Articles from the LCHS Sports Archive
PANACA — Do you consider heading to a wrestling tournament where there will be as many as 64 of the best high school wrestlers in the nation in your weight class a bit frightening? Two boys from Lincoln County High School are looking at doing just that next month. Damiano Ballajos and ...
PANACA — Lincoln County junior forward Chandler Katschke had a career-high 39 points and 17 rebounds, but was overshadowed by the strong, physical work of Aaron Burns and Lewis Larrabee, of Needles, Calif., as Lincoln lost to the Mustangs 87-79 Friday. Larrabee had 32 points for the Mustangs and Burns added ...
LINCOLN COUNTY — Pahranagat Valley had three individual champions and Lincoln County had one at the Class 2A Southern League wrestling tournament Saturday in Laughlin. White Pine had five individual champions on the way to winning the tournament title with 245 points. Laughlin took second with 176 points, followed by West ...
PANACA — For the first time since at least 2006, the Lincoln County girls are the undefeated 2A Southern League champions. They completed the task last weekend with two home wins over second-place Needles, Calif., and seventh-place Laughlin. Defense and controlling the rebounds was the story in the Lynx’s 58-40 win ...
PANACA — Driving toward the regular season league championship, Lincoln County put up two more impressive road wins last weekend. On Feb. 3, Tia Florence led a balanced attack with 10 points. Lincoln downed The Meadows 47-14. Anjali Daulat had seven points for The Meadows (2-9, 6-14), which did not score more ...
PANACA — Dropping two important road games Feb. 3 and 4 has ended Lincoln County’s hopes for a spot in the 2A Southern League playoffs this year. Losses at The Meadows and Lake Mead gave the fourth and final playoff spot to Lake Mead. Even if Lake Mead should lose its ...
PANACA — Two key road wins kept Lincoln County’s playoff hopes alive last weekend. Behind the 22 points of Ryan Rippetoe and 20 more from Chandler Katschke, Lincoln County (4-5, 9-11) broke out to a 40-26 halftime lead in beating Calvary Chapel in Las Vegas Jan. 26. C.J. Castro paced Calvary Chapel ...
PANACA — Two wins on the road upped Lincoln County’s winning streak to 13 last weekend. Junior post Tia Florence again showed herself as the team leader in tallying 15 points to help visiting Lincoln County top the Calvary Chapel Lions 60-34 Jan. 26 in 2A Southern League action. Kourtney Gloeckner added ...
PANACA — Pahranagat Valley wrestlers lost by a single point, 120-119, to the White Pine junior varsity team at the Lincoln County Invitational in Panaca Jan. 27. West Wendover took third with 79 points, followed by Lincoln County (71), Indian Springs (59) and Wells (31). Pahranagat Valley had four individual champions in ...
WELLS/ST. GEORGE, UT — Pahranagat Valley participated in a 43-team tournament Jan. 21 and 22 at Pine View High School in St. George, Utah, while Lincoln County was in Wells. Coach Brad Loveday said Pahranagat and Indian Springs were the smallest schools in the Utah tournament. The Panthers finished in 31st place ...
NEEDLES, CA — Lincoln County’s Tia Florence scored 16 points in Needles, Calif., on Jan. 20 to help the Lynx roll past the Mustangs 62-27 and take sole possession of first place in the 2A Southern League. Lacee Babcock and Leti Escobedo each added 11 points for Lincoln County, which also ...
INDIAN SPRINGS — Jeffery Jones, a freshman at Pahranagat Valley High School, won the 113-pound championship at the Desert Invitational wrestling tournament at Indian Springs Jan. 14. He pinned Vance Kamminga of Cheyenne at 5:52, just eight seconds away from the end of the match. Lincoln County’s Danny Olson defeated Paul ...
PANACA — Max Newman of The Meadows took over in the third quarter, scoring 15 of his team-high 25 points to rally the Mustangs to a 54-50 league win over Lincoln County in Panaca Jan 13. Newman showed no signs of a reported ankle injury that made him questionable even to ...
PANACA — Lincoln County had no problem from the get go with The Meadows in their league game Jan. 13. The Lynx opened with a 15-0 run and cruised the rest of the way, even using the second string most of the third quarter en route to a 59-26 win. Tia ...
New state championship plaques have been installed on the walls at the Lincoln County High School gymnasium. The nine, 4-feet-by-8-feet, red-colored wooden plaques display the years Lincoln County has won the state champion in all of the sports played at the school, including 1939 when Lincoln County was the overall state ...
ALAMO — Lincoln County’s Tia Florence tallied 17 points, 16 in the first half, and, after Pahranagat Valley had fought back to within 1 point, the Lynx used an 8-2 run to close the game and defeat the Panthers 49-42 Tuesday night in a non-league game between the two long ...
PANACA — Strong bench play is a leading factor of the Lincoln County girls team this season. Coach Lori Cheeney says she can go several players deep into the bench, “and we don’t slow down, and we’re working on being deeper all the time.” This past weekend it showed as the ...
