Articles Written By: Carrie Pichler
BILLINGS – At Billings the Two Eagle River basketball team dropped their first two games of the season. Game one played against Wyoming Indian School kicked off the Eagles’ falling luck, tumbling to Wyoming 46-70. Two Eagle’s Byron Carpenter scored 11 for the Eagles. Saturday the Eagl...
ST. IGNATIUS – Mission’s Bulldogs played the field well snagging two season opener wins on the basketball court. The Bulldogs eeked by Eureka’s Lions on Friday 69-65. Stuart Grant took the lead scoring 25 followed by teammate Patrick Eichart with 14. Saturday Mission took down Stillwa...
DRUMMOND – Arlee’s Warriors dominated in the Drummond tip-off tournament starting the season with two solid wins on the court. Friday the Warriors faced Drummond in game one walking away with a 70-64 win. Josh Reed led the Warriors scoring 31 points. Patrick Big Sam added 14. Game two on Sa...
POLSON – Local foster care and shelter residents are raising their paws and wagging their tails in hopes Santa will not forget them this holiday season. Whether it’s donating items used by the shelter, cash, foster care, or maybe even to giving one of the animals a loving forever home, facilities...
HELENA — On Dec. 3 the Montana Supreme Court denied a request to consider new evidence made by Chuck Devlin, 63, who is serving a 50-year sentence for the May 2006 kidnapping of an 18-year-old Bigfork woman. Devlin argued in a Nov. 20 petition that a jury would not have convicted him of the kidnappi...
CHARLO – Families had a blast watching the basketball game fundraiser for Les Rice held at Charlo High School on Sunday. Mountain West Co-op took on local farmers and ranchers in what can be considered an “epic game of goofy” with an explosive ending. After falling behind, the Moun...
POLSON – High school teams from near and far hit the mats Saturday as the Pirates hosted an invitational tournament. Along with Polson, valley teams from co-op Mission/Charlo and Ronan also participated. Out of the 14 teams that took part, Polson found their way to a sixth place team finish with a tota...
RONAN — The good folks of Mountain West Co/Op of Ronan will be holding a fundraising basketball game for Coach Les Rice. Rice has been a rock for the Mission Lady Bulldogs basketball team as head coach for 34 years. He’s taken a step back and is now retiring from the game to focus on treatment he...
POLSON — Mission Valley Elks Lodge #1695 held their annual Hoops Shoot Sunday, Nov. 24 in Polson with young basketball athletes coming from around the valley to show their stuff at the rim. Age groups ranged from 8-13, both boys and girls, with possibilities to move on from local lodge competi...
LAKE COUNTY – With football season all wrapped up, several players throughout the valley have been awarded with All-State/All-Conference titles. The awards run in multiple divisions by position with several players receiving more than one title. In the Class 6B division, the Ronan Chiefs came ...
