Articles Written By: Jeremy Weber
While the new year may bring thoughts of new starts and prosperity to many, 2011 looks to be a tough year for area ranchers as the number of livestock killed by wolves continues to rise. Last year saw over 100 cattle lost to grey wolves in Montana, a number that looks to rise in 2011 as ranchers are no lo...
Go ahead. Tell Ronan’s Micalann McCrea she throws like a girl. She would take it as a compliment. The fifth-grader at Ronan’s K. William Harvey Elementary, who likes to play football with the boys during recess, proved her skills in Missoula Oct. 4 by winning the 10- to 11-year-old division of...
POLSON — The Pirates have righted the ship. A week after suffering a disappointing last-minute homecoming loss to Columbia Falls, the Pirates bounced back with a crushing 47-12 defeat of the visiting Whitefish Bulldogs. Led by 91 rushing yards from Jake Skelton and 63 yards receiving by Louis Moh...
LIBBY — The momentum that the Chiefs had been building for the last three weeks came to a screeching halt in Libby Friday as Ronan came up short against the Loggers, 38-0 Ronan came into the game riding a three-week winning streak and in search of a second straight win in conference play. It was not...
POLSON — The Lady Pirates found themselves in a tough battle at home Saturday evening as they held off a determined Whitefish team to pick up a four-game win, 23-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-22. In a back-and-forth match that saw both sides overcome large deficits, it was the Lady Pirates who made the right...
LIBBY — Ronan closed out an up-and-down week with a pair of wins Saturday as the Maidens pulled out a five-game, nonconference win at Troy in the afternoon before racing to Libby to down the Lady Loggers in four games. “The Troy game was just too close,” Ronan head coach Naomi Mock said....
WHITEFISH — The Chiefs' cross country team bounced back from a tough meet at Hamilton last week with a pair of personal bests Saturday as Ronan finished third at Whitefish. Cody Johnson just missed the top 10 with an 11th-place finish at the meet as he set a new personal best time of 17:23 while Bra...
POLSON — There are typical cross country races, and then there are the Pirate Duels. Runners had to face a course riddled with obstacles Saturday as the Polson course featured hay-bale hurdles, a sawdust pile, a horse chute and a near-vertical wall of dirt. It was another record-setting day...
Those are the words Ronan head cross country coach Gale Decker used to describe his boy runners this week as they ran at the Hamilton meet without top runner Justin Dusty Bull, who will miss the remainder of the season with a stress fracture in his foot. Dusty Bull began the season injured as well, coming...
ST. IGNATIUS — The momentum from a big win over Columbia Falls Tuesday was not enough to carry the Maidens to victory in St. Ignatius Saturday as Ronan fell to the Lady Bulldogs in three games, 25-16, 25-18, 25-18. Just days after picking up their third conference win of the season over Columbia Fal...
