Sports
Morning Sports: November 24, 2025
Wyoming High School Winter Sports Season Practice Starts: The Wyoming High School fall sports season ended about 1 ½ weeks ago, and now it’s time for athletes to turn their attention to the winter sports season.
Practice for nordic skiing started last week, and practice for all classes of boys and girls basketball, as well as boys and girls wrestling starts today.
Boys Swimming can start practice one week from today, and competition in all of those sports start as early as Thursday, December 11th.
Practice for Indoor Track and Field doesn’t start until Monday, January 5th.
Sheridan HS Football: Although the High School Football season is over, Sheridan has moved up a little bit when it comes to national attention.
The Broncs won their 5th consecutive state championship this season and are on a 55-game win streak, which is a Wyoming High School State Record.
That streak is now the 2nd longest active winning streak in the country.
Marion Local High School, out of Ohio, who was one of the 2 teams ahead of Sheridan, had their 76-game win streak snapped this past weekend.
The only school ahead of them now is Garden City High School out of Long Island, New York, who are at 65.
Broncs Head Coach Jeff Mowry says there wasn’t as much talk about streaks this season compared to last, but the coaching staff still had to make sure that the success wasn’t getting to the heads of the players.
Speaking of home games, this season Sheridan broke the Wyoming home game winning streak record.
The old record was 31, and the Broncs have the new record at 34.
Sheridan Hawks/Lady Hawks Amateur Hockey: The Sheridan Hawks boys team had a score-fest in their home opening games vs. Rock Springs.
The team took care of business and then some on Saturday and Sunday, by scores of 22-zip and 13-nothing respectively.
Sheridan next plays a 4-game homestand on the weekend of December 12th through the 14th with 2 games vs. Pinedale followed by 2 games vs. Cody.
As for the Lady Hawks they went 0-2 with 2 ties on their season opening weekend at Pinedale and at Jackson.
Sheridan next plays on Friday and Saturday, December 5th and 6th at Cody and plays their home opener the following weekend vs. Cheyenne.
Sheridan Hawks Junior Hockey: The Sheridan Hawks closed out the first half of the season with a pair of wins at home vs. Butte.
Friday’s score was 6-2 and Saturday’s score was 4-1.
The team will play a home-and-home series vs. Gillette this weekend.
Friday’s game is on the road and Saturday’s game is at home.
University of Wyoming Football: The Wyoming Cowboys came up short in their home finale vs. Nevada 13-7.
The Pokes got down to the 1 yard line with about 20 seconds to go, had 3 chances, but could not finish the job before the clock ran out.
With the loss, the Brown and Gold will not play in a bowl game for the second year in a row.
The season will conclude this coming Saturday at Hawaii.
University of Wyoming Men’s and Women’s Basketball: The Wyoming Cowboys had a 24-point lead early in the 2nd half yesterday, before allowing Norfolk State to mount a comeback, but managed to prevail at home 75-67.
The Pokes did not shoot well, making 38% of their shots, but made up for it, by going 24-of-31 from the free throw line.
Adam Harakow led all scorers by coming off of the bench to put in 18 points.
Leland Walker and Damarion Dennis each put in 15 and Khaden Bennett contributed with 13.
The Brown and Gold are next scheduled to play this coming Wednesday at home vs. Denver University.
The Wyoming Cowgirls managed to only shoot 29% from the field and got 3 points from the bench in a loss on Friday at North Dakota 65-45.
Malene Pedersen led the ladies with 19 points and Henna Sandvik added in 11.
UW next plays tomorrow at home vs. Chadron State.
Denver Nuggets Basketball: The Denver Nuggets split weekend games, winning on Friday at Houston 112-109, but lost on Saturday at home vs. Sacramento 128-123.
The Nuggets are next scheduled to play today at Memphis.
Tip-off is scheduled for 6pm.
Colorado Avalanche Hockey: The Colorado Avalanche picked a pair of road shutout wins this past weekend, winning Saturday at Nashville 3-nothing and yesterday at Chicago 1-zip.
The Avs are next scheduled to play this coming Wednesday at home vs. San Jose.
