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Mining City FC team places second at Sleeping Giant Tournament
HELENA — The Mining City FC 12 co-ed soccer team returned from the Sleeping Giant Tournament with some hardware Sunday.
The Butte team placed second in the tournament, playing what coach Mike Maeser called “three incredible games.” The Mining City boys and girls beat Flathead Valley United 5-4 and Gallatin Elite 2-1 on Saturday. They fell in a 5-4 thriller to the Missoula Strikers in Sunday’s title tilt.
The Sleeping Giant Tournament is described as the de facto state tournament for the fall season.
Brynlee Turner scored a late game-winning goal against Flathead. Brendan Byrne chalked up a late save as time expired to secure the win against Gallatin.
Butte also got scores from Tyson Coyne, Max Davis, Liam Maeser, Ava Delong, Anna Forelli and Ryker Beardsley.
The boys team members are Maeser, Owen Conlan, Teason Vigil, Coyne, Davis, Beardsley, Byrne, Ryken Kuchtyn and Tony Lasloviach. The girls on the team are Delong, Forelli, Turner, Jaelee Devine, Oona Grogan-McCartney and Kourtney Johnson.
The coaches are Mike Maeser, Anthony Laslovich, Jen Delong and Matt Delong.
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KC basketball schedule
Following is the Knights of Columbus Athletic Club’s four-man basketball schedule for the week of Oct. 13.
Monday
7 p.m. — Poi Time vs. Rosary RattlersTuesday
6 p.m. — Parish vs. Poi Time
7 p.m. — Kenworthy v.s Rosary Rattlers
8 p.m. — Jellyfam vs. Washington Generals
9 p.m. — Someday Starters vs. RanchmensWednesday
7 p.m. — Everett-Cook Law vs. Jellyfam
8 p.m. — Everett-Cook Law vs. Hoopballas
9 p.m. — Parish vs. RanchmensThursday
7 p.m. — Kenworthy vs. Hoopballas
8 p.m. — Washington Generals vs. Someday Starters
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Bulldogs cross country runners place high in Capital City 7 of 7 Cross Country
HELENA — Three Bulldog runners placed in the Capital City 7 of 7 Cross Country meet Thursday at Bill Roberts Golf Course by finishing in the top 7 of their races. (Results)
Camden Houchin placed fifth in 16 minutes, 09 in the No. 1 race, for the top runners from each team. Levi Wiltsie place sixth the No. 2 race in 16:27, and Lincoln Zell placed sixth in the No. 3 race in 17:04.
They helped lead the Bulldogs Boys to an eighth place finish in the 52-team field with 72 points. Helena won the team title with 17 points to edge Bozeman and Hellgate who scored 22 and 25. Other Bulldog boys varsity runners were Charles Killebrew ninth the No. 6 race in 18:16, Isaac Zell 20th in the No. 4 race in 18:20, Bridger Luebke 13th in the No. 5 race in 18:20, and Ryan Hansen 13th in the No. 7 race in 18:55.
The Bulldog Girls also ran well finishing 24th among 49 teams with 169 points. Bozeman edged Gallatin for the team title 19 to 23, with Glacier a close third with 25. Butte’s varsity girls were Sophia Houchin 20th in the No. 1 race in 20:35, Pippi Luebke 16th in the No. 2 race in 20:58, Elsa Theiszen 24th in the No. 3 race in 22:29, Wakely Burleson 16th in the No. 6 race in 22:55, Kellie Jo Carpenter 24th in the No. 7 race in 24:10, and Addie Thomson 34th in the No. 5 race in 24:36.
The Bulldog JV Boys finished 15th among 24 teams. Bulldog runners were Nathan Knopp 19:03, Colton Yoakum 19:18, Jason Real 19:28, Johan Theiszen 20:11, Brian Moen 20:13, Kia Schuler 21:08, Sawyer Howell 21:35, Alex Cranney 23:04, Jack Taylor 23:04, Rowan Poole 23:19, Brian Poole 23:21, Lyric Haston 23:33, Case Richardson 25:01, Emmett Hedval 27:34, and Kyle Van Elsberg 27:54.
The Bulldog JV Girls finished 21st. The runners were Cambree O’Neill 26:27, Lynn Wiltsie 30:03, Evelyn Hardman 34:12, Lannie Walsh-Hill 34:33, and Hayden Hiltunen 35:54.
Butte Central sent its three boys’ varsity runners, juniors Jack Holmes, Joe Bradshaw and Conan Holmes, and eighth grader Roman Terry.
Jack Holmes finished in 22:14 in the No. 4 race, Brashaw ran in 23:37 in the No. 5 race, Terry crossed in 22:37 in the No. 6 race, and Conan Holmes posted a time of 25:05 in the No. 7 race.
Butte Central was scheduled to run again Saturday in Polson before competing in the Western A Classic Friday in Hamilton.
Butte High will run Thursday in Bozeman. That will be the Bulldogs’ last tune up before the Oct. 25 State meet.
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Braves, Lightning stop Dogs in Kalispell
KALISPELL — Eli Coopman scored on a 2-yard run, and Brett Chivers booted the point after touchdown with just over a minute left to play Friday night, and the Kalispell Braves beat Butte High 23-22 in a Western AA football game at Legends Stadium.
The game-winning drive came after a long lightning delay that helped zap the momentum from the Bulldogs, who battled back from a 16-0 hole to take a 22-16 lead into the fourth quarter.
An 85-yard pass from Coopman to Boston Case, a 36-yard field goal by Chivers and a 7-yard Coopman run gave the Braves a 16-0 lead.
Raeder Grey hit Kodye Kjersten for a 36-yard touchdown to get the Bulldogs on the board. Then Koyde Kjersten picked off a pass and returned it to the 1-yard line, setting up a 1-yard plunge by Gunner Bushman. After PATs by Bradey Doyle, the Bulldogs trailed 16-14 at the half.
Butte High took the lead when Grey found Kaleb Celli for a 9-yard touchdown strike. Celli then broke a few tackles to score on a reception for the 2-point conversion.
The lead looked like it would last after the Bulldogs posted a goal-line stand early in the fourth quarter. After the delay, though, it was a different story.
The Bulldogs drove down field, but ran out of time before they could get into position to attempt a field goal.
Coopman ran 34 times for 134 yards in the win. He passed for 149 more.
Grey completed 23 of 39 passes for 193 yards and the two TDs. He was picked off once. Hudson Luedtke caught 13 asses for 80 yards for the Bulldogs. Kjersten hauled in four for 70, and Celli grabbed three for 29. Mitch Verlanic also caught two passes, and Brady Walsh caught one.
Starting in place of the injured Reece Cunneen, Jacob Galle led the Bulldogs with 14 tackles. Verlanic got in on 11 tackles. Bridger Brancamp registered nine tackles, while Bushman and Jaeger Hansen each grabbed seven, and Finn Wortham registered six.
The Bulldogs are back in action next Thursday when they take on Missoula Hellgate at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.
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KC Little Kids Hoops starts Oct. 25
The Knights of Columbus Little Kids Hoops league will begin play Saturday, Oct. 25 at the Felix Madrazo Gym.
Games for boys and girls from pre-kindergarten through second grade go from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Games for players in the third through sixth grade go from 10:30 until noon. Hoops will be lowered for the younger players.
The league is free to all boys and girls, and players can show up to play week to week. There is no registration.
Players will be put on teams each week by Dan and Tom Boyle, who will referee the games and make sure each player is part of the action. There are no coaches.
The KC Little Kids Hoops program has been running for more than 30 years, and many of the boys and girls in the league turned out to be high school and college players.
The league will run every Saturday — except for the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years — through January. All players will receive a T-shirt on the last day.
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Maroons ready for ‘gauntlet,’ while Bulldogs hunt a victory in Kalispell
Butte Central’s football team has been on a roll.
The Maroons have won four straight games, and the last three have been blowouts. They beat Ronan, Corvallis and Stevensville by a combined score of 133-35. At 4-1 overall and 2-0 in Southwestern A play, BC is off to its best start since before the COVID pandemic.
But things are about to get decidedly more difficult for the Maroons. Head coach Don Peoples Jr. called Central’s remaining schedule a “three-game gauntlet.”
That starts Friday when the Maroons hit the road to take on Frenchtown (5-1, 2-0). Next week, the Maroons play at Hamilton (4-1, 1-1) before returning home Oct. 24 to close the regular season against nemesis Dillon (1-4, 1-1).
After Friday’s 58-22 win over Stevensville on the Bob Green Field, though, BC is not about to back down from anybody.
Senior quarterback Ryan Peoples had another big game to lead the BC offense that has turned into a bona fide juggernaut. He threw touchdown passed of 42 and 75 yards to junior Joshua Sutton. He also hit Jack Nagle for a 26-yard score.
Peoples, Henly Mansanti, GG Fantini and Jaxon Hiatt ran for scores behind an offensive line made up of J.J. Taylor, Burkley Lakkala, Colt Hassler, Jack Nylund and Bobby McCarthy. Sutton added a kickoff return for a score.
On the season, Peoples has tossed 13 touchdowns compared to just two interceptions. He is averaging 219 yards passing per game.
Taylor, Mansanti, Treigh Hollow and Parker Kellicut each have two sacks to lead the BC defense. Sutton picked off three passes, while Hiatt intercepted two. Fantini, Tony Stajcar and Manny Weang each have one.
Frenchtown enters the game with three straight wins following a 35-7 loss at Billings Central, which is destroying everybody. The Broncs rolled Florence-Carlton 23-8, beat Dillon 38-7 and edged Hamilton 21-14 in Hamilton.
A strong running attack leads the Broncs into battle. Senior Cole Johnson is averaging 122.7 yards per game. He ran for 100 yards four times in six games, and he found the endzone six times. Senior Bailey Corrett and Michael Rummel have each scored twice.
Junior quarterback Dawson Rodoni has passed for nine touchdowns and five interceptions. Senior Jordan Warner leads the team with five TD receptions.
Senior Konnor Klimpel leads the Frenchtown defense with 8.3 tackles per game. Classmates Henry Griffin and Jaxon Haynes each got in on three sacks, and junior Cooper Michaud picked off three passes.
Click here for a story and boxscore on BC’s win over Stevensville by Bruce Sayler on ButteSports.com.
Bulldogs head to Kalispell
Butte High’s football team just can’t seem to buy a break.
The Bulldogs dropped their fourth straight game Friday, falling in a 35-28 shootout against Helena High at Naranche Stadium. That followed a 10-7 loss on a last-second field goal to Missoula Sentinel the week before.
Butte (1-5 overall, 0-4 conference) will head to Kalispell to take on Flathead (1-4, 0-4) in a Western AA game at Legends Stadium. Flathead also enters the contest looking to snap a four-game losing streak.
The Braves fell 27-20 at Helena Capital on Friday. The week before, they dropped a 64-20 decision at home to Missoula Big Sky.
Senior quarterback Eli Coopman leads a strong Flathead running attack. He has racked up 572 yards, averaging 5.1 yards per carry. He has six touchdowns on the season He has also passed for six touchdowns compared to seven interceptions.
Senior Nolan Campbell and sophomore Leum Saisbury are also weapons in the running game. Both have scored a pair of touchdowns.
Senior Matthew Lewis, junior Oliver Rossenberg and Saisbury have each picked off a pair of passes to lead the Flathead defense.
Despite the tough loss, the Bulldogs had some bright spots to build on in the loss to Helena High. Junior quarterback Raeder Grey heated up in the fourth quarter and passed for 324 yards and three touchdowns. He completed 21 of 29 passes.
All-State senior Hudson Luedtke had another big game for the Bulldogs, hauling in 12 passes for 180 yards and two touchdowns. His receiving yards were a season-high for Luedtke.
Classmate Kaleb Celli caught four passes for 35 yards, and Koyde Kjersten hauled in two passes, including a 52-yard touchdown reception.
Senior Peyton Johnson averaged 4.0 yards per carry for the Bulldog running game. Senior Gunner Bushman ran for his first varsity score.
After a film review by coaches, senior Mitch Verlanic led the team with 10 tackles. Junior Jaeger Hansen collected nine, six of which were solo. Luedtke racked up three tackles for a loss.
The Bulldogs will be on the road again next week, taking on Missoula Hellgate Thursday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium. The Bulldogs will then close the regular season Oct. 24 at home against Helena Capital.
Flag football season ends
Butte High’s flag football team bowed out of the State tournament last Wednesday with a first-round loss to Kalispell Glacier, which won another title in Hamilton.
The Wolfpack have won every title since the sport came to Montana high schools in 2022.
While the Bulldogs did not hoist the trophy, Butte High first-year coach John Stenson said he liked the progress his team made during the season.
“Overall, it was a great season,” Stenson said. “We didn’t get as many wins as we wanted, but the team learned a lot and grew by leaps and bounds throughout the season. We have a great group of girls coming back next season. We are excited to have a full offseason with camps and summer workouts. The expectations are high and the girls are excited. The sport is growing and it is great to see.”
Stenson said the team is really going to miss its seniors. They are Allie Ballensky, Megan Flanick, Charlee Griner, Laney Huizinga and McKenna LeCoure.
Other players on the Bulldog roster in 2025 are juniors Brooke Johnson, Jayda Gustafson, McKenna Ketchum, Alexis King, Jaydyn Mason and Mackenzie Read; sophomores Brylee Ballensky, Iszabella Dawson, Addisyn Lambrecht, Lilyi Malone, Audrey Moore and Chyanne Robinson; and freshmen Ellie Carey, Reaghan Denning, Rylee Erickson, Kolbie Erickson, Brooklyn Hettick, Jaydyn LaBuff, Kaydee O’Connor, Willow Rose, Bella Schrapps and Kynslee Wrampe.
Stenson is assisted by Mike McGurk, and Finley Gonzales is the manager.
Spartans sweep Bulldogs
Missoula Sentinel swept a Western AA volleyball match with Butte High Tuesday night in Missoula. The Spartans won 26-24, 25-12, 25-16. (Boxscore)
Senior Gracie Jonart’s seven kills paced the Bulldog attack in the loss Senior Audry McCafferty added five kills, while juniors Cadence Graham (11) and Ellie Yates (10) recached double digits in digs. Freshman Ellison Graham set 20 assists.
That came after the Bulldogs suffered a tough 25-22, 25-14, 19-25, 25-20 Western AA match to Missoula Big Sky Thursday in Missoula. (Boxscore)
The Bulldogs offered a balanced attack in the loss. Junior Avery Barsness led the way with seven kills. Jonart and junior Brittyn Klima each killed six, while junior Allie Becker put away five.
Cadence Graham’s 26 digs lead a balanced effort from the backcourt. Ellison Graham dug 22, while Becker followed with 21. Jonart added 11, and Yates dug 10. Ellison Graham set 23 assists.
On Saturday, the Bulldogs hosted a crossover tournament. The Dogs dropped a 2-1 decision to Bozeman. They fell 2-0 to Great Falls High, Great Falls Russell and Gallatin.
Butte High is back in action Thursday when the Bulldogs play host to Missoula Hellgate at the Richardson Gym.
Maroons set for Blocktober Classic
Butte Central’s volleyball team dropped a three-set home match to Dillon Thursday at the Maroon Activities Center.
The Beavers won 25-16, 25-17 and 25-22. No statistics are available for that match.
The Maroons will host the annual Blocktober Classic tournament Friday and Saturday at the MAC. Teams competing with BC are Anaconda, Big Fork, Billings Central, Browning, Colombia Falls, Miles City, Dillon, East Helena, Lewistown, Florence, Frenchtown, Hamilton, Hardin, Havre, Boulder, Laurel, Libby, Lockwood, Livingston, Polson, Deer Lodge, Ronan, Stevensville and Whitefish.
Pool play begins at 9 a.m. Friday, and bracket play is set to start at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Volunteers are needed run the tournament. Jobs needed filled include the scorebook, scoreboard and line judge. Contact Chad Petersen at chadpetersen@gmail.com or (406) 498-5000 if you can help.
Click here to for the tournament schedule and to follow along with the scores and standings.
Looking ahead
Butte High and Butte Central’s cross teams will compete in the Capital City 7 of 7 meet Saturday at Helena’s Bill Roberts Golf Course.
That meet will include 59 teams and multiple races. A walk through of course will be held at 11 a.m.. The varsity No. 7 boys and girls run at 1:45. Races start every half hour until the No. 1 runners in boys and girls run at 4:45 p.m.
Butte Central’s last action was the Hamilton Invitational at Daly Mansion. (Results)
The Maroons sent four boys to compete in that meet. Junior Jack Holmes led the way for BC, finishing the 5-kilometer course in 21 minutes, 53 seconds.
Eighth grader Roman Terry finished in 24:58. He was followed by Juniors Joe Bradshaw (25:09) and Conan Holmes (26:12).
Polson runner David DiGiallonardo won the race in 16:14. Drummond’s Dawson Parke placed second at 16:39, less than a second faster than Hamilton’s Benjamin Beare.
On the girls’ side, Morgan Delaney of Polson won in 19:05. Polson’s Quinn Delaney was second at 19:21, and Hamilton’s Aleigha Child placed third in 19:34.
Butte High’s soccer teams will play host to Missoula Hellgate Thursday at Bulldog Memorial Stadium. The girls play at 3 p.m., and the boy play at 5.
Butte High’s teams played host to Helena High on Saturday before playing at Missoula Sentinel on Tuesday. Scores for those matches have not been provided.
The Bulldogs have three matches left in the regular season. After playing at Missoula Big Sky on Saturday, the Bulldogs will play host to Kalispell Glacier on Oct. 17.
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Podcast No. 295: Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry is a well-known and highly-regarded name in Ireland, and beyond.
The most famous Kevin Barry was a young Irish Republican Army soldier who was executed by the British government during the Irish War of Independence. His life and death inspired the Irish rebel song titled Kevin Barry.
Another martyr for old Ireland, another murder for the Crown.
That, though, has nothing to do with today’s guest. This Kevin Barry was named after an uncle, and he is one of a great many men named Kevin Barry in Ireland.
This Kevin Barry, though, is the only one, to my knowledge, who has written a novel that was set in Butte in the 1890s. He has written a handful of novels, a few collections of short stories and some plays.
His latest novel is called “The Heart in Winter,” and it is a love story about a couple trying to escape Butte in 1891. Barry started research for this book in 1999. That is when he rolled off a Greyhound Bus from Seattle and made his first stop in the M&M.
After spending time in Butte doing research, he started writing his book. It did not click with him, so he put it aside for a couple of decades. Then, he came back and wrote a book he can be proud of.
Barry has been in Butte for almost a week now promoting his book. Earlier today, I caught up with him at the Knights of Columbus Hall for a fun conversation.
Listen in to hear about Barry’s travels, including his initial visit to the Mining City. Listen as he talks about growing up in Ireland and his career as a journalist and writer. Listen as he talks about why he chose Butte for the setting of his novel.
Listen as he talks about what it is like to come to Butte with an Irish accent, and listen as he tells us that he is not the martyr who fought to free Ireland.
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There are no tow trucks in Heaven
In the 1970s and 1980s, you could identify a family by the vehicle they drove.
My family could easily be recognized by our red 1976 Chevy Impala. There was nothing cool about that old car that had Neil Diamond’s greatest hits stuck in the 8-track player.
My uncle Jerry D’Arcy, whom we call Shordy (for some reason with a D), drove a blue-and-white Ford truck that I thought was cool, and my uncle Al Hansen drove a tiny, silver Toyota car that was barely bigger than he was.
Grandma Mary and Grandpa Jerry drove a brown Chevy Citation. My grandpa Bill and Grandma Jean had an orange, rusty-looking early 1970s model Impala.
I always thought my aunt Carol Kocher drove the coolest vehicle in the family. It was a big, brown truck. I am pretty sure it was a Ford, and it reminded me of the truck driven by Lee Majors every Friday night on my favorite TV show, “The Fall Guy.”
I will never forget the time I finally got to ride in Carol’s truck. It was my birthday in the early 1980s, and Carol picked me up at Grandma Mary’s house. We took the long drive to JC Penny, which was in the building where Murdoch’s now resides.
Carol, who passed away at the age of 85 over the weekend, bought me a shirt and had my name put on it. I don’t remember much about that shirt, but I remember riding in the truck with my mom’s awesome older sister.
I had wanted to ride in that truck for a long time. It was so much cooler than our Impala. I felt like Colt Seavers as I sat in the passenger seat as Carol drove that truck and talked to me with a cigarette dangling from her lips.
I don’t know what ever happened to that truck, but it was long gone by the time the 1990s rolled around. Had she still been driving that truck into the 2000s, however, one of the biggest — and funniest — controversies of our family never would have happened.
It was probably 10 or 12 years ago when my now late uncle Al called a tow truck on Carol, his long-time sister-in-law. While she was in church, no less.
By this time, Carol was driving the same car as probably 200 other people in our town of 30,000. Nowadays, you cannot tell a family by a vehicle. Whatever you drive, you can bet that dozens of people in town drive the same make, model, year and color that you do.
So, Al did not realize that was Carol’s car blocking his driveway by St. John’s Church that Sunday morning. That was his story, anyway, and he stuck to it.
Carol parked there because the church parking lot was full, and she thought the Hansen family was out of town. She did not know Al was still home, by himself.
She also figured people in your family still knew you by your car. So, when Carol walked out of church and saw the tow truck at her car, she was surprised, to say the least. She was also not happy about it. She thought Al called the tow truck on her on purpose.
Now, a tow truck can be quite the comforting sight when you are stranded on the highway or you need your vehicle taken to the repair shop. But it can be the most enraging sight you can possibly see when it is not wanted. People immediately go from happy to furious when they surprisingly see their car being lifted by a tow truck.
That is why so many tow truck drives get screamed at as they simply try to do their job.
Now, I am about 93 percent sure he would not have called the tow truck if he had known it was Carol’s car. Carol, though, could not be convinced otherwise. Al, she thought, knew it was her car and he was having it towed.
She was livid, but the incident made the rest of us laugh. That Carol wasn’t laughing made it even more funny.
Being the instigator I usually am, I could not help but tease her about it every time I saw her. “Hey lady,” I would say. “You’re parked in my spot. I called the tow truck.”
Carol would smile and say, “Oh, you.” For the first few years, she would also get mad again thinking about the situation. She would again tell me that Al did it on purpose.
Eventually, she started to see the humor in the situation, and she would just laugh when I told her to move her car — even though I could not identify her car in a police lineup.
Luckily, I got to see Carol a lot during those years because her granddaughter, Jenna, competed in volleyball, swimming and softball for Butte High. Carol went to watch the competitions, and I went to all the home action to take photos and write stories about the Bulldogs.
Every time I would see Carol, I would tell her that she parked in my spot. When I saw her at a family function or the grocery store, I would tell her that her car was about to be towed.
On Sept. 27, my family held an 80th birthday party for Shordy at the East Side Athletic Club. Carol was the first person I saw as I walked in. I got to meet her brand-new great-granddaughter, and I got to inform her one last time that she was parked in my spot.
“Hey, smartass,” Carol said. “I haven’t driven in a year.”
Then we again laughed about that crazy situation. It was great to see her. She was on oxygen and needed a walker to get around, but I thought she looked pretty good. I did not think it would be the last time I would tell her to move her car.
Less than a week later, Carol passed away in her sleep, and we are all going to miss her so much. Carol was smart, quick and funny. She was also so very caring. That is what I will remember about her the most.
She worked for decades as a nurse at St. James Hospital, where she made the lives of sick and injured people much easier. She was always there to offer a soothing hand when it was needed the most.
Even after she retired, Carol was always there to offer care when needed.
When my cousin Jerry died in an accident at the age of 20 in 1988, our family converged on Grandma Mary and Grandpa Jerry’s house. We were all in shock, and nobody knew what to say in the midst of the unbearable sadness.
We were numb as we gathered in the kitchen of the old house. That is when Carol stepped up with some comforting words I will never forget.
“Teddy,” she said, “will show Little Jerry around Heaven.”
Teddy was Carol’s son and the cousin I never knew. He died a little more than a year before I was born.
In the darkness of the evening of Nov. 30, 1972, Teddy was hit by a car while he rode a saucer sled on the Oregon Avenue overpass, right at the intersection of Oregon Avenue and B Street. He was transported to Missoula, where he stayed until his death on Jan. 3, 1973.
He was only 7 years old.
While Carol was devastated by the tragedy, she continued her job of comforting others. She continued to make us laugh, even when she did not mean to. That, of course, is when we laughed the hardest.
Now, Carol is with Teddy. He can show her around Heaven along with Little Jerry, Grandma Mary and Grandpa Jerry, her sister Joanie, sister-in-law Laura a many other loved ones who have passed.
The romantic in me believes that right now Carol is parked in Al’s driveway, knowing there is nothing he can do about it this time.
There is no way they allow tow trucks in Heaven.
— Bill Foley, who would kill to drive Carol’s old brown truck, can be reached at foles74@gmail.com. Follow him at twitter.com/Foles74 or Bluesky at @foles74.bsky.social. Listen to him on the ButteCast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.
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Leskovar Honda Athletes of the Week: Joshua Sutton and Elsa Theiszen
Butte Central junior football player Joshua Sutton and Butte High freshman cross country runner Elsa Theiszen are this week’s Leskovar Honda Athletes of the Week.
Sutton takes home the boys’ honor after a huge performance helped Butte Central win its fourth game in a row Friday, a 58-22 beating of Stevensville on the Bob Green Field.
Sutton scored three touchdowns in the win. He caught scoring passes of 42 and 75 yards from Ryan Peoples. He also scored on an 84-yard kickoff return to open the second half.
On the game, Sutton hauled in four passes for 132 yards. Sutton is also a standout basketball player for the Maroons.
Theiszen takes home the girls’ honor after her best race of the season. She placed third in a race Friday at the Headwaters Golf Course in Three Forks.
Theiszen finished the 5-kilometer race in 20 minutes, 15 seconds. That broke her personal record by more than a minute and a half.
Off to an impressive start to her career with the Bulldogs, Theiszen has finished in under 22 minutes in all five races she has run so far this season. Theiszen and the Bulldogs will run at the Capital City 7 of 7 meet Thursday in Helena.
For the third year, Leskovar Honda, home of the 20-year, 200,000-mile warranty, is teaming up with the ButteCast to honor the finest student-athletes from the Mining City to encourage more children to get up, get out and try all kinds of sports and activities.
Photo of Sutton courtesy Alycia Holland Photography. Photo of Theiszen provided by Ashley Choquette.
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KC basketball schedule
Following is the Knights of Columbus Athletic Club’s four-man basketball schedule for the week of Oct. 6.
Monday
7 p.m. — Poi Time vs. Jellyfam
8 p.m. — Hoopballas vs. RanchmensTuesday
7 p.m. — Kenworthy vs. Jellyfam
8 p.m. — Poi Time vs. Ranchmens
9 p.m. — Someday Starters vs. HoopballasWednesday
7 p.m. — Everett-Cook Law vs. Washington Generals
8 p.m. — Everett-Cook Law vs. Parish
9 p.m. — Parish vs. Rosary RattlersThursday
7 p.m. — Kenworthy vs. Someday Starters
8 p.m. — Washington Generals vs. Rosary Rattlers
The ButteCast with Bill Foley 