Butte Central

We are seeing how difficult it is to host any form of Spring sporting event in Butte when Spring refuses to show up for more than a couple of hours at a time. But it has to come eventually, right? Butte Central certainly hopes so as they have home contests scheduled for baseball and softball while the track and field teams have meets scheduled in the Mining City as well as Missoula.

Surrounded by family, coaches, teammates and classmates, Butte Central's Dougie Peoples officially signed his letter of intent to continue his basketball career at the College of Idaho, the defending NAIA National Champions.

Okay, seriously, what's with the weather? We're used to a little sprintime snow, but what we're seeing today, well, what is there to do but sit back and complain? Well, for starters, we can start to take a look at what the weather is doing to the area's sports slate and complain about that.

Let's take a look at the upcoming schedule for Butte Central Baseball while keeping in mind that the crazy Spring weather in Southwest Montana will undoubtedly mean that dates will change frequently.

The Southwest A announced it's all-conference and all-state selections for the 2022-23 basketball season and the Butte Central Maroons are aptly represented.

Butte Central Catholic High School's Dougie Peoples was named Gatorade's 2022-23 Montana Boys Basketball Player of the Year

The Butte Central Maroons Girls Basketball team has got some work ahead of them if they want to qualify for the Western "A" Divisional Tournament in Ronan starting on February 23.

The Butte Central Boys Basketball team has wrapped up the regular season and are preparing for the upcoming Western A Divisional Tournament which will be played in Ronan.

Days after breaking "Jumpin'" Joe Kelly's school record for all-time points, Dougie Peoples broke Mike McLeod's decades old single-game scoring record and the Butte Central Maroons won their 15th straight game by putting the mercy rule into effect on the Corvallis Blue Devils winning 82-53 Wednesday night at the Maroon Activities Center.

Butte High and Butte Central have posted their weekly activities schedules and both schools will be very busy this week.