Pros and Preps

I don’t know if anyone caught the trend story in the Missoulian about youth sport referee numbers spiking in certain regions of the country because of layoffs, but the opposite is true here in Missoula.
The Montana Officials Association (MOA) is seeking new blood to help officiate high school sports this fall, says Tyler Smith, [...]

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issoula Osprey third baseman Bobby Borchering, the 16th overall selection in the 2009 MLB Draft, went 0-for-5 with four strikeouts in his Garden City debut on Tuesday during a 4-2 win over the Great Falls Voyagers.
Things didn’t get much better in Borchering’s second game in front of the hometown fans. The 18-year-old switch hitter was [...]

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The Missoula Osprey will have a dramatically different – and younger – appearance when they return from a seven-game road swing on Monday.
The Arizona Diamondbacks announced the signing of their top draft choice, high school third baseman Bobby Borchering, last week and assigned him to play in Missoula. Borchering, talking to MLB.com writer Steve [...]

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Our friend Varun Sriram over at ABC-TV Montana ran this hilarious, and yes, nutty piece on the Missoula Osprey’s famed promotion: The Peanut Inning. It’s one of the better characterizations of the inning because Varun actually talks to the Peanut Guy, a.k.a. Stuart Julian, who by the bottom of the sixth inning is the nuttiest [...]

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I ran into a Mountain of a Man, Colin Dow actually, at Tuesday’s Missoula Osprey game. Like so many others, I was saddened recently to hear of Dow’s release from the Cincinnati Bengals. The former Grizzly O-lineman was a favorite among our sports staff and many other Missoulians who know the guy.
Dow was released because [...]

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The Missoula Osprey and Great Falls Voyagers renew their rivalry on Thursday as Missoula travels to the Electric City for a three-game series. Just four days ago the Voyagers took two-of-three games from the Birds to earn the Pioneer League’s Northern Division title for the first half.
The two squads actually tied for the lead [...]

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The Missoula Osprey and Great Falls Voyagers closed out the first half of the Pioneer League baseball season in exciting fashion. The Voyagers won a three-game series with the Osprey, including Sunday’s clincher 7-2, to win the Northern Division’s first half title and an automatic playoff berth.
The Osprey took the series opener 10-4 on Friday, [...]

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