A roundup of Jeffco prep highlights from April with Dennis Pleuss, Jeffco Public Schools’ Communication Specialist. This month’s edition features baseball action, including a pair of walk-off victories by Ralston Valley and Chatfield. Dakota Ridge boys lacrosse stayed undefeated on the season with a victory over Lakewood. Golden’s boys lacrosse program is back in contention in Class 4A and got a nice victory over Ralston Valley. Columbine girls soccer continued its control of the 5A Jeffco League
Category: Video
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Video: Arvada West honors Roy Halladay
Before the Class 5A Jeffco League baseball game April 23 between Dakota Ridge and Arvada West, the Wildcats honored graduate and former Major League Baseball great Roy Halladay.
Members of the Halladay Family, along with former teammates and coaches who were on A-West’s 1994 state championship team were on hand for the celebration.
Halladay pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies, winning the CY Young Award in 2003 and 2010.
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Video: April’s Jeffco Preps With Pleuss
A roundup of Jeffco prep highlights from March with Dennis Pleuss, Jeffco Public Schools’ Communication Specialist. This month’s edition features Evergreen girls basketball team winning back-to-back Class 4A state titles. Footage of the title game against Pueblo South and interviews with coach Amy Bahl and players after the victory. Also, early-season action on the boys lacrosse field with Chatfield and Columbine.
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Video: March’s Jeffco Preps With Pleuss
A roundup of Jeffco prep highlights from February with Dennis Pleuss, Jeffco Public Schools’ Communication Specialist. This month’s edition features the state wrestling tournament where Jeffco wrestlers claimed three individual state titles. Also, Class 4A Jeffco League girls basketball action between state contenders Golden and Evergreen. Arvada West and Columbine faced off down the stretch on the boys basketball court during a wild 5A Jeffco League season that ended with the Wildcats and Rebels sharing the conference title. We close with a look at more than the 100 student-athletes from across Jeffco that signed their National Letter of Intent on Feb. 7.
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Video: Watch the Pepsi Center transform for state wrestling
DENVER — On Thursday morning, just before the 2018 event began, a group of volunteers and workers helped put the mats down at the Pepsi Center for the state wrestling tournament.
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Video: February’s Jeffco Preps With Pleuss
A roundup of Jeffco prep highlights from January with Dennis Pleuss, Jeffco Public Schools’ Communication Specialist. This month’s edition features early Class 5A boys basketball action between Bear Creek and Dakota Ridge. Also, early girls basketball action featuring Golden in a non-league game against Heritage and D’Evelyn squaring off with Valor Christian. Arvada’s boys basketball team opened up its Colorado 7 League action against Skyview. We close with Pomona grabbing a trio of individual wrestling titles at the annual Arvada West Invitational.
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Video: January’s Jeffco Preps With Pleuss
A roundup of Jeffco prep highlights from December with Dennis Pleuss, Jeffco Public Schools’ Communication Specialist. This month’s edition features Pomona football winning the Class 5A state championship in historic fashion. Also, early season boys basketball action featuring Golden and Conifer, along with a all-Jeffco girls basketball match-up between Green Mountain and Dakota Ridge. We also look at Wheat Ridge Poms repeating as state champs at the Denver Coliseum.
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Video: December’s Jeffco Preps With Pleuss
A roundup of Jeffco prep highlights from November with Dennis Pleuss, Jeffco Public Schools’ Communication Specialist. This month’s edition features state gymnastics action where Jeffco schools continued its dominance. Chatfield and Columbine football rolled to playoff opening victories. Chatfield, Pomona, Wheat Ridge, Columbine and Bear Creek spirit squads all won Jeffco League titles at the conference championships. Several Jeffco schools had student-athletes sign their National Letter of Intent during the early signing period that began Nov. 8. We also look back at the legacy left by Arvada West pitching great Roy Halladay.
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Video: November’s Jeffco Preps With Pleuss
A roundup of Jeffco prep highlights, interviews and schedules with Dennis Pleuss, Jeffco Public Schools’ Communication Specialist. This month’s edition features action from the Jeffco League cross country championships at Clement Park. Chatfield junior Christian Holmes made history at the Class 5A boys tennis state tournament at Gates Tennis Center in Denver. Arvada West softball swept through the Class 5A Jeffco League this fall and qualified for the 5A state tournament. Ralston Valley football improved it all-time record against rival A-West to 8-0 with a last-second touchdown. Dakota Ridge junior running back Jered Garcia had a monster game in a victory against Golden. Evergreen senior Bridger Tenney placed second in at the 4A boys golf state tournament and the Cougars took second in the team race.
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Video: Middle Park’s Boston Gleich completes wild TD pass as time expires
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Middle Park quarterback Boston Gleich pulled off an amazing touchdown as time expired in his team’s loss to D’Evelyn on Friday night.
Gleich, a senior, took a snap in shotgun with four seconds remaining, stepped up in the pocked to avoid the rush, then scrambled back in it to avoid more defensive pursuit. The then dodged more would-be tacklers as he scrambled to his right and fired a pass from his own 32-yard-line.
Beale Smith, a junior, was there are D’Evelyn’s 38-yard-line to haul in the pass. He sprinted the rest of the way for the score.
Gleich posted video of the play on Twitter early Saturday morning.
Middle Park lost to the Jaguars, 55-14. Middle Park is now 2-4, while D’Evelyn improved to 3-3.
(Lance Wendt/LanceWendt.com)