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WORLAND - Field 4 at Newell Sargent Park is hardly used during the baseball and softball seasons, but that could change soon if Worland Recreation Board baseball commissioner Ken Shearer's plan is given the thumbs up by the community. Shearer is proposing taking field 4, which is seldom used by the adult recreation league softball leagues, and converting it into three separate fields for the tee-ball and coach pitch baseball leagues to use. "We're looking at making three 100-foot fields for...
LARAMIE – Justin James got the feedback he wanted. Now, the University of Wyoming senior guard is back on campus working on what NBA coaches and staff told him to improve in order to give professional basketball at the highest level a shot next year. The 6-foot-7, 180-pound James was one of approximately 150 underclassmen who, at the very least, tested the NBA draft waters to see how they stacked up. James didn't hire an agent and recently returned to UW for his senior season. James worked o...
My father, Pete Kuhn, passed away in a mining accident on Oct. 31, 2017. I know, a downer way to start the column but hang with me. This will be the first Father's Day I don't give him a call or celebrate with him, which is weird. Sunday will feel a lot like when his birthday passed, just that sense that I'm forgetting something paired with a hollowness feeling to the day. While days like his birthday and Father's Day re-emerge the deep pain from the day he passed, it also brings with it...
CASPER (AP) — One year ago Friday, Bradie Gray almost died. At the 2017 College National Finals Rodeo, Frontier Rodeo bull Levi the Boss bucked Gray, an Odessa College rider, and stepped on his chest. Gray initially stood up under his own power but had to be carried out of the Casper Events Center arena on a board. He was left with no pulse, collapsed lungs, broken ribs, a broken sternum, a bruised aorta and a 40 percent chance to live, according to doctors at Wyoming Medical Center. Now, at the one-year anniversary of that ride, Gray has m...
CODY (AP) - Last year the lament behind the chutes at Stampede Park of "Where have all the bareback riders gone?" was not part of a country song, but a daily question for Cody Nite Rodeo in Wyoming. That should not be an issue this summer as Cody begins the 80th anniversary season of the nightly show that dates to 1938. From June 1 through Aug. 31, rodeo will take place at Stampede Park nightly, the 90 days' worth of performances being a main reason Cody can call itself "The Rodeo Capital of...
WORLAND - The Worland football camp gets underway on July 23-25 at Worland High School and is open to those in grades third through 12th. The morning sessions will be for grades 3-8 at 9-11 a.m. and the evening sessions will be for high school players, grades 9-12, starting at 6 p.m. and going until 9 p.m. The camp is a non-contact camp and will focus on building the fundamentals, passing, tackling, catching and blocking skills of each player, and will have a flag football competition as well....
LARAMIE – Kelsey Lensegrav comes from a rodeo family. Father Ken was the all-around and bareback riding champion at the 1988 College Nationals Final Rodeo. Sister, Katie, twice competed at the CNFR at Blacks Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota. And Kelsey has her sights set on being the next Lensegrav to make a mark in rodeo. The University of Wyoming freshman will compete in barrel racing for the Cowgirls at this week's CNFR, which starts today in Casper. The Interior, South Dakot...
Thank goodness for the NBA. If it weren’t for the NBA, today’s column would be about the NFL and their masochist approach to solving problems. Players’ kneeling during the anthem was dead and about to be buried with other NFL controversies like Deflategate, Spygate and Bountygate. The number of players kneeling by Week 17 last season had dropped off significantly since Week 3. It was over and rather than letting it go quietly the 32 owners felt like they could deal a dramatic deathblow with a new rule. Instead, the 32 botched the execu...
EUGENE, Ore. – University of Wyoming junior Ja'la Henderson came up short in her attempt to be the first Cowgirl to earn first team All-America honors in long jump in 48 years when she finished 17th at the NCAA Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field. Henderson fouled twice, on her first and third attempts, and jumped 20 feet, 1 inch for her only fair mark. That was good enough for honorable mention All-American honors. She needed to finish in the top nine to advance to the finals and i...
WORLAND — The Green Hills Golf Course has a new golf pro in Bill Watkins and for him the job is a dream come true. Watkins hails from California and having spent most of his life in “The Golden State” coming out to Wyoming has been a great adventure. Not only is this undiscovered territory for him, Green Hills is also his first golf pro position. “It’s all brand new to me. The farthest north I’d been before coming here was Northern California. I was born and raised in California and lived there...
WORLAND - The JGAC (Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado) IMG Junior World qualifier tournament did not go as planned for Worland youth golfer Karsten Simmons, nonetheless, he still found the means to finish in the top three. It was one of those tournaments for Simmons, playing at the Indian Tree Golf Club in Arvada, Colorado. Nothing seemed to break his way as he shot a 74, 4-over-par, for the tournament and just missed out on qualifying for the IMG Junior World tournament. But bad breaks and all,...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - The Denver Broncos mandated DeMarcus Walker bulk up this offseason. That was a big weight off his mind. As a rookie last season, Walker slimmed down to about 238 pounds in order to be more of an outside pass rushing threat. This season, he's back at 280 and playing inside along the defensive line. He feels this should tip the scales back in his favor. After all, it's a similar weight from when he flourished at Florida State and became a second-round pick. "Knowing what...
WORLAND - The awards and recognition for the Worland Warriors boys soccer team keeps coming. This time Warrior head coach Ron Overcast received the accolade by being named the 3A Boys soccer coach of the year by the Wyoming Coaches Association. Overcast coached the 2018 Warriors to their first 3A State soccer title in program history with a 2-1, extra time victory over Star Valley in Jackson on May 17-19. The Warriors boasted the best record in 3A with a 14-1 regular season record, their only...
The NBA kicked off this week with three-straight days of headline news then had a wild Game 1 of the NBA. Sunday LeBron James made his eighth consecutive NBA Finals, Monday the Warriors showed why they're an all-time great team and Tuesday Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo got busted having five, five, burner accounts on Twitter; in which he (and/or his wife) ripped Sixer players, Sixers coach Brett Brown, other NBA GMs and revealed nonpublic medical information about some of his players. COLANGELO The...
WORLAND - The season has begun for the 13U Worland baseball team and they have gotten off to a fast start. Their first two games of the season were on May 13 in Worland then on May 25-27 Worland played in the first annual Triple Play Academy "Battle of the Ring" tournament in Billings. Worland went 1-1 in their two home games, beating Gillette and losing to the 406 Flyers, a team out of Billings, 11-1. In their victory over Gillette, Worland had to play the game on the Babe Ruth field, since...
Beauty and the Beast rodeo results TEN SLEEP - The results from the Beauty and the Beast Rode in Ten Sleep on May 26 are as follows. Bareback 1. Chance Ames 75 2. Myles Carlson 72 3. Colt Hoakana 63 Saddlebronc 1.Ian McGivney 76 2. Chris Williams 70 3. Garrett Uptain 69 4. Chance Darling 68 Bulls 1. Evan Morales 74 Junior Barrels 1. Aspen Leonhardt 18.52 2. Jymie Adamson 18.73 3. Addison Griensman 19.76 Senior Barrels 1. Elaine Hollings 17.35 2. Colette Fenster 17.51 3. Kelly Adamson 17.59 4....
TEN SLEEP - The 2018 track and field season started with a bang for the Ten Sleep Pioneers and Lady Pioneers, and it ended with a bang at the 1A State meet in Casper on May 17-19. The goal heading into the final meet of the season for the Lady Pioneers was to better last season's third-place finish. Mission accomplished because the Lady Pioneers finished second with 94 points; adding to the achievement, the Lady Pioneers numbered six strong. "Our goal was to do better than what we did last year...
WORLAND - The Worland High School boys and girls golf teams and Worland Middle school club team finished their spring season on May 11 in Thermopolis, and overall it was a promising season that built strong momentum for the coming fall season. "It was a great season overall, with 8 top 10s for the high school teams. Nine of our students at the high school level had PR's [personal records]. Karsten [Simmons] was able to notch a couple more victories. The area we improved the most was on short...
WORLAND - Worland youth golfer Karsten Simmons finished second in the 16-19 age division at the Junior Golf Alliance of Colorado tournament at Pelican Lakes Golf Club in Windsor, Colorado, on May 12-13. Even with poor weather Simmons shot an 81 for the first round and 76 in the second for a 137 total. "The course conditions were a bit rough and the weather was a major impact on all of the scores," said Karsten's father, Randy Simmons. "Lots of wind, rain and aerated greens kept the scores all...
WORLAND -Now that the 3A boys and girls soccer seasons are finished and champions crowned, the individual accolades will bring a close to the 2018 season. Both the Warriors and Lady Warriors are well represented on the All-Conference and All-State teams. The Warriors had four named to the 3A All-State team (Matt Gesch, Konnor Macy, Rylan Mocko and Wyatt Wyman) and six to the 3A West All-Conference team (Gesch, JT Klinghagen, Macy, Devon Mercado, Mocko and Wyman). The Lady Warriors also had four...
Worland Track brings home plenty of medals from state meet By ALEX KUHN Sports Editor WORLAND - The early goings of the 2018 track and field season were spoiled by weather, and in a fitting measure the season's final meet, the 3A State meet in Casper, had plenty of bad weather. Still, with all the lousy weather at Kelly Walsh High School, the Worland athletes were able to endure and bring home some medals. "I took 23 kids down to Casper and 19 of them brought home medals. Saturday under...
JACKSON - Before the 3A State boys soccer championship match Worland Warriors coach Ron Overcast laid it out plainly for his team, "I talked with them and said we've knocked on the door of this title game twice. Today, let's go blow the hinges off of it. And we did it," he said. Blow the hinges off the door the Warriors did as they were victorious 2-1 in extra time over the Star Valley Braves Saturday at William T. McIntosh Stadium in Jackson. That's not to say there were not a few worrisome...
JACKSON - Even with the Rawlins Lady Outlaws putting on added defensive pressure, the Worland Lady Warriors found a way to win their semifinal match and advance to their third-straight 3A Girls state championship match Friday morning at Jackson High School. The Lady Warriors won 2-0 and both goals were scored by senior, and Sheridan College soccer signee, Casey Wassum. On the first goal in the 19th minute, Wassum beat the Rawlins back line and, with a defender draped all over her, blistered a...