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Morning Sports: January 8, 2024
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The High School Winter Sports season in Sheridan County resumed this past weekend on the basketball court, the wrestling mat, the swimming pool and on the ski trails.
Sheridan County High School Basketball: The Sheridan boys and girls each went 3-0 in Cheyenne as they defeated Green River, Kelly Walsh and Evanston.
The Broncs are now 7-2 on the season, while the Lady Broncs are 8-1.
There’s only one game on the schedule this week and that game is this coming Thursday at Kelly Walsh.
It’s the last game before quadrant play begins next week.
Elsewhere, the Tongue River girls went 4-0 vs. teams from the 2A Southeast, while the TR boys went 3-1.
Both the Eagles and Lady Eagles are already 9-2 on the season.
Big Horn had the same opponents.
The Rams went 2-2 while the Lady Rams went 0-4.
The BH boys are 6-5 on the season, while the girls are 2-9.
Games this week look like this…Big Horn is at home vs. Shoshoni on Thursday.
Then on Friday, Tongue River travels to Shoshoni, and then on Saturday it’s TR at BH.
Arvada-Clearmont is back in action this coming weekend as they will play at the Little 6 Invitational.
Schedule and opponents to be announced.
Click here to see weekend scores and updated standings.
High School Wrestling: The Sheridan boys placed 4th and the Tongue River boys were 20th at the 29 team Douglas Invitational.
Dane Steel of Sheridan won the 175 pound weight class while Kelten Crow was 2nd at 165 pounds.
The Sheridan girls placed 7th out of 39 teams at Bozeman, Montana.
Becca Oetken won the 235 pound weight class, Bridgette Price was 2nd at 185 pounds, and Paityn Covolo was 3rd at 138 pounds.
Click here to see weekend wrestling results.
The Sheridan boys and girls will next compete this weekend at Kelly Walsh, while TR goes to Newcastle.
Sheridan HS Boys Swimming: Sheridan won 3 out of 4 duals on Friday, and then placed 1st in the 4-team Sheridan Invitational on Saturday.
In Friday’s meet, sophomore Ben Forsythe set a new school record in 100 yard Breaststroke by 1-100ths of a second.
Click here to see weekend boys swimming results
Sheridan will next compete in a series of duals on Friday at Laramie, and participate in the Cheyenne Invitational at Cheyenne East on Saturday.
Sheridan HS Nordic Skiing: The Sheridan boys and girls both placed 5th at the 7-team Casper Invitational this past weekend.
Kayley Alicke finished 2nd second in the 5K race on Friday and was 4th in the 7K race on Saturday.
Sheridan is not scheduled to compete this coming weekend, and will next race next weekend at Pinedale.
University Of Wyoming Basketball: The Wyoming Cowboys did not put up as many shots as they wanted, and as a result they did not make as many shots as they wanted to either, as the team lost on Saturday at New Mexico 77-60.
The Pokes committed 23 turnovers which the Lobos converted into 28 points.
Sam Griffin put in 18 points for UW, while Cam Manyawu scored 11 off of the bench.
Mason Walters also scored 10.
The Cowboys are now 8-7 on the season with a 1-1 record in the Mountain West Conference.
The next game is tomorrow at Utah State.
Tip off is scheduled for 7pm.
The Wyoming Cowgirls are now 3-0 in conference play thanks to a 68-51 win on Saturday at Air Force.
The brown and gold shot nearly 62% from the field and 4 ladies scored in double figures.
Emily Mellema led the way with 17 points.
Allyson Fertig put in 13, while Malene Pedersen and McKinley Dickerson had 10 points each.
UW next plays at home vs. San Diego State on Wednesday.
Tip off is scheduled for 6:30pm.
Denver Broncos Football: The season for the Denver Broncos is now officially over and it ended with a 27-14 loss at Las Vegas yesterday.
The Broncos finish the season with a record of 8-9 and were tied with the Raiders for 2nd in the AFC West, however Denver lost both head-to-head games, so the team is credited with a 3rd place finish which has some impact on which teams they will face next season.
The team will pick 12th in the first round of the NFL Draft.
NFL Playoffs Are Set: In the AFC, Baltimore has the number 1 seed and will have a first round bye.
Buffalo and Miami finished tied for 1st in the AFC East, but the Bills won both head-to-head matchups, so they get the #2 seed and will host Pittsburgh.
Miami drops to the #6 seed and will travel to Kansas City who is #3.
The other first round matchup is the 5-4 game, which is Cleveland at Houston.
The Browns and the Dolphins were tied for the 5 and 6 seeds, and did not play each other, but Cleveland had a better record vs. AFC opponents.
In the NFC, the San Francisco 49ers are the #1 seed and do not play this weekend.
Dallas won the East and Detroit won the north and both teams had the same record, but Dallas won the head-to-head matchup, so the Cowboys are #2 and the Lions are #3.
Tampa Bay won the South to claim the #4 seed and they will host Philadelphia.
The LA Rams will go to Detroit, and Dallas will host Green Bay who won a 3-way tie-breaker to claim the final wild card spot.
The Packers were tied with Seattle and New Orleans.
The Saints lost out because they had a worse record vs. NFC opponents.
Green Bay and Seattle did not play each other and it came down to the strength of victory tie-breaker.
What happens is you take the combined win-loss records of each team that the Packers and the Seahawks beat.
Green Bay was 70-83 in that category, while Seattle was 60-93.
As for the playoff schedule…on Saturday beginning at 2:30pm it’s Cleveland at Houston and that will be followed by Miami at Kansas City.
On Sunday, it’s Pittsburgh at Buffalo at 11am, followed by Green Bay at Dallas and then the LA Rams at Detroit.
Next Monday night, it’s Philadelphia at Tampa Bay.
Denver Nuggets Basketball: The Denver Nuggets split weekend home games, losing on Friday vs. Orlando 122-120, and then won last night vs. Detroit 131-114.
Denver’s next game is Wednesday at Utah.
Colorado Avalanche Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche got thumped at home on Saturday vs. Florida 8-4.
Colorado was down 2-0 about 3 minutes into the game.
They had the score tied at 4 early in the 3rd period, but it was all downhill after that.
The Avs next play tonight at home vs. Boston.
Sheridan Hawks Hockey: The Sheridan Hawks won both games at Cody this past weekend.
On Friday, they scored twice in a 14-second span in the first period, and had a 3-0 lead in the second period, but Cody would tie the game at 3 with a little less than 3 minutes to go in the 3rd period.
Tanner Freed needed only 11 seconds of overtime to score the winner as the Hawks would prevail 4-3.
On Saturday, Sheridan took no prisoners winning 9-1.
The Hawks have now won 9 of their last 11, sit in 5th place in their division and are only 4 points out from a playoff spot with less than 2 months to go in the regular season.
The team is at home this coming Friday and Saturday vs. Rapid City.
