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MONTANA SIDELINES
A ROUNDUP OF LOCAL SPORTS & OUTDOORS NEWS
Football Roundup
The high school football season kicked o last weekend with several of our local teams picking up big victories. Here’s a breakdown of the scores.
Columbia Falls 48, Corvallis 12
Senior quarterback Dakota Bridwell passed for six touchdowns to lead the Wildcats to a monster victory over Cor- vallis at home on Friday night.
Columbia Falls erupted for 41 points in the second quarter. Braxton Reiten scored three TDs, including an 80-yard kicko return and Trevor Hoerner caught three touchdowns from Bridwell. Sean Miller added a touchdown.
The Wildcat defense limited Corvallis to two TDs, including a 78-yarder.
Columbia Falls (1-0 overall) hosts Ste- vensville (2-0) on Sept. 2.
Bigfork 62, Troy 0
Matt Farrier scored four touchdowns and the defense shut out the Trojans as the Vikings picked up an impressive road victory in the season opener.
Farrier rushed for two TDs, caught a pair of scoring passes from new quar- terback Augie Emslie and returned an 82-yard kicko for a score.
Emslie also connected with Anders Epperly for a pair of TDs in the rst quar- ter, including a 65-yarder. Luke Taylor rushed in a touchdown and returned an interception for a score.
Bigfork (1-0) hosts Ronan (0-1) on Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.
Glacier 35, Helena 7
Tadan Gilman combined for three touchdowns and passed for 334 yards to lead the Wolfpack to a big win over the Bengals in the season opener in Helena.
Gilman, a senior in his rst season as the team’s starting QB, was 19 of 32 for 334 yards and no interceptions to lead Glacier. He rushed in a 1-yard score in the rst quarter and connected with Drew Turner on a 35-yard TD in the fourth. Turner nished with three scores and 123 yards rushing on 26 carries. Patrick O’Connell caught a 23-yard TD pass in the
second and nished with 36 yards receiv- ing. Pepe Larson had 78 yards receiving, Scout Willcut had 50 yards receiving and Andrew Durado had 75 yards.
The Wolfpack defense held Helena to 192 yards, including only 14 yards rush- ing, and only one TD.
Glacier (1-0) travels to Bozeman (0-0) on Sept. 2 to play the defending state champs. The Hawks did not play last week.
Great Falls CMR 41, Flathead 31
The Rustlers outscored the Braves 28-17 in the rst half and held o a late rally to defeat Flathead in the season opener.
Great Falls CMR piled up 492 yards of o ense to overwhelm Flathead.
Seth Adolph tallied 161 yards — 70 rushing and 91 receiving — with a 37-yard TD run in the rst quarter to put the Braves on the scoreboard rst. Cody Cusker kicked a 26-yard eld goal to put Flathead up 10-0. Tanner Trout- man recovered a fumble for a TD as Flat- head jumped ahead 17-7 early in the sec- ond quarter before the Rustlers scored 28 unanswered points. Blake Counts added a 1-yard TD for the Braves and James Flannigan caught a 16-yard TD pass from Bridger Johnson late in the fourth quarter.
Johnson nished 12 of 31 for 189 yards with an interception. Johnson added 22 yards rushing.
Flathead (0-1) hosts Helena (0-1) on Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.
Havre 18, White sh 6
The Blue Ponies outscored the Bull- dogs 12-6 in the second half to pick up a season-opening victory.
Tyler Cote scored White sh’s lone TD, a 39-yard pass from Derek Kastella late in the fourth quarter. Cote nished with 42 yards rushing and 54 yards receiving.
Kastella was 16 of 26 for 121 yards passing.
White sh (0-1) travels to Dillon (0-0) on Sept. 2 for a rematch of last year’s Class A title game.
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