The Green River tournament on Friday and Saturday was a large dual tournament. There were a lot of the best teams in the state at this event.

The Pinedale High School boys and girls grapplers are preparing for a major week of wrestling as they gear up for the Lander Invite at Lander Valley High School on Friday, Jan. 19, and Saturday, Jan. 20. Click the article to continue reading.

The seniors will instead be celebrated at 4 p.m., ahead of today’s meet against Lyman, Kemmerer and Jackson at Big Piney High School, 915 Piney Drive.

The Pinedale High School Wranglers boys’ basketball team fought hard on its home hardwood during the Pinedale Winter Classic on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 6-7. Pinedale’s Lady Wranglers' basketball team traveled to compete in the 3A Girls Winter Classic in Rawlins, where they beat out Worland, 51-38, and Thermopolis, 63-31.

Five Pinedale High School cheerleaders were nominated for All-State

Highlights from the weekend’s matches include Jake Hammer taking first place in the 138-pound division, McKinzie Mortensen nabbing first place in the 100-pound weight bracket and Katyana Dexter also snatching up first place in the 235-pound class.

Sublette County earned a total of 133 points against 3A and 4A champs from Lander, Laramie, Kemmerer and Jackson.

The PHS teams each tallied 21 points during the two days of competition, which opened on Friday, Jan. 5, with skiers competing in a 6.5Km freestyle or skate race. Saturday’s events began with a 10 a.m. mass start in the 5.5Km classic race.

We ended up winning the dual, 50-22. That improved our dual record for the year to 6-0.

The Sublette County Combined Boys Swim team tallied 51 points at the Kemmerer Holiday Invite on Dec. 30, taking on teams from Lyman, Evanston and Kemmerer.

Pinedale High School senior Josh Gosar tallied 1,000 career points in an away game against Kemmerer on Tuesday, Dec. 19, posting 29 points during the game to help the Wranglers defeat the Rangers, 76-48.

The Wranglers opened the season with a 50-24 victory over Rawlins on Dec. 7 and backed that up with a 68-54 win over Central on Dec. 8.

Our strengths this week were again on our feet. We have done a great job of attacking our opponents and earning takedowns. It is key for us to earn that first point and we spend a lot of time working on our feet to earn that takedown. It is paying off. I also thought this week we worked on being in a better position once we earned that take down and that was vastly improved this week.

The Pinedale Wrangler wrestling teams have had great starts to the 2023-24 season. On the weekend of Dec. 8-9, both the girls and boys competed at the Charlie Lake Invitational in Cheyenne. Both teams did an outstanding job.

The international tournament is considered “A True Tournament of Champions where a showcase of elite North American teams compete for the coveted Silver Stick” – a sterling silver pin from the organization is the only youth hockey tournament recognized by the Canada Hockey Hall of Fame, according to its website.

The Big Piney Puncher wrestling teams made huge strides in the Marsh Valley Invitational this week, in preseason competition against 26 other boys’ varsity, junior varsity and girls’ teams.

Winter sports schedules for BPHS and PHS.

Hamby is a prep standout four-sport varsity letterman at PHS. He lettered for the Pinedale Wranglers’ golf team all four years of high school, received All-Conference honors for the previous three seasons, helped his team win third at the 3A West Conference this season and was also awarded All-State honors during the 2023 campaign. Hamby took fifth place at the 3A State Tournament with scores of 73 and 75.

Congratulations to these stand-out student athletes!

War Memorial Stadium wasn’t filled with 26,000 screaming fans on that cold afternoon in Laramie, but the small towns of Big Piney, Marbleton and LaBarge, showed up for their kids, traveling 624 miles roundtrip to bring enough noise and energy to the stands to convince any listener that the game was held on the Punchers’ home turf. “I’ve always believed a football team could bring an energy and a togetherness to a community and that was on full display at the War,” Moffat said late Monday night. “Our side was packed with young elementary kids, former players and alumni, some lifelong Big Piney community members and so many families who made the trip to support this football team.”