The most valuable player of the 2025 Idaho 4A State basketball tournament averaged 28.3 points per game, three rebounds per game. He made 1.3 assists per game two steals per game. Before he and his team traveled south to Eagle, he broke 2,000 points in a stellar high school career … and Asher Williams didn’t carry the team. He was a team player, start to finish. As good as he was only because the team was as good as they were.
Only because the 2025 Bonners Ferry High School Badgers were a team, a unit. One.
Badger Eli Blackmore, with 5.3 PPG, 1.3 RPG and 1.0 APG, was named recipient of this years 6th Man Award, the man who stepped in and made a difference.
Badger 1,000 pointer Thomas Bateman, scion of the legendary Bateman Badger Basketball Legacy, was named to the 2025 4A First Team, Brody Rice, heir to the Rice family’s .legacy of all-around Badger athleticism, represents Bonners Ferry as a member of the State 4A second team.