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Hamilton Broncs: One win from State Title game
Hamilton, MT — Hamilton forced four turnovers and controlled the pace against Billings Central in the quarterfinals, stretching its winning streak to seven games and moving the Broncs within one win of their first state title game since 2021. The Broncs had been one of the top Class A...
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Polson wins Western A Volleyball Championship
Three tournaments, three championships, and now the Polson Lady Pirates have their sights set on an even bigger prize. Polson capped an impressive run through the Western A Divisional Volleyball Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 7, defeating Northwest A rival Bigfork 3-1 to claim the divisional championship at Hamilton High School. The Lady Pirates finished the tournament unbeaten, improving to 17-1 overall while collecting their third tournament championship of the season, following victories at the season-opening Tip-Off Tournament and midseason Blocktober Tournament. The championship also sends Polson into the Class A State Volleyball Tournament as the Western Division's top seed, giving the Lady Pirates an opportunity to build on last year's fourth-place state finish. The Lady Pirates had to work for their championship victory against Bigfork, which entered the tournament as the Northwest A Conference's top seed. After dropping the opening set 25-19, Polson regrouped and won three consecutive sets, 25-21, 25-21 and 25-23, to secure the title. McKenna Corley powered Polson's offensive attack with 17 kills while also recording seven solo blocks and one block assist. Embree Bird added nine kills, while Eliza Todd and Logan McCrea contributed seven apiece. Rylee Taylor-Jefferson directed the offense with 27 assists, while Kendyl
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Five Years of Indigenous Creativity and Community: Indigenous Made Market Returns November 28–29
MISSOULA — More than 60 Indigenous artists, makers, and entrepreneurs will come together at the Missoula Fairgrounds on November 28–29 for the fifth annual Indigenous Made Market, a two-day celebration of Indigenous creativity, entrepreneurship, and community. Now in its fifth year, the Indigenous women-led event has become a gathering place where artists share their work, grow their businesses, and build meaningful connections with the wider community.
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Trotters realize net dream; advance to State B tournament
FLORENCE – Volleyball dreams can come true, if you believe, and perform best when it really counts. Now true believers in themselves after performing their best at the very best time, look who is going to State. The Plains Trotters exorcised the volleyball demons of tournaments past in Florence last week, ending a 27-year state tournament drought in Plains, winning second place and the west’s No. 2 seed into the State B portion of the Montana All-Class tournament at Brick Breeden Fieldhouse in Bozeman later this week. It is Plains’ first State B volleyball berth since way back in 1999. The Trotters open State B play at 4 p.m. Thursday against Shelby in the fourth match of the tournament. If the Trotters win versus Shelby they will face the winner between Jefferson County and Fairfield at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Brick. In the end, last week’s Western B tournament was not about that 27-year drought Plains had endured, it was about this year’s talented Trotters. Turns out that it was also a dream come true, a dream the team had dared to talk about before the season even began. “We have a large experienced group of seniors,” coach Kim
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Seeking refuge, becoming a tree with Marina Richie, author of ‘Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Trees’
This week on The Write Question, host Lauren Korn speaks with Marina Richie, author of Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Trees (Chelsea Green Publishing), a text that interweaves memoir and notes on ecology to create “a symphony of birdsong,” one that lyrically expounds on not only the vital relationship between birds and trees, but also the interconnectedness, the kinship, between us all. As writer and biologist David George Haskell writes in the book’s forward, “Trees gave birds their wings. It was partly by scrabbling up tree trunks and leaping into branches that feathered dinosaurs realized the dream of flight. [...Richie’s] sustained attention reveals the identities and personalities of living creatures and illuminates subtle weaves of intersecting histories and energies.” There is so much in this relatively slim volume (and so much to love) from the woman who brought us Halcyon Journey.