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Beavers take control in second half to thump Central

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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

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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.

Dawgs drop #14 Rocky

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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.

Huber wins first varsity tourney

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The top Dillon golf news came from Frenchtown on Thursday when senior Lindsey Huber fired a 96-94 to win the two-day meet on the girls’ side.

“Whitefish was there, so she had some competition,” said Dillon coach Justin Roberts. “She is being real humble about it, but I think it is a really big deal. She should be proud of her accomplishment.”

Dillon hosted an event Friday, and then teams in the area concluded with a Saturday meet at Hamilton, on the same course that will host the state A tournament in two weeks.

Beavers heal with domination of Ronan, 35-0

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The Dillon Beavers badly needed a “bounce back” game and they got it Friday night. Dillon posted a 27-0 lead at the half and went on the win, 35-0.

Junior quarterback Justus Peterson started the fireworks with a 7 yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Dillon missed the kick, but four minutes later Peterson connected with sophomore impact player Jace Fitzgerald on a 29 scoring pass. Dillon converted the two-point conversion for a 14-0 lead.

BCHS X-country teams keep improving

The Beaverhead County High School cross country girls team raced to a second-place finish at Saturday’s Mission Shadow Duels in Pablo, where the Beaver boys posted a bevy of personal bests that promise personal and team betterment to come.

“The focus of our girls team is really impressive,” said Betty Iverson, who serves as head coach for both the BCHS boys and girls cross-country squads.

“They have some big goals that they want to accomplish,” added Iverson of a local girls team that put all seven of its runners in the top 50 of the crowded girls field in Pablo.

Montana Western netters lose twice

Montana Western volleyball’s start last week to its 2018 Frontier Conference season proved as tough as dreaded.

The Lady Bulldogs got swept at home on Thursday by Carroll College in Straugh Gymnasium, where they found themselves on the wrong end of the broom again the next night against Rocky Mountain College, which came into Dillon ranked 6th in the entire NAIA.

Western rodeo team gives up ground at Glendive

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The Montana Western rodeo teams slid a little in the standings after a single rodeo at Glendive brought the Big Sky Region total to three rodeos to date in the fall season. The Western men trail Northwest College (2,07.5) and Montana State (1,573) with 1,297 points. Western’s top men are in the team roping, with Brody Smith and Cyris Robertson topping the field wit 277 points each, a 62 point lead over an MSU squad. Smith works both ends of the arean and is currently third in the region in bareback riding, just behind teammate Troy Kirkpatrick.