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RAWLINS - The Worland Lady Warriors (7-3) scored a season high 71 points on their way to a 71-48 victory over the Rawlins Lady Outlaws (5-6) Friday night at Rawlins High School. Leading the way for the Lady Warriors was senior forward Charlee Townsend who poured in 24 points. "She was great tonight," said WHS girls basketball coach Ben Hofmann. "We knew she had that in her and have been working with her all season about being more aggressive. She hit her first 3-pointer and got really...
WORLAND - Just when the Worland Warriors (5-5) thought they had the Hot Springs County High School Bobcats (2-7) in a 20-plus deficit, the Bobcats made a run to get within single digits before the Warriors finally ground out 67-56 win Thursday night at Worland High School. Worland jumped out to a 17-9 lead that was highlighted by senior Clay Bullard's steal then dunk that got the Worland crowd rocking. In the second quarter Thermopolis sophomore reserve guard Jaxon Davis scored back-to-back buck...
WORLAND - The Worland Lady Warriors (5-3) size inside wore down a scrappy and hardnosed Hot Springs County High School Lady Bobcats (5-7) for a 57-33 win Thursday night at Worland High School. The Lady Warriors had a fight on their hands from the tip as the Lady 'Cats went right at the defending 3A champs. Thanks in part senior Korey Smith, who hit a 3-pointer and a mid-range shot, Thermopolis led the Lady Warriors 7-4. However, Worland would answer by going inside to senior Charlee Townsend for...
WORLAND - The Playing for Hope foundation has scheduled "Pink Out" events during high school winters sports season. As of now the Greybull vs. Riverside game on Jan. 28, Cody vs. Star Valley on Feb. 3, Thermopoils vs. Worland on Feb. 9 and Worland vs. Rawlins on Feb. 10 have been scheduled as Pink Out games. The Play for Hope is a 501 (c) (3) charity that uses Pink Outs as a fundraising opportunity to provide assistance to those diagnosed with cancer as they battle the disease. On January 7,...
WORLAND - The Worland High School wrestling team has been facing a lot of tough competition this season, often wrestling against 4A schools or the large schools in South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Idaho and Utah. And for WHS wrestling coach Josh Garcia he wouldn't have it any other way. Last weekend the Warriors traveled to Green River for a dual tournament and while the scores were not in Worland's favor coach Garcia was proud of his kids and their outing. "We did do a pretty decent job, it's...
GREYBULL - The early season basketball tournaments are done and the non-conference opponents are in the rearview mirror, now the real season begins. Conference play is the time of year when coaches tighten their rotations and the level of intensity picks up as they jockey among rivals for regional tournament seeding. With the exception of two games, the remaining schedule for the Greybull Buffs and Lady Buffs will be against conference opponents and the first four will be in hostile territory....
WORLAND -Back-to-back contests are tough for any team in any sport. Last weekend the Worland Warriors boys swimming had consecutive duals. First they traveled to Powell on Friday for a 5 p.m. dual then hosted the Cody Broncs Saturday morning on a quick turnaround. The Warriors spilt the duals losing to Powell 114-66 and beating Cody 105-48. "For swimming a dual meet with no recovery time I thought we did very well (Saturday)," said WHS assistant boys swimming coach Justin Howe. "We have a small...
THERMOPOLIS - Sometimes the best way for a team to measure improvement is to go against teams that had your number earlier in the season. For the Hot Springs County High School girls basketball team they did just that in games against the Lander Lady Tigers Friday and the Lovell Lady Bulldogs Saturday night. While the Lady Bobcats fell in both contests they showed how far they've come in a short amount of time. Playing Lander on Dec. 16, the Lady 'Cats fell 55-29. On Friday at Lander High...
RIVERTON -Without leading scorer Lyndzi Rich and her 20.5 points per game the Worland Lady Warriors still dominated three of the four quarters Friday night against the Riverton Lady Wolverines (0-11) at Riverton High School. Seniors Bailey Gibbons and Charlee Townsend led the way for the Lady Warriors (5-4) scoring with 17 and 11 points, respectively. "Bailey (Gibbons) played really well in the first quarter, getting us off to a good start and we got good contributions from across the board. We...
LANDER - The shorthanded Worland Warriors wrestling team traveled to Lander Thursday night for a dual against the Lander High School Tigers and lost by the slimmest of margins. The Warriors and Tigers went back and forth and at the end of the night the score was tied 39-39. It came down to the seventh criteria, which was the most takedowns which Lander won out, giving them the victory. "It was a good dual for us. I thought our kids wrestled really well and had some kids step up into our lineup....
THERMOPOLIS - For the Hot Springs County High School boys basketball team their Big Horn Basin Shootout experience went like this; hard fought loss, frustrating loss and turnaround/revenge win. "Overall, it was a good weekend for us," said HSCHS boys basketball coach Kevin Gerber. "We had our struggles but saw things that were really good for us." The Bobcats (2-7) opened the Shootout in Greybull against the Buffs last Thursday night. They fell behind early and were able to chip away at the...
CODY - The Worland boys basketball team displayed their grit and aggressive mindset on the final day of the Big Horn Basin Shootout in Cody on Saturday. After dropping the semifinal game to Wind River, 53-52, the Warriors recovered, even with some early adversity, to beat Wyoming Indian 82-74 in overtime in the third-place game. Versus Wind River, the Warriors (4-4) were behind by 16 points at one point in the first half but were able to cut the lead to 10 by halftime. "We dug ourselves a hole...
POWELL - Competing for the first time in nearly a month the Worland Warriors swim team started 2017 with an impressive outing at the Powell Invitational on Saturday. The last time the Warriors were in a competitive setting was on Dec. 10 at the Rawlins Pentathlon, even then not the entire team traveled. Their following two meets in Buffalo and Newcastle were canceled due to weather, then it was time for Christmas break. With an unusual amount of practice time the Warriors kept at it by grinding...
NFL fans we made it through a mediocre NFL season and for our struggle we’ve been rewarded with the ugliest NFL Wildcard round in recent memory. Being truthful it was naïve to think after this stinkfest of an NFL season we’d at least have decent playoffs. This weekend’s games are eyesore and coma-inducing matchups. There is one good game in the entire Wildcard slate and that’s New York at Green Bay. Nevertheless I’m going to power through these awful games and give you the most heroic playoff predictions you will read in print or on the World...
WORLAND - A slow start in the first half had the Worland Lady Warriors trailing the Cody Fillies 17-14 but out of the break WHS shifted to another gear to pull passed CHS by the final score of 41-32 Friday night at Worland High School. "It was a combination of a couple things," said WHS girls basketball coach Ben Hofmann when talking about his team's slow start in the first half. "We had a little bit of rust, it has been 15, 16 days since we played in the Green River tournament. We had a lot of...
WORLAND - On paper the 3A Worland Warriors (2-3) posed a challenging task for the 2A Riverside Rebels (0-3). Then when it came time to play the Warriors were as overwhelming as expected as they rolled to a 69-14 victory Thursday night at Worland High School. In the first quarter Worland jumped out to a 24-0 lead and at halftime increased their lead 44-10. The Warriors controlled every aspect of the game whether it was on the offense, defense or the hustle plays. Knowing that if they played to...
WORLAND - The Christmas break is over and the 2016-2017 high school basketball season is back in session. First to see action for Worland High School will be the Warriors varsity and junior varsity teams as they start the first round of the Big Horn Basin Shootout tonight. During the break WHS boys basketball coach Aaron Abel watched as his team made positive strides and is eager for them to apply those improvements to gameday. "We've had a good three weeks of practice. Everyone has been coming...
LARAMIE – The University of Wyoming women's basketball team is all about helping this season. And the Cowgirls' offense is receiving some unexpected help from the other side of the court. UW (10-3 overall, 2-0 Mountain West) enters this week ranked second in the conference and No. 22 nationally in points allowed at 54.1 per game. The obvious result of that number is the opposition is scoring less. But UW's improved defensive play appears to be helping with the offense as well. The Cowgirls, d...
LARAMIE – When a basketball team is playing with as much defensive confidence as the University of Wyoming women's team, even when things break down occasionally there's little panic. The Cowgirls dominated UNLV on Saturday in their Mountain West home opener 79-57 at Arena-Auditorium, building a double-digit lead in the first quarter and leading by 20 at halftime. Yet twice in the second half – at the beginning of the third and fourth quarters – UNLV made serious runs against UW, pulling withi...
A GAME FOR THE AGES On Saturday, the Lady Warriors found themselves right where they expected to be – playing for a state championship. And as they might have also expected, it would take the most hard-fought 32 minutes of their season as they faced Star Valley to decide who would take hold of the 3A girls basketball crown. Worland (25-1 overall) trailed by two points at halftime and four heading into the fourth quarter, but came alive in the final eight minutes as it outscored Star Valley (...
LARAMIE – The Cowboys hit 14 3-pointers and held Air Force to 36 percent from the field on their way to a 84-72 victory in the Mountain West Conference opener in the Arena-Auditorium Wednesday evening. The 14 3-pointers tied for the second most this season and the third most in a single-game in UW history. The Cowboys move to 11-3 on the season and 1-0 in the MW, as Air Force is now 7-7 overall and 0-1 in the MW. The Cowboys are now 9-0 at home this season and move to 76-36 all-time against the...
Don't you love it when the game lives up to the hype? The year 2016 produced plenty of games like that - contests in which the action was the best when everything was on the line. The Cubs and Indians, the Warriors and Cavs, the Tar Heels and Wildcats all saved their best for when it was win or go home. A look at some of the best games of 2016: END OF THE CURSE You wanted drama? Well, leave it to the Cubs to give you drama . After trailing 3 games to 1 to Cleveland in the World Series, the Cubs...
LARAMIE – There were a lot of firsts and unexpected happenings for the University of Wyoming football program in 2016, most of which were good. But as the Cowboys look ahead to 2017, the biggest task for coach Craig Bohl and his staff is to keep it going, which has been difficult for the better part of 20 years. UW has not has back-to-back seasons with better than .500 records since 1998-99. It also hasn't played in bowl games in consecutive years since 1987-88. After an 8-6 record in 2016, a M...
BASIN - Rebuilding years are always a taxing endeavor and it has been no different for the Riverside High School (0-2) boys basketball team but for these young Rebels they're still going to give maximum effort each time they step on the court. The Rebels opened their season at the Shoshoni Canyon Classic on Dec. 15-16 against 1A Saratoga and 1A Dubois. With only 10 players on the roster, two of which are upperclassmen, senior Michael Wildman and junior Justen Miller, and the rest underclassmen,...
9 is coming to a close and yearly recaps are all over the place. 2016 was an unusual sports year - the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Cubs become world champions in their respective leagues, Villanova finally moved past the second round all the way to the championship title, NBA legends Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant said goodbye, the Warriors super team, oh, and the Summer Olympics happened. It's was a fun sports year but rather than rehash what everyone else is talking about (Let's be honest...