Delta coaches Luis Meza, center, and Clayton Curtis congratulate 152-pound senior Hunter Brasfield after an upset win sent him into the 4A Region 4 semifinals.
Hotchkiss senior Joe Boyle controls Ruben Chagoya of Basalt to win a 3A Region 1 title. He is one of 7 Hotchkiss state qualifiers.
Hotchkiss and Paonia boys will square off this week on the basketball courts. Both are 6-4 in league play.
Delta senior Brooke Taylor scores two of her 12 points against Summit after grabbing an offensive rebound.
Paonia 195-pounder Tyler “TK” Kendall sets Rangely’s Drew Collins up for a pin.
Paonia freshman Bo Pipher sets TJ Richard of North Park up for a pin in Saturday’s regional semifinal round. He is one of 13 Paonia wrestlers headed to state!
Surrounded by coaches and his dad, Conner Beard signs Letter of Intent to play football for the University of Nebraska Kearney.
Hotchkiss' Jacobe Galley signed a Letter of Intent to play football and study engineering at Colorado Mesa University.
Hotchkiss senior Cody Bartlett signed his National Letter of Intent to run cross-country for Hawaii Pacific University.
Photo by Wayne Crick These four Lady Panther athletes set a new Delta High School record in the 3200m relay in 2013. From the left, Clarissa Whiting, Skylyn Webb, Mykayla Music and Cleo Whiting combined talents to set a new record for the 3200m relay with a…
Several area athletes were honored for their committment to track in 2013. Class 4A selections to this year's All-State track team include freshman Greta Van Calcar (Palisade) and Glenwood Springs senior Auston Tribble.
Photo by Tamie Meck Cedaredge wrestler Zac Anderson attempts to stack his opponent at the fourth annual Paonia Summer Duals wrestling camp. Cedaredge and Delta brought several young wrestlers to this camp.Summer wrestling tends to be a bit different than the…
Cedaredge’s 1S player Landen Eckhart plays against Hotchkiss early in the season. Cedaredge and Hotchkiss will compete in the 4A Region 8 tennis tournament as the smallest schools in the region. Tournament play is at Canyon View Park in GJ.
Of all the fall sports, tennis season is the shortest. Regional 8 4A action begins this Friday morning at Canyon View Park in Grand Junction.
In Colorado prep tennis, schools compete either in Class 4A or 5A, based on the number of students.
Of the eight schools competing in Region 8, Hotchkiss with 239 students and Cedaredge (267) are the smallest.
Of the 75 schools in Class 4A, only nine have fewer than 300 registered students; 28 teams have more than 1,000 students, including Region 8 teams Montrose and Durango.
Of the seven teams competing in Region 8, neither Hotchkiss nor Cedaredge have faced Steamboat Springs or Durango this season.
The numbers alone put the small schools at a big disadvantage, but it hardly keeps them from giving the other teams a good run. This season, all three Hotchkiss singles players have posted winning records. Senior 1 singles Tony Ibarra enters regional competition with a 6-5 record after defeating a Grand Junction JV player and losing to Aspen in last week's final matches of league competition. The Skiers won the match, 7-0.
That was pretty much expected, said head coach Brian Benson.
No. 2 singles Brydie Mitchell and 3 singles Azure Eller are at 7-3 after their losses to Aspen. Mitchell, a senior, won, 4-6, 6-4, 1-5, over Grand Junction JV last week, while Eller lost for a second time to Grand Junction's Sam Shaver.
The Bulldogs' No. 1 and 2 doubles teams will likely face tough competition in Friday's opening round of regional play. No. 3 doubles Caleb Bayles and Josh Parsons are now 5-1 and have a shot at advancing, as do No. 4 doubles Alex Hulteen and Quentin Varner. Both teams won on Sept. 25 against Grand Junction JV (Hulteen and Varner by default).
Coaches meet Thursday night to determine seeding, which means most players won't know who they'll face until opening matches begin on Friday morning.
The top two placers in each flight advance to next week's state competition.
