Morning Sports: January 25, 2024

Sheridan HS Wrestling Teams Preparing For Ron Thon: The Sheridan High School boys and girls wrestling teams are back in action tonight in a dual at Kelly Walsh.

Then it’s onto Riverton tomorrow and Saturday for the annual Ron Thon Invitational, which is considered a preview of the state meet and that meet is one month away.

The big difference is at the state meet, you only wrestle against opponents from schools within the class that your school is in, whereas at Ron Thon, it’s every wrestler for themselves no matter what class your school is in.

Boys wrestling Coach Shane Shatto says so far this season, all of the 4A teams that Sheridan has been going up against, have been coming after the Broncs, because they’re the defending 4A State Champs.

At Ron Thon, every 3A and 2A team will be coming after them as well, also because Sheridan won this meet last year for the first time.

The Tongue River wrestlers will compete on Saturday at a tournament at Hardin, Montana.

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Sheridan County HS Basketball: Sheridan is back on the court tomorrow at Natrona.

The girls game starts at 5pm and the boys game will follow.

On Saturday, the Broncs and Lady Broncs are at home vs. Worland.

Varsity games are scheduled to start at 11:30am.

The Tongue River basketball teams play today at Kaycee beginning at 6pm.

On Saturday, the Eagles and Lady Eagles play at Greybull.

The Big Horn boys and girls play at home tomorrow vs. Wright, and then on Saturday they’ll take a road trip to Rocky Mountain.

Arvada-Clearmont is scheduled to play tomorrow at Kaycee and on Saturday at Guernsey-Sunrise.

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Sheridan HS Boys Swimming: Sheridan will compete in a state meet preview tomorrow and Saturday at Laramie.

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Sheridan HS Indoor Track and Field: The Sheridan Indoor Track and Field team will compete today in Gillette against Campbell County and Thunder Basin.

Big Horn and Tongue River have the week off from competition.

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Sheridan HS Senior Terran Grooms Signs NLI: A Sheridan Bronc is about to become a Battlin’ Bear.

Yesterday, Terran Grooms signed his National Letter of Intent (NLI) to play football at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.

This past season, he was 5th in the state in Class 4A with 820 yards rushing and also scored 14 touchdowns.

The senior has been playing football since 6th grade and also participates in wrestling and soccer.

He explains why football ended up being his sport of choice.

Grooms says he was also considering Dickinson State, Montana Western, and Carroll College.

He adds he plans to major in education and social studies.

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University of Wyoming Basketball: Last night it was a tale of 2 halves, and the Wyoming Cowgirls got the better end of the deal, as they would shoot 66% in the second half, and it was enough to win at home vs. Air Force 66-63.

Allyson Fertig led the way with 21 points, while Malene Pedersen put in 15 and was a perfect 11-for-11 from the charity stripe.

UW is now 11-7 on the season and have a 6-1 record in the Mountain West Conference.

The Cowgirls next play on Saturday at Fresno State.

The Wyoming Cowboys will host Colorado State in Round 1 of the Border War on Saturday.

Tip-off is scheduled for 2pm.

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Colorado Avalanche Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche won last night at home vs. Washington 6-2.

The team plays again tomorrow at home vs. LA.

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Sheridan Hawks Hockey: The Sheridan Hawks and Rapid City are currently tied for 5th place in the standings, and both teams are 3 points behind in the chase for a playoff spot.

The 2 teams play each other tomorrow and Saturday at Rapid City.