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Articles with the Tag: Basketball

Sports program fosters team spirit Sports program fosters team spirit

PABLO – Saturday’s matchup between co-ed teams from Mission and Ronan featured all the hallmarks of any typical basketball game, including dribbles, rebounds, steals, made baskets and celebrations on both benches, but this was no ordinary high school basketball game. It was the first-ever game pl...

Street Ball Street Ball

POLSON –  It has become customary for one weekend every summer, the downtown streets of Polson belong to the echoing sounds of whistles, basketballs bouncing on pavement, the swish of the net and the occasional loud cheer from the crowds.  This year marked the 26th year that Polson’s...

Ballers battle in Bigfork Ballers battle in Bigfork

BIGFORK – Bigfork got the ball rolling, or rather bouncing, on the valley’s 3-on-3 basketball season during the Battle in the Bay tournament, which was organized by Mission Valley 3-on-3. “We had a record turnout and it looks like a record number of fans too,” tournament organizer ...

Senior Olympic games take over Mission Valley Senior Olympic games take over Mission Valley

MISSION VALLEY – In the spirit of Olympic competition, some of the best ageless athletes in the state made their way to the Mission Valley this past weekend to compete in the 33rd Montana Senior Olympics Summer Games. This is the second consecutive year that athletes in age brackets starting at 50 a...

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The Montana High School Association (MHSA) announced Wednesday in a press release that the MHSA Executive Board has hired Polson High School principal Scott Wilson as its next assistant director. Wilson has served in the Polson School District the last 17 years as a teacher, coach, activities director and...

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Track and Field State Track Class C: During the Class C State Track and Field meet in Great Falls, Peyton Lammerding scored a girls’ state second-place medal and an Arlee High School Record in the shot put with a toss of 37-08.5 feet.  All-State selections: Eight individuals from the Polso...

Sports Shorts for May 16, 2018 Sports Shorts for May 16, 2018

Basketball Last week Phillip Malatare, Arlee Warrior basketball All-Star, announced the signing of his national letter of intent to continue his basketball career at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Softball MAC Bulldogs 15 Drummond Trojans 0 The MAC Bulldogs cele...

Mansfield Center seeks participants for basketball exchange in El Salvador

MISSOULA — The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana is accepting applications for 20 Montana professionals and students to serve as citizen ambassadors to El Salvador in a U.S. Department of State youth sports diplomacy program.  The program uses basketball to bridge c...

Kent Chosen MHSA boys basketball ‘Official of the Year’ Kent Chosen MHSA boys basketball ‘Official of the Year’

WOLF POINT - Jeff Kent, a familiar face on the basketball courts in northeast Montana and across the state, was recently honored as National Federation of State High School Association Official of the Year for boys basketball.  Mark Beckman, the executive director of the Montana High School Associati...

Champs again! Champs again!

BUTTE – Dribbling out the last few ticks on the game clock, senior Phillip Malatare chucked the basketball toward the rafters of the Butte Civic Center setting off a court storming by the bench as the Arlee Warriors repeated as the Class C boys basketball state champion on Saturday night by defeating t...


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