I did not see this article until this morning. It is a feature that appeared in the Great Falls Tribune, last Wednesday about the annual Electric City All-Star tourney. It featured a nice interview of Fairfield’s Chelsea Banis, and the great picture above of the Bobcat women’s future front line, and by the way that future might come sooner than later.

From the Great Falls Tribune with a link to the entire article below:

Over the next two weekends, the top male and female players will play at various invitational events from Havre to Billings and several small towns in between as they take their last shots as high school hoopers.

A few of the top players, like Chelsea Banis of Fairfield and Rachel Semansky of Highwood, must limit their third-season appearances because of NCAA regulations. The 6-4 Banis and the 6-0 Semansky both will attend Montana State on scholarships next year, and NCAA rules allow only two all-star events during their senior year. So both players will skip the Hi-Line Invitational in Havre this week, but will compete at the Treasure State tourney the following weekend in Billings.

"Coach (Tricia) Binford just made sure we were OK on the number of tournaments," said Banis, who scored 10 points Tuesday as her North squad defeated the South team 62-50 before about 500 fans.

"I wasn't going to play in Havre anyway because my senior prom is this week. I'll play at the Treasure State with the other girls from Northern B."

That means Banis and fellow Fairfield stars Megan Anderson and Kassie Barta will merge with their rivals from Malta to compete against other seniors from AA, A, B and C. Banis isn't sure whether she'll get to face off against Missoula Big Sky's gifted 6-3 senior center, Joslyn Tinkle, who has signed to play for Stanford. "

The only time I've played against (Tinkle) was at Griz camp," said Banis. It's likely athletes like Tinkle, Banis and Semansky will be teammates in June in the Montana-Wyoming all-star series, although those high-powered rosters will be announced later. That all-star event doesn't count against NCAA rules because it's played after graduation.