The most impressive thing Victor coach Brandon Howell saw on the football field Saturday wasn’t the score. It was the fact that his Pirates never gave up and came […]
Sports
The seventh annual Bitterroot Classic Triathlon was held Saturday. The race featured a 750-yard swim in the Bitterroot Aquatic Center’s pool, a 20K bike ride up and around Tammany Loop […]
Hamilton sweeps Livingston, Belgrade
The Hamilton girls and boys soccer teams topped a couple of tough teams from the east on Friday and Saturday. The girls defeated Livingston, 3-0, and the boys defeated the […]
Not your average trail ride
The average trail horse and rider travels about three miles an hour, mostly at a walk. They meander over trails and ease up and down hills, wade across creeks and […]
Fenceposts A rite of summer . . . then, and now
It’s hot. Probably the only people who are really excited about this hot dry weather right now are the farmers and ranchers who are putting up hay. This rite […]
Tournament Champs!
Blaze advance to championship
The Bitterroot Blaze made short work of the Unitah Basin Oilers in the Rocky Mountain Football league’s Class AA semi final game in Darby on Saturday night. The Blaze […]
Sr. Pro Rodeo this week
Cowboys and cowgirls of the after 40-set will be in Hamilton Friday and Saturday for the annual Sr. Pro Rodeo. Each day is a separate rodeo and points earned […]
America’s Favorite Trail Horse competitors almost neighbors
Although they are finalists in the same contest, only different divisions, and are both from the Bitterroot; Jo Young and Lori Silcher had never met each other until a couple […]
Blaze advance in playoffs
The Bitterroot Blaze made short work of the Idaho Falls Mustangs in the first-round playoff game on Saturday night. The Blaze won, 34-6, and will host the Salt Lake Oilers […]
Teams from throughout Montana converged on the Bitterroot Aquatic Center for the Bitterroot Swim Team’s meet. This was the first meet of the season for these swimmers. Complete results will […]
Three advance to National High School Finals
The weather at the Montana State High School Rodeo Finals was not the best but that didn’t stop a few cowgirls from the valley from reaching their goal of moving […]
Bucs sweep Red Sox
The Bitterroot Bucs swept the Bitterroot Red Sox in a doubleheader on Thursday night in Hamilton. The Bucs won the first game, 7-3, and then held on to win the […]
2012 Booster Club All-Sports Banquet
On Thursday, May 31, the annual Booster Club All-Sports Banquet took place at Hamilton High School. The evening began with a steak dinner, courtesy of the Hamilton Booster […]
Three Falcons named all state
Three players from the state softball champion Florence Falcons have been designated all state. Pitcher Courtney Byrne, catcher Paige Bodner and first baseman Hayley Cole were honored for their […]
State Jr. High Rodeo Finals held in Hamilton
About 66 junior high students from across Montana gathered at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday for the Montana High School Rodeo Assoc. Jr. High Division State […]
Sports Talk – Class of 2012, time to take your bow
It’s official; the Classes of 2012 have left the building. Their lockers cleaned out, the books turned in; these young adults are now ready to face the next steps […]
Champs!
It took five days instead of three, and another road trip besides the first trip to Anaconda. If you ask the Florence Falcon softball team, it also took a […]
Corvallis sweeps
The last time a Class A team has won both the boys’ and the girls’ championship was in 1992. But now, there will be two new trophies in the […]