Sports

Derby, moto-rodeo bring fair to close

Published by admin on Thu, 08/08/2024 - 12:52pm

Common sense dictates violent collisions with oncoming cars should be avoided, whatever the cost. However, for competitors in Sunday’s Big Horn County Fair demolition derby, all caution was thrown to the wind as soon as they crossed the gates.

Three repeat winners crowned at BHC Fair rodeo

Published by admin on Thu, 08/08/2024 - 12:45pm

Tanner Greimsman, E.J. Panetta and Dusty Willis were repeat winners at this year’s Big Horn County Fair circuit rodeo held Saturday evening in Basin.  

Local golfers among placers at Shootout

Published by admin on Thu, 07/25/2024 - 11:18am

Golf play one round at Midway, one at Green Hills in Worland

Leftover big-game licenses can be purchased over the counter this week

Published by admin on Fri, 07/19/2024 - 2:42pm

First come, first served leftover licenses go on sale at 8 a.m., July 17 on the Wyoming Game and Fish Department website, regional offices and the Headquarters office in Cheyenne. The licenses represent the remaining antelope, elk and deer licenses following the leftover draw.
“Over-the-counter license availability changes each year based on what hunters applied for and received in the initial and leftover draws,” said Joshua Moulton, Game and Fish license section manager.
Hunters buying over-the-counter leftover licenses are encouraged to pay close attention to the area and license type.
“The majority of these licenses are in hunt areas in which it may be difficult to obtain access. We encourage hunters to seek permission to hunt prior to purchasing an over-the-counter license,” Moulton said.
The leftover license availability list is posted on the Game and Fish website.

 

Majors’ season ends at district tournament

Published by admin on Fri, 07/19/2024 - 2:38pm

The South Big Horn Little League All-Stars didn’t get the storybook ending they were seeking at last week’s District 1 Majors Tournament in Bridger Valley.
A first-time qualifier, the club was unable to overcome nerves and inconsistent fielding, losing to the Lander Valley All-Stars 18-1 on Thursday and to the Powell All-Stars 16-6 on Friday.
“We definitely ran into some good teams,” said Brett Patterson, the team’s manager. “Nerves were an issue, too.
“Our kids were experiencing that environment for the first time and it was a big change for them.”
The highlights were few and far between in the matchup with Lander.  The Bandits mustered just four singles, off the bats of Kayson Herebia, Colt Collingwood, Wyatt Kunkel and Kade Julson.
“We were putting our bat on the ball -- they were just going right to their defenders,” said Patterson. “It seemed like they were always in the right place at the right time.”

Powell club spreads love of ‘sweet science’

Published by admin on Fri, 07/19/2024 - 2:01pm

The organizers of a youth boxing club that sprung up in Powell late last year have begun sharing their passion for the sweet science with other communities in the Big Horn Basin, including Greybull which was the site of a two-day youth camp last week.
The Greybull Recreation District offered the camp, promoting it as a way to learn the basic fundamentals of the sport in a fun, non-contact manner.  Not counting the two who came with one of the instructors, the camp attracted 10 kids, with six in the younger group (grades one through five) and four in the older group (grades six and up).
David Holland, a Greybull native, is one of the driving forces behind the Post 26 Big Horn Basin Boxing Club.  He led the camp with help from a couple of boxers, Adrian and Clint, who squared off in an actual match on the final day.

Greybull wrestlers compete at national tournament

Published by admin on Fri, 07/19/2024 - 1:58pm

Two members of the Greybull-Riverside wrestling team competed with Team Wyoming at last weekend’s U.S. Marine Corps Junior & 16U National Tournament in Fargo, N.D.  The tournament is billed as the largest in the world, with more than 7,000 competing.
Gabby Dowling and Tawny Bertolini will be a senior and sophomore, respectively, this fall at Greybull High School.  They spent much of their spring and summer honing their skills, hoping to make a good impression and capture the attention of college coaches at the national tournament.
Dowling, competing in the junior division, won one and lost two at 140 pounds.  She had a breakout season as a junior, capping her campaign at 135 pounds with four wins in five tries and a third-place finish at the state tournament in February.
Bertolini, meanwhile, went 0-2 in her weight class in the 16-and-under division.  She lost to a senior from Illinois and a freshman from Alabama.

All-Stars playing at district tourney in Bridger Valley

Published by admin on Thu, 07/11/2024 - 7:54am

Making its first district tournament appearance in decades, a team of all-stars from the South Big Horn County Little League suffered a 11-4 defeat at the hands of the Green River All-Stars in a game played Monday in Riverton.

Probst wake, tourney set for July 13 at Midway

Published by admin on Fri, 07/05/2024 - 11:17am

Golf to host July 13 tournament, wake in honor of the late Jeff Probst

Majors club plans district tourney appearance

Published by admin on Thu, 07/04/2024 - 8:09am

Based on history, it would have been safe to assume that getting blanked in the win column at the final tournament on the schedule would have been the end of the road for the Greybull majors all-star baseball team.