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Last week saw the middle school boys basketball teams face off against Riverton on Thursday, Jan. 31. The eighth grade team came away with a 49-28 loss. Coach Ryan Shaffer said, “Although the score doesn’t show it, this was a very good game for us. We came out sluggish in the first quarter and gave up a 17-point lead. After that however, we were able to play them 26 (Thermop) to 30 (Riverton) for the remainder of the game. “Our outside shooting has really improved over the past few games with [Tanner] Jensen, [McCoy] Longwell, and [Hadl...
The Lady Cats basketball team hosted Buffalo and Big Piney last weekend, splitting the contests 1-1. On Friday night the girls lost to the second ranked team, Buffalo, by a final score of 64-41. They dug a very large hole early in the game as they struggled to take care of the ball, falling behind by 17-0 in the first quarter. After a sluggish start, the girls settled down and played better basketball the remainder of the game. The Lady Cats forced 24 turnovers, which coach Matt McPhie said is...
The Bobcat boys had a rough time this past weekend against Buffalo on Friday and Big Piney on Saturday. Friday night's game saw a 62-15 loss against the Bison. Coach Shane Corpening stated, "For the Buffalo game we couldn't have asked for a better start to the game. Defensively, we held them to six points for most of the first quarter. "However, within the last 15 seconds of the first quarter we had a pair of untimely turnovers that led to easy scores for them. Offensively, we struggled to finis...
With the largest crowd in years looking on, Bobcat wrestlers created a memory no other Thermopolis wrestlers before them could do - they will be able to remember forever defeating the Douglas Bearcat mat men on the home mats. The dual started at the 152 weight class with Hunter Mounts moving up from his usual 145 pounds to take on Bearcat Ty Russel. One minute and four seconds later the referee raised his hand, and he walked off after starting the Bobcats with an unexpected 6-0 lead. Douglas...
The Thermopolis Wrestling Club participated in the Buffalo Outlaw Wrestling Tournament on Jan. 27. In 6U of PeeWee) 32-34, Fletcher Lewis placed first and scored 19 team points. In Round 1 Lewis won by a 40-second fall over Lauryn Gross of Touch of Gold Wrestling Club in Round 1, won by an 18-10 major decision over Greysen Seim of Douglas Wrestling Club in Round 2 and won by a 42-second fall over Thayne Harden of Casper Wrestling Club in Round 3. In 6U of PeeWee) 36-37, Aksel Polson placed...
The 2019 season of the Hot Springs County Recreation District’s Adult Basketball League got off to a strong start with three games on Wednesday, Jan. 23 This season, the league has five teams competing for the title — Properties West, Two Hills of a Cizzle, Hot Parts, Red Rock and Merit Energy. Properties West showed up on the court twice last Wednesday, with a 80-65 loss to Red Rock and a 79-59 win against Hot Parts. The third game resulted in a close 49-40 win for Merit Energy over Two Hills. The games set the opening records at 1-0 for Mer...
The boys basketball team saw a couple losses last weekend, 37-31 against Newcastle and 71-34 against Douglas Coach Shane Corpening stated, “For the Newcastle game I was extremely pleased with our defensive effort. We held Newcastle to 37 points, about 20 under their average. We had a balanced scoring attack with Jarron Mortimore and Sean Miller leading the way with eight points apiece. Duder Harvey also chipped in seven points. “We got off to a good start against Newcastle, but we ran into a s...
The Lady Bobcat varsity basketball team battled against Newcastle Friday night, coming up short with a 54-41 loss. The Lady Cats were trailing 30-17 at half time, but came out playing excellent defense in the third quarter, closing the gap to within two points at various times. Going into the fourth, they were behind by just four points, 35-31. Newcastle was on-point from the free throw line, dropping in 17 of 18 during the fourth quarter. “In the final quarter we didn’t hit the shots we needed to make,” said head coach Matt McPhie. “I give cr...
Thermopolis wrestlers came back to earth at the Lander Valley Invitational Friday and Saturday. Finishing eighth of 19 teams was not what they had in mind, but on the other hand they were by far the leading 2A team at the tourney, outscoring seven 3A teams in the process. Scoring 73.5 pts. for the Bobcats was Austin Ireland, 21 pts.; Chase White, 10; Jon Harvey, 4; Jon Hagen, 5; Riley Shaffer, 6; Chance Watt, 11.5; and, Logan Cole, 16 pts. Several Bobcats distinguished themselves by winning thei...
The seventh and eighth grade boys basketball teams went up against Worland and Lovell this past week. In the eighth grade matchups against Worland, the Bobcats came away with a 54-13 loss for the A team and a 34-18 loss for the B. Coach Ryan Shaffer said of the A game, “Although this was a tough matchup for us our boys put out a lot of effort, especially in the second half. The first half we were a little awestruck and frustrated as we couldn’t get much to fall. Ball movement wasn’t really there, spacing was a little tight, and we didn’t do wha...
Starting a busy week, Thermopolis wrestlers journeyed to Cody on Tuesday for a dual. Though the Broncs started with a lead at 16-9 on a couple of pins and a decision, the dual became much more interesting for the Bobcats when Jon Harvey put a brake on Cody's momentum with a first period pin of his own over the Broncs' Keaton Stone. Riley Shaffer followed that with an 11-1 first period and an early second period pin of Alex Vogt to give the Bobcats their first lead, but Cody quickly took it back...
The Lady Cats competed against Shosoni, Powell and Lander over the weekend at the Big Horn Basin Tournament hosted by Powell. The varsity team came out on top of Shoshoni on Friday with a 38-19 win. Sesi Jensen lead the team in scoring, dropping in 10 points while Tahja Hunt helped the offense with three assists. As a team, they had a total of 10 assists. On the defensive side, the team’s leading rebounder against Shoshoni was McKenna Bomengen with seven and Jensen, right on her heels with six. Defensively, the girls forced 22 turnovers. Later...
Last week the seventh and eighth grade boys basketball team kicked their season off with a two quads. The seventh grade played at Worland, while eighth was at Cody. The eighth grade A Team saw a 59-13 loss against Cody, and the B team had a 21-7 loss. Coach Ryan Shaffer said this was a rough start for the A squad, “as we played a very talented Cody team. We had a few issues with rebounding as we were a little intimidated by the height of their players. After the first quarter the boys settled d...
Duder Harvey makes a drive toward the basket during the Bobcats' game against Riverside Friday afternoon. The boys saw two victories last weekend, with a 49-22 win against Riverside and a 42-31 loss to Lovell on Friday, and a 48-33 win over Greybull on Saturday. At press time, the coach had not responded with stats or comments on the games....
The Thermopolis Wrestling Club competed at the Eastside Wrestling Tournament in Casper on Sunday, Jan. 13. In Division 6U 48-51, Bain Lahoe placed fourth. In Division 8U 50-54, Briar Lahoe placed third. In Division 10U 81-90, Cannon Boren placed first. In Division 12U 72-79, Mack Buckner placed fourth. The club is scheduled to compete next on Jan. 20 in Billings....
On Tuesday, Jan. 8, the “froshmore” boys basketball team traveled to Meeteetse to take on their JV squad and come home with a 61-32 victory. Coach Dean Despain stated, “We continue to grow as a team and are figuring out how to really finish games. We started the game with great intensity and focus and jumped out to an early 10 point lead which we maintained for most of the game, we got lots of quality minutes from the bench and a lot of different kids got to see the floor for extended periods of time, which is crucial to our growth as indiv...
Hot Springs County High School’s Lady Bobcat basketball teams had nine games this past week- end, three for the varsity, three JV and three fresh- man games at the Pinedale Winter Classic and the Freshman Buffalo Tournament. The Varsity came out on top of Big Piney in the first round, 32-15, playing great defense and holding Big Piney to just one point in the first half. The Lady Cats forced 27 turnovers and played suffocating defense the entire game. Sesi Jensen lead the team with six r...
The high school boys basketball team came away with a 0-3 record as they took on Big Piney, Pinedale and Lyman this past weekend at the East/West Classic at Rawlins. Coach Shane Corpening said the encouraging thing was that the Bobcats saw some better competition, taking on some 3A teams, and played hard in every game in the fourth quarter. “The struggle for us was just getting together a whole game.” In the game against Big Piney, Thermopolis was down 30-17 at the half, then wound up out...
Thermopolis wrestlers opened 2019 at the Shane Shatto Memorial Invitational in Douglas on Friday with 23 other teams. The Bobcats were in a tight knit group of five teams separated by five points in 15th place with 68 team points. The tournament hosted nearly twenty 3A and 4A schools including two Nebraska schools - Alliance and Chadron - as well as Castle Rock, Colorado. Leading the Bobcats were senior Austin Ireland, finish- ing second in the 113 lb. class and earning 24 team points, and...
The freshman Bobcats took another road win Dec. 21, coming out 61-58 against Fort Washakie. Coach Dean Despain stated, “We played the high school basketball team for Fort Washakie; they don’t have a Varsity designation yet, so we played their entire team — Freshmen through Seniors — with our Froshmore Squad. The Fort Washakie team started hot, hitting their first two three-pointers and a couple bunnies, and jumped out to a 10-0 lead. We trailed for most of the game by right around 10 points,...
The freshmen boys basketball team came home with a 47-37 victory after facing Lander on Tuesday, Dec. 18. Coach Dean Despain stated, “Tuesday’s game against Lander was exactly how we should play and how I expect that group to play on a nightly basis. Our strengths are definitely our ‘in your face’ defense and effort, we fly around on defense and really make it a point to make the other team take care of the ball. “We have a large bench — when at full strength I have 13 kids suited up — and as a team we are improving week to week.” Top scorers f...
The Thermopolis Wrestling Club is getting geared up for its 2019 season, and as of last Friday there are about 30 kids registered. Thrisha Myers stated she expects to see the number of kids closer to 45 by the beginning of the season and registrations are still open. Kids must turn four or be older in 2019 to be able to wrestle, and the club is open to both boys and girls. A parent night will by Jan. 8 at 6 p.m., at the middle school. Practices will be 6-7:30 p.m. in the middle school wrestling room for all kids Mondays and Thursdays; kids 10...
Freshman Kamry Bowman keeps the ball just out of reach as the freshman Lady Bobcats beat Lander on Tuesday, Dec. 18 31-28. Bronwyn Dobbins led the scoring with 12, followed by Julie Johnson with 10. Top rebounder was Layne Myers with eight....
Roedy Farrell came out the middle school champion at 135 lbs. on Saturday during the WAMA State Wrestling meet....
A depleted Greybull/Riverside wrestling team had a long ride home after a 62-0 shutout Thursday by the energized Bobcats. Only six of the visitors were available for mat action, and those six went down to defeat – four by way of pins and the remaining two by major decision (eight plus points). After two forfeits, Jon Harvey (170) started the parade of Bobcat victories with a pin at 4:46 over Shawn Erhart after dominating the second period. Following another forfeit, Chance Watt (195) started e...
