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Butte High boys’ hoops camp set for July 14-16
The Mining City Camp of Champions boys’ basketball camp will be held July 14-16 at Butte High School.
Butte High head coach Matt Luedtke and his staff will conduct three camps, which will focus on fundamentals, such as ball handling, shooting technique, footwork, passing and agility.
A camp for boys entering first through fifth grades will run from 9 to 11 a.m. each day. The camp for boys entering sixth through eighth grade will go from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Camp for boys in high school will run from 5 to 8 each night.
Cost is $70 for the younger boys and $80 for the two older camps if registered by July 9. That cost goes up $10 for registration at the door.
Click the link below for more information and a registration form.
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Bulldog softball team heads to Sentinel with season on the line
Best-of-three series set for Thursday afternoon
It all comes down to one day for the 2025 Butte High softball team.
The Bulldogs will head to Missoula to take on Sentinel in a best-of-three playoff series against Sentinel. The winner advances to the Class AA State tournament, which is May 22-24 in Great Falls. The winner gets an early jump on summer.
The first game begins at 1 p.m. The second game will be played at 3, and the third will start at 5, if necessary.
The Bulldogs and Spartans split the regular-season series, with each team winning a hotly-contested game at home. Butte High beat Sentinel 7-4 April 7 in Butte. The Spartans returned the favor with a 6-4 victory over the Bulldogs May 1 in Missoula.
Both teams finished at 7-7 in Western AA, but the Spartans got the tiebreaker for the home playoff series. Butte High went 7-13 overall, while Sentinel finished at 10-10.
The Bulldog offense seems to be humming as Butte High heads to the postseason. The Bulldogs scored 22 total runs as they split games with Helena Capital and Missoula Big Sky.
Butte beat Capital 10-1 Thursday at Stodden Park before falling in 14-12 shootout Saturday at Big Sky.
Outfielders Mattie Stepan and Gracie Jonart each drove in three runs to lead Butte High’s 10-hit attack in the win over Capital. Stepan, who has been on fire late in the season, belted a home run, a double and a single in the win.
Leadoff hitter Reese Johnson added a triple. Stepan scored three runs, while Johnson and Ashlinn Mullaney each scored twice. Catcher Gracie Ferriter joined Jonart with a two-hit game, while Mullaney and Madisyn Swanson each hit a single.
Johnson drove in two runs, while Ferriter and Kendallyn Schad each drove in a run. Avery Barsness and Ally Godbout joined Ferriter with one run scored.
Mullaney fired six solid innings for the win. She struck out four, walked two and allowed just one hit. The run she gave up was unearned.
Hard-throwing eighth grader Brea Henderson struck out two in a perfect inning of work.
Sadie McQuinn, a second baseman with deep roots in the Mining City, homered, and Sara Bjornson drove in five runs to lead Big Sky in Saturday’s battle. Bjornson also pitched two and two thirds innings of relief to get the win.
Mullaney hit two doubles and a single while driving in a pair and scoring three times for the Bulldogs. Johnson went 3 for 4 with four RBIs. Swanson smacked two singles, while Ferriter, Stepan, Jonart and Schad each hit one. Jonart registered three RBIs.
Ferriter, Schad and Swanson scored two tines. Jonson, Jonart and Allie Becker also scored.
Ally Godbout worked a walk in each game.
Central girls close season at Combo
Butte Central did not qualify for a play-in game in Softball. The Maroons, though, did show some promise for the future as they went 2-2 at the LaVerne Combo Invitational Friday and Saturday at Stodden Park.
Central fell 14-7 to Frenchtown and knocked off Hardin 10-2 on Friday. On Saturday, the Maroons dropped an 8-6 thriller to Libby and pasted Browning 17-2.
BC closed the season at 5-13 overall and 2-8 in Southwestern A play. The Maroon do not have a senior on the roster. The team is comprised of three juniors, Izabel Lopez, Arika Stajcar and Sophia Gelling; four sophomores, Chloe Wright, Brynlee Armstrong, Sawyer Svejkovsky and Marly Mansanti; eight freshmen, Evyn Smith, Kenzie McQueary, Kodee Badovinac, Cambri Campbell, Natalie Osterman, Olivia Scott, Braelynn Schelin and Zayonna Otherbull; and one eighth grader, Carolyn Lopez.
McQueary, Otherbull and Smith each poked a pair of hits in the win over Hardin. Stajcar joined McQueary and Otherbull with a double.
McQueary belted a home run against Frenchtown, while Schelin, BC’s workhorse in the pitchers’ circle, added two hits.
McQueary and Scott added two hits against Libby. Schelin and McQueary hit doubles.
McQueary and Stajcar each had a two-hit game in the rout of Browning. That included a double. Armstrong added a double in the win.
Bulldogs roll Bighorns, get help
A week ago, Butte High’s postseason hopes in baseball were on life support. This week, the Bulldogs control their own destiny.
That comes after the Bulldogs (9-8) beat up on Lone Peak for a 10-1 victory Monday at a rainy-and-cold 3 Legends Stadium. As the Bulldog offense rolled in the cold, Livingston rallied for a 9-8 win over East Helena.
That means Butte High will qualify for a play-in game if they beat Missoula Sentinel at home on Thursday and then win at Livingston on Friday. (Note: The Livingston game was moved to Friday on Wednesday morning.)
If Butte High wins both games, the Bulldogs will play a play-in game Saturday at Billings West.
Tocher Lee and Matthew Donaldson paced the offence, each with a four-hit performance, to back up a solid pitching outing by Lucas Harris-Huerta in the win.
Harris-Huerta used 100 pitches to fan eight batters and scatter seven hits in the win.
Lee went 4 for 5 with two triples, four RBIs and three runs batted in. Donaldson went 4 for 4, and Karsen McEwen hit a double and a single.
The Bulldogs also got singles from Will Stepan, Tegan Duffy, Gunner Bushman and Kodye Kjersten.
Kjersten knocked in two runs, while Stepan, Duffy and McEwen each knocked in one.
Butte High got solid infield defense around the horn from Donaldson, Lee, Evan McEwen and Karsen McEwen, while Kjersten, Stepen and Logan Carden handled the outfield in the wind.
Behind the dish, Bushman held own the Lone Peak running game.
Ebe Grabow tripled and scored on an Oliver McQuire single for the Bighorns.
Thursday’s game was moved back to 7 p.m.
The Bulldogs will honor their five seniors — Lee, Stepan, Donaldson, Karsen McEwen and Harris-Huerta — and their parents before the game.
Maroons pick up a pair of wins
Butte Central does not have postseason hopes. The Maroons, though, closed their season with a pair of victories.
Central rolled to a 16-1 win over Townsend Thursday at 3 Legends Stadium. A day later, they went to Belgrade to beat Lone Peak 5-3. The Maroons close the season at 6-10 and winners of three of their last five games.
The Maroons used 11 hits to roll past Townsend in the rout. That included four extra-base hits — triples by Kelton Berger and Kelton Keene, and doubles by Connor Kachmarik and Marcus Ballan.
Jean went 3 for 3, while Trapper Stajcar, Beau McGree, Hugh O’Brien, Jack Nagle and Coy Campbell to give starter Gunnar “Goo” O’Brien more than enough support. Goo pitched the distance in the game. That was called by the run rule after four innings. He fanned four and scattered four hits.
At the dish, O’Brien worked four walks and scored three runs.
The Maroons rallied for three runs in the top of the fifth inning to overtake the Bighorns in Belgrade.
BC did its damage on just four hits, two of which came off the bat of O’Brien. Kean and Aiden Ossello also singled for the Maroons. McGree, O’Brien and Kean drove in runs.
Berger pitched the distance, giving up two earned runs in the win. He struck out two, scattered eight hits and worked around three walks.
BC coach Richie O’Brien credited the play of McGree at catcher for keeping the many Lone Peak base runners from scoring.
Tennis teams head to divisionals
Butte High and Butte Central’s tennis teams will head to postseason play this week.
The Bulldogs head to Missoula for their divisional, which will run Thursday and Friday. The Maroons will be in East Helena for the Central A Divisional.
Central played at the Fergus Invitational Friday in Lewistown. Results from that tournament have not been provided.
Butte High, meanwhile, took on Helena High and Helena Capital Saturday at Stodden Park.
On the boys’ side, the Bulldogs fell 7-1 to Helena High and 8-0 to Capital. Tashi Hanley won in straight sets against Helena for the lone Butte High boys’ win against the Bengals.
Helena’s girls beat Butte High 7-1. The Bulldogs fell 5-3 to Capital.
Against the Bruins, Murphy Sullivan won in straight sets at No. 3 singles for the Bulldogs. Teammate Allissa Pennock won by forfeit.
Ayva Gerry and Reena Hubber teamed for a straight sets win at No. 3 doubles.
Chloe Jewell and Sienna Bradley picked up a huge No. 1 doubles win against Helena High. That victory came in straight sets.
Butte High coach Shawndee Gratton said that Jewell and Bradley will be the No. 4 seed in doubles at the divisional tournament. He said Sullivan will be No. 4 in singles.
On the boys’ side, Gratton said Matthew Weldon and Josh Shrader will play with the non-seeded players.
“It should be a good showing at divisionals,” Gratton said.
Sam wins three at Last Chance
Butte High senior Sam Henderson won three events Friday as the Bulldogs wrapped up the regular season at Belgrade’s Last Chance Qualifier meet. (Results)
The meet was the last before the Bulldogs host the Western AA Divisional meet Friday and Saturday at the Charlie Merrifield Track inside the Gene Fogarty Complex.
His victories in the 110-meter hurdles, high jump and long jump led the Bulldog boys to first place in the four-team meet with 61 points. Gallatin finished second with 49 points, while Bozeman followed with 43.5 and Belgrade scored 27.5.
Gallatin won the girls’ title with 50 points. Bozeman was second at 47, followed by Belgrade at and Butte High with 36.
In all, six Bulldogs claimed individual titles. Camden Houchin, Cohen Andrews, Sophia Houchin, Brityn Stewart and Peyton Trabert also brought home first-place finishes.
Henderson surpassed qualifying standards in all three events. Of course, the future Montana Grizzly already blew past those weeks ago.
He ran the 110 hurdles in 15.0 seconds, cleared 6 feet, 4 inches in the high jump and leapt 47-0 in the triple jump.
Camden Houchin, a junior, won the 3,200-meter race with a personal record of 9:56.08. That eclipsed the qualifying standard, which he had already beat.
Andrews, a junior, qualified for state with a leap of 21-1 ¼ in the long jump. That is a personal record. Teammate Tocher Lee placed second at 20-10 ¼.
Junior Ryan Hanson jumped to second in the high jump, clearing 6-2, and third in the long jump, with a mark of 20-8.
Senior Sam Sampson took second in the 100, senior Dylan “Bobby” Bache placed second the 400 with a personal record, junior Jacob Galle took second in the 110 hurdles, and senior Braydon Pierce placed second in the javelin.
The Bulldogs got third-place showings by Preston Jensen (200), Jaeger Hansen (javelin), and Mason Leber (pole vault), a fourth-place showing from Miner Lee (200), and fifth-place performances from Bradey Doyle (400), Karson Pumnea (javelin) and Ryan Popovich (high jump).
Butte High’s boys won the 400-meter relay and placed second in the 1,600 relay.
Sophia Houchin, an eighth grader, won the 800-meter race with a personal record of 229.75.
Stewart won the javelin with a mark of 126-3, and Trabert cleared 9 feet to win the pole vault.
Freshman Penelope Luebke took second in the 300 hurdles with a personal record of 55.29, and sophomore Cadence Graham finished third in the 400 and fourth in the 100 hurdles. She posted PRs in both events.
Senior Dylan Bartoletti took third in the 100 and sixth in the 200.
Butte High got fourth-place performances from Saege Grey (100), Milee Stillwagon (1,600), Mylee Demarais (shot put) and Emma Johnson (discus).
Butte High’s 1,600-meter relay team ran to second place.
Maroons win relay in Livingston
A victory in the 400-meter relay by the Butte Central boys highlighted the regular-season finale for the Maroons Saturday at the Joe Tacke Invitational in Livingston. (Results)
Justus McGee, Keefer McGree, Patrick Stimatz and Danny McCarthy teamed to run the short relay in 45.03 seconds for the win. McGee, McGree and Stimatz are seniors, while McCarthy is a sophomore.
McGee also posted three top-four individual performances. He jumped 19-4 ½ to take second in the long jump. He also took fourth in the high jump and 100-meter dash.
McGree placed third in the 300 hurdles.
Michael Peck placed third in the shot put and seventh in the discus, posting a personal-best mark in each event, while Parker Kellicut took fourth in the 110 hurdles and sixth in the 300 hurdles.
On the girls’ side, Caden Tippett placed fourth in the shot and sixth in the discus to lead the Maroons. She hit PRs in both events.
The Maroons will head to Polson for the Western A Divisional meet Friday and Saturday.
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The great Hudson Willse always got us with that one last question
If you are old enough, you remember those phone call bits by legendary comedian Bob Newhart.
Newhart would sit on stage and pretend to be on the phone. The audience could only hear him talking, but it would get a sense of the entire crazy conversation as Newhart just kept taking the silliness to the next level.
It was one of the best bits a comedian has ever produced.
Well, that is the best way to describe one Friday or Saturday night in the early 2000s for the sports staff at The Montana Standard, but it was no routine. It was a genuine Hudson Willse moment.
Montana Tech played basketball at Westminster College in Salt Lake City that night. This was back when the schools used to fax the stat sheet to newspapers. We would get them off the fax machine and then type up a box score and story based on the stats.
We had the stats for the women’s game, but it was almost midnight, and we did not have the men’s game. It was getting dangerously close to deadline, and we did not want to get chewed out by our bosses the next Monday over a late press start.
So, Hud, the retired sports editor who came out of retirement to work part time on the sports desk, grabbed our booklet that gave us the phone numbers of sports information directors around the country. He found the Westminster College SID and dialed his home number.
The problem was that Hud called the wrong Westminster College. Instead of Salt Lake, he got the SID from the school in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where it was minutes before 2 a.m.
We learned of Hud’s mistake as we listened to one side of the phone call.
“Oh, you’re from the Westminster in Pennsylvania?”
“Did I wake you up?”
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
We were all trying to hold back our laughter so when could hear the entire conversation. Then, Hud made us all lose it with his one last question.
“So, how’d you guys do tonight?”
I am pretty sure we missed deadline that night, and I do not remember if we got the story of the Tech game in the next morning’s paper. I do know that all our stomachs were hurting from laughing so hard.
Bruce Sayler, the sports editor, had to take off his glasses because tears were streaming down his face. Those tears flowed for about an hour.
That is the story I thought of when I heard that Hud, a true Mining City Legend, passed away on Saturday. He was 90.
Hud did not ask that last question to try to cover for his gaff of calling the wrong school. No, he genuinely wanted to know if the Westminster College team in Pennsylvania won or lost that night.
He wanted to know which team won every game. He would have covered them all by himself if it were physically possible.
In the sports department of the Standard newsroom, we used to have a dry erase board hanging on the wall. On busy nights, Bruce would write down all the games that we had to cover.
Some were games that we went to, while others were games that we would get from phone calls or faxes. When one of the writers got back from covering a game, he or she would write the score on the board.
Hud would always peek as we wrote the scores.
“Looks like you had a good game,” he would say. Then he would hit us with the questions. He wanted to know everything, and no detail was too small.
That was something that Hud did during his 27 years working as the sports editor of the Standard. Like Lt. Frank Columbo, he kept asking one last question, and that was what made his column, Hudson’s Bay, the stuff of legends.
Hud was a trendsetter in the newspaper business. He set the standard for sports coverage that papers around the state tried to copy. It was a standard that Bruce carried on and instilled in all of us who were lucky enough to work with him.
Whether you were a star on the Butte High football team or the No. 5 player on the Butte Central golf team, Hud made sure your sport was covered. He made us all feel like a big deal.
That is why, in 1997, Hud was enshrined in the Butte Sports Hall of Fame with many of the Butte legends he helped make famous.
What really made Hud stand out, though, was Hudson’s Bay. It was the first thing I would turn to when I got my hands on the sports page in the morning. While I am not sure I ever learned the difference between a “tidbit” and a “this and that,” I always read every word that Hud wrote.
In a column that would appear several days a week, Hud took us behind the scenes of the games. Each column was an informative piece jammed with interesting facts, connections and side stories.
He got those priceless nuggets by always asking that extra question.
While I was never interesting enough to make his column by name, I did make it one time.
Hud, who referred to me as a “Butte Central transfer” in a story about the first golf tournament I played for Butte High, typed my name many times. He made sure every score my teammates and I shot in high school was reported on.
But I made Hudson’s Bay in a failed attempt to prank Butte High golf coach Ed Yeo.
I was a junior in the spring of 1992, and my fellow Butte High golfers snickered in the background as I called the Standard sports desk to report a ridiculous hole in one by Yeo. Hud answered, and I told him I was the pro at the Butte Country Club.
We had it planned for weeks, and I was the one who had to call because Jack Crowley had me call in a few real holes in one from the Highland View Golf Course over the years. So, I knew the drill.
I told Hud that Yeo used a 4-wood to hit his first ace on the 114-yard No. 14 at the Club. That was my favorite part because a 4-wood was too much club for my grandma on that hole.
Hud kept asking questions. He asked me about the course. He asked what it was like to deal with some of the fickle members of the club. Every time thought I was going to get to hang up and laugh with my friends, Hud would ask another question.
Our mistake was making the call the night before Butte High hosted a tournament at the Country Club. After I finally got off the phone with Hud, he called Yeo only to learn that he did not hit that hole in one.
At least that is what I thought our mistake was.
A few weeks went by before Yeo’s fake hole in one finally made the paper. In Hud’s column.
“The imposter, passing himself off as club pro Bryan Morgan, announced the witnesses as Bill Osborne, Larry Ferguson and Bob Crippen,” Hud wrote about the fake hole in one. “Yeo said it wasn’t true, and that he already had an ace under his belt anyway.”
I read that in the paper early in the morning before our bus left to Bozeman for the state tournament that May 14, and I thought I was playing it coy when I boarded. Yeo was sitting in the front, holding the paper wide in both hands. I tried not to make eye contact with him as I walked past.
The bus was making its way up the hill to Homestake Pass before Yeo eventually spoke up.
“Hey Foley,” Yeo yelled, not looking at me or even taking his eyes off the paper. “The same guy who called you the ‘Butte Central transfer’ is now calling you an imposter.”
Yeo never told me how he knew I made that call, and I really thought that I had Hud fooled.
Looking back, I think I Hud got the final laugh in this one. He must have figured me out with that one last question.
— Bill Foley, who is easy to figure out, 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: Reece Johnson and Beau McGree
Butte High sophomore Reece Johnson and Butte Central freshman Beau McGree are this week’s Leskovar Honda Athletes of the Week.
The honors come after the two had another big week on the diamond for their schools.
Johnson takes home the girls’ honor after accounting for five Butte High hits in games against Helena Capital and Missoula Big Sky. The second baseman and Bulldog leadoff hitter went 1 for 2 with a triple, a walk and two runs scored Thursday as Butte High beat Capital 10-1 at Stodden Park.
Johnson then went 3 for 4 with a walk, a run scored, a stolen base and four runs batted in as Butte High fell 14-12 in the regular-season finale to Big Sky Saturday in Missoula.
She has given the Bulldogs a solid glove at second base while setting the table for the Butte High offense at the plate. Johnson also plays volleyball and basketball for the Bulldogs.
McGree helped Butte Central close the season with two wins last week. He went 1 for 1 with a run scored as the Maroons routed Townsend 16-1 Thursday at 3 Legends Stadium. The next day, the Central catcher drove in a key run as BC topped Lone Peak 5-3 in Belgrade.
BC coach Richie O’Brien said the McGree dropped down a couple of bunts. Plus, his blocking behind the plate was a key to the victory over Lone Peak.
“They had bases loaded or guys on second and third it seemed like every inning, but Beau is so good at his job that I don’t even sweat,” O’Brien said. “He is a little guy. He takes a beating back there and just always has a smile on his face.”
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 Johnson courtesy Alycia Holland Photography. Photo of McGree provided by Jacqueline Photography.
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KC basketball schedule
Following is the Knights of Columbus Athletic Club’s four-man basketball schedule for the week of May 12. This is the last week of the regular season. The season-ending, double-loss tournament will begin next week.
Monday
7 p.m. — Crib Crew vs. Someday Starters
8 p.m. — Poi Time vs. Rosary Rattlers
9 p.m. — Poi Time vs. ParishTuesday
7 p.m. — BC vs. Parish
8 p.m. — ButteSports vs. HertzWednesday
7 p.m. — Jellyfam vs. Cook
8 p.m. — Cook vs. Hoopballas
9 p.m. — Washington Generals vs. Rosary RattlersThursday
6 p.m. — BC vs. ButteSports
7 p.m. — Jellyfam vs. Someday Starters
8 p.m. — Washington Generals vs. Hoopballas
9 p.m. — Hertz vs. Rosary Rattlers
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Bullpup Volleyball Camp scheduled
The 2025 Bullpup Volleyball Camp will be held June 30 through July 1 at Butte High School.
Camps are for players entering second through ninth grade next school year. The camp for players in second through fifth grade will go from 9:30 to 11 a.m. each day, while the camp for players entering sixth through eighth grade will go from 11:30 to 1 p.m. A camp for players entering their freshman year runs from 1 to 3 p.m.
The camp, which will be run by the Butte High coaching staff and players, will focus on fundamental instruction, including passing, blocking, defensive positioning, hitting and serving.
Cost is $50 with an early registration.
For more information and a registration form, click the link below.
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Hislop, Fultz, Brandl lead in Week 3
Mark Hislop and Kohlten Fultz each broke 49 out of 50 targets to lead Week 3 shooting of the Butte Trap Club’s Spring League.
Riley Rigby broke 48 targets, while Seth Duclos, Kevin Zimpel, Ryan Miller, Chad Fellows, Alex Schneider, Scott Driscoll and Jayson Kress each shot a 47.
Rayelynn Brandl shot a 43 to lead women shooters. Mindy McClernan was second at 40. She was followed by Colleen Fink at 36 and Tammy Gordon at 33. Ian Smith’s 47 bested all in wobble shooting.
Through three weeks, Baker Auto leads team scratch standings at 551. Peterson Electric sits in second at 531, one shot better than Anaconda Trap Club.
Butte Trap Club – 2025 Spring League – Week 3 Standings
Team Scratch Standings
Baker Auto – 551
Peterson Electric – 531
Anaconda Trap Club – 530
Lost Art Builders – 521
Arc Electric – 519
Timberline Security – 508
S&S Plumbing/Northwest Pipe – 490
Northwest Clay Busters – 486
Lockmer Plumbing – 481
Nick’s Casino – 467
Archibald Co. – 461
Pro Repair – 458
Air Tight Solutions – 451
Clay Howery Construction – 447
Maloney’s/Harrington’s Pepsi – 415
Daddy’s Girls – 377
Eastridge Enterprise – 368
Lisac’s/Jim Lynch State Farm – 326
WET – 323
Edward Jones/Walt McIntosh – 322
Q-Stains – 309
St James – 307
12 G Girls – 240
B Squared Pest Control – 205
Wolverine Systems – 186
Cooney’s Locksmith – 176
Superior Title – 128High Individual Scores
Mark Hislop – 49×50
Kohlten Fultz – 49×50
Riley Rigby – 48×50
Seth Duclos – 47×50
Kevin Zimpel – 47×50
Ryan Miller – 47×50
Chad Fellows – 47×50
Alex Schneider – 47×50
Scott Driscoll – 47×50
Jayson Kress – 47×50High Lady Scores
Rayelynn Brandl – 43×50
Mindy McClernan – 40×50
Colleen Fink – 36×50
Tammy Gordon – 33×50High Wobble Trap Scores
Ian Smith – 47×50
Walt McIntosh – 45×50
Will Davies – 45×50
Rayelynn Brandl – 43×50
Mark Powers – 42×50
Kadon Queer – 42×50 -
Bulldog girls set hoops camp
The Headframe Hoops Girls’ Basketball Camp will be held June 23-26 at Butte High School.
The camp, which is for girls entering first through eighth grade next school year, will be conducted by the Bulldog coaching staff. It will focus on fundamental instruction, including ball handling, shooting, passing, scoring and more. Team and individual competitions will also be held.
Camp for girls entering fifth through eighth grades will go from 9 a.m. to noon each day. The camp for girls entering first through fourth grades goes from 12:30 to 2. Preregistration cost is $40 for the younger campers and $50 for the older players.
Click the link below for more information and a registration form.
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Podcast No. 263: Jerry Worley
On Nov. 9, 1973, Butte Central beat Cut Bank 27-6 on a frozen field on Montana’s Hi-Line.
The win gave the Maroons their third straight Class A State football championship. It was BC’s fourth title in five years.
The game was filled with sports legends from both sides. That includes on the field and on the sidelines.
While we don’t have a flux capacitor, Jerry Worley will take us back in time to that day in 1973 next Wednesday. He will give two presentations about the game — and so much more. The first will be at noon at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives. The second will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall.
The presentation, titled “Once Upon a Time in Cut Bank, Montana: The Last Apex Team,” will mark the second time — and hopefully not the last — in which Worley was in town to talk about a Butte Central championship game.
Last May, he did the same about the 1972 game between BC and Wolf Point. Worley, who graduated from high school at Wolf Point, was an eighth grader paying attention to that game.
Now a retired teacher and professor, Worley decided he didn’t want that game to be forgotten. He also wanted to finally do some fun righting after a career as a professor.
Due in part to the popularity of his last project, Worley decided to dig into the 1973 game and talk to the players, coaches and other key figures in the game and time around Montana.
Listen in as Worley talks about the greatness of that run by the Maroons. Listen as he talks about interviewing people like John Thatcher and Matt Buckley.
Listen as he talks about why he dove into the projects in the first place and to hear what he might be working on for his next presentation.
It is like taking a trip back in time.
Today’s podcast is presented by Casagranda’s Steakhouse. Eat where the locals eat.
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Tenley Osborne’s huge day leads Hillcrest to narrow track title
Hornets star breaks Jackie Street’s 46-year old record
The Hillcrest Hornets are once again the kings of Mining City track and field.
But only by a nose.
Hillcrest captured the team title at the annual Grade School Track Meet Wednesday on the Charlie Merrifield Track inside the sun-soaked Gene Fogarty Complex. The Hornets scored 366.25 team points, beating second-place West Elementary by a quarter of a point. (Results; Team scores; MVP report; Records)
Whittier placed third at 246.25. The Wildcats were followed by Margaret Leary at 150.5, Butte Central at 114, Emerson at 84, Ramsy at 69 and Kennedy at 12.
A record-breaking performance by sixth grader Tenley Osborne led the Hornets to the team title. She broke a record in the girls’ 400-meter race that was set before her parents were even born.
Osborne won the race in 1 minute, 6.5 seconds. That eclipsed the mark of 1:07 set by Jackie Street of Hillcrest in 1979. That 46-year-old record was the meet’s longest-standing record. (Note: Street ran when the race was calculated in yards, not meters. The officials records, though, do not note the difference.)
The performance for the ages by Osborne saw her win the 100-meter dash in 14.28 seconds, the 200 in 29.87 seconds, the standing long jump with a mark of seven feet, 9 inches and the running long jump in 13-3 ¾.
She tied the meet record set by Hillcrest’s Jennifer Stolarz set in 1989 in the standing jump.
Osborne also won the pentathlon with a perfect score of 50 points, tying the girls’ meet record shared by Elsa Janney of Hillcrest in 2005 and Abbey Mellott of Margaret Leary in 2017. That, of course, is a record that cannot be broken.
Brayton Burleson of West took second in the pentathlon with 42 points. Anna Yates of Hillcrest took third with 30.
Ramsay’s Bentley DeTonacour won the boys’ pentathlon with 40 points. West’s JJ Hardy was second at 34, and Whittier’s Kale Alexander took third at 32.
Jace Graham of Hillcrest took home the Track MVP award, and Alexander won the boys’ field MVP honor. Osborne won those awards on the girls’ side, as well as the overall MVP.
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