Helena Capital product Tuff Adams is the exact type of guy that Rocky Mountain College head coach Chris Stutzriem wants in his program.

“His work ethic and who he is as a person," Stutzriem said of Adams. "It doesn't matter, you'll never know if he's 100 percent or 10 percent. He performs the same way and practices the same way. He's Montana tough. His name fits him."

“Definitely something we preached on through winter (conditioning) and the summer was we were bottom of the barrel, and that's something we've got to come back from," Adams said.

Stutz has made a point during his tenure at Rocky to recruit the homegrown kids like Adams, as there are Treasure State kids all over the Battlin’ Bears roster.

“If you look at from my first year to where we are now, we're close to 70 percent of

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