The Wheatland High School boys' basketball team improved to 11-2 on the season with a sweep of 3A Southeast Quadrant foes Torrington and Rawlins over the weekend.
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Wheatland sweeps Torrington, Rawlins
Wheatland sophomore Kade Preuit led Wheatland with 13 points in Fridays five-point victory in Torrington.
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Andrew Towne
TORRINGTON – The Wheatland High School boys' basketball team improved to 11-2 on the season with a sweep of 3A Southeast Quadrant foes Torrington and Rawlins over the weekend.
On Friday, the Bulldogs traveled East to Torrington where Wheatland overcame an 8-0 deficit to defeat the Blazers, 48-43.
Torrington got 3-pointers from seniors Cameron Murphy and Jackson Jones, along with an additional two points from sophomore Kieser Wolfe.
It took Wheatland nearly five and a half minutes to get on the scoreboard when senior Mytch Pollock scored an old-fashioned 3-point play.
Those were his only points of the night as over the next 45 seconds, Pollock was issued a pair of technical fouls and was ejected from the game.
Jones went 4-for-4 at the free throw line, giving Torrington a 12-3 lead.
Over the final two minutes of the first quarter and the first four minutes of the second quarter, Wheatland chipped away at the Blazer lead.
Midway through the second, Wheatland sophomore Kade Preuit put the Bulldogs in front for the first time in the game.
Wolfe gave Torrington a brief lead in the final minute of the half, but Wheatland took a 21-20 lead into half.
Coming out of the break, the Bulldogs never trailed for the remainder of the game.
A 3-pointer from Preuit pushed the WHS lead to 34-25 with a minute left to play in the third quarter, but Torrington had one more run in them before the final horn.
Jones and a 3-pointer from sophomore Deagan Keith cut the Bulldog lead to three in the first minute of the fourth quarter, but Torrington couldn't get any closer than one over the final six minutes of the game.
Preuit led the Bulldogs with 13 points, while junior Trent Jones added nine. Seniors Luke Anderson and Kobey Preuit tossed in eight apiece.
The next night, the Bulldogs defeated the Rawlins Outlaws in Wheatland, 56-46.
Wheatland (11-2 overall and 2-0 3A Southeast Quad) travels to Burns on Friday and hosts Newcastle on Saturday.