Wyoming
Wyoming Legion Baseball Scoreboard: June 5-11, 2023
It is Week 10 of the Legion baseball season in Wyoming, and we have reached the third month of the season.
Several teams will be taking part in tournaments this week. Laramie and Torrington host, while other teams are going out of state to Idaho or Montana for tournament action.
A handful of conference games are also on tap this week.
Game schedules are subject to change. If you have an update or see a game missing, let WyoPreps know by emailing david@wyopreps.com.
Final Score: Gillette Riders 15 Rock Springs 0 – the Riders scored 5 in the 1st and added 9 more in the 2nd inning. S. Petersen and Hecker hit home runs. Partlow added 3 hits & 3 RBIs. Loftus tossed a no-hitter over 3 innings and struck out 5 with 1 walk.
Final Score: Gillette Riders 13 Rock Springs 3 – Riders scored 4 runs in the 1st and 2nd innings and closed it out in the 5th. C. Schilling led the way with 3 hits & 2 RBIs. Loftus added 2 hits & 2 RBIs.
Final Score: Lovell 20 Buffalo 12 – Mustangs prevail in a shootout. Lovell scored the last 8 runs after the game was tied, 12-12. Diaz-Rios had 3 hits & 5 RBIs for the Mustangs, while Files added 4 hits & 3 RBIs. Brunkhorst finished with 3 hits & 2 RBIs for the Bulls.
Final Score: Lovell 13 Buffalo 6 – the Mustangs scored 12 runs in the last 3 innings to pull away for the sweep. Rodriguez had 4 hits & 5 RBIs.
Final Score: Utah Yaks 12 Evanston 5 – 2.5-hour weather delay shortened the doubleheader to one, 9-inning game – Utah scored 8 runs in the first 3 innings.
Final Score: Jackson 11 Green River 0 – Wiley tossed a 1-hit shutout for the Giants. They scored 8 runs in the 4th to pull away. Fisher had 2 hits & 2 RBIs to lead the offense.
Final Score: Jackson 18 Green River 3 – the Giants needed only 4.5 innings for the sweep. Jackson scored 10 runs over the 1st two innings. A. Gralund had 4 hits and drove in 2. Kostial hit a home run.
Final Score: Casper Drillers 8 Torrington 7 – 9 inns. (conference game) – Drillers won on an error to end the game in extra innings. Casper took advantage of 7 Torrington errors.
Final Score: Casper Drillers 11 Torrington 1 (conference game) – the Drillers jumped out to an 8-1 lead. Speiser and Evan M. had 2 hits & 2 RBIs each.
Casper Oilers vs. Rapid City (SD) Post 320 Stars, 5 p.m. (in Sturgis, SD)
Cheyenne Hawks at Eaton, CO, 5 & 7 p.m.
Lovell at Cody, 5 & 7 p.m. (conference games) – KODI Listen Live
Wheatland at Douglas, 5 & 7 p.m. (conference games) –
Casper Oilers at Sturgis, SD, 7 p.m.
Jackson at Gillette Riders, 5 & 7:30 p.m. (conference games)
Tournaments
Dean Bullock Memorial Tournament in Torrington
Buffalo vs. Gering, NE, 4 p.m.
Rocky Mountain (CO) B at Torrington, 7 p.m. – KGOS Listen Live-Watch Live
Dooley Oil Classic in Laramie
Douglas vs. Westco Zephyrs (Scottsbluff, NE), 5 p.m.
Rock Springs at Laramie, 7:30 p.m. – KOWB Listen Live
Bandits Invitational Tournament – Battle at the Falls in Idaho Falls, ID
Cheyenne Sixers vs. Pocatello (ID) Runnin’ Rebels, 6 p.m. (Bonneville HS) – KRAE Listen Live
Buffalo Wild Wings Tournament in Billings, MT
Sheridan Jets at Billings (MT) Post 4 Red, 10 a.m. (Musburger Field)
Gillette Rustlers vs. Powell, 12:30 p.m. (Pirtz Field) – KPOW Listen Live
Sheridan Jets at Billings (MT) Blue Jays, 12:30 p.m. (Musburger Field)
Powell vs. Pocatello, ID, 3 p.m. (Pirtz Field) – KPOW Listen Live
Wheatland at Billings (MT) Cardinals, 3 p.m. (Musburger Field)
Cheyenne Hawks at Billings (MT) Post 4 Blue, 5:30 p.m. (Musburger Field)
Tournaments
Dean Bullock Memorial Tournament in Torrington
Buffalo vs. Fort Morgan, CO, 10 a.m.
Green River vs. Rocky Mountain (CO) B, 4 p.m.
Green River at Torrington, 7 p.m. – KGOS Listen Live-Watch Live
Dooley Oil Classic in Laramie
Rock Springs vs. Jefferson Academy (Broomfield, CO), 10 a.m.
Douglas vs. Sheridan Troopers, 12:15 p.m.
Sheridan Troopers vs. Canon City, CO, 2:30 p.m.
Castle Rock, CO at Laramie, 7 p.m. – KOWB Listen Live
Bandits Invitational Tournament – Battle at the Falls in Idaho Falls, ID
Cheyenne Sixers vs. RA Baseball Academy (Pleasant Grove, UT), 4 p.m. (Melaleuca Field) – KRAE Listen Live
Cheyenne Sixers at Idaho Falls (ID) Bandits, 7 p.m. (Melaleuca Field) – KRAE Listen Live
Buffalo Wild Wings Tournament in Billings, MT
Powell vs. Helena, MT, 10 a.m. (Pirtz Field) – KPOW Listen Live
Wheatland at Billings (MT) Post 4 Blue, 10 a.m. (Musburger Field)
Sheridan Jets vs. Colorado, 12:30 p.m. (Pirtz Field)
Gillette Rustlers vs. Helena, MT, 12:30 p.m. (Musburger Field)
Gillette Rustlers vs. Pocatello, ID, 3 p.m. (Musburger Field)
Wheatland vs. Cheyenne Hawks, 5:30 p.m. (Pirtz Field)
Cheyenne Hawks at Billings (MT) Cardinals, 8 p.m. (Pirtz Field)
GVO Memorial Tournament in Three Forks, MT
Cody vs. Havre, MT, 3:45 p.m. – KODI Listen Live
Cody at Gallatin Valley, MT, 6 p.m. – KODI Listen Live
Rawlins at Evanston, 2 & 4 p.m. (conference games) – Mylocalradio.com Listen-Watch Live
Casper Oilers vs. Pierre, SD, 3 p.m. (at Rapid City, SD)
Casper Oilers at Rapid City (SD) Post 22 Hardhats, 7 p.m.
Tournaments
Dean Bullock Memorial Tournament in Torrington
Pool A #3 vs. Pool B #3, 9 a.m.
Pool A #1 vs. Pool B #2, noon
Pool B #1 vs. Pool A #2, 3 p.m.
Championship, 6 p.m. (Winners of noon & 3 p.m. games)
Dooley Oil Classic in Laramie
Douglas vs. Canon City, CO, 10 a.m.
Sheridan Troopers vs. Westco Zephyrs (Scottsbluff, NE), 12:15 p.m.
Rock Springs vs. Castle Rock, CO, 2:30 p.m.
Jefferson Academy (Broomfield, CO) at Laramie, 7 p.m. – KOWB Listen Live
Bandits Invitational Tournament – Battle at the Falls in Idaho Falls, ID
Cheyenne Sixers vs. TBD – KRAE Listen Live
Buffalo Wild Wings Tournament in Billings, MT
Cheyenne Hawks vs. TBD
Gillette Rustlers vs. TBD
Powell vs. TBD – KPOW Listen Live
Sheridan Jets vs. TBD
Wheatland vs. TBD
GVO Memorial Tournament in Three Forks, MT
Cody vs. Lewistown, MT, 11:15 a.m. – KODI Listen Live
Cody vs. Dillon, MT, 1:30 p.m. – KODI Listen Live
Casper Oilers vs. Pierre, SD, 10 a.m. (at Rapid City, SD)
Lander at Dakota Ridge (Littleton, CO), 10 a.m. – County10.com Watch Live
Casper Oilers at Rapid City (SD) Post 22 Hardhats, noon
Green River at Rawlins, noon & 2 p.m. (conference games)
Tournaments
Dooley Oil Classic in Laramie – match play
Pool A #4 vs. Pool B #4, 9 a.m.
Pool A #3 vs. Pool B #3, 11:15 a.m.
Pool A #2 vs. Pool B #2, 1:30 p.m.
Pool A #1 vs. Pool B #1, 3:45 p.m. (championship)
Bandits Invitational Tournament – Battle at the Falls in Idaho Falls, ID
Cheyenne Sixers vs. TBD – KRAE Listen Live
Buffalo Wild Wings Tournament in Billings, MT
Cheyenne Hawks vs. TBD
Gillette Rustlers vs. TBD
Powell vs. TBD – KPOW Listen Live
Sheridan Jets vs. TBD
Wheatland vs. TBD
GVO Memorial Tournament in Three Forks, MT
Cody vs. Bitterroot (MT) Red Sox, 9 a.m. – KODI Listen Live
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming will sell a 1-square-mile (2.6-square-kilometer) parcel of pristine land bordering Grand Teton National Park to the U.S. government for $100 million after Gov. Mark Gordon signed off on a deal Friday that ends the state’s longstanding threats to unload it to a developer.
Under the agreement the federal government will pay the appraised value of $62.5 million for the property, while privately raised funds will supply the rest.
Carpeted by a mix of trees, shrubs and sagebrush, the rolling land has a commanding view of the iconic Teton Range and is prime habitat for animals including elk, moose and grizzly bears.
Gordon, a Republican, announced in a statement that he was approving the deal to add the land to the national park after his office ensured that a U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan for managing a vast area of southwestern Wyoming doesn’t carry too many restrictions on development including oil and gas drilling — a stipulation made by the state Legislature last winter.
Even so, Gordon criticized the BLM’s overall plan for the arid, minerals-rich area 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Grand Teton as “the Biden administration’s parting shot” at the state.
“I have been in contact with Wyoming’s congressional delegation and potential members of the incoming Trump Administration to fix the mess an ideological Biden administration is leaving for southwestern Wyoming,” Gordon said in the statement.
Interior Department officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Wyoming has owned the southeastern Jackson Hole property, bordered by Grand Teton on three sides and national forest on the fourth, since long before the national park’s establishment in 1929. It is the last and most valuable of four state-owned parcels sold to be annexed by the park in the past decade.
The federal government granted such lands to many states, particularly in the West, at statehood to help raise money for public education. Despite the location and astronomical value of the parcels, they brought in relatively little revenue for the state through grazing leases and other uses.
So over the years, governors have sought to goad federal officials into buying the lands by threatening to auction them off.
The Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners, made up of Gordon and the state’s other four top state elected officials, voted 3-2 in November to proceed with the sale after debating whether to negotiate a trade for federally owned mineral rights elsewhere in the state.
Wyoming archaeology and conservation groups, an eagle expert and two Albany County residents are asking a judge to stop a federal energy bureau and the U.S. Energy Secretary from advancing a vital step in building up to 149 wind turbines in the southeastern Wyoming county.
The critics say the devices will kill eagles and bats, harass wildlife, blast the locals with constant noise, and mar the landscape and the skyline of the Ames Monument National Historic Landmark.
The $500 million Rail Tie Wind Project is a proposed utility scale wind energy system scheduled to be built in southern Albany County, with its turbines measuring 500 to 675 feet tall — about the height of the Seattle Space Needle. It’s estimated to span across about 26,000 acres, prompt the construction of 60 miles of new roads and 109 stream crossings, court documents say.
The Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists and Albany County Conservancy on Monday asked a federal court to intervene in a critical step of the build, along with wildlife biologist J. Michael Lockhart and Albany County residents Michelle White and Natalia Johnson.
They filed their action in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming against Western Area Power Administrator Tracey LeBeau and U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
The Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) in 2022 issued a decision that will allow the project to graft into its high-voltage transmission lines.
That was based on “shallow” analysis of the turbines’ potential to kill eagles and bats, among other environmental and cultural harms, the petition alleges.
Neither WAPA nor the U.S. Department of Energy responded by publication time to email requests for comment.
Repsol, the company developing the Rail Tie Wind Project, is not named in Monday’s court action. The company did not immediately respond Friday to a late-day voicemail.
Ryan Semerad of the Fuller & Semerad Law Firm filed the petition on the concerned parties’ behalf. It asks the federal court to declare that WAPA’s decision authorizing a major step in the project violates federal laws and regulations, and to set it aside. The petition also asks the court to block the project’s progress until the WAPA has taken a more public-facing, receptive approach.
The groups and people challenging the action claim WAPA has held meetings in “secret,” floated undefined plans, avoided consultation and dodged meaningful conservation studies.
The petition also asks that WAPA and the Secretary of Energy pay the challengers’ attorney fees and grant any other “just and proper” action.
More Litigation
Monday’s filing is the latest in a yearslong conflict between the Rail Tie project and local residents.
In July, a group of residents near Tie Siding told Cowboy State Daily that they’ve put together a war chest of money to fight the wind energy project.
Deep-pocketed donors who live in the 4,300-acre Fish Creek Ranch Preserve have kicked in money to pay the legal bills to halt the Rail Tie project.
Otterbox founder Curt Richardson, who owns a cattle ranch in the area, and others have shown interest in the litigation. There are other big-name donors from the preserve who have contributed to the litigation war chest to fight Rail Tie.
There’s John Davis, a retired certified public accountant and lawyer from an Indianapolis water utility who built his dream cabin less than a mile from the border of Colorado in the foothills above the Laramie Plains.
Jim Grant also wants to see the project go away. He’s a well-known author who writes the thriller Jack Reacher novels under the pen name Lee Child and also lives near Tie Siding.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
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