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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
TEN SLEEP - Coming into the 2019 track and field season Ten Sleep High School track and field coach Desiree Egger knew seniors Kinley Erickson and Kelli Holiday were going to be the team's top point scorers this year. That has held true to this point in the season, but what is also exciting for Egger and Ten Sleep has been how quickly sophomores Lindsey Holiday, Elizabeth Lungren and Boe Nichols have come along. Lungren won the 300 hurdles and finished second in the 100-meter dash during the... Full story
I know the NBA is powered by its superstars. That's never been a secret and it's the model that works for a league with an 82-game season and four best-of-seven playoff rounds. But I think if we threw in an eccentric coach along the lines of a Jon Gruden-type it would add to the league's entertainment value. Now, this isn't because I'm trying to help out the NBA TV ratings. Honestly, when it comes to TV ratings, I've officially moved into the camp of who cares? TV ratings are a lot like the... Full story
LARAMIE - When they arrived at the University of Wyoming, Andrew Wingard and Carl Granderson were just names on a roster. Little was known about them, and not much was expected of them outside of the coaches who recruited them. They were underdogs. Wingard, Granderson and a handful of other former UW players are in that same situation this week as the NFL draft starts today and concludes Saturday in Nashville, Tennessee. They just want a chance to show what they can do at the ultimate level of... Full story
LARAMIE – The most successful coach in University of Wyoming women's basketball history is calling it a career. Joe Legerski, 61, announced on UW's Twitter account late Wednesday afternoon that he is retiring after 16 seasons as the Cowgirls' coach. The message was in letter form from Legerski. "The past 16 years have been an amazing journey for the Wyoming women's basketball program, and for me personally," he wrote. "In May of 2003, I was appointed the head basketball coach for the U... Full story
WORLAND - It is hard to believe but the track and field season is nearly complete and for the Worland High School team they have three meets remaining before the start of the postseason. Hosting their annual home meet, the D&D Invitational, last week at WHS, the Warriors and Lady Warriors showed they are taking advantage of every meet. Plenty of Worland's athletes set new personal records or inched ever so close to qualifying for the 3A State meet. After the home meet Worland had planned on... Full story
THERMOPOLIS - The Hot Springs County High School track and field continued to improve after their latest meet at Riverton Invitational at Riverton High School on April 13. The Bobcat and Lady Bobcat athletes continued to set personal records in Riverton and put themselves in a better position for their respective events, as the 3A East regional meet in Burns on May 10-11 quickly approaches. "We continued to get personal records by a lot of the kids, that's definitely on the plus side," said... Full story
One of the more entertaining things about social media, while also slightly annoying, is the pushback. No matter the topic, person or place, there is always going to be a pushback. Then you can expect pushback to that pushback, followed by more pushback to the pushback's pushback. It's a good ole' pushback paradox. Tiger Woods' snapping his 11-year major drought is excellent proof of the pushback paradox. When Tiger claimed his fifth Master's and 15th career major victory last Sunday there was... Full story
WORLAND - Having nearly a full team and great weather at the L.A. Kohnke Invitational at Powell High School on April 6 proved to be a big boost for the Worland High School track and field teams. Both the Warriors and Lady Warriors turned in their best performances of the season, to date. "It was awesome and I'm proud of the kids," said WHS track and field coach Tracey Wiley. "The kids keep getting better and better with the all the conditioning and repeats we're doing. We have a really young... Full story
TEN SLEEP - Last week was a big week for the Ten Sleep track and field teams as they competed at the Burlington Invitational on April 5 and the L.A. Kohnke Invitational at Powell High School on April 6. In Burlington, the Lady Pioneers scored 85 points to beat out 2A Rocky Mountain, who scored 80 points, for first place. "Getting to a smaller meet in Burlington was nice for us and getting first place was a surprise for us. We had no intention of winning, it wasn't even in the back of our head.... Full story
THERMOPOLIS - It was a record-setting day for the Hot Springs County High School track and field team at the L.A. Kohnke Invitational at Powel High School on April 6. The Bobcats sprint medley relay team set a new school record by breaking the old record of 3:54.55 by over three-tenths of a second at 3:54.33. The relay team even had a new member, as Kolby George usually ran the relay anchor leg, with Ethan Becher joining Blake Williams, Jesse Skelton and Wyatt McDermott in Powell. "We didn't... Full story
Trying to save some words, so I'm going to make this intro quick. The NBA playoffs start this week and with this weather storm bumping up our deadline. I'm not going to be able to breakdown each playoff matchup because seeding was still up in the air as I was writing this. (If Detroit gets eliminated, they're forever dead to me and I hope all the bad sports things happen to them and only them.) Instead, I broke down the 16 remaining teams into five categories, which are all pretty... Full story
WORLAND — Having three meets under their belts Worland High School track and field has yet to field their full roster this season. This Saturday in Powell though, the Warriors and Lady Warriors will be the closest to full strength as they have been all season. “I was missing close to 30 kids in Buffalo, but I’m hoping when we go to Powell I’ll bring close to my full team. We do have the D.C. trip going on and I’ll be missing about six kids. I’m not sure when I’ll have a full team but we’re get... Full story
THERMOPOLIS - With athletes gone over the spring break, the Hot Springs County High School track and field team had an open week last week. Now, with most of the team back together, the Bobcats and Lady Bobcats are raring to go as they get back to competition with the Powell Invitational on Saturday, April 6 at Powell High School. This week's practice for the Bobcats and Lady Bobcats has had an emphasis on conditioning and getting more reps for field events. "This week we've been improving our c... Full story