Gabe Sims News Today

There are positive feelings surrounding both programs, which begin the season Tuesday with a dual meet at Missoula Big Sky.

Dedication. On the field, in the classroom, and with his teammates. Gabe Sims shows his dedication to growing his craft and building a family-like atmosphere for Flathead.

Kennedy Moore knocked down the go-ahead jump shot with 45 seconds left and the Flathead Bravettes picked up their first win in Western AA play over crosstown rival Glacier 54-48 Thursday.

Liam Ells scored 15 points including some big free throws down the stretch as the Glacier boys picked up the win 60-50 against crosstown rival Flathead Friday.

The Flathead Bravettes have changed coaches and graduated most of their minutes off a team that played in the State AA girls basketball championship last March, but we shouldn’t count them out.

Second-year coach Caleb Aland is striving to steady the Flathead High football program, one that — including Aland — hired three head coaches in four seasons.

It was a tale of two halves Friday night at Legends Stadium where the Flathead Braves lost a hard-fought western AA battle with the Butte Bulldogs 21-7.

A couple sophomores stood tall in Missoula Big Sky’s 21-20 Western AA football win over Flathead Friday at Legends Stadium. One was Big Sky’s 6-foot-2 quarterback Avery Omlid. The other was Flathead's 5-7 Jordan Griffin, who did about everything except kick.

Any football coach will tell you all games are important, but Flathead’s Western AA Conference opener with Missoula Big Sky on Friday has that late-October feel.

It makes sense for the Flathead Braves, a one-win football team a year ago, to be only looking up this season. Especially if they look outside the hash marks.