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TEN SLEEP - Going 1-22 during the volleyball season was tough on the Ten Sleep Lady Pioneers but while the year was trying, the Lady Pioneers did receive good news on Sunday. Junior Bryley Moore was named to the 1A All-State volleyball team, on top of earning All-Conference honors and being named the 1A Northwest conference player of the year. "It was a deserving honor for her. It was exciting to have her be recognized for her talents and the sky is the limit for her," said TSHS volleyball coach...
WORLAND - The Worland Lady Warriors swimming season wrapped last weekend in Laramie during the 3A State girls swimming meet. Taking only seven athletes to state, Worland was still able to finish fifth overall, scoring 137 points and had two All-State selections in Juli Warren (first in 200-yard individual medley, second in the 100-yard breaststroke and named 3A athlete of the year) and Kyra Klinghagen (second in diving). "I can't stop talking about these girls," said WHS girls swimming coach...
WORLAND - While their numbers were few the Worland Lady Warriors made their presence felt at the 3A State girls swimming meet in Laramie on Friday and Saturday. Worland finished fifth as a team, scoring 137 points with only seven athletes, and had two All-State selections, Kyra Klinghagen and Juli Warren. Of the 13 teams competing in Laramie over the weekend, only six were able to crack triple-digit scoring, and Worland also joined Buffalo, Lander and Lyman as the only schools to have multiple...
LARAMIE – C.J. Johnson said he felt like a stranger. The University of Wyoming redshirt junior wide receiver returned to the practice field a couple weeks ago for the first time since he injured his left knee during the Cowboys' Famous Idaho Potato Bowl victory over Central Michigan on Dec. 22, 2017. Johnson tore the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus, and suffered a micro-fracture after being tackled awkwardly along the sideline in the game. "I got possibly one of the worst knee injuries w...
WORLAND - The 3A State girls swimming meet begins today in Laramie with preliminary races and finals races on Saturday, and the Worland Lady Warriors are ready to make the most of the season's final meet of the season. "Having a weekend off seemed like exactly what everyone needed as we headed into state week," said WHS girls swimming coach Mike Blissett. "The team has a mood that makes me believe they're not only recharged but chomping at the bit to get to Laramie to compete. We're seeing some...
WORLAND — Although the 2018 season ended in another 3A State football quarterfinals loss, the Worland Warriors are hoping their second consecutive postseason appearance is a sign of bigger and better things to come. “Making the playoffs for the second season in a row after a big drought is definitely a positive. That can turn into an expectation and not only that we can start making a run in the playoffs with the ultimate goal of winning the state championship,” said WHS football coach Ryan...
WORLAND - While the push to bring fast-pitch softball to Worland High School is ongoing, the Worland Wildfires 16U fast-pitch softball team closed out the fall season at the Fall Ball State tournament in Gillette on Oct. 6-7. The Wildfires made it to the championship game but, unfortunately, fell to Gillette 12-0. Nonetheless, the Wildfires played one of their better fall ball seasons. Finishing with an 11-13 overall record and going 11-7 against other junior varsity (JV) teams, impressed their...
WORLAND - Volleyball in the 3A West has been survival of the fittest all season long. And with six of the eight teams having winning records, the 3A West regional tournament, in Mountain View on Friday and Saturday, was bound to be a slugfest. There were only four spots open for the 3A State tournament this weekend in Casper, meaning two good teams were going to be left out by the end of the weekend. Unfortunately, for the Worland Lady Warriors, they were one of those two teams as they lost to...
WORLAND - After a hard-fought performance at the 3A East girls swimming conference meet in Douglas, on Oct. 19-20, the Worland Lady Warriors enjoyed the week off as they prepare for the 3A State meet in Laramie next weekend. The Lady Warriors finished second as a team scoring 276 points and were only 26 points shy from first place Buffalo. While they were not able to successfully defend their 3A East title for the fifth straight season, Worland gave it their best shot and certainly made Buffalo...
WORLAND - The 3A State football playoffs begin today with the quarterfinals, and the Worland Warriors head to Afton to take on the Star Valley Braves at 6 p.m. tonight at Star Valley High School. A semifinal spot is on the line and the Warriors (3-5) will need to pull off an upset tonight if they want to be among the final four 3A teams left standing. The team has to put last week's 23-9 loss to Lander in the rearview mirror by making the most of each practice this week. "We've gotten some good...
WORLAND - Class 3A cross-country on both girls and boys sides, was highly-competitive all season long and the state meet did not disappoint. Sixteen teams in total battled for 3A's top three team spots and the 10 All-State spots at the Sheridan V.A. Hospital Grounds in Sheridan on Oct. 20. Worland cross-country held their own in Wyoming's toughest cross-country classification. The Lady Warriors were sixth scoring 165 points and the Warriors were seventh with 193 points. Warrior senior Porter Har...
WORLAND - Saturday's 3-2 (25-15, 22-25, 23-25, 25-14, 15-5) victory over the Lander Lady Tigers in the regular season finale was a huge win for the Worland Lady Warriors volleyball team. Downing the Lady Tigers earned the Lady Warriors the No. 2-seed out of the 3A Northwest and open the 3A West regional tournament against the Pinedale Lady Wranglers, in Mountain View on Friday. "We had to contain Lander's outside hitters with our serving and get them out of system, and we served very well,"...
SHERIDAN - The Hot Springs County High School Lady Bobcats made history Saturday morning by winning the first cross-country state championship in school history. The Lady Bobcats gave their best performance of the season as they beat out Wyoming Indian by two points for the state title at the Sheridan V.A. Hospital Grounds in Sheridan. "They had a really great mindset and they brought it up, that if we do our best and don't win, then what was it all for? They were the ones that had that...
Thursday the NBA announced its new plan to bolster the NBA G-League by offering elite high school players (AKA the one-and-done players) $125K to play one season in the G-League before entering the NBA draft. Immediately after the announcement, the hot takes were flowing like the Big Horn River in the spring. By and far the favorite hot take was the move being the NBA's way of killing the NCAA and the JBA (Junior Basketball Association, LaVar Ball's sham semi-pro league) in one fell swoop. Both...
LANDER — It is not how you want to enter the 3A State football playoffs, but the Worland Warriors football team has to quickly shake off their Friday night 23-9 loss to the Lander Valley Tigers at Lander Valley High School. “We had trouble putting it all together,” said WHS football coach Ryan Utterback. “We’d do some good things, get a nice chunk of plays but have a penalty or miscue that pushed us back. We executed at times but could not put enough together that translated into scores. O...
WORLAND - The 3A East girls swimming conference meet beings today and ends tomorrow in Douglas. The competition will be tough as Worland High School goes against Buffalo, Cody, Douglas Newcastle, and Rawlins, but the Lady Warriors will shoot for their for their fifth-straight conference championship. This week will also be the final chance for the Lady Warrior swimmers to make it to state by either automatic qualifying or placing among the top eight in their respective event. Adding to the...
WORLAND - The Worland Warriors cross-country dominance in the 3A East continued last Friday in Douglas. The Warriors won their fourth straight 3A East conference championship and Porter Harman three-peated as the conference's individual champion. "It was super great and we knew the boys had a shot but they still needed to do their jobs," said WHS cross-country coach Tanya Kienlen. "It's not always easy because even the best make mistakes. Usain Bolt false-started at the Olympics, that's why we...
THERMOPOLIS - The match was tougher than expected but the result was exactly to the Hot Springs Lady Bobcats volleyball team's liking as they defeated the Newcastle Lady Dogies Friday 3-2 (20-25, 21-25, 25-15, 25-18, 15-13) at Newcastle High School. "I'm super proud of the girls and they did a great job. They could have self-destructed in that third set but they were much better the next three games," said HSCHS volleyball coach Shannon Hill. Thirteen of the Lady 'Cats 22 errors in the match...
WORLAND - Senior night did not go as planned for the Worland Warriors football team as they lost their final home game of the season to the Torrington Trailblazers 42-14, Friday night at Worland High School. Worland's (3-4) start wasn't the greatest either, as on their first possession of the game they fumbled the ball and Torrington (7-0) recovered on the Worland 25. The Trailblazers quickly capitalized on the turnover to go up 7-0. Torrington scored the games next two touchdowns, one of which...
I've never done predictions for the NBA, I'm not sure why either, but now is the time to correct this wrong. Just like with my spot on, perfect, no need to go check, NFL predictions. These NBA predictions will be just as fearless and courageous, and possibly the most daring in all of sports media. I've looked at each team's roster, coach, front office, offseason moves and have come to an accurate gut feeling for each of the NBA's 30 teams. Rather than predict each team's exact record, I'm going...
LOVELL - The Worland Lady Warriors volleyball team did not have much time to recover after Tuesday night's heartbreaking loss to the Powell Lady Panthers. They were back in action Thursday night against 3A Northwest rival the Lovell Lady Bulldogs. It took half a set for Worland to shake off Tuesday's loss but once they did, it was smooth sailing as they downed Lovell 3-0 (25-18, 25-14, 25-15) at Lovell High School. "We just stayed with it even when we were behind. We finished and served a lot be...
THERMOPOLIS - Consistency on the volleyball court has been a big focal point for the Hot Springs County Lady Bobcats all season long. When they have attained it, they've played their best matches of the season but when it has eluded them, things tend to go poorly. The latter was the case last week for them. After a loss to Worland, in which they battled with the Lady Warriors, Thermopolis hosted the Glenrock Lady Herders on senior night. Emotions tend to run high on senior night but to coach...
WORLAND - A challenge for every coach is to get their team playing their absolute best when the postseason rolls around, or in other terms peak. For the Worland Lady Warriors swimming team they're beginning to show flashes of their peak and coach Mike Blissett couldn't be happier. Last week the Lady Warriors had two meets on schedule, Friday they hosted their final home meet of the season against Powell and Riverton. Then Saturday they traveled to Buffalo for the Bison Invitational. Friday's...
A quarter of the 2018-19 NFL season is in the books and the league has to be celebrating. Ratings are up. (Even though when they were down and the NFL was "doomed," they still dominated the top 10 ratings. But hey there are narratives to spin.) The on the field product is amazing with a new group of young players ushering the league into a new era and not to be diminished, the off the field stories haven't been distracting. The biggest story involving a player and the law was Mychal Kendricks,...
DOUGLAS - The past two weeks the Worland Warriors have found ways to rally in the second half. Against Riverton, on Sept. 28 the Warriors were down 23-12 and won 33-30. Last week in Rawlins, the Warriors trailed 7-0 at the half but won the game 16-7. In Douglas, on Friday, the Warriors found themselves in a 21-0 hole at halftime. But this time the second half magic was nowhere to be found as the Bearcats ran away with the game, winning 42-15 in a matchup between 3A East rivals. By no means were...