Articles Written By: Aaric Bryan
The 75 teams competing in the Pioneer Days 3-on-3 “Jam”boree were too swift to let a little rain ruin their day. As soon as Shocker Squad (men’s open), Give and Go (men’s 6’1” and under) and Desert Horse Rain (coed) won their championships at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday to...
Mariners have a long trip back home from Billings after only being able to push three runs across home plate in two losses at the state tournament. It was like somebody flipped a switch on the Mariners’ high-powered offense at the 2010 State A American Legion State Championship. As soon as the li...
For most a little R&R means rest and relaxation, but for Ronan’s Rick Luchau it meant getting on a wild buffalo. Luchau, who was on 12-day leave from his Army post in the nation’s capital, was one of the six stupidest people in the world to end the three-day rodeo by trying to ride the wil...
A former Mariner legend is adding chapters to an already storied career as he continues to move up the college ranks. Eric Locke, a Mission Valley pitcher from 2004-2008, extended his pitching career by at least another two years by earning a scholarship to Bellevue University in Omaha, Neb. The southp...
BUTTE — An outgoing Pirate linebacker tandem made the most of their final game together. Polson graduates Joe Andrews and Brock Picard terrorized the East’s backfield to help the West storm back from an 18-0 deficit for a 34-18 victory in the 64th annual Montana East-West Shrine Game at the Bu...
WHITEFISH — One bad inning in each of their games at the Montana Babe Ruth Tournament cost the Mission Valley All-Stars a chance at victory The shorthanded 15-year-old Babe Ruth team went 0-4 and failed to make it out of pool play at the 10-team tournament in Whitefish and Columbia Falls last weeken...
The Mission Valley Mariners may need a ride to Billings. The only problem the Mariners had at American Legion Western District A Tournament in Hamilton was getting there. On the ride down to the four-day, eight-team tournament their bus broke down outside of Arlee, but once they arrived in Hamilton they s...
A lot of local hoopsters played a major role in the youth movement at the Flathead 3-on-3 Tournament in Polson last weekend. The majority of the 255 teams that played on the 21 courts in downtown Polson Friday through Sunday were in the youth divisions and most of those divisions had a local team playing ...
POLSON — They made it a little closer than maybe it should have been, but the Mission Valley Mariners secured the number one seed at the Western A District Tournament this week in their final doubleheader of the season. After letting the Missoula Mavericks back in the conference race after being swe...
BUTTE — The Ronan Orange and Black Attack rallied back from an opening loss to make a name for themselves at the 2010 Montana ASA State Championship in Butte this weekend. Absent from last year’s state tournament, the 12U team wanted to make it clear that Ronan was a softball town by winning t...
