
It likely raised eyebrows when Sean Chambers transferred to Montana State from Wyoming, where he had played quite a bit and where second-year Bobcat coach Brent Vigen had been offensive coordinator.
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Wild win: Pirates rally past C-Falls
Before the dust settled, Polson scored two touchdowns 33 seconds apart in the fourth quarter to push past the Wildcats 32-31 in a big Western A game.
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Polson, Whitefish among boys favorites at State A golf
Whitefish has grabbed headlines the last couple years after trading boys golf State A titles with always-strong Laurel.
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Friday prep football: Glacier draws potent Bengals
The Glacier Wolfpack knew this part of its football schedule was going to be tough, but this is getting ridiculous.
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Flathead spikers sweep Wolfpack in crosstown
The Flathead Bravettes were more than ready for Crosstown, Act 1. With Sienna Sterck knocking down 10 kills and playing excellent all-around, the Bravettes swept the first intracity volleyball match of the year from Glacier Thursday at the Flathead gym.
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Whitefish golfer Billy Smith wants a high finish for himself, Bulldogs
Second-year Whitefish golf coach Tait Rocksund looks at Billy Smith and sees a rock solid shot-maker, with a mental makeup beyond his 18 years.
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Big Sky notes: Mismatched series has odd history
The Idaho State Bengals are 0-4 under first-year coach Charlie Rangle, who made a name for himself mainly at Chapparal High School in Phoenix before taking over.
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Griz special again in win over Vikings
The tackle that gave Robby Hauck the career record for the Montana Grizzlies was applauded loudly Saturday from 26,087 fans at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
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Grizzlies, Bobcats capsules for Sept. 24
Portland St. at No. 2 Montana When: Saturday, 2 p.m.; TV — KPAX; Web — ESPN+; Radio — Grizzly Radio Network. Where: Washington-Grizzly Stadium (25,217, FieldTurf)
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Flathead hosts Hellgate in battle of 1-3 teams
The Flathead football squad returns to Legends Stadium Friday, glad to be off the road and hopeful about a game against another 1-3 team, the Missoula Hellgate Knights.
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Triple threat: Polson’s football opponents have to deal with a dynamic passing attack led by senior Jarrett Wilson
The Polson football Pirates are 4-0 this year, have won 14 of their last 15 games and a lot of it is due to a trio that came along 18 years ago: Colter, Jarrett and Trent Wilson.
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AA football: Sentinel survives Wolfpack charge
There’s a little pressure that goes with winning streaks and Missoula Sentinel’s football team has a long one — 25 games and counting, after a 38-31 victory Friday night. Glacier High added some pressure of its own.
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Pack, Spartans get early marquee matchup
Things have quickly gotten serious for the Glacier Wolfpack football team, which battles fellow unbeaten Missoula Sentinel tonight at 7, inside Legends Stadium.
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Pre-hyphen, he was the speedy tackle
Before he was Jim Smithwick-Hann, he was just Jim Hann, a quick tight end who in 1971 caught two passes for 10 yards for the Montana Football Grizzlies. In 1972, he was an even quicker right tackle.
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Flathead looks to bounce back against Helena Capital
Coming off a landmark victory, the Flathead football team got brought back to earth last Friday with a 38-0 loss at Gallatin.
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Wolfpack gridders head to MCPS on short rest
On the heels of a walkover-turned-nail-biter, the Glacier Wolfpack football squad has a short week and a game at Missoula Big Sky to contend with.
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Special teams roar again for Griz
The Montana Grizzlies won the turnover battle 5-0 Saturday, rushed for over 200 yards, got 10 tackles from Marcus Welnel and got a sack and interception from Patrick O’Connell.
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Big Sky Conference football starts flying Saturday
The Big Sky Conference season is upon us, with four games happening Thursday night, and while one important question has been answered — Marcus Welnel is No. 37 for the Griz — others remain.
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Area harriers hitting stride
The cross country season is already underway for a majority of northwest Montana high schools, and it was an encouraging start for the Flathead and Columbia Falls teams.
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Vals add kick to Valley soccer
Park Schara has an interesting soccer background, starting with a youth career spent alongside brothers O’Brien and Brenden Byrd in Columbia Falls.
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Griz 2-deep has Johnson as QB, Rohrbach as punter
After a nothing burger of a Monday press conference, things became clearer for the Montana Football Grizzlies Tuesday with the release of their two-deep roster.
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A long time coming: Flathead beats Skyview 27-0
The Flathead Braves started strong, finished stronger and put away a football victory Friday that was two-plus years in the making.
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Flathead, Glacier open football seasons
Braves are home against Skyview; Pack takes on Belgrade at MSU
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QB-rich Western A is ready to rock
The Western A was filled with excellent quarterbacks in 2021, and not much has changed as teams gear up for their season openers Friday.
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Bigfork, Eureka chase title in wild Western B
“I’ll say it loud from the rooftops,” Eureka coach Trevor Utter said. “The West is by far the toughest conference.”
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Griz’s Graves still doing it all
Garrett Graves has already done a little bit of everything for the Montana Grizzlies — quarterback, running back and receiver included — and 2022 should be no different.
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Whitefish, Polson giving chase in A golf
The Laurel Locomotives are favored to keep rolling along, but the golfers in Whitefish and Polson might have something to say.
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Flathead’s QB spot up for grabs
There is some competition at certain positions for the Flathead Braves, so tonight’s Black and Orange scrimmage could tell new coach Caleb Aland a lot more about his football team.
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Wolfpack scrimmage to get new receivers, backs open
Twenty-five seniors are gone from last year’s 8-4 Glacier football team, but the Wolfpack won’t be a rebuilt squad at its Navy and Green game tonight at Glacier High (6 p.m.).
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Griz No. 37 jersey legacy takes left turn
“The Spirit of Montana… Hard work, dedication to the team, and tough play on the gridiron.”
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Shorthanded Range Riders fall, 6-4
The Glacier Range Riders were dangerously close to stacking wins, and then got another dose of bad luck.
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Drew Brees, local star athletes greeted by huge crowd at Cares Fair
With time running down, Drew Brees called an audible. After a solid two hours of signing autographs Wednesday at the World Gym Cares Fair, the New Orleans Saints legend took a look at the crowd still amassed inside the World Gym, and moved out of the pocket.
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Whitefish High grad Grattan wins Montana State Seniors
Brad Grattan has Whitefish Lake Golf Club listed as his home course, but notes he plays more at Buffalo Hill.
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Glacier first baseman Wofford kicks HR swing into gear
The first thing you might notice about Brody Wofford, the Glacier Range Riders first baseman, is the flow.
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Whitefish High grad Grattan wins 67th Montana State Seniors
Brad Grattan has Whitefish Lake Golf Club listed as his home course, but notes he plays more at Buffalo Hill.
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Non-Dodger fan recalls an artful game
All I could really remember about the game was where I watched it: Red’s Bar.
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Montana product Osweiler joining ESPN as college analyst
Brock Osweiler is heading to the announcers’ booth.
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The Kats of '83
In the end Columbia Falls played AA starting in 1980-81, and if others were worried about having the classification’s lowest enrollment (a reported 725 in 1980), well, let’s just say the girls were ready.
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Column: On the outside of Legion ball, a Premier arm
The question was posed of Ty Schwaiger that, given his arm strength, has he told teammate Fynn Ridgeway that the wrong guy plays QB for the Whitefish Football Bulldogs?
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Astros sign righty VanWey away from Range Riders
The Glacier Range Riders lost their opening day starter Tuesday, and for the right reason: The Houston Astros signed right-hander Logan VanWey to a Major League development contract.
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AA Lakers have a southpaw leader in Kostya Hoffman
Kostya Hoffman readily tells you that baseball is his sport, and his three years pitching with the Kalispell Lakers AA squad bears that out.
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Mustangs end Riders’ streak at 3
The Glacier Range Riders were a couple wall-scrapers from a four-game winning streak, but their latest rally fell short in a 10-9 loss to the Billings Mustangs Thursday at Flathead Field.
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A Ruthian record for the Royals
It’s been tough being a Kansas City Royals fan, I am not going to lie.
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Miller’s Time: 2019 Red Sox draftee chasing baseball drive
When the Boston Red Sox released Dean Miller after 83 minor league games, they probably figured they’d seen enough of the 6-foot-3, 235-pound outfielder to make such a judgment. Miller wasn’t so sure.
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Column: Rockets, flames, power-hitting and great hair
A lot has changed in seven years, I realized, as I drove around the 405.
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Riders in the Storm
If you are a baseball player born and raised in the Pelican State, you’ve seen some weather. Not like this.
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Bulldogs’ Bodie Smith enjoying Shrine week
One of the many cool things about Montana’s annual Shrine Game — the 75th game is Saturday night in Great Falls — is that the rosters are announced on Dec. 25.
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Bigfork standout Guse pulls double duty during All-Star season
Braeden Guse’s competitive fire burned hot last fall, when he and the Bigfork Vikings kept winning football playoff games on the road and earning a shot at the state title.
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Range Riders open Flathead Field with 9-4 loss
It was rainy, it was cold and it was cut short by a third. The first-ever home game for the Glacier Range Riders didn’t go exactly as planned, including the final score (called after six innings with Billings up 9-4). But the Pioneer League’s expansion team showed off a jewel …
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Ronan, C-Falls, Glacier and ‘a good time’
Kris Salonen reiterated this week that she loved basketball more than track as a high school athlete at Great Falls High. “But I was better at track, so I did that,” she said.
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Stellar jumps, sprints — and hoodies
Covering track and field is not supposed to hurt, but here I am nursing a swollen knee and it wasn’t for any sort of, you know, effort.
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Glacier boys garner silver
BUTTE — The Glacier Wolfpack had the dogs to win a second State AA boys track and field championship Saturday, at Bulldog Memorial Stadium.
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State A track: Whitefish grabs gold, bronze
Around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at the State A track and field championships, the Whitefish girls found themselves in a tight spot: They were among four teams within three points.
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State AA track: Ells cruises to 1,600 title, Pack sitting fourth
BUTTE — In case anyone had a doubt, the 1,600 is still Sam Ells’ jam. The Glacier High senior cruised to victory in his favorite race Friday, at the State AA track and field championships at Bulldog Memorial Stadium.
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Whitefish girls, boys sitting third at State A track
BUTTE — Brooke Zetooney and Hailey Ells finished neck-and-neck in their one final on Friday at the State A track and field championships. No surprise there.
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Whitefish girls, Glacier boys hope to strike gold in Butte
The State AA and A track meets are, for one of the few times in memory, being held in the same venue Friday and Saturday: Butte’s Bulldog Memorial Stadium.
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Whitefish’s Holmquist excels in technique-heavy shot put
Matt Beckwith, longtime throwing coach at Whitefish High School and a 160-foot discus thrower in his high school days, knows the good ones don’t come around very often. In Talon Holmquist, the Bulldogs have a shot putter that looks the part (6-foot-6, 245 pounds) and backs it up.
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Glacier, C-Falls confident heading to state tourneys
Familiar foes could serve to give the Glacier Wolfpack and Columbia Falls Wildkats confidence heading into the respective state softball tournaments.
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Converted catcher finds room to roam
On May 10, in the last inning of a non-conference softball game, Flathead’s Macy Craver came up big: She drove a 1-1 pitch out to right-center for a grand slam.
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Range Riders set for first Pioneer League game
The Glacier Range Riders will be really riding the range to start their inaugural season, but just wait until mid-June.
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Range Riders set for first Pioneer League game
June 14 is home opener
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Ells doubles up, Wolfpack second to Sentinel boys
MISSOULA — The distance double happened for Sam Ells Saturday, and should the Glacier standout run a solid 800 race next week — he plans to — the Wolfpack might find gold in Butte.
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Western AA divisional: Bernhardt burns up a cold 300s
MISSOULA — The patch of blue sky sitting over MCPS Stadium disappeared, the wind picked up and Caleb Bernhardt took off.
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Pioneer baseball is right around several corners
The Glacier Range Riders roster has been whittled down, and if the weather holds Friday fans can watch them go through the paces at Memorial Park in Whitefish at 1 p.m.
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Fisher, Wildkats enjoying big season
Aletheia Fisher figures to teach middle school math someday, but it doesn’t take algebra to crunch Columbia Falls’ softball numbers.
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Labrum scores six for Pack
In the battle of crooked numbers that was Tuesday’s crosstown softball game at Kidsports, Flathead ran out of them early and Glacier kept them coming.
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Black and Blue rules again
New faces that are familiar in other sports showed up for the Black and Blue this spring, and helped keep up the Flathead Valley rugby club’s winning ways.
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Flathead’s Zink sees familiar faces all around his favorite event
Dylan Zink can look at the rankings on athletic.net and see all the talented triple jumpers on this side of the Continental Divide.
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Glacier senior Kauffman leads AA in triple jump
There was a time when Tate Kauffman was strictly an 800-400 runner, and it was fine. Not superlative, but fine.
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Polson too much for Bravettes
POLSON — Carli Maley homered and drove in seven runs, and Class A power Polson topped AA Flathead 15-5 in a softball game shortened to five innings by the mercy rule.
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Wolfpack boys, Bravettes win Archie Roe
Saturday was windy at times, rainy at others, and there was plenty of the usual at the 43rd renewal of the Archie Roe Invitational track and field meet at Legends Stadium.
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They’ll play: Western schools excited for MHSA baseball
The Montana High School Association’s addition of baseball as a spring sport brought with it a big dose of enthusiasm tempered with a splash of realism.
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Sugar Ray, Iceman and a nerd alert
George Gervin started his professional career in something called the Continental Basketball Association, which is where Micheal Richardson more or less ended up. The CBA ended in 2009, and Richardson — the former Griz hoop standout with the meteoric NBA career — spent the last two years of its existence …
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Ronan’s girls win basketball trip through ‘Alaskan Nets’ documentary
The Ronan basketball teams are headed to Alaska.
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Range Riders start hitting town in a week
In one week 45 baseball players, give or take, will be in Kalispell preparing for a short training camp, with the goal of playing in the Pioneer League.
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We love that Bas-Skee-Ball
Scott Stone was posing for a photograph at “The Hangar,” as they call American Airlines Arena in Dallas, when an employee of the NBA Mavericks found him.
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Legion preview: New faces for Lakers, Twins
Legion baseball season, whether you were ready or not, has begun in Northwest Montana and at this early, wind-whipped moment one thing is clear: The Mission Valley Mariners are salty.
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Whitefish selects Bollweg as next football coach
Whitefish High School selected its next football coach Thursday, and the backstory for Brett Bollweg lines up nicely with the man he’s replacing.
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Glacier surges past Flathead
First the Flathead Bravettes had a big inning, and then the Glacier Wolfpack had a bigger one. When the mud settled, Glacier had a rainy crosstown softball win Thursday, 17-6 over the Bravettes on the Wolfpack’s field.
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Strong shoulders: Labrum hopes Wolfpack can turn softball season around
Sammie Labrum has a solid softball name, and it makes sense that as a senior she’s shouldering more of a leadership role for the Glacier Wolfpack softball squad.
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Ells, Glacier boys prevail at end of long day
Sam Ells is used to long days, and Tuesday was one of those for the Glacier distance standout: The crosstown track and field dual with Flathead gave him a late-May menu with swirling winds to boot.
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Zetooney zooms to second at MCPS Invitational
MISSOULA — The weather hasn’t cooperated very well with Montana’s spring sports, but on Saturday, a handful of Whitefish Bulldogs were able to hit the track for a second time.
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Libby, C-Falls chase Northwest A softball crown
The Northwest A softball race should start shaping up soon, with defending State A champion Polson playing at Columbia Falls Thursday, hosting Ronan Friday and traveling to Libby Saturday.
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Caleb Aland picked to lead Flathead football
Caleb Aland was named the new football coach for Flathead High School Wednesday, an event he didn’t imagine last summer while he was a seasonal worker in Glacier National Park.
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Griz get going in second half of Maroon-Silver scrimmage
HAMILTON — Aaron Fontes made the play of the Montana Grizzlies Spring Game Friday, and it wasn’t his catch of a 25-yard touchdown pass from Kris Brown.
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Pack of Griz that’s trimmed down to three
The last time we checked in with the Montana Grizzlies football squad during drills, it was last fall and there were five Glacier High products. Now there are three, which shows you even Silvertips have attrition.
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Glacier’s Bernhardt balances books, band and the hurdles
The opening of the 2022 track and field season started well enough for Glacier’s Caleb Bernhardt, who smoothed through the 110-meter hurdles in 16.10 seconds.
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Break out the gloves and eye black
A dozen years as a head football coach in California and another 18 as an assistant at the high school and college level have prepared Mark Kessler for this moment. Girls flag football is coming to Montana this August.
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Class A track: Whitefish girls look to build on last year
What people may have overlooked with last year’s Whitefish girls team, which finished second to Laurel at the State A meet, was how young it was beyond senior standout Mikenna Ells.
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AA softball: Glacier reloads for ‘22; Bravettes trending up
Three senior starters are gone but three All-State picks remain, so the Glacier Wolfpack softball squad doesn’t figure to fall far in 2022.
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Pack boys, Bravettes tracking upwards
Glacier coach Arron Deck likes track and field, and not just for the relays and records.
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Glacier selects Baker for volleyball program
A lot has happened in Courtney Baker’s life since she last stepped on a volleyball court.
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Rendina comes out of state powerlifting meet with world’s best total
Jake Rendina, the Glacier High senior, got pretty crazy at Helena Capital High School last weekend. In the USAPL-sanctioned Montana State championships, he put up 391.3 pounds in the bench press, 628.3 in the dead lift and then got a rep in at 600.8 pounds in the squat.
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COLUMN: The hunt for trophies — and free food
Two days ago Fin Nadeau was winning a State AA wrestling title. Yesterday Dougie Peoples was knocking down a 30-footer to win a State A basketball championship. Or maybe it just seems that way.
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Pirates bring home third-place trophy
MISSOULA — First, Colton Graham got hot; second, Jarrett Wilson got hotter. Finally, thanks to a couple good bounces, Polson picked up a third-place trophy Wilson’s 24-point afternoon was critical to the Pirates’ 57-52 win over Hamilton in the State A boys basketball consolation game, at Dahlberg Arena.
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State A boys: Polson nips Dillon in OT
MISSOULA — Colton Graham fueled a fourth-quarter comeback, Jarrett Wilson cashed in two steals for four overtime free throws, and Polson beat Dillon 53-52 in State A loser-out that ended on a miss from the line.
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State A boys: Glendive nips Polson, 52-49
MISSOULA — There was foul trouble for their best player, a lack of 3-point shooting and still, the Polson Pirates were right there.
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State A boys: Polson downs Havre to stay alive
MISSOULA — Colton Graham scored 19 points and ignited a huge third quarter for the Polson Pirates, who went on to beat Havre 74-58 in a State A loser-out game Friday morning.
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Billings Central girls heat up, beat Columbia Falls
The first-quarter defense was promising enough, but the Columbia Falls Wildkats didn’t take full advantage.
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Bravettes, Wolfpack prepared for State AA
Vals and Vikes, Lions and Lady Hawks ready for State B
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Wildkats draw Wednesday nightcap at State A
MISSOULA — The Columbia Falls Wildkats are the late show Wednesday, taking on Billings Central in the 8 p.m. nightcap on the first day of the combined State A tournament.
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Colton Graham leads Polson Pirates back to State A
Colton Graham has a soft shooting touch, serious wide receiving skills, a horse named Champ and a 2006 Toyota Tacoma with only 150,000 miles on it.
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Cummings steps down as Flathead football coach
Flathead High School activities director Bryce Wilson is on the hunt for another head football coach after he announced Thursday that Alex Cummings has resigned to take an assistant principal position at Kalispell Middle School.
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Pack of 2: Glacier’s Gulick, Sorensen lead team into Western AA
The tandem of Bethany Sorensen and Sidney Gulick didn’t always work for the same side, not that elementary school athletics are all that cutthroat.
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Hellgate boys handle Glacier
Ty Olsen leads Glacier with nine points
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Knights get best of Bravettes again
The final score might have put a damper on the Flathead Bravettes’ Senior Night, but Sam Tudor found plenty to like about his team’s 45-28 loss to Missoula Hellgate.
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Tougher duty for Pack boys, Bravettes
Crosstown II turned out like the original between Flathead and Glacier, though Thursday’s basketball matchups added a degree of difficulty.
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Glacier’s Sullivan has big impact as a senior — in two sports
Connor Sullivan’s 3-point shooting may shock some basketball onlookers, but since the senior led the Wolfpack from beyond the arc a year ago, it shouldn’t.
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COLUMN: A second chance, then third place, second and fourth
The goal, coming off an appearance in the 2021 State AA finals, was a state championship in 2022.
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Braves, Bravettes again sweep state wrestling; Nadeau, Halverson win titles
Billings Senior’s boys gave it their all in front of a loud bunch of local wrestling fans at First Interstate Arena Saturday, but in the end the Brave Brawlers had too much.
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Vasquez still on point to join exclusive group
Here’s to the first-timers, the third-timers, the all-too-rare four-timers.
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Bravettes, Braves lead AA races at State
Through Friday’s action at the all-class State Wrestling Championships First Interstate Arena was the home of the Braves — and Bravettes.
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Among the Brawlers, Poe-Hatten distinguishes himself
People around the Flathead Valley hear Noah Poe-Hatten, a junior standout for the Flathead Brave Brawlers, and think, “That’s a great wrestling name.”
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Flathead teams are ready to defend wrestling titles
Flathead’s Brave Brawlers have another State AA title in sight at Billings MetraPark, but it won’t be easy.
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Passion for the sport
145-pounder has racked up 152 wins on the mat
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Wins piling up for Windauer
Columbia Falls junior is ranked No. 1 in Class A at 138 pounds
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Montana sends four Olympians to Beijing Games
With three freestyle skiers and a hockey player making the Olympic grade, you can call Montana a hotbed of (frozen) water sports.
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Glacier girls pick up 2nd straight league win
Noah Fincher and Bethany Sorenson scored 13 points each, and the Wolfpack surged past Butte 42-37 Saturday for its second straight Western AA win.
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Bravettes hold off scrappy Butte girls
The Flathead Bravettes got back on the win column Friday, which you might expect from an 11-1 team, and they dominated the boards, which makes sense when the opponent is missing its 6-foot-3 center.
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Flathead, Glacier wrestlers gear up for AA Divisional
The Western AA Divisional wrestling meet is set for today and Saturday at Missoula Big Sky, with Flathead and Glacier taking a combined 49 boys and 45 girls into competition.
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The older and younger of a class
College football signing day is already an interesting time, full of superlatives about the incoming classes that no doubt signal a rosy future for the program.
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Knights squeeze past Flathead boys, 39-36
The way the fourth quarter was going for Joston Cripe, you half expected his desperation three-quarter court buzzer-beater to go in Saturday afternoon.
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Whitefish football coach Ross stepping down
Chad Ross figured he might be done coaching a couple years ago, with his daughter Cailyn due to finish her collegiate volleyball career at Kean University.
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Flathead handles Big Sky; unbeaten Hellgate waits
The Flathead Bravettes found a little different detour Thursday on their way to 10-0, and credit Missoula Big Sky for the unique defense approach and confident shooting.
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COLUMN: Navigated her path like a true Legend
There was a time at Flathead High when Tess Brenneman was so busy, she more or less forgot to think about what’s next.
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Glacier’s Christy Harkins retiring as teacher, coach
You could say the Glacier Wolfpack found unprecedented success under Christy Harkins and it would be true, even if she wasn’t the only volleyball coach the school has had.
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Big Sky boys handle Glacier
The way the Missoula Big Sky boys got it going against Glacier Tuesday, in a convincing 72-56 at the Wolf Den, probably surprises some.
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Moy, Bravettes top Pack convincingly
Looking at the final score from the girls crosstown basketball game Friday — Flathead won 52-23 on its homecourt to stay unbeaten — it’s easy to forget that Glacier looked right as rain nine minutes in.
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Wolfpack surges to boys crosstown win
The Glacier Wolfpack showed no jitters on Flathead’s home floor Friday, in a 69-49 crosstown boys basketball win.
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Flathead welcomes high-scoring Joston Cripe back to court
What was supposed to happen was Joston Cripe was going to have a solid spring season of AAU basketball, followed by an excellent summer of playing hoops with his Flathead teammates, all building up to a satisfying senior season.
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Bengals make early lead hold up on Glacier girls
The Glacier Wolfpack have a plan to combat its usual size disadvantage, and on Saturday the hosts again pushed the issue full-court against the visiting Helena High Bengals.
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Bravettes stay calm, improve to 7-0
There are many times to call a calming time out in high school basketball, but seconds into the third quarter might be a little early.
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Braves, Bravettes win crosstown duals
The top-ranked Flathead Braves and highly touted Bravettes lived up to their roles as favorites Thursday at the crosstown wrestling dual held at Glacier High, yet the Pack had its moments.
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Crosstown wrestling on deck Thursday in Glacier’s gym
Glacier wrestling coach Ross Dankers would like to have a better lineup ready for the crosstown rivals, but with open dates short and four weeks left in the season, tonight will have to do.
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Youso, one of 3 co-captains, having excellent senior season for Brawlers
To hear him and his coach tell it, wrestling was not a duck-to-water sport for Flathead 205-pounder Chase Youso.
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Butte pulls off big rally at Flathead
You could have just about stuck a fork in the Butte Bulldogs Friday, after they struggled with pressure and allowed 21 second-quarter points and found themselves down 42-22 in the third period.
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COLUMN: Gilman has front-row seat to Cats’ run
When Tadan Gilman languished a bit for the Montana State Bobcats football team from 2017-19, he had a solid sounding board: His father, Mark.
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Taking stock of the best of a 'normal' 2021
The Year 2021 is almost gone, and it was a bit of a blur, maybe because the pandemic (well, temporarily) winded down and there were more live sports to cover.
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Wolfpack attacks the rim to edge Raptors
Connor Sullivan leads Wolfpack with 20 points
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Bobcats plan chilly reception for SDSU
Game is at noon at Bobcat Stadium, and on ESPN2
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Back on the road: Glacier, Flathead wrestlers in top tournaments
Glacier has a two-time state champion amid a burgeoning team. Flathead has the makings of a repeat.
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Touchdown Tommy makes his mark
Touchdown Tommy Mellott is close to being a household name, even if people at the World Wide Leader don’t quite have the pronunciation down.
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Pirate boys deepest of very deep league
Pirates return all-state selections Colton Graham, Jarrett Wilson.
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Pirate boys deepest of very deep league
Polson was the best of a solid Northwest A boys basketball league a season ago, and the Pirates have the manpower to stay on top — but it won’t be easy.
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Kats remain favored in young Northwest A
Columbia Falls has talent and history on its side, and that might be enough to outlast the competition in the Northwest A girls basketball race.
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Column: Griz keep proving they belong
It is perhaps with maroon-colored glasses that Montana coach Bobby Hauck views his team’s 57-41 win over Eastern Washington in the FCS playoffs last Friday.
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Eureka, Bigfork, T-Falls girls to battle in 7-B
The District 7-B got a little bigger, and not just in terms of teams (Plains is up from Class C), but in terms of length.
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Bigfork boys could go big after New Year
On their way to another boys basketball season, the Bigfork Vikings took a little detour through Florence – and came out of the Bitterroot a man short.
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Consistent Lady Wolfpack retools for another run at state
Here’s what the Glacier girls have going for them: One returning starter, two seniors, and a whole lot of consistency.
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Bravettes just may rise to the top
While the Flathead Bravettes didn’t have a great 2020-21 girls basketball season, garnering just two wins in a pandemic-shortened campaign, they were putting down quite the foundation.
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Glacier replaces seniors with big front line
It was a cache of seniors that graduated off last year’s Glacier boys basketball team, which upset Missoula Hellgate on the way to the State AA tournament.
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Braves bring size, youth to 2021-22 season
It’s unique that a basketball team can graduate a 6-foot-8 senior (Ezra Epperly), and the first detail that people mention ahead of the new season is size.
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Big Sky notes: Another special victory for Griz
How special can special teams be? Let the Montana Grizzlies count the ways. Garrett Graves, sophomore out of Eureka, returned the third-quarter pooched kickoff 27 yards to set his team up at the 48; that led to a field goal that gave the Grizzlies the lead for good in a …
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Humphrey, Griz light up Eagles to win 57-41
Cam Humphrey threw for three touchdowns and the Montana defense tightened up in the third quarter of the Grizzlies’ 57-41 win over Eastern Washington Friday in a second-round FCS playoff game
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Seasoned QBs in one place, new faces at the other
Friday could be the Grizzlies’ time to shine, though the Bobcats seem intent on stealing headlines.
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Jake Rendina chooses West Point
Jake Rendina visited a remote area of New York state before Thanksgiving, and it seems he enjoyed the sights.
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Big Sky notes: A rematch with a (non) rival
If Eastern Washington fans were expecting a Liberty Lake boat full of bulletin board material coming out of Missoula, they didn’t get it from the Montana Grizzlies’ Monday press conference.
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Beasley, Griz hit the gas to beat Southern Miss
Robby Beasley, a sophomore guard, hit five long-range shots Friday night in Montana’s 74-62 win over Southern Mississippi at the Zootown Classic men’s basketball tournament.
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Big Sky Notes: Playoff-bound EWU Eagles seeing red
It’s Football Championship Subdivision playoff time, and the Eastern Washington Eagles are seeing red.
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Bergen ignites Griz, who snap 4-game skid against Cats
Cam Humphrey’s 74-yard touchdown pass to Junior Bergen set the tone for the Montana Grizzlies, who went on to soundly beat Montana State 29-10 in the 120th Cat-Griz game Saturday.
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Griz defense ready to measure up
Two years ago the Montana State Bobcats ran all over the Grizzlies, piling up 382 rushing yards in a 48-14 win.
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Cats, Griz ready to brawl in 120th meeting
The betting line has moved, the Montana State Bobcats are on a streak and the Montana Grizzlies are still beat up.
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Vikings get another crack at Falcons in Class B chipper
The 62-26 loss on Oct. 21 doesn’t look good for the Bigfork Vikings, who get a rematch with the Florence Falcons today, for the State B football championship.
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Two Flathead Valley soccer players helped UM have a banner year
It’s been a whirlwind 2021 for Flathead Valley soccer products Josie Windauer and Skyleigh Thompson, who saw Montana’s soccer season end Saturday with a 3-0 loss to Washington State in the NCAA tournament.
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COLUMN: Looking toward a more perfect Saturday
I, for one, am not as upset as some Montanans about College GameDay, the long-running, Saturday morning, football-centric show on ESPN not coming in for the Cat-Griz game this week.
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Big Sky Notes: First look at Saturday’s Brawl
And so it is now “Brawl” week, or as some like to call it, “Cat-Griz Week,” which is what it was for decades upon decades before Griz fans started wondering why it wasn’t “Griz-Cat.”
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Adam Jones, Spartans end Wolfpack’s season
The Wolfpack’s playoff run came to a screeching halt Friday night at MCPS Stadium, and playing the stopper was Missoula Sentinel’s Adam Jones.
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Pirates’ reward: Semifinal clash with defending champs
The Polson Pirates’ reward for beating perennial power Billings Central by three touchdowns last Saturday is playing the team that beat Central by two touchdowns in October.
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Lions, Vikings battle for B title game berth
Bigfork and Eureka have developed quite the rivalry over the years, in what used to be District 7-B and is now the Western B, and now comes a football game that means a little bit more.
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Glacier’s Luke Bilau has made the most of a move from QB
There was a point not that long ago that Glacier tight end Luke Bilau was a signal-caller. He was tall, had the arm and played the position in junior high and his freshman year.
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Wolfpack gets another shot at Spartans in semifinal
A gnarly Missoula Sentinel defense got its sternest test on Sept. 17, in the Spartans 29-21 win over Glacier: Nobody has scored more against the defending State AA football champs this season.
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COLUMN: Flathead sees rare pair head to Division I
It is once again Signing Day Ceremony Season, and Flathead High had a nice one Wednesday to celebrate two future Division I athletes in swimmer Lily Milner and wrestler Fin Nadeau.
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Big Sky notes: A few words about Mr. Andersen
Saturday’s game in Bozeman will feature all the current Big Sky Conference players of the week: Idaho running back Roshaun Johnson, Montana State linebacker Troy Andersen and MSU punter Bryce Leighton.
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Flathead Valley PBL team home opener is June 14
The Pioneer Baseball League released its 96-game schedule Thursday, and the expansion Flathead Valley squad will have its home opener on June 14 against the Billings Mustangs.
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Pirates plunder Rams
Building a three-touchdown advantage in the third quarter can lead to some serious clock-squeezing, B-gap running offense for any football team. That’s not Polson’s style.
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Area gridders gird for quarterfinals
As Polson gears up for a State A quarterfinal football game today, several things stand out about opponent Billings Central.
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Moy shines as Bravettes sweep Bruins
The Sterck sisters, Savanna and Sienna, and Akilah Kubi tended to steal the stat lines as the Flathead Bravettes’ volleyball season gained steam.
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Glacier heads back to Butte seeking better outcome
The Glacier Wolfpack’s last visit to Naranche Stadium didn’t end well: A fourth-quarter interception and a safety set the stage for Butte’s 20-17 win on Oct. 8.
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Construction underway for Pioneer League stadium
There’s a general manager, a manager and also a couple of players in place for Kalispell’s fledgling Pioneer Baseball team.
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Big Sky notes: Red letter Saturday for MSU
The Big Sky Conference game of the week is an easy call: No. 4 Montana State visits No. 5 Eastern Washington Saturday, on the red turf of Roos Field.
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Hollis May to coach Wolfpack girls track
Glacier High School has selected its new girls track coach, and pending school board approval it will be longtime teacher and coach Hollis May.
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Knights get 3-peat; Glacier boys fall in AA soccer final
The Pack against the Black Knights soccer battle was everything you thought it’d be Saturday — a tight, physical game with so few scoring chances one goal would win it.
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Whitefish, Columbia Falls football teams open playoffs at home
Montana’s high school football playoffs take off in earnest today in Class A and below, with deserving teams celebrating successful seasons with a home game.
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Glacier hangs on to beat Senior 21-14
To survive the Billings Senior Broncs 21-14 Friday night at Legends Stadium, the Glacier Wolfpack needed a little bit of everything.
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Glacier prepares for run-happy Broncs in first round
One encouraging thing about Glacier’s Friday battle with Billings Senior — the team that knocked the Wolfpack out of the 2020 AA football playoffs — is there’s no Junior Bergen to worry about.
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Whitefish’s Harmon loves acting – and making running room
Tanner Harmon, all 180 pounds of him, toils for the Whitefish Bulldogs in the relative obscurity on the offensive line.
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COLUMN: Long May he stay this way
The 47th Northern Rodeo Association Finals begin today at 7 p.m. inside Majestic Valley Arena, with youngsters and veterans alike taking on rough stock for three straight nights.
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Big Sky notes: Griz, young QB get well in Idaho
The Montana Grizzlies looked like a new team in their 34-14 win at Idaho Saturday, at least on offense, though Bobby Hauck deflected any thought that Kris Brown’s 256 passing yards and deep strikes were the products of better game planning.
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Vikings bring home some plunder
The last time Bigfork won a boys cross country title? They went back-to-back in 1974-75.
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Kats break through for first state title
Saturday was a perfect day to run at the Montana State Cross Country Championships, unless it wasn’t.
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Pirates rally past Bulldogs in second half
Saddled with their first halftime deficit of the season, the unbeaten Polson Pirates scored four touchdowns to rally past Whitefish 38-24 Friday in the Dawg Pound.
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C-Falls girls, Eureka boys still chasing state XC titles
There’s a chance the Columbia Falls girls can score with Hardin Saturday, at the Class A portion of the State Cross Country Championships, and a chance Eureka’s boys could keep their streak going.
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Glacier’s Sullivan pilots a win
The Glacier Wolfpack was down one Jake, and for a minute it was down two, but still had the weapons to beat Missoula Hellgate 55-20 in a Western AA football game Friday night. Connor Sullivan was one of those weapons.
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Rendina decided he was a back in Little Guy, and hasn’t stopped running since
Jake Rendina will tell you statistics don’t mean much, and when you consider he quietly seized Glacier High’s record for career touchdowns last Friday — with his third against crosstown rival Flathead — it’s easy to believe.
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Pack brings in Hellgate; Flathead finishes at Big Sky
It is a dangerous Missoula Hellgate football team that visits Legends Stadium tonight. Just ask the Butte Bulldogs, who needed to rally for a 30-27 win over the 2-5 Knights.
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There’s good 2-QB results and there’s bad
While Montana was having trouble with Sacramento State’s two-headed quarterback in a 28-21 loss Saturday, Eastern Washington was having no trouble with Idaho’s.
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Sac State gets landmark win over Griz
The Hornets, playing two quarterbacks and some excellent defense, beat the No. 5-ranked Montana Grizzlies Saturday, 28-21.
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Sac State winning recipe has Griz flavor
The 20th anniversary celebration of Montana’s 2001 national championship was this weekend, and the festivities included then-head coach Joe Glenn and dozens of players taking to the Washington-Grizzly Stadium turf before the game.
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Glacier coasts past Flathead in crosstown matchup
At the crosstown game, the Glacier Wolfpack was back to making big plays. Junior quarterback Gage Sliter threw for 269 yards and three touchdowns, and Jake Rendina piled up three more rushing scores as Glacier handled Flathead, 56-0, in their 15th meeting at Legends Stadium.
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COLUMN: A spell-check of a name, and we’ll take it
About five minutes into his introductory press conference this week Rich Bisaccia gently corrected a writer on the pronunciation of his name.
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Crosstown and a Cat-Dog on tap
It’s a crosstown football game in Kalispell tonight, and neither the Glacier Wolfpack nor the Flathead Braves have won for a couple weeks.
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Glacier getting stellar senior seasons from 2-sport standout Sam Ells
On or around Sept. 28 Glacier soccer coach Ryan Billiet got word from one of his top players, Sam Ells, that he might miss practice that day because of a sudden schedule change: He was headed to a cross country meet in Whitefish.
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Griz can hope for health ahead of Sac State
The Montana Grizzlies are 4-1 after their difficult 31-14 win over 0-5 Dixie State Saturday, and if Bobby Hauck had a hard time getting a squad on the field, especially along the defensive front, so be it.
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Griz pull away from Dixie St. in second half
It wasn’t the walkover victory many expected Saturday, with the winless Dixie State Trailblazers coming to town. The Montana Grizzlies will take it, turnovers and missed opportunities and all.
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Ford tough: Griz corner keeps showing up in red zone
Justin Ford is making a habit of this. After Dixie State came up with a fumble early in Saturday’s game with the host Montana Grizzlies, quarterback Kenyon Oblad led the Trailblazers smartly down the field.
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Explosive Bengals sprint past Flathead
Most people know that Helena High, with Kaden Huot at quarterback, is a formidable opponent.
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AA football: Glacier heads to Butte for key battle
So much for a tidy finish to the Western AA football season.
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COLUMN: DeRue comes up aces — and more aces
The Ryder Cup has ended gloriously, the leaves are falling decorously and that usually means time is running out to get in that last 18 around these parts.
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Big Sky notes: Griz may need to overcome volatility at QB
The Montana Grizzlies’ last-gasp, 34-28 loss on the red turf at Roos Field Saturday served to repeat a couple axioms for those that you may have forgotten: One, Eastern Washington always has a dynamic quarterback, and Eric Barriere was the difference maker on his home field.
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State A golf: Laurel surges back to top; Smith, Bulldogs second
It looked for a while that the Whitefish boys might not shake off a little controversy at the State A golf tournament, which concluded Saturday at Polson Bay Golf Course.
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Sentinel surges over Flathead, 54-0
Quarterback Zac Crews had a very efficient first half for Missoula Sentinel Friday, his four touchdown passes helping the Spartans a 48-0 lead on the way to a 54-0 win over Flathead at Legends Stadium.
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Prep football: Doesn't get easier for Braves, Pack
Things don’t get easier for Kalispell’s two AA football teams this week, with the Flathead Braves taking on top-ranked Missoula Sentinel Friday at Legends Stadium, and Glacier going to Helena.
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Wynne, Wolfpack boys eying State AA hardware
Flathead golf coach Roy Antley has five solid players on his girls team as it heads to the State AA tournament beginning today in Bozeman.
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Big Sky roundup: Flowers’ kickoff return against Cal Poly was exemplary
After his team lost to the Montana Grizzlies 39-7 Saturday, Cal Poly coach Beau Baldwin talked about how he had screen plays dialed up to beat some Griz blitzes, but that they didn’t quite work out.
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UM dominates Cal Poly, 39-7
Phased: Griz ride defense, special teams to win over Mustangs
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Sullivan shines as Glacier downs Capital
Connor Sullivan’s catch-and-run of a 59-yard scoring pass was a thing of beauty Friday night, but it was a catch he made at the end of the first half that really dazzled.
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Bruins another stern test for Wolfpack
The Glacier Wolfpack are coming off a tough first loss of the football season, and things don’t get a whole lot easier tonight with Helena Capital coming to Legends Stadium.
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COLUMN: Inspired hires, garden spots, sticker shock
After seeing the bill for Bruce Barnum’s beer garden extravaganza — $14,448, for 2,064 beers — I can only think: Why didn’t Jerry Glanville think of this?
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AA Football: Braves look to get back on track against Hellgate
Coming off a 48-7 homecoming loss to Butte, the Flathead Braves look to get well on the road, with a game against Missoula Hellgate Thursday.
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A change of course
With a last name well known in Griz nation, the expectation was that the seventh-grade quarterback of 2016 would be the starting high school QB in 2021. Then Will Salonen changed the play.
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Wildcats fly past Libby in Northwest A clash
Isaiah Roth scored three touchdowns, Cody Schweikert threw for two and the wide-open Columbia Falls Wildcats took a surprising 48-0 football win over run-first Libby Friday night.
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AA football: Flathead seeks strong start; Glacier heads to Sentinel
Three slow starts have added up to, well, a slow start to the football season for the Flathead Braves, who will try to get going Friday against a very solid Butte High squad.
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Roth shows up to give Cats another target
It was just a couple years ago that a transfer from Nampa, Idaho, became the new kid in town in Columbia Falls.
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Early returns — and serves — look good for Bravettes, Pack
Prep notes
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COLUMN: Milestones reached 24 hours apart
Two night games and 200 wins.
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Humphrey, defense power Griz past WIU
Montana quarterback Cam Humphrey threw for a career-best five touchdowns and the defense was again impenetrable in the No. 4 Grizzlies’ 42-7 thumping of Western Illinois Saturday.
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Bennett gets 100th win at Glacier
A couple landmarks were reached Friday at Legends Stadium, where Glacier dispatched stubborn Missoula Big Sky 56-20 in Western AA football.
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Unbeaten Glacier taking cautious approach to 1-1 Big Sky
Missoula Big Sky went 2-6 last football season, including a pair of lopsided losses to Glacier, and graduated dual-threat quarterback Colter Janacaro to the Montana Grizzlies.
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The 500-times-2 club welcomes Polson’s Wilson
Polson coach Kaden Glinsmann has no intention of counting the numbers racked up — including four touchdown passes by Jarrett Wilson — in a 49-21 win over the Glacier junior varsity on Aug. 27.
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Griz already cooking up front with Cook and Co.
The first thing to realize about the Montana Grizzlies’ 13-7 win at (then-No. 20) Washington Saturday is that they had to win the battle up front.
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Raptors get out quick, cruise past Braves 49-7
Two weeks and two slow starts spelled out an 0-2 record for the Flathead Braves, who fell 49-7 to the talented Gallatin Raptors Friday in Class AA football at Legends Stadium.
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Raptors in town for Flathead home opener
A tough beginning set up Flathead for the fall last week, but now the Braves get to play a football game at home, against a similarly young opponent.
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Eureka, Bigfork reload in chase of Falcons
The Eureka Lions have been a power in the Western B and Class B football landscape for a while now, with three state championships in the last five years.
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Whitefish boys, C-Falls girls sets sights high
Whitefish cross country coach Richard Menicke is well aware Hamilton returns just about everybody from its dominant 2020 State A boys’ championship team.
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COLUMN: Highlighting a not very long ago era
It has been 20 years since the Montana Grizzlies won the Football Championship Subdivision title, and that’s a decent interval even if, at least for me, it has gone by in a blink.
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Flathead girls strongest of local AA harriers
As the Class AA cross country season opens up — the Coaches Invitational will bring Flathead and Glacier to Missoula today — it still stands that perennial powers Missoula Hellgate and Bozeman have a few lengths on the competition.
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Lions still roaring, but Viking boys could make noise
Eureka has the recent pedigree, with the last two State B cross country boys’ championships safely behind the trophy case at Lincoln County High School.
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Pack shakes off rain delay, Panthers
It’s notable that the Glacier Wolfpack waited out a 44-minute weather delay Friday night, and still made short work of the Belgrade Panthers.
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Wolfpack comes back more green than blue
A couple dozen seniors populate the Glacier Wolfpack football roster, including All-State running back Jake Rendina and honorable mention tight end Luke Bilau.
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Braves’ big hopes rest on big numbers
Alex Cummings has rounded up a staff and nearly 80 football players ready to turn up the fortunes of Flathead football.
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Class A: Columbia Falls may break through again
In an always-stacked Western A Division, it’s not often a Northwest team takes home the prize, but it just might happen in 2021.
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COLUMN: Crosstown foes start football anew
There’s a new coach on one side of town, the dean of AA football coaches on the other, and Alex Cummings and Grady Bennett have something in common: They’re going to be starting a passel of sophomores.
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COLUMN: 2021 Griz have a certain blue and green feel
Jackson Pepe may not have much game tape at the University of Montana yet — he got on the field in a playoff win over NE Louisiana in 2019 and didn’t record a stat — but he has highlights nonetheless.
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Class A golf: Whitefish tees off today at Old Works
The Whitefish Bulldogs tee it off today at Old Works, setting a course they hope leads to another state championship.
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It's official: Kalispell getting Pioneer League baseball team
The Pioneer League is officially coming to the Flathead Valley.
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Glacier boys on course for another high finish
Western AA golf
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Glacier kicker Rohrbach commits to Griz
Patrick Rohrbach maintains that years ago he told his parents, if he got football offers from Alabama and the Montana Grizzlies, he’d pick the Griz.
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COLUMN: 18 years later, Rocksund hits from the tips
There was a time when Tait Rocksund was a three-sport high school athlete, which wouldn’t be unique if it wasn’t all at the same time.
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COLUMN: A coaching legacy returns to his roots
As youth basketball camps go, last weekend’s inaugural Carroll College satellite camp was just what Kurt Paulson ordered: Not too big, close to home and the final one of summer.
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Kernan, Lakers seek to build momentum at State AA
The mid-May return of first baseman Danny Kernan gave the Kalispell Lakers a little different kind of Super Senior, in that Kernan spent his year of college at no baseball-playing Montana State.
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Twins down Mariners to claim West A District title
American Legion baseball
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COLUMN: Slow start and a big finish, pitch by pitch
For Colten Boyle, 32 hours lasted forever and four years went by in a blink. The 2017 Flathead High graduate is a newly minted Scholastic All-American by National Collegiate Rugby, after his senior season at Wheeling (West Virginia) University.
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PL president ‘very optimistic’ on Kalispell expansion club
What looked to be a fairly quick process for Kalispell getting the OK for a Pioneer League expansion team has dragged on some, but first-year league president Mike Shapiro remains confident.
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Column: American success history
In a lifetime of following and reporting on sports, there have been a few regrets.
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The Dogs of ‘91
In late February of 1991, the Missoulian sent a young(ish) reporter to cover the Western A Divisional boys basketball tournament at Flathead High School.
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Lakers’ Diede steady as state tourney nears
Ethan Diede has been a three-sport athlete most of his life, playing a little bit of varsity basketball and a lot of tight end and defensive end on Glacier’s football squad. But the diamond is where it’s at.
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Whitefish’s Heavirland gets called to the Tokyo Olympics
The last time the U.S. Olympic women’s rugby 7s team had its jersey ceremony, in 2016, Nicole Heavirland didn’t hear her name called.
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COLUMN: Kalispell’s Hanson becomes golfing marathon man
Marlin Hanson is capable of going low on a golf course — he shot 74 at Buffalo Hill Wednesday — but he has once again proven he can also go far.
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On a talented Glacier squad, super senior Zach Veneman stands out
Kevin Slaybaugh has been around baseball a long time, and he’s surrounded by like-minded players and coaches with the Glacier Twins.
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Pioneer League baseball on way to Kalispell
Newly a MLB “partner league,” it appears the Pioneer League has found a new partner: professional baseball could be coming to Kalispell in 2022.
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COLUMN: Quiet run of Black and Blue success
Ahead of a Thursday flight out of Glacier Park Airport, Lance Heavirland took stock of the past high school rugby season and noted the seniors, together for six or seven years, had been really good.
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Fairways and greens for Ezra Epperly
It figured that with more court time, dunks and blocked shots on his resume that 6-foot-9 Ezra Epperly might land a college scholarship, and that’s what happened.
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COLUMN: Familiar name suiting up for Shrine Game
Ryker McElmurry has a familiar last name around these parts, and if the 185-pounder happened to be born in Reno, he also happens to be former NFLer Blaine McElmurry’s second cousin and is Lincoln County through and through.
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COLUMN: A fortunate career by any other name
The first thing you need to know about Lucky Larson is that yes, Lucky is his given name — or one of them.
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Twins trying to hit stride as season heats up
The Glacier Twins figured on another very solid American Legion baseball season, and as they head into today’s doubleheader with the Bitterroot Bucs, well, 17-7 ain’t too bad.
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Boschee retires as track coach after 20 years at Glacier, Flathead
With about three weeks left in the season, Jerry Boschee turned the corner on a decision he’d been mulling since the start of the 2021 high school track: It was time to hang up the stopwatch.
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AA Lakers cruising into league play 18-3
An 18-3 record has the Kalispell Lakers AA feeling good about their American Legion season, but coach Ryan Malmin feels their best baseball is still ahead.
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Brisendine’s triple jump bumps her into scholarship
A career day meant everything for Glacier product Taylor Brisendine, who took off at the MCPS Stadium triple jump pit on May 29 and landed on a scholarship to Montana State University.
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COLUMN: Weekend deals more memories than celebration
Memorial Day weekend is, as the name suggests, a time for remembrance and, one also supposes, celebration.
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Glacier bows out, Belgrade in driver’s seat
The Glacier Wolfpack exited the State AA softball tournament at KidSports Saturday, losing 6-0 to Missoula Sentinel in the last game of a blustery, cool day.
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Wolfpack, Western AA falter on windy, record day
The wind blew, records were set, the Eastern AA completed a first-day sweep.
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State track: Whitefish girls favored, but Columbia Falls not far behind
The weather should be excellent, and so should the times at this weekend’s state track and field championships, split between Missoula and Laurel.
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Column: In Polson, it's not Field 1 anymore
The last time I’d spoken with Larry Smith, it was 2005 and his Polson softball team was surprisingly bowing out of the State A tournament.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Leadoff hitter Vanorny sets table for Wolfpack
Credit an older sister, a teammate’s dad and a lineup bursting with big hitters for Kenna Vanorny’s status as a consummate leadoff hitter.
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Familiar faces await Glacier at State AA softball
Same story, different year for the Glacier Wolfpack softball squad, which will also be hoping for a different ending: The squad begins its State AA softball tournament against Billings Senior once again.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
COLUMN: In Polson, It’s not Field 1 anymore
The last time I’d spoken with Larry Smith, it was 2005 and his Polson softball team was surprisingly bowing out of the State A tournament.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Glacier lacrosse club ends up 2nd in state
A trip to Lockwood had Glacier’s lacrosse team playing on Sunday, and though the state championship game didn’t go its way, the Flathead Valley squad was pretty satisfied.
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Column: The positives hiding behind the record
Flathead softball heading in the right direction
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Flathead’s Eacker, Glacier’s Brisendine win divisional titles
There are plenty of heroes to choose from for Glacier’s half-point edge over Missoula Big Sky for fourth place in the Western A boys’ divisional Saturday, including Tate Kauffman and Kale Mayhue.
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Bravettes’ Perrin wins 3,200; Hellgate, Sentinel lead divisional
The points spread out on a cool, overcast day at Legend Stadium, where Missoula Hellgate leads a balanced girls field at the Western AA Divisional track and field meet Friday.
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Flathead thrower Eacker, thrown a curve in January, is finishing strong
Rebecca Eacker’s senior year in athletics hasn’t gone exactly as planned, unless you can plan to pop a knee ligament, then pop a few big throws not even three months later.
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On your marks: Western AA track switches to Legends
The Western AA Divisional track meet originally set for Butte’s Bulldog Memorial Stadium has been moved to Kalispell, at the direction of the AA athletic directors.
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Lions, Valkyries head to State B golf
Bigfork freshman Colin Wade looks to challenge for boys’ medalist
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COLUMN: Peripatetic Ronan grad returns home
Nate Harris was well-traveled by the time he was a second-grader, so it makes sense that his coaching career can be described the same way.
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Big inning sparks Glacier’s crosstown win
Take away that crooked number and the last crosstown softball game of the season might still be going.
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Glacier's Taylor Brisendine is saving her best marks for last
Taylor Brisendine is all of 5-foot-6 and appears to have mastered the art of the small sample size.
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Perrin, Bravettes cruise to crosstown win
Spring of 2020 was a lost season for Hannah Perrin and the rest of the Flathead track team thanks to the pandemic, and that was tough enough.
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Bigfork’s Duke has risen above tough times
During an April 6 triangular meet at Legends Stadium, Wyatt Duke set an early tone for his senior track and field season by clearing 6 feet, 8 inches to win the high jump.
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Slick sophomore season continues for Johnston
Four really good shots had Ryggs Johnston, a sophomore at Arizona State, on the cusp of the Pac-12 men’s golf championship last week.
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Whitefish’s Ells heading down homestretch in fine form
When Mikenna Ells got to be a freshman at Whitefish High, track coach Kelliann Blackburn knew she had a speedster on her hands.
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COLUMN: HR derby to decide extras? Sign me up
Once upon a time fans of the Billings Mustangs used to enjoy “Foamers,” which was a 10-minute period after a player from the home team hit a homer in which fans could get free adult beverages.
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AA Lakers win home opener over Mariners
The AA Kalispell Lakers’ home opener at Griffin Field Wednesday had all the essentials, including timely hits and some nice defense.
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COLUMN: All the signs tell us it is football season
Maybe it is football season. It felt like it Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, where the bright sunshine made it feel like a mid-September home game, minus 20,000 or so fans.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Farrell helps Glacier to crosstown sweep
The Glacier Wolfpack didn’t have all its usual suspects for a conference crosstown softball game with Flathead Tuesday, so somebody had to come up large.
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Catching on with the Griz
Glacier’s Kynzie Mohl does it all, but especially at the plate
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Lakers’ talented throwers to lead way
Last year's rotation returns mostly intact
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Glacier Twins get early start to Legion season
Play Missoula Mavericks AA today
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Grizzlies’ Lewis bends back under
Townsend native had Montana's only interception
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Griz complete spring football campaign with another rout
Nick Ostmo rushes for three touchdowns
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Competition rises for Grizzlies today
Coming off a 59-3 laugher over Central Washington last Saturday, the competition turns up a couple notches today with Montana playing host to Portland State’s football team at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
COLUMN: Mining City stop leads Holsinger to Lady Griz
Brian Holsinger’s first interview for a head coaching job in Montana came at the end of a steep descent into Butte.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Cameron Kahle headed to Air Force Academy
Cameron Kahle headed to Air Force Academy
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
O-line coach Cummings elevated to guide Flathead
Flathead High found its next football coach on its own staff, elevating Alex Cummings to lead the program in 2021.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Griz work over Central Washington in wintry mix
MISSOULA — It was early in the third quarter that Saturday’s game between the Montana Grizzlies and Central Washington started to look more like the 2014 Griz blowout more than the 2008 nail-biter.
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Griz ready to battle Wildcats after long layoff
In 2008 the Central Washington Wildcats came to Washington-Grizzly Stadium and the Montana Grizzlies needed a last-second field goal to prevail 38-35.
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Column: Let’s call it what it is: Game Day
I didn’t record the exact phrasing of the question at Monday’s “presser” in the corner of the Washington-Grizzly Stadium end zone, but it was along the lines of: Isn’t this a chance to get a lot of younger players reps against Central Washington?
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Flathead softball squad looks to trend up
Veteran coach Jack Foster likes the makeup of this year’s Flathead High softball team which, like everyone else, has been cooling its cleats for the better part of two years.
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Staying the course: Glacier to continue diamond success
The bad news is that Glacier’s softball team graduated seven seniors last spring — a talented bunch that didn’t play an inning because the pandemic cancelled spring sports in Montana.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Bigfork’s Wyatt Duke soars to personal best in high jump
Conditions weren’t optimal for running fast times at Legends Stadium, where host Flathead ran a time trials meet Tuesday: Runners had to contend with a bracing head wind on the straightaway.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Whitefish’s Ross fulfills dream with West Point appointment
Camren Ross was on a long bus ride to Miles City in early March when his cell phone rang. To his surprise it was Montana senator Jon Tester, telling the Whitefish senior he’d realized a dream: He had a spot at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.
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Area track teams ready to hit the oval after lost season
There was supposed to be a track and field season in 2020 until there wasn’t, and now the area high school teams are picking up the pieces.
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Solid, perfect: ‘Power Pete’ shoots his age
Peter LeDonne felt fortunate for what the game of golf has brought, and that was before the former local PGA pro found a little extra luck around St. Patrick’s Day.
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Whitefish golfer Cameron Kahle headed to Air Force Academy
Cameron Kahle split the fairway again this week with his acceptance of an appointment to the Air Force Academy, where the Whitefish senior will compete in Division I golf.
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Class A Softball: Short-handed Wildkats can’t wait around
We’re still in a pandemic, nobody has played a game since 2019 and it’s spring break at his school, so Columbia Falls’ coach Dave Kehr isn’t sure what the upcoming softball season holds.
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Opinion: Friends have fond memories of Greg Bauska
He could run a business, dominate the low blocks and pour a mean pitcher, but Greg Bauska’s impact on the Flathead Valley is best measured in the friendships he made.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Column: Bauska: About the best the Valley could offer
He could run a business, dominate the low blocks and pour a mean pitcher, but Greg Bauska’s impact on the Flathead Valley is best measured in the friendships he made.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Column: Rambled out of Georgia and found home
Sometime between Charles Kenney’s playing career and his latest trip to the NHBS HomeSchool Nationals, I became aware of the Yellowstone County Home School basketball teams.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Column: Add up the bad breaks and get a title
Ryan Nelson came to the Flathead Valley to get away from the effects COVID-19 was having on his school and athletics. The pandemic caught up to him anyway.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Jaxson Olsen plays a big game inside for Pack
Weston Price stands 6-foot-5 and Noah Dowler is a legit 6-7 and has the dunks to prove it, but if there is one Glacier post player that gets the defense scrambling, it is 6-1 Jaxson Olsen.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Glacier cagers prep for challenge at State AA tourney
The good news is that the Glacier Wolfpack girls are headed to the State AA basketball tournament for a fifth straight year.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Brave Brawlers back on top
The Flathead Brave Brawlers got back to the top of the State AA wrestling heap, and it took about two dozen of them to make it happen on their home mats.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Flathead’s Richberg finds himself back on the mat
A tough week for Flathead senior wrestler Timber Richberg ticked up a little bit Friday, when the heavyweight dispatched his first-round opponent at the State AA meet in 55 seconds.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Brave Brawlers sitting on first-day lead
Flathead’s Brave Brawlers are enjoying their home court, or mats, if getting eight wrestlers into the semifinals of the State AA wrestling tournament means anything.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Glacier girls come up deuces, punch ticket to state
Fittingly, for the second straight time against Helena the Glacier girls’ basketball team fell behind and then owned the second quarter.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Flathead, Glacier wrestlers roll out the welcome mats
It’s the first time the State AA wrestling championships have been in Kalispell since 1982, and it’s going to be a little different this time around.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Lion-Blue Hawk mat battle lining up again for State B-C
While the Kalispell schools gear up for the State AA wrestling meet coming to Flathead High Friday and Saturday, area teams could make noise at the State A and State B-C championships.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Column: A long time coming for Erik the Great
On Sunday at Montana Snowbowl ski area outside of Missoula, Erik Wilson flew 183 feet through the air and under the radar.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Spohnhauer spins Wolfpack into State AA tourney
A third straight stop, a perfect outlet pass and Keifer Spohnhauer’s layup as time expired lifted the Glacier Wolfpack over Missoula Hellgate Tuesday, 45-43 in a State AA boys’ basketball play-in game.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
The Pack has a Price
Price leads Glacier with 11.5 points per game
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Keller, Glacier escape Flathead with win
It was the final crosstown hoops game of the season, and it had the heat.
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Prep Notes: Wildkats ready to forge ahead at Western A
A year ago the Columbia Falls Wildckats soared into the Western A Divisional with a 16-2 record and high hopes. They left 16-4, but with a handful of juniors ready to make amends.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Column: ‘House That Rob Built’ stands up
“The House That Rob Built,” documentary is now available for streaming, and I don’t want to tell you what to do, but if you have an extra eight or nine dollars you might plunk it down.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Pack, up big early, downs Flathead 52-42
Tuesday was Glacier’s turn to break serve, and the Wolfpack boys burned the nets early and put away Flathead late for a 52-42 crosstown basketball victory at the Flathead gym.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Smooth operator
Flathead senior hopes to play in Tuesday's crosstown matchup
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Helena forges win over cold-shooting Bravettes
When Helena’s 44-30 girls’ basketball victory over Flathead had ended, and the home team had suffered through a 12-point second half, first-year Bravettes’ coach Sam Tudor had little to say.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Epperly, Braves go big, handle Helena Capital
Ezra Epperly started things in the right direction and Gabe Adams finished, and the Flathead Braves took a satisfying 58-46 home win over Helena Capital Thursday night.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Whitefish girls on comeback trail with winning season
In the six seasons before Bob Bolem took over as their head coach, the Whitefish Bulldogs girls’ basketball team averaged less than three wins a year.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Column: A dozen wins later, a lot to like in Bigfork
Seven weeks back the Bigfork boys’ basketball team was taking its lumps with back-to-back losses to Deer Lodge and Thompson Falls, and trundling along with a 2-2 record.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Class A State basketball tourney moved to Great Falls
Class A State basketball tourney moved to Great Falls
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Big Knights hold down Wolfpack
A year removed from having two Division I recruits dominating play, the Missoula Hellgate Knights showed up at Glacier High and were still big and still good.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Braves go cold, Butte storms back in second half to win
The Flathead Braves weren’t very deep before losing starting guard Hunter Hickey, but they still played an excellent first half against Butte Saturday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Postponements, venue changes for Valley prep sports continue
A wrestling cancellation by Flathead High and a pair of state basketball tournaments getting moved made Friday another full news day in the Valley.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Sorenson gets Wolfpack going, scores 17
One starter was out with a concussion, two more had foul problems and so the Glacier Wolfpack needed another answer for the Butte Bulldogs on Thursday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Column: Vigen could be pearl of a hire for MSU
Brent Vigen’s first press conference as Montana State’s football coach was Zoomed around the state Wednesday, from a spot vacated rather unceremoniously by Jeff Choate a couple weeks ago.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Flathead’s Crowley played through pain to work the glass
A promising start to her high school career gave way to a frustrating junior season for Flathead High’s Bridget Crowley, but those trials make her senior basketball campaign one to appreciate.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Second quarter blitz dooms Flathead
The Missoula Sentinel Spartans showed why they’re unbeaten Saturday at the Flathead gym, displaying just a little more shooting, defense and poise.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Huge first half carries Wildkats over Bulldogs
The showdown became a bit of a meltdown for the Whitefish Bulldogs Friday, who dropped a 52-34 Northwestern A girls’ basketball game to rival Columbia Falls.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
State AA wrestling coming to Flathead
The State AA wrestling tournament will be in Kalispell after all, the Montana High School Association announced Friday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Bravettes rebound for second win of season
The Flathead Bravettes didn’t take the most direct route to their second win of the season on Thursday, but they have to like the way they rebounded.
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Column: Vikings are making waves on the mat
The Bigfork Vikings have been known for football and basketball championships through the years and now, as winter squalls darken Flathead Lake, they seem about to make their name on the mat.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
COVID-19 postponements are adding up in AA
The varsity and JV boys’ basketball teams from Butte have entered quarantine this week, bringing the number of postponed games in the Western AA to four.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Braves start and finish fast, swamp Bengals
Two days removed from a sobering loss at Helena Capital, the Flathead Braves turned the tables on Helena High, going on big runs early and late in a 51-24 Western AA basketball victory.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Glacier surges past Helena High
Outplayed through the middle of its game Thursday, the Glacier Wolfpack found a way to rally past a talented Helena squad in Western AA girls’ basketball action.
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Out on top: Glacier’s Williams is soccer standout turned all-around hoopster
Kenzie Wiliams can find the open teammate from 50 yards or five feet, depending on the sport, and she ended her soccer career at Glacier High on the highest note: A State AA title.
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Column: Anderson: small frame, big name
There are big names among the Legends Stadium Wall of Fame, and it’s with a large dose of gratitude the powers that be made room for Jeff Anderson.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Glacier wrestlers quarantined; Flathead grapplers still heading to Helena
Glacier High’s wrestling season has hit a road bump with a COVID-19 quarantine that will keep the Wolfpack out of action until next week.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Braves take down Pack; Glacier girls cruise
Not soon after the nightcap of Friday’s cross town basketball doubleheader tipped, Jaxson Olsen had a steal and driving layup to get Glacier off on the right foot.
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Crosstown times four: Wrestling at Flathead; hoops at Glacier
A basketball doubleheader at Glacier, a wrestling twin bill at Flathead, and a Legends Wall of Fame induction to boot. Friday is a big day in Kalispell for high school sports.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Flathead hoops legend Brent Wilson dies at 69
The Flathead Valley lost a giant early Sunday, when Brent Wilson passed away at his home in Yuma, Arizona.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Poe-Hatten siblings give Flathead wrestling a 1-2 punch
If one Poe-Hatten wasn’t enough for Flathead wrestling foes to deal with, now there are two.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Upham steps down as Braves football coach
Flathead High School is looking for a new head football coach after Matt Upham stepped down from the position this week, after two seasons.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Man in the middle: Allen plays pivotal role on a talented Glacier squad
JT Allen comes across maybe as an undersized “five” for a Class AA basketball player, but you need to know: He’s been 6-foot-2 for a long time.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Sanderson makes best of golden opportunity
Sanderson makes best of golden opportunity
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Griz, Cats opt out of Big Sky spring football
The first-ever spring championship football season is over before it begins for the Bobcats and Grizzlies, after Montana State and Montana announced Friday they are opting out of the Big Sky Conference schedule.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Hellgate escapes den with win over Wolfpack
Glacier falls to 1-2 on young season
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Griz, Cats opt out of Big Sky spring football
MISSOULA — The first-ever spring championship football season is over before it begins for the Bobcats and Grizzlies, after Montana State and Montana announced Friday they are opting out of the Big Sky Conference schedule.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Wolfpack goes inside to topple Butte
The Glacier Wolfpack left a big part of its arsenal under wraps Thursday, thumping the Butte Bulldogs 62-42 in boys’ basketball by roaming the paint.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Column: A look back at an oddly fulfilling 2020
I put off doing a best of 2020 column – a Top 10 list that I started half a lifetime ago when I was at the Billings Gazette – until 2021 because, well, I didn’t think much of 2020 and wanted a new slate.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Braves gut out OT win over Big Sky
The Flathead Braves put on a clinic Saturday, finding the open man, causing turnovers and running the open floor. It was a giddy 14 minutes on their home court.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Sanderson makes best of golden opportunity
In early December, Jake Sanderson was taking the ice against such Division I hockey standouts as the University of Denver’s Bobby Brink.
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Bravettes pick up speed but lose to Spartans
Missoula Sentinel showed it’s still a bully on the girls’ basketball block, but the Flathead Braves managed a fourth-quarter highlight you would not have predicted after the first 16 minutes.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Braves, Wolfpack open hoops season in Missoula
Flathead, under new head coach (and longtime assistant) Dirk Johnsrud, opens its season Thursday at Missoula Sentinel; Glacier, with Mark Harkins in his 14th season, is at Missoula Big Sky.
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Pack, Bravettes get season started with conference home games
The Glacier Wolfpack gets to welcome back a lot of familiar faces and the Flathead Bravettes get to unveil. Both girls’ basketball teams open the season at home tonight: Flathead brings in Missoula Sentinel and Glacier plays host to Missoula Big Sky. They switch opponents and go on the road …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Brenden Byrd steps down from Glacier girls’ soccer
Glacier High School will be looking for a new girls’ soccer coach soon, with the Wednesday announcement that Brenden Byrd is stepping down after nine seasons.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Bravettes pin down place in history
The Flathead Wrestling Bravettes are an emphatic 1 and oh. OK, host Glacier didn’t keep team scores and several matches were competed at 120 and 126 pounds. But what took place Saturday afternoon at the Wolf Den is unofficially the first girls’ varsity wrestling dual in the state.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Glacier, Flathead grapplers to start season today
And they’re on the mats. The high school wrestling teams of Flathead and Glacier will get an early start on winter sports with a dual today at Glacier High School. The junior varsity boys wrestle at noon and the boys’ and girls' varsity duals follows at about 1 p.m.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Column: 50 years and a GrizVision have passed
Terry Pugh laughed off the idea that he watched the most recent Camellia Bowl, played on Christmas day in Alabama.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Golden Griz: Flathead players key to UM’s 1969-70 success
While the University of Montana rightly celebrated the 25 year anniversary of its first national football championship, there is another landmark that just maybe put Griz football on the map.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Column: Hoping the Pioneer’s days aren’t numbered
Not that long ago, and a few months before I started working at the Daily Inter Lake, I freelanced a story for MiLB.com(1) on Avery Weems, a sixth-round pick of the Chicago White Sox.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Bravettes go full-court under new coach
One year removed from an amazing run with the Bigfork boys, Sam Tudor takes over a Flathead girls’ basketball program that hasn’t been to state since 2013.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
“New” coach looks familiar to Flathead Braves
Meet the new coach, who looks suspiciously like the old coach. The Flathead Braves of 2020-21 are led by Dirk Johnsrud, who takes over for Ross Gustafson, for whom Johnsrud was junior varsity coach in 2018-19.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
4 starters back mean good things for Pack
Four starters are back for the Glacier girls’ basketball team, and the Wolfpack are among a handful of teams — thanks partly to COVID-19 — that won their last game last season.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Column: New challenges, still the same great numbers
The season is still set to start on or about Jan. 2, and to conclude about three weeks later than usual — March 5-6.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
National Signing Day: Griz are “full”; Cats also land big class
The Montana Grizzlies officially added 19 future players on National Signing Day Wednesday, and the Montana State Bobcats added 20, and where they all fit in may not be clear for a while.
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Glacier boys have big things in store
Coming off a 10-11 season in which the Glacier boys tapered off after a 7-3 start, this season’s Wolfpack basketball team sees big things coming.
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Column: A long wait to get home for Petrino
Montana Lady Griz coach Mike Petrino spent the two weeks leading up to his team’s home opener on the road. OK, not really on the road. But away from home. His oldest of two daughters had hung out with a friend, you see.
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Lady Griz Stiles, Gfeller put away Fighting Hawks
MISSOULA -- The Montana Lady Griz got across a couple thresholds Monday: First win of 2020-21, first win for new head coach Mike Petrino, and in front of what had to be a record-low crowd.
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Column: Picture of a man defined by a voice
Mick Holien, the late former Griz play-by-play announcer, wore a lot of hats in his three-plus decades in Missoula and Polson, but my earliest memory of him is at a Washington-Grizzly Stadium that was less than half the size it is now.
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Grizzlies play-by-play man Holien fondly remembered
Montana Grizzly fans are melancholy this Thanksgiving week with the news that Mick Holien...
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Longtime Griz play-by-play man Mick Holien dies
Montana Grizzly fans are melancholy this Thanksgiving week with the news that Mick Holien passed away at age 76.
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Longtime Griz play-by-play man Holien dies
Holien had been at the University of Montana for 31 years
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Column: Thankful for games in the unknown
As Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us, with our travel restrictions real and imaginary, it’s probably a good time to take stock of 2020.
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Column: Elliott making most of days at MSU-Billings
The year 2020 has been one for the books, from a 60-game Major League season to basketball in a bubble. Now on the horizon: The fourth-year sophomore, which is what Flathead High graduate Sam Elliott is looking at next season. If there is a season. There won’t be one this …
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Glacier’s Hernandez first-team All-State
There’s a star-studded cast of All-State volleyball players in Class AA, and one of the ones at the top is Glacier’s Morgan Hernandez.
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Column: It might be the toughest job on turf
Under a November sky and the specter of an ailing dad and a berth in the State AA semifinals, Patrick Rohrbach had a cramp.
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Pack brings Rendina to face speedy Billings Senio
The Glacier Wolfpack’s next opponent is an amalgam of Missoula Big Sky and Missoula Sentinel: Billings Senior has a really good dual-threat quarterback and speed to match on the outside.
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Double duty for Diede
For more than a few weeks earlier in 2020 Ethan Diede thought seriously about giving up football. Now that he’s playing both ways for the 6-2 Glacier Wolfpack, which faces Billings Senior today in a State AA quarterfinal, he wonders what he might have missed.
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COLUMN: Like spring in Montana? Just you wait
Ah the sounds of spring. The ball hitting the bat, a pitch popping a mitt, Bobby Hauck saying, “Number 28, you are (blank)ing up my drill!”
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Bulldogs three-peat as state champs
Brandon Mendoza called it a high school career in style Saturday, scoring a sneaky goal that gave the Whitefish Bulldogs a 2-0 cushion in the State A boys’ soccer championship.
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Glacier goes to the air to rout Big Sky, 63-0
A week after a numbing loss, the Glacier Wolfpack footballers showed how quick they can run out on an opponent — and pass over the top of them for that matter.
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Valley playoff teams hit road; Eureka hosts Glasgow
The playoffs are upon us and a couple Valley teams are putting in the miles: Columbia Falls had to go 475 to get to today’s State A playoff game against top-ranked Billings Central, for example.
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The School of Rocco
As Glacier prepares for a State AA playoff game tonight against Missoula Big Sky, Rocco Beccari, the 6-foot-3, 250-pounder is one of the team’s three captains.
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Column: Thomas knows where he's coming from
Back in August, when I began writing preseason stories about the Flathead and Glacier football teams, I asked Flathead coach Matt Upham for a couple impact Braves and he mentioned Alec Thomas.
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Wolfpack goes deep in sweep of Flathead
The usual suspects did their damage for Glacier Tuesday, in the Wolfpack’s straight-sets win over host Flathead in the final crosstown volleyball match of the regular season.
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Flathead’s Rumsey Eash All-State
It was a little different State AA cross country race we saw Saturday, in that Bozeman’s girls somehow overcame Missoula Hellgate and Bozeman’s boys undershot a 13th straight title.
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Sempf, Erickson help Wildkats run to 2nd at Rebecca Farm
With Hannah Sempf surging to third and Lara Erickson taking fourth the Kats scored 70 points at Rebecca Farm. Laurel was just a little better, scoring 50 to take home the team title.
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Reynolds return helps Lions repeat in B
Lochridge third for Eureka boys; Townsend wins girls’ crown
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Braves lose to Big Sky, end up 0-7
MISSOULA — They scored a season high and held their first lead of 2020, but the Flathead Braves couldn’t stop Colter Janacaro and the Missoula Big Sky Eagles Thursday.
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Wildkats, Erickson chasing State A gold
The Columbia Falls Wildkats wish they were a little stronger heading into the State A Cross Country championships today at 10:30 a.m. at Rebecca Farm. But they’ll keep running.
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Flathead searches for W in Missoula; Glacier hosts Sentinel
They call this time of year “Football Weather,” and the Flathead Braves will get a dose of chilly temperatures Thursday in Missoula, where they’ll face the Big Sky Eagles.
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Column: Lions’ harriers still on hunt
Andrew Gideon hopes his seventh year as Eureka’s cross country coach ends like his sixth, which means a State B boys’ championship.
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Glacier soccer teams hope to keep magic going on road
Wolfpack teams take on Hellgate, Bozeman in semifinal matches
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Wolfpack turns corner on Billings West boys
The Glacier boys had the lead, then they lost it, and then they won their State AA quarterfinal soccer game in the most unlikely fashion Saturday: With a corner kick.
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Brisendine bomb seals Glacier girls’ win
Legends Stadium has its name for a reason, and to the list we might someday add the likes of Glacier midfielder Reagan Brisendine.
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Rendina, Pack put away stubborn Flathead
Midway through the third quarter a slumbering Flathead offense came awake, and Friday’s crosstown football battle at Legends Stadium had the makings of a photo finish.
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Whitefish takes overdog status into first round
The Whitefish soccer teams head to Smith Fields today with wins on their minds and quite possibly brooms in their hands.
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Flathead, Glacier meet for 14th time in crosstown clash
The 14th crosstown football battle between Flathead and Glacier may not look awesome on paper, but these games are less predictable than others under the Friday Night Lights.
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Winter sports delayed in hopes of flattening the curve
Basketball practices had been set to start Nov. 19, with wrestling and swimming drills beginning two days later.
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Start of winter sports pushed back to January
MHSA moves start of winter sports back to January
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Pop-up football game dazzles in Polson
Of all the numbers that jumped out of last week’s pop-up football game between Bigfork and Polson, the best might be the 300 or so minutes it took to pull it together, after Polson announced its homecoming game against Stevensville was canceled.
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Pack cruises to crosstown volleyball win
Matches are at a premium for Class AA teams and so are wins, so Glacier Wolfpack volleyball coach Christy Harkins was happy to see her team make short work of Tuesday’s crosstown battle.
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MHSA pushes start of winter sports back to January
HELENA – The Montana High School Association decided Tuesday to move the start of winter sports for state high schools into January, with practices beginning Dec. 7.
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No limit for Skye
Skyleigh Thompson’s 56 career goals at Flathead have earned her a soccer scholarship to the University of Montana.
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Thompson flurry helps Flathead salvage soccer split
Senior Day started cool and ended up blustery with a blizzard of Skyleigh Thompson goals, while Flathead’s soccer teams split a doubleheader against Butte at the Kidsports Complex.
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Big-play Bulldogs too much for Flathead
The Flathead football team scored a couple touchdowns and unleashed a good-looking outside zone play Friday, but it was the Butte Bulldogs that came up with most of the big plays.
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Glacier heads to Helena for marquee AA matchup
Glacier and Helena High have eight wins between them, and will combine for the marquee Class AA football game of the week in Helena – with apologies to the venerable Hellgate-Sentinel game down at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. At Legends Stadium, Flathead will look for its first win against a Butte team …
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That was a week; the kids can play
It was quite a week last week, and that was before I found myself witness to a birthday party/dart tournament that chased me from my favorite table in Missoula – well before that party ended in fisticuffs.
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Flathead’s Mercer, Glacier boys third at AA state golf
The fairways narrowed and not many putts for fell for the Glacier boys Friday, though the Wolfpack took home the third-place trophy from the State AA championships.
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Rendina runs for 7 TDs against Hellgate
The Glacier Wolfpack didn’t have such an easy time down the stretch Thursday night, though the going certainly got easier for Jake Rendina. The junior running back set school records with 275 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground in the 4-0 Pack’s 54-38 win over Missoula Hellgate at MCPS …
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Glacier’s Avery tied for second after first round of AA state golf s’s
At the end of 18 holes Glacier’s boys were in a tight race for the title, putting four players in the 70s and sitting at 308 strokes, tied with Bozeman’s Gallatin High in second place. In first was Missoula Sentinel at 305. Bozeman High built a big lead in the …
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Unbeaten Pack gets week started on road against Hellgate
The Flathead Braves didn’t have the best time a week ago playing Helena Capital, and the task doesn’t get easier Friday with unbeaten Helena High making a visit to Legend Stadium.
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Whitefish golfers set sights on state titles
A year ago the Whitefish Bulldogs’ boys golf team fired a 694 and finished a distant fourth to Laurel at the State A meet
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Glacier boys eye hardware; Flathead has medalist threats
One thing is for sure about the State AA golf championships set for Thursday and Friday in Missoula: It’ll be better conditions.
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Column: An excellent way to use up your Saturday
While Columbia Falls’ Maddie Robison lights up the scoreboard and Niels Getts pulls soccer-football double duty, the Whitefish Bulldogs just roll on down the pitch.
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Rendina keys Wolfpack win
The Glacier Wolfpack got half the start it wanted Friday — the turnovers, but not the points — so instead of using Jake Rendina to protect a lead, it used the 230-pounder to build one.
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Glacier, Flathead focus on do-it-all QBs in Week 3
As the Glacier Wolfpack gear up for a home game against Missoula Big Sky, head coach Grady Bennett is well aware of the Eagles’ 205-pound do-everything quarterback, Colter Janacaro.
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Column: MHSA report: So far, so good (and keep it up)
Aside from the prospect of having Zoom speech and debate meets in December, fall sports for the Montana High School Association seem to be plugging along.
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Mercer taking advantage of extra time on the course
All of us had our lives altered greatly by the COVID-19 pandemic, and most often in a negative way, but for Marcella Mercer there was a silver lining.
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Turnovers doom Braves in home opener
The Flathead Braves extended the fourth quarter and gave themselves some chances at a Western AA football win Friday, but the ball kept getting away.
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Flathead, Glacier hope to bring the smoke
Time for a little Friday Night Smoke, since the games in the Valley and elsewhere – which are still on as of this writing – will be played under less than ideal conditions thanks to massive wildfires.
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Big 10 gets antsy in the pocket(book)
The Big 10 has long been the conference of I-formations and straight ahead run plays, and you know what else you see a lot of in that league? Punting.
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Pack pulls away from Capital in fourth quarter
Once the Glacier Wolfpack drew even in the punt snap snafu department Saturday, things started looking up.
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The Pack wants back in the hunt
The Glacier Wolfpack football team went 5-6 in 2019, then saw two seniors land scholarships to play at the University of Montana.
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Braves mix in new faces, aim higher in 2020
The Flathead Braves fell off from their surprise run to the 2018 State AA championship game – a 20-14 loss to Billings West – to two wins last fall.
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Off and running: Area harriers head to Rebecca Farm this weekend
Rebecca Farm will be a busy place this weekend. It’s a popular spot for big cross country meets, including the 2020 state championships set for Oct. 24, but because of COVID-19 there will be two smaller ones in the coming days.
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Here's to more record-setting Friday nights
On a perfect August Friday night in Columbia Falls, things got downright offensive – but Jaxon Schweikert, coach of the host Wildcats, submits that his team played excellent D.
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Libby, Whitefish get football rolling in Valley
Friday Night Lights are back in the Flathead Valley and Northwest Montana, though a limited number of fans can watch the games in Libby and Columbia Falls and Thompson Falls.
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Braves, Wolfpack football teams rounding into shape
The familiar sounds of fall were around Legends Stadium and Glacier High School Wednesday, where both of Kalispell’s Class AA football teams kept going through the paces ahead of the 2021 season.
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Local AA gridders off and practicing
Football practices just began for Kalispell’s two Class AA schools but things are looking up – if for no other reason than the athletes are outside, getting some long-awaited reps.
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Kahle making habit of strong finishes
It is true that Cameron Kahle needed a birdie on 18 last weekend to win the Whitefish Lake Golf Club championship, and that he got it, but it isn’t the highlight of his young career.
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MHSA approves conference only fall schedule
The Montana High School Association executive board passed a motion by Class AA to cancel all nonconference games for fall sports on Thursday in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but plenty of questions remain.
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Bigfork elevates Benn to head football coach
From head coach to assistant to athletic director and now back to head football coach is Jim Benn, who was approved Wednesday to take over the Bigfork Vikings’ program.
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Twins win district tourney
The Glacier Twins beat the Bitterroot Bucs in a 6-5 squeaker Sunday to win the Western District A title and advance to the state tourney.
HUNGRY HORSE NEWS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Triplet threats: Ben and Jack Corriveau bolster solid Lakers
In the span of about six minutes in 2001 the Corriveau family grew by three: Mike and Susie became the proud parents of triplets named Jack, Marie and Ben.
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Twins advance to state
There are more efficient formulas than, “wait for a crooked number in the sixth inning,” but the Glacier Twins don’t need to fix what isn’t broken.
WHITEFISH PILOT | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
In Drish, the Lakers have their anchor
This story begins several summers ago when the Drish kids were visiting their grandparents in Kalispell. The American Legion Lakers’ summer camp coincided with their visit and the three boys were very interested.
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For Twins’ Price, nine is just fine
Last year Kevin Slaybaugh noticed that the Glacier Twins Legion baseball team had the perfect No. 9 hitter in Jack Price: Fast, can bunt like nobody’s business and doesn’t mind moving a guy up a base.
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MHSA says fall sports are on
The Montana High School Association said all systems are go Monday, with executive director Mark Beckman releasing a statement confirming sports will happen, with certain requirements pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lakers win second straight at State AA
HELENA - One day after a strong start on the mound Katie Brown hit for the cycle in the Kalispell Lakers' 11-6 win over Bozeman at the State AA Legion baseball tournament at Kindrick field Wednesday. Brown legged out a triple in the first and hit two-run doubles in the …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Neighbor, Mahomes join Royals ownership group
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Fritz Neighbor and Pat Mahomes were announced as new members of the Kansas City Royals' ownership group Tuesday, giving the 2015 World Series championships a combined one NFL and Super Bowl Most Valuable Player. The distinctions don't end there: Mahomes' father Pat had a lengthy Major …
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Marlins mess gets bigger
MIAMI - Four more members o the Miami Marlins have tested positive for the coronavirus after the latest round of testing, sources familiar with the situation confirmed to ESPN. the Marlines have now had 17 people test positive in the past five days. On Monday, the total of confirmed cases …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
MHSA says fall sports are on; Flathead, Glacier ADs on board
The Montana High School Association said all systems are go Monday, with executive director Mark Beckman releasing a statement confirming sports will happen, with certain requirements pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lakers win opener at State AA
HELENA - The Kalispell Lakers got a solid pitching performance from Katie Brown and beat the Great Falls Electrics 9-4 in the first found of the State AA Amarican Legion baseball tournament at Kindrick Field Tuesday.
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Neighbor gets shelled
The Montana baseball team lost its first game after a two-week break to the hated MSU Bobcats Saturday, sending the entire team off to Greekfeast to drawn their sorrows on Marshall Mountain.
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Maine Man: Nuce stood out in 2 seasons at Glacier
Kalispell might not be a metropolis to many but for someone coming from Winthrop, Maine, the difference was stark.
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Lakers sweep Scarlets
Tuesday was terrific for the Kalispell Lakers, who pinned a 5-0 shutout on the Billings Scarlets to sew up a doubleheader sweep and a AA Legion baseball series win at Griffin Field.
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Big inning, big rain: AA Lakers top Twins ahead of downpour, cancellation
MISSOULA – First came the rally, then the deluge – and then the Missoula County Health Department rained on the rest of the Mavericks Memorial American Legion tournament.
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Inside or out: Tiana Johnson carving out career at Sac State
As Tiana Johnson remembers it, she was in middle school and her sister Danika was toiling inside for the Flathead Bravettes’ basketball team.
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Glacier tabs Moore as cross country coach
Glacier High School athletic director Mark Dennehy on Wednesday announced the hiring of Cody Moore as the Wolfpack’s newest cross country coach.
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Barnhart breezes: Flathead athlete shakes off loss of senior season
In a more perfect world Jessica Barnhart would have been dropping her sprint times all May, culminating in a state championship showdown with Billings West’s Maddie and Willa Albrecht last weekend.
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Twins, Loggers boast talented Legion rosters
Kevin Slaybaugh is new to the position of head coach and Kelly Morford is a veteran, and the two have their talented Class A American Legion teams ready to battle for the belated 2020 season.
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Setting course: Glacier’s Sophie Smith is headed to Naval Academy
For the longest time Sophie Smith, soccer and softball and academic standout at Glacier High School, had her sights set on Stanford.
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Brawlers reached highest point in 2008
There have been a lot of great wrestling teams out of Flathead High School, where after a long gap broken up only by the 1973 squad – eight state championships were brought home from 2004-18.
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Legion national organization cancels all baseball sponsorship
The American Legion announced Sunday that it is withdrawing all sponsorship for Legion baseball activities for 2020, but the upcoming season for Montana teams appears to still be on.
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Flathead senior Brian Wells packed a bunch of highlights into 6 weeks in 2018
Basketball season didn’t go well, football season ended in week three and the tennis campaign was over before it started.
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Flathead alum Osweiler overhauls weight room
The original plan was to come up to the Valley in the winter, but then daughter No. 2 arrived in November.
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Wolfpack found magic in 2016-17
The Glacier Wolfpack boys’ basketball team of 2015-16 weren’t anything to write home about – hurt by a key injury the squad struggled to three league wins under head coach Mark Harkins, who had run Glacier’s program since the school’s doors opened in 2007.
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Whitefish duo won’t get a sequel
What Whitefish tennis coach Pat Dryden calls “the perfect duo” happened by accident, though Olivia Potthoff and Aubrey Hanks have known each other since before kindergarten.
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Flathead tabs Johnsrud as next boys’ coach
Dirk Johnsrud, a longtime assistant basketball coach at Flathead High School, has been recommended to coach the Braves’ varsity boys’ basketball team.
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Flathead tabs Johnsrud as next boys’ coach
Dirk Johnsrud, a longtime assistant basketball coach at Flathead High School, has been recommended to coach the Braves’ varsity boys’ basketball team.
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Local ADs reaction to cancellation
Moments after Gov. Bullock’s press conference detailing the phased reopening plan for the state Wednesday, the Montana High School Association issued a statement canceling spring sports.
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‘Tank’ keeps advancing toward results
While Brooks Michaels throws a shot around his grandmother’s back yard and looks forward to going to the same college as his brother Bret, we are left to ponder.
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Russell Muscle: A determined Flathead senior sets sights on Naval Academy
As Tanner Russell pushes toward another goal – flying a Hornet or Sea King, maybe – it would serve to take stock of his determination.
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Legion Baseball cancels national, regional tournaments
American Legion Baseball announced Tuesday that is cancelling its national tournament as well as all of its eight regional tournaments for 2020, amid worries about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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American Legion Baseball announced Tuesday that is cancelling its national tournament as well as all of its eight regional tournaments for 2020, amid worries about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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The one that counted: Hoopsters recall the Braves’ 1988-89 title season
If you’d asked at the time, probably nobody would have guessed that the 1989 State AA boys’ basketball title would be the Flathead Braves’ last.
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Hoopsters recall the Braves’ 1988-89 title season
If you’d asked at the time, probably nobody would have guessed that the 1989 State AA boys’ basketball title would be the Flathead Braves’ last.
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Mood at Glacier: Hoping to coach
The Glacier coaching staff is staying optimistic, and that starts with activities director Mark Dennehy being hopeful of a positive outcome to the novel coronavirus CODIV-19 that has brought athletics in Montana to a standstill.
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Eureka’s Kindel sparks interest of Idaho Vandals
It’s not Montana, but there are many Montana connections and either way Eureka standout Jake Kindel is stoked to be an Idaho Vandal.
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Surreal scene as state tournament ends early
The unreal scene from Friday night at Montana’s state basketball tournaments – teams battled in the semifinals not knowing it was their final game – had given way to uncertainty Saturday morning.
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Surreal scene as state tournament ends early
The unreal scene from Friday night at Montana’s state basketball tournaments – teams battled in the semifinals not knowing it was their final game – had given way to uncertainty Saturday morning.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Surreal scene as state tournament ends early
The unreal scene from Friday night at Montana’s state basketball tournaments – teams battled in the semifinals not knowing it was their final game – had given way to uncertainty Saturday morning.
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No ordinary player: Glacier’s Aubrie Rademacher leads on and off the court
If there was a game where Aubrie Rademacher was really going to bring the pain, it would have been last Saturday morning against Butte.
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Western AA boys: Butte bounces Glacier in heartbreaker
MISSOULA — The Glacier boys didn’t figure on sitting out the State AA tournament but that’s what has happened – a hot-shooting bunch of Butte Bulldogs bounced them from Divisionals Saturday.
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Western AA girls: Wolfpack earn fourth straight trip to state
MISSOULA – A ticket to the State AA tournament in hand, the Glacier Wolfpack can be forgiven for looking a little flat in a 50-42 loss to Missoula Hellgate Saturday night.
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Glacier girls rally vs. Helena High; Bravettes lose to Missoula Sentinel
MISSOULA — No trends were bucked on the girls’ side of the Western AA Divisional, where Glacier joined the other three higher-seeded teams as first-round winners Thursday.
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Glacier boys in Western AA semis; Flathead falls to Capital
MISSOULA — Weston Price was right on Thursday at the Western AA Divisional, powering the Glacier Wolfpack past Helena 42-35 in a first-round basketball game.
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Western AA divisional hoops tip off today
It’s not just bad pennies that turn up, especially in the Western AA, where it seems like every school’s divisional opener is against the team they just played.
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Capital pulls away from stubborn Braves
For a quarter of their Western AA boys basketball tussle with Helena Capital Saturday, the Flathead Braves switched roles with the powerful Bruins.
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Divisionals open today in Ronan, Hamilton
With the exception of the Western A boys, the divisional basketball tournaments look very evenly matched on paper.
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Glacier ready to host Crosstown II as teams trend up
As the second crosstown basketball battle of the season nears, it appears the girls’ programs from Flathead and Glacier are trending up.
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Vasquez victories, Flathead takes 2nd
BILLINGS – While Flathead’s Brave Brawlers were sweating out a second-place finish in the team race at the State AA wrestling tournament, one of their crosstown rivals kind of just breezed on through.
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Glacier, Flathead swimmers form united front for state meet
Karen Bouda’s focus is on the relays this weekend for the State swimming championships in Great Falls, with a couple individual races in the back of her mind.
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Glacier swim captain Caroline Dye ready for her next act
Caroline Dye is one of the fastest girls in a pool around these parts and it’s been that way for a long time, but there was a stretch there where it wasn’t going swimmingly.
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Big chances for state titles among Flathead Valley wrestlers
Flathead pushed 19 wrestlers through to the State AA wrestling tournament Friday and Saturday at the Billings Metra, which is solid.
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Flathead wrestler Rieke has been grounded too long
A senior with the goal of being a commercial pilot, Flathead’s Garett Rieke has his feet on the ground when it comes to athletics.
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