Butte High basketball players Cadence Graham and Rhett Arntson are this week’s Leskovar Honda Athletes of the Week.

The honors come after the Bulldog girls and boys opened January with a doubleheader against Gallatin at the Butte Civic Center.

Graham, a 5-foot-7 junior guard, takes home the girls’ honor after scoring 12 points to lead the Bulldogs in a 68-47 loss to the defending Class AA State champion Raptors. In doing so, Graham became just the second Butte High girl to score 1,000 career points.

She joins the great Lexi Nelson in that category. Graham, who has been a varsity contributor since she was in the eighth grade, still has nearly two full seasons to add onto that already impressive point total.

Arntson, a 5-8 senior guard, receives the boys’ accolades after helping lead the 5-0 Butte High boys to a 75-60 win over Gallatin. Arntson sank five 3-pointers on his way to scoring a career-high 19 points in the win.

He hit three of those treys and scored 11 points in the second quarter as the Bulldogs took command with a 25-13 run. That marked the second double-digit performance of the season for Arntson, who scored 13 points in Butte High’s 72-66 win over Billings West Dec. 19 at the Richardson Gym.

For the fourth year, Leskovar Honda, home of the non-commission sales staff that always has your back, is teaming up with the ButteCast to honor the finest student-athletes from the Mining City to encourage more children to get up, get out and try all kinds of sports and activities.

Photos of Graham and Arntson were provided by Alycia Holland Photography.