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Warriors and Lady Warriors advance to 3A West semifinals

WORLAND — Both Worland basketball teams advanced to the 3A West regional semifinals Thursday at Worland High School.

The Lady Warriors led wire-to-wire in their quarterfinal game, downing the Pinedale Lady Wranglers 47-30. The Lady Warriors matchup up against the No. 1-seed out of the Southwest, the Mountain View Lady Buffaloes. Tipoff is at 5 p.m. tonight at WHS, the winner moves on to the regional championship game and qualifies for state. The loser plays the winner of Powell-Big Piney at 9 a.m. on Saturday.

The Warriors battled their way to a hard-fought 49-47 win over the Mountain View Buffaloes. For their semifinal matchup the Warriors play the Lander Tigers for the fourth time this season at 8 p.m tonight.

Winner of the Worland-Lander games clinches a spot for the state tournament next weekend in Casper, and advances to the regional championship game. While the loser plays the winner of Big Piney-Lovell at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

3A West Quarterfinal results

BOYS

No. 2 NW Powell 61, No. 3 SW Big Piney 39

No. 1 SW Pinedale 49, No. 4 NW Lovell 30

No. 1 NW Lander 76, No. 4 SW Lyman 69

No. 3 NW Worland 49, No. 2 SW Mountain View 47

GIRLS

No. 2 SW Lyman 54, No. 3 NW Powell 33

No. 1 NW Lander 55, No. 4 SW Big Piney 33

No. 1 SW Mountain View 55, No. 4 NW Lovell 32

No. 2 NW Worland 47, No. 3 SW Pinedale 30

FRIDAY SCHEDULE

BOYS

Consolation

Big Piney vs. Lovell, 12 p.m.

Lyman vs. Mountain View, 1:30pm

Semifinals

Powell vs. Pinedale, 6:30 p.m.

Lander vs. Worland, 8 p.m.

GIRLS

Consolation

Powell vs Big Piney, 9 a.m.

Lovell vs. Pinedale, 10:30 a.m.

Semifinals

Lyman vs. Lander, 3:30 p.m.

Mountain View vs. Worland, 5 p.m.