Articles Written By: Aaric Bryan
POLSON — The Lady Pirates kept their playoffs hopes alive with a 5-1 win in Bigfork Thursday. The win was the first conference win for the Lady Pirates since beating Columbia Falls 1-0 in October of 2008 and should give the crestfallen Lady Pirates, who were coming off a tough last-minute loss to Li...
BIGFORK — Two Pirates celebrated their birthdays by scoring goals in Polson’s 6-0 Northwestern A rout of the Vikings in Bigfork Thursday, but their best birthday maybe yet to come. Sean Hart and James Larson each scored a goal on their birthday to help the Pirates improve to 2-0-1 in conferenc...
PABLO — The Mission cross country team continued to raise the bar at the Ronan Invitational Saturday. “We had some great PRs and breakthrough races,” Mission coach Patrick Murphy said. Leading the Mission breakthrough runners on the 3-mile course at the Silver Fox Golf Cou...
ARLEE — The luck of the draw kept the Arlee Scarlets out of the championship rounds of their own tournament Saturday. The Scarlets went 2-1 in the morning pool play at the Arlee Spike It Tournament Saturday, but failed to advance because both the Charlo Lady Vikings and the Lincoln Lady Lynx went un...
ARLEE — The ending may have been the same for the Lady Vikings, but the story leading up to it was definitely different at the Arlee Spike It Tournament. The Lady Vikings were sent to the consolation match from the Spike It tourney with a 10-15, 11-15, 10-6 loss to the Drummond Lady Trojans in the s...
Let me begin by saying this will be the first and last time I ever bring up fashion in any article or column. But like most guys I have a favorite T-shirt. One for some reason that I like to wear and is often bumped a spot or two in my rotation. My favorite is a Mission Bulldogs shirt. There’s a cou...
CHARLO — If the sixth-ranked Vikings weren’t dangerous enough already, they added one more weapon to their loaded arsenal in a 55-12 Western C blowout of the Victor Pirates. Prior to their first home game of the season against the Pirates Friday, the Vikings had only 89 yards in the air on 8-f...
MISSION — The Lady Bulldogs turned around three years of misfortune by thrashing the Deer Lodge Lady Wardens in three sets, but not one of their players is going to step up and take credit for the win. Before the Lady Bulldogs’ 25-10, 25-22, 25-15 homecoming win against the Lady Wardens Thursd...
Bulldog football is back. The much-maligned Mission Bulldogs grinded out a 40-13 win over Thompson Falls in front of a large homecoming crowd Friday night to win their first conference game since 2006 and their first homecoming since 2005, beat the Bluehawks for the first time in nine years and serve warn...
POLSON — The Lady Pirates had their first conference victory in more than two years yanked away from them in the final seconds in a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to Libby. At home Thursday, the Lady Pirates scored two early goals in their conference opener, but watched the state’s top scorer erase th...
