KOWB Wyoming

Wyoming head coach Mark Branch announced Wednesday that red-shirt freshman wrestler Tanner Harms will miss the remainder of the 2012-13 wrestling season due to a hamstring injury.

Wyoming forward Chaundra Sewell earned Mountain West Women’s Basketball Player of the Week honors for games played from December 24-30, 2012. It is her second MW weekly accolade of the season and of her career.

Chaundra Sewell scored 34 points and grabbed 17 rebounds to lead the Cowgirls to an 84-68 win over Loyola Marymount on Saturday in Laramie.

Leonard Washington posted his fifth double-double of the season with 17 points and 11 rebounds, and that led the Wyoming Cowboys to a 56-40 victory over the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos Friday night at the Arena-Auditorium. Washington scored the first 8 points of the second half, and UW used a 20-4 run to break open a 6-point game midway through the second half.

ROOT SPORTS announced Friday that it will televise the University of Wyoming men’s basketball game at Colorado State on Saturday, Feb. 2. The Mountain West contest will now tip at 5 p.m. MT.

University of Wyoming head football coach Dave Christensen announced the signing of three junior-college players to national letters of intent on Wednesday, which was the first day mid-year, junior-college transfers could sign letters of intent. The three new Cowboys are Malkaam Muhammad a linebacker from Iowa Western Community College, Jesse Sampson, a safety from College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, CA and Jordan Stanton, a linebacker from Los Angeles Pierce College of California. The three will all join the Cowboy Football program for the 2013 spring semester.

Behind career-high scoring nights from Luke Martinez and Larry Nance, Jr., the Wyoming Cowboys stayed undefeated on the season with a 71-61 victory over the Denver Pioneers Tuesday night at the Arena-Auditorium. Martinez knocked down five 3-pointers en route to 25 points, while Nance scored 21 points, which included an 11-11 performance from the free throw line.

The Wyoming Cowgirl basketball team needed free throws at the end of the game to earn the 64-61 victory over the Ball State Cardinals on Tuesday night in Muncie.