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WORLAND - Last week was a strong week for the Worland Baseball 14U team as they did not drop a single game. First was their home doubleheader against Cody on June 4 in which they won 8-4 and 21-1. Closing out the week Worland traveled to Powell for a American Legion C tournament where they battled through tough weather to go a perfect 4-0. "The weather was horrible, we lucked out for most of Friday but Saturday it felt like winter," said Worland Baseball 14U coach Jerry Leyva. "All in all it... Full story
Getting this out of the way first, it stinks that Kevin Durant got hurt and is not only done for the remainder of the NBA Finals but also all of next season as well. And as is accustom in this day and age, everyone is looking to heap blame on someone. Warrior's president of basketball operation Bob Meyers already took responsibility for having Durant out there. And since he did that we can just move on, anything else feels like piling for piling on sake. It's not like Meyers held KD's family... Full story
WORLAND - Starting their summer with an 8-3 win over Lovell on May 29, the Worland 14U boys baseball team get their season started just as they liked. Isaiah Leyva got the win from the mound while Jorey Anderson came in for relief and Jerry Leyva Jr. closed out the game. "He closed it out with no problem and did it on very few pitches," said Worland 14U coach Jerry Leyva Sr. In late March Worland went down to Las Vegas to compete in a tournament there, but since then they have had little time... Full story
After watching the Golden State Warriors knot the NBA Finals up at 1-1 Sunday, it'd be easy to write another column (I think this will be my 100th or close to it, either I should be able to cash in my punch card) detailing how amazing this team and how they make everything look so easy. I'll resist the temptation this week because, honestly, there's another NBA story I've enjoyed just as much as the Warriors dominance, that story being the implosion of the Los Angeles Lakers. I try to stay even... Full story
THERMOPOLIS - The Wyoming track and field season came to an end with the state meet on May 18 in Casper, and while it took a few weeks to get to full strength the Hot Springs County High School Bobcats and Lady Bobcats capped it off on a promising note. "The weather wasn't stellar but the kids were troopers and didn't let it get the better of them. All of them went out and gave it their best effort, they endured. I was really pleased that we got so many up on the podium," said HSCHS track and... Full story
WORLAND - Recently graduated Worland High School senior Rachael Carver signed her letter of intent on May 28 to continue her education and golf for Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri. Golf was not at the forefront of Carver's drives when looking for a college but once Cottey offered her to a scholarship to play golf for them, she gladly accepted. "It's a P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization) college, my mom is actually a part of P.E.O. and it just kind of worked out that I found it,"... Full story
I haven't recapped the high school athletic season for a column yet, which is a huge oversight on my part. Having an annual guaranteed column idea is immensely valuable, of course, going over the year's athletic highlights is more important than Hear Me Out column topics, but still nice to have a guaranteed annual column. My narcissism aside, it was another eventful 2018-19 high school sports season. The athletes in Ten Sleep, Thermopolis and Worland achieved so much this school year and there's a lot to get to. Just before we get started, this... Full story
TEN SLEEP - For the second consecutive season, the Ten Sleep Lady Pioneers finished second as a team at the 1A State track and field meet in Casper on May 16-18. It was a terrific sendoff for Ten Sleep seniors Kinley Erickson and Kelli Holiday, the latter of which ends her career with 14 state championship medals. Holiday's 14 state championship medals ranks her second All-Time among Wyoming's most decorated female athletes. Mountain View's Amber Henry is Wyoming's most decorated female athlete... Full story
WORLAND - Going 1-2 at the 3A State girls soccer tournament, on May 16-18 at Jackson Hole High School, was not how the Worland Lady Warriors were expecting to end their season but sometimes soccer gods are unforgiving. The Lady Warriors got the state tournament started off with a 1-0 win over Douglas in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals they faced the two-time, and eventually three-time, defending state champion Cody Fillies. Worland gave Cody their toughest match of the entire tournament... Full story
LARAMIE - The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees will ask the state to provide $49.6 million for a renovation of War Memorial Stadium's west side stands and the Corbett Pool, which is used by the university's swimming and diving teams. UW Athletic Director Tom Burman has described a rebuild of Corbett Pool as his department's greatest need. "The Corbett Pool project is something we've been talking about for 10 years. It's a project that needs to happen if we're going to have men's and women... Full story
WORLAND - Since taking over WHS track and field in 2016, coach Tracey Wiley is bringing her smallest group of athletes to the 3A State meet but that does not mean they this group will be pushovers. A combined 14 Warriors and Lady Warriors will be competing at state this weekend and will certainly be in the hunt for some medals in their respective events. "It's the smallest group I've ever taken," said Wiley. "I've got a lot of young kids and the West [regional meet] was very tough this year. I... Full story
TEN SLEEP - After winning five regional titles last weekend, the Ten Sleep track team heads to the 1A State track and field meet, which begins today in Casper at Kelly Walsh High School. This will also mark the final state track meet for Ten Sleep seniors Kinley Erickson and Kelli Holiday, and really the end of an era for Ten Sleep track. Erickson and Holiday have been crucial in this current run by Ten Sleep track, Holiday has 10 state championship medals to her name. "They've been the... Full story
I know everyone hates the Warriors right now, it's just the cyclical nature of sports. Everyone loves a downtrodden franchise, like Golden State was not long ago, that finds a way to win a championship. But, win too much and everyone starts rooting for their fall. It's weird but it is how we're wired. Naturally, most of the public was pulling for the Rockets to knock the Warriors from their throne. The way that series started it didn't look like it was going to happen, then Houston fought back into it and to top it off Kevin Durant got hurt.... Full story
JACKSON - The Worland Warriors opened the 3A State boy soccer tournament in dominating fashion with a 5-0 win over the East No. 4-seed Douglas Beatcats, Thursday night at Jackson High School. Advancing to the semifinals the Warriors face the Buffalo Bison, the No. 2-seed out of the East. On the other side of the bracket, the West No. 4-seed Riverton Wolverines upset the East No. 1 Torrington Trailblazers 4-3 in extra time. The Wolverines now face the Powell Panthers, the No. 2 West seed, in the... Full story
JACKSON - The Worland Lady Warriors needed only one goal to win their 3A State girls soccer quarterfinal match against the Douglas Lady Bearcats Thursday afternoon at Jackson High School. The Lady Warriors 1-0 win advanced them to the semifinal where they will face the Cody Fillies. The past two seasons. Worland and Cody faced each other in the 3A State title match, a semifinal dual mixes things up this season. On the other side of the bracket, Buffalo and Riverton will meet in the semifinal,... Full story
JACKSON — The Worland Warriors posted another shutout in the 3A State boys soccer tournament Friday night at Jackson Hole High School. This time the Warriors downed the Buffalo Bison 4-0 in the semifinals; advancing to the title match where they will face the Powell Panthers Saturday at 3 p.m. The Warriors not only have the opportunity to win back-to-back state championships but they can join Jackson and Cody as the only programs to win consecutive titles in 3A, since the creation of the class in 2008. For the Lady Warriors, it was another h... Full story
Congratulations to the Worland Warriors who shutout the Powell Panthers in Jackson to win the 3A State Boys Soccer Championship Saturday. Worland scored two goals, while preventing Powell from scoring. The Lady Warriors fell to Riverton 2-1 in the third-place match Saturday in Jackson. Read more about the Warriors and Lady Warriors in Thursday's Northern Wyoming News.... Full story
THERMOPOLIS - The moment has come for the Worland High School track and field athletes. After all the meets in the regular season and hard work in practice, the postseason is finally here. Worland will be in Pinedale May 10-11 for the 3A West regional meet as they battle against athletes from Big Piney, Lander, Lovell, Lyman, Mountain View, Pinedale and Powell for spots at the state tournament and conference bragging rights. "We're ready and I tell the kids this is the time to be at the top of... Full story
WORLAND - After hosting their annual Bobcat Invitational track and field meet on May 3, the Bobcats and Lady Bobcats are ready and raring to go for the 3A East regional meet in Burns on May 10-11. "Not as many personal records as we have had in other meets but they kids still did a decent job," said HSCHS track and field coach Amiee Kay about her team's performance in the Bobcat Invite. "Now we just have our regionals to get our kids qualified for state. Looking at the rest of the conference,... Full story
Tactical errors are a part of sports. A perfectly executed game plan by two opposing coaches would be fun to watch, once, but after that, it’d get quite boring. Human error or miscalculations are what adds to the excitement. There’s no entertainment value in watching computers play chess. (Although, we might not be far off from the robot apocalypse if those goons at Google and Facebook don’t knock it off with their A.I. experiments.) The only reason I got to thinking about bad tactics in sports was because of the latest “Game of Thrones... Full story
WORLAND - The last time the No. 1-ranked Worland Warriors soccer team lost to a 3A team was in 2017, a 3-1 loss to Lander in the 3A State third-place match. The last time the Warriors lost a match was to the 4A Green River Wolves by way of a 4-2 shootout on April 8, 2018. Since then the Warriors have ripped off 24-straight victories, which included a state title mixed in there. Last week Worland entered one of the more challenging stretches of their 2019 schedule as they had to play three matche... Full story
TEN SLEEP - The 1A West regional track and field meet is next week in Shoshoni but before getting to the postseason, the Ten Sleep Pioneers and Lady Pioneers have one final regular season meet before they can turn their focus toward Shoshoni. Ten Sleep is in Thermopolis Friday for the Bobcat Invitational to close out their regular season. Last week Ten Sleep was in Buffalo for the Buffalo Twilight meet. Along with Arvada-Clearmont, they were the only 1A schools competing against 4A or 3A teams.... Full story
This is 100 percent recency-bias in play but last week may have been the greatest week in entertainment history. You had the "Avengers Endgame" and Game of Thrones S8E3 "The Long Night," the two biggest properties of the decade in film and TV reaching long promised moments. Obviously, it was a big weekend for Thrones, Avengers and the Tractor Guys. Maybe it was just the Sunday 3:30 showing at the Washakie Twin Cinemas but the Tractor Guys won BIG because their ad was playing on a loop until the... Full story
THERMOPOLIS - The Warrior Triangular at Worland High School on April 18 turned out to be a terrific meet for the Hot Springs County High School track and field team. Not only did 26 of the 30-plus athletes set new personal records, they also picked up their first state qualifiers of the season. Lady Bobcat Olivia Weyer qualified for the 3A State meet in the pole vault, clearing 9-03 and finishing first at the Triangular. Then the Bobcats sprint medley relay team (Blake Williams, Jesse Skelton,... Full story
WORLAND - A pair of home wins over 3A West foes, Powell on April 18 and Lander on April 23 has moved the Worland Warriors boy soccer team that much closer to clinching a spot in the 3A State soccer tournament in Jackson on May 16-18. The No. 1-ranked Warriors beat the No. 2-ranked Powell Panthers 3-0 and the Tigers 2-0, pushing their 3A West conference record to a perfect 6-0. Adding to the impressive clean sheet victories was that Worland had to turn to a different lineup for those matches due... Full story