Wyoming Indian Lady Chiefs Win Third Straight Title
This is the Lady Chiefs third straight state basketball championship and the school s fifth all-time.
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Wyoming Indian jumped out to a 10-4 lead early in the first quarter. A few players for the team got into some early foul trouble but it did not seem to hinder the team.
The Lady Chiefs started the second quarter quick on a 7-0 run. The score at halftime was 24-14 favoring the Lady Chiefs.
Wyoming Indian was in control for all of the second half. The team held a 15-point lead for their biggest lead.
Analu Benabise of Kelly Walsh will go down as one of the greatest high school wrestlers in Wyoming history. He is just one of 25 guys to win 4 state championships in his career capped by an 11-3 decision over Cyruss Meeks of Natrona on Saturday night at the Ford Center. Meeks by the way was the defending 4A state champion at 138 pounds so Benabise has been beating quality opponents for years.
His winning ways on the mat started in 2018 as a freshman with a 9-3 win over Nathan McCann of Green River for the 138-pound title. Benabise went 374 in that season. In his sophomore year, he moved up to 145 pounds and still was equally effective with a 5-4 win over Warren Carr of Thunder Basin in the championship match. Carr by the way win the 152-pound state title a year later and Benabise was 52-4 in 2019.
2021 Cheyenne East Wrestling Wrap
Cheyenne East had a very strong showing in the championship round of the 4A State Wrestling Tournament in Casper with 4 titlists. Brad Whitright repeated as the state champ at 220 pounds with a pin of Aragon Garro of Kelly Walsh. Whitright was 40-2 in his senior season so that s beyond stellar. He s been a solid all-around athlete for the T-Birds in his career.
Speaking of solid all-around athletes, how about Jackson Hesford who won the 160-pound state championship beating Colson Coon of Sheridan 7-3 to end the season 42-1. So that was another beyond-stellar performance. Whitright was a 2nd team all-state defensive lineman in football and Hesford was a 2-time all-state pick at the running back spot and in the secondary in 4A.
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