Butte High basketball players Braylon Larson and Dylann Bartoletti are this week’s Leskovar Honda Athletes of the Week.

The honors come as the Bulldogs head into the final week of the regular season.

Larson, a 6-foot-9 sophomore, takes home the boys’ honor after a huge performance in Friday’s 54-47 win at Missoula Big Sky. Larson scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half as the Bulldogs overcame a nine-point deficit in the crucial Western AA victory, which was the fourth straight for the Butte boys.

The performance included nine points in the fourth quarter for Larson, who scored 20 points and grabbed 14 rebounds six days earlier in a home win over Kalispell Flathead.

Entering the Big Sky game, Larson 10.4 points and 8.1 rebounds. He also blocked 18 shots in the previous 16 games.

Larson appears to be getting better every week, and he is an emerging force as the Bulldogs get ready for a postseason run.

Bartoletti takes home the girls’ honor. The 5-8 senior guard contributes for the Bulldogs in ways that cannot always be measured on the stat sheet.

Still, she scored six points in the second half as the Bulldogs came up on the short end of a 43-35 decision at Missoula Big Sky.

Bartoletti averages 4.3 points on the season. She also contributes for Butte High in pretty much every category — 3-point shooting, rebounding, assists, steals and blocks.

“She has been playing very hard and doing a lot of little things for us,” Butte High coach Bryan Arntson said of Bartoletti, who has been a key varsity player the last three seasons.

Bartoletti is also a Butte High standout in golf and track.

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 Larson and Bartoletti courtesy of Alycia Holland Photography.