Morning Sports: March 15, 2024

Sheridan High School Spring Sports Teams: The Spring Sports season starts today for Sheridan High School teams.

The outdoor track and field team will host Buffalo and Thunder Basin in a 3-team meet beginning at 2:30pm.

Also the soccer teams start their season today at Worland.

The girls game starts at 3pm and the boys at 5pm.

In the boys game, the Warriors are the 5-time defending state champs in Class 3A, and they haven’t lost a game since April of 2018, not counting 2020, when the season was canceled due to the covid outbreak.

Worland is on a 78-game non-losing streak, which translates to 76 wins and 2 ties, since their last loss.

On Saturday, the Sheridan boys host Buffalo beginning at 11am.

Broncs Coach Wade Kinsey outlines what he wants to accomplish on the opening weekend of the season, against non-conference opponents.

Last year, Sheridan compiled a record of 14-4-2 and placed 3rd at the 4A State Tournament.

The Lady Broncs also play on Saturday, but their game is at Buffalo, beginning at 12-noon.

Mountain West Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament: Yesterday was round 2 of the Mountain West Conference men’s tournament in Las Vegas.

Top seed Utah State survived an overtime scare from Fresno State and won 87-75.

Number 5 seed San Diego State needed overtime to beat 4-seed UNLV, 74-71.

The other 2 games were both upsets.

#7 seed Colorado State knocked off #2 seed Nevada 85-78, and #6 seed New Mexico took out #3 seed Boise State 76-66.

Today’s semi-finals have San Diego State vs. Utah State at 7:30pm and then Colorado State vs. New Mexico at 10pm.

The winners will play each other in the championship game tomorrow at 4pm.

Colorado Rockies Pre-Season Baseball: The Colorado Rockies lost a 13-7 slugfest yesterday at Cleveland.

Alan Tejo hit a 3-run blast in the top of 5th, but Colorado was already in too deep of a hole to get out of.

The Rockies next play today at home vs. Texas beginning at 2:10pm.

They also play tomorrow at home vs. Oakland starting at 2:10pm and on Sunday at San Francisco beginning at 2:05pm.