Articles with the Tag: Mission basketball
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...
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PABLO — The Mission Valley area’s best boys and girls basketball players squared off in the 18th annual Mission Mountain All-Star hoops games Friday night at Salish Kootenai College. Players from Polson, Ronan, Two Eagle River, Charlo, St. Ignatius, Arlee, Bigfork, Hot Springs and Plains formed t...
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KALISPELL — Mission’s hoopsters are done for the year after a tough Western B divisional tournament last week at Flathead High School. The Bulldogs fell just short of a third-place finish, battling back from a first-round loss to Bigfork on Thursday to beat Thompson Falls 63-29 on Friday and D...
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HAMILTON — The Mission Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs are headed to the Western B Divisional basketball tournament beginning Thursday in Kalispell after both teams took fourth place at the District 6-B tourney last weekend in Hamilton. The Lady Bulldogs beat Ronan in a play-in game Feb. 12, 47-32, and m...
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ST. IGNATIUS — While head coach Steve Pelletier has only been in Montana four months, he says he loves the area and that St. Ignatius is a “very special place” that reminds him of his hometown — a town where basketball rules all. “The people, the kids, the players, and the st...