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.
Delta sophomore shot putter Bry Music watches the flight of the shot after a throw in last week’s state track meet in Denver. Music did not make finals in either of her specialities (shot and discus). She was 10th in the discus and 17th in the shot.
The Delta High School track team did not win the 4A state tournament in either the boys or girls division in 2012. They did not set any new meet records.
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Skylyn Webb qualified for the 200m dash at this year’s state meet. Webb failed to make the finals and finished 10th.
They did send a team of hardworking athletes who, in some cases, may have bettered their personal records and a few Delta High School marks.
In all, the experience for underclassmen will help prepare them for the next season.
Lady Panthers
Clarissa and Cleo Whiting had the most success from the Panthers' camp. Both girls placed in the top five in the 3200m run. Cleo was fourth in a time of 11:23.89 while Clarissa was close behind with her 11:24.06 to finish fifth.
Clarissa was eighth in the 1600m run after clocking a time of 5:15.11. Cleo had to settle for 10th and a time of 5:17.12. At state, the top nine places earn team points.
The Lady Panthers finished with 13 points to tie Wheat Ridge for 25th. Thompson Valley scored 76 points on their way to the team title with Pueblo South (66), Valor Christian (56), Sand Creek (47), and Green Mountain (45) taking the top five spots.
Battle Mountain's Lady Huskies posted the highest finish in this year's state meet for 4A girls' teams with 26.5 points for 12th place. Glenwood Springs was 13th with 24 points.
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Delta’s Ethan Jack Baier competes in the 4A state high jump competition. Baier won the 4A league title in Grand Junction the week before state and cleared 6-2 at state to record the Panthers’ only points of the meet with an eighth place finish.
Delta junior sprinter Skylyn Webb carried the Panthers' banner into the 100 and 200m dashes at Jeffco Stadium last week. Competition was keen to say the least as Webb failed to qualify in either of the dashes. She was 14th in the 100 and 10th in the 200.
A strong 3200m relay team (Clarissa Whiting, Mackennea Broyles, Kyla Ownbey, Cleo Whiting) found the going tougher at state and did not make the top nine in a very competitive race. Thompson Valley finished first with a time of 9:20.69. The Lady Panthers had their best time of the season, 9:55.59, but could do no better than 14th. There could be more to look forward to next season as Ownbey is the only senior this year. The Whitings are juniors while Broyles is a freshman.
Bry Music did not have her best day in either the shot put or discus at this year's state meet. As a sophomore, Music picked up a 10th place finish in the discus and was 17th in the shot.
Junior Natalie Larkin was struggling with her marks in the triple and long jump competitions this season. Larkin qualified for the long jump with an 16-8 but was well short of that mark last week. She finished 17th with a jump of 14-09.75.
Panther Boys
Delta's boys found the competition to be of a higher caliber at state than in most 4A track meets over the past season.
Longmont won the boys division with 72.5 points followed by Broomfield (67), Vista Ridge (61), Thompson Valley (52) and Pueblo County (34) rounding out the top five spots. Delta's boys finished with two points.
Ethan Jack Baier had a jump of 6-2 to finish eighth in the high jump and accounted for the two Panther points.
Baier was jumping well in both the long and triple jumps but did not perform as well as he would have liked. He was jumping over 20 feet on a consistent basis for most of the season but did not qualify for finals with a sub-par 18-10.25 as his best effort of the competition.
In the triple jump, Baier sprung out to 45-0.5 at the 4A qualifying meet in Grand Junction two weeks ago. His 43-0.75 left him in 12th place in last week's state meet.
A good race in the 3200m relay earned the Panthers one of their best efforts of the year with a time of 8:27.01. The team was made up of seniors Jake Ames, Colin Fraser, and Daniel De La Rosa. Junior Dustin Ownbey will return next year for the Panthers.
