Sports
Celebrating Northwest Montana athletics with timely coverage of high school, college, and community sports.
Let that soak in
The Glacier Range Riders are off to the best start in franchise history.
Range Riders blank Voyagers
The Glacier Range Riders rode a set of early runs backed by strong pitching to a 2-0 victory over the Great Falls Voyagers at Flathead Field on Tuesday in Pion…
PaddleHeads' late rally dooms Riders
The Glacier Range Riders led the Missoula PaddleHeads after an Austin McNicholas homer at the bottom of the fourth inning, but the visitors battled back to win 5-3 in Pioneer League baseball Sunday at Flathead Fiel…
Sullivan, Rohrbach help West to Shrine win
GREAT FALLS — Hamilton’s Tyson Rostad ran for three scores and passed for another, and the West won the 75th Montana Shrine Game 40-21 Saturday night at Memorial Stadium.
Riders in the Storm
If you are a baseball player born and raised in the Pelican State, you’ve seen some weather. Not like this.
Legion: A Lakers 2-2 at Rein Memorial
BOZEMAN — Four different Helena players had two hits and two or more RBIs, and the Reps ate up a 5-0 deficit to beat the Kalispell A Lakers 12-7 Saturday at the Howard Rein Legion tournament.
Pioneer League: Range Riders down PaddleHeads Friday
The Glacier Range Riders didn’t stay down for long Friday, with Austin McNicholas’ two-run triple highlighting a four-run first inning in a 9-4 Pioneer League win over Missoula at Flathead Field.
Bulldogs’ Bodie Smith enjoying Shrine week
One of the many cool things about Montana’s annual Shrine Game — the 75th game is Saturday night in Great Falls — is that the rosters are announced on Dec. 25.
Bigfork standout Guse pulls double duty during All-Star season
Braeden Guse’s competitive fire burned hot last fall, when he and the Bigfork Vikings kept winning football playoff games on the road and earning a shot at the…
Twins need extra inning to complete sweep of Bucs
FLORENCE — The Glacier Twins first made short work of the Bitterroot Bucs, then had to work extra to complete a doubleheader sweep in Class A Legion baseball Tuesday.
Range Riders open Flathead Field with 9-4 loss
It was rainy, it was cold and it was cut short by a third. The first-ever home game for the Glacier Range Riders didn’t go exactly as planned, including the f…
AA Lakers split with Bozeman again
BOZEMAN — James Moody went 4-for-4 with a double, stole home for the first of his three runs and drove in three runs as the Kalispell Lakers beat Bozeman 19-9 to earn a split of their AA Legion doubleheader Sunday.
Pioneer League: Range Riders fall Sunday; home opener Tuesday
GREAT FALLS — The rain delay was perfectly timed, if it had been permanent.
A Legion: Mariners get sweep, Twins rained out
POLSON — Sharp pitching performances and Dawson DuMont’s big day at the plate helped Mission Valley sweep a Class A Legion doubleheader from Kalispell Sunday, 9-0 and 4-1.
PL: Voyagers square series with Range Riders Saturday, 16-5
GREAT FALLS — The Great Falls Voyagers struck back at Glacier again Saturday, riding four hits from Tavis Brunson and four runs batted in by Andy Atwood to a 16-5 Pioneer League victory at Centene Stadium.
AA Lakers split doubleheader with Bucks
BOZEMAN — Max Holden threw a five-inning one-hitter, and the Kalispell AA Lakers sent 13 hitters to the plate in that fifth inning to down the Bozeman Bucks 13-0 in the first game of a Legion baseball doubleheader.