NWC’s Demetrice Jacobs, shown here against Dawson, ranks among the nation’s leaders in steals and 3-point shooting percentage, according to the latest batch of stats released by the NJCAA. Despite the effort, the Trapper men continue to sit just outside the national top-25 poll. Tribune photo by Randal Horobik
NWC men get four votes in latest poll
The loss of a nine-game winning streak cost the Trappers a few votes in the latest NJCAA top-25 men’s basketball poll. Northwest College continues to reside just outside of the top-25 with an 18-4 season record.
The Trappers continue to lead the Region IX North sub-region. Casper College (17-6), North Platte (18-3) and Sheridan (17-4) also garnered votes from among Region IX. Like Northwest College, none of the three received enough support among pollsters to appear in the top 25.
The Powell High School Panthers endured a difficult weekend as the team suffered losses of 91-60 at Worland and 55-28 at home against Lovell. The losses drop the team to 2-12 overall this season.
“This was kind of an odd week,” said Panther head coach Mike Heny, who was out of town at a conference for much of the week leading up to the games. “It was a little strange not being here for the preparation for the games and then being on the bench to coach."
A young bighorn sheep ram, though blindfolded, may have found being captured for relocation to the Seminoe Mountains a bit disconcerting. Still, none of the 12 sheep captured by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, airlifted and then transported in trailers, were injured. Tribune photo by Gib Mathers
Bighorn sheep transferred sans complications
It was almost a carnival atmosphere Friday, when around 50 people took part in, or witnessed, the capture and radio collaring of 12 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the Big Horn Mountain’s Devil’s Canyon area near Lovell.
The sheep were transferred Saturday to the Seminoe Mountains, north of Sinclair.
Participating in or watching the capture were personnel from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Powell High School students, media and helicopter crews.
A swarm of mostly imperceptible earthquakes continues to shake Yellowstone National Park in what is now the park’s second-largest on record.
From the swarm’s beginnings on Jan. 17 through Monday morning, some 1,620 quakes were recorded by seismologists in the park, which sits atop a gigantic volcanic caldera. The activity is centered around the northwest corner of the Yellowstone caldera, in the back-country between West Yellowstone, Mont., and Old Faithful.
Much like the Trappers’ Zach Oppenheimer during this snapshot from his Friday night match against No. 3 ranked Bradley Banks of Iowa Central, the NJCAA wrestling rankings could be turned upside down following a weekend of action at the Apodaca Dual Showdown. NWC defeated a pair of top-7 teams and narrowly missed knocking off No. 1 Iowa Central. Tribune photo by Randal Horobik
NWC bests two top-10 foes, narrowly misses vs. No. 1
The fourth-ranked Northwest College Trapper wrestling team scored resounding wins against No. 3 North Idaho and No. 7 Highline on Saturday and narrowly missed taking down three-time defending national champion and top-ranked Iowa Central on Friday at the 2010 installment of the Apodaca Dual Showdown.
“I’m really happy with what we did and what we accomplished,” said NWC head coach Jim Zeigler. “We learned a lot about ourselves this week and I’m happy with how it turned out.”
The Lady Panther’s Class 3A foes in Worland gave them little trouble on Friday, but regional rival Lovell got the better of the Powell High School girls’ basketball team on Saturday.
“Lovell made the shots they needed to and we didn’t,” said PHS head coach Luke Danforth.
Riding some hot shooting from behind the 3-point line, the Class 2A Lady Bulldogs (14-4) took a 51-41 decision at the Panther Gym.
