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Thermopolis Middle School Head Wrestling Coach Toby Emery congratulated his student wrestlers during the Hot Springs County School District Board of Trustees’ Jan. 19 meeting, reporting that Thermopolis finished third out of 10 teams in the 2022 Big Horn Basin Middle School Conference Boys A Division, scoring the same ranking they’d earned the previous year. “That’s an amazing feat, especially with the number of kids we have,” Emery said. “There’s 18 slots in wrestling. We filled seven slots this year,” which he deemed as evidence that ...
Last Friday evening, the Bobcats varsity boys team hosted Lyman for a home game with the Cats falling 48 to 30. "Defensively, I felt like we played really well and did a good enough job to keep us in the ball game (it was a pretty neck and neck game before the fourth quarter). Lyman has some length that gave us some difficulty, but overall, I thought we defended them well. Offensively, on the other hand, we did a lot of good things, but we just couldn't get a shot to fall. For the most part we...
The Bobcat wrestlers have been busy with two duals last week, a dual with Buffalo the end of January and competing at the Greybull Invite last Saturday. At the Buffalo dual on January 26, the Bobcats had a great showing and celebrated Senior night. The boys went 6-2 for a 39-12 win. In front of a great crowd for the final home event of the year, Sam Skelton started the Bobcats off with a pin. Lance Axtell came out with one of his best matches of the season and pinned as well, followed by a pin by Ethan Crow and a 5-0 decision win for Jessen...
Last Friday, the varsity Lady Cats basketball team hosted the 3A #4 ranked Lyman Eagles with Thermpolis falling short to Lyman 43-30. “We started out good against Lyman and held our own for the first quarter. We would be tied up at 9 to 9. We decided we would play man to man against them for the game. It would end up working as we had played a 2-3 zone against them last time we played,” said coach David Villa. At halftime The Lady Cats would be down by 4 with with a score of 19-15. At halftime the team discussed getting paint touches with the...
On Tuesday, Jan. 31, the Thermopolis Middle School 7th/8th grades mixed the teams and finished the month strong with games against Wind River. Game Scores: Wind River (23) vs Thermopolis (54) Wind River (5) vs Thermopolis (49) Coach Ryan Shaffer said, “This was a great opportunity to get back into the swing of things as we had 7 days off prior. As Wind River only had two teams, we mixed the 7th and 8th grade teams to allow for them to play together for the first time this year. It was a good game where we were able to see the 7th grade boys w...
At the Buffalo Bill Showdown last Saturday, Thermopilis Wrestling Club members came in fourth as a team making a strong showing at the tournament. Folkstyle 6U 33-36 - John Ryan, 2nd, 20 team points; Tytus Bowker, 4th, 11 team points 6U 39A - Carter Enis, 1st, 18 team points; Aubrey McLean, 3rd, 6.5 team points 6U 39B - Erik Polson, 1st, 19.5 team points 6U 43B - Hudson Snedigar, 2nd, 11 team points 6U 53 - Jack Hetzel, 1st, 24.5 team points; Lucas Strickland, 6th, 3 team points 8U 49C - Taysen Neeff, 4th, 8 team points 8U 53C - Halen Lahoe,...
The Bobcat wrestlers had six placers at the annual Ron Thon Memorial tournament in Riverton last Friday and Saturday, which brings most schools from Wyoming together. This year there were some teams not present due to weather, however, this is still the toughest tournament that the Bobcats attend during the year. On the Varsity side Roedy Farrell, at 160 lbs. came home with a second place finish. "Roedy had a good tournament against some of his toughest competition. He pinned his first three...
The varsity Lady Cats basketball team hosted the Worland Warriors last Friday. Both teams would be looking for their first conference win. Worland came in at 0-2 in conference play and the Lady Cats at 0-1 in conference. "The team had been working on facing their zone and full court defense along with their height all week long. Worland would be the tallest team the Lady Cats would face all season. The Cats felt that the use of their speed against them would look to force turnovers," said coach...
Last Friday evening, the Bobcat varsity boys basketball team hosted the Warriors at home. “Defensively I thought we played okay in the half court, but we gave Worland too many easy looks in transition and too many second chance opportunities. Those really are back breakers when you are playing a top team like Worland,” said coach Shane Corpening. He added, “We started the first quarter with the pace that I wanted to see. Worland wanted to speed the game up and take us out of our offensive flow with their press. We didn’t respond to it very we...
The varsity boys Bobcat basketball team hosted the Powell Panthers at home last Friday with the Cats falling to the #4 ranked Panthers 85-59. "We played really well in the first quarter. We hit a lull in the second quarter where Powell outscored us by 17. We were able to make a few runs in the second half but couldn't make up the ground from getting down by 17 in the 2nd," said coach Shane Corpening. He added, "Offensively I thought we played our best game of the season. We were getting open loo...
Last Friday the varsity Lady Cats basketball team played a conference game against the Powell Panthers. The girls had some good moments in stopping Powell and had good performance on the offense end, but fell to the Lady Panthers 58-32. “We knew this would be a tough game especially mentally. Would we bounce back from losing to them the previous week? We had prepared for their pressure defense all week,” said coach David Villa. Freshman Jayssie Owsley would get hurt Monday during practice and be sidelined the whole week. “We made adjus...
Thermopolis Wrestling Club members competed in the RMN Wild West Championship wrestling tournament held last Saturday at the Casper Events Center. Overall the team came in 11th place out of 110 teams in the morning session and they came in 9th out of 103 teams in the afternoon session. Several wrestlers brought home individual metals. In the morning session, Gabe Ryan at 50 lbs. and Hodlen Loden HWT placed first, Tanner Myers at 77 lbs. and Trenton Enis at 89 lbs. placed second, Cannon Boren at 116 lbs. placed third, Nash Bowker at 46 lbs....
Friday and Saturday the Cats and Lady Cats were in Lander for the Lander Valley Invite. The tournament is a large tournament with almost all of the 3A schools in the state along with some of the best 2A schools. As a team, the Cats did not fair as well as the previous week, with only one varsity placer, three Lady Cat placers and five JV placers. "On the varsity side we had a lot of tough draws in the tournament which we expect and have goals of competing in those tough matches. For the most...
Thermopolis Middle School boys basketball teams have been busy. The following is a recap of scores and coaches comments from their recent games. Eighth A & B teams Thermopolis A (48) v. Powell A (29) Both 8th A and 8th Bteams traveled to Powell to take on the Panthers. Coach Ryan Shaffer said, “This was a good game for us as we started out with a big lead in the 1st quarter and never looked back. Brody Welch and Anthony Cheatham gave us some much needed post work as well Ty Simeral and Jordan Garrison working it in from the outside.” The Bobcat...
The Thermopolis Middle School eighth grade boys basketball teams kicked off their season with two games this past week. Starting off, the B team traveled to Worland on Tuesday, and the A and B teams hosted Cody at home on Thursday. Since the game on the road to Worland was a B only game, the team was able to get some good minutes for some of the players that have been working hard on their development. "Overall, we played fairly well for the first game of the season and came out with a win in...
Thermopolis Wrestling Club team members placed third as a team at the Eastside United Wrestling Tournament last weekend. Several Thermopolis wrestlers earned first place at the event including Carter Enis, John Ryan, Holden Loden, Kade Enis, Garret White, Dyllan Myers, Cannon Boren and Hayden Robinson.Individual results include: Carter Enis placed first in 4U 37-40 and scored 3 team points. He won in three rounds by decision. John Ryan placed first in 6U 34-36 and scored 9 team points. He won in two rounds, both by fall. Erik Polson placed seco...
The varsity Lady Cats hosted the Big Horn Basin Classic basketball tournament last week. Their first game on Friday was against Greybull. "We had prepared for their 1-2-2 zone during the week and felt we would have success against it. We did force them to play man by running man sets against it which worked. Our defense forced a lot of turnovers and felt we did good in our transition offense" said Coach David Villa. The Lady Cats led in every quarter and won the game 59-26. Seniors Ruth Johnson...
The varsity Bobcat boys basketball team was on the road last week to compete in the Big Horn Basin Classic tournament. In their first game on Friday, the boys went up against #2 Lander, losing 52-43. In their second game of the tournament, the boys faced 2A Wyoming Indian and came up short with a final score of 68-46. In their third game, the boys played 2A Rocky Mountain in a hard fought battle that came in with them two points behind at the final buzzer, 49-47. The Bobcats final game of the tournament was against 2A #4 Greybull. In a nail...
Bobcat wrestlers traveled to Pavillion over the weekend to compete at the Don Runner Memorial tournament, with the boys brining home a third place plaque as a team. "That is an impressive feat as we don't have wrestlers in 6 of the 14 weights and only one wrestler scores per weight," said coach Travis McDermott. The team had two champions, two runner-ups, two placed third and two placed fourth. Roedy Farrell had a great weekend, not only winning the tournament, but also by hitting a major...
The 5th grade boys traveling basketball team won the Powell Jamboree last weekend. The boys went 4-0 on the weekend and were able to secure the championship with a 24-20 victory over the Billings Valor. From left to right are coach Matt McPhie, Cameron Martinez, Will Garrison, Bo DaFoe, Oliver Strenger, Soren Webber, Lincoln McPhie, Hoyt Peil, Logan Stewart and Jackson Skelton....
The Lady Cats varsity basketball team traveled to Pinedale last weekend for tournament action. On Friday, the Lady Cats played the Lyman Eagles, ranked #2 in 3A. “Lyman has a strong program and has always had great shooters on their team” said coach David Villa. For the first quarter the Lady Cats played well. The score was Lyman 13 and Thermopolis 12. The second quarter Lyman started to get hot and never looked back. The team would go into halftime with the score 31 Lyman and Thermopolis 17. The Lady Cats had only scored 5 points the sec...
Last weekend the Bobcat wrestlers traveled to the Shane Shatto Memorial tournament in Douglas. The boys team ended the weekend tied for 10th out of 29 teams. “This is one of the toughest tournaments of the year and we competed well. Coming off of Christmas break the wrestlers that competed looked good and competed against some high caliber wrestlers,” said coach Travis McDermott. Will Ward had a good weekend going 4-2 and ending up in 4th place. He started off Friday winning his first match against Jones of Lander. Losing his quarterfinal match...
The varsity boys basketball team competed in Rawlins last weekend at the Winter Classic. The Bobcats won 48-42 against Lyman on Friday. Saturday, the Bobcats fell 54-51 in a close game against Rawlins. Later in the afternoon they lost to Pinedale 75-54. No coaches comments or game information was received from coach Shane Corpening. The boys are currently 3-5 as they prepare to travel to Powell this weekend for the Big Horn Classic....
The Bobcat wrestlers varsity team was in action at the Battle of the Big Horns dual tournament in Worland over the weekend. The Bobcats had a great Friday in pool matches going 2-1 overall. "We only filled seven of the 14 weights which makes it even more impressive. We did have 3 other weights filled by extra wrestlers from other teams but our kids did the heavy lifting. That put us in the Gold Bracket for Saturday," said coach Travis McDermott. The Bobcats had their first dual against Lovell...
On Friday, December 16, the Lady Cats varsity basketball team traveled to Glenrock High School. “Our scouting report would be to focus on stopping #23 Sarvey who had been averaging over 22.7 ppg and clearly their best player. She would end up with 28 points that night,” said coach David Villa. He added, “We came out the best we had all year. The game against Burns was an initial look as to how good we could be but against Glenrock our offense and defense were spot on. We would lead after the 1st quarter 10-9 and the momentum was going our w...
