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 Tamie Meck Delta’s 3200m relay team placed fourth at last weekend’s 4A state track meet in Lakewood. Its time, 9:32.92, set a new DHS record. Team members are; left to right, Clarissa Whiting (Sr), Mykayla Music (Fr), Skylyn Webb (Sr) and Cleo Whiting…
Photo by Rich Meck Hotchkiss distance runners, and sisters, Natalie Anderson (left-center) and Mae Anderson start the 3200m run together on the opening day of the state track meet. They were fourth and fifth in the 3200 and fourth and sixth, respectively, in…
Photo by Tamie Meck Andy Pipher and son Bo meet Bo’s opponent during the Parade of Champions at the 2013 state wrestling tournament. Pipher was recently named 2013 Colorado Coach of the Year by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA).Paonia…
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.
