The Voice of the Community Since 1909, Serving Moorcroft and Pine Haven, Wyoming
The Voice of the Community Since 1909, Serving Moorcroft and Pine Haven, Wyoming
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The Moorcroft High School golf team will finish the fall season on Friday and Saturday at the 2023 Fall State Tournament that will be held at the Newcastle Country Club. We've seen overall growth in all aspects of the game, especially in the short game of chipping and putting, but the team has not played the Newcastle course this season so the first nine holes will be a new opportunity to learn and adjust their game. State golf is 36 total holes, with 18 holes played each day, which is mentally...
This weekend, the Lady Wolves played in the Rawlins Volleyball Tournament. Varsity started Friday off with games against Lyman, Rawlins and Thermopolis. Although falling short in their first game against Lyman, the girls played well as a team. In the games against Rawlins, Moorcroft lost the first set, but fought hard to win the second match, 21-17. Against the Outlaws, the Lady Wolves had an overall of six aces, nine kills and 31 digs. Junior Kiriana Martinez got nine digs and senior Rebekah Anderson had two kills with a helping assist by...
It was a long trip to Saratoga but the boys showed up to play football. We had a little bit of a slow start in the first quarter, but then came out swinging the rest of the game. Braydnn Terry rushed for 251 yards behind a senior led O-line that played fantastic. Our defense also played very well with Trenten Gray coming away with an interception and all the boys who played on defense made some big plays. All in all, we played very well as a whole team and we were pleased to have a long drive back home on a win!...
This weekend Moorcroft played in the Gillette Volleyball Tournament. On Friday, Varsity played Spearfish, Cheyenne Central and Kelly Walsh. Although falling short, the girls played with their all and improved their skills from the last tournament. On Saturday, the girls started off playing Sundance and took it to three sets with Sundance, winning 15-11. After a defeat with Glenrock, they got close with St. Thomas Moore, playing three sets, but unfortunately lost, 12-15. Junior Varsity started off on Friday morning, playing Spearfish and the...
High School Football Moorcroft – 14, Greybull – 16 Golf at Wright Carter Hatling – 105 Gatlin McCrea – 141 McKinnon Purcell – 147 Cross Country at Northern Hills Girls 3000M 6th Grade – Audrey Greathouse 16:00.89 Girls 3000M 7th/8th Grade – Rachel Burris 14:49-10, Morning Barnum 17:18.15 Boys 3000M 7th/8th Grade – 6. Mikhail Reich 12:14.60, Kenny Blakeman 14:10.92...
Over the weekend, the Moorcroft Lady Wolves Varsity and Junior Varsity teams traveled to Douglas for a tournament, while our freshman team went to a tournament in Newcastle. It was a weekend of growth and learning. On Friday, the Varsity team fell to Alliance, Douglas and Southeast. Although the scores did not show in our favor, the team made huge improvements every time they stepped on the court. Once we entered pool play, the Varsity team became more confident in their ability as we played Wright and Burns, coming within six points of both...
Cole Cantu avoids pressure from Keaton Mills to get a pass off during last week's scrimmage vs. the Upton-Sundance Patriots. The Wolves lost the matchup 41-6....
Kelly Walsh Beartrap Invite August 25, 2023 Marcus James, the only high school runner, ran his Varsity 5K in the respectable time of 20:02.70. Mikhail Reich earned second place with a time of 13:29.88 for his middle school 3K race. Rachel Burris ran the middle school girls 3K in 13:29.88. Morning Barnum ran her 3K in 18:08.20. Audrey Greathouse ran her 3K in 19:01.98. These guys and girls ran a very good first race of the season. For some of these runners, this was their first cross country...
The Moorcroft Golf team hosted the Moorcroft Invite at the Keyhole Country Club on Friday. Carter Hatling improved his 18-hole score, improving by 8 strokes from the prior week's events. For McKinnon Purcell and Gatlin McCrea, this was the first golf tournament of the season. Overall, the team gained a lot of experience in all aspects of the sport and all had several shots that golfers will tell you keeps you coming back. On Saturday, the team traveled to a hot and windy Upton Tournament at the...
Moorcroft High School’s Talissa Fischbach was recently named to the Wyoming North Girls All-Star Basketball squad by the Wyoming Coaches Foundation for their annual all-star game held in Casper later this month. On the volleyball side of the event, Moorcroft’s Katie Williams was named as an assistant coach for the Wyoming North Girls All Star Volleyball squad. Selections are made by a committee of state high school coaches, who pick the top ten players from the northern and southern half of the state to square off against each other in bas...
Five kids are representing Crook County in rodeo this summer, with three of them set to compete during the seven days of the 75th National High School Finals Rodeo (NHSFR) in Gillette. Two meanwhile headed for the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry, GA this weekend for the week-long National Junior High Finals Rodeo (NJHFR). High School Standings for the NHSFR are calculated using the points accumulated during each competitor’s top 12 rodeos throughout the season. In individual events, the top four qualify for the national finals. This y...
Members of the Rage Baseball team were onsite at the upper baseball field at Moorcroft's Westview Park Saturday, starting the restoration of the diamond. Bringing in a frontend loader, the ground was scraped back and the previously capped sprinkler heads reinstalled before the new sod is laid. "This weekend," Rage member Jackie Morgan sad, "We're just trying to get the infield laid out and the bases marked and start on the new dugouts and the new fence. When the sod gets here, we can get that...
The MHS girls team placed 12th overall at the WHSAA 3A State Track Meet. Girls 400M – Talia Vargas 1:06.10 Girls 800M – Mallory Jones 2:34.16 Girls 1600M – 5. Jones 5:31.90 Girls 3200M – 5. Jones 12:15.29 Girls 1600 Sprint Medley – 7. Moorcroft High School (Talissa Fischbach, Katelynn Blakeman, Vargas, Jones) 4:40.73 Boys 1600M – Marcus James 5:05.47 Boys 3200M – James 11:04.93...
Regional Track at Rawlins Girls 100M: KateLynn Blakeman 14.58, Hailey Blakeman 15.06, Julia Shirley 15.59, Sydney Rozell 18.45 Girls 200M: Talia Vargas 28.98, Lilly Barnum 31.54 Girls 400M: 7. Vargas 1:06.22/1:06.40 Girls 1600M: 3. Mallory Jones 5:48.13 Girls 3200M: 2. Jones 12:54.89 Girls 300M Hurdles: K. Blakeman 55.49 Girls 4x100M Relay: 8. Moorcroft 56.85 Girls Sprint Medley: 4. Moorcroft 4:50.34 Girls High Jump: 9. H. Blakeman 4-3 Girls Long Jump: Talissa Fischbach 13-10.75 Girls Triple Jump: Lilly Barnum 23-3.75 Girls Pole Vault: 6....
On Thursday, the Moorcroft High School Golf Team traveled to Worland for the 2A Spring Championships. We knew going into the tournament that we were going to be challenged. The weather this spring only allowed us to participate in three golf tournaments and weather was, again, going to be an issue on both Thursday and Friday. Regardless, the team came out and competed. Any time you have constant rain and then wind along with it, there are going to be challenges on all of the holes. I really...
High School Track Thurs.-Sat., May 18-20 at State in Casper...
High School Track at Custer Invite Boys 100M: Dima Haskell 12.28, Lathan Dewey 13.20 Boys 200M: Bradynn Terry 26.15, Dewey 27.48, William Ripley 27.66 Boys 400M: Terry 57.98, Jacob Anderson 1:10.51 Boys 800M: Anderson 2:57.24 Boys 1600M: 6. Marcus James 5:15.55 Boys 3200M: 2. James 10:46.27 Boys Sprint Medley Relay: 3. Moorcroft A (Ripley, Haskell, Terry, James) 4:17.68 Boys Shot Put: Oliver Gorsuch 32-04.00 Boys: Discus: 8. Haskell 106-11, Ripley 80-10, Gorsuch 78-11, Dewey 75-01 Boys Long Jump: 3. Haskell 18-02.00 Girls 100M: Julia Jules...
Preliminary plans for leasing the upper baseball field at Westview Park to the Rage baseball program as their home field are moving forward following a recent meeting of Moorcroft's baseball committee and team representatives Travis and wife Devin Arney. Moorcroft Town Council members listened to schedule recommendations, possible names for the field and more from the committee at a workshop last week, but expressed that first they needed to know more the details of the contract. As voiced by...
HS Golf at Devils Tower Moorcroft boys team placed third: Ayden Petz 91, Cade Williams 100, Dane Connally 103, Carter Hatling 128, Gatlin McCrea 157 Moorcroft girls: Camlyn Connally 86, High School Track at Wright Scott Hardy Memorial Girls 100M: Hailey Blakeman 16.05, Sydney Rozell 18.88, Maya Hereim 18.92 Girls 200M: 5. Talia Vargas 29.91, 8. KateLynn Blakeman 32.06, H. Blakeman 32.73, Lilly Barnum 33.53 Girls 400M: 2. Vargas 1:07.27, 4. Barnum 1:18.10 Girls 800M: 1. Mallory Jones 2:33.06 Girls 1600M: 1. Jones 5:47.87 Girls 100M Hurdles: 4....
Cory Allison was presented with the 2022 Coach of the Year award by the Wyoming Amateur Wrestling Association last weekend, in Casper. He was recognized for his outstanding contribution and continual leadership in the development of Wyoming wrestlers. Cory grew up in Gillette and wrestled for Campbell County High School, graduating in 1993. While growing up, he wrestled in the USA program for many years, attending numerous tournaments and wrestling on the 1992 Cultural Exchange Team, in...
High School Track at Wright Panther Qualifier Girls 100M: 7. KateLynn Blakeman 15.05, Hailey Blakeman 15.83, Victoria Rozell 17.00, Sydney Rozell 18.38 Girls 200M: 5. Talia Vargas 30.47, 6. Talissa Fischbach 31.57, 7. K. Blakeman 32.39, 9. H. Blakeman 33.22, Lilly Barnum 34.27 Boys 100M: 4. Dima Haskell 12.32, 5. Will Ripley 12.75, Oliver Gorsuch 14.20, Justus Mills 16.45 Boys 200M: 4. Ripley 26.43, Weston Haskell 31.70 Boys 400M: Jacob Anderson 1:12.32, Haskell 1:15.73 Boys 800M: 2. Anderson 2:54.69 Boys 1600M: 1. Marcus James...
Oliver Gorsuch, a sophomore at Moorcroft High School, was presented with the 2022 Governor's Award by the Wyoming Amateur Wrestling Association (WAWA) last weekend, at the USA state wrestling tournament, in Casper. He was recognized in the 16 and under division for his athletic excellence in Greco-Roman wrestling. Oliver placed fifth in Folkstyle at the Wyoming high school state tournament in 2022, third at the WAWA Kids state and first in the Montana Open. In freestyle, he placed second at the...
Travis Arney of newly formed independent baseball organization Rage Baseball addressed Moorcroft's council last Wednesday evening regarding moving their team of approximately 25 players aged 15-19 to the upper diamond at Westview Park. Arney explained that, due to a number of irreconcilable issues with Campbell County, their independent organization wants to relocate. "We would like to opportunity to have a home. Right now, we don't. We would like to call Moorcroft home," he said. The field has...
Scoreboard HS Track at Wheatland Invite Girls 100M – Hailey Blakeman 15.80, KateLynn Blakeman 15.89, Julia Jules 16.35, Maya Hereim 19.72 Girls 200M – Talia Vargas 30.85, K. Blakeman 31.44, H. Blakeman 32.18, Lilly Barnum 34.18, J. Jules 35.04 Girls 400M – T. Vargas 1:09.18, L. Barnum 1:20.75 Girls 800M – 3rd Mallory Jones 2:36.70 Girls 3200M – 1st M. Jones 12:40.55 Boys 100M – Will Ripley 13.09, Latham Dewey 13.29 Boys 200M – W. Ripley 26.97, L. Dewey 27.51, Joe Black 30.75 Boys 400M – J. Black 1:13.64, Justus Mills 1:24.42 Boys 1600M – 8t...
