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Riding into 2026
Jonah Giblin is a rookie pitcher for the Glacier Range Riders, but he’s not a stranger to Kalispell and Glacier Ba…
Idaho tips MSU for women's Big Sky title
BOISE, Idaho — Montana State wiped out most of a fourth-quarter, 11-point deficit, but the comeback bid fell short as Idaho claimed the 2026 Big Sky Conference Championship with a 60-57 win over the Cats in Boise …
Bulldogs, Vals and Chiefs head to State A
Young, hungry, and tested. After a 16-6 season, the Lady Bulldogs out of Whitefish have grown into a contending team, earning a spot in the Class A State Tourn…
Full Count: Bulldog spirit exemplifies young squad
When we last checked in with Bob Bolam and the Whitefish girls basketball program, they were on the verge of breaking a state tournament drought in 2021.
Griz championship bound after win over Portland St.
BOISE, Idaho — For the third consecutive year the Montana Grizzlies will play for the Big Sky men’s basketball championship.
Bobcat women survive EWU in Big Sky semis
BOISE, Idaho — Montana State’s Issy Bunyan inbounded the ball directly across from the Bobcat bench with 14.3 seconds to play. The Bobcats trailed 69-66.
Poster Player of the Week: Avery Orme
This week’s Poster Player of the Week, presented by Corwin Motors, goes to Avery Orme of the Whitefish Lady Bulldogs.
Big Sky: Williams scores 40, Griz move into semis
BOISE, Idaho — Money was money, again.
Western A boys: Dillon holds down Ronan in final
HAMILTON — They may have started their season ugly, but it was the third-seeded Dillon Beavers who held up the first-place trophy at the Western A Divisional, …
Lady Griz squeak by NAU at Big Sky Tourney
BOISE, Idaho — It was an all-available-hands-on-deck kind of day for the Montana women’s basketball team, and coach Nate Harris’s players delivered a win on Saturday in the first round at the Big Sky Conference Cha…
Lady Lions, Lions drop Western B loser-outs
PABLO — Saturday was unkind to the Lions, as both the Eureka boys and girls basketball teams fell in loser-out play at the Western B Divisional basketball tournament.
Western A girls: Whitefish takes 3rd
Freshman Avery Orme and sophomore Allie Shors combined for 28 points and Whitefish defeated Bigfork 39-37 in the girls consolation game at the Western A Divisi…
Saturday morning: Vals, Bulldogs rally to make State
HAMILTON — Trailing by eight points with just over four minutes remaining, Paeten Gunlock willed the Bigfork Valkyries to a 46-43 victory against Browning Saturday morning at the Western A Divisional.
Saturday morning: Browning, C-Falls boys bow out
HAMILTON — Butte Central and Frenchtown made it all-Southwest A boys consolation game with wins Saturday.
Western A girls: Bigfork, Whitefish fall in semis
HAMILTON — Paeten Gunlock came out of the gates hot, but Jezzy Palmer and Mason Quinn turned it up a notch in the second half and the Frenchtown girls defeated Bigfork 43-34 on Friday evening.
All-Big Sky men: PSU's MIller MVP; MSU's Miller first-team
BOISE, Idaho — The Portland State Vikings took home some pre-tournament plunder