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RONAN – One of those nights you would just as soon forget about it. The Thompson Falls Blue Hawk boys wound up season play at the Western B divisional tournament in Ronan last week, suffering through a colder-than-cold shooting night in a 69-42 loss to Florence in the first round Thursday, coming back to eliminate Troy 68-29 Friday and finally, falling to a red-hot Anaconda team 79-48 in loser-out play Saturday. Bigfork defeated Loyola in the Western B chipper Saturday and Anaconda then s...
RONAN – The Lady Hawks never quit trying but finally ran out of games to play at the Western B divisional tournament in Ronan last week. Coach Doree Thilmony and her Lady Hawks opened the Western B with a 61-34 loss to Florence Thursday and were eliminated in a 50-48 loss to District 7B rival Eureka Friday. The Hawks finish season play with a 3-17 record, with two of those three wins coming in the last two weeks of the regular season against Class B foes Mission and Troy. Bigfork defeated D...
It was one heckuva ride but the Plains Horsemen were finally pulled off the championship trail for the season in Hamilton and Philipsburg last week. Coach Mike Cole and his Horsemen advanced all the way to the Western C championship game in Hamilton before running into some tough hoop hombres, falling 77-33 to District 14C nemesis Arlee in the title tilt Saturday night. The Horsemen then fell 61-32 in a Monday night challenge game with Manhattan Christian in Philipsburg, meaning Arlee and Man Christian will be the two Western C teams playing...
It’s been a cruel, cruel winter. The winter sports seasons for local high school athletes came to an end last week at divisional basketball tournaments in Ronan and Hamilton. The final teams to make the state tournaments in the coming weeks were determined in Monday night challenge games. In Ronan, the surging Anaconda Copperheads beat back the Loyola Rams 70-33 to claim Western B’s final boys slot into the State B tournament in Missoula March 8-10. The Copperheads will join No. 1 ranked and still undefeated Bigfork, which had survived a double...
With all the beauty that surround us, it is no surprise that tourism is one of the top revenue generating contributors in Montana; being second only to agriculture. Non-resident visitors add money to Montana’s economy through supporting jobs and reducing state and local taxes for its residents. By category, gasoline, lodging and retail sales bring in the most revenue by non-residents in Montana. According to the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Dept. of Commerce, “services” make up 79.7 percent of total employment in Sanders County. Services is co...
