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.
Ethan Jack Baier picks his landing spot in the triple jump competition in last week’s Delta Invitational Track Meet. Baier sailed more than 40 feet to win the event with teammate Jake Ames scoring points with his fifth-place finish.
After finishing first in last year's Delta Invitational, this year's squad found themselves battling strong teams from Glenwood Springs and Cedaredge. The Demons finished first and Cedaredge second with 78 points. The Panthers were third with 74.70 points.
The Panthers had one first-place finish with Ethan Jack Baier jumping 40-11.75 to win the triple jump competition. Baier was third in both the high jump and long jump events.
Justin Music looks strong in 2012 and is moving in the right direction with his second-place finish in the shot put on Saturday.
Photo by Wayne Crick
Ethan Jack Baier picks his landing spot in the triple jump competition in last week’s Delta Invitational Track Meet. Baier sailed more than 40 feet to win the event with teammate Jake Ames scoring points with his fifth-place finish.
Jake Ames had solid showings in several events over the weekend. Ames is a distance runner who has the strength and build to make a strong jumper in the long jump. Ames placed third in the 1600m run, was fourth in the 800m and anchored the 3200m relay team to place eighth. Ames was joined in the relay by teammates Jacob Davignon, Ownbey, and Jon Kinderknecht. In addition to all that running, Ames placed fifth in the triple jump.
Dustin Ownbey (3200m run) and Irvin Hernandez (300m hurdles) finished fourth in their events.
Hernandez, Colin Fraser, Ethan Jack Baier, and Zach Decker combined efforts to place fifth in the 800m relay. Decker was also fifth in the open 400m dash.
In the discus throw, Blake Velasquez, Brandon Campbell, and Sean King earned points by placing fifth through seventh on Saturday.
Will Gilliam was eighth in the 110m high hurdles.
Delta is scheduled to participate in the Hotchkiss Invitational this Saturday. Field events begin at 9 a.m. with the running events scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.
