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by Rex Clothier The 2A West Regional Wrestling Tournament was held at Rocky Mountain High School in Cowley on Friday. Twelve teams competed to see how many of their wrestlers could qualify for state competition. Qualifying 11 Bobcats for the upcoming Wyoming State Wrestling Tournament on March 26-27 put a smile on Coach CJ Scholl's face, but his words were cautionary. "We have to wrestle better there than we did at regionals," said Scholl. "It almost seemed that our kids qualified for state and...
When the Bobcats visited the top ranked 1A defending state champion Burlington Huskies Friday, coach Kevin Gerber was well aware the Bobcats were facing a good team, a very good team. Fifty-two points later, all the statistics of the game pointed to a Thermopolis victory except the scoreboard which showed the Huskies with 54. Keegan Robbins with 22 rebounds nearly exceeded the entire Burlington squad's 26. Only nine turnovers were suffered by the Bobcats. Both teams hit 50 percent of their free...
The Lovell Bulldogs visited the Bobcat matmen Thursday and had a longer than usual trip home as the Bobcats handed them a 45-30 trimming on 5 pins, 2 forfeits and a decision. Louie Castle, Chandler Maddock and Jon Hagen earned first period falls in impressive fashion while Koy Myers and Colter Hansen took a little longer, but just as emphatically claimed their pins in the second period. The most anticipated match of the dual was at 132 pitting Ethan Becher, #4 in 2A, against the Bulldogs Joey...
Last Friday an activities bus carrying the Bobcat boys basketball team left HSCHS with the passengers knowing they had a tough task in front of them - win the next two games and guarantee entry in the regional tournament without going through a "pigtail" qualifying game. The first obstacle, Riverside, had fallen to the Bobcats by 18 points earlier in the season, and the Bobcats were heavily favored to defeat the scrappy but thin Rebels on their own floor. At the end of the first quarter, coach K...
A busy week tested Thermopolis wrestlers as they hosted a quadrangle with Worland, Douglas and Lovell on Thursday, and a trip to Riverton to participate in the tournament most wrestling people in Wyoming consider the true individual state championship meet - The Ron Thon Invitational. Thursday the Bobcats wrestled both Douglas and Worland in successive matches. Douglas overpowered the Bobcats to the tune of 49-18 with only Tom Severns and Cullen Becher winning via pins. Other Bobcats wrestled...
The boys Bobcat basketball team enter this week's upcoming action with Riverside and Greybull with an 0-3 record in conference after tough losses at Rocky Mountain Thursday and with visiting Shoshoni Saturday. Coach Kevin Gerber remarked, "All conference games are important, but now they are really important if we don't want to have to play a "pigtail game" to get into the regional tournament." "In the 44-42 loss at Rocky Mountain Thursday, Tyler Cornwell had an outstanding all-around game. He...
The Bobcats journeyed to Greybull for their Memorial Invitational Saturday with six wrestlers finishing in the top four. The Bobcats were led by Colter Hansen who finished second, followed by Jon Hagen, Luciano (Louie in the practice room) Castle and Cullen Becher all placing third, finished off by Chandler Maddock and Milton Peden each placing fourth. Scoring 105 points, the Bobcats finished a respectable sixth in the 12 team tournament. Moorcroft showed its power earning 206 points followed...
Occasionally a situation in high school sports arises that calls participants to a higher performance standard than usually is the case. Sophomore Bobcats competing in wrestling are in that situation this year. There are no juniors out for the sport, and there are only two seniors. Assuming that mid-school wrestlers will continue in the sport at the high school level, there will be between 15 and 20 freshmen/sophomore wrestlers in the room at the start of the 2016-17 season. Leadership will be vested in the returning juniors: Cullen Becher, Mil...
Fifteen Bobcats went to Pavillion to wrestle in the Don Runner Invitational Friday and Saturday. Heeding their coaches prediction that “...they’ll get better” after a tough Douglas weekend, they placed nine in the top six of their weight classes. Greybull/Riverside amassed 195 1/2 points to take the 21 team tournament championship to lead Rocky Mountain, Cokeville, and Thermopolis. The 141 points scored by the Bobcats was the highest tournament total in recent years for the ‘Cats. Both Cullen Becher and Jon Hagen wrestled for the tourney...
Milton Peden strains as he works to gain control of his opponent during Bobcat wrestling action....
Bobcat wrestlers journeyed to Douglas for the Shane Shatto Invitational Friday and Saturday. It became clear this young team has a ways to go to compete successfully in tournaments where seven of the top ten teams were from 4A schools. Even usually powerful Douglas could finish no better than sixth. Bright spots in earning Thermopolis’ 25 points were the Becher boys with Cullen leading the way to a fifth place medal with three victories while brother Ethan scored a pin and a technical fall just missing the consolation placing round. Also adding...
The Bobcats head wrestling coach C.J. Scholl said he breaks the season into thirds. The first third ends with the Christmas break. That was a period when the coaches could make an assessment of the pluses and minuses of each individual athlete and develop a plan for the development of the skills they’ll need to be as successful as possible. The second third starts now. Each wrestler will have “tweaks” to practice for the final third of the season which starts immediately after the Ron Thon in Riverton and concludes with the regional and state...
The busy Bobcat matmen engaged eight dual opponents in three days losing in Greybull Thursday and competing at Worland's Battle of the Bighorns dual tourney on Friday and Saturday. Billings entries, Senior and Skyview, led the tourney and scorched the Bobcats to the tune of 147-12. However, qualifying at the 16 team tourney among the top eight teams, the Cats were 3-2 against the other five winning over Jackson 48-23, Wheatland 39-23 and Riverton 42-40 while dropping duals to Worland 48-30 and...
Bobcat wrestlers competed Friday and Saturday at the Powell Invitational to open their season. Nearly 30 teams competed in pools Friday to qualify for the varsity brackets on Saturday. Coach C.J. Scholl noted that it was a good learning experience for his young team, that the season was young, and now “It’s time to go to work.” Senior Louie Castle led the Bobcat contingent with a 3rd place finish by dominating a Lander foe who had defeated him earlier in the tourney scoring four takedowns and an escape for a 9-5 victory. Sophomore Cullen Beche...
Hot Springs County High School head wrestling coach C.J. Scholl and asst. Jake Smith are in their second year, but this season begins a new era for the sport at HSCHS. Gone are the Bobcats first two multi-year state champions, Ryan Bradshaw and Vinnie Castle, who had won district, regional and state honors for the last four years. Their departure leaves a grand total of two upper class men wrestlers, seniors Colter Hansen and Louie Castle. Both showed good progress throughout last season, and...
“I’m bored. Think of something to do.” If these words ever should jump from your lips to your spouse’s ear, make sure your lips are somewhere far removed from such ear. Be aware that the number of possible outcomes from such a question are severely limited to generally two possibilities. One, she/he will simply say some variation of “I’m not the one bored. You think of something”, or 2) There’s a knitting contest at the senior center (Chinese checker open competition at same) that should prove interesting. Thankfully, we live in an area of t...
