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Top 5 and local racers listed July 4 IMCA Modified 1. Justen Yeager, Green River 2. Zane Devilbiss, Farmington, N.M. 3. Casey Delp, Rock Springs 4. Chase Hansen, Myton, Utah 5. Regan Tafoya, Farmington, N.M. 6. Braxton Yeager, Green River 10. Chris Delp, Rock Springs 13. Scott Verner, Green River 15. Ronnie Roy, Rock Springs 16. Lakota Cleveland, Rock Springs 18. Justin Wright, Rock Springs 19. Bert Beech, Rock Springs IMCA Sport Modified 1. Tony Dugan, Denver 2. Jason Wright, Rock Springs 3....
The final home games for the Green River Knights didn't go the way they would have wanted. A double header against the Cody Cubs Sunday ended with the Knights being swept and the Cubs winning 15-4 and 16-4. "We did not execute," head coach Benjamin Lail said. "We laid an egg." Lail said the team struggled to hit the ball, but was happy with pitching from senior captains Ramsay Taliaferro and Joe Schultz. For those two, it would be their last time playing at Stratton Myers Park as Knights, which...
Green River’s Zac Taylor recorded a pair of top-10 finishes with the POWRi Lucas Oil Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association and it happened in just one day. The fourth annual Midget Round Up at Airport Raceway in Garden City, Kan., was rained out Friday, compressing the two-day show into a one-day affair Saturday with two complete programs. During the first show, Taylor started and finished fifth in his heat race, which relegated him into the B Main. “We got to second, which put us in the show, but we had to start 18th,” he said. “Todd...
The Green River Knights came away from Thursday’s double header against the Riverton Raiders with a win and a loss and now have their sights set on the Cody Cubs, another team head coach Benjamin Lail believes to be a tough challenge for his squad. Against Riverton, the Knights came away with a 1-0 win in extra innings in the first game. That score came from Dallan Serrano after a hit from Dax Peterson. The Raiders made a comeback in the second game of the night however, with the game ending 1...
Members of the Green River High School tennis team shared their knowledge and love of the sport during a clinic hosted at the high school last week. According to head coach Phil Harder, the clinic attracted 40 participants, 20 of which ranged between incoming fifth-grade students to incoming high-school freshmen. Harder said they've been able to teach third and fourth-grade students how to rally the ball and other important skills by the end of four-day long clinic. Aside from that, Harder said...
After winning 13 of their last 14 games, the Green River Knights are looking to topple the first-ranked Riverton Raiders in double-header baseball action Thursday. The games are scheduled to start at 5 and 7 p.m., respectively at the Stratton Myers Park ball field. When talking about the Knights' successes, head coach Benjamin Lail credits the team's hard work, as well as his coaching staff and the four senior leaders on the team. Those leaders are Joe Schultz, Dallan Serrano, Ramsay Taliaferro...
Dedication, determination and discipline are all qualities this woman has to pursue her passion. Amy Manzanares has spent the last 14 years transforming her body from year to year to compete in body-building competitions, which are sponsored by the National Physique Committee. When Manzanares isn't busy competing she works at the Green River High School media center. Prior to that, she was a sign-language interpreter. She also is the GRHS assistant track coach. For Manzanares, being active is...
Pets across Green River in need of help received what their owners wanted them to thanks to community donations. For the past few years, the Golden Hour Senior Center has participated in the Care For Critters program. This program encourages residents to help seniors and homebound residents by donating pet food, toys, beds and anything else a pet might need. Irish Kreis, GHSC activities and marketing coordinator, said this year they filled 77 tags with pet requests and all of those requests...
For some sportsmen, trophies are more slippery than shiny and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has launched a new program to recognize the anglers reeling them in. The department has launched its Master Angler program to recognize anglers who catch trophy-sized game fish in Wyoming waters. Trophy fish represent the largest 5 percent of the 24 eligible species. Participating in the program is easy, even if catching a trophy is challenging. An angler who lands a fish that meets or exceeds the minimum qualifying length from snout to the tip...
Recent Green River High School graduate Michaelee Wisniewski will continue her soccer career playing for the Lady Mustangs at Western Wyoming Community College this fall. The team announced Wisniewski’s signing on its blog. According to coach Jeff Atkinson, Wisniewski signed her letter of intent last week, making a commitment to play shortly before graduation. He said the she plays a center defender and her tough, aggressive play coupled with her speed and athleticism made her a person A...
Wyoming will receive more than $17 million to support critical state conservation and outdoor recreation projects this year, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is granted this funding annually from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration acts. The funding is part of more than $1 billion going to state wildlife agencies from revenues generated by excise taxes paid by the hunting, shooting, boating and...
One of the Green River Knights will be going to college in Montana to play college baseball as a Buccaneer. Joe Schultz, a recent Green River High School graduate, signed a letter of intent to play for Dawson Community College in Glendive, Mont., last week. For Schultz, baseball has been a lifelong love, being first introduced to the game when he was four years old. "I got hooked really early," he said. He said he used to watch televised games and dream of playing at a higher level. As for...
Six members of the Green River Wolves Track team achieved their personal bests at State. Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, track teams traveled to Kelly Walsh High School in Casper to compete in the 2019 State Outdoor Track Championships. Green River qualified a team of five boys and five girls. In the girls 3,200-meter run, senior Kaisa Arnell improved on her previous best time by almost three seconds in finishing 15th in the field of 21 State qualifiers. Marcos Valerio, also a senior, took 11th for the boys in the 3,220-meter run in...
Two Lady Wolves soccer players were named All-Conference after the coaches’ votes were cast. Raena Finch and Michaelee Wisniewski were both placed on the 2019 Wyoming Coaches’ Association 4A All-Conference list. Head coach Tracy Wyant said it was great both of these ladies were added to this list. Only the top eight in each category including, goal keeper, defender, midfielder and forwards, receive this honor. All Conference is determined after all of the coaches vote for who they think the bes...
It wasn’t the way anyone on the Wolves soccer team wanted to end their State run in Jackson. After two games, the Wolves’ season ended without a win. The Wolves took on Cheyenne East Thursday morning, falling 2-1 to the Thunderbirds. They then took on Kelly Walsh the following day in the consolation bracket. While the Wolves have had some success against the Trojans throughout the season, including a 1-0 win at Regionals a week prior, the Trojans ended the Wolves’ season 2-0. Three Wolves were...
Green River’s Zac Taylor has not finished outside of the top three during his first three races of the season. That includes his recent runner-up result - despite a damaged steering part - last Saturday at El Paso County Raceway during only his second career non-wing sprint car start. Two weeks ago, Taylor scored his first-ever non-wing sprint car win at the track and last week he drove to a third-place finish in a Grand American Modified on asphalt. “This is an incredible start to the year, especially when you consider I’ve never driven a non...
A Wolf will be going to college in South Dakota. Green River High School senior Marcos Valerio signed a letter of intent to compete for Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., on the Yellowjackets' cross country, indoor track and outdoor track teams. While at the university, he plans to study business and management. "I've always taken business classes in high school," Valerio said. "It's always been something that's interested me." Valerio said he liked the location, team and...
One of the Wolves' leaders on the basketball court has signed with nearby Western Wyoming Community College to play junior college basketball as a Mustang. Chase Stoeger signed his letter of intent last week at the Green River High School Activities Office. Stoeger said he ultimately plans to obtain a degree in chemical engineering. Stoeger said he wanted to play for a team that wanted him to play, saying the coaches at Western made it clear they want him on the court. He also chose Western...
This weekend the Green River girls and boys track team traveled west to Evanston to compete in the 4A West Regional Track Championships. The team competed against Kelly Walsh, Evanston, Rock Springs, Star Valley, Jackson, Riverton and Cody. The top eight finishers in each event qualify for State, except in the relays, where the top four teams qualify. The young Wolves head coach Dan Hansen felt that his team “competed pretty well, but there were a few kids that were a little short of qualifying. Hansen said with the new conference alignment, t...
Head coach Chris Bieber said the Wolves could beat any team they were pitted against at Regionals, and the Wolves proved him right by nearly taking the regional championship. The Wolves started the tournament with a do-or-die game against their rivals from Rock Springs, where a loss would mean the end of the Wolves’ season. The two teams had close games previously, the first being a 2-1 win for the Wolves at home and later a 1-1 tie in Rock Springs. However, the previous meetings between the W...
