Bulldogs build on 32-game win streak
Whitefish and Columbia Falls Extend Soccer Dominance
Travis Pete kicks the ball around teammate Michael Hensley during a Columbia Falls boys soccer practice. - Lido Vizzutti/Flathead Beacon
COLUMBIA FALLS – Since soccer became a Class A sport in 2001, Columbia Falls and Whitefish have won six out of seven state championships for boys and three out of seven for girls. It’s a regional dominance nearly unheard of in Montana high school athletics.
The years when a team other than Columbia Falls or Whitefish won the state championship, boys or girls, the two Flathead schools were still usually at the top of the standings. So as the 2008 fall soccer season kicks off, all eyes are on the Wildcats and Bulldogs again.
Iverson picks up where he left off
Glacier Wolfpack Eye Repeat
Like everything else at Glacier High School, the boys golf program is still in its infancy. Nonetheless, the defending Class AA state champion – which tied with Billings West in 2007 – is poised to make a run at another state title behind senior star Larry Iverson III.
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class a season
Whitefish Volleyball a Favorite Again
It’s clear Jackie Fuller runs a tight ship.
In 19 years of coaching volleyball, 13 at Whitefish, she has tallied 400 career victories. This year, success is still met with sweat.
Class AA football season underway on Aug. 29
In Year Two of Split, Glacier and Flathead Take to Gridiron
The Flathead High School football team runs sprints at the end of practice at Legends Field in Kalispell. - Lido Vizzutti/Flathead High School
The Flathead Braves aren’t worried about scoring as long as their whole team is intact. But this is football and injuries happen. So head coach Russell McCarvel will be carefully monitoring the team’s depth chart, which features only 64 players this year, a decent turnout but half as many as before Kalispell’s high school split.
“If we don’t get any injuries we’ll be OK,” McCarvel said. “But injuries with our depth could really hurt.”
Competition held this weekend at Majestic Valley
Local Rodeo Stars Favorites at District Tournament
Matt Triplett and Lexy Rianda are typical teenagers with very untypical weekend hobbies.
When the school week’s over, Triplett likes to hop on the back of an angry, one-ton bull. Rianda prefers to wrestle down goats and ride horses at breakneck speed. They both understand where their sport stands in the pantheon of high school competition.
Track Meet May 16, 17
Glacier, Flathead Lace Up for Divisionals
Glacier High School tracksters know the road to state is difficult and unforgiving. It’s definitely not soft – after all, there isn’t a track at the school.
The Wolfpack runs on the street.
Brave Football
Flathead’s Osweiler Commits to ASU Football
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Brock Osweiler file photo by Lido Vizzutti/Flathead Beacon |
Flathead High School junior Brock Osweiler, who made a verbal commitment to play basketball at Gonzaga after his freshman season, has now changed his mind and committed to playing football at Arizona State.
"It's just the right decision at the right time," Osweiler said Thursday.
Osweiler committed to the Sun Devils and coach Dennis Erickson on Wednesday and told Gonzaga his plans the same day.
Flathead High School Track
Faces: Charlie Dotson
Charlie Dotson is a senior on the Flathead High School track team. - Lido Vizzutti/Flathead Beacon
Charlie Dotson represents Flathead High School with three different pairs of shoes. In the fall he wears cleats as he carries the football across the pitch and in the winter his sneakers pound the hardwood of the basketball court. With the arrival of spring, Dotson is lacing up his orange and black track shoes.
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