Gymnastics meet to be held at Carroll College

Helena Kidsports and Mount Helena Gymnastics will host the Mount Helena Open Friday and Saturday at the Carroll College PE Center in Helena.

Gymnasts from clubs across our state will be competing. The boys' competition will begin on Friday at 6:20 p.m.

The girls competition is divided into four meets according to skill level.

Girls' level four will start Saturday at 9:20 a.m., followed by girls optional level seven, eight, nine and 10 at 12:10 p.m.,

Girls level five will start at 4:35 p.m., and girls level six will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Groat wins Millers Masters bowling tournament

The 2007 Millers Masters bowling tournament was held over the weekend at Sleeping Giant Lanes, as Chuck Groat from Salt Lake City claimed the championship. Groat defeated Billings' Josh Hale in the finals, 242-160. There were 115 bowlers competing in the tourney, with about $1400 paid out in prize money.

The lone 300 game was rolled by Shawna Lanes of Great Falls. It was her second career perfect game. The highest local placer was Helena's Doug Prewett, who finished ninth.

Drake fares well at FIS slalom races

On January 3rd, local alpine ski racer Steven Drake scored well in two FIS slalom races in Sugar Bowl California. The race was originally scheduled to be a four day event consisting of two slalom races and two giant slalom races. Due to an dangerous set of storms that were moving into the area, which left 11 feet of snow in some places, the race was confined to two slaloms on the 3rd.

Drake started in the 58th position on the first run of both races. He finished well and lowered his points greatly with a 16th place finish in the first race and 27th the following race. There was a field of 110. World Champion and Olympic gold medallist Phil Mahre was also a contender at the race.

Townsend Hoopsters compete in Great Falls

On January 12th and 13th, the Townsend Hoopsters sixth grade girls traveled to Great Falls to compete in the Electric City Winter Classic basketball tournament.

The Hoopsters played six games in two days, going undefeated against five different teams from Billings, Great Falls and Helena. The Hoopsters won the championship game 37-28 in a terrific match against the Great Falls Heat.

Team members include Jacy Thompson, Alexa Welch, Bailee Dexter, Krystan Swan, Shawnee Christiansen, Anna DeMars, Kayla Lessley, Morgan Cain, and Destiny Campbell.