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Homecoming - JH/VSept. 15 Harlowton/Park City - JVSept. 19 Broadview/Lavina - VSept. 22 Livingston 7th - JHSept 22 Absarokee/White Sulphur - JVOct. 3 Park City (VB @ Home) - JH/VOct. 6 Ennis/Harlo - JVOct. 11 Gardiner (VB @ Gardiner) - JH/VOct. 13 Gardiner - JVOct. 18 Absarokee - VOct. 25 White Sulphur Spring (FB @ WSS) - VNov. 1 State Playoffs Opening Round - VNov. 8 State Playoffs Quarterfinals - VNov. 15 State Playoff Semifinals - VNov. 22 State Playoff Championship - V

FOOTBALL

Aug. 30 Drummond/Granite Tournament - VSept 5 Ennis - JHSept 5 Lone Peak - JV/VSept. 6 Lima - JV/VSept. 8 Big Timber - JHSept. 8 Big Timber - C/JV/CSept. 12 Twin Bridges (FB @ Home)

Homecoming - C/JV/VSept. 13 Belgrade Tournament - JHSept. 13 Manhattan Christian - JV/VSept. 15 Bozeman - CSept. 16 Livingston - JHSept. 19 Harrison/Willow Creek - JH/JV/VSept. 20 Park High - C/CSept. 20 Reed Point/Rapelje - JH/JV/VSept. 23 Manhattan Christian - JV/VSept. 26 White Sulphur Springs - JH/JV/VSept. 27 Shields Valley Tournament - JHSept. 27 Belgrade Tournament - C/JVSept. 30 Big Timber - JHOct. 2 Ennisn - JH/C/JV/VOct. 3 Park City (FB @ Home) - C/JV/VOct. 4 Manhattan Tournament - JVOct. 4 Manhattan Christian Tournament - VOct. 4 Gardiner - JHOct. 6 Bozeman - COct. 7 Livingston - JHOct. 9 Sheridann - JV/VOct. 10 West Yellowstone - JV/VOct. 11 Livingston Tournament - JHOct. 11 Gardiner (FB @ Gard) - C/JV/VOct. 18 Twin Bridges - C/JV/VOct. 23 Harrison/Willow Creek

(Senior Night) - JV/VOct. 25 White Sulphur Spring (FB @ WSS) - C/JV/VSept. 30 - Nov.1 District Volleyball Nov. 6-8 Divisional VolleyballNov. 13-15 State Volleyball

VOLLEYBALL

Shields ValleyREBELS

Aug. 30 AbsarokeeSept. 6 WSSSept. 13 HarlowtonSept. 19 EnnisSept. 27 Twin BridgesOct. 3 BroadviewOct. 11 Shields ValleyOct. 17 Park City

FOOTBALLAug. 30 Drummond TSept. 4 West Yell.Sept. 5 WSSSept. 6 Livingston TSept. 12 Belgrade (C,JV,V)Sept. 13 HarrisonSept. 19 M. Christian (C,JV, V)Sept. 20 Ennis (C,JV,V)Sept. 26 SheridanSept. 27 Lone PeakOct. 3 Livingston (C,JV,V)Oct. 4 Laurel (Park City T)Oct. 4 Manhattan (JV T)Oct. 7 Red Lodge (C, JV, V)Oct. 10 Tri-Twin/Lima(V,C,JV,V)Oct. 11 Shields ValleyOct. 23 Manhattan (C,JV,V)Oct. 24 M. Christian (C,JV,V)Oct. 30-Nov. 1 District - M. ChristianNov. 6-8 Divisional - ButteNov. 13-15 State - MSU

VOLLEYBALL

Aug. 29 LivingstonSept. 6 Harrison/PonySept. 13 Twin BridgesSept. 20 ManhattanSept. 27 Mtn. WestOct. 4 ButteOct. 9 Helena 7/7Oct. 11 Big TimberOct. 18 TownsendOct. 25 Helena State

CROSS COUNTRY

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FALL SPORTSSCHEDULE

Park HighRANGERS

Aug. 30 at SidneySept. 5 vs. Butte CentralSept. 13 vs. Miles CitySept. 19 at LaurelSept. 26 vs. Havre (Homecoming)Oct. 3 at BrowningOct. 10 at WhitefishOct. 17 vs. Belgrade (Sr. Night)Oct. 24 at Fergus

FOOTBALL

Aug. 29 CorvallisAug. 30 LoyolaSept. 5 PolsonSept. 6 Columbia FallsSept. 9 JV @ BelgradeSept. 12 WhitefishSept. 13 BigforkSept. 19 BelgradeSept. 20 LaurelSept. 25 Billings CentralSept. 27 JV @ Billings CentralOct. 2 JV vs. Billings CentralOct. 4 BelgradeOct. 7 JV vs. BelgradeOct. 9 Billings CentralOct. 11 LaurelOct. 18 First Round of Playoffs - TBAOct. 25 Semi-Finals - TBANov. 1 State Championship - TBA

BOYS AND GIRLS SOCCER

Aug. 29 PHS InviteSept. 2 ButteSept. 6 BelgradeSept. 14 Twin BridgesSept. 20 Mountain West InviteSept. 26 LewistownOct. 4 BillingsOct. 9 HelenaOct. 11 Big TimberOct. 18 Divisionals - FergusSept. 24-25 State - Helena

CROSS COUNTRY

Aug. Frosh/JV @ Manhattan Invite 9:00Sept. 5 Browning/Havre -4:00/6:00 (v. Only)Sept. 6 Windy City Invite (V Only) - 9:00Sept. 13 Anaconda Tournament (All Levels)Sept. 16 Butte Central Sept. 18 Butte CentralSept. 20 Frosh @ Shields ValleySept. 23 DillonSept. 27 Frosh/JV @ Belgrade InviteOct. 3 GardinerOct. 4 FergusOct. 7 Frosh/JV @ AnacondaOct. 9 BelgradeOct. 18 Butte Central Tournament (V Only)Oct. 21 Butte CentralOct. 23 FergusOct. 25 Havre/BrowningOct. 30 BelgradeNov. 1 Laurel - 3:00 (Senior Night)Nov. 7-8 DivisionalsNov. 13-15 State - Bozeman

VOLLEYBALL

Aug. 29 Three ForksSept. 5 at HarlemSept. 12 Deer LodgeSept. 19 ManhattanSept. 26 Columbus (Homecoming)Oct. 3 JolietOct. 10 Roundup (Senior Night)Oct. 15 Red Lodge

FOOTBALL

Aug. 29 LivingstonSept. 6 BelgradeSept. 13 Twin BridgesSept. 20 ManhattanSept. 23 Red LodgeSept. 30 Huntley ProjectOct. 4 Big TimberOct. 9 HelenaOct. 11 JolietOct. 18 TownsendOct. 25 State Meet (Helena)

CROSS COUNTRY

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VOLLEYBALLAug. 30 Columbus TournamentSept. 4 Red LodgeSept. 6 ColumbusSept. 11 Three ForksSept. 13 JeffersonSept. 16 JolietSept. 18 ManhattanSept. 25 TownsendSept. 27 WhitehallSept. 30 ManhattanOct. 2 Red LodgeOct. 4 Manhattan TournamentOct. 7 Three ForksOct. 11 JeffersonOct. 14 Whitehall (Senior night)Oct. 21 JolietOct. 25 TownsendOct. 31-Nov. 1 District Tournament (Belgrade)Nov. 6-8 Divisional Tournament

(Red Lodge)Nov. 13-15 State Tournament (Bozeman)

Aug. 25 Belgrade JV @ FergusAug. 28 Butte CentralSept. 5 DillonSept. 9 FergusSept. 12 FergusSept. 15 JV@ DillonSept. 19 LaurelSept. 22 PHS JV InviteSept. 26-27 DivisionalsOct. 2-4 State - Hamilton

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By Thomas Watson Enterprise Staff Writer

Coming off of a season that end-ed with a loss in the divisional tournament and saw them win nearly the same amount of

games they lost, the Park Ranger vol-leyball team returns all but three play-ers from last year’s team as they look to improve behind a deep senior class.

“We have a lot of incoming seniors this year, which should be good,” said head coach Joey Lane. “A lot of them have been playing varsity for a few years. This will be Meadow Ingram’s third year on varsity. Several others this will be their second year playing on varsity.

“We have quite a few veterans, so we have a pretty experienced team.”

The Rangers will have to fill the voids left by the departed seniors, such as the defense from Tegan Lane, the setting Shayla Pryor or the outside hit-ting from Meghan Hawkins.

“Tegan was first-team All-Confer-ence labero,” said Lane. “We’re going to miss that. Shayla was one of our main setters, and Meghan Hawkins was a strong outside hitter that played varsity all four years of her high school career. We have some girls com-ing in that it should be a seamless tran-sition in all three positions.”

Lane believes the fact that Park’s

three departed seniors all played dif-ferent positions is a benefit, rather than having to replace a large group from the same position.

“We’re lucky enough that in those areas, the girls replacing them have played with the other girls so much that I think in this case it shouldn’t be much of an issue,” Lane said. “For the last couple of years, we’ve been pretty deep in each position, and that should benefit us.”

“If you can pass well, you’re going to be good no matter who you are, so that is really important,” said Lane. “For this group of girls, our success will depend on how they work together and how hard they work. Their determina-tion level will be important because the talent is certainly there. The mix-ture of strengths and weaknesses will be helpful. It could be a really, really good year, or it could be an average year. It depends on the determination level of these girls.

“Also, every year you look at every-one else in the conference and who they lost. Again, it could be a really good year for us if things work well, but I’ve been doing this long enough to know you never know.”

The Rangers hit the court for the first time this season Friday, Sept. 5 for a pair of matches against Browning and Havre in Belgrade at 4 and 6 p.m., respectively.

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Ranger Volleyball 2014 Schedule9/5 vs. Browning vs. Havre

9/6 at Windy City Invitational

9/9 at Laurel

9/13 at Anaconda Tournament

9/16 at Butte Central

9/18 vs. Billings Central (4:15 p.m.)

9/23 vs. Dillon (3:30 p.m.)

10/3 vs. Gardiner (4:15 p.m.)

10/4 at Fergus

10/9 vs. Belgrade (4:15 p.m.)

10/18 at Butte Central Tournament

10/21 vs. Butte Central (4:15 p.m.)

10/23 vs. Fergus (4:15 p.m.)

10/25 at Browning/Havre

10/30 at Belgrade

11/7-8 Central A Divisionals at Browning

11/13-15 State A at Bozeman

• Home matches in bold

Park High School Ranger Meadow Ingram is pictured during a match in the Park High gym last season.

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Aug. 30 Sidney

Sept. 5 Butte Central (7 p.m.)

Sept. 13 Miles City (4 p.m.)

Sept. 19 at Laurel

Sept. 26 Havre (Homecoming; 7 p.m.)

Oct. 3 at Browning

Oct. 10 at Whitefish

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Oct. 30 Class A playoffs begin


Coming off of an appearance in the semifi-nals of the Class A playoffs in 2012, there were high expectations for last year’s Park Ranger football team, and after los-

ing nearly all of their starters from that semifinal team, an inexperienced group fell short of those expectations last year. However, head coach Bryan Beitel has another experienced group heading into the 2014 season looking to get back into the play-offs.

The 2012 season was Beitel’s first after serving as Park’s defensive coordinator, and he is looking for his third season to be as good as his first.

“We started with a one-point loss to Sidney last year, and you wouldn’t think a one-point loss would snowball, but it did,” said Beitel. “Plus, we had a lot of injuries, but you never want to blame it on inju-ries. We had a lot of young kids that I thought we could just put into the mix with the same offensive and defensive systems we’ve run. It just didn’t work. We struggled turning over the ball at times.”

The Rangers have employed a two-tight-end, double-wing offense that has focused on running the ball during Beitel’s tenure, though there might

be some changes to the offense this year.“We’re going to adapt to our talent,” Beitel said

of the offensive changes. Despite any changes to the offense, Beitel will

not get away from the running offense that racked up over 600 yards on the ground in one game against Havre in 2012, a state record.

“What happened last year is that we took people by storm in 2012. It was the first time we had run that offense,” said Beitel. “Teams had a year to study what we were doing, which I’m sure didn’t help us.”

Having all three starting running backs return-ing to this year’s team should help get the ground game back to where it was.

The Rangers will, however, have to replace two big offensive linemen from last year. Colton Gavne and Chris Emter each played in the East-West Shrine Game over the summer, and the Rang-ers will have to find a way to replace them this year.

“We went to a couple of camps in June, so we had a chance to work with the line,” said Beitel. “There were a few kids that weren’t starters last year that we can get to step into those roles.

“We’ll probably be a little younger on the line this year. We’ll have a couple of underclassmen

with only one or two seniors, so that will be one of our focuses.”

Defensively, the Rangers run a 4-2-5 with four down linemen, two linebackers and five defensive backs.

“Again, it is the defensive line where we are going to have to focus, because we lost some big defensive linemen,” said Beitel. “We’ve got guys back at linebacker and we feel comfortable with our secondary.”

This will be the fourth year running this defense. Beitel introduced it in 2011 as the defen-sive coordinator and has continued to use it the last two years.

“We try to bring pressure on every play,” Beitel said of his defensive philosophies. “Very rarely are we only rushing four. We just don’t want them to know where we are coming from, but we like to bring the pressure to help the defensive backs with their coverage and not let quarterbacks just sit back there.”

Park’s first chance to erase last season will be accompanied with a chance at revenge when the Rangers travel to Sidney for the season-opening game at 4 p.m. Sidney won last year’s contest 7-6 when a Ranger two-point conversion failed in the fourth quarter.

Rangers reloaded, look for return to playoffs

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Park High School Rangers running back Cade McCumber carries the ball against Belgrade last season in Belgrade.

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Ranger Girls Soccer2014 Schedule

8-29 at Corvalis

8-30 at Loyola

9-5 Polson (4 p.m.)

9-6 Columbia Falls (1 p.m.)

9-12 Whitefish (4 p.m.)

9-13 Bigfork (11 a.m.)

9-19 at Belgrade

9-20 at Laurel

9-25 Billings Central (6 p.m.)

10-4 Belgrade (3 p.m.)

10-9 at Billings Central

10-11 Laurel (Senior night)

10-18 State A playoffs

10-25 State A semifinals

11-1 State A championship


The Park Rangers girls’ soccer team offi-cially begins its season on Aug. 29 in Cor-vallis, but the team has already played in a tournament in Portland, Oregon, as a club team for a team-building trip as head

coach Matt Dettori tries to build a strong team cul-ture during his second year as head coach of the team.

Park had to compete in the tournament as a club team because there is no coaching allowed in the two weeks before the start of the season, meaning Detto-ri could not be their coach at the tournament.

Dettori felt that his team having to get through games without him helped them learn to lean more on each other.

With a strong core of returning players after only losing three seniors from last year’s team, the Rang-ers plan to go about things slightly differently this year.

“Last year was interesting,” said Dettori. “We had varsity and we had JV, but we also had a group of swing players that would do both. This year we are going to steer away from that. We are going to have a varsity and a JV. We have numbers; we have strength. I think we have 14 girls back that saw var-sity playing time last year.”

This year, Park has four seniors and an even deep-er junior class.

Along with reorganizing how he will use his play-ers between varsity and JV, Dettori is also reshuf-fling some of the tactics his team will use this year.

“I thought we’d have to work on it all season,” said Dettori of the new strategies. “We’re already there. They already understand the concepts and the design. They’re enjoying it. They feel like it is pow-erful enough to use for the rest of the season after using it in the trip to Portland.”

A lot of the focus for this year will be on finishing goals. The Rangers were concerned with possession last year, which was a strong point for them — they just couldn’t finish.

“Last year, I focused our training on possession, and it showed because we out-possessed every team we played,” said Dettori. “This year we need to pos-sess to finish. We need to build the attack. We have a whole squad of forwards and bench personnel that can attack. Attacking is going to be our key to suc-cess this year.”

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Ranger mid-fielder Ariona Brown, right, controls the ball against Billings Central during a regular sea-son game at Park High last season.



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Rebels volleyball 2014 Schedule8-30 at Drummond Tournament

9-5 at Lone Peak

9-6 Lima

9-8 Big Timber

9-12 Twin Bridges

9-15 Bozeman

9-16 Livingston

9-19 at Harrison

9-20 at Reed Point

9-23 Manhattan Christian

9-26 White Sulphur Springs

9-27 Shields Valley Tournament

10-2 at Ennis

10-3 Park City

10-4 Manhattan Christian Tournament

10-9 Sheridan

10-10 at West Yellowstone

10-11 at Gardiner

10-18 at Twin Bridges

10-23 Harrison (Senior night)

10-25 at White Sulphur Springs

*Home games in capital letters

By Thomas WatsonEnterprise Staff Writer

The Shields Valley Rebel volleyball team will have an interesting mix of upper- and underclassmen this season as they replace some departed seniors with

younger players. “We’re looking to fill a couple of key spots,”

said head coach Callee Peebles, who is entering her sixth season as head coach and seventh overall with Shields Valley. “We lost two pretty solid seniors, both All-State and All-Conference players. It’s hard to say (who will fill the holes) so far because practice (is just beginning).”

One of those players gone is Casey McIner-ney, who was All-State and played outside hitter last year.

“She was very pivotal in our offense,” said Peebles. “She attacked and was a strong player. She went on and is playing at Sheridan College this season.”

The other senior lost to graduation is Jessica Gagen, a three-time All-Conference player.

“She worked hard for everything,” said Pee-bles. “She was the heart of the team. She was our middle hitter, so that will be a spot we have to fill this year.”

With just a few practices in the books, Bre-anne Peterson is already showing that she is ready to step up into a bigger role for this year’s team as a senior setter.

“She’s a great leader,” said Peebles. “That will really help with the consistency for us. I think that her leadership will help.”

Those upperclassmen will be augmented with

an unusually large underclass for Shields Val-ley.

“We have a lot of very talented freshmen coming in, which is very exciting for a small school to have a big underclassmen group com-ing in,” said Peebles. “We have eight fresh-men.”

“Making it out of our district is a huge chal-lenge,” said Peebles. “We have a very talented district. We play some tough teams. Definitely our goal is to make it to divisionals and look on to state. I have a talented group, athletic group of girls. They made it to state in basketball last year, so they know what it takes to get to the next level.”

The Rebels’ first match of the season will be at the Drummond Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 30.


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Rebels football 2014 Schedule8- 30 Harlowton

9-5 at Ennis

9-12 Twin Bridges

9-19 at Broadview

10-3 vs Park City

10-11 at Gardiner

10-18 Absarokee


11-1 Class C first round

11-8 Class C quarterfinals

11-15 Class C semifinals

11-22 Class C championship• Home matches in bold


The Shields Valley Rebels are under new direction in 2014. After serving as an assistant coach last year, Jon Crofton takes over for the Rebels.

With a strong group of returning players, Crof-ton doesn’t plan to make too drastic of changes. In all, the team returns six starters.

“Last year I did the defense, and I think we’re going to keep that the same,”said Crofton. “Offensively, we’re going to try some new things, but we want to try to build off of what we had success with last year. It’s nothing huge, not like we’re completely throwing things out. We’re just trying to incorporate some new things.”

Part of the problem last year was an over com-plication of the offense.

“We like to run balanced formations and not a lot of sets,” Crofton said. “That’s one of the things that we’re going to change. We’re going to simplify things and get better at a few things instead of throwing a lot of things at the kids.”

The new head coach hopes to be able to run the ball, and knows that a lack of size will have to be overcome.

“Fundamentals and technique is a big focus for us,” Crofton said. “We don’t have the biggest line in the world, so we really have to focus on those two things.”

Crofton knows the Rebels play in a deep con-ference, and said the defense is going to have quite a challenge this year.

“We were in a pretty tough conference last year,” he said. “The state champs came out of our conference and a few other good, playoff teams that made some decent runs. We had some teams score big on us, so we’re trying to elimi-nate some big plays.”

As far as goals for this year’s team, Crofton isn’t focused as much on the field as he is off it.

“We need to fix quite a few of the things we had going on last year off the field,” said Croft-on. “Academics are going to be a big goal for us this year. We battled eligibility issues for a lot of last year, and we want to fix that this year. I think if we are successful off the field, it will translate onto the field.”

That translation begins at home on Saturday, Aug. 30 against Harlowton at 7 p.m.


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To describe the Gardiner Bruin volleyball team as a dynasty might be an understatement. Currently riding a 66-match win streak, the Bruins have gone undefeated each of the last two season’s on their way to consecutive Class C state championships.

With two titles in the bag, the Bruins lose three seniors from last year’s team, but head coach Carmen Harbach expects to have three or four freshmen out this year to replenish their ranks with 20-25 girls on the team.

“Kelly Harbach is playing at Montana Tech as a defensive specialist,” said Carmen Harbach. “She was a good defensive player and passer. We also lost our labero in Ashley Gilwine, so we lost a lot of ball control. Ball control is really going to be what we focus on. Taylor Perius was our other senior. She put up a big block on the back-side, so we’re going to have to find someone with a knack for blocking.”

The Bruins’ head coach already sees a lot of girls that are ready to step up and take on some of the open roles on the team.

“I thought we had a lot of talent on the bench last year with some girls just waiting for their chance,” said Carmen Harbach. “It’ll be fun (during the beginning of the season) just to see who is ready to take those spots. It is all up for grabs now.”

“If we can eliminate our mistakes and ride out a rally, (we will be successful),” said Carmen Harbach. “If we don’t get a kill, we need to ride it out and try to make our opponents make a mistake. That’s going to be key. A lot of it is everyone just doing their job. It’s getting the first ball to the setter, the setter making a good set, getting the hitters the ball and playing some defense. It’s all intertwined and it all works together.”

Despite all the success this team has had over the last two years, Carmen Harbach doesn’t want her team to lose focus on the little things.

“Our goal always to play our best volleyball, then to improve a little with each practice and each match and hopefully it will come to a head at state,” said Carmen Harbach. “But it’s all the little things of enjoying the journey, getting through the season, enjoying it and cherishing every moment because it goes really fast. Hope-fully we’ll have some good memories to look back on when it’s all over.”

Keeping her team focused is about continuing to remind them that they can still be better, according to Carmen Harbach.

“We can always get better,” she said. “Whether its adding a new play or playing better defense. We can always get better. Even after state last year, we weren’t the best team we could be. We probably could have used a few more weeks. So it’s really about focusing on each week and getting better so we can add more plays and more dynamics to our game.”

The Bruins’ first test in their trek for a third straight title will come against Drum-mond, on the road, Saturday Aug. 30. Their first home match will be that Thursday, Sept. 4 against West Yellowstone at 5 p.m.


Gardiner’s PJ Thomas makes a kill during the Class C state championship game in Bozeman last season.

Gardiner Bruins look to extend win streak

Bruins riding 66-match winning streak, haven’t lost a game in two straight years

Bruin Volleyball2014 Schedule

FALL SPORTS PReview • MOndAy, AuguST 25, 201416

Bruins football 2014 Schedule

By Thomas Watson Enterprise Staff

The Gardiner Bruin Football team will have a new head coach at the helm for the 2014 campaign with Mike Baer taking over for Jordan Featherman.

Baer’s number one goal for the team this year is just to keep things simple and the few things they do, he wants to do them well.

“They ran a pretty complicated offense last year. There were a lot of formations and calls,” Baer said. “We’re going to keep it sim-ple. We’re just going to try to perfect a few plays. We’ll keep the playbook thin until we run our base plays as close to perfection as we’re going to get.”

Baer inherits a number of returning starters with eight players returning that saw meaning-ful playing time on either side of the ball.

The Bruins have 21 players in all on the ros-ter.

“I think last year they were a young team,” said Baer. “They will be pretty experienced. They lost three pretty good seniors, but the core is young.”

In Class C 8-man football, Gardiner wants to keep the ball on the ground in their power-run offense.

“We’re going to line up and try to run the football,” Baer said. “We’re going to establish the run and hopefully get teams to stack the box (to open up the passing game). But we’re going to lean very heavily on the run. We’ve

got some big kids up front and a couple of running backs coming back from last year.”

Up front, senior Seth Tyson and junior Jarred Hurst will be a big part of the offensive line trying to open lanes for running backs Eddie Rodarte and Nick Sabo. All four players are returning starters from a year ago.

Defensively, the Bruins plan to attack.“We’re going to try to put pressure on the

offense,” Baer said of his defense. “We want to make them make mistakes and give them some different looks.”

Gardiner’s first test of the season will be on Saturday, Aug. 30. A 1 p.m. home game against Absorakee will start a season that sees the Bruins alternate home and road games throughout the season.


Gardiner Bruin running back Eddie Rodarte carries the ball last season in a game against Shields Valley.

Bruins keep it simple under new head coach

8- 30 Absarokee


9-13 Harlowton

9-19 at Ennis

9-27 vs Twin Bridges

10-3 at Broadview

10-11 Shields Valley

10-17 at Park City• Home matches in bold


Rangers Cross Country 2014 Schedule8- 29 PHS Invite

9-2 at Butte

9-6 at Belgrade

9-14 at Twin Bridges

9-20 at Mountain West Invite

9-26 at Lewistown

10-4 at Billings

10-9 at Helena

10-11 at Big Timber

10-18 Divisionals - Fergus

10-24,25 State - Helena• Home matches in bold


Kirk Lentz is back at the helm of the Park High School cross country team, and he is excited to get the season started.

“Cross country is one of those dynamic sports, especially this last year,” Lentz said, referring to the revolving door-like nature of runners who join and leave the team from year to year. “We have some students who might go back to the sport they started out in, essential-ly, or they don’t know if they are going to run

or not. We have a few kids who are going back and forth.”

Lentz roughly expects at least five returning boys in both the high school and middle school level with four returning girls, though until the season starts, he said he won’t know for sure.

“There are going to be a couple of returning runners on both the boys and girls side that have been running in this program since mid-dle school,” said Lentz. “Then there are going to be some that this will be their second year or even their first year (running).”

WIth that mix, it will be up to the returning runners to help the newcomers out.

“The returning runners have been with it so long that they know what my expectations are, they know how we conduct practices and they know what the expectations for our workouts are,” Lentz said. “What I’ve seen over the years that I’ve been coaching is that often times it is just leading by example. When a new runner comes in, you learn the playground rules, so to speak. You learn how to do the sport (the way we do it).”

The Park cross country team’s first meet of the season will be at home. They begin their year Friday, Aug. 29 at 10 a.m. with the PHS Invite.


Park High Ranger cross country team at the start of last year’s Class A Divisional meet in Bozeman.

Ranger cross country runners ready for season


Herders volleyball 2014 Schedule8-30 at Columbus tournament

9-4 Red Lodge

9-6 at Columbus

9-11 at Three Forks

9-13 Jefferson

9-16 Joliet

9-18 at Manhattan

9-25 Townsend

9-27 at Whitehall

9-30 Manhattan

10-2 at Red Lodge

10-4 at Manhattan/MCHS tournament

10-7 Columbus

10-9 Three Forks

10-11 at Jefferson

10-14 Whitehall (Senior night)

10-21 at Joliet

10-25 at Townsend

10-31 /11-1 District tournament at Belgrade

11-6/11-8 Divisional tournament at Red Lodge

11-13 /11-16 State B at Bozeman


Young Herders squadwelcomes new coach in 2014


Head coach Liz Day is taking over the Sweet Grass Herder volleyball team this year and inherits a very young team with only three players return-

ing with varsity experience.Day was a coach at the middle school level last

season at Big Timber, and that experience should help ease the transition, since she knows a handful of the players.

“They know me,” Day said of the familiarity. “I coached five of the girls last year, and one of them will be a backup setter on the varsity team.”

Day has only 20 girls to fill the three teams: varsity, junior varsity and freshmen.

Along with being inexperienced, the Herders also lack height, which is why they are focusing on playing solid defense this season.

“We’re really trying to focus on our defensive play,” said Day. “Our district is going to be pret-ty tough this year.”

In order to help out with that defense, Day is having her team work on improving with block-ing.

Each of the three returning players will have a huge role to fill on this team, and Day is already happy with what she’s seen.

“We’ve got Leichelle Woods — she’s a good all-around player. She’ll be able to hold us on our hitting. Jessica Johnston is going to be our mid-dle blocker. They both have a lot of experience in our front row.

“Then we have a labero that is a senior, Jocelin Holman, who has been doing very well.”

This year Day is just hoping the team can learn to work together to develop their skills.

“We need to build that relationship to work as a team and to grow as a team,” she said.

Day’s squad will kick things off at a tourna-ment in Columbus on Saturday, Aug. 30.

Big Timber Pioneer staff photo

The Sweet Grass Herder volleyball team makes a play during a game last season.

“We need to build that relationship to work as a team and to grow as a team.”

– Head Coach Liz Day


Herder football

2014 Schedule

8-29 Three Forks/Willow Creek

9-5 Harlem

9-12 at Deer Lodge

9-19 at Manhattan

9-26 Columbus (homecoming)

10-3 at Joliet

10-10 Roundup (Senior night)

10-15 at Red Lodge

Home games in bold

By Thomas Watson Enterprise Staff

The Sweet Grass Herders improved from year one to year two under head coach Bruce Bell, and will look to do the same again this fall. The Herders were 1-7 in

Bell’s initial campaign and improved to 3-5 last year, missing the playoffs by just one game.

“We’re certainly looking to improve on that,” said Bell. “Our goal is to win the conference and try to make as good of a run as we can in the playoffs.”

Bell hopes to be able to use the Herders’ speed to make up for a lack of size in their spread offense.

“We run it out of the pistol most of the time,” he

said. “We’re pretty wide open and like to get peo-ple out in space because we’re not very big. We also like to get some deception going on and some option going on so people have to stay at home and respect how spread out we are.”

Always an important position, the quarterback in the Herders’ spread offense has a lot of deci-sion making responsibilities, and Sweet Grass returns second-team All-Conference quarterback from last year, Walker LaVoy.

LaVoy will be a senior this year.“It’s a wide-open offense, so the reads are a lot

more varied,” said Bell. “He has to be very intelli-gent and smart on the field. It’s like having an assistant coach out there running things. With as many possibilities as we have, play wise, it takes a

bit of time to get used to.”Sweet Grass returns six returners on defense

and seven on offense from last year’s team that narrowly missed the postseason.

Four of the five missing starters on offense depart from an offensive line that will have to undergo a near-complete overhaul.

“The best candidate (on the offensive line) right now is senior Brycen Lehman,” said Bell. “He is the only starter we have left from last year.”

On defense, their leading tackler is gone. Free safety Mitch Arlian was the leader of last year’s defense and will leave the biggest hole to fill.

The Herders will begin their season Friday, Aug. 29 against Three Forks on the road.

That game will be at 7 p.m.

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Sweet Grass County High School football players line up for a play during a game last season.

Herders have high hopes in 2014


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It is common knowledge that one of the primary keys to having a good defense is to have talented players in the middle of that defense.

The University of Montana Grizzly football team has exactly that man in the middle of its defense - veteran free safety Matt Hermanson. He is the leader at that position, and there are four other players who will see action at the free safety and strong safety spots.

With the graduation of three year starter Bo Tully, there are big shoes to fill at the strong safety position.

Hermanson, a 6-1, 202-pounder from Sioux Falls, S.D., who begins his senior season ranked 29th in school history with 239 career tackles, said he sees daily improvement at the safe-ty spot.

“We look pretty good right now and we are getting better day-by-day,” said Hermanson, who has 23 career starts. “That’s what we need to keep doing - just try to get better every day.

“That was a long time ago,” said a laughing Hermanson when asked if he missed playing offense, as he was an all-state selection at quarterback and defensive back when his head coach was his dad, Brian Hermanson, at Washington High School in Sioux

Falls. “Playing quarterback was always fun, but playing defense was a lot better to me than playing quarter-back, so I decided to go to defense.”

Junior Justin Whitted, a 6-1, 195-pounder from Los Angeles, was vying for the spot vacated by Tully at strong safety, but he has been side-lined with an injury.

Following spring drills Griz head coach Mick Delaney said one of the most improved players on defense was Jake Dallaserra in the secondary, and with Whitted out due to an injury, Dallaserra has seized his opportunity and worked his way up to the number one slot at strong safety.

“It feels good to be out here,” said Dallaserra, a 5-11, 190-pound junior from Butte, who excelled on special teams at UM last season. “I can only control what I can control, and try to be coach-able and learn the defense and play to the best of my ability.”

“Jake’s doing a great job out there,” Hermanson said. “He’s holding his own, doing a great job, and making plays for us. Hopefully we can get Whitted back - he’s a little banged up right now. Eric (Johnson) is doing a great job and he’s learning the defense.”

“He’s just a physical kid,” Dallaser-ra said when asked to describe the play of Hermanson. “He hits harder

than anyone on the team. He’s the smartest player on the defense. He’s a great guy to play with, and he commu-nicates across the field with me and lets me know when to check this and check that. He’s awesome to play with out there.”

A new player in the program, Eric Johnson, has shown signs of being a major contributor this season, and Jamaal Anderson has also turned a few heads at his new position.

A transfer from Laney Junior Col-lege, Johnson, a junior from San Fran-cisco, is a physical presence at strong safety at 6-2, 190 and will vie for play-ing time, if not a starting job. He was a key player on defense and on special teams last season for the Eagles, who defeated Diablo Valley College 29-14 in the EastBay Bowl en route to an 8-3 record.

Anderson was moved from corner-back to safety last spring, and the 5-11, 195-pound senior from Fontana, Calif., has adapted to his new position well.

Two other very promising players at safety are true freshman Manu Ras-mussen (6-0, 180), from Tigard, Ore., and Evan Epperly (5-10, 180, from Kalispell), although they will more-than-likely redshirt in 2014.

“I am pretty excited about the com-petition,” said safeties coach Jake

Cookus, who was a four-year letter-man at Oregon State, and a team cap-tain on defense and an honorable men-tion All-Pac10 pick as a senior in 2001. “We’ve got Matt back who has played a lot of football. We also have three underclassmen who haven’t played a lot of football, but they are really good players. We’ve been rotating them around and they are pushing each oth-er each day, making themselves bet-ter.

Griz have experience where it counts Grizzly Football2014

8/30 at Wyoming

9/6 vs. Central Washington

9/13 vs. South Dakota

9/20 at North Dakota State

9/27 vs. Northern Colorado

10/4 at North Dakota

10/18 vs. UC Davis

10/25 at Cal Poly

11/1 vs. Sacramento State

11/8 at Eastern Washington

11/15 at Southern Utah

11/22 vs. Montana State


By Bill Lamberty MSU Sports Information

There was no puff of white smoke from Bobcat Stadium, but in the hours after Montana State’s final full foot-ball scrimmage of fall camp the fire was ready for stoking.

“In terms of my gut reaction I think we got some separation today,” MSU head coach Rob Ash said of the posi-tions still up for grabs in advance of the Bobcats’ season opener at Arkan-sas State on August 30.

“I’m not going to be able to (make any announcements) right now because I still have a lot of factors to consider. But I thought it was a good go today.”

Montana State’s most noteworthy position battle, at quarterback, took center stage on Saturday in both per-ception and production.

The team’s three signal callers com-pleted 29 of their 32 passes for 335 yards and four touchdowns. None of the three threw an interception, and the day’s only turnover was a fumble by a receiver after a short gain.

If a favorite emerged in the quarter-back derby Saturday, Ash was mum. “I think we’ve got three really good (quarterbacks),” he said. “That’s what

I’ve said since last spring, we’ve got three really good quarterbacks, all of them can play. It’s going to be a very, very tough decision.”

Redshirt freshman Quinn McQueary was injured last spring, but he led the way on Saturday.

He finished the afternoon 13-for-13 passing for 171 yards and two touch-down passes. He also scored on a nine-yard run.

Sophomore Dakota Prukop was 8-for-9 passing for 92 yards with a touchdown, and junior Jake Bleskin finished 8-for-10 passing for 72 yards and a touchdown.

Increased explosiveness on offense has remained a priority through the off-season, spring and summer, and Ash continues to believe this year’s Bobcat team has added that dimen-sion, particularly at receiver.

“I thought the receivers caught the ball extremely well today and made some plays after the catch. They were physical. We did have the one turn-over by a young receiver, we’ve got to get that fixed, but other than that I thought those guys played very well.”

Big plays came almost from the scrimmage’s beginning. Senior run-ning back Shawn Johnson took a hand-off on the day’s second play, dashed

around left end, and sprinted 62 yards to the 12-yard line.

Bleskin found Tanner Roderick in the end zone from eight yards out on the drive’s fifth play, and Chad New-ell’s run made the conversion success-ful.

Saturday’s scrimmage featured three other plays of 20 yards or more. McQueary found Gates behind the secondary on the 68-yard touch-down pass, while Prukop and Justin Paige connected on a 33-yarder, and Bleskin hit Jacob Stanton for 21 yards. Prukop also showed off his speed and agility, scrambling for a pair of 14-yard gains.

While the ground game didn’t pro-duce statistics as dazzling as the pass game – Bobcat running backs carried 27 times for 152 yards – Ash was pleased with the work. “I thought the running game was prob-ably the most pleasing aspect of today’s scrimmage for me,” he said. “We hadn’t run the ball very well all camp, but we got some going today.”

Johnson’s big run caught Ash’s eye, but he was most pleased with the steady production, particularly by junior transfer Anthony Knight, who gained 57 yards on a dozen carries. It started off with Shawn’s big run, that’s

what we need from him, and then dur-ing the course of the game we got some good, steady four- and five-yard gains. The hard work that we put in this week in trying to get the vertical run game going showed up today, and that was really important.”

Ash also found reasons to be pleased with the Bobcat defense.

Plenty of action at final Bobcat scrimmage Bobcat Football2014

8/30 at Arkansas State (6:00 p.m.)

9/6 vs. Black Hills State (7:05 p.m.)

9/13 vs. Central Arkansas (3:35 p.m.)

9/20 vs. Eastern Washington (1:10 p.m.)

9/27 vs. North Dakota (2:05 p.m.)

10/4 at Sacramento State (6:05 p.m.)

10/11 at UC Davis (4:10 p.m.)

10/18 vs. Weber State (3:35 p.m.)

11/2 at Northern Colorado (1:35 p.m.)

11/8 vs. Portland State (2:05 p.m.)

11/15 vs. Idaho State (1:40 p.m.)

11/22 at Montana (3:10 p.m.)



Ranger boys soccer2014 Schedule


Park High Rangers’ first practices at Sacajawea Park in Livingston in mid-August.


The 2013 Park Ranger boys’ soccer team was the most successful in the program’s history, bringing home the Class A state championship with an improbable run as a

No. 3 seed in the state tournament. This year, head coach Jeff Dickerson doesn’t want his team think-ing about repeating as champions.

“We’re here to coach soccer and make student-athletes better citizens,” said Dickerson. “We coach one game at a time. We can use last year’s success to build on, but it is not a measurement of this team. We’ve already worked out with some team meetings last May that we are not here to defend or repeat the championship. We’re here to learn how to play good soccer, just like we did last year.”

Despite that approach, there are things about last year’s championship that Dickerson knows will help this year.

“Any time you can show young students how to succeed, and they have that success, they contain

those tools in their tool chest from that point on,” Dickerson said. “We have several players coming back that have several tools in their tool chest that are nothing but positive experiences. You couldn’t ask for us to be in a better position to grow.”

The 2014 Rangers return 12 of the 18 players from the state championship team.

“We lost seniors at both ends of the field,” said Dickerson. “Kyler Cain graduated and was our keeper. I think we will have that position filled. We have two keepers coming back who have good experience. I think that spot will be filled.

“The second challenge is up front. We had the loss of a very good assist player in Hayden Cody-Jensen and Daniel Newhouse finished seventh or eighth in the state in scoring last year. He was an All-State player. He scored the winning goal for the state championship and assisted for the tying goal. He led our team in scoring. We had several of those seniors up front, but I also feel like we have some good young attackers that played well for us and got time last year.”

“We are very lucky that we get quality players in

our program,” Dickerson said. “It is a matter of the coaching staff being able to decide how we can make that player grow as an individual and within the team.

“The biggest factor of all in my opinion is the mental game,” said Dickerson. “We ask our players to make 3,000 decisions during an 80-minute game without any help and no breaks. We don’t have hud-dles; we don’t have free throws. We don’t have breaks in the action. They have to make those deci-sions, and we have to train them and help them with that. We have to be able to remove all the outside factors and focus to make quality 3,000 decisions. The mental game is by far the biggest part about becoming a team that finishes well.

“To me there is very little difference in players technically and tactically once you get to the state tournament. There is a difference on how they approach the game mentally.”

The season begins for the Rangers on Friday, Aug. 29 with a 6 p.m. game in Corvallis. Their first home game is not until Sept. 5 at 5 p.m. against Pol-son.

Defending state champs not focused on repeat


8-29 at Corvalis

8-30 at Loyola

9-5 Polson (2 p.m.)

9-6 Columbia Falls (11 a.m.)

9-12 Whitefish (6 p.m.)

9-13 Bigfork (1 p.m.)

9-19 at Belgrade

9-20 at Laurel

9-25 Billinngs Central (6 p.m.)

10-4 Belgrade (5 p.m.)

10-9 at Billings Central

10-11 Laurel (Senior night)

10-18 State A playoffs

10-25 State A semifinals

11-1 State A championship


Park girls and boys golf2014 Schedule

Aug. 18 at AnacondaAug. 22 PHS InviteAug. 25 at BelgradeAug.28 at Butte CentralSept. 5 at DillonSept. 9 at FergusSept. 12 at FergusSept. 19 at LaurelSept.. 26-27 DivisionalsOct. 2-Oct. 4 State A at Hamilton



Jim Halberg has been the PGA Head Professional at the Liv-ingston Golf Course for four years. He’s also been a high

school golf, volleyball and boy’s ice hockey coach in the past in Minne-sota. This year he is taking over the Park Ranger golf team.

Halberg has 12 kids that have signed up for the team this year with three or four others that he said still might join the team.

The team started their season on Friday, Aug. 15 with a two-day try-out to determine which golfers would play in varsity tournaments and which would play on junior var-sity.

“We played 18 holes on Friday and nine holes on Saturday,” said Halberg. “That is three nine-hole rounds, and we will take their two best nine-hole rounds. That will determine who plays in our first varsity tournament.”

The golf team had a much earlier start to the season than the other

fall sports. They played their first tournament of the season on Mon-day, Aug. 18 at Old Works Golf Course in Anaconda.

Following that tournament on Monday, the Park Rangers hosted their only tournament of the year on Friday, Aug. 22 at the Livingston Golf Course. The tournament was scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.

Throughout the year, Halberg will judge how well his team is perform-ing by how they improve their scores.

“What I’m looking for is just con-

tinual improvement throughout the year, as individuals and as a team,” he said. “It’s an individual sport, but it is also a team sport at the high school level. We’ll see where we’re at after tryouts, then our goals will be to improve individually. If we do that, we’ll improve as a team as well.

“We have a fairly young team. We don’t have any seniors out this year, but we have some really talented players, so our hopes and expecta-tions for this season are pretty high.”


Park High Ranger Gunner Bergsing checks his scorecard during a tournament in Livingston last year..

Park girls, boys look for improvement


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