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Morning Sports: March 8, 2024
Sheridan HS Girls Basketball: The Sheridan High School girls basketball team wasted no time yesterday morning in the first round of the 4A State Tournament.
The Lady Broncs jumped out to an 11-zip lead vs. Rock Springs, and had a 25-point lead early in the 3rd quarter, before letting the opposition off the hook and settled for a 59-44 win.
Mesa Hanft led all scorers with 19 points, Adeline Burgess added 15, courtesy of 5 3’s to increase her season total to 71, and Alli Ligocki contributed with 14.
Ligocki says the Lady Broncs were way beyond ready for that game.
Sheridan plays in the semi-finals this afternoon at 4:30 against defending 4A State Champ Cody, at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper.
You can hear that game LIVE on AM 1410 KWYO and 106.9 FM.
The teams met back in December at Cody and the Fillies won by 2.
Coach Ryan Sullivan says 3 months ago was just that…3 months ago.
Knowing that, he did a little looking ahead earlier this week.
The Fillies lost their first game of the season and since then, they have won 22 games in a row.
They boast the #1 scoring offense in Class 4A averaging a little less than 62 points per game, and they have the #1 scoring defense in Class 4A, giving up an average of 33.5 points per game.
Cody also has Molly Hays who has the highest scoring average in class 4A at 23.9 points per game and she is last year’s Gatorade Player of the Year.
Wyoming High School 4A Girls Basketball State Tournament: As far as the rest of the 4A girls basketball scores from yesterday’s first round, Cody defeated Laramie 53-32, Cheyenne East topped Star Valley 50-28 and Campbell County beat Kelly Walsh 52-39.
In today’s semi-finals, as mentioned it’s Sheridan vs. Cody at 4:30pm, and then Cheyenne East vs. Campbell County at 6pm.
Buffalo HS Basketball: Both the Buffalo boys and girls have advanced to today’s semi-finals, that will be played at Casper College.
The Lady Bison defeated Powell 59-49 yesterday and will play Pinedale at 6pm.
As for the boys, the Bison beat defending 3A State champ Worland 39-35, and will play undefeated Powell at 7:30pm.
Sheridan HS Spring Sports: Both the Sheridan soccer and outdoor track and field teams wrap up their first week of practice today.
Competition starts in 1 week.
Both the boys and girls soccer teams play at Worland next week Friday, and then the following day the Broncs play at home vs. Buffalo, while the girls will play at the Lady Bison.
The outdoor track and field teams will compete in their first meet of the season next week Friday at Buffalo.
University of Wyoming Basketball: The Wyoming Cowboys conclude the regular season tomorrow at Fresno State.
Tip-off is scheduled for 5pm.
It does not matter which team wins or loses tomorrow, because the Pokes and Bulldogs will play each other again on Wednesday in the first round of the Mountain West Conference Tournament at Las Vegas.
The start time of that game is still to be announced.
The Mountain West Conference Women’s basketball tournament starts Sunday.
The Wyoming Cowgirls have a first round bye and will play in the last game of the day on Monday vs. the winner of Sunday’s game between Boise State and Utah State at 8:30pm Mountain Time.
In other Mountain West Conference Basketball news, the conference has announced that starting next season, all men’s teams will play a 20-game conference schedule, thus every team will play every other team in the conference home and away.
Currently teams have played an 18 game schedule.
They would play 8 other teams twice and the other 2 once.
This season for UW, those 2 teams were San Diego State on the road and Boise State at home.
Colorado Rockies Pre-Season Baseball: The Colorado Rockies game yesterday at home vs. Kansas City was rained out.
The team plays today at the LA Angels at 1:10pm.
The Rockies also play tomorrow at the Chicago Cubs starting at 1:05pm and on Sunday at home vs. Milwaukee at 2:10pm.
Denver Nuggets Basketball: The Denver Nuggets swept the head-to-head series vs. the Boston Celtics who have the best record in the league.
Last night the Nuggets won at home 115-109.
The team next plays tomorrow at home vs. Utah.
