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Morning Sports: October 14, 2024
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Sheridan HS Football: The Sheridan High School Football team found themselves in an unusual spot last week.
On top of having their home game moved to Casper, because of the smoke from the Elk Fire, the Broncs did not get off to a good start, but recovered to put Rock Springs away 49-12, to win their 38th straight game, and improve this year’s record to 7-0.
Head Coach Jeff Mowry explains what went wrong in the early stages of the game.
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This Friday, it’s homecoming, the Energy Bowl, plus it’s a 1st place battle as undefeated Campbell County comes to town.
Kickoff is scheduled for 6pm.
Big Horn and Tongue River HS Football: Big Horn showed no signs of rust after last week’s game was canceled.
The Rams took care of business at Glenrock 54-14.
Tongue River had to move their home game vs. Wheatland to Buffalo, because of air quality concerns.
The Eagles would give up a touchdown with a little less than 3 minutes to go, and ended up losing 22-16.
This week, it’s the Thunder Bowl, as TR visits BH this Friday.
Kickoff is scheduled for 6pm.
Sheridan County HS Volleyball: Sheridan split conference road games this past weekend in Cheyenne.
The Lady Broncs won at Cheyenne East on Friday 3-1, but lost on Saturday at Cheyenne Central 3-2.
Sheridan is back at home this Friday vs. defending 4A state champ Laramie beginning at 5pm, and will also host Cheyenne South on Saturday.
Big Horn won their lone game of the week at home vs. 4A Natrona County back on Thursday and had the weekend off from competition.
Tongue River picked up 2 wins this past weekend.
The Lady Eagles won at home vs. Sundance on Friday 3-2, and won on Saturday at Moorcroft 3-0.
This coming Thursday, it’s Round 2 between TR and BH.
The Lady Rams will host this contest.
After that they will host Wright on Friday and visit Moorcroft on Saturday.
Tongue River is scheduled to play on Saturday at 3A Glenrock.
As for Arvada-Clearmont they ended up going 0-5 at the Kaycee Invitational this past weekend.
The Lady Panthers are back at home Thursday vs. the Buffalo JV team, and are home again on Friday vs. Kaycee.
Sheridan HS Girls Swimming And Diving: Sheridan placed 2nd out of 4 teams on Friday at a quad meet at Buffalo, and then won the Buffalo Invitational on Saturday.
The next scheduled meet is this Friday and Saturday at Cheyenne East.
Sheridan Hawks Junior Hockey: The Sheridan Hawks lost both games this past weekend at defending champ Helena, but kept it close.
Friday’s score was 1-0, and Saturday’s score was 4-3 in overtime.
In the Saturday game, Kiefer Dunham scored with less than 1 second to go, to force the extra period.
The Hawks next play this coming Friday and Saturday at Butte, and will return home next weekend to take on Rapid City.
University of Wyoming Football: The Wyoming Cowboys came out on the short end of a 27-24 decision at home vs. San Diego State, to drop their record to 1-5 on the season.
Quarterback Evan Svoboda was 12 of 31 passing for 181 yards and 1 touchdown which was a 70 yard flea flicker play to Jaylen Sargent.
Svoboda also ran for a 51 yard score, but he was picked off twice, including a pick-6 and he was sacked 6 times.
Sam Scott had the other rushing TD for the Pokes.
UW next plays this coming Saturday at San Jose State.
Kickoff is scheduled for 2pm.
Denver Broncos Football: The Denver Broncos dug themselves into a 23-zip hole after 3 quarters yesterday at home vs. the LA Chargers, could not get out of it, and lost 23-16 to have their 3-game win streak snapped.
Quarterback Bo Nix was 19 of 33 passing for 2 touchdowns…one to Troy Franklin, the other to Courtland Sutton.
Nix also threw 1 interception, which was on the first drive of the game, and on the first play after that, the Broncos lost a piece of their defense, when Patrick Surtain went down and out with a concussion.
The Chargers controlled the time of possession and were 11 of 18 on 3rd down conversions.
Denver has little time to recover, because the team plays the Thursday night game this week at New Orleans.
Kickoff for that game is scheduled for 6:15pm.
Colorado Avalanche Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche lost their home opener back on Saturday vs. Columbus 6-4, to drop to 0-2 on the season.
The Avs next play tonight at home vs. the New York Islanders, starting at 7 o’clock.
Denver Nuggets Basketball: The Denver Nuggets lost at home yesterday vs. Phoenix 118-114.
The Nuggets’s next pre-season game is tomorrow at home vs. Oklahoma City.
The regular season starts one week from this coming Thursday.
Major League Baseball Playoffs: The LA Dodgers crushed the New York Mets at home 9-zip last night, to take a 1-game to none lead in their best of 7 National League Championship Series.
For the Dodgers, this is their 3rd post-season game in a row that they’ve won in shutout fashion.
Game 2 is today at 2:08pm.
After that, it’s Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, between the Cleveland Guardians and the New York Yankees.