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The horses were saddled up and kids were running everywhere. The Annual Pine Bluffs Trail Days Youth Rodeo was held on August 6th at 12:00 p.m. There were 120 contestants for this year's event. The trailers were around the arena with kids and parents wandering through. The food trucks were busy with people waiting to get food. The grounds were buzzing with participants and spectators visiting with each other on how everyone was doing. Families were cheering contestants on to continue their...
The Pine Bluffs Hornets fall sports season is officially underway. The Hornets football team started preseason practice on Monday , Aug. 15th and they are looking to have a championship year. With seven starters on both the offense and defense returning they should have a solid team this year. In an interview Coach Gray said this about the 1A nine-man East this year. "I think it will be competitive like it always is. Adding Guernsey to the mix will be interesting as they transitioned from 6-man....
The Trail Days Horseshoe Tournament was held on Saturday Aug 6th. Citizens are still concerned about large gatherings but still there was a good turnout for the event. There were eight teams that competed in the tournament mostly Pine Bluffs residents. Each team consisted of two participants and played in a round robin contest. All contestants were from Pine Bluffs except as noted. The team of Brian Andreas (from Cheyenne) and Anthony Garcia took top honors. Zach Fornstrom and Dolly Sanders...
Stuart Lerwick, the Pine Bluffs Hornets football and basketball stand-out athlete has another title to his credits. Lerwick has been named as the Wyoming News Now Prep Athlete of the Year. Lerwick who will be a senior in the 2022-23 season is considered as one of the best athletes in Laramie County and the state of Wyoming. Lerwick is a two-time All-State honoree in football and basketball. He led the 1A-9 Man football league in passing yards with 2,215, passing completion with 63.5% and...
The shoes are tied and the Fitbits were checked for start time. The annual Longhorn Stampede 5K fun run/walk was on Saturday August 6th at 7:00 a.m. There were 48 runners and seven dogs. Some participants pre-registered and others registered on the day of the 5K. The ages ranged from 14 to 70 years and possibly older. The participants are divided into different age categories. Friends, families, and individuals enjoyed the time competing on a calm, cool morning just right for a race. Each partic...
A beautiful morning dawning cool with scattered clouds in the sky. The perfect day for folks to get together and have a little or a lot of fun. Water, mud, and lots of bumping the volleyball was on the roster for the day. Sunday August 7th out at Pine Bluffs Distilling was Mud Volleyball. There were 24 teams with three courts. The fans were cheering the teams on in a double elimination bracket. It started at 10:00 a.m. and ended around 5:00 p.m. Some of the teams played forever according to the...
I would like to depart from my usual sports writings and cover a different kind of sport. The sport of motorcycle racing. There is a family that competes from the Mom, Dad and uncle all the way down to the four-year old daughter. Harley Butler is a 4 year old motorcycle racer that competes out of Cheyenne. She races in the Tri State Circuit which has events in Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming. Harley Butler is not only the youngest racer in the Butler family but she is also the youngest racer in h...
The line was out the door to get items signed by a saddle bronc rider. Pine Bluffs Distilling released a rye whiskey picked by Brody Cress. A few months ago Brody Cress came to Pine Bluffs Distilling to pick a barrel of whiskey. At the time he was interested about the whiskey along with other things. Chad Brown and Brody Cress figured around Cheyenne Frontier Days would be a great time to release the new whiskey. Cress was first in average at the National Professional Rodeo in La Vegas, NE.,...
Laramie County Ranch Rodeo rides again. The teams were lined up to do their events for the beginning of the Laramie County Fair which started on July 23rd with the Ranch Rodeo. The Ranch Rodeo has four events. Three of the events are done with a team of four. The teams start with branding a calf. One member ropes the calf's back legs then two of the members wrestle the calf down and the last member will brand the calf with a powder iron. Next the team works on roping two steers. One steer is...
The Grand Marshal for Bushnell Day has been in and out of Bushnell for years. Roger Gillming is the Grand Marshal of Bushnell Day 2022 Gillming went to college to be a CPA but found it was not what he thought it was. In his sophomore year he had to make a decision to do better or take a different route, so he finished his teaching degree in sociology at Kearney College. He married his first wife Sid in !974. He then went to St. Paul Kansas Methodist Seminary School in !979. Gillming moved to Bus...
Pine Bluffs, Burns, and Grover had their last games of the summer. On Thursday July 21 the Burns and Pine Bluffs ball fields were full with players and parents. These were the last games of the season, and the players and parents were tired by the end of it. Burns played Grover with Pee Wee, T-Ball and Sr. T- Ball. The Pee Wee only played a half hour, but by the time they were finished they were pretty tuckered out. However the rain helped cool everyone off for the end of the season. The T-ball...
The twists and turns are demonstrated by the Burns High School students during warm up. The Burns/Pine Bluffs Jr High Wrestling camp was July 11th through the 14th. Coach Dan Clayson and coach Brittany Mitchell along with high school wrestlers put the camp on. Throughout this time the students were taught how to shoot and defend a takedown. They know about the score in neutral scramble positions. The coaches had taught them how to escape or reverse the defensive position which includes...
The kids have their ball gloves on and are ready to go out on the field. On July 14th Burns vs Pine Bluffs were playing ball games. It ranged from T-Ball clear up to Little League. The Pee Wee and T- Ball teams have so many runs until they switch from hitting to the field for an hour. This is fair for everyone to get a chance to play and learn the different positions. Basically, running in the right direction and throwing to the right base to get the player out. For Sr. T-Ball and Little League...
The animals had the upper hand for the night. On July 15th the Hell on Wheels Rodeo was at the Archer Event Center. The rodeo season has one month to go and it has been a busy season for all the contestants. With rain on and off for the night, rodeo contestants were determined that the show must go on at the arena. Fortunately everyone was prepared with rain coats or umbrellas to watch the rodeo. For Bareback Riding there was Chase Vossler from Hillsdale. At the end no one scored except the...
8U Flag Race Adelynn Crowder 16.63 Kinzlee Sorensen 24.24 8U Barrel Racing Sage Durner 21.15 Bexley Baker 23.03 Ashton Belle Cathcart 23.68 Jr Barrel Racing Kaige Reisdorfer 15.37 Koralee Mandel 16.66 Kashley Fornstrom 17.36 Kwincee Fornstrom 17.52 Giorgetta(Jetta) Varra 17.69 Sr Barrel Racing Shea Montgomery 16.15 Ashlyn Henderson 16.80 Layla lerwick 17.00 Ashley Kisicki 17.06 Emily Whitney 17.11 8U Pole Bending Mesa Wiedman 23.39 Sage Durner 32.36 Bexley Baker 33.51 Adelynn Crowder 44.98...
One of our local high school alumni achieved one of her goals in May by competing in a national level track meet. Jourdaine Cerenil, a 2020 graduate of Pine Bluffs High School and member of the Hornets track and field team competed in the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Allendale, Mich. Cerenil, only a sophomore at Chadron State College, has set records and currently holds the 14th spot in the Division II high jump. Cerenil, a national qualifier in the women's high...
Luck was being thrown around on Albin day. July 9th at 4:30 p.m. the Annual Horseshoe Tournament took place. The horseshoe pits were filled by five teams playing for the honor of being called the best "horseshoesmen" in town. Each player on the team is at opposite pits with another team. There are always lots of challenges throughout the tournament. Each player is trying get the most points to win with a score of 21. The ringer is the best points of the day of course. This is when the horseshoe...
The bean bags were flying across the tundra during The Second Annual Cornhole Tournament at 4:30 p.m. on July 9th at Albin Day. This year the adults and the kids had separate brackets. For the kids there were six teams. They were excited to enter into their own area of play. Playing with a similar age opponent makes the game fun for the day. The winners of the kids bracket are: First place was the team of Caden Nichols and Fletcher Hanson and Second place was the team of Kendy Jo Miller and Jan...
A while back we wrote about a group of students from Burns High School that wanted to participate in a trap and skeet shooting team. Bryce Humphrey, Kody Foley and Madison Foley found a team in Cheyenne. They teamed up with Cheyenne East High School last year and will again be competing with the Cheyenne East High School Trap and Skeet shooting club this year. The team should be looking for great things from the Burns participants as they did very well last year. The team competes in the 1A...
The fireworks were not the only boom in the Pine Bluffs area. The Annual Pine Bluffs Sportsman Club meeting was held on the Fourth of July. There were over thirty people that attended the meeting. The meeting was started by President Tom Xiao with the pledge of allegiance. At this time President Xiao asked if there were and new members and then had them introduce themselves. Xiao thanked Penny Merryfield for having created a check list(agenda) for him to follow. He announced that the first Thurs...
There was laughter and a lot of talk about who is better on the field on Wednesday night for the softball players. It does not matter what age anyone is as long as people have a team and are having fun. On June 29th at 6 p.m. two Pine Bluffs teams were facing off for the night. The two teams were the Ball Grabbers and Laramie County Fire Department #5. The Ball Grabbers are some young players who mostly has graduated from Pine Bluffs High School. LCFD No. 5 are active firefighters that work and...
The Hornets football team started their season with football camp up in Chadron at the beginning of the month. It was a good chance for the players to get back in to the swing of things. Drills, exercise and basics before actual practice starts. The official season will start in August with practice and the boys are pretty excited to begin. According to Coach Gray the week went well. "We had two teams rolling so lots of kids got reps." Coach Gray also stated that "We took 30 kids, the weather...
Sportsmanship and decorum are very important elements in athletics, especially at the high school level. The Wyoming High School Activities Association released their annual list of schools that did not have a player or coach ejected from a game or match for the entire 2021-22 athletic season. And yes the Pine Bluffs Hornets are on the list. CLASS 2A EAST – BIG HORN, GLENROCK, NIOBRARA COUNTY, PINE BLUFFS, SUNDANCE, AND TONGUE RIVER. It is important to win, but more important to play with honor and respect. It is a positive reflection on the H...
A Burns High School student placed fifth at the state High School rodeo competition. Colby Smith from Burns rode at the Wyoming State finals in Buffalo, Wyoming. Smith has been in rodeo since he saw his first rodeo at the age of eleven years old. He started out in little Britches and now in High School. In the last few years Smith has been doing the Saddle Bronc. He would like to add team roping next. All year he has placed fourth to 23rd throughout the high school rodeo season. For the Wyoming...
