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Undersized and underestimated, the Warriors made the improbable at the Class C State Championship not only seem imaginable, but expected as they became one of only four teams out of the 88 Class C teams that started the season to play Saturday night at the Billings MetraPark Rimrock Auto Arena. Though the Warriors, who were the smallest team at the three-day tournament, never took a lead into the fourth quarter, they were at their best in the clutch and advanced to the consolation finals. In the consolation finals against Culbertson, the team the Warriors came from behind to defeat 59-56 in the opening round, Arlee trailed 34-28 heading into the fourth quarter. The Warriors pulled wit...

BUTTE — The Polson Pirates saved the best for last.  Finishing second at divisionals and working through an up and down basketball season, the Pirates put it all together for one final and very successful run.  With just about everyone talking about every other team's possibilities at l...

PABLO — The Lady Bulldogs were outscored 28-10 in the fourth quarter in a pair of losses to end their season at the Western B Divisional Tournament at the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Complex in Pablo. The Lady Bulldogs, who entered the tournament as the third seed from District 7-B, only trailed...

KALISPELL — The basketball season came to an end for the Ronan Maidens, but not without an important victory. Nobody was surprised that the Maidens weren’t in the Northwestern A Divisional title game on Saturday night. But that didn’t take anything away from the joy they felt earning a s...

With the euphoria of their semifinal victory over White Sulphur Springs, seemingly farther than 100 miles away and more removed than three days, a young, short-handed Lady Viking crew pulled together and proved to the favored Lady Trojan team that they were up for the challenge. Determination and good def...

BUTTE — The Charlo Vikings let any chance of playing at the state tournament slip through their fingers, committing 34 turnovers in a 54-35 season-ending loss to Twin Bridges. But attaining a hard-sought after goal and picking up the first Viking victory at the Western C Divisionals in more than a deca...

KALISPELL — Just one bucket short, just one stop away, just a couple of free throws from getting over the hump, the Polson Lady Pirates came oh-so-close to a divisional championship last Saturday night. Polson had the Wildkats right where they wanted them, with both posts fouled out of the game and ...

It was a nice little run while it lasted, the kind that can carry over into next year. But the Ronan boys' fun run ran out of momentum on Monday. With nothing to lose and nobody expecting them to do much, the Ronan Chiefs put together an impressive string of basketball games at last weekend’s Northw...

The story for the Warriors at the Western C Divisional Tournament was the same as last year, but this year they made sure to rewrite the ending — an ending that is still unfinished. At the Maroon Activities Center in Butte last week, the Warriors followed an identical path from last year to a challe...

KALISPELL — They had to work hard at it — and it took a little longer than normal — but the Polson Pirates did punch their ticket to this weekend's Class A state basketball tournament.  The Pirates vaulted into Saturday's Northwestern A Divisional championship game at Glacier High i...