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Rugby BBQ today

Games of flag rugby and a BBQ will happen today, Wednesday, Oct. 3, on the University of Montana Western campus tundra, starting at 5 p.m., hosted by the Rugby Club and Kappa Sigma.

Ski sale, party Sat.

Dawgs downed by UP

The University of Montana Western volleyball team gave the University of Providence a good game last weekend in Dillon, and even took a set from the Lady Argos, though not the match. Taking advantage of 44 UMW errors, Providence topped the Lady Bulldogs, 3-1, in the Saturday afternoon match at Straugh Gymnasium. Things started relatively well in the first set for the Lady Dawgs, who are still searching for their first league win of the season.

Dillon City Council meets tonight

With off-street parking requirements in the city’s central business district set to expire at the end of this week (see story on page 1) the city council will tonight, as part of an otherwise light agenda, consider a slight adjustment concerning an issue that has inspired a lot of heated discussion and heartache over the past half decade.

Beavers take control in second half to thump Central

The Dillon Beavers improved to 3-1 on the season with a 41-26 win over the Butte Central Maroons Friday night at Montana Tech’s Bob Green Field. The game was the Southwestern A Conference opener for both teams.

“We knew that they were going to come out and play as hard as they could,” said Dillon coach Zach McRae of the long-time rivals. “We played them really tough in the first half. We saw some things that we knew had to be corrected and give credit to the players for playing a four quarter game.”

“Over the course of 48 minutes, we felt good about our performance.”

UMW women finish second in Great Falls

Some of its individual runners continued to impress, but the University of Montana Western’s women’s cross-country team may have regressed a bit as a team at Friday’s University of Providence Open in Great Falls, according to its coach.

“It was a little disappointing to see our women get second,” said UMW Cross Country Head Coach Dylan Zitzer of his women’s silver-medal team finish behind Dickinson State in Great Falls.

Western men second, women third at Havre

Dillon Tribune staff

The UMW Rodeo Club will host the final Big Sky Region fall rodeo this weekend at the Beaverhead County Fairgrounds. The first performance will be Friday night starting at 6 p.m., with a second performance Saturday at 6 p.m. Sunday’s shortgo begins at 10 a.m. Slack will run Saturday, starting at 9 a.m.

The Big Sky Region met in Havre for the MSU-Northern rodeo last weekend. The Montana Western men were second to Northwest College and the Western women were third, trailing both MSU and UM.

UMW volleyball player Dylan Fowler named POW for fourth time

The league might as well just rename the award in her honor.

The University of Montana Western’s Dylan Fowler on Monday gained her fourth Frontier Conference Defensive Player of the Week nod in the past five weeks.

The 5-foot-5-inch senior defensive specialist, who currently leads the entire Frontier Conference and NAIA with an average of 7.08 digs per set, came up with 57 digs in the Lady Bulldogs’ two league matches last week.

UMW comeback kids fall just short at EOU in triple OT

“That was crazy, man,” said University of Montana Western Head Coach Ryan Nourse of his Bulldogs’ 54-51 loss at Eastern Oregon University on Saturday.

“That was a really wild football game,” added Nourse of a game that somehow managed to keep getting wilder and crazier the longer it went on.

It ended in appropriately unlikely and elongated fashion in the third overtime.

Lady Beavers drop two matches

After opening the season with a 3-0 start, the Dillon Lady Beavers lost a top player and momentum in a sport that is fueled by momentum. While regrouping and focusing on defensive basics, Dillon has dropped three straight matches, albeit, to two strong teams. Dillon fell to AA Butte High in a home and away series and then on Saturday, lost to conference favorite Corvallis.

“We definitely have some work to do,” said Dillon coach Susanne Valach. “Both teams have good hitters that we were primarily concerned with, but more than anything, our serve-receive was more of a struggle.”

Dawgs drop #14 Rocky

Yeah, it’s early in the season, and a lot of football remains to be played. And you don’t want to try to glean too much from one game, or even three. No, Dawg fans, we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. And...well, you know the rest.

But the heck with the inevitable cautions against getting too excited too early in the season.