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 Cedaredge’s Ashley Diaz receives a service from Olathe on Thursday (Oct. 18). Watching the action are sisters Summer (middle) and Savannah Herman. Olathe had too much offense for the Lady Bruins and won the match 3-0.Cedaredge High School's volleyball team played three matches this past week. Their first action came against Ridgway on Tuesday (Oct. 16).
The Demons won that match 3-0. Next was a contest with Olathe on Thursday. That too was posted as a loss (3-0) for the Lady Bruins. Cedaredge's final match of the week was against Grand Valley with the Bruins earning a 3-1 win.
Against the Lady Demons on Tuesday, it was all Ridgway in a 25-11 first set.
Cedaredge upped its point production in set two but there wasn't enough offense in a 25-16 loss.
The third set had more promise for the Lady Bruins, but Ridgway was too strong in a 25-22 score for the match victory.
Kaitlyn Rutherford posted 13 kills for the Lady Demons with Haley Crozier adding 10 of her own. Rutherford also had five aces in the match and Sophia Collier had 13 assists.
In Olathe on Thursday, the Pirates had too much offense for Cedaredge in a first-set win of 25-14. Things started out evenly but began to show separation after a 5-5 tie.
Photo by Wayne Crick Cedaredge junior Rebecca Deal (22) has a good swing at the ball against Olathe’s Jeanne Mosher.Cedaredge eased to a 9-6 lead in set two only to have the Pirates scrap back to post the game's final tie at 14. Olathe's offense managed to take advantage of the Bruins mistakes to post a 25-17 win.
Even though the final score of set three was 25-22, the Lady Pirates essentially had momentum through the set. A trip to Parachute on Saturday was worth the effort as Cedaredge posted its fifth win of the season with a 3-1 win over the Lady Cardinals.
Sets one and two went to Cedaredge by identical scores of 25-16. The Lady Cardinals threw a monkey wrench into the works in set three with their 25-19 win.
Cedaredge finished off the Cardinals in set four with a 25-21 decision.
Grand Valley's Kyra Chenoweth had 10 kills in the loss and posted five aces from the service line.
Tarianna Lawrence had 27 assists and 14 digs for the Lady Cardinals.
