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WORLAND- The Worland Warrior track team will host the D & D Invite for their first and only home meet of the season today. Competing along with Worland today will be Powell, Rocky Mountain and Thermopolis. This will be the third meet of the year for the Warriors, with the two previous meets in Cody and Buffalo. The Warriors have started the track season well, senior Emmy Dykman qualified for state in the 200m in the first meet of the year in Cody. The other athletes have just missed out on...
WORLAND- The MLB season started Sunday afternoon and now it is time for the young future baseball stars to begin their season as well. Cal Ripken The Worland Cal Ripken baseball team has been practicing for weeks now in preparation of the season. Their first tournament will be on May 13-14 in Pocatello, Idaho. Cal Ripken is a division within the Babe Ruth League, within the Cal Ripken division the Worland team competes in the major/60 division. The major/60 players age range goes from 8 to 10...
WORLAND- The Worland Lady Warriors once again flexed their offensive muscles as they defeated the Riverton Lady Wolverines Tuesday afternoon 8-2, defending home turf yet again. Fresh off her hat trick against Buffalo on Saturday sophomore Casey Wassum got the Lady Warriors rolling with the match's first goal in the fifth minute. Worland would score the next three goals, one by senior Emily Keller in the 11th minute, another from junior Brooke Seidel in the 23rd minute and the other from...
WORLAND- The Worland Warriors matched up against 4A Riverton on Tuesday night in Worland and walked away with a 2-1 victory and improved their record to 4-0 on the season. Much of the game was tough sledding for the Warriors who had looks early but couldn't capitalize. This resilient team kept at it. In the 67th minute a foul on senior Jakob Schaeffer would set up a penalty kick for senior Jacob Lamm who converted giving Worland a 1-0 lead. Two minutes later in the 65th minute senior Jorge...
WORLAND- Over the last year the Green Hills Golf Course has gone through some uncertainty and for a brief moment the doors were closed. Then the Worland City Council accepted a bid from Gary Shampeny, and his company Go Play Golf, to manage Green Hills. Shampeny is no stranger to golf or the management of golf courses. He was the golf coach at Montana State University Bozeman and during one summer he helped out at a golf course there in Bozeman, from that moment on he was hooked. He would later...
WORLAND- The Worland Lady Warriors once again had a strong offensive showing to overpower the Buffalo Lady Bison 6-3 Saturday afternoon. The Worland girls were aggressive from the start and had the offense clicking, as their first three goals were scored within the first 18 minutes of the match. Casey Wassum got things rolling with goals in the 2nd and 9th minutes while Hannah Ozmon scored her first goal of the game at the 18-minute mark to put Worland up 3-0. A goal by Hazel Eklund in the 21st...
WORLAND- The Worland High School girls soccer team defended home turf once again, while also putting on another offensive display as they defeated Cody 5-3 Friday afternoon. Unlike the 6-0 win against Lander last week, the Lady Warriors were in a fight from start to finish. The Lady Fillies were the first to score with a goal by Hannah Bailey in the 19th minute. After that goal the Lady Warriors seemed to take it personal as they would score the matches next three goals. Casey Wassum in the...
WORLAND- The Worland Warriors once again grinded out a home victory this time against Cody 3-2 in extra time. The boys would take an early 1-0 lead on a Jacob Lamm goal in the 21st minute. However the Broncos' Blake Hinze would get the match's next two goals at the 26th and 42nd minutes. That didn't deter the Warriors a bit as all match long they were getting great looks at the goal but couldn't capitalize. In the 65th minute though senior Jakob Schaeffer connected with his first goal of the...
WORLAND- The Easter break is over for the Worland High School athletic teams, as both soccer teams will be in action today and Saturday. While the track and field team heads to Buffalo Saturday for the Jerry Campbell Invitational. Girls Soccer The Lady Warriors will matchup at 3 p.m. here in Worland against Cody for the first quadrant game of the season. Then Saturday they will once again be at home against Buffalo with the game kicking off at 2 p.m. Their first game of the season the Lady...
TENSLEEP- The 2015-2016 basketball campaign for the Ten Sleep boys basketball was an up and down one. The team had strong leadership among its three seniors but the rest of the team was made up of freshmen and sophomores. The growing pains that come with young basketball players resulted in peaks and valleys for the team. Before the Ten Sleep alumni game on March 19 head coach Ben Schwarz commented "that the team fought hard each and every game. The young guys came in inexperienced and by the...
After two weeks of madness and chalk, the NCAA Final Four is set for both men's and women's tournaments. On the men's side there isn't a clear cut favorite among Oklahoma, Villanova, North Carolina and Syracuse. While on the women's side there's Oregon State, Syracuse, Washington and UConn. UConn is a 1-10 favorite, meaning if you were looking to win a 100 jellybeans you'd have to put down 1,000 jellybeans to do so. Taking a look at each Final Four, starting with the women's Final Four. UConn...
BURLINGTON- The Burlington boys basketball team won the 1A state basketball championship for the third year in a row March 5 in Casper. This is the 9th championship for the program and the first three-peat in school history and when you factor in the school's storied basketball history, this is quite the feat. The Burlington Huskies finished the regular season with a 21-4 record overall and an 8-0 record in conference play. Of Burlington's four losses, three of them came against 2A opponents,...
University of Wyoming sophomore wrestler Bryce Meredith was asked on wrestling inside iconic Madison Square Garden prior to the NCAA Wrestling Championships. Meredith felt it would be an amazing experience and closed with this: “There’s always this little burning desire in me that I want to be famous.” Five matches later, the former Cheyenne Central standout left Madison Square Garden well on his path to that dream. The Wyoming 141-pounder won four straight matches to reach the finals before falling 3-2 to top-seeded Dean Heil of Oklah...
(AP) — Nobody in the NBA was knocking down Ryan Arcidiacono’s door when his junior season ended a year ago. Buddy Hield — that was a different story. Arcidiacono stayed at Villanova because he had no other choice. Hield stayed at Oklahoma because he had unfinished business. The guards, who lead their respective teams in very different ways, are each closing out their senior year at the top of their sport — with a trip to the Final Four. “It’s four years of commitment to Villanova and to a program,” Arcidiacono said, when asked to describe his...
LARAMIE -- The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees has selected a firm to install video boards, ribbon boards, scoreboards and audio systems for two athletics facilities. Because of the planned expansion of the Rochelle Athletics Center into the Mick and Susie McMurry High Altitude Performance Center, the existing video board at the north end of UW’s football stadium will be removed. A new video board, about 38 feet high and 84 feet wide, will be installed in the south end zone. At the UniWyo Sports Complex, home to UW’s volleyball and wre...
WORLAND — The Worland gymnastics team, the 307 Twisters, competed with over 300 other gymnasts last weekend at the state meet in Gillette, which resulted in the best outing to-date for the program, including a regional qualifier, Hailee Hunter. To start with all 15 girls on the team qualified for the state meet, unfortunately one could not compete at state due to an injury. To qualify for the state a gymnast needs to have placed at a prior meet by scoring 30 or above. Even down one gymnast the team podiumed all 14 girls and as one of the s...
LARAMIE - The first thing Allen Edwards did when he was introduced as the University of Wyoming's 21st men's basketball coach Monday was thank the people who helped make that possible. Edwards, 40, started with family and friends. He then thanked the man he is replacing, Larry Shyatt, the man who brought him to UW five years ago as an assistant. Edwards also thanked many of the former coaches he played and worked for since he first picked up a basketball as an 8-year-old in Miami. One of those...
WORLAND— The Worland Warriors soccer team grinded out a 2-1 win at home Thursday evening against the Lander Tigers. Goals from Miki Erikson and Jacob Lamm, on a penalty kick, secured the victory for the team. From the start it was a physical, defensive game. Each team refusing to give any ground to the other, they were dug in like it was World War I. In the 33rd minute Erikson knocked in the game’s first goal, there wouldn’t be another goal until Lamm’s PK in the 74th minute, putting Worland...
TEN SLEEP- At the start of the season Ten Sleep girls basketball coach David Egger had modest expectations for his young, inexperienced team. Growing pains for the young athletes were expected and the thought was they could build on those pains for next year. That was the thought. Once the season started the Lady Pioneers began to impress their coach with each game. Players were improving by leaps and bounds and the team was coming together. What looked to be a learning year became a promising...
WORLAND- Saturday the Worland High School powerlifting team was in action at the first annual Heavy Metal Classic. Eleven athletes took part in three events squat, bench press, and deadlift. WHS and Shoshoni High School competed. Results are as follows. Girls 148lbs Rhiannon Kozlowski, Worland, 1st place, Female Lightweight outstanding lifter `Best squat- 105lbs, Best Bench- 95lbs, Best Deadlift- 180lbs, Total weight- 380lbs Girls 165lbs Kayla Hannah, Shoshoni, 1st place, Female Middleweight...
LARAMIE – Allen Edwards will be the 21st head coach of the Cowboy basketball program, University of Wyoming Athletics Director Tom Burman announced Monday. Edwards assumes control of the Cowboys after serving as an assistant under Larry Shyatt the previous five seasons. With 12 appearances in postseason tournaments and 14 conference championships, Edwards has created success during his playing career at Kentucky and as an assistant the past 14 seasons. He has agreed to terms on a five-year c...
FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — Austin Dillon has won the pole for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Fontana, California, claiming the spot for the first time this season at a top speed of 188.482 mph. Dillon turned a lap in 38.2 seconds flat Friday in his Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, edging Kevin Harvick by .031 seconds for his second career pole. Dillon was also fastest in practice, putting Childress’ grandson in prime position to chase his first career victory Sunday. Harvick, the California native and 2011 champion, will start on the front row...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Reality hit Middle Tennessee State guard Jaqawn Raymond as he walked triumphantly off the floor. Giddy Potts thought it might come later, once he returned to the team hotel and flipped on the TV. It sunk in immediately for Michigan State. Relying on the same balanced scoring that carried them to the NCAA Tournament, the No. 15 seed Blue Raiders ended the second-seeded Spartans’ title hopes in convincing fashion Friday. They never trailed in a 90-81 first-round victory that sent brackets around the country into trash cans. “We...