MISSOULA — Saturday was a good day for the Butte High wrestling teams.
Butte High’s boys placed third at the Jug Beck Rocky Mountain Classic at Missoula Sentinel. Across town, the Bulldog girls finished a close second at the Hellgate Girls’ Wrestling Invitational at Missoula Hellgate.
Freshman Renzy LeProwse brought home a boys’ title, while senior Mattie Stepan won a girls’ crown to highlight the day for the Bulldogs.
Mead, Washington won the team title at the two-day Rocky Mountain Classic with 267.5 points. Flathead took second at 212, and Butte High finished third at 212.
LeProwse pinned Dylan Coulson of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in 1 minute, 49 seconds to win the 103-pound division. That came just two weeks after LeProwse placed third at the Tom LeProwwse Invitational in Bozeman.
Bulldogs Keegan Hunt and Ryder McEwen placed second in their weight classes, Hunt at 110 pounds and McEwen at 150. Bridger Garrison took third at 157 pounds, and Darryn Rossiter took fourth at 126.
Also, Reveles McEwen took fifth at 118, and Bulldog teammate Bradey Doyle placed fifth at 132.
At Hellgate, Ronan edged the Bulldogs 169 to 168.5 to win the team title. Flathead placed third at 160.
Stepan beat Ronan’s Leona Dodson Howe in a 13-9 thriller in the championship match of the 155-pound division.
Teammate Peyton Liva placed second at 100 pounds, while Adalie Hazlett took third at 120 pounds.
Bulldogs Alli Ballenski, Jessica Blow, Loretta Matteson and Sage Queer placed fifth in their weight classes.
Butte High’s boys will head to the Class AA Duals next Saturday in Great Falls. The next action for the Butte High girls’ varsity squad is a Jan. 29 dual with Missoula Sentinel in Butte. The Bulldog Girls will head to the Big Sky AA Duals on Jan. 31.
Full results from the Rocky Mountain Classic and Hellgate Girls’ Wrestling Invitational can be found on trackwrestling.com.


