Roosevelt County has reason to be proud with two high school wrestlers capturing state titles at the girls’ state wrestling meet held in Billings. Wolf Point’s eighth-grader Annaleigh Matejovsky at 120 pounds and Poplar’s senior Angelina Escarcega at 100 pounds earned gold medals during action on Saturday, Feb. 15. Escarcega pinned Lockwood’s Wai Fandrich in 1:23 for the title. Escarcega

Wolf Point’s boys’ basketball team enjoyed excellent shooting in the first half and fought off Poplar, 56-50, to end the regular season on Saturday, Feb. 15. The three-point shooting of Roper Flaten and Jett Azure led the Wolves to a 22-13 advantage in the first quarter. Sean Hamilton hit a 17-footer and Richard Campbell connected from three-point range to increase the margin to 30-15

Clutch three-point and free-throw shooting led Wolf Point’s girls’ basketball team to a 68-51 home victory over Poplar to finish the regular season. The Wolves led by a 2924 half-time margin and increased the gap to 40-27 midway into the third quarter as senior Brenna Blount, who hit a school record of eight three-pointers in the contest, fired in three long shots. Free throws by Ameliya

Behind by a 60-58 margin against Harlem with only 1.4 seconds left in overtime, Wolf Point Coach Cole Hawks knew where the ball had to go when he talked with the players during a time-out. Richard Campbell, a junior, had already hit five threepoint shots in the game including two in the fourth quarter. Hanks wanted to go for the conference win. “I didn’t think we had enough time for anything