Articles Written By: Aaric Bryan
RONAN — Last year, the Maidens had one of their most successful seasons in a long time. Unfortunately not many of the players that achieved so much last year will be back this season. The Maidens lost six seniors to graduation from the team that went 13-4 in the regular season and advanced to the fi...
EUREKA — The Lady Bulldogs couldn’t have started the season any hotter. When the Lady Bulldogs made the 130-mile jaunt up north to Eureka Saturday, they made sure to bring their bats. The ping of the aluminum connected with the ball was a familiar sound in the top of the first as the Lady Bull...
ST. IGNATIUS — The Mission tennis coach is counting on a youth movement to propel her team to success this season. Only three varsity boys – all juniors – are returning from last year’s team, who finished third in the state, and three sophomore girls are returning to last year&rsqu...
As if leading the top angler and youth angler wasn’t enough, a Pablo teenager now leads the large fish category too. Stephen Naethe, a two-time Mack Days’ winner, caught a 41.75-inch, 30.4-pound lake trout Sunday to move ahead of Bill Brovold’s 25.8-pound fish caught last week. ...
PABLO — The valley’s best were given one more chance this season to suit up and lace up their basketball sneakers to play the game they love at the 15th annual Mission Mountain Classic Saturday night. Players from Arlee, Mission, Charlo, Ronan, Polson, Bigfork, Hot Springs and Plains wer...
COLUMBIA FALLS — It’s said winning programs don’t rebuild, they just reload. If that’s the case, after last weekend’s Western Montana Little Guy Wrestling Championship, the area’s high school teams should be good for years to come. Six local Little Guy Wrestlers walked ...
The Salish Kootenai College Lady Bison kept their feet on the pedal through the entire American Indian Higher Education Consortium National Basketball Championships and outran the rest of the competition to capture their second national title in a row and their third in the last four years. After being ch...
When all the chips were on the table the Bison were at their best. The Salish Kootenai College Bison outlasted Northwest Indian College, who had beat them three times in the regular season, in a 109-103 epic championship battle at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium National Basketball Champio...
HAMILTON — Eighteen local wrestlers earned championships at the Little Guy Inter-Valley Wrestling Tournament in Hamilton Saturday. Ronan did most of their damage in the younger divisions of the tournament, collecting six of their seven championship in the beginning and novice divisions. The Chiefs e...
Two lucky anglers will have plenty to talk about this week. Bill Brovold and Joe Ferenbach, two of the 860 anglers entered in the 2010 Spring Mack Days, hooked and landed leviathans this past weekend that will be the subject of fish stories for years to come. Brovold, an Alberton fisherman, was taking ...
