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by Karissa Nichols With only three weeks left of the regular season, the Lady Bobcats Junior varsity and Varsity teams traveled to Powell to take on the South teams in the 3A West conference. The Lady Cats faced off against Lander and Lyman on Friday and got back on the bus Saturday morning to go to Powell to take on Mountain View and Pinedale. The Lady Cats needed to dig deep this week and play good solid volleyball with minimal errors in order to pull off some wins. The Cats weren’t able to win any matches over the two days, but they had m...
The Bobcat Cross County teams traveled to Powell last week to compete against seven other teams including Worland, Cody, Lander, Riverton, Burlington, Wyoming Indian and Lovell. High school results include: Varsity girls - Sadie Martinez, 23:12.22; Jayda Griffin, 23:33.71; JV Girls - Ava Dafoe, 25:55.87 Varsity Boys - Jadeth Elder, 17:47.12; Cole Keller, 18:14.54; Teancum Gevas, 19:14.54; Jesse Rodriguez, 19:23.94; Seth Needham, 19:30.82 The varsity boys team came in 6th. Middle School The Thermoplis Middle School team wrapped up their season...
Brice Garrison, left, looks for a path through to make a touchdown during the HSC Recreation District's 3-4 grade youth football game against the Rocky Mountain Grizzlies last Saturday. Thermopolis won 25-6. Their record is 5-0 going into this week's final game against Lander. Trenton Enis, right, outruns a Rocky Mountain Grizzly player and makes a touchdown during the 5-6 grade youth football game last Saturday. Their record is 4-1 and they will play their final games this weekend at the...
Sometimes, you just can't help feeling sorry for those unfortunate folks, who have to live in the big city. Sometimes, an event comes along, which makes it impossible to not realize how great it is to live in a community like Thermopolis, Wyoming. Indeed, such an event occurred this past Friday. If you were not aware, last week was Homecoming for the Bobcats. The week culminated, Friday night, in a football game for the ages. The boys from Pinedale came to town, intent on deflating that buoyant...
by Karissa Nichols The Lady Cats had a goal of winning the gold bracket in their home Bobcat Invitational this past weekend to finish off Homecoming week. While they did achieve the goal of making it to the gold bracket, they fell to Little Snake River in the first match of bracket play on Saturday to end their weekend short of the championship game with scores of 20-25 and 26-27. In the first round of pool play on Friday, which consisted of two games to 21, the Lady Cats met up with Shoshoni, Farson Eden and Encampment. The Lady Cats split...
The Bobcat Cross Country teams traveled to Worland to compete last week. Girls Varsity - Sadie Martinez, 24:55.33 Girls JV - Ava Dafoe, 26:29.58; Camille Rodriguez, 34:40.08 Boys Varsity - Cole Keller, 17:58.69; Jadeth Elder, 18:09.92; Teancum Gevas, 19:48.34; Jesse Rodriguez, 19:59.10; Seth Needham, 20:20.65 Boys JV - Michael Stevens, 23:44.72; Alec Martinez, 24:39.39 Middle School Girls - Emma Dean, 14:42.84; Hailey Robinson, 14:42.88; Creighlee Williams, 14:48.47; Kylie Geis, 15:48.97; Silvanna DeVries, 16:17.33; Ruth Needham, 17:01.19;...
by Karissa Nichols After a tough week 4 for the Lady Cats, they ended week 5 with a win for Freshman through Varsity in Wind River against the Lady Cougars. Thursday evening the Lady Cats battled it out in a conference match against the Lady Worland Warriors but fell short in 4 games to finish off the night. Scores against the Lady Warriors were 14-25, 25-19, 17-25 and 18-25. Coach Shannon Hill had the following to say about the match against Worland, “We set a team goal to serve over 90% and we met that goal with a 90.79 serve percentage a...
The Wyoming High School Rodeo Association has kicked off their season and members of the Hot Springs County High School rodeo team are traveling around the state to compete. Recent results include: The season kicked off in Riverton September 9-10. Saturday Taylor Agar, barrel racing, 19.476 Kamryn Farrell, barrel racing, 21.218; goat tying, 9th, 8.43 Mesa Longwell, barrel racing, 22.033 Rylee Agar, barrel racing, 24.46; pole bending, 33.904 Brider Peil and Jhett Longwell, team roping, 5th, 9.03 Jay Richey and partner Karly Peterson of Buffalo,...
Thermopolis hosted the Bobcat Invitational Cross Country meet at the Thermopolis Golf Course on Friday, September 22. Teams from Thermopolis, Wyoming Indian School and St. Stephens competed on a day which started out somewhat cool and cloudy, but in which the heavens came through, with sunshine all around during the four event meet. The high school girls event was off to a great start at 2 p.m., and the boys began at 2:30. The high school course was a 5K event, that again had ups and downs, with which the top-notch runners were required to...
The Thermopolis High School Golf Team headed to Newcastle last Thursday to compete in the 2023 Class 2A State Golf Tournament. The event was hosted by Upton High School on September 15 and 16. Thirty six holes were played over the two day tournament. At state, each team is allowed up to five players on each of the boys and girls teams, with team scores determined by the best three players on the girls team, and the best four players on the boys team. Play commenced with a shotgun start on...
by Karissa Nichols The Lady Cats spent an abundance of time on the court in week 4 of the season with a home match on Thursday against the Lovell Lady Bulldogs, Friday they traveled to Powell and met a hard hitting Powell team, and then to Big Horn on Saturday to take on the #1 ranked 2A Lady Rams. The Lady Cats fell to the Lovell Lady Bulldogs in four games at home with scores of 17-25, 25-22, 23-25, 22-25.. Coach Shannon Hill stated “I was proud of how they played pretty consistently in games 2 and 3. We started out slow in game 4, after a t...
Hot Springs County High School cross county competed at the Chief Nation Invitational meet last Saturday in Ethete. The girls team was led by Jayda Griffin’s time of 24:14.43, earring her a 12th place finish. Sadie Martinez had a time of 26:59.06 followed by Ava Dafoe at 28:17.64. For the boys, Jadeth Elder completed the 5,000 meter run in 18:35.84, coming in at 7th place. Rounding out the varsity boys times were Cole Keller, 20:02.89; Jesse Rodriguez, 20:37.64; Seth Needham, 21:29.21; Teancum Gevas, 21:55.29 and Alec Martinez, 25:54.84. M...
The Bobcat varsity football team fell to #2 Mountain View last week in a final conference game score of 14-0. This week they will be traveling to Rich County, Utah to play on Friday with kick off at 4 p.m. Other homecoming activities include dress up days at each school, hall decorating and a dodgeball tournament on Tuesday, Sept. 26 beginning at 7 p.m. in the high school gym. Homecoming royalty will be announced at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 27 in the school auditorium. On Thursday, Sept. 28, Buff Puff and Powder Puff games will be held...
The 2023 Bobcat Athletic Hall of Fame inductees include Jon McDonald – Male Athlete, Jake Schmidt – Male Athlete, Joshua Rathbun – Special Contributor and the 1974 Boys Basketball - Team The induction will begin on Thursday, September 28 in conjunction with Bobcat Homecoming Week and will start at 7 p.m. at the Hot Springs County High School Commons. The public will have an opportunity to meet this year’s inductees, as well as see the new digitalized Bobcat Hall of Fame display. Refreshments will be available. The induction will continu...
by Jack Nowlin, Sports Editor Casper Star-Tribune One week after getting shut out at Tongue River to open the season, Thermopolis turned the tables in Week 2. The Bobcats (1-1, 1-0 Class 2A West) built an early lead and won their home opener with a 34-0 whitewash of Kemmerer at LeRoy Hayes Field. "That was a much-needed win because it gets hard when you're doing all the right things and you don't see the results you want," first-year head coach Boone Bowker said. "From Week Zero (a scrimmage...
The Bobcat golfers hosted a dual against Kemmerer last Friday. Hayden Overfield won for the boys in a playoff. Lily Johnson grabbed the top spot for the girls. Kemmerer took the team title. The team heads to Newcastle this week to compete in the State Golf Tournament. Bobcat Cross Country competed in Riverton last Thursday. Results include: Junior varsity boys - Cole Keller, 2nd, 19:07; Jadeth Elder, 6th, 19:28.20; Jesse Rodriguez, 20:21.10; Teancum Gevas, 22:10.30; Alec Martinez, 25:21.30. As a team they came in 3rd place out of a field of...
by Karissa Nichols Left Foot, Right Foot, Breathe is what you will see written on the back on the Lady Bobcats team shirts this year, and with some hard hitting and great defense from the Varsity Lady Bobcats in the last two matches of the tournament, the Lady Cats seemed to do just that and bring home the consolation bracket win as they traveled to Rawlins to compete in a 16 team tournament which consisted of all 3A teams from around the state. The Lady Cats were focused and pulled it all together in the last matches of the day on Saturday in...
Join the high school cheerleaders in cheering on the Bobcats during home games. Fall cheerleaders include AngelLyna Smith, Brodie Taber, Isabelle Ketner, Lucy Andreen, Lainie Boren, Adriana Deere, Margo Keller, Kaylee Bazzle and Delayni Custer....
The varsity Bobcat football team kicked off their regular season against Tongue River last Friday falling to the Eagles 24-0. They host Kemmerer this Friday in their West Conference opener beginning at 5 p.m. The varsity Lady Bobcats competed at the Cody Border Wars tournament last week losing to Fergus, Mont., 25-23, 20-25, 25-19, 25-16 and winning against Park 25-22, 25-19, 31-29. The girls are up next Friday and Saturday in Rawlins. The Bobcats golfers played the first day of a two day invite in Buffalo last week. For the boys, Hayden...
August Gymkhana results include: LEAD LINE Barrels - Jentry Christian, Coy Brower, Eli Arnett, Ryelynn Aleman, Jade Pingetzer Poles - Jentry Christian, Jade Pingetzer, Coy Brower, Ryelynn Aleman Goats - Jentry Christian, Coy Brower, Jade Pingetzer, Eli Arnett, Ryelynn Aleman Flag Race - Jentry Christian, Jade Pingetzer, Eli Arnett, Coy Brower, Ryelynn Aleman Fun Event, water balloon toss - Jentry Christian, Coy Brower PEE WEE Barrels - Adi Day, Taryn Agar, Jax Christian, Everly Daniels, Eleanor Allen, Flint Pingetzer Poles - Tucker DeGanahl, Ta...
Jack Nowlin, Sports Editor Casper Star-Tribune Boone Bowker was ready to come home. After spending three years (2018-20) as the head football coach at Gordon-Rushville High School in Gordon, Nebraska, Bowker felt the urge to return to Wyoming. “I missed the mountains,” said Bowker, who grew up in Big Piney. “I was tired of staring at corn.” Bowker got his chance two years ago, accepting an assistant coaching position at Thermopolis. And when Matt McPhie stepped down after serving as the Bobcats’ head coach for seven seasons (2016-22)...
Bobcat quarterback, sophomore Armani Dukes, throws a pass to senior Jessen Basse during varsity football action in a scrimmage against Worland last Friday at home....
Thermopolis Bobcat golfers hosted their home invite last Monday with Lovell, Powell, Ten Sleep and Worland making the trip to compete on the hot August day. The Lovell boys and girls came out on top with teams scores of 343 and 293. For the varsity Bobcats, Hayden Overfield finished in 6th place with a score of 85, followed by Hayden Johnson with a 104, Camden Weyer with a 106, Van Epperson with a 118 and Ian Locke with a 122. Three JV boys competed with Ty Mann scoring 141, Joseph Budd a 120 and Jackson Coates a 120. For the Lady Cats, Lily...
Bobcat golfers are heading into the 2023 season with the boys as the defending 2A state champions, last year being their fifth consecutive. The team started the season competing in the Powell Fall Invite on August 10-11. For the boys, Hayden Overfield shot an 82 on day 1 followed by a 78 on day two for a score of 160, earning him a tie for 7th place. Hayden Johnson shot a 106 both days for a score of 212. Camden Weyer shot a 237, Van Epperson a 240 and Ian Locke a 264. As a team the boys finished at the bottom of the pack. For the Lady Cats,...
Hot Springs County High School (HSCHS) Bobcat cheerleaders Adriana Deere and Margo Keller attended the All American Cheer camp in Kemmerer on July 31 through August 3. The event is hosted by the Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA). Several other teams were to attend but didn't, resulting in just HSCHS and Kemmerer competing. Deere, a senior, won a gold Ribbon for Superior Shining Star and for Superior Senior, as well as a blue ribbon for Superior Back Spot. Deere also received a medal for...
