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#2 – UMW Women’s Basketball Final Four at NAIA National Tourney

The Lady Bulldogs won three games at the NAIA Division 1 Women’s Basketball Championship tournament in Billings before going down gamely in a semifinal showdown. The Lady Bulldogs fell, 61-50,

#4 – UMW Men’s Basketball Elite Eight at NAIA National Tourney

The University of Montana Western men’s basketball team last week capped its historic season with a surge into the Elite Eight at the NAIA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tourney

#5 – Dale Royer, USA Shooting National Trap Shooting champion the ’ side and ’

On the Men’s Trap side, there was a sense of déjà vu to this year’s competition at the National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships (NJOSC) for Shotgun in the Trap discipline

#9 – Mindy Kaufman, UMW Frontier cross country champ, NAIA All-America runner

It took UMW cross country runner Mindy Kaufman just over 18 minutes last week to officially achieve her penultimate goal as an NAIA All-American college cross country runner. Her time

#10 (tie) – Jason Ferris, UMW Frontier Defensive POY, All American

Shortly after the close of UMW’s 2018 football season, the league’s coaches bestowed the Frontier Conference’s top defensive honor upon area native Jason Ferris. Two weeks later, the Beaverhead County

#10 (tie) – BCHS Football Beavers thump Maroons, 41-26

The year is never complete without a Beaver football win over the Butte Central Maroons. The 41-26 win in a Southwestern A Conference game made the year complete.

#3 – BCHS wrestler Bret Tezak Three-time Class A state champion

As a freshman, Dillon’s Brent Tezak landed on the front page of Montana’s largest daily newspaper, the focus of their coverage of the Montana State All-Class Wrestling Tournament. The experience

#6 – Elite rodeo performers NFR, CNFR, State HS, State Jr. High

It has been another award winning year at all levels on the local rodeo scene. In December, UMW alum Bridger Chambers finished second in the world in steer wrestling at

#7 – Bradley Rakich, BCHS School’s first boys state tennis champ

Occupying the no. 1 boys singles position for BCHS from the first practice to the last match in 2018, Rakich completed his remarkable, undefeated run through the season by sweeping

#8 – Zane Johnson, BCHS Class A triple jump state champion

The Dillon boys placed sixth in the team standings with a late rush of 16 team points in the last two events. Dillon junior Zane Johnson hit the triple jump