Butte Central basketball players Joshua Sutton and Zayonna Otherbull are this week’s Leskovar Honda Athletes of the Week.

The honors come after Sutton and Otherbull led Butte Central to a doubleheader sweep of Anaconda Friday night at the Maroon Activities Center.

Sutton, a 5-foot-11 sophomore guard who has contributed on varsity since he was an eighth grader, tied a school record with eight 3-pointers on his way to 30 points in a 76-31 victory. The eight treys tie the school record set by Dougie Peoples in his Gatorade Player of the Year campaign in 2022-23.

Sutton sank seven of those threes before halftime. He scored 25 points before the break, and the Maroons led 45-14.

On the game, the Maroons hit on 19 3-point shots. According to the Montana High School Association record book, that is the third best team performance from behind the arc in state history.

Otherbull, a 5-9 freshman forward, scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds as BC turned back the Copperheads in a 46-43 overtime thriller.

The big-time performance by Otherbull came one week after she scored 17 points to lead the Maroons in a loss at Livingston.

“Zayonna played with such great confidence Friday night and made some clutch shots to lead our team to a huge win,” BC coach Quinn Carrter said. “Zayonna is a hard-working kid, and we couldn’t be more excited for her and her future as a Lady Maroon.”

Butte Central’s teams will play Stevensville on Saturday. The girls will be on the road, while the boys play at the MAC.

For the third year, Leskovar Honda, home of the 20-year, 200,000-mile warranty, is teaming up with the ButteCast to honor the finest student-athletes from the Mining City in an effort to encourage more children to get up, get out and try all kinds of sports and activities.

Photos of Sutton and Otherbull courtesy Jacqueline Photography.