Flathead Valley Sports & Outdoors: Kalispell, Montana News

GREAT FALLS – About 50 wolves have been taken so far in Montana's wolf hunting season.

Carolyn Sime, wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says the state may reach its quota of 75 by the time the season ends Nov. 29.

The Montana Highway Patrol says a bus carrying the Kalispell Glacier volleyball team ran a red light and crashed into a truck, but there were no serious injuries.

The team was heading to Missoula for a playoff match when the crash happened Thursday afternoon.

Today you just wander down to the ski shop with a sliver of plastic and in a short time are able to take advantage of several million dollars worth of research and development that you can use to continue to make turns on a mountain no matter your age.

Turn back the calendar to when rope tow tickets had already gone up to $2 a day and chairlift tickets were $4 a day (but there were only two chairlifts in Colorado, and they were at Aspen). There were two in California, one was at the Sugar Bowl on Donner Summit and the other one on Mount Waterman in Southern California. All told, there were only 15 chairlifts in America.

The first year they were called “fledgling.” Last year they were referred to as “maturing.” Now, people say the Glacier High School Wolfpack are “contending” – as in contending for the Class AA state football championship.

The rapid of evolution of the Wolfpack football program has come as no surprise to the players or coaches. Even in 2007, coming off a 0-10 season, nobody panicked. A tough first year was expected. Then last fall, Glacier clawed its way to a 2-8 record, far from championship caliber but an improvement nonetheless.

There’s an old adage that states never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel or paper by the ton.

In the recent three-week-long debacle between Bobby Hauck and the Kaimin, the University of Montana’s student newspaper, nothing could be closer to the truth.

MISSOULA – A University of Montana student who kicked a field goal to win a $10,000 prize during a Griz game likely won't get the money because he hadn't been away from the sport of football long enough.

Matthew Brenner, a 20-year-old sophomore, kicked a 45-yard field goal during UM's "Kick for Cash" contest on Saturday.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – Yellowstone National Park has set a record for annual visitation with two months still to count this year.

The park recorded 3,267,683 visitors from January through October this year. That exceeds the previous 12-month record of 3.15 million visitors set in 2007.

Glacier High School senior forward Maddey Frey has won the Western AA Player of the Year for girls soccer for the second straight year. Frey, a speedy forward with a knack for scoring goals, was also selected to the all-state team for the third straight year.

Frey is joined on the all-state team by teammate Patty Hughes, a junior. Sophomore Tess Brenneman and junior Chelsea Shuman of Flathead High School also were honored. For boys, Glacier senior Seth Bumgarner was named all-state.

These other local athletes were named all-conference:

Girls – Liana Bates (Jr., Glacier); Sydney Sharaff (Sr., Glacier); Stephanie Brewer (Jr., Flathead)
Boys – Josh Neiman (Sr., Glacier); Jerrad Merrill (Sr., Flathead); Cody Morritt (Sr., Flathead)