Crazy week for Cowboy Athletics! The Cowgirls won the Woodland Hills Holiday Inn Thanksgiving Basketbal Classic Championship with wins over Tennessee-Chattanooga and Wichita State. In the tournament Cowgirl basketball players were selected for honors. Aubrey Vandiver was named to the all-tournament team, while teammate Hilary Carlson was named the tournament MVP. The Cowgirls also had a loss to UC-Irvine last night. The Anteaters defeated the Cowgirls 65-53 in Irvine, CA. The Cowgirls are looking to improve their record this week as they take on Idaho in Laramie.
The Cowboy basketball team is fresh off of an appearance at the Cancun Classic hosted in sunny Cancun, Mexico. The Cowboys started off the tournament facing #11 Missouri. The Tigers full court press proved to be too much for the Pokes, as they lost 72-62. The Pokes made a nice comeback after being down several points, but their upset bid was squashed by the Tigers. In the consolation game the Cowboys were beaten by perennial contender Providence 84-77. The Pokes will try to get back on track this week when they take on South Dakota and Indiana State.
Cowboy wrestler Cole Dallaserra has earned another WWC wrestler of the week award, the second time this year, after a 2nd place finish in the Kaufman-Brand Classic. The wrestler from Butte, America is now 8-1 on the season. The #14 ranked Pokes will get back in action this Saturday as they take on the #22 Nebraska Cornhuskers. Tickets are selling fast, so make sure to get yours early.
Two Cowboy football players have been selected as all Mountain West performers. Junior defensive end Josh Biezuns and senior safety Chris Prosinski were named to the 2nd team of the all-Mountain West teams. Honorable mentions were Tashaun Gipson, Brian Hendricks, Gabe Knapton, Austin McCoy, Alvester Alexander, and Nick Carlson. Wyoming Cowgirl volleyball player Jodi Purdy, a sophomore OH from Winterset, Iowa, was named to the 1st team of the all-Mountain West team this week as well.
In Mountain West news this week, the Texas Christian Horned Frogs accepted an invitation to play all sports in the Big East Conference this week. The Horned Frogs, who joined the Mountain West in 2005, who move on and be a part of a conference that has an automatic bid to the BCS bowl games. The Horned Frogs are 12-0 this season and are looking at a Rose Bowl this season. The Frogs will play one more season in the Mountain West then move to the Big East for the 2012-2013 athletic seasons. The Mountain West presidents will be meeting on December 10th to discuss further expansion plans. No teams are officially being discussed right now, but rumored teams include SMU, UTEP, Houston, and Hawaii. Utah State could also be on the radar. College football movement is very fluid right now, so anything is bound to happen.
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Archive for November, 2010
Cowgirls win Holiday hoops, TCU Leaves Mtn West
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 by brad in Blog, News
The Boot Stays in Laramie
Sunday, November 21st, 2010 by brad in Blog, NewsThe Bronze Boot is staying in Laramie. The Wyoming Cowboys defeated the Colorado State Rams in dominating fashion, posting the most lopsided victory in series history, but beating the Rams 44-0 in Laramie on Saturday. The Pokes were led by sophomore running back Alvester Alexander who rushed for 152 yards and 5 touchdowns. The Cowboys won the annual Border War for the second straight year. This is the first time the Cowboys have won two in a row versus the Rams since 1991/1992. Quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels posted his second best game of the season by throwing for for 267 yards and rushing for one touchdown. Stepping up on defense was converted defensive end Josh Biezuns who turned in 7 tackles and 3.5 sacks. Chris Prosinski finished his Cowboy career with 108 tackles this season. He finishes his Cowboy career with 373 tackles, which ranks him in the top 5 of all-time Cowboy tacklers.
The Cowboys football season is now over with the team finishing 3-9 on the season, 1-7 in the Mountain West conference. The Pokes coaching staff hit the road today to start recruiting, there are a lot of scholarships to fill this offseason.
We are now fully into the Cowboy and Cowgirl basketball season, as well as the Cowboy wrestling season. The Cowboy basketball team has been up and down so far this season, with wins over Kean University and Western Illinois, while losing to North Florida and Northern Colorado. The Cowgirls have wins over Colorado Christian, Denver, and Dickinson State, with a loss to Creighton. The Cowboy wrestlers are picking up where they left off by placing several wrestlers in the Cowboy Open, and six wrestlers in the Omaha Open. Cowboy junior Joe LeBlanc won his match in the NWCA Invite by defeating the #5 AJ Kissel from Purdue. Shane Onufer lost his match to #5 Josh Asper of Maryland. The two Cowboys were invited to the prestigious event which tries to pit the top wrestlers in each weight class against each other to bring attention to the sport.
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Cowboys’ Season in Free-Fall
Sunday, November 14th, 2010 by brad in Blog, NewsShortly before Christmas of 2004 the Cowboys were victorious at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, pulling an upset of the UCLA Bruins live in front of an ESPN audience, led by Corey Bramlet. Six years later the Cowboys were at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas trying to salvage a football season and build for next year. The Cowboys, who were eliminated from bowl contention, were playing for pride and the seniors at this point. The Cowboys were looking to win a football game a week after being humiliated by a loss to New Mexico. The Pokes came out with fire to start the game, with Alvester Alexander running 76 yards for a Cowboy touchdown on the first play from scrimmage. The Cowboys followed the touchdown up with an onside kick attempt, a play that worked a week earlier at New Mexico. The Rebels recovered and the momentum swung to UNLV for the remainder of the game. The Cowboy defense had trouble slowing up Rebel running back Tim Cornett who rushed for four touchdowns, and Rebel quarterback Omar Clayton who tossed three scores. The Rebels marched up and down the field with drives that kept the Cowboy defense on the field. The Rebels also converted three fourth down attempts. A scary moment at the end of the game came when Cowboy running back Robert Herron landed awkwardly on a UNLV defender making the tackle and was carted off of the football field by ambulance and taken to a local hospital. He was released today and has made the trip back to Laramie. Final score was Rebels 42, Wyoming 16.
Next week is the Border War in Laramie. The Cowboys and Rams will meet up for the 101st time. The Bronze Boot will be on the line, which is currently in Wyoming’s possession. The Cowboys won last year in Fort Collins 17-16. The Rams are 3-8 on the season.
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Pokes Fall to New Mexico
Monday, November 8th, 2010 by brad in Blog, NewsThe unthinkable happened. Wyoming showed up in Albuquerque 11 months after they started the Capital One bowl season with one of the most memorable bowl games of the 2009 season. The defense led by seniors John Fletcher and Mitch Unrein stood up NCAA rushing leader Ryan Matthews on the 1 yard line to seal a double overtime victory over Fresno State. Eleven months later the Cowboys were looking to stop the bleeding on a hemorrhaging season against a winless New Mexico Lobos football team. The Lobos were ripe for the picking as they were starting a new QB this game, Stump Godfrey, who was making his first start for the Lobos. Godfrey proved to be the Cowboy killer as he engineered numerous 3rd down conversions to spark the Lobos to victory on a last second field goal. The Cowboys had their opportunities in this game as they were within scoring range on three different drives and turned the ball over inside of New Mexico territory three times. Two came from freshman running back Robert Herron, and one from Austyn Carta-Samuels. ACS also fumbled the football on a sack, which gave New Mexico the ball on the Cowboy 15 yard line to setup another Lobo score. Execution was the name of the game in this one. On a lighter note, the Cowboys piled up over 500 yards of total offense, which featured three different ball carriers gaining over 100 yards rushing, ACS, Herron, and Alvester Alexander. The spread offense looked like a legitimate offense in this game, but was beaten by its own mistakes.
The Pokes will look to rebound this week against UNLV, who has had its own share of trouble this year under first year head coach Bobby Hauck, who came to the Rebels from Montana after a successful run with the Grizzlies. The Rebels are giving up 39 points a game on the season. Their only win has come against New Mexico. The game is slated to start at 8:00pm from Sam Boyd Stadium.
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