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The Hot Springs County High School Bobcat wrestling teams traveled south last week, commencing with a dual against Glenrock on January 4 and then on to Douglas for the Shane Shatto Tournament on Friday and Saturday. Lady Cats The Lady Cats had just two matches in Glenrock, coming away with a win, and a loss. Lilly Quintanilla extended her win streak by pinning Gillian Holman (a state placer last year) in the first period. Kailey Allen performed well in her match, losing by a score of 5 to 2. In Douglas, the Lady Cats finished 10th out of 25 tea...
The Hot Springs County High School girls basketball team traveled to Rawlins last weekend for the Winter Classic Tournament, on Friday and Saturday. While the Lady Cats played hard, they are still a young team who are learning the ropes of varsity competition. The Lady Cats faced three very good teams, and dropped difficult contests over the course of the tournament, losing to Mountain View on Friday by a score of 53 to 19, losing to Lyman on Saturday by a score of 50 to 27 and losing to Pinedale later in the day by a score of 63 to 31. All of...
Varsity Bobcat wrestlers showing off their hardware from the Shane Shatto Tournament include Cannon Boren was 2nd, Brody Sorensen 3rd, Will Ward 4th, Colter Price 5th and Sam Skelton 6th. They were 8th out of 29 as a team. Lady Cats brought home two Shane Shatto Championships by Kaitlin Barral and Lilly and a 4th place for Alix. They were 10th out of 25 as a team....
The Hot Springs County High School boys basketball team traveled to Pinedale last weekend for the Winter Classic Tournament. The Cats came into the weekend undefeated at 5 and 0. Friday’s contest saw the Cats pitted against the team from Mountain View, and resulted in a win, by a score of 56 to 48. Coach Shane Corpening said, “We initially played very well against Mountain View, but, we began to let them back into the competition as the game progressed.” From there, things took a turn. In two games on Saturday, (against Lyman, and later, again...
The Hot Springs County High School boys basketball teams played at home Friday against Glenrock and against Buffalo on Saturday. In the Friday contests, both the varsity and JV teams put up impressive wins against Glenrock, topping their opponents by scores of 64 to 42 and 52 to 34, respectively. The varsity team showed poise and skill in taking the ball to Glenrock, and continued their undefeated season with an impactful win. Overall, the JV team moved the ball very well. They showed skill at taking the ball into the key, and then kicking it...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcats Wrestling Team went to Greybull for a dual last Thursday and came away with a win, scoring 57 to 21, despite being hindered by illness and injury. Colter Price put up a win in the 132 pound class against a tough opponent, and Mason Reese came away with a first-time win against a wrestler he had faced before, but hadn’t managed to beat. Additionally, in their matches, pins were recorded by Cannon Boren, Sam Skelton and Will Ward. The boys and girls teams went to Worland on Friday and Saturday for the B...
Last week, the Hot Springs County High School girls basketball teams hosted Glenrock on Friday and Buffalo on Saturday. The Lady Cats JV team played three games over the course of as many days last week, ending 2 and 1 for their effort. Thursday, the JV team went to Cody to play a very good team in an out of class contest, coming away with an impressive win at 38 and 36. On Friday they put up another win against Glenrock, with a final score of 46 to 37. Saturday saw the JV team face a very polished team from Buffalo. The Lady Cats were not...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcats and Lady Bobcats Wrestling Teams kicked off their seasons at the Powell Invitational Tournament last Thursday and Friday. There were twenty-two schools competing in the event, from both Wyoming and Montana. Teams from Montana performed well at the event, taking the top three spots in the boys standings, and two of the top three spots in the girls standings. Bobcats The Bobcats put in a good effort overall. Coach Travis McDermott said, "Friday during...
The Hot Springs County High School Boys and Girls Basketball Teams commenced their 2023-2024 season last week, appearing in the Burns Winter Classic Invitational Tournament. Both teams traveled to Burns for games on Friday, and then to Wheatland for games on Saturday. Bobcats The Boys Varsity Team went three for three, taking games against Morecroft (80 -30) and Southeast (72-42) on Friday, and finishing the tournament with a win on Saturday in Wheatland (59 -45). Morecroft went 0-4 on the weekend, Southeast went 2-2, and Wheatland finished...
The Thermopolis Middle School wrestling team wrapped up their season last week with a quad dual in Cody and then they hosted the Big Horn Basin Middle School Conference on Saturday in front of their home crowd. On Tuesday, November 28 at the quad dual in Cody, Thermopolis went up against Powell first, winning 10 of 26 matches. Against Cody, they Cody won 10 of 18 matches. "The following grapplers wrestled well and went undefeated on the night - Fischer Lewis (2-0), Garret White (2-0), Jesalyn...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcats winter sports seasons will start on Friday, December 8, 2023. The wrestling season will commence with an invitational meet in Powell, at which Coach Travis McDermott expects there will be up to twenty schools appearing to compete. Coach says practices have been going well, with a great group of kids out for the team. “Although we have experienced some absences due to illness, the kids have been working hard in practice to get ready for the season, and we are looking forward to a good year.” “As far a...
Last Friday, 17 members of the Thermopolis Middle School Wrestling Team took the mat at the Shoshoni Junior High Wrestling Tournament, with 14 of those individual wrestlers placed in the top four of their weight class. Six bobcat champions were crowned including: Fischer Lewis (77 lbs.), Tanner Myers (84 lbs.), Trenton Enis (98 lbs.), Tanner Delay (120 lbs.), Hailey Robinson (Girls 81 lbs.) and Briar Lahoe (Girls 107 lbs.). Four wrestlers placed second at their weight including Garret White (77 lbs.), Izzie Hetzel (Girls 107 lbs.), Brayli...
Coach Toby Emery reports that the Thermopolis Middle School Wrestling Team is off to a great start this season. “In the first four tournaments we participated in, we have crowned sixteen champs, had thirteen runner-ups, taken six thirds, and placed fourth seven times. As a team, we placed 5th out of 9 teams at Powell; 3rd out of 5 teams at Lovell; 8th out of 13 teams at Riverton; and placed 3rd out of 10 teams at Glenrock,” said Emery of their previous competitions. The team had two competitions last week. They hosted a quad on Thursday...
Every two years in Wyoming, high school competition classifications are set by the Wyoming High School Athletics Association (WHSAA). While in the course of spirited competition, it may sometimes seem that the classifications are arbitrary and capricious, the system is attempting to balance some important, and competing, interests. In discussing the subject, Thermopolis School District Athletic Director, Brandon Deromedi, said “The Athletic Association is trying to create a classification system that provides for fair and equitable competition,...
Last Friday, the Thermopolis Middle School wrestling team traveled to Glenrock for the Herder Middle School Team Dual Tournament bringing home a second place finish in Pool A. Competition during a dual style tournament is between two schools and each team is allowed to enter one wrestler per weight. Often times, weight classes are filled with wrestlers from other teams to prevent smaller teams from giving up points. Thermopolis was able to fill 14 of the 20 weight classes with Bobcat wrestlers and picked up two wrestlers from competing schools,...
by Karissa Williams The season came to an end for the Lady Cats at the 3A regional tournament in Lander after they fell to Mountain View on Friday with scores of 13-25, 17-25, 8-25 and then to Pinedale on Saturday with scores of 12-25, 17-25, 20-25. The Lady Cats had a year of improvement, but just couldn’t pull it all together at regionals to earn a ticket to the State tournament. When asked, coach Shannon Hill said about the weekend, “We knew going into the Mountain View game that this would be a tough match for us playing the #1 team in 3A...
The Thermopolis Bobcat varsity football team finished their season in fifth place in the 2A West Division. The Cats went 2 and 4 in the conference standings, with a 2 and 7 overall record. The top four teams from the East and West Divisions were elevated to the class 2A quarter-finals of the state playoffs. In conference standings, the team ranked eleventh in team rushing with 119 average yards per game on the ground, for a total of 1,067 rushing yards. They averaged 7 rushing first downs per game, and scored 8 rushing touchdowns on the...
Several Thermopolis Middle School wrestlers brought home first place finishes from the Lovell MS Invitational meet last Saturday. Individual results include: Womens 84-93 - Elena Ketner, 2nd, 2 team points. Round 1 - Mattea Garcia won by fall, 1:27, over Ketner; Round 2 - Ketner won by fall, 2:33 over Garcia; Round 3 - Garcia won by fall, 1:11, over Ketner Womens 102-109 - Briar Lahoe,1st, 9 team points. Round 1 - Lahoe won by fall, 0:50, over Izzie Hetzel (Fall 0:50); Round 3 - Lahoe won by fall, 1:00 over Maythe Garay (Greybull) Womens...
The Bobcat Cross Country team came home from the 2A WHSAA State Championships with plenty to celebrate, include a third place finish for the boys team in a field of 12. For the Bobcat boys, Jadeth Elder led the way with a third place finish in a time of 18:01.50, just 0.30 seconds behind second place finisher Paul McNiven of Burlington. Howard McNiven of Burlington took first with a time of 17:40.40. For the Bobcats, Cole Keller crossed the finish line next in 11th place and a time of 19:13.40, followed by Teancum Gevas in 19th with a time of...
by Karissa Nichols The regular season ended on a high note for the Lady Cats as they took on the Glenrock Herders for senior night and Dazlynn Hunt, Ina King, Brooklynn Williams, Sydney Shaffer and manager Maggie Landon saw their final game on the volleyball court at home. Lady Cats beat the Herders in three games posting scores of 25-17, 28-26, 25-18. The previous night, the Cats traveled to Worland to take on the Lady Warriors. Unfortunately, they came up just short of a win but they took them to five games and made them fear the Bobcats and...
The Thermopolis Varsity football team saw their season come to an end, in a well-attended, and hard-fought game played in Lovell this past Friday night. Coming into the game, the Bobcats needed to win by a margin of greater than five, in order to see their way into the post-season. Those who are audiophiles - and of a certain age – may recall that Lovell, Wyoming is the birthplace of one Richard Kermode, the keyboardist for the 70s rock band “Malo,” whose one big hit was a song called “Suavecito.” While the game may have been “smooth” for th...
Bobcat Cross County attended the 5 Rivers 2A West Conference in Ethete last Friday with the girls team bringing home 2nd place honors and the boys team coming in 3rd. Four Bobcats, Jayda Griffin, Sadie Martinez, Jadeth Elder and Cole Keller, were named to the All-Conference team. Individual results for the girls are: Jayda Griffin, 23:28.08, 5th; Sadie Martinez 23:47.74, 9th; Ava Dafoe, 26:26.29; Camille Rodriguez, 35:16.78. The Lady Cats scored 38 points putting then second place behind Wyoming Indian with 14 points. Third place was Lovell...
by Karissa Nichols If you weren’t in Lovell on Thursday night last week, you missed out on seeing the Lady Cats prove that they have what it takes to win games. The Varsity Lady Cats walked away with a hard fought win after sets one and two didn’t look promising with losses of 16-25 and 18-25.The third set the Lady Cats turned it around and took an early lead to gain some confidence and never let the Lovell Lady Bulldogs back into the game earning a win of 25-15. Game four looked much the same with the Lady Cats dominating the court with a win...
The Thermopolis Bobcats traveled to Cokeville last Friday for a game against the second place Panthers. With an early morning travel schedule, and after a nearly five hour bus ride, the Cats rolled into the western part of the state, and arrived in the town of Cokeville. The Panthers are well known for historically operating a power-t offense, and the Cats came ready to defend that old-school formation. Holding the run, and forcing the Panthers into a passing offense, however, proved to be a bitter pill for the Bobcats’ league leading pass defe...
The Thermopolis Bobcats ran into a tough opponent this past Friday night at LeRoy Hayes Field. The 2-2 Lyman Eagles were in town, and had, purposefully, come to play, leaving the Cats with a 38 -12 loss, when the action was over. What began as a sunny evening, with the home team taking the field in their gray uniforms and purple helmets, soon became a rather gray affair overall as the weather became chilly, and the fortunes of the Cats became decidedly frosty. The two teams put on a defensive...
