Morning Sports: March 7, 2025

Tongue River/Big Horn HS Basketball: The Tongue River girls basketball team did not have much trouble in their first round game of the 2A State Tournament yesterday in Casper, winning 64-31.

Three Lady Eagles scored in double figures, and the team dominated 4 other statistical categories.

TR advances to the semi-finals today at 5:30pm against Thermopolis at the Ford Wyoming Center in Casper.

The Big Horn boys went tooth and nail and extra vs. Wyoming Indian, but came up short in the end 65-63 in overtime.

Three Rams scored in double figures.

BH will play in the consolation round today at 1:30pm vs. Wright.

The Big Horn girls dug themselves into an early hole vs. Thermopolis, almost got out of it, but then that hole became too deep to deal with, and the team lost 61-40.

The Lady Rams will play in the consolation round at 10:30am vs. Big Piney.

Click here to see a recap of Day 1 of the 2A State Tournament.

Sheridan HS Basketball: Both Sheridan High School basketball teams will head to Casper next weekend to play in the 4A State Tournament.

The Broncs eliminated Cheyenne South 62-40 yesterday at the 4A East Regional Tournament in Cheyenne, while the Lady Broncs eliminated Laramie 44-22.

Both teams will play today in the regional semi-finals.

At 6pm, the girls take on Cheyenne East, and right after that the boys play against Laramie.

You can hear the LIVE radio play-by-play of both games on AM 1410 KWYO and 106.9 FM.

The Broncs and Lady Broncs will also play tomorrow, but their opponent and start times are dependent on today’s results.

One other boys basketball note to mention, next weekend’s 4A State Tournament will have zero teams from Cheyenne in it.

East, South and Central were all eliminated yesterday.

The last time there was a Cheyenne-less boys basketball state tournament was back in 1971.

Indoor Track and Field State Meet: The 3A State Meet concludes today in Gillette.

Big Horn and Tongue River are both competing in that competition.

So far, the BH boys sprint medley relay team finished 2nd and Derrick Miller of Tongue River was 3rd in the boys 400 meter dash.

Field events today start at 8:30am and running events at 9.

Later today and tomorrow, Sheridan will have their turn in the 4A State Meet.

Sheridan Hawks Junior Hockey: The Sheridan Hawks will conclude the regular season today and tomorrow at Rapid City.

The puck drops at 7:05pm for both games.

The Hawks need 1 point in the standings to lock down the #2 seed for the playoffs, meaning the team needs either a win, 1 loss in either overtime or shootout, or hope that Great Falls loses one of their 2 games against Butte.

If none of those 3 things happen, Sheridan would drop to the #3 seed.

The team will know their opponent and playoff schedule this Sunday.

Playoff rounds are a best 2 out of 3 matchup.

Sheridan Lady Hawks Amateur Hockey: The Wyoming Girls State Tournament starts today and runs through Sunday in Pinedale.

The Sheridan Lady Hawks have the #1 seed for the 4-team round robin event.

The team plays Cheyenne today at 1pm.

Tomorrow they play Jackson at 7am, and Pinedale at 5pm.

On Sunday, the 3rd place game starts at 7:30am and the championship game at 11:30.

The Lady Hawks are the defending state champs.

University of Wyoming Basketball: The Mountain West Conference regular season concludes today, however the Wyoming Cowboys have the weekend off from competition.

Since there are an odd number of teams, one team has to finish ahead of the rest and UW got the draw this time around.

The Pokes will carry the #9 seed into the Mountain West Conference tournament, which starts Wednesday in Las Vegas.

Wyoming will play the first game of the tournament at 12-noon against the #8 seed, San Jose State.

The women’s Mountain West Conference Tournament starts on Sunday.

The Wyoming Cowgirls earned the #2 seed and will have a first round bye, and will play on Monday at 6pm, against the winner between Air Force and Utah State.

Those 2 teams play each other on Sunday, starting at 5:30pm.

Colorado Avalanche Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche scored often and won easily last night at home vs. San Jose 7-3.

The Avs next play tomorrow at home vs. Toronto.

Colorado Rockies Pre-Season Baseball: The Colorado Rockies had yesterday off from competition.

The Rocks play today at home vs. Texas starting at 6:40pm, tomorrow at home vs. the Athletics beginning at 1:10pm and on Sunday at Seattle with first pitch at 2:10pm.