Articles Written By: Aaric Bryan
There were no growing pains for the Mission Mountain All-stars at the Fireball Invitational tournament in Polson over the weekend. The newly formed 10U Cal Ripken Baseball team with players from across the valley were able to check their egos at the door and rattle off six straight wins to win the eight-t...
BONNER —The Mission Valley Rockies rallied from behind to defeat the Clark Fork Valley Cougars and earn a spot in the Pioneer Daze championship game at Kelly Pine Park in Bonner. It was the second week in a row that the Rockies had to come from behind to beat the Cougars, but this time they were abl...
Mariners B team remain hot at wooden-bat tournament. The young squad goes 4-1 in Deer Lodge and has won seven of their last nine games. The Mission Valley Mariners B squad continued their accelerated learning curve by going 4-1 at the Mike Walsh Memorial wooden-bat tournament over the weekend. Des...
LIBBY — The Mission Valley Mariners rode the arms of their pitching staff to the championship game of the Big Bucks Tourney Sunday, but when the money was on the line their gloves let them down. The Mariners’ defense, which has been solid up to that point, committed an astounding nine errors i...
Most people wouldn’t even dare to get on a 1,000-pound plus animal that was bred to buck with nothing really to hold you on, except some simple leather rigging and spurs, but when Justin T. Miller was given a chance to ride a bronc for the third time Saturday night at the Polson Fairgrounds, he didn&rs...
ST. IGNATIUS — The Mission Valley Rockies rallied from a two-run deficit in the final innings to defeat the Clark Fork Valley Cougars 5-4. At home Saturday on a rare sunny day, the Rockies were down to their final out in the sixth, when first baseman Dylan Kelley knocked in the game-tying and eventu...
With dark rain clouds surrounding them and flashes of lightning threatening, the Mariners’ bats sparked to life and their veteran pitching staff shut down any flicker of Missoula’s offense to sweep a doubleheader against the Mavs and charge into the busiest stretch of the season. In the 10-0 b...
EUREKA — The Mission Valley Mariners B team’s bats started heating up along with the weather last weekend. The Mariners crushed six home runs to sweep a doubleheader over the Kalispell Lakers at home Friday night. Chris Clary, Cole McArthur, Jake Young and Dalton Mohlzon all went deep in an...
LEWISTOWN — The Mission Valley bats that had been pretty quiet in the spring showed signs of life at the Redbird Round Robin last weekend to help the Mariners come back from Lewistown on the right side of .500. The Mariners went 3-1 at the tournament to improve to 12-10 on the season. The Mariners s...
The Polson Lil’ Lakers couldn’t have picked a better time to win their first game at the 2010 Splash Classic. The 10U team entered Sunday’s bracket play with an 0-3 record and had to play the top-seeded Helena Capital Thunder, who went 3-0 in pool play and allowed only seven runs in the ...
