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Trotters volleyball improves to 7-0
To say the Plains High Trotters volleyball team is playing well would be like saying the surface of the sun is hot.Understatements on both subjects. For the Trotters, it was another week and more match victories. They won three matches this past week to run their season mark to 7-0. This past week’s victims included St. Regis (3-0), Arlee (3-0) and Darby (3-0) Their broom budget is being tested with all the sweeping going on. The Trotters began the week with a road trip to St. Regis, where they faced the Lady Tigers. They jumped out to a quick 7-1 lead in the first...
Bobcats beat host Plains, 60-28
It’s probably enough to make a grown football coach get misty-eyed: running backs with track speed and wrestler physicality.Those would not be tears of anguish in the eyes of the Superior High football coaching staff. Misty eyes can also be the product of happiness. And after watching his Bobcats beat host Plains 60-28 Friday night in Plains, Superior head coach Jeff Schultz could be excused if he did have tears of joy in his eyes. But Schultz should probably get used to it, with only one of those speedsters in his senior year, Trizten Avilla. The bulk of the young Bobcats will...
Bobcats volleyball team falls at Mission
Not only did the Superior Bobcats volleyball team run into the conference co-leaders this past week, they also had to deal with a power outage. So it went for the Bobcats as they continue to seek their first match win of the season. They began the week Tuesday with a road trip to St. Ignatius where they were lost in three sets to the Lady Bulldogs. This past Thursday, they were scheduled to play a match in Troy, but an electrical power outage to the Troy gym wiped that match out, albeit temporarily. Then, this past Saturday, they hosted the unbeaten Eureka and...
Seeley-Swan outlasts Tigers on homecoming night
Speed, it has been said, kills. When you add power to velocity, it often creates some intense collisions.Such was the case on a splendid, sunshine-bathed day when two of the top Western Conference, 8-player football teams collided in St. Regis. The outcome was some banged up, dazed players on both sides of visiting Seeley-Swan's 40-18 win over St. Regis’ Tigers this past Saturday. Seeley came in with an unblemished, 4-0 victory and first place in the conference for their meeting with St. Regis, which was 3-1 overall and 2-1 in league play. And, to add to the already glorious day, it was Homecoming in...
Hot Springs posts another shutout
There is an interesting parallel between nature and Montana 6-player football. Even if the day starts out cloudy, the sun will come up. If it doesn’t, none of this will matter. And, even if the season gets off to an unusual “cloudy” start, Hot Springs will field a good football team. To wit: after a 0-2 start to the season, the Savage Heat are on fire, again. Friday Hot Springs scorched White Sulphur Springs 59-0 on the Hornets home field, boosting the Heat to 3-2 on the year and running their scoring streak over the past three games to 154-0. Zero, as in...
Lady Tigers get volleyball win over Victor
After losing to unbeaten Plains this past Tuesday, the St. Regis Lady Tigers were looking for a solid volleyball win. They got all they were looking for in their tough, 3-2 match road win over Victor two nights later. The first set was competitive from start to finish, with Victor getting off to an early 5-3 lead, then watching as St. Regis knotted the score at 5-each. The score went back and forth most of the set and was tied again at 20-20 before the Lady Tigers were able to separate themselves from Victor on their way to an opening set 25-21...
Kvelve's Comments: The half-way point
This time fly's thing boggles my mind. Lots of things boggle my mind, but this one gets special attention from the neurotransmitters. Here it is, the first week of October and half the fall sports season is history. And what a first half it has been for local teams, and what a second half it could be. If I had to pick a “big” story in the first full month of the season, it would be the youth movement, and in particular, the number of outstanding eighth grader to sophomore athletes there are on the bi-counties' two cross country teams. The biggest story may...
Lady Savage Heat sweeps Two Eagle River
It was a mixed bag of matches for the Hot Springs Lady Savage Heat volleyballers, who won two matches and lost one this past week. And the one loss, 3-1 at Valley Christian, was a hard-fought battle that could have gone either way. The Heat opened their week this past Tuesday with a home match versus the Flathead Valley Home School group from the Kalispell area and won 3-1. The Heat then traveled to Missoula where they dropped a 3-1 decision to the Lady Eagles of Valley Christian. Hot Springs wrapped up a busy week with a 3-0 sweep of winless Two Eagle...
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