Pros and Preps

1. Missoula Big Sky girls’ basketball team repeats as State AA champions: Led by McDonald’s All-American Joslyn Tinkle, the Eagles won their second straight AA title in March with a 56-46 victory over Butte. Big Sky finished with a 22-1 record as the Stanford-bound Tinkle wrapped up one of the best careers by a Montana [...]

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The head coach of the Missoula Hellgate girls’ basketball program says her players will wear black patches on their jerseys starting Saturday in honor of the two teenage victims that died last Saturday night in an apparent drunk-driving accident. The two girls were members of the Knights’ freshmen basketball team.
Second-year coach Sue Habbe says [...]

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It’s official, Helena Capital’s Matt Miller, one of the best high school football players to ever come out of Montana, is going to play college ball at Boise State starting next season, according to reports out of Helena.
That means Boise State owes the state of Montana something, or shall we say someone, in [...]

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I plan to do a little downhill skiing over the Christmas break. Hopefully I can avoid some of the same pitfalls as these folks. Ouch.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Pros and Preps.
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Hector Ambriz, who pitched for the Missoula Osprey in their Pioneer League Championship season of 2006, was the fifth player taken in baseball’s Rule V Draft two weeks ago.
The big right-hander was selected off Arizona’s roster by the Cleveland Indians, fellow sports writer Michael Heinbach’s favorite team. Because Ambriz just finished his fourth year [...]

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The list of star-studded high school girls’ basketball players coming out of Montana is getting pretty long, especially with five in-state recruits signing to play for coach Robin Selvig and the University of Montana.
Well, add two more players to the mix.
Seniors Jackie Mee of Libby and Bryn Hasquet of Missoula Sentinel had impressive [...]

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If you were one of the lucky fans that got to witness Dodgeball at its (not so) finest on Friday, you’ll whole-heartily agree with me on this next bit of advice.
Dodgeballers, don’t quit your day jobs.
Whether you were one of the Firemen, one of the Media members (like me) or one of the [...]

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With the exception of a handful of basketball games and wrestling matches, this weekend (Dec. 4-5) is the last winter sports-free weekend until Christmas break.
That means parents and students (and yes, even sports writers) don’t have to fully devote their attention to the hard courts and wrestling mats until next weekend (Dec. 11-12) when [...]

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Paul Goldschmidt, the Missoula Osprey’s record-setting first baseman this past summer, was named the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Organizational Player of the Year by MLB.com earlier this week. Read the full press release here.
The eighth-round draft choice out of Texas State set several team records while leading the Osprey to a runner-up finish in the Pioneer [...]

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