Undefeated in Hoop It Up 3 on 3
Photo courtesy of Jacque Lempka
UNDEFEATED: From left, Phoenix Montoya, Shayna Soderstrom, Daelyn Barker and Kali Lempka took first place in the 11-year-old division of the Annual Hoop It Up 3 on 3 last weekend in Thermopolis. The girls went undefeated through six games.
Comfort Inn takes bowling tourney
DAILY NEWS photo by Jason Parshall
WINNING IT ALL: The Comfort Inn bowling team handled the competition at the Worland Women’s City Tournament in late February at Hurricane Lanes earning the first place trophy. Pictured from left are Cookie Brown, Sheila Wruck, Johanna Fluegge and Nikki Lorenzen. Not pictured is Sheila Quintana. Second place went to A&W, consisting of Pam Brown, Pat Warner, Deb Fields, Staci Brazell and Sandi Beck, while third went to Swing Trucking, made up of Jane Hauf, Barb Keeler, Janet Egbert, Carole Grosch and Jean Kukla.
Outdoors by Keith Genztler
I just returned from a turkey hunt in the Black Hills, and I was hoping I would have the opportunity to tell you about how I killed a big gobbler with my homemade recurve bow. Well….true to par, it is not to be! Again this year, I returned with only stories about how I shot and missed….and missed….and missed….and; well I guess you get the picture. They have had a lot of snow in the Black Hills this winter, and it was neat to get to see the green grass sprouting up, the baby calves, colts, Whitetail deer, Pronghorn antelope and a big bobcat. In one spot that we drove by on a regular basis, there was a big marshy pond that had hundreds of frogs croaking their heads off all day and a mother Canadian goose. She was nesting in the pond, but try as I might, I could not see her nest somewhere amidst the cattails. As we would drive by, she would start walking away from us, honking as she waddled along but keeping a close eye to make sure we were going to leave her nest alone.
In the bottom of a ravine, I came across the skeleton of a really nice Whitetail buck deer that didn’t make it through the tough winter they had. My nephew, found a nice five point bull elk that had been winter killed, also. When you are hunting in the pines of the Black Hills, which I have done for the last 14 years or so, there is one animal that is dreadfully missing in that part of the world. That animal is squirrels! I have only seen one squirrel in all my trips to that beautiful country, and it is a shame. I did see lots and lots of turkeys, though. The only problem was, they saw me also! And…when a person who is not so lucky, as I am; handicaps himself by hunting with a homemade bow; which means that I have to get within 20 yards or less of them, and they have the smallest kill zone I have ever shot at, and their eyesight is unsurpassed in the big game world, and if you are not such a good shot with a bow, as I am; well it mostly boils down to a lot of excuses and no meat! I’m not really sure, but at one point I thought I actually heard one of those gobblers laughing!
I want to conclude this article by telling all of you that I am going to take the summer off from writing so I can accumulate lots of stories to write about when I start back up this fall. So, I guess I will see all of you this fall on OUTDOORS!