SHERIDAN, September 15 — The story of Big Horn’s girls basketball season ends the way few expected it to, with a four-point margin and a lead that slipped away. The Lady Rams fell 41-39 to Shoshoni in the consolation round of the 2A State Tournament, closing out a campaign that had produced a 21-6 record. Big Horn had led by eight points in the second half before the Lady Blue began putting things together late in the third quarter and carried that momentum into the fourth.
For much of the game, Big Horn looked the part of a team that had won twenty-one times. The eight-point cushion was the kind of margin that, at the small-school level, often proves decisive.
But Shoshoni’s surge arrived at the worst possible moment for the Lady Rams — late in the third quarter, with the game still within reach, and then into the fourth, when every possession carries the weight of a season. What unfolded over those final minutes was a slow reversal rather than a single dramatic swing. The Lady Blue chipped away, and Big Horn could not answer at the free-throw line.
The Lady Rams made just four of twenty attempts from the stripe — a figure that, in a two-point game, tells its own story.
The Scorers Who Kept Big Horn Close
Afton Cummins led Big Horn with twelve points. Ava Taylor added eleven, and Emery Taylor contributed nine. Those three accounted for the bulk of the team’s scoring, and their production kept the Lady Rams in a game that ultimately slipped away.
At its heart, this was a season-ending moment for a high school team and its players — the kind of afternoon that defines a year, for better or worse, in the space of a few minutes. The 2A State Tournament is the Wyoming High School Activities Association’s classification championship event for the state’s smallest schools.
A box score was published alongside the original report of the game. For those involved, the final record reads 21-6. The loss to Shoshoni closed the season.
What comes next — the offseason, the roster, the next campaign — is not addressed in the reporting, and this account stays with what the game itself established.
