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Winter sports seasons begin this weekend
KICKING OFF - Winter sports seasons kick off around western Montana this week as wrestling and basketball campaigns commence. Thompson Falls senior Dakota Irvine, who is on the Blue Hawk wrestling team, is pictured punting against Choteau in Philipsburg back on Aug. 31.
Call it an early Christmas gift from the sports gods – the gift of fair competition, of heavenly bodies in motion in friendly battle with like-minded individuals.
Giving the gift of sports once more, the high school seasons for basketball and wrestling start this week across Montana, with a lot of that action likely happening in a gym near you.
In wrestling, the Bob Owen Invitational in Polson will get things started Friday and Saturday, and the Thompson Falls Blue Hawk grapplers will be there. The Owen Invite annually draws one of the toughest fields of teams as Class AA and A teams.
Sanders County's other prep wrestling team, the Plains-Hot Springs Savage Heat will enjoy their first action of the season in the Mission Quadrangular Dec. 12, and Thompson Falls will also participate in that meet.
On the hardwood, Thompson Falls teams travel to Florence Friday for a boy-girl doubleheader while the rest of the basketball teams in Sanders County will play in the Western C Tip-Off Tournament in Ronan Friday and Saturday.
Please refer to the Sanders County Sports Calendar for times and places for those games.
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