By Bill Foley It’s not very often that you will hear a football coach praise a player as a “team guy” after he leaves his team to complete in another fall support. That’s the case when it comes to Butte High senior cross country runner Billy Cunneen, though. “He cares so much about his teammates,”
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BILLINGS — Butte High’s Grace Luoma and Emily Kelly finished in the Top 10, leading the Bulldog girls’ golf team to third place at the Billings Invitational. Luoma, a junior, followed Monday’s 78 at the Peter Yegen Golf Club with an 86 today at the Lake Hills Golf Course for a 164 and sixth place.
READ MOREThe Butte Athletic Council will sell membership passes outside Naranche Stadium’s northwest ticket booth on Main Street before Friday night’s Butte High-Kalispell Flathead football game. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. The BAC offers different membership levels. The entry level membership is $125, and it includes two passes to all Butte High home games for all
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WHITEFISH — Montana Tech’s Heather Thompson was named the Frontier Conference Attacker of the Week. This is the first weekly award for the junior outside hitter. The Orediggers opened the season with a 1-2 record at the tournament hosted by the Spokane Community College. Tech dropped a pair of five set matches to No. 12
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We are in the middle of a nationwide shortage of high school sports officials. It is a major problem in Montana as the football season starts this week. The Butte football officiating pool, for instance, will need as many as 35 officials on some Friday nights in the not-so-distant future. As of last week, the
READ MOREBILLINGS — Grace Luoma, Emily Kelly, Kaven Noctor and Carsten Quam paced Butte High’s golf teams Monday during the first round of the Billings Invitational. Butte High’s girls sit in third place heading into Tuesday’s second round at Lake Hills Golf Course. The Bulldog boys are fifth. Luoma, a junior, shot a 78 on the
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Eight shooters broke 49 out of 50 targets to tie for the top spot on the leaderboard during Week 2 of the Butte Trap Club’s fall league Thursday night. Topping the standings were Brad Smith, Dave Vicevich, Jeff Ault, Bob York, Kevin Zimpel, Jason Cartin, Scott White and Kevin O’Dell. Eight more shooters finished at
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BOZEMAN — Make it 2 for 2 for Butte Central’s Tricia Joyce. The Butte Central senior fired a 79 Monday at Riverside Country Club to run away with medalist honors at the Belgrade Invitational. Joyce, who won the BC Invite a week ago, beat second-place Lindsey Huber of Dillon by 14 shots. (Complete results) Butte
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Ryan Moodry has yet another award for his scrapbook. Moodry, who has won a handful of All-Conference and All-State awards playing football at Butte Central, has been named to the American Legion Class AA All-Conference team. The honor comes two months after the catcher signed to play baseball at Utah State-Eastern. Moodry, who graduated from
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Prep golf Butte High at Billings Invitational, 11 a.m. The Bulldogs will get in their second tournament of the season when they open the two-day event at the Peter Yegen Golf Club. Butte High’s girls are coming off a fourth-place showing in last week’s Great Falls Invitational, which included all 14 Class AA teams. Senior
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The Butte High boys’ basketball program and Copper City Crossovers youth basketball will host a 3-on-3 tournament Sunday, Aug. 26 at Butte High School. The tournament is a fundraiser for incoming Butte High Max Demarais. During a standard physical for the upcoming football season, Demarais was diagnosed with a recent loss of vision. Follow up
READ MORESPOKANE — Montana Tech’s volleyball team got in the win column Saturday with a three-set sweep of Multnomah at the Spokane Valley Tournament. The No. 12 Orediggers, who dropped two five-set battles on Friday, rolled past the Lions 25-13, 25-17, 25-12. (Stats) Masha Korol and Kacee James each tallied seven kills, and heather Thompson killed
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By Bill Foley Montana Tech’s football team went on the road for a scrimmage Saturday afternoon. Well, kind of. The Orediggers played a practice game a mile away from home at Butte High’s Naranche Stadium. Saturday marked two weeks before the Orediggers open the season at the College of Idaho, and Tech eighth-year head coach
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By Bill Foley Butte Central volleyball coach Becky Hancock can’t help but smile when she watches her team compete. “I’ve got a lot of options,” Hancock said Saturday morning. “That’s what I keep saying to everyone. I can do a lot of different things.” The crowd at Montana Tech’s HPER Complex for Saturday’s Maroon and
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By Bruce Sayler With the news of the Friday passing of Butte Central sports matriarch Cathy Peoples becoming known, a gloomy Saturday morning for Maroons football had to be norm, even after dry weeks of 80s and 90s temperatures. Butte Central persevered through, directed by head coach Don Peoples Jr., with help from his brother,
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