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The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School volleyball team met a lot of opponents this past week, but were not quite able to take a win. “Last weekend came after we had a long week,” Head coach for the Lady Miners Hannah Williams said. “ We traveled all three days on top of it being a five day school week.” During the week the Lady Miners played, Williams said the HEM team was looking for ways to improve on their record of 1-15. October 13, the Lady Miners played...
The Lady Tigers gave it a shot, but they could not catch the Panthers. The Tigers seemed to run out of steam, losing all three matches. Coach Robin Brown said, "We are taking Thursday as a learning experience and using it to grow as a team. We are very young overall as a team, which makes the mental game and emotional side of the game more difficult. We will continue to work on our game both with overall game play and keeping our emotions in check. The next two weeks will be...
The Lady Panthers barely let the Lady Tigers take a breath. They took three matches to win the game on Thursday on their own court. The first match ended 25-17, second match was 25-13 and the third match 25-3. Whitney Bennett slammed the ball over the net with 12 kills followed closely by Makenna King and Shelby Knotwell. Coach Shayley Love had this to say, "Thursday's game against Encampment was a good solid game for our girls. We kept our composure and everyone did their...
The Farson-Eden Pronghorns got a taste of their own medicine after they beat a young Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) that they kept scoreless and ran up the points last week. This week, the Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) High School football team beat Farson 63 to 0. The Rattlers are undefeated and have clinched home field advantage for the playoffs. “Farson has some talent, so we had to play,” Jack Cobb, the head coach for LSRV said. “We were able to get some good...
The Dubois Rams came to the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School football field and decided to send a message they were in the hunt to the State Championship. Currently they are the number two seed in the South Conference of 6-man. Number one is Little Snake River Valley which they have to this year. HEM, a team with many young players, is rebuilding and making strides, but was unfortunate to meet a team with a message to send. This does not mean the Rams ran...
Logan Wright Head Coach of the Saratoga High School football team had no illusions about the latter half of his schedule. Last week he faced Pine Bluffs, the number one seed in 9-man East Conference. This week the Panthers had to take on the Southeast Cyclones, who are the number two seed and have not lost a game in the conference. Saratoga put up a fight, but Southeast overpowered the Panthers. "Every game has a turning point, whether it is early or late," Wright said. "We...
Cheyenne Leroy Sprague Memorial Cross Country meet was held in Cheyenne on Friday Oct. 7. Coach Hohnholt expressed his pride in saying this, “All I can say is wow. We had some amazing performances from all our kids. With just a couple of exceptions most of the athletes ran seasonal bests or lifetime bests this weekend. Highlights for the week included Grant’s school record for 5,000 meters and Grady’s number three performance in school history as well. Marilee Williams poste...
It has been a year of adjustment for the Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School Lady Miner volleyball team as a young, small team goes out on the courts each week. This past week, HEM played a lot of games and had their first victory. On Tuesday, the Lady Miners played the Encampment Lady Tigers. The games were close with the Tigers winning the first and second sets 27 to 25 and 25 to 17. The Lady Miners took the next set 25 to 18. The last set went into the Lady...
Tuesday, Sept 26 proved to be a blow to the Miners when the Tigers laid them out with 3 wins in four games. The Lady Tigers had to fight hard for the first game winning with a two point lead, but the second match came easier at 25-17. The Lady Miners pulled away with a win in the third match only to be beaten by the Tigers in the final match to win at 25-22. Coach Robin Brown said that "this was a game of mental growth for the team. There were moments of frustration that they...
Saratoga Panther High School football team faced the number one ranked team in their conference and although there were things that made Panther Head Coach Logan Wright happy with the game, he knows the team is capable of performing better than they did on Friday where they lost 57 to 12. The 1st quarter went entirely Pine Bluff's way. They scored 21 points while the Panthers did not score. The 2nd quarter was a different story. The Panthers got two touchdowns against a defens...
Friday, September 30 the Lady Panthers first game was against Riverside’s Lady Rebels. The Panthers played hard the first game, but couldn’t catch the Rebels at 21-19. The second match ended 21-7 with the Rebels winning the game. The Panthers came up against the Wind River Lady Cougars next and trounced them 21-15 and 21-17. Kemmerer’s Lady Rangers met their match with the Panthers. The game ended in two matches with the Panthers in the lead at 21-14 and 21-11. Farso...
The Little Snake River Valley Rattler (LSRV) High School football team went to Encampment Saturday to face the Tigers and keep their lead in the conference. "Any time you play the number one team in the state, you always look to use it as a measuring stick to see where your team stacks up against them," Tiger Head Coach Kegan Wilford said. "Snake River has a lot of great athletes and football players." Head Coach for the Rattlers, Jack Cobb had positive comments about going...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow, Elk Mountain (HEM) Miner High School football team would probably like to put last Saturday’s game behind them quickly because their Farson-Eden kept coming at the young Miner team, even after it was apparent the Pronghorns had won the game. The final score was 83 to 6. “It was a hard loss,” Miner head coach Zack Scott said. “ We will continue to work on the things we need to.” There were a few bright moments for the team, including...
The Saratoga Middle School volleyball team headed to conference as the number 1 seed Saturday allowing the B team to also compete. Saratoga B team played very well against Rock River. They lost overall, but the sets were very close with the second set 23-25. They played Hanna B team for 5th or 6th place and beat Hanna win 5th place. Saratoga A team defeated Hanna to advance to the championship game against Little Snake River Valley (LSRV). The girls played extremely well in... Full story
On September 30 the Saratoga Cross Country Team went to the Wheatland Invite and proved they have what it takes to win. Coach Rex Hohnholt shared his feelings about the meet, "Great effort at the meet this past weekend. We had some great performances highlighted by Grant and Grady's first and second place finish as well as the girls winning the team race once again. Thanks for all the effort you put into being successful. It will pay off for all of you in three weeks. These...
The Tigers found the Little Snake River Rattlers ready to fight. The Tigers fell to the Rattlers 21-8 and 21-19, leaving that game at 2-0. They were challenged by Burlington’s Lady Huskies, winning both games with 21-14 in the first match and 21-19 in the second. The Tigers brought their game when they tore into Big Piney’s Punchers winning 2-0 with 21-19 and 21-10. The Tigers encounter with Shoshoni didn’t go as well as they planned, losing both matches by only 3 point...
The Lady Panthers faced off with Riverside’s Lady Rebels Friday afternoon. The Rebels overcame the Panthers in a 2-0 game. This gave the Panthers a 12-4 record. Later in the afternoon the Panthers won against Wind River’s Cougars scoring 21-15 and 21-17 to win 2-0. In the evening, the Panthers slammed into Kemmerer’s Rangers 21-14 and 21-11 winning again 2-0. The last match that night for the Panthers was against Farson-Eden Pronghorns winning again 2-0 with scores of 21-4...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler High School football team went up against the Hulett Devils in Midwest last Saturday and won in the usual manner. Big. The score was 52 to 0. Rattlers Head Coach, Jack Cobb, was pleased–not only with the game–but also that the Rattlers and Devils finished before a torrential rainstorm hit. “Hulett is a good team with some physical size and I challenged the boys to come out and take care of business,” Cobb said. “And they did just...
The Encampment Tiger High School football team took no prisoners against the Kaycee Buckaroo football team. They allowed Kaycee 6 points in the 2nd quarter, but that was it. The Tigers went to score 71 points making the game 71-6. The Tigers looked like they had the game in control from the beginning when Quade Jordan raced 38 yards for a touchdown. Kahan Pickett got the conversion and the score was 8 to 0. The Tigers were not done scoring the 1st quarter. Bristin Sifford got...
"We had a great game," Hanna, Elk Mountain (HEM) Miner High School football head coach Zack Scott said. "We played well on both sides of the ball and really applied what we have been working on in practice." The Miners faced the Midwest Oilers on September 30 and played their best football game since the season started. The young HEM team showed it had rebounded from the tough loss against Encampment the week before where they were not able to put up any points against the...
Logan Wright, Head Coach of the Saratoga High School football team had a good feeling his Panther team would do well against the Panther team from Wright, Wyoming, last week. He also knew the other Panthers wanted to win badly and it would be a tough game. He was right. The game was a defensive showdown. Neither team scored a touchdown. However, two safeties were scored by the Saratoga Panthers. It didn't add up to a lot of points, but it was enough to win. "It has been since...
Thursday's home conference match against the LSRV Lady Rattlers was a hard win. The Lady Panthers stepped out and took the lead in the first two sets with 25-19 and 25-16. The third and fourth set they gave the Lady Rattlers a win at 25-21, and 26-24, but they didn't let that stop them. The fifth set found the Lady Panthers finishing with 15 to the Lady Rattlers 12. Whitney Bennett and Makenna King literally killed it literally with 18 kills each during the game. Shelby...
According to Coach Rex Hohnholt, the Shana Ward Memorial Invitational was the largest cross country meet ever with 17 high school teams participating. Parents, coaches and athletes helped at the meet, providing cookies, setting up and tearing down equipment and serving water and popsicles. Hohnhold said that hosting this event every year brings him joy as it gives the community a chance to see all the hard work at the cross country athletes put into being successful. Hohnhold...
