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The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattler basketball team made their head coach Jack Cobb happy this past weekend. “I came off this weekend pretty pleased,” Cobb said. “You know I said deep down in my heart, if we win two out of three, I will be really satisfied. If we win one out of three, we accomplished something and if we go zero and three, well that is disappointing.” The first game against the Burlington Huskies on Friday did not go well for the Rattlers. “Burlin...
The Saratoga Panther High School basketball team is proving they are a team to watch as the season unfolds. Thursday night the team went to the Shoshoni Tournament and faced the host team first. “The Shoshoni game was a really good game for us,” Head coach Jason Williams said. “We only had three practices before that game and played them on their home court. The Wranglers have some pretty good athletes and we knew that going in.” Williams said he was pleased how the Panthers c...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner High School basketball team faced one of the strongest basketball teams in the state for their first game of the season. The Burlington Huskies beat the Miners in a convincing manner. The HEM team didn’t get a lot of time to get more experience under their belts before meeting again on December 15. “Difficult start to the tournament opening up with Burlington again on Friday,” HEM head basketball coach Cliff Jones said. “We p...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Miner wrestling team went to Saratoga on Thursday and head coach Robert Riddle was pleased with how they did, although Tom Wagner, a senior wrestling in the 144 weight class was absent. “Tom needed to pass on this weekend and rest so he will be better once the break is over,” Riddle said. “The wrestlers looked strong and all the kids got matches and wrestled tough,” He said it was a good start for the weekend. On Friday the team ha...
The Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) Lady Miner girls basketball team had a rough go of this past weekend. The team went to the Shoshoni tournament and the first team the Lady Miners played was a team the Lady Miners had played a week before where they only scored 4 points. The second meeting didn’t go better on Friday.“We started the Shoshoni Tournament against a tough Burlington team and we had a tough time getting our offense rolling,” HEM head girls baske...
Anthony Campbell (106 lbs) 3-0 Won by Fall over Wes Clark, HEM Won by Fall over Anthony Solaas, HEM Won by Fall over McKaylee Widdison, HEM Josiah Stockwell (113 lbs) 3-0 Won by Fall over Quinten Fletcher, North Park Won by Fall over Adam Tutt, Laramie Won by Fall over Dylan Kleven, Laramie Tuker Carricato (126 lbs) 3-0 Won by Fall over Zaden Seibel, Laramie Won by Fall over Jayden Dailey, North Park Won by Fall over Darius Seager, HEM Skyler Wood (126 lbs) 3-0 Won by Fall...
Anthony Campbell (106 lbs) placed 3rd and scored 12.0 team points. Quarterfinal - Anthony Campbell received a bye Semifinal - JJ Medina (Buena Vista ) won by decision over Anthony Campbell (Dec 4-0) Cons. Semi - Anthony Campbell won by fall over Tucker Langelier (Clear Creek) (Fall 1:00) 3rd Place Match - Anthony Campbell won by fall over Anthony Solaas (Hanna Elk Mountain ) (Fall 3:22) Josiah Stockwell (113 lbs) placed 1st and scored 24.0 team points. Quarterfinal - Josiah Stockwell won by fall over Mathew Lujan (West Grand)...
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 Saratoga Lady Panthers warmed up after the first game of the Carbon County Classic was behind them, winning the second game. For the third game they faced Burlington's Lady Huskies, but the girls couldn't make it happen. "We played three games this weekend and improved significantly with every game. I was proud of the girls and how they stepped up their effort every game we played this weekend," said Head Coach Heather Bartlett. "Our first game was against Rock River. We s...
The Encampment Tigers headed into the season with a young team, said Head Coach Jake Johnston. The first game against Midwest ended in a wide point spread with the Tigers walloping the Midwest Oilers 66-26. Three hours later the Tigers faced the Dubois Rams and left them in the dirt with a win of 52-44. Coach Johnston said he felt "the weekend went well." He was able to play different combinations of players and see what they need to work on. Saturday morning was a downer for...
The Burlington Huskies went to Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School to prove they are a team to watch this year. The first game the Huskies faced HEM. The younger, smaller Miner team played hard, but it did not take Burlington long before they had control of the game. At the half, the score was 36 to 6 in favor of the Huskies. The HEM team did manage to get into double digits, but the Huskies were also able to score another 36 points. The final outcome was 72...
The Little Snake River Valley (LSRV) Rattlers had a successful first weekend according to Head Coach Jack Cobb. “I was happy with the weekend,” Cobb said. “We took a little time off after winning the championship and then Thanksgiving, so I feel we were a week or so behind other teams who had been practicing.” On December 9, the Rattlers faced the Kemmerer Rangers and lost 66 to 51. “They had one big kid we just didn’t have an answer to,” Cobb said. “Early in the season, it...
The Carbon County Classic tournament featured seven teams, three from Carbon County School District No 2 (CCSD2) and saw the Saratoga High School Panthers go undefeated. The Burlington Huskies impressed people attending the games as they handled their opponents. The Dubois Rams, a team which went to the State Championship last year, gave the Carbon County teams tough games, although they lost to both Encampment and Saratoga. The Rams met the Panthers on December 9 in...
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... Full story
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... Full story
"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...
