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Saratoga Middle High School Senior Whitney Bennett reached a remarkable milestone in her high school sports career by scoring her 1,000th point in basketball. The countdown started when Bennett entered her freshman year. She played both volleyball and basketball and left nothing on the court. Bennet scored the landmark 1,000 in the first half of the last game this last weekend against Burlington's Lady Huskies. She said she felt some pressure to make it, and was fairly sure...
The wrestling season started off over the weekend with events throughout Wyoming on Friday and Saturday. 2 A schools were in Lusk to meet a host of Nebraska schools as well as North Park, Colorado and Newell, South Dakota. The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner High School wrestling team was in Lusk along with Glenrock, Moorcroft, Sundance, Newcastle-Upton, Lingle-Southeast, Saratoga, Wright, Tongue River, Hulett and the Kelly Walsh JV. Head coach of the HEM team,...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miners took some hard licks in their first game of the season when they faced off against the Burlington Huskies. "We knew we were going to take our lumps," said Head Coach Jackie Jones. "And lumps we did." The Lady Huskies beat the Lady Miners 62 to 4. The Lady Miners scored 3 points the 1st half and 1 point the 2nd half. The next game they played against the Dubois Lady Rams went better, although the HEM team did lose. Jones...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Lady Rattlers played some great teams this past weekend according to Head Coach Mark Gillies. It was the last game against the Wind River Lady Cougars where the Lady Rattlers lost 42 to 41. “Honestly, it was just one of those games where we were doing some of the little things wrong and Wind River was playing really hard,” Gillies said. “They hit a shot with 10 seconds left to take the lead and we had turnovers, way too many turno...
The Encampment Lady Tigers basketball team came out swinging in their first conference games of the season. Coach Clint Bromley said, "With one win and two losses you are disappointed, but you get to reflect on what improvements you need to make before the conference season begins. We were fortunate to get a win over Dubois 55-52, Cora Schroeder and Kayla Smith scored 17 each and Eckerley Pickett had 9. We were not as fortunate versus Burlington in a 67-39 loss. Kyenna...
The South Conference for 6-man football had 12 of the 20 players named All Conference coming from Carbon County teams. Little Snake River Valley, the state champions, had seven players recognized along with one of them getting South All Conference player–Kammados Peroulis. Also named from the Rattler team were Hadley Myers,Seth Maxson, Bridger Cozzens, Zane Matheson and Isaiah Skalberg. Encampment Tigers had four players named. They were Quade Jordan, Ryon Miller, Kaben P...
Congratulations to the Carbon County School District No. 2 all-conference champions: Saratoga Lady Panthers Whitney Bennett, Hanna Lathrop and Makenna King; Encampment Tigers Kyenna Jackson and Cora Schroeder; Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) McKaylee Widdison. All Conference is an honor given to the best athletes in a given league. It is a prestigious accomplishment and is only awarded to those athletes who have demonstrated superior skill and dedication to their...
"I feel so much satisfaction right now," said Jack Cobb, head coach of the Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) high school football team, immediately after the last seconds of the game ticked away making the Rattlers the state champion again. Cobb said, "I am so proud of these boys, these seniors who have won three state championships in the past four years. It is such a tight team and this is what football is all about." As Cobb finished speaking LSRV fans and players mobbed...
Encampment’s Lady Tigers couldn’t catch their southern nemesis, the LSRV Lady Rattlers. It’s been a battle all season between these girls, with the Rattlers pouncing on the Tigers at every turn. The Rattlers first match with the Tigers was 25-8. The Tigers fought back but couldn’t take it at 28-26. The Rattlers took the last match 25-16, sending the Tigers home. Coach Robin Brown is very proud of the girls and said, “This year we went 10-17-1, so not quite where we wanted to end the season. But, I felt like overall it was a...
"We had a really rough start to this game where we made a lot of mistakes early and things continued to snowball after that," Head coach Kegan Willford of Encampment High School football said.Willford is talking about the game on Saturday in which the Tigers faced the undefeated Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football team in Baggs.The game started very quickly to go in the Rattlers' favor in the 1st quarter.The Rattler head coach Jack Cobb decided to kee...
The Lady Panthers were hot on the heels of the Buckaroos, fighting hard at last Friday’s matchup. The Panthers took the first two games 25-14 and 25-20, but lost momentum and fell to the Buckaroos 23-25, 21-25 and 14-16. This is Whitney Bennett’s last game. She left nothing on the court with 19 kills and 41 digs. Another senior, Olivia Everett with 17 kills and 23 digs was on top of her last game as well. Makenna King still has a year left at Saratoga and must be an ins...
The Hulett Devils had a brief moment of elation in their game against the Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football game when they were able to score early in the 1st quarter. With the Devils first possession, they scored against the Rattlers. That hasn’t happened before this season to LSRV. “They caught us sleeping on a long pass and it got over my players,” Head Coach for the Rattlers, Jack Cobb said. “We woke up after that, and took over the game....
The Encampment Tiger High School football team went to Kaycee to stay in the hunt for the state championship in 6-man. They did so very effectively, keeping the higher seeded team scoreless. “We emphasized starting fast against Kaycee all week long,” Tiger head coach Kegan Willford said. “I feel like we accomplished that.” The Tigers started scoring from the onset of the game. Quade Jordan ran 39 yards for a touchdown and the Tigers were off and running. Jordan scored another...
The Lady Tigers went to Lander to win, but they just couldn't quite get their feet under them. Their first loss to Riverside's Lady Rebels was 3-1, but they picked up a win when Burlington's Lady Huskies came to the court. The Tigers left that came with a 3-0 win. The Little Snake River Rattlers have been hard to beat all year and this day was no different. The Tigers gave it everything they had, but the Rattlers kept them from win in 3 matches. Coach Robin Brown said, "The...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School volleyball team knew this was going to be a year for learning and growing. Head coach for the Lady Miner volleyball team, Hannah Williams said this in the beginning of the season. It was her first year and she acknowledged having a young team. All she wanted from her team was improvement after each game. Williams said every coach wants to win games, but her focus was to get the girls better at the end of the year. The...
Saratoga Cross Country Coach Hohnholt couldn't be prouder of the hard working team of girls and boys that went to the State Finals Saturday. Hohnholt said this group of girls is amazing. Marilee Williams earned her third consecutive all-state honors, Milan Scott, Rhiwan Williams and Madison Teichman earned their second all-state honors, Madison Rodriguez and Allison Bromley brought home their first all-state honors. Aspen Sewell came in 13th, which is awesome as well....
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football team went to Rock Springs to play the Rock Springs High School (RSHS) Tiger JV football team in a non-conference game. It was a game, the Rattlers got a chance to give their younger players an opportunity to get some experience on the field.Rattler head coach Jack Cobb said in the 1st quarter he played his starters and in the 2nd quarter he started putting in some of the players of his JV team.“I mixed them i...
On Friday, the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School volleyball team hosted the Wyoming Indian High School Lady Chiefs and lost all three sets. The Lady Miners were in contention in all three games until they hit double digits. Then the Lady Chiefs surged ahead, leaving HEM to score a few points, but not enough to threaten Wyoming Indian as they would go on to win. The first set, the Miners were down 1 to 6 and then rallied to tie at 7 to 7 to the home crowd's...
The Lady Tigers fought hard for the win, but fell short with the Lady Rattlers winning at 3-0. The Rattlers went home with the three match win putting them at 22-8 and leaving the Tigers to play off with Ten Sleep's Lady Pioneers on Monday the 24th. The Lady Tigers took that game, winning all three matches at 25-5, 25-5 and 25-12, taking it 3-0. Coach Robin Brown said, "Saturday's game did not have the ending that we wanted, but I don't think the score showed the level of...
On Thursday the Lady Panthers left nothing on the court. The Panthers prevailed over the visiting Farson-Eden Pronghorns, winning 3-0. This put the Panthers at 17-8. Once again Whitney Bennett attacked with 15 kills. Makenna King and Olivia Everett had no problem slamming the ball across the net for points. Hanna Lathrop had 5 aces, Olivia Everett and Makenna King had two and Shelby Knotwell had 1. These girls had no intention of losing. With 12 digs, Josie Little had no fear...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner High School football team won their first football game of the season on Saturday against the Ten Sleep Pioneers in a convincing manner. In the 1st quarter, the Miners amassed 20 points as the Miner defense kept the Pioneers scoreless. There was no stopping HEM. Tom Wagner finished up his senior year with a great game and was the leading rusher at 127 yards. He was also the leading rusher all season with 117 carries which...
The Encampment Tiger High School football team proved on Saturday why they are in the hunt for a state championship as they took on the Midwest Oilers winning 80 to 6. "This was a good way to end our regular season and for our seniors on senior night," Head coach Kegan Willford of the Encampment football team said. We still have things to improve on as we advance into the playoffs." The game started out in the Tigers favor when Kaban Pickett ran in a touchdown in the 1st...
Saratoga Panthers Head Coach Logan Wright knew the Panther football team was going to have a challenge winning the last three football games in the season. He was right as the team faced the top three seeds in the East Conference in 9-man. Unfortunately, losing to all three teams. This past week Saratoga took on Lingle-Ft. Laramie Doggers. Wright felt the Panthers were talented and his seniors consistent “In any tough competition, you don’t want to give up anything early and...