POLSON — The Polson boys soccer team finds itself in unfamiliar territory after winning its first playoff game in years last week against Livingston.

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Now with a semifinal round matchup against the top-seeded Columbia Falls in their future, the Pirates are considered the underdog in that game.

But that is nothing new to the fourth-year head coach, Josie Lies, who was overlooked a lot when she first took over the job.

“Everyone always walks up to the assistant coach thinking that he's the head coach just because he's a male,” Lies said. “I would say in some ways it was always just people maybe didn't take us seriously, you know, thinking that maybe I didn't know what I was doing, bu

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