Central’s Badovinac, Peoples will play against Wyoming

Butte Central seniors Brooke Badovinac and Dougie Peoples have been selected to play in the Montana-Wyoming Series.

Midland Roundtable released the Montana rosters today for the two-game All-Star basketball series, which will be played June 9 in Gillette, Wyoming and June 10 in Billings.

Badovinac, who signed with Montana Tech before her senior season, gets the nod after leading the Class A in scoring for a second straight season. The BC star who was inexplicably left off the Class A All-State team, averaged 23.3 points per game. She also pulled down 6.6 rebounds per contest.

As a junior, Badovinac scored 671 points, setting Butte’s high school record. No boy or girl in the Mining City has ever scored more points in a season.

Peoples gets the honor not long after being named the Montana Gatorade Player of the Year. The recent College of Idaho signee averaged 24.6 points per game for the Maroons, who placed third at the Class A State tournament in Bozeman, as a senior.

Of course, Peoples is widely known for hitting a 27-foot jumper as time expired to lift BC to the State title in 2022.

Rocky Mountain College women’s coach Wes Keller will coach the Montana girls. Recently retired University of Providence men’s coach Steve Keller will lead the boys.

This will be the 47^th matchup between the neighboring states for the boys and the 26^th for the girls. Montana’s boys will ride a 20-game winning streak into the series. They lead the all-time series 65-27. Montana’s girls have won the last 11 straight and led the series 37-13.

The Montana rosters follow with the future college of each player.

Girls

Alex Bullock, Helena High, Carroll

Malea Egan, Colstrip, Montana State

Alyse Aby, Laurel, Idaho State

Layne Kearns, Hamilton, Seattle Pacific

Avery Burkart, Bozeman, MSU-Billings

Ava Bellach, Manhattan Christian, Montana Western

Layla Baumann, Billings West, MSU-Billings

Brooke Badovinac, Butte Central, Montana Tech

Jada Clarkson, Helena Capital, Casper C.C.

Maddie Moy, Flathead, Montana Western