Newcastle High School
A longtime volunteer firefighter and coach was arrested last month, and is being charged with sexual assault and multiple counts of first and second-degree sexual abuse of a minor who was under his supervision in 2015 and 2016.
Lovell James “Jim” Prell, 45, of Newcastle, was bound over to the...
The Dogies/Bobcats had another busy week as they traveled to Wright on Thursday for a dual, and then headed to Belle Fourche for a tournament on Friday and Saturday. Head coach Lee McCoy was pleased with how his team performed over the weekend as they got the better of the Panthers by a score of 39...
The Newcastle Dogies got off to a slow start in their game against the Herders in Glenrock Friday. If not for a low scoring first quarter, head coach Allen Von Eye’s hoopsters actually out-scored the Herders, but couldn’t hang on for the win down the stretch, so lost the contest 48-56.
“We were...
As the Newcastle High School men’s swimming season creeps closer to the end, the Dogies were unable to add any new qualifiers to the state slate, however, as the two-day event in Gillette got under way on Friday, things were looking good for head coach Doug Scribner’s squad.
“We had a really good...
Mother Nature changed the weekend plans for basketball across the state last weekend, but the Lady Dogies took advantage of what turned out to be their only game on Friday by dominating the Lady Herders on their home court in Glenrock. When the final buzzer blew, head coach Chad Ostenson’s crew...
Sonja Karp, the News Letter Journal’s sports editor, was named the top sports columnist in the small weekly newspapers division in the state for the ninth time since she began working for the paper in 2013.
The honor was announced during the recent Wyoming Newspaper Association’s annual...
The Lady Dogies opened up 3A Northeast Quadrant play last weekend as they hosted the Lady Wolves of Moorcroft on Friday, then traveled to Buffalo to take on the second-ranked Lady Bison on Saturday.
Head coach Chad Ostenson’s crew came away with their seventh win of the season on Friday,...
The Dogies had two big nights of quadrant play Friday and Saturday against Moorcroft and Buffalo, as they started their run for post-season seeding. Head coach Allen Von Eye and his crew were looking for their first win of the season against the Wolves in the Dogie Dome on Friday, but Moorcroft...
The Newcastle/Upton wrestling crew had a brutal week of competition last week as they opened things up with a quad against Douglas, Wheatland and Torrington in the Dogie Dome on Tuesday, then traveled to Moorcroft for a triangular on Thursday, and then back again on Friday and Saturday for an...
The Dogie swimmers were able to compete at home last week as they hosted a triangular with Douglas and Buffalo on Thursday, then a dual against Douglas on Friday. Head coach Doug Scribner’s crew took advantage of their home pool advantage to not only hand two more back-to-back defeats to the...
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