MISSOULA — The Montana soccer program has won the past two Big Sky Conference regular-season championships, going unbeaten in league in 2023 and ’24, and the Big Sky coaches expect more of the same from the Grizzlies this fall.

Montana picked up six of nine first-place votes and topped this year’s Big Sky preseason poll, the league office announced Monday. It’s the second consecutive year the Grizzlies have topped the poll, the eighth time overall.

Montana is trying to become the first program in league history to win three consecutive outright titles.

Eastern Washington, Idaho, Northern Arizona and Sacramento State round out the poll’s top five, with the Eagles picking up two first-place votes, and the Hornets, who knocked Montana out of last year’s Big Sky tournament on their way to t

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