Morning Sports: August 7, 2024

2A East High School Volleyball and Basketball: This is the start of the new 2-year reclassification cycle in Wyoming High School sports, and those schools that are in Class 2A for volleyball and basketball are in an unusual situation.

There will be 14 teams in Class 2A, both this school year and next, but it will be unbalanced, with 8 teams in the west and only 6 in the east.

Further complicating things in the East is the location of one of the schools.

Tongue River, Big Horn, Wright, Moorcroft and Sundance are in the northeast part of the state geographically, but Pine Bluffs is in the southeast and is the only 2A school in that part of the Cowboy State.

The 5 northeast teams have normally played a home and home series almost every year vs. each other in volleyball and basketball, but having PB in the mix creates a travel and scheduling issue for all 6 2A East teams.

Big Horn High School Activities Director Mike Daley says because of the way the 2A East is, teams will not play conference or quadrant games, and it will be a 6-team regional tournament in volleyball and basketball, with 4 of the 6 teams qualifying for the state tournament.

How the regional tournament will be seeded is still to be determined.

Daley says right now BH is trying to figure out how to put together its annual volleyball invitational that takes place in mid-September.

As for the 2A West, there will be 8 teams on that side, split up into 2 quadrants.

The Northwest has Rocky Mountain, Greybull, Thermopolis and Shoshoni.

The Southwest has Big Piney, Kemmerer, Wind River and Wyoming Indian.

Sheridan Hawks Hockey: It may still be summer time, but the puck drops for the Sheridan Hawks and the NA3HL in 1 month.

Sheridan plays 13 of their first 18 games on the road, but on the flip side, the schedule is very home friendly in January and early February.

The first 2 games of the season are on Friday and Saturday, September 6th and 7th at Great Falls, and the home opener is on Saturday, September 14th vs. Gillette.

The Hawks placed 6th last season in the NA3HL’s Frontier Division.

The top 4 teams make the playoffs and Sheridan missed out by 4 points in the standings.

Helena, Montana not only won the Frontier Division playoffs and championship, the team ended up winning the Frasier Cup.

The team makes their one and only visit to Sheridan on February 28th and March 1st, which is the home finale for the Hawks.

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Colorado Rockies Baseball: The Colorado Rockies won last night in the opener of their 3 game series at home vs. the New York Mets 6-3.

Jake Cave hit a solo home run to help the cause.

Today’s game is scheduled to start at 6:40pm.