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The NBHA hosted its first 2018 barrel racing competition on Sunday at Hot Springs County Fairgrounds. Results include (in order of finish): Open 1D: Tammy Trollinger 15.662, Jerrie Slagle 15.757, Shae Bray 15.810, Missy Givens 15.908, Nick Comes 15.973, Elsie Campbell 16.012 Open 2D: Shyla Nicholas 16.166, Jerrie Slagle 16.415, Brenda Sims 16.532 Open 3D: Brenda Sims 16.719, Brenda Sims 16.988, Heather Jones 17.212, Kaylee Leseberg 17.220, Bobbi Zupan 17.243, Hannah Agar 17.272 Open 4D: Valerie...
It was a mixed bag for the Lady Bobcat basketball team last week as they topped the Lady Warriors from Worland on Thursday in a nail biter, 53-48, then lost to the Buffalo Lady Buffs on Friday 75-37. Head coach Cory Sova said the Worland game was a great confidence booster for the girls. "This was a total team effort as we played almost the whole overtime period without three starters," Sova said. Ashley McPhie fouled outwith about three minutes left in regulation play, Sesi Jensen with a minute...
The Thermopolis Boys Basketball team showed plenty of energy taking to the court this past week against Worland and Buffalo, but came up short with a 57-46 loss to the Warriors and a 77-39 loss against the Bison. Coach Kevin Gerber said of the Worland game, "It was a very winnable game for us, one that I think the boys had in their mind that we could compete and win." Though they played flat in the first quarter, the Bobcats kept up with the Warriors, scoring 13 to Worland's 16. Gerber said one...
Rarely does one see the kind of domination seen at the Lander Invitational Class 3A tournament. Adding the second place Worland and third place Lander points together would total exactly 8 points more than leader Star Valley's total of 257.5 with 14 wrestlers placing in the top six. Some observers opined that this may be the best team in the state regardless of class. The upcoming Ron Thon will clarify that. Seven Bobcats scored a total 62 points, in 15th place ahead of Rawlins and behind...
The Thermopolis Lady Cat JV basketball team met Worland and Buffalo this past weekend while the “froshmore” (freshman-sophomore mixed) team took on Buffalo. The JV game against Worland was a tough loss (36-22) at home. Coach Katie Despain said it was a learning game for the girls as they only scored five total points in the first half, but rebounded to score 17 in the third. Unfortunately, that wasn’t enough to overcome the Lady Warriors as the Lady Cats were scoreless in the fourth quart...
Last week, the Thermopolis boys JV basketball team had a rough time with a 58-40 loss to Worland and a 54-29 lost to Buffalo. Coach Ryan Shaffer noted the boys again “gave up a quarter” in the second, as Worland outscored us 21-10. “When you lose by 18,” he said, giving up 11 in one quarter is pretty tough.” Other factors include missed free throws to keep a win within reach. Down by 15 at the half, Shaffer said the team couldn’t really recover. The boys played much better in the second half, he...
At midweek before his Bobcat wrestlers journeyed to Pavillion for the Don Runner Memorial, Coach C.J. Scholl took time to caution his team in a no uncertain manner that if they thought they were going to have an easy time of it because it was primarily a 2A tournament, they'd better think again. By the time they thought again, they found themselves in the middle of the pack, finishing seventh of the 18 entries. Roosevelt, Utah, Cokeville, and Big Piney finished as the top three, with the only...
The Lady Bobcat basketball team added a pair in the "W" column this weekend, winning first at home on Friday against Lander, 36-30 and then winning in Big Piney on Saturday, 47-33. After losing to Lander's Lady Tigers by 10 before Christmas break, this win was a great one for the girls. The home opener had a great crowd and the girls were a little nervous, but they found a way to stay in the game and dominated in the fourth quarter. Both teams struggled in the shooting department, but coach...
It was another busy weekend for the varsity boys basketball team, taking on Lander Friday night and travelling to face Big Piney Saturday. Friday night's game went into overtime after a three-pointer from Lander near the end of regulation play tied things up at 42 points. Unfortunately, the Bobcats weren't able to score any more and lost 42-50. Coach Kevin Gerber said it was a great game for Hudson Roling, who had 10 points, and a breakout game for Noah Schwalbe, who had 16. Schwalbe also...
It was something of a hard weekend for the freshman/sophomore girls basketball team as they dropped a game to Lander on Friday, 31-25. The team was just two points behind at the half, but they were out-shot in the third quarter, which really hurt. Coach Katie Despain said the girls struggled to find their rhythm as a team. "Daily we have and will continue to work in practice to improve their skills," she said. "They all have a lot of potential." Elisa Weber led the team with nine points against...
The recent four-game winning streak that the boys' high school JV team had was ended this weekend during their games against Lander and Big Piney. The boys took on Lander at home Friday night, losing 70-44. Coach Ryan Shaffer said it was one bad quarter, the second, that really killed them. Outside of that quarter, he noted, the boys played well. Showing their improvement as a team since they faced Lander earlier this year, the Bobcats kept them to making only four three-pointers rather than...
This weekend saw the season openers for Thermopolis Middle School Boys Basketball, with the seventh grade team taking on Cody and Powell at home and the eighth graders going up against Cody and Powell at Cody. The eighth grade boys’ first game was a 36-33 loss against Cody. Eighth grade coach, Shane Corpening, stated, ” This game was our first game of the season and it looked exactly like that. We made a few too many critical mistakes — turnovers and allowing second chance points — for us to w...
This weekend during the Big Horn Basin Classic hosted at Thermopolis and Worland, the Bobcats came away with two losses and a victory. The action for the boys began Thursday evening as they took on Lovell, coming away with a 58-34 loss. Coach Kevin Gerber said this was the second time Thermopolis faced Lovell this season, having played them right before the winter break. He hoped they would have a better showing, but out of the three games he felt it was their weakest. "I think we are...
The Lady Bobcat basketball team spent Friday and Saturday in Lovell at the Big Horn Basin Tournament, coming out 1-2 for the weekend. Friday, the girls took on Cody and coach Cory Sova said they got off to a very poor start and never could get on track, losing to the Lady Broncs 52-16. “We had some good looks at the basket, but struggled for 32 minutes,” Sova said. “We shot poorly on two-point shots both near and away from the rim, made none of our three-pointers and were only 4-12 from the l...
On Jan. 5 and 6, the Bobcat wrestlers competed in the tough Shane Shatto Memorial tournament with 25 other teams in Douglas. Finishing 15th with a respectable 61.0 points, Thermopolis wrestlers recorded wins by every Bobcat entered in the varsity brackets. Three Bobcats, Cullen Becher (4th), Austin Ireland (6th), and Logan Cole (6th), proved they could compete at the highest level with wrestlers from all classes and three states Six Bobcats wrestled 33 matches in the varsity brackets and ended up with 21 victories (which included six pins) for...
Three games and three victories is what the JV boys basketball team took home from the Big Horn Basic Classic this weekend. Their first win came Thursday evening when they took on Lovell in an intense back-and-forth match that ended with 55-46 on the scoreboard. Coach Ryan Shaffer noted the last time the boys played Lovell, during the East-West Classic in Douglas earlier this season, they lost 75-67 and being able to hold them to about 30 points less is something to be excited about. The coach...
The Lady Bobcat freshman girls basketball team traveled to Buffalo last weekend for a tournament, taking on Worland, Lovell and Powell, finishing with a 1-2 record. The girls came out strong against the Lady Warriors from Worland and it was a tie game, 23-23, at half time. Coach Katie Despain said the girls were playing aggressive, smart and tough during the first half, but after the half-time break, they were not ready to play as aggressively. They let Worland slip 21 points past them in the...
The Lady Bobcat JV/freshmen team took on Ft. Washakie just before Christmas break, unfortunately losing a close one, 44-40. Coach Katie Despain said, “Overall, this game was good for our girls to experience. Ft. Washakie came out with two different presses that we were not ready for.” Despain said the girls adapeted well once they understood the strategies needed to break the two presses. Although a close game, it really came down to missed free throws at the end by the Lady Cats. They shot 43...
Bobcat Cullen Becher's sports career started at about age 5 or 6 in wrestling and PeeWee football with his father's support and coaching. He's always been talented physically according to his mother Kim, and she noted that while she was not a college grad, the value of education was always an important element of home life for all the kids, and all are now closely looking into the future to see where that education could take them. Cullen's favorite sport isn't wrestling, but football. Though...
The freshman/sophomore boys basketball team came away with its first win of the season when it took down Fort Washakie 63-52 on Dec. 19. Coach Ryan Shaffer noted there are currently two freshmen - Jesse Skelton and Eli Dickey - and during the Fort Washakie game Skelton was out sick so the majority of the players were sophomores. He added that was okay as this was considered Fort Washakie's JV team. "It was good for our guys," Shaffer said. "We needed a win for sure." The coach is always pushing...
Christmas came early for the Bobcat wrestlers this year at Worland's "Battle in the Big Horns" tournament when they won their way to the Silver Bracket Championship with three dual victories on Saturday after Friday's tough bracket draws against powerhouses Douglas and Sheridan. This was a great finish for the week which started with a thrashing of Greybull on Thursday who could only furnish enough varsity wrestlers for six matches, and lost four of those. A Bobcat that had a memorable night...
Thermopolis Boys Basketball got off to a rough start this past weekend, with three losses at the East-West Classic at Douglas, 65-38 against Lander, 59-42 against Lovell and 74-45 against Riverton. As for the Lander game, which was the boys’ first for the season Coach Kevin Gerber said he felt good about the defensive focus they went into the season with, a focus for the first three weeks. He noted they went from being zone defense last year to man-to-man defense this year and he felt good a...
It was a rough pair of days for the Lady Bobcat basketball team this weekend as they dropped games to Riverton, Lovell and Lander. Friday’s game against Riverton saw the Lady Cats struggling a bit with a 30-53 loss. Coach Cory Sova said Riverton simply shot the ball much better and had nine more offensive rebounds. Having 11 shots blocked or at least deflected didn’t help, either. “It was our worst outing of the year,” Sova said, “and we could get no rhythm or momentum.” McKenna Bomengen ha...
Bobcat wrestlers journeyed to Powell for their first competition of the season with a lot of questions to be answered. This young team answered them in the most positive way possible. With some 22 teams competing, they brought home two varsity championships and one JV championship, they amassed 32 victories out of 54 matches with 32 of those wins by way of pins, and they became a team supporting each other in this most individual sport of all. Two years ago, junior Austin Ireland competed at...
This year, the freshman basketball team will only compete in five games. Coach Ryan Shaffer noted there are only three freshmen out this year — Jesse Skelton, Eli Dickey and James Lindquist — so any time there is a freshman/JV/Varsity game scheduled they can’t play the freshman game because they would be short quarters for everyone else. For the first freshman game on Thursday, Dec. 14 at Lovell, Shaffer said the plan is to take the freshmen and the sophomores which will give them 10 playe...
