Sports
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
The combined Newcastle/Upton wrestling team closed out their 2018-2019 season last weekend, sending 12 members to compete at the 3A State Meet in Casper. Though the weekend didn’t turn out exactly as the Dogie/Bobcat team had hoped, head coach Lee McCoy was pleased...
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
It was a long trip for the Newcastle Dogie Speech team as they travelled to North Platte, Nebraska last weekend for their District Speech Meet.
The Hole in the Wall District is spread from Sheridan to Spearfish to Cheyenne and then well into the eastern part of...
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
The Newcastle Dogies ended their regular season of play with a great deal riding on the outcome of their three contests on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, as Regional seeding would be decided based on the outcome of the first two games against Thermopolis and Douglas...
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
The Lady Dogies nabbed a big win over Wheatland on the Lady Bulldogs’ home court last Saturday, and after losses against Douglas and Thermopolis the two days prior, head coach Chad Ostenson was very pleased to see his team rebound to get the win to close out their...
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
The Lady Dogies weathered the latest wintry blast on Saturday as they traveled to Buffalo for a rematch against the Lady Bison. Though the score once again gave the Johnson County team a decisive victory, head coach Chad Ostenson’s squad cut the margin of defeat...
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
For the second time this season the Dogies were minus a key player when they took on the number one-ranked Buffalo Bison last Saturday, and for the second time, the Johnson County team got the better of head coach Allen Von Eye’s crew, 68-31.
“We started off pretty...
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
The Newcastle Dogie Swim team sent five individual swimmers to compete at the 3A State Swim meet in Laramie last Friday and Saturday, the most head coach Doug Scribner has ever had qualify for the culminating meet.
Though only one was able to live to compete on...
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
After winter weather limited the Lady Dogies to only two days of practice last week, the crew was challenged to take on Chadron, Nebraska at their house on Saturday. Head coach Chad Ostenson admitted that even he was not feeling as prepared as he would have liked,...
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
A week of weather related cancellation of practices combined with the onset of illness resulted in the Dogies being a little unprepared to go up against the Chadron Cardinals last Saturday in Nebraska.
The Nebraska squad, however, went into the contest determined...
Sonja Karp
NLJ Sports Reporter
The Dogie/Bobcat grapplers hosted their last regular season match on Friday as the Douglas Bearcats braved the elements to come to Newcastle. Being just a dual between the two teams the event was short, but according to head coach Lee McCoy it wasn’t all that sweet...
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