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NEWCASTLE:
NHS Boys Basketball
1/4 v9 Wonand HS A 3PM
NHS Girls Basketball
1/4 VJVWo‘rlanleS A 3PM
1. NHS Wrestling 1
1/7 VJ GlenrockHS 1 A 6PM
NHS Boys Swimming 7 . ~
1/8 GilletteAC ‘ .ij _4PM
UPTON: ‘
UMS Girls Basketball
12/3 MSGBB Twin Spruce ‘ 4:30PM
UHS Girls Basketball 11 1“.
1/7 JV NSI “ H1’4:3QPM
UHS Boys Basketball
1/7 v NSI H‘ 6PM
there
hen we started
the school year in
August, I wasn’t
sure how long we’d be able
to be in the classroom, and.
when fall sports also began
in August, I wasn’t sure they
would finish their seasons.
As of Friday afternoon,
we managed to complete the
fall semester face-to-face, and
not only did the fall sports
complete their 2020 seasons,
but the winter sports got under
way as well.
Living under the constant
cloud of COVID-l9 hasn’t
made these last four months
easy with the uncertainty of ‘
James Cox achieved a goal he set for himself early in his high school
career by qualifyingf'ot'. titefi'ittggthtb
competition. The senior punched his ticket on Friday by qualifying in the
ma Sa‘atkistl‘oke, and {anew/“ed that‘Up-filttfh fl flying time
‘ ’
on Saturday. ‘ ' 'I I I
.Three uali
what it, weelg'o'r ‘
even day'was gomg to bring.
Would we come back to the
first weekend of competition.
,l/ .1";
classroom on Monday? Would
Sonja Karp
Qualifying for the state
meet is no easy that, and this '7
we get to play the game on NLJ Sports Reporter “We had a really great
start
Friday? Will I test positive for to the season, probably the year the
challenge was made
COVID? The Dogie swimmers had best we’ve ever had,“ head even tougher
by new, fasten '
It tookaminute for to wait three weeks to get coach Doug Scribner smiled.
times set by the: WHSAA,
Newcastle to feel the weight their season under way, but “They’ve been
working hard. which makes tin‘ :»uri::;11nplish—
of the virus, but when it hit, it the men evidently made the and our goal
is to get up ‘0 ments of the tw: ~;.wirinriers
hit hard. most of their practice time as where were hm . even more
irnprcsfivt’. ‘
When iamesCox, Zade (‘ii‘sborn and as 5mm as pm“ .~ iarncs i'm
«mml out his?
a major Ramsey Gross all punched the [p c ‘1 ‘ : i i
"-.?ii:y'ittg
employer their tickets to the state meet this \‘z'eciomd, we :m; x z
1 in ‘1. ‘ ,iiis
for the in one or more events in their good shape to do that.“ signatnn:
race, it the dual
community ‘
mass tested . ._, . _ _ . . .
— which '
resulted in . .
a 1es ominate 111
20 positive ~
results ~—
we braced Sonja Karp Bulldogs scoreless for most of the
NLJ Sports Reporter first quarter.
Athree-point shooting spree ignited
The Lady Dogie hoopsters faced a by Jaylen Ostenson sinking three
CUl’l”
mixed bag of competition last week as secutive Shots from beyond the arc
they hosted the No. 4—ranked 2A Lady inspired
Maclécnzie'(‘onm‘lman to get
for a tier tWo possibility at the
school. Fortunately, that sce-
nario didn’t come to fruition.
However, the increase in
positive cases across the state,
1'“ " “ ‘ v "‘1': . d l
in early November put the Bulldogs from Sundancc on Thursday in on the
action and she nailcd hm Ni wronds to go but firs “16%th phdhfl .
winter sports in a precarious then travelled to Laramie on Saturday to own
in the next trip. and then Shelby chiral with Newcastle 19—52"
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take on the 4A Lady Plainsmen.
In their home opener against so the next time down sin“ draimr?
Sundance, the Lady Dogies put on a one herself.
clinic for fans both offensively and “It’s contagious,” head coach
(Ilia/i “'iilrli.vltl1l’c‘ti‘ overZ4tiifi§S,
defensively as they held the Lady Ostenson said. “When one shirts to hit
(in inand'holdingthemt
Tidyman didn‘t turn In be outdone. i ‘iti_‘,. Bulldogs. ‘ I I.
'i he Lady Dogies also did,
1.». defensive side oflthej'b’a
position, and after Wyoming
Gov. Mark Gordon instituted
a mask mandate, coaches,
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