T-Birds Sweep Eastern Wyoming On Saturday

The Casper College Men's and Women's basketball teams swept Eastern Wyoming College of Torrington Saturday afternoon for Homecoming at Swede Erickson Gym. The women remained unbeaten in Central sub-region play as they throttled the Lancers 86-27. The T-Birds scored the first ten points and never looked back.  Casper led 49-12 at half. The T-Birds  were led in scoring by Rosalie Cutri with 16 points, 8 rebounds and 5 steals. Sherece Huddlin with 13 points and 7 rebounds. Lindsey Fearing chipped with 11 points. The T-Bird defense limited the leading scorer in Region IX, Krystal Pittman (21.5 ppg) to seven points on 3 of 20 shooting.

In the men's game, the T-Birds got balanced scoring as they beat the Lancers 77-62. Demetrius Lee led Casper College with 16. Gilles Tacita with 14, Sam Johnson, 12 and Cobi Eskew with 10 points leading the T-Birds. Jarrett Upchurch led Eastern Wyoming with 13 points.

The T-Birds hit the road for a couple of very important sub-region matchups this Friday and Saturday. On Friday the T-Birds will be in Riverton to play  Central Wyoming with the women playing at 5:30 and the men at 7:30 pm. And then on to Rock Springs  Saturday afternoon to play Western Wyoming College. The T-Bird women lead the Central sub-region with a 5-0 record and 15-7 overall. The men are 17-6 overall and 4-1 with their only loss in January, winning nine of  ten to Western Wyoming. All four games this weekend will be on AM 1400 ESPN.