Moy, Dowler to play in Montana-Wyoming All-Stars
Flathead's Maddy Moy (5) drives to the basket against Billings West's Layla Baumann (0) in the second half of the girls' Class AA state basketball championship at the Butte Civic Center on Saturday, March 11. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Noah Dowler (44) throws down a dunk in the second quarter against Flathead during crosstown basketball at Glacier High School on Friday, Jan. 20. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
A pair of Kalispell hoops standouts, Noah Dowler and Maddy Moy, picked up more honors Tuesday with their selections to the Montana-Wyoming All-Stars basketball series.
Dowler, a 6-foot-7 post player for Glacier High, will play in the 47th two-game series for the boys June 9-10; Moy, a 5-foot-9 guard out of Flathead, will suit up for the 26th girls series.
Dowler, who is headed to Montana Tech, led Class AA in rebounding this past season at 8.2 boards a game; by the time Glacier finished third at the State AA tournament that average was up to 8.5. He also averaged 7.4 points and 1.2 blocks per game for the Wolfpack.
Moy, a Montana Western signee, fought back from summer ACL surgery to average 7.7 points in 20 games for the Bravettes, who went 19-5 and advanced to the State AA title game, which they lost to Billings West.
The Montana-Wyoming All-Star series dates back to 1976, when Wyoming won the first two boys games that were played in Sheridan, Wyo., and at the Billings Metra. The girls series began in 1997, and Wyoming swept the first year there, too.
Montana has dominated since then: The Treasure State leads the boys series 65-27, including 20 straight under recently retired Providence coach Steve Keller, who will again coach the All-Stars. Montana has also won 11 straight in the girls series — Wes Keller, Steve’s son, is 11-1 as the girls coach — and leads it 37-13 overall.
Montana’s rosters are, as usual, stout. Among those joining Dowler on the boys team are Royce Robinson of 2023 State A champion Lewistown, Dougie Peoples of 2022 State A champ Butte Central and 2023 State AA MVP Connor Dick of Missoula Hellgate.
Moy will play alongside, among others, State AA MVP Layla Baumann from 2023 champion Billings West; scoring machine Brooke Badovinac of Butte Central and one of the top rebounders in the Western AA, Alex Bullock of Helena High.
Hellgate’s 6-foot-6 Alex Covill was not selected by the Midland Roundtable, a series sponsor and athletic benefactor centered in Billings.
This series has a new starting point this June, switching from the Hoffman Golden Dome in Sheridan to Gillette, Wyoming’s Pronghorn Center on June 9. The next night both games will be played at Lockwood High School just outside Billings.
The girls games begin at 5:30 p.m.; the boys games are to start at 7:30.
Here are the complete rosters:
BOYS
Billy Carlson, Billings West
Connor Dick, Missoula Hellgate
Noah Dowler, Glacier
Eli Hunter, Bozeman Gallatin
Lane Love, Billings Skyview
Connor Michaud, Frenchtown
Michael Murphy, Glendive
Dougie Peoples, Butte Central
Royce Robinson, Lewistown
Seth Amunrud, Manhattan Christian
Head coach: Steve Keller, University of Providence (retired)
GIRLS
Layla Baumann, Billings West
Alex Bullock, Helena
Avery Burkart, Bozeman
Jada Clarkson, Helena Capital
Maddy Moy, Flathead
Alyse Aby, Laurel
Brooke Badovinac, Butte Central
Layne Kearns, Hamilton
Malea Eagan, Colstrip
Ava Bellach, Manhattan Christian
Head coach: Wes Keller, Rocky Mountain College
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to correct where Maddy Moy will play in college.
