Williams passes 1,000-point milestone

BONNERS FERRY — For the second time this season, a Bonners Ferry basketball player has scored 1,000 points.

Asher Williams, a junior on the Bonners Ferry boys varsity basketball team, joined the 1,000 point club on Saturday, Dec. 16, off a jumper against 2A Orofino. 

Williams needed 19 points to hit the 1,000-point mark and he came close in the first quarter, sinking a three-pointer in the final minute and scoring 15 points. With 1:12 left on the clock in the second quarter, Williams flashed to the free throw line and pivoted for an easy jumper, giving the Badgers a 49-20 lead — and scoring his 1,001st point. 

Bonners Ferry head coach Nathan Williams, who is also Asher’s father, called a full time out. It was then announced that Asher Williams had scored his 1,000th point, he received an honorary engraved basketball and a standing ovation from the home crowd. 

Asher said he knew he was close to hitting 1,000 points, but he hadn’t expected to hit the milestone on Saturday. 

He said reaching the milestone before his senior year was exciting and that he couldn’t do it without his teammates.

The advice he gives to younger players is to work hard all year and learn from every game, win or lose. 

Williams finished the game with 26 points and has scored 218 points so far this season. Last year, he was named the 2022-2023 3A Boys Basketball Player of the Year. 

Williams is the second Badger to hit 1,000 points this season, as senior Asha Abubakari of Badger girls basketball crossed the 1,000 point threshold on Dec. 2 against Stillwater Christian. 

Last season, Braeden Blackmore, a 2023 graduate, broke the thousand-point threshold against Rogers High School, in December 2022. 

In January 2021, Holly Ansley also reached the 1,000-point mark for the first time since Becky Lowther, a 2007 BFHS graduate.

    Asher Williams scores a lay-in against Orofino on Dec. 16 in non-league play.