Sports

BCHS Softball Tues.

The Dillon Beavers softball team will host Stevensville on Tuesday, April 10, on the field behind Dillon Middle School. The varsity game will begin at 3 p.m. followed by a 5 p.m. junior varsity game. For more information, call 683-2361.

Thomas will return as head basketball coach

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He’s retired, but staying

Beaverhead County High School coach and teacher Terry Thomas spent his last afternoon before retirement getting things ready for his successor in the classroom, whomever that may be. Thomas’ 32-year stint as a full-time teacher and coach in Dillon came to a quiet conclusion Friday afternoon, with no fanfare, no firetruck ride, no special announcement. The good news is, he’s coming back.

Keller takes Providence up on their offer

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He’s gone

Things were looking even better than usual these past couple of weeks for the University of Montana Western’s men’s basketball team.

Regular season co-champions of the Frontier Conference, the Bulldogs in mid-March made their fourth straight appearance at the NAIA national tourney in Kansas City, where they won in the first and second round to establish a new single-season program record for wins and take their second climb in the past six seasons to the elite eight of the 32-team competition.

BCHS has 80 kids out for track and field

The Dillon track and field teams are off and running, and jumping and throwing. The power program in recent years will look to add to their haul of state meet trophies (boys 1st in 2016, 2nd in 2017 and girls 3rd in 2017), with 80 of the school’s 302 enrollment participating in the spring sport. There are 47 boys and 33 girls competing for coach Tammi Myers.

Beaverhead County HS tennis opens season in style

Veni, vidi, vici, icy proved again last weekend the operative phrase to describe the Beaverhead County High School tennis teams’ annual, earlyseason invasion of the Bitterroot Valley.

Shorthanded and forced to make the long journey to a pair of bitter cold Bitterroot Invitational tourney sites at Hamilton and Stevensville for their season openers on Saturday, the Beaver boys and girls still managed to sweep to four team wins and 21 match victories over their hosts.

BCHS softball season opener

The Dillon girls softball team will open its 2018 season on Thursday, March 29, when the Lady Beavers host Hamilton on the field behind Dillon Middle School. The varsity girls throw out the first pitch at 2 p.m., with the junior varsity to follow in a 4 p.m. game. For more information, call 683-2361.

Dawg football scrimmage Sat.

The University of Montana Western football team will hold a spring scrimmage on Saturday, March 31, at Vigilante Field in Dillon, starting at 11 a.m. An Easter Egg Hunt will follow at the same location. For more information, call 683-7419.

On the dotted line

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NAIA National Tourney: Those Dawgs can dance Lady Dawgs advance to final four

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A season revived by an impromptu whiffle ball game in January ended on Monday with the University of Montana Western women’s basketball falling just short of hitting a grand slam at the national tourney.

The Lady Bulldogs won three games at the NAIA Division 1 Women’s Basketball Championship tournament in Billings before going down gamely two days ago in a semifinal showdown.

Dawgs fall in elite 8 with school best 27 wins

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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 in Kansas City.

“It was a heck of a run,” said UMW Head Coach Steve Keller, whose Bulldogs reached the tourney’s third round with a 75-72 triumph over Campbellsville on Friday, following a 105-96 victory against Southwestern Assemblies of God (SAGU) the previous day.