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…
The Hotchkiss girls' tennis team opened its season on March 7 at Glenwood Springs. Glenwood claimed a 5-2 win, but Hotchkiss was only a few points away from a team win, said coach Brian Benson, who saw his team's performance as "a good start for us.
We only have a couple of girls with varsity experience, so I was a little afraid of how it might turn out."
The team's wins came at 1 doubles, where Lexey Padilla and Shelby Rogers won "a terrific match," defeating Glenwood 6-4, 1-6, 13-11.
At 2 doubles, Bree Vernon and Tijay Lehman opened the season with a 6-4, 6-4 win. "This was a really even match-up with Glenwood," said Benson. "Bree and Tijay came through at the clutch times."
In her first season as a singles player, 1 singles Ciara Beegle lost her opening match, 1-6, 0-6, to Sarai Zilm, one of the top-ranked singles players in the Western Slope region.
At 2 singles, Mariah Adams got off to a slow start, then "battled to three sets (0-6, 6-3, 7-10) against a very good player," Claire Colcott, said Benson.
At 3 singles, Mandi Chermak lost, 6-3, 6-3, to Sadie Dickinson. Chermak "played some outstanding tennis," said Benson, but was edged out by Dickinson.
Three doubles team Carli Gallegos and Moriah Rodstrom also took their match to three sets for a 6-4, 1-6, 6-10 loss to Hannah Nilsson and Lindsay Hoffman of Glenwood. And at 4 doubles, Carlyn Toothaker and Lexi Arroyo lost, 5-7, 6-2, to Kenia Farias and Corrine Passey.
Hotchkiss also claimed three of four wins at the junior varsity level.
Hotchkiss will play Cedaredge on March 19 at the Bill Heddles tennis courts, beginning at 3 p.m.
