Butte Central Basketball

It is postseason time for the Butte Central High Schools' boys and girls basketball teams with both Maroons teams qualifying for and competing in the Western A Divisional Tournament in Whitefish. The tournament runs Thursday through Saturday with the top 4 boys and girls teams advancing to the State A Tournament next weekend in Billings.

The Butte Central Maroons boys and girls basketball teams will wrap up their respective regular season tonight with a varsity doubleheader at B.W. Lodge Gymnasium in Dillon, Montana against the Beaverhead County High School Beavers. While a Butte Central/Dillon contest is rarely one to miss, tonight's pairing will have playoff seeding implications for the boys while the girls postseason has been and their upcoming playoff game already set.

With wrestling, swimming and speech & debate having crowned winners and champions, the high school sports schedule has only basketball on this week's radar and both Butte High and Butte Central's boys and girls teams play only a single game this week, all facing league foes on the road, save for the BC girls.

The Maroons have their hands full to open the season at the Frenchtown Tip Off Tourney where they will meet the Browning Indians tonight at 8pm and the Columbia Falls WildKats tomorrow at 5pm. Columbia Falls beat Butte Central in the consolation championship game of last year's state tournament. Next week they will head to Lockwood for a pair of games and will not play their first contest in the Mining City until they meet the Butte High Bulldogs in the Civic Center on January 4th. Their first home game at the Maroon Activities Center will be the following Friday against Anaconda.

Brodie Kelly has just wrapped up his 20th regular season as Head Coach of the Butte Central boys basketball team and will be the guest of honor at a celebration commemorating his achievement this Friday at 6:30pm at Butte's Knights of Columbus Hall.

Mining City basketball fans will be getting an early Christmas present Friday night at the Butte Civic Center as the Butte High Bulldogs take on the Butte Central Maroons for Mining City bragging rights in a girls/boys doubleheader.

If you are reading the stat sheet from last Saturday's game against the Polson Pirates, you'll notice that over the final two minutes, a little-used reserve guard for the Pirates came into the game and got a pair of steals along with the game's final two points. You may find this a bit odd. And odd it was. It was also one of the most incredible displays of sportsmanship that you will find on Montana's high school hardwood. Or anywhere, really.

The Butte Central Maroons boys and girls basketball teams will make their home debuts this Thursday with a doubleheader against Park High School at the Maroon Activities Center.