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WORLAND - Tuesday night at the Worland Aquatic Center was an eventful one for the Worland Warriors as they hosted Cody and Powell for the Worland Triangular, their final swim meet of the season. On top of honoring their two seniors, Dalton Jeffries and Josiah Sanchez, on senior night, the Warriors also had swimmer Andrew Nelson, in the 100-yard backstroke, and diver Diamond Hill automatically qualify for the 3A State Meet in Laramie on Feb. 15-17. Hill and Nelson have been on the cusp of...
MILES CITY, MT - The Worland Warriors knew the Cowboy Wrestling Tournament in Miles City, Montana, was going to be a tough one. The Warriors not only held their own against some of the best wrestlers Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming had to offer but had three of their own place. "We had some really good matches, Miles City was a super tough tournament. You saw state champions lose and it was a great tournament to compete in. Our kids wrestled hard, Morgan Tigner lost a 1-0...
WORLAND - Before Saturday's Warriors Invite at the Worland Aquatic Center, Worland Warrior swimmers Zayne Cooper, Dalton Jeffries and Josiah Sanchez were the team's only individual automatic qualifiers for the state meet in Laramie on February 15-17. But after everything was said and done Saturday, Zach Cole is now the fourth Warrior to qualify for the state meet. Cole qualified in the 100-yard backstroke by beating the 3A backstroke AQ time (1:13.0) with a 1:10.68 mark. Cole also came close to...
The most courageous 2018 NFL Divisional predictions By ALEX KUHN Sports Editor Andy Reid didn't go crazy, Andy Reid went Andy Reid! I changed up Chris Rock's joke from his "Never Scared" album but it couldn't be truer. Hindsight being 20/20, I should have known Reid was going to go bonkers in the playoffs. How do you only give Kareem Hunt, the NFL's leading rusher, five more touches after the first quarter? I play Madden '18 online and the 9-year-old who is kicking my teeth in knows you run the...
WORLAND - The offense is still a work in progress but the Worland Lady Warriors defense is back on track. Worland defeated the Riverton Lady Wolverines 37-20 Friday night at Worland High School in a matchup between the two 3A girls basketball programs. Coming off a disappointing defeat to Powell last Saturday in which their defense was not up to their usual high standards, the Lady Warriors wanted to fix that against the Lady Wolverines, which they did so well, shutting out Riverton in the...
WORLAND - The Worland Warrior wrestlers showed no rust from the Christmas break placing fourth at the Thoman Invitational dual-tournament in Green River on January 5-6. The Warriors went 5-3 in Green River, only losing to Wyoming 4A schools (Green River and Rock Springs) or a 6A Utah school (Vernal, Utah) and had three (Alex Beck, Domanic Hartley, Morgan Tigner) compete in the tournament's best of the best. "We lost to three tough teams and when you wrestle those bigger schools you know you're...
TEN SLEEP - This season for the Ten Sleep Lady Pioneers was supposed to be one filled with the growing pains of a young basketball team learning the ropes. So far the Lady Pioneers, who are six players strong, have been playing ahead of the curve. The senior-less squad sits at 5-3 on the season with their fifth win coming in dominating fashion against the Greybull JV team, 57-25. "It was one of our better games we've played this season. They played with a lot more confidence than they did the...
WORLAND - As hard as the Worland Warriors swimming team pushed themselves before the start of the Christmas break, lightening the training during their break could be justified. But, taking it easy isn't the Warrior way. Instead, the small but determined group pushed themselves even harder. "Coach hammered them over the break. If they were here they were working hard. The hard work showed, Zach's [Cole] times came down. The first week of break he practiced with us but the second week he was in...
WORLAND - After a tough 62-59 loss to the Rocky Mountain Grizzlies Friday night the Worland Warriors matched up against 3A rival, the Powell Panthers, to close out the 2018 Big Horn Basin Shootout boys basketball tournament. Worland's game Saturday afternoon against Powell played out a lot like their game against Rocky Mountain. The Warriors jumped out to a nice lead only to see that lead shrink and eventually lose it. Unlike Friday night the Warriors recaptured the lead from Powell and...
WORLAND - If the Worland High School boys basketball team showed one thing during their first pair of games in close to a month, it's that they are fast learners. Before the Christmas break the Warriors were still getting a feel for their defensive press and traps. In their first games of 2018 against the Glenrock Herders and 2A's No.1-ranked Rocky Mountain Grizzlies, they showed a great amount of improvement as part of the Big Horn Basin Shootout tournament. Both games the Warriors were flying...
The NFL playoffs are upon us and while every media outlet is giving boring bold predictions for the Wildcard round, only at the Northern Wyoming Daily News will you find the most courageous playoff picks. Last year I went 9-2 with my picks, my only two losses were due to Aaron Rodgers going god-mode. To up the ante not only will I pick the winner straight up, I'm also going to include the spread. It will probably end in disaster because that's the only way it could go. Let's get to it!...
THERMOPOLIS - Coming out of the Christmas break the Hot Springs County Bobcats boys basketball team had the opportunity to avenge an early-season loss to Lovell as they hosted the Bulldogs Thursday night, tipping off the start of the Big Horn Basin Shootout tournament. However, things did not go well for the Bobcats in their home opener for the 2017-18 season, the Bulldogs took a 10-point lead early in the first quarter and never looked back as they defeated the Bobcats 58-34 at Hot Springs...
WORLAND - It has been nearly a month since the Worland Warriors and Lady Warriors basketball teams last played a game, but this week both teams will put the hours of practice to good use as they compete in the Big Horn Basin Shootout basketball tournaments tomorrow and Saturday. The Warriors play their first games of 2018 at Worland High School as WHS and Thermopolis will split hosting duties for the Shootout's boys basketball tournament. The Warriors play in the Worland bracket with Wind...
LARAMIE – Expectations were high for the University of Wyoming football team in 2017, and for the most part, the Cowboys lived up to them. UW posted back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 1998-99, and played in consecutive bowl games for the first time in 30 years. Its 37-14 victory over Central Michigan in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on Dec. 22 capped an 8-5 season, and was its first bowl win since 2009. But when looking back at this past season, the biggest storyline is more l...
Sports editor's note these are the favorite sports stories from Worland, Thermopolis and Ten Sleep in 2017 are compiled in no specific order. Happy New Year! WORLAND 12U BASEBALL WINS HOME TOURNEY They came, they saw, they conquered. The Worland 12U baseball team closed out their home tournament Sunday afternoon with a 7-5 victory over the Casper Crush to win the Worland Club Tournament championship at Newell Sargent Field. "We were playing to show that we're right there with them. That was out...
PINEDALE (AP) - The rancher from western Wyoming wears tan overalls pulled over a U.S. ski team jacket, and is every bit as versed in the nuances of hay farming as the subtleties of snow grooming. He doesn't even ski for pleasure much anymore due to aching hips, yet the Olympic fates of Lindsey Vonn, Aksel Lund Svindal and many of the best speed skiers are directly tied to the handiwork of Tom Johnston , a no-nonsense cowboy who spends his days toiling among hay bales on nearly 1,800 acres of...
WORLAND - The third time is the charm. It is hard to beat a team three times in a season. Clichés are well, clichés, but they do often prove to be true, as was the case for the Worland Middle School seventh-grade girls basketball team on Dec. 9 when the Lady Braves hosted the conference tournament. During the regular season, the Lady Braves lost twice, both single-digit losses to Cody. WMS made it all the way to the conference championship game and standing in their way of a title was none o...
WORLAND - Worland youth golfer Karsten Simmons traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, Nov. 24-26 to defend his Rocky Mountain Junior Golf Tour Cup title from last season at Bear's Best. Unfortunately, Simmons championship defense fell short but he did not leave Vegas empty-handed. Even though he missed a few early tournaments due to injury, Simmons was still named the RMJGT Wyoming player of the year. The Wyoming winter cut into Simmons' practice time and at the start of the RMJGT Cup, it showed as he...
Originally, this week's column was going to be a deep dive into the NFL ratings. I had a week's worth of research ready to go, but all of that went out the window because so much has happened over the past week in the NFL and it's all too good to pass up. There's no time to waste, let's get to it. NFL RATINGS I'm not going to lie, taking what was going to be around 1500-plus words and compressing to 700 words but here's the gist of it. There have been a lot of knee-jerk reactions to the NFL...
THERMOPOLIS - With a young and largely inexperienced group, Hot Springs County boys basketball coach Kevin Gerber knew the early part of the 2017-18 season was going to be a learning experience as the younger players became more familiar with varsity level basketball. At the East-West Classic in Douglas, the young Bobcats gained plenty of experience and more than they initially expected. Senior forward Noah Schwalbe, last season's leading scorer, was lost for the weekend when in the first game...
THERMOPOLIS - Record-wise the East-West Girls Basketball Classic was a tough go for the Hot Springs Lady Bobcats. In Lander, they went 0-3 losing to Riverton 53-30, Lovell 55-45 and Lander 55-43. The losses were not the desired result but Thermopolis gained valuable experience in the process. THERMOPOLIS 30, RIVERTON 53 The first game of the East-West Classic was not only the Lady 'Cats worst performance of the tournament but also of the early season. Riverton shot 16 of 64 from the field...
THERMOPOLIS - Day One of the Pinnacle Bank Battle in the Big Horns wrestling dual tournament went poorly for the Hot Springs County Bobcats. As a part of Pool C, the Bobcats on Friday lost to Douglas 52-24, lost to Newcastle/Upton 45-28 and ended the day by being shut out 69-0 to Sheridan. The terrible start was tough to swallow but when the Bobcats returned home head coach CJ Scholl and his assistant coach Trey Ottley brought their team to the wrestling room. There they spoke with the team abou...
WORLAND - Going into the Christmas break the Worland Warriors have a lot of positive momentum to build off of after placing second at the Pinnacle Bank Battle in the Big Horns wrestling dual tournament Friday and Saturday at Worland High School. Getting to the championship in the Gold Bracket the Warriors took down Cody 44-25 in the quarterfinals and Powell 36-32 in the semifinals. "We saw some tough kids from Cody, Powell and Rock Springs. Cody has some tough kids and they have a tradition of p...
WORLAND - Day One of the Pinnacle Battle in the Big Horns dual wrestling tournament is in the books and the Worland Warriors stood atop of Pool A unblemished. The Warriors defeated Buffalo 54-22, Rock Springs 66-12 and Lander 42-31 taking the top spot in Pool A and move on to the Gold Bracket to face Cody, Pool D's second-place finisher. "What's impressed me is that our kids have the willingness to get out there and work hard every match. We've run into kids that we may not beat but they're...
WORLAND - In what could be a showing of what's to come, the Worland Warrior wrestlers opened their first home dual of the season with a convincing 66-18 win over the Riverton Wolverines Thursday night at Worland High School. On the eve of their home dual tournament, the Pinnacle Bank Battle in the Big Horns, the Warriors built plenty of momentum for today and tomorrow with a pin-heavy victory over Riverton. "Starting off the week with a win like that is a huge momentum boost for us, especially...