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.
Last week's regular-season baseball finale in Gypsum was a victory for the Panthers as they rolled past Eagle Valley 12-1. The win left Delta with a league record of 12-2 and an overall mark of 16-3.
It was a tale of two games for Cedaredge's baseball team last week. The Bruins were on the road in Bayfield to face Peak to Peak's Pumas in game one of elimination play.
Photo by Tamie Meck Kylie Hodges releases the discus at the Bruin Invitational. Hodges will compete in both the discus and shot put at this week’s state 2A track meet in Lakewood. Teammate Daryl Batt had her best throw of the season and is going to state in…
Photo by Tamie Meck Senior Josiah Spano, of Paonia, was an All-Conference first team selecton in the 2A WSL for the 2012-13 hoop year.This year's Class 2A All-Conference and All-State honors in the 2013 Photo by Tamie Meck Paonia High School senior Annavah…
Photo by Tamie Meck Taylor Schreiner is squeezed by the Soroco defense in the Bulldogs’ 63-56 win over Soroco on Saturday. Schreiner scored a game-high 29 points in the win.Friday night's home court loss to Hayden is one the Bulldogs won't soon forget.
And the team won't forget Paul Laliberte.
The senior lead scorer for Hayden is averaging more than 17 points per game, but on Friday, Laliberte scored a season-high 28 points in Hayden's 58-44 conference win over Hotchkiss. Laliberte scored 15 points from the three line and added another six points from the paint. The senior also shot 7 of 8 from the free throw line.
Hotchkiss trailed 38-25 at the half and held Hayden to 20 points in the second half. The defense held Laliberte to seven points in the third. Hotchkiss scored five points in the third, on a field goal by Andrew Tiedeman and a trey by Wes Hardin.
Mason Oxford was the Bulldogs' lead scorer, shooting 6-8 from the line for a total of 10 points. Taylor Schreiner scored eight, and River Panish scored seven, including a late-game three-pointer.
The Tigers (8-2 overall, 3-0 Western Slope League) are ranked first in the conference and ninth in state 2A standings.
Schreiner was unstoppable Saturday, scoring a game-high 29 points, including 18 points from the paint and 11 of 14 from the free throw line in Saturday's 63-56 conference win over visiting Soroco (5-5, 1-2). Also scoring in double digits were Mason Oxford, who added five field goals and seven points from the line for a total of 13 points, and Cody Bartlett, who contributed 10 points to the win.
But it could be argued that the defense won the game.
The Bulldogs held 6-foot-4-inch junior Ryan Jeep to 18 points. Kyle Crowder said the team had a plan to contain the No. 4 scorer in the league: "Get physical." The plan resulted in Josh Hardin fouling out with just under three minutes remaining in the game, and Schreiner and Tye Bayles getting into foul trouble. Jeep made five trips to the line, where he was 8-8.
Hotchkiss dominated the court throughout the game, ending the first period with 10 points by Schreiner and a 21-14 lead.
Bartlett ended the game with 10 points, and Oxford scored four goals from the paint and ended the game with 13 points.
Hotchkiss (7-4, 1-2) is on the road this weekend, playing Friday at North Park (2-6, 1-1) and Saturday at West Grand (3-6, 0-2).
