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 Alyssa Isaman, a junior at Cedaredge High School, shoots a layup against Olathe’s Kayley Archuleta in a game played last Saturday (Jan. 26) in Cedaredge. The visiting Lady Pirates built a big lead early but had to hold on for a 44-35 3A WSL win.Joe Berger is wondering how his Lady Bruins' basketball team can play so well one game and then look as though they had fogotten how to play the same way in another game.
Last Friday night's ballgame against Roaring Fork was played in Cedaredge and the Lady Bruins played "great" according to Berger.
"We did everything so well against them." Roaring Fork won the game 38-31, but Cedaredge played well enough to have won.
Saturday's encounter with Olathe (8-1, 10-2) was not a duplicate of Friday's game with Roaring Fork.
Olathe jumped out to a big lead before allowing the Lady Bruins to fight back. The Lady Pirates eventually won the game 44-35.
RF 38, Cedaredge 31
You wouldn't have wanted to declare the first quarter a gem of an offensive showing for either team, but Cedaredge did manage to ease its way to an early 10-6 lead after one period of action.
At halftime, Cedaredge owned a one-point lead, 17-16. The Lady Rams put together a bit more offense in the fourth quarter to outscore Cedaredge 13-6 and preserve a 38-31 victory in 3A WSL competition.
Shaeley Slough scored eight points in each half to finish with 16 points for Roaring Fork. Kaitlyn Kissner tallied eight points for the Lady Bruins.
Olathe 44, Bruins 35
Olathe had a shutout going early in the first period and finally settled for an 18-11 edge after eight minutes of play.
Good defense by the Lady Pirates, and a few mental mistakes by Cedaredge, allowed Olathe to complete a big 17-5 run in the second quarter. That surge left Olathe comfortably ahead at the half by a score of 35-16.
Haley Turley did most of the damage in the first half for Olathe with 19 of her game-high 23 points (13 coming in the second period).
Cedaredge stepped up its intensity, especially in the fourth quarter, to outscore Olathe 19-9 in the second half. Too much damage had been done early in the game and the Lady Bruins were unable to close the gap more than the nine points at the game's end.
Lindsey Gardner finished with nine points to lead Cedaredge's offense.
