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Think of football season and stay at home0
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- March 31, 2020
In the spring of 1997, Anna Fabatz became the first Butte High athlete to earn her 12th varsity letter. Before heading to a stellar career on the basketball court at MSU-Northern in Havre, Fabatz lettered four times each in volleyball, basketball and track at Butte High. Fabatz’s résumé, which included a role on Butte High’s
READ MORENot all the greatest teams wear championship rings0
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- March 27, 2020
Is it possible that a high school team can be considered great if it did not win a state championship? That is a rhetorical question I have been asking myself in these days of coronavirus isolation. In the absence of spring sports, I have been thinking about football and basketball. I have been thinking from
READ MOREA lost spring sports season would really sting0
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- March 24, 2020
Jake Herron was not crying, but you could get the sense that he could break down at any minute. We were standing outside the 112-year old Missoula Hellgate Gym, just after Butte High’s girls’ basketball team’s season came to an end with a 57-52 loss to Kalispell Glacier. The defeat came in a loser-out game
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Looking back on the best St. Patrick’s Day of all time1
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- March 17, 2020
It has become a St. Patrick’s Day tradition. Every March 17, Scott Paffhausen starts a text message chain with all of the players and some coaches from the 1984 Butte High boys’ basketball team. That starts a back and forth of guys, now in their 50s, talking about the night the Bulldogs captured Butte High’s
READ MOREMaroons owe no apology for sharing state title3
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- March 14, 2020
For 16 years, I have waited to write a story about Brodie Kelly’s Butte Central Maroons winning a state championship. I always thought it would happen. Never did I think it would be like this. When I talked with Kelly moments after his Maroons were finally saddled with that long-awaited title Friday night, it was
READ MOREDogs unleash ‘The Dragon’ at divisional tournament0
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- March 10, 2020
As the Western AA Divisional boys’ and girls’ tournaments began Thursday in Missoula, Chuck Merrifield walked around the old gymnasium at Missoula Sentinel like he was running for office. The Butte High activities director smiled ear to ear as he circled the old gym, shaking hands, slapping backs and, presumably, kissing babies. Coronavirus be damned.
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