Great expectations: Montana opens exhibition schedule

It would have been a mix of emotions on the team bus in May, when the Montana softball team traveled back to Missoula from the Big Sky Conference Championship in Pocatello. On one hand, a team that wasn’t expected to do much, at least outside of their own locker room, played Idaho State on the final day of the regular season, one more win giving the Grizzlies what would have been their first-ever regular-season championship. The next week in Pocatello, they didn’t just snap an eight-game postseason losing streak. Montana won three times and was a play or two from…