Cheyenne East met Southeast Wyoming rival Laramie for the 4A Boys State Championship on Saturday in Laramie in what turned out to be a aggressive sport. These two groups simply met within the 4A East Regional semi-finals final week; a sport that East received 56-41. For all of the marbles, Cheyenne East prevailed once more on Saturday night time 68-59 to win their first state title since 2006.
The Thunderbirds had 4 guys in double figures led by Garet Schlabs with 18, Drew Jackson tossed in 17, Nathan Mirich had 14 and Camden Hayes chipped in a dozen. Schlabs was notably efficient going 7-11 from the sector. East shot a outstanding 60% from the ground within the 2nd half. Laramie obtained a tremendous effort from Levi Brown who was 9-18 from the ground and completed with 26 factors. Neil Summers, the 6-7 sophomore had 13 factors and 11 rebounds.
Cheyenne East completed the season 26-4 whereas Laramie was making their first look within the 4A championship sport since 2011 and their first state match look since 2016. The Plainsmen wrapped issues up at 15-14.
Now we have a video of Saturday night time’s sport to share with you plus a slew of pictures in our gallery under. Take pleasure in!
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2023 4A Boys Basketball Championship: Cheyenne East Vs. Laramie
2023 4A Boys Basketball Championship: Cheyenne East Vs. Laramie
LARAMIE — There was nothing tricky about the Wyoming offense in a dismal 3-0 (25-20, 25-17, 25-21) loss to San Diego State on Halloween night.
The Cowgirls hit a combined .079 over the three sets in the Mountain West Conference matchup. Wyoming (13-8, 5-6 MW) was looking to extend its winning streak to three games and move into a tie with the Aztecs for fifth place.
Instead, Wyoming struggled to find open space on the San Diego State side of the court all night.
“At the end of the day, we can’t beat anybody hitting .079 as a team and negative in the first set. It’s just not going to happen,” UW head coach Kaylee Prigge said. “I’ll have to watch the film to see exactly what went wrong other than uncharacteristic errors.”
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Prigge spent the week preparing her team to slow down the Aztecs’ Taylor Underwood, who finished with 14 kills in a three-set win in San Diego less than two weeks earlier.
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UW fared better against Underwood on Thursday, holding the junior to seven kills and a .208 hitting efficiency. Unfortunately, the Cowgirls couldn’t get their own offense going.
“Going into the week, I was concerned with how we were going to defend Taylor Underwood better, I thought we made some really good adjustments there and slowed her down considerably,” Prigge said.
UW middle Sarah Holcomb and senior setter Kasia Partyka were the lone bright spots. Holcomb finished with a team-high nine kills and two blocks; Partyka added five kills to go with 30 assists.
Following a standout week in which she hit .338 over eight sets, Wyoming sophomore hitter Paige Lauterwasser was limited to eight kills on 30 attempts by the Aztecs.
Shea Rubright carried the Aztecs with 10 kills while setter Sarena Gonzalez dished out 44 assists.
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“I told these guys that this was going to be a dogfight and that I thought at their place we didn’t really show up defensively, let them hit ungodly numbers and that wasn’t the key to winning. We needed to be gritty defensively,” Prigge said. “So that’s on me. I told them we needed to be better defensively and really we needed to be better offensively.”
San Diego State completed the season sweep against UW for the first time since 2012.
Wyoming will look to rebound when it hosts UNLV (10-12, 3-8) on Saturday at noon.
CASPER, Wyo. — A lone non-bearing wall was the sacrificial center of attention on Thursday morning for a promising new future in grief care in Casper.
“This is going to be Wyoming’s first grief care center,” said Central Wyoming Hospice & Transitions Executive Director Kilty Brown as she addressed people from the hospice board, staff and supporters, as well as architects and construction crews all packed into a stripped nondescript former lobby.
Central Wyoming Hospice purchased the single-story brown brick building at 245 S. Fenway recently with the intent of converting the structure into a counseling center with a mission of helping Casper residents cope with grief, depression and loss. The roughly 7,000-square-foot building, located just a block from their main facility, was previously used for various purposes by the Wyoming Medical Center. It will be completely gutted and rebuilt inside.
During the raucous event, various people involved in the projects took turns donning construction hats and glasses and swinging heavy hammers into the doomed drywall in the former office building.
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During her talk, Brown said the center began to realize over the years that the community is underserved when it comes to resources for grief.
“When we talked to families, people who had lost loved ones, 76% of them had experienced depression or anxiety, and about 56% had lost enjoyment in the things they loved, and then about 8% admitted that they were having feelings of self-harm,” she said. “That’s not something we can tolerate.”
Central Wyoming Hospice launched its grief care service in August 2023, with help funds from the American Rescue Plan Act issued during the pandemic. It opened in a temporary office at 111 S. Jefferson St. and plans to move into its customized facility on Fenway next summer.
Hospice Business Developer Liaison Taryn Houser says that counselors follow and assist families who use hospice for 13 months after their loved one has died. “It’s not just a call here and there, it’s really checking in on them every month, seeing what support they might need, sending letters, getting them through the first holidays, birthdays, and the date of their passing,” she said. “The plan is that they can come here if they need services, and we’ll have a lot of different services here.”
Houser said the center will be open free of charge to anyone in the community, not just for families who have gone through hospice care.
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Brandon Daigle, director of development and president of MOA Architecture, told the assembled crowd that everyone in the community has likely been touched by hospice and their work. “Projects like this are really important to MOA,” he said. “We consider this to be a socially relevant piece of architecture. It’s not a huge project, but it has a very significant impact.”
The current lobby near the building’s front entrance will remain a lobby, but will have a warmer, residential feel, he said. “This will be more like a living room, with a fireplace and nice reception space,” he said. “We really tied to keep as much natural daylight and introduce a whole bunch of new windows into the space.”
One wing will house counselors offices, a new break room and group session rooms, while another section will house staffing and operations. A chapel space will also be built into the new design, he said.
John Griffith, vice president of Sletten Construction, echoed their connection to the hospice operation. “This is more than just a project for us,” he said. “Every single person on our team, myself included, has had family members in some way or another touched by hospice.
It’s a busy time of year in Wyoming high school sports with events in every corner of the state. The Cross Country season came to a close over the weekend but the rest of the remaining fall sports have a few more days to go.
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Wyoming High School Sports Pics of the Week: Oct. 24-26
Wyoming High School Sports Pics of the Week: Oct. 24-26
Gallery Credit: James Yule, Greg Wise, Tony Montoya, Dave Treick, Kellie Jo Allison, Chrissy Sanchez, Leah Powell, Ashley Jessen, Erin Hager, Bridget Truempler, Frank Gambino, Libby Ngo, Robyn Cozzens,