Montana continues dominance of Wyoming with another sweep in all-star basketball series

Make it 5 consecutive conferences that the Montana girls and boys have swept Wyoming within the Midland Roundtable all-star basketball collection. The women ran their win streak to 11 in a row, whereas the blokes at the moment are 20-0 below Steve Keller.

GIRLS: Montana 68, Wyoming 49

Montana’s women battled one other sturdy defensive effort from Wyoming to win their eleventh consecutive sport within the collection, 68-49.

“(Friday) after the sport we felt like we had extra to show. We improved extra on our 50-50 balls, rebounding, capturing – we had been simply extra locked on this sport. To get it finished we knew we would have liked to complete higher,” Field Elder’s Kyla Momberg stated.

Montana’s lead grew to 22, 39-17, at halftime, however Wyoming would not let the sport slip away utterly, hanging round late within the sport earlier than Montana ultimately pulled away for good.

“Oh yeah, It’s such a reduction. That’s all we’ve talked this weekend is how we don’t need to be the staff to interrupt the streak,” Momberg stated.

Mya Hansen led Montana with 14 factors whereas Field Elder’s Kyla Momberg added 11. Montana now leads the all-time collection 37-13.

BOYS: Montana 94, Wyoming 77

Billings Skyview’s Payton Sanders poured in a game-high 28 factors to guide Montana to its twentieth consecutive win within the collection, 94-77.

“This can be a nice group of fellows. Any of us can rating the ball. The perfect we’re going to play is collectively. Ten of the very best gamers within the state and I believe we confirmed it (Saturday),” Sanders stated.

Montana opened the sport on a 14-0 run, however Wyoming chipped away and had the lead down to 3 late within the second quarter. Wyoming additionally had it in single digits coming into the fourth quarter, however a two-hand jam by Shelby’s Rhett Reynolds served because the punctuation level on Montana’s closing run.

“Attacking was my primary (Saturday),” Sanders stated.

Reynolds had 20 factors for Montana, making the most of a definite dimension benefit that Montana had down low.

“I simply went after the glass and saved the ball excessive, as a result of I knew no person might go get it,” Reynolds stated.

Montana now owns the sting within the all-time collection 65-27.