Valley Journal
Valley Journal

Articles Written By: Aaric Bryan

RSI athletes set the bar high in first meets

COLUMBIA FALLS — The Ronan-St. Ignatius track team got their first taste of action with two meets last week — the Frenchtown Quadrangular Tuesday and the Columbia Falls Invitational. On a sunny day Saturday, a rarity for Montana track meets before May, Adessa Durglo won the triple jump and the...

Young Scarlet throwers place in TNT meet

FRENCHTOWN — With most of their upperclassmen teammates taking the ACTs Saturday, the younger Arlee track stars had a test of their own at the Frenchtown TNT track meet Saturday and they passed with flying colors. Sophomore Becca Nelson finished fourth in the javelin and discus, improving on last we...

Bulldogs open season with a pair of splits, Ahlborn goes undefeated

TROY — The Bulldogs’ number one singles player proved that he is ready to take on anyone, no matter the weather. On a cold, snowy day in St. Ignatius last Tuesday, Spencer Ahlborn battled Viking Bridger Mahlum for an 8-6 victory to open the season and playing on a sun-soaked court Saturday in ...

Naethe leads Mack Days through 5 weekends of fishing

The record-breaking number of anglers entered in the 2010 Spring Mack Days had to endure rain, snow, sleet and wind last weekend. The 1,037 anglers have turned in 13,577 trout through five weekend. The second-highest total through five weekends.  Pablo teenager Stephen Naethe leads all anglers wit...

Cold weather, hot start

The Maidens may have played their first game in blizzard conditions, but that didn’t stop them from getting off to a hot start.  The young Maiden squad went 2-1 in their three-game homestand to open the season and are just a couple of base hits from being perfect on the season.  Making ...

Lady Bulldogs bite back after first loss

In the second week of the softball season, teams in the Western B-C learned not to make the Lady Bulldogs angry.  After being handed their first loss of the season Tuesday in a 5-2 error-filled defeat at the hands of rival Thompson Falls, the Lady Bulldogs responded by blowing out Drummond and Eureka...

Young Lady Bulldog squad loses to Lady Lions in first match

EUREKA — The inexperience of the young Lady Bulldogs showed up in a season-opening 5-1 loss to the Lady Lions. For most of the Lady Bulldogs, the match in Eureka Saturday was the first time they have ever played against another team, and they soon found that a competitve match is a far cry from prac...

Winds slow down Mack Days anglers

Nearly 12,000 lake trout have been entered through four weekends of the 11-week 2010 Spring Mack Days. Pablo’s Stephen Naethe, 17, has caught 530 of those mackinaw and leads all anglers. Naethe has also caught the largest of the entries, pulling in a monster weighing just more than 30 pounds. Col...

Six Arlee tracksters place in first meet

MISSOULA — With very few practices behind them a young Scarlet squad scored 26 points to finish in eighth-place in the 15-team field and the Warriors had two individual athletes and two relay teams place at the first track meet of the season. With dark, snow clouds threatening most the day at the Ji...

Head start

When the gun went off to open the track season, the Charlo track team was ready to go. The Vikings finished third in the 15-team field at the Jim Johnson Invitational and the Lady Vikings finished fifth. At Dornblaser Field Wednesday, the Vikings scored 83.5 points to finish behind Class B teams Darby (11...


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