Rock Springs Tiger Soccer

On Saturday in Senior Night in Rock Springs the Tigers played their last home match at Crossroads Field versus the #2 ranked Riverton Wolverines. The Tigers were looking to avenge their earlier embarrassing result against the Wolverines. The Tigers played a great match even with a lot of players out of position and some young guys filling in for some veterans missing and hurt. The scoring started by the Wolverines in the 34th minute when Riverton was awarded a penalty kick and converted it. The half time score was 1 - 0 in favor of Riverton. The Tigers played better in the second half than in the first half and had several decent chances to tie the match. A free kick by Kortny Lancaster in the 75th minute from around 45 yards away roofed the Riverton keeper in the top right corner and equaled the score. Neither team was able to score in the last 5 minutes, mainly due to some strong goal keeping from both Gus Wagner of Rock Springs and Riverton's goalkeeper. The teams played overtim...

On Friday in Rock Springs the Tigers hosted the Natrona County Mustangs in a 4a West soccer battle. The conditions for the math were snowy at the start and sloppy at the end of the match. The Mustangs got off to an early start with a goal in the 6th minute. The goal was from a corner kick where the ball seemed to bounce and ricochet off of several players on both teams before it went in. The second goal for the Mustangs was in the 33rd minute when a shot was placed in the corner on the ground of the goal and Tyler Wilkinson was not able to stop it. The half time score was 2 - 0. The Tigers were out of sync all game long connecting passes and getting involved in the offense. The last goal of the match was scored in the 46th minute when Gus Wagner had knocked the ball away and hit a Tiger defender and then carried into the goal for an own goal. The Tigers played without leading scorer Storie Ratcliff who is sidelined with an ankle injury for a little while. The final score was NC 3 and R...

On Thursday at Crossroads Park in Rock Springs the RS Tigers faced their arch rivals the GR Wolves in the second leg of the Sweetwater Cup. The Tigers were looking to avenge their earlier embarrassing defeat by upsetting the Wolves. This match was a classic rivalry match and saw the Tigers come to play for 80 minutes. However the Wolves got on the board first when the initial GR shot was saved by Gus Wagner but the deflection found a Wolves' feet and he scored in the 19th minute of play. This was the only score in the first half. The Tigers did see a couple of legitimate chances in the first 40 minutes of play including a header by Alex Arambel. The Tigers game plan seemed to be working as the heavily favored Wolves were frustrated in the 2nd half by the improved play of the Tigers. Then Green River sealed their win by two goal, one in the 61st minute and the other in the 69th minute. The Tigers kept trying and pressing forward to get a goal or two and get into the match but attemp...

On Tuesday in Green River the JV Tigers looked a little sloppy in the first half versus their cross county counterparts. The Tigers allowed 3 goals in the 1st half and were unable to score any to find themselves behind at the half 3 - 0. The second half started in a fury from the Tigers as they scored 2 goals in the first 5 minutes. The goals were from Tyler Legerski and Rayden Davis. But that was as close as the Tigers would come to the Wolves in this JV contest. The Wolves added two more insurance goals in the last 20 minutes of the match to win by the score of 5 - 2. The loss drops the JV Tigers season mark to 4 - 2 - 0. Man of the match - Tyler Legerski- first goal of game scored and extraordinary effort and leadership Up next for the JV Tigers - A rematch between them and the JV Wolves on Monday April 26th at 5:00pm at Crossroads Park in Rock Springs.

The Tigers and Braves of Star Valley played in a 4A West conference match on Friday in Rock Springs. The Tigers got off to another fast start as the scored in the 4th minute when Storie Ratcliff hit the back of the net. The Tigers second goal was headed in by Taylor Chesnovar in the 12th minute off of a corner kick sent in by Storie Ratcliff. The Storie show continued as he collected a long drop kick by Tyler Wilkinson in the 26th minute to give the Tigers a 3 - 0 lead. Ratcliff completed his hat trick in the 31st minute when he beat the keeper again, this third goal was assisted by Pat Walker. The Braves were able to get on the scoreboard in the 34th minute when after making 2 great saves the ball just squeezed over the line on Tyler Wilkinson. The half time score was 4 - 1. The second half did not see a lot of action in front of either goal as the Tigers were content with the 3 goal lead and the Braves just were not able to mount much of an offensive attack. The final score stood at ...

On Wednesday in Rock Springs, the Tigers played against the Red Devils of Evanston. This was the Tigers first home match of the season. Once again the Tigers were quick off of the whistle and scored only 4 minutes into the match. The first goals was started by a wonderful throw-in by Austin Lever and finished on a break away by Pat Walker. The early score was the only score of the first half for either team. Early in the second half the Tigers tallied another goal. This goal was headed in by Luke Aust. The ball was sent into play from Austin Lever off of a corner kick, which the Evanston keeper punched off of the crossbar. Luke was ready and headed the rebound in for the goal. The third and final goal of the match was booted into the net by Storie Ratcliff in the 60th minute from about 25 yards away. This was Storie's 6th goal of the season and has him currently tied for the 2nd most in the state. There was no assist on Storie's goal. The Tigers were able to keep th...

On Tuesday in Cheyenne the Rock Springs Tigers played against the East Thunder Bird. East was coming off of a win against their cross town rivals the nationally ranked Cheyenne Central Indians just the week before. The Tigers took the wind in the first half and had their best chances then but were always thwarted by the T-Bird defense. The score at the half was 0 - 0. In the second half the T-Birds used the strong wind to their advantage and scored twice. The goals came in the 47th minute of play and in the 52nd minute of play. The first T-Bird goal was a roofing shot past the keeper from about 25 yards away. The second and last goal of the match was put past the keeper after a scrum in front of the net preceded by a corner kick. The Tigers played hard but could not do what was needed to get close to the East goal. The final score of the match 2 - 0. This drops the Tigers to 1 - 5 - 1. Man of the Match: Luke Aust - continued great play as a centerback Match Facts: Shot; RS 7...