Week Ahead in Local Sports

The Sheridan High School Basketball Teams will be on the road this week as they travel south the play at Cheyenne South on Friday night and then will travel to play Laramie on Saturday. Games on Friday will be at 6:00 and 7:30 with Saturday’s games at 1:00pm and 2:30pm

The Tongue River basketball teams will make up their postponed game from Saturday tonight as Sundance will travel to Dayton to take on the Eagles. The girl’s game will be played at 4:30 and the Eagles will play the #1 ranked Bulldogs at 6:00pm. On Friday the Eagles/Lady Eagles will travel to play at Wright and on Saturday they will play at Greybull.

The Big Horn Rams and Lady Rams will play at Moorcroft on Friday and they will host Sundance on Saturday afternoon in Northeast Conference action.

The Arvada/Clearmont Basketball teams will be at Hulett on Friday and will host Upton on Saturday.

Sheridan High School Wrestling team will dual Campbell County in Gillette on Thursday night and then they will host a Quad on Friday as the will dual Thunder Basin, Green River and Natrona.

Sheridan High School Swimming and Diving team will be off this weekend as they prepare for the 2021 Wyoming State Swimming and Diving Championships which will be held in Laramie on Feb 18-20.

Sheridan Hawks NA3HL team is off this weekend. They will host the Missoula Jr. Bruins on February 19 and 20 at the M& M Center.
The Wyoming Cowboys will host the Aggies of Utah State on Wednesday and Friday at the AA in Laramie. We will have those games for you on 1410 KWYO and 106.9 FM. The Wyoming Cowgirls will play at Utah State in Logan, Utah on Thursday and Saturday.

The Montana State Bobcats have hired Brent Vigen to lead the Bobcat football program. Vigen, who has been the associate head coach at the University of Wyoming since 2017, is set to be named the next head coach of the Montana State football program, MSU announced on Monday. Jeff Choate departed Montana State in January to become the co-defensive coordinator at the University of Texas. He coached the Bobcats for four seasons, culminating with an 11-4 record and appearance in the semifinal round of the FCS Playoffs in 2019.

Vigen will inherit a staff and team built for immediate success, and he has plenty of experience in the FCS Playoffs. Prior to joining Wyoming head coach Craig Bohl’s staff in 2014, Vigen was Bohl’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Dakota State from 2009-13, helping the Bison win FCS national championships in 2011, 2012, and 2013.
During his coaching career, Vigen has recruited and coached NFL quarterbacks, Carson Wentz and Josh Allen. He was Wentz’s coach at NDSU in 2012 and 2013 and then coached Allen at Wyoming from 2015-17. Wentz was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles with the second overall pick of the 2016 NFL Draft, and Allen was selected by the Buffalo Bills with the seventh overall pick of the 2018 NFL Draft.

Montana State hasn’t played a game since Dec. 21, 2019, a 42-14 loss at North Dakota State in the semifinal round of the FCS Playoffs. The Big Sky Conference postponed its 2020 fall season to the spring of 2021, but Montana State has opted out of the Big Sky’s conference schedule. As of now, the Bobcats’ next scheduled game is Sept. 4 at Wyoming.