Senior quarterback Tyler Smith had three touchdown passes and two more on the ground as Grandview rolled to a 37-7 win over Horizon on Thursday.
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Week 1’s top-10 football schedule and scoreboard
A complete schedule and scoreboard for football’s top-10 teams in Week 1.
- Full schedule and scoreboard of all Week 1 games
- Zero Week’s top-10 scoreboard
- Complete CHSAANow.com rankings
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All games Friday unless noted.
Go to: 5A | 4A | 3A | 2A | 1A | 8-man | 6-man
Class 5A RK Team W-L Result 1 Valor Christian 1-0 Bye 2 Cherokee Trail 0-1 L 23-21 at Chatfield 3 ThunderRidge 1-0 W 30-7 vs. Dakota Ridge (Thurs.) 4 Cherry Creek 1-0 W 42-6 at Clovis (N.M.) 5 Pomona 1-0 W 21-14 at Broomfield 6 Grandview 1-0 W 37-7 at Horizon (Thurs.) 7 Ralston Valley 2-0 W 44-29 vs. Longmont 8 Columbine 1-0 W 33-14 at Fort Collins 9 Chaparral 0-1 L 23-13 vs. Rocky Mountain 10 Regis Jesuit 1-0 W 27-0 vs. Rangeview Class 4A RK Team W-L Result 1 Monarch 1-0 W 41-23 at Greeley West 2 Denver South 1-0 W 23-18 at (9) Mesa Ridge 3 Wheat Ridge 1-0 W 31-22 vs. (8) Windsor 4 Pine Creek 1-0 W 23-14 vs. Fountain-Fort Carson (Thurs.) 5 Pueblo West 1-0 W 28-0 vs. Pueblo County 6 Vista Ridge 0-1 Bye 7 Ponderosa 0-1 L 10-7 vs. Pueblo South (Thurs.) 8 Windsor 0-1 L 31-22 at (3) Wheat Ridge 9 Mesa Ridge 0-1 L 23-18 vs. (2) Denver South 10 Falcon 1-0 W 38-0 vs. Widefield Class 3A RK Team W-L Result 1 Silver Creek 1-0 Bye 2 Rifle 1-0 W 54-6 vs. Coal Ridge 3 Elizabeth 1-0 W 19-14 vs. Frederick 4 Pueblo East 1-0 L 49-28 vs. (6) Discovery Canyon 5 Conifer 1-0 W 35-0 vs. Centaurus (Sat.) 6 Discovery Canyon 1-0 W 49-28 at (4) Pueblo East 7 Pueblo Central 0-2 L 28-18 at Northridge (Thurs.) 8 Roosevelt 1-0 W 46-16 vs. (2A 4) Eaton 9 Holy Family 1-0 W 42-16 vs. (2A 8) Faith Christian 10 The Classical Academy 0-2 L 16-6 vs. Coronado (Thurs.) Class 2A RK Team W-L Result 1 Kent Denver 0-1 L 32-14 at (2) Platte Valley 2 Platte Valley 1-0 W 32-14 vs. (1) Kent Denver 3 Florence 0-0 W 47-14 at The Academy (Sat.) 4 Eaton 1-1 L 46-16 vs. (3A 8) Roosevelt 5 Bayfield 0-1 L 28-6 at Kirtland Central (N.M.) 6 Brush 1-0 W 42-0 vs. (1A 5) Wray 7 La Junta 1-0 Bye 8 Faith Christian 1-1 L 42-16 at (3A 9) Holy Family 9 Grand Valley 0-1 L 32-29 vs. Meeker 10 Strasburg 1-0 W 20-9 at Bennett Class 1A RK Team W-L Result 1 Cedaredge 0-1 W 28-20 at Montezuma-Cortez 2 Buena Vista 1-0 W 39-34 at Alamosa 3 Limon 1-0 W 20-14 at Yuma 4 Centauri 0-0 W 40-0 vs. Pagosa Springs (Sat.) 5 Wray 0-1 L 42-0 at (2A 6) Brush 6 Monte Vista 1-0 W 47-8 vs. Lake County 7 Wiggins 1-0 W 39-7 at Byers 8 Hotchkiss 1-0 W 34-13 vs. Olathe 9 Holyoke 1-0 W 48-0 vs. Perkins County (Neb.) 10 Resurrection Christian 1-0 W 21-0 at Peyton Class 8-man RK Team W-L Result 1 Hoehne 1-0 W 56-15 at (6) Walsh 2 Granada 0-1 L 50-14 at (7) Akron 3 Fowler 0-1 Bye 4 Dayspring Christian 1-0 Bye 5 Elbert 0-0 W 62-8 at Cripple Creek-Victor (Sat.) 6 Walsh 0-1 L 56-15 vs. (1) Hoehne 7 Akron 1-0 W 50-14 vs. (2) Granada 8 Caliche 0-0 W 21-0 at Front Range Christian (Sat.) 9 Dove Creek 0-0 W 46-6 at Rangely 10 Hayden 0-0 W 48-6 at Belleview Christian (Sat.) Class 6-man RK Team W-L Result 1 Fleming 0-1 L 54-6 vs. (5) Liberty/Stratton 2 Eads 1-0 W 46-0 vs. Cotopaxi 3 Deer Trail 0-0 vs. North Park (Sat.) 4 Hi-Plains 1-0 W 58-28 vs. Prairie 5 Liberty/Stratton 1-0 W 54-6 at (1) Fleming -
High expectations surround The Classical Academy cross country — again
The Classical Academy Cross country coach Alan Versaw. (Ryan Casey/CHSAANow.com) COLORADO SPRINGS — Here was the initial roster: Seven boys, three girls. Six of those kids were still in middle school.
“We were running as individuals,” coach Alan Versaw said recently. “But it was fun.”
“To this day,” he added, “the things I learned from them, the sort of team things they set in place, are still present. It is uncanny how much harkens back to the first year or two when there were just so few kids there. They just wanted to go out and conquer everything they could conquer.”
Versaw’s program has grown to the point that it is now among the state’s elite. The girls have won ten consecutive state championships dating to 2003 and the boys have five in that same span.
“I was completely unaware of the sort of stuff that would follow,” Versaw said. “Not in my wildest dreams could I imagine the kind of program it became.”
The coach himself didn’t even run cross country in high school. He went to Sangre de Cristo, near Alamosa, where he played football and ran track. The school didn’t have a cross country program.
“I don’t think I would’ve run cross country if we had,” Versaw said. “I wasn’t tuned that way quite yet.”
In college, he started participating in road races, but a bone chip in his knee forced surgery and he stopped running — for 20 years. He didn’t pick it back up again until started TCA’s program.
“I knew that I really, really liked the kind of mindset that came out for cross country,” Versaw said.
By 2003, the girls had won a Class 3A state title. A year later, the boys won their first. Things exploded from there, and Versaw’s Titans started to dominate. In 2006, both teams won state championships. In 2009, TCA girls went 1-2-3, placed five runners in the top ten and six in the top 13.
Last year, both programs made the leap to 4A. The boys finished eighth — “Last year was kind of a tough year for the guys to bridge up to 4A,” Versaw said, noting they returned just one runner from the 2011 state meet — and the girls won.
“The depth of the other teams is so different” in 4A, Versaw said. “3A has some really talented individuals, but we were going, any given year, seven or eight or nine girls deep and there weren’t 3A schools that could match up.
“You know, a couple of (the girls) told me that at the end of the season: ‘Coach, I was really kind of skeptical at the beginning of the season, not sure what to make of it, but it was a lot more fun at the end,’ ” Versaw added. “And that’s easy to understand. What’s more fun? Going up a 14er where you’ve got to use your hands and you’re hanging out in the air a little, or just strolling up? That’s the kind of difference it is.”
This season, the girls opened as the No. 1 team in the preseason 4A Colorado Track XC/CHSAANow.com poll. The boys are No. 3.
So, yeah, expectations are high. Again.
The girls return five of the seven girls from last year’s state meet team.
“We went about 11 girls deep, really strong last year, and we only lost two as seniors,” Versaw said. “We just had a really good summer. A lot of dedication from the kids. Yes, they lifted the level of their training, but I think they also did it in a smart way. There’s a pretty tight bonding among these girls, and I think they’re committed to one another.
“They know what it takes,” he continued. “The eyes were open kind of wide last year, in 4A, and they didn’t know what to expect. I think they made some adjustments over the last year and I think that’s why I saw the kind of summer I did with their training.”
Six of seven boys from last year’s state meet team are back.
“Eighth isn’t bad, but they had a whole new picture and a whole new mindset this year of what it takes,” Versaw said. “They worked harder this summer than ever before, and their sights are high.”
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The Classical Academy at the state meet
A look at how TCA’s cross country teams have fared at the state meet since 2001, including a breakdown of how individual runners finished.
Girls Year Team Class No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 2012 1st 4A 6th 7th 16th 18th 51st 64th 99th 2011 1st 3A 2nd 3rd 7th 8th 18th 28th 2010 1st 3A 7th 9th 11th 12th 13th 20th 2009 1st 3A 1st 2nd 3rd 9th 10th 13th 2008 1st 3A 1st 3rd 5th 7th 17th 21th 2007 1st 3A 1st 3rd 7th 17th 23rd 2006 1st 3A 2nd 8th 11th 22th 47th 2005 1st 3A 2nd 14th 17th 46th 147th 2004 1st 3A 12th 28th 30th 31st 2003 1st 3A 6th 13th 25th 38th 2002 3rd 3A 5th 32nd 35th 39th 2001 – 3A 74th 78th Boys Year Team Class No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 2012 8th 4A 8th 36th 41st 60th 102nd 109th 111th 2011 1st 3A 2nd 3rd 10th 21st 23rd 46th 2010 1st 3A 2nd 3rd 12th 23rd 25th 37th 2009 2nd 3A 4th 13th 24th 26th 38th 54th 2008 1st 3A 4th 11th 18th 20th 45th 52nd 2007 3rd 3A 4th 5th 30th 50th 72nd 2006 1st 3A 3rd 13th 19th 45th 92nd 2005 3rd 3A 2nd 16th 37th 40th 90th 2004 1st 3A 1st 15th 21st 25th 2003 4th 3A 6th 24th 33rd 50th 2002 4th 3A 5th 24th 67th 87th 2001 – 3A 78th -
Q&A: Why are football players’ numbers called out on penalty calls?
(Jack Eberhard/JacksActionShots) A hot topic in the aftermath of football’s Zero Week was the fact that referees are now identifying players by their numbers on penalty calls. We caught up with CHSAA assistant commissioner Tom Robinson, who oversees officials, for an explanation.
First and foremost: the new addition is not a new rule, but instead a mechanic. Mechanics are designed to help relay information to the players, coaches and crowd. And because of that, “It’s not one of those where you have to be in 100 percent compliance with it as you would with a rule book,” Robinson said.
The new mechanic should help reduce instances where coaches are trying to figure out who a penalty was called on. But don’t expect it to be called in every stadium across the state — at least not right away.
“That’s going to be the learning curve for them in terms of getting the number,” Robinson said. “So, probably you’re not going to get (the numbers) all the time, it’s going to be an afterthought until we get more experience doing it.”
Here’s a Q & A on the new mechanic with Robinson, who was a college football official for 25 years, including the last 12 as referee of his crew.
Can you take us through the basis of it and where it originated?
“I guess it got its roots not through this office (CHSAA) but through some other conversations I was having with officials in general. Really, it was from that whole topic of, ‘Are officials accountable?’ So we were just trying to come up with some different ways with all of our (officials) associations to do some things a little differently and to add to what we’re doing.
“That was a conversation I had in June, and even before. And so as the CFOA was getting ready for their season, that was one of the suggestions: Could we, instead of having a bunch of coaches asking, ‘Well, who was (the penalty) on?’ … have a mechanic where we relay the number of a fouling player (to the coach)? But a lot of times, it depends on how close you are … and there’s always a delay (in getting that information to the coach). So the question was, why don’t we alleviate the pressure around getting that number (to the coach) by just calling that number out right away when they signal the penalty?”
Are there any other states doing this?
“We’re probably one of a handful of states.”
Have you gotten any feedback from officials with it?
“I have not seen via email one thing about announcing the numbers. Not since Zero Week, which is when it started. We went out to football clinics and some of the officials were not happy about it. It’s probably one of a few. Others may have had similar feelings, because, if you’re old school, it’s just the way we’ve done it (to not call numbers) all the time. And I’m old school, too, but I always thought it would be helpful (to call numbers out), because our mechanics are designed to be a guide for people in the stands who don’t know what’s going on: the signals, signaling touchdown, all of that is important to the game, and this is just one more thing.
“I would say this: In every other sport, we identify the fouling player. … (In basketball) the announcer announces the fouling player, it goes up on a lot of scoreboards. I think (not calling numbers) was just a tradition that football had.”
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Legend, Brighton join 5A softball rankings
Legend and Brighton and cracked the CHSAANow.com softball poll this week.
Eaglecrest (3-0) remained atop the 5A ranking, while Pueblo East (4A) and Strasburg (3A) held firm atop their respective polls.
Complete rankings for all classes are below.
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CHSAANow.com Softball Polls
Voted upon by coaches and media members around the state. New voters can sign up by emailing rcasey@chsaa.org.
Class 5A RK TEAM W-L PTS PVS LW 1 Eaglecrest (6) 3-0-0 87 1 3-0-0 2 Legacy (1) 1-0-0 79 2 1-0-0 3 Dakota Ridge (1) 2-0-0 63 4 2-0-0 4 Rock Canyon 0-0-0 62 3 0-0-0 5 Loveland 0-0-0 47 5 0-0-0 6 Chatfield 1-0-0 31 6 1-0-0 7 Castle View 0-0-0 30 7 0-0-0 8 Legend 0-1-1 24 – 0-1-1 9 Brighton (1) 1-0-0 22 – 1-0-0 10 Grandview 1-1-1 16 10 1-1-1 Others receiving votes: Ralston Valley 9, Arvada West 7, Fossil Ridge 6, Mountain Vista 6, Cherokee Trail 4. Class 4A RK TEAM W-L PTS PVS LW 1 Pueblo East (7) 3-0-0 88 1 3-0-0 2 Wheat Ridge (1) 2-0-0 73 2 2-0-0 3 Erie 2-0-0 65 3 2-0-0 4 Ponderosa 2-0-0 54 5 2-0-0 5 Frederick 3-0-0 48 9 3-0-0 6 Niwot (1) 1-0-0 34 4 1-0-0 7 Berthoud 2-0-0 33 6 2-0-0 8 Silver Creek 2-0-0 27 – 2-0-0 9 Discovery Canyon 0-0-0 17 7 0-0-0 10 D’Evelyn 2-0-0 15 – 2-0-0 Others receiving votes: Broomfield 10, Valor Christian 8, Thompson Valley 7, Montrose 5, Mountain View 5, Pueblo South 4, Mullen 1, Roosevelt 1. Class 3A RK TEAM W-L PTS PVS LW 1 Strasburg (6) 3-0-0 69 1 3-0-0 2 Holy Family 2-0-0 59 3 2-0-0 3 Valley (1) 0-1-0 56 2 0-1-0 4 Rocky Ford 1-0-0 47 4 1-0-0 5 Sterling 4-1-0 42 5 4-1-0 6 Eaton 2-1-0 35 6 2-1-0 7 La Junta 2-0-0 32 7 2-0-0 8 Basalt 0-0-0 19 10 0-0-0 9 Florence 1-1-0 11 9 1-1-0 10 Gunnison 2-3-0 6 – 2-3-0 Others receiving votes: Lamar 5, Burlington 3, The Classical Academy 2. -
Niwot closes gap in 4A boys tennis poll
Cherry Creek (5A) and Kent Denver (4A) continued to lead the CHSAANow.com boys tennis polls this week, though Niwot is closing in the 4A ranking.
Vail Mountain was the lone new team to either ranking.
Complete rankings for both classes are below.
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CHSAANow.com Boys Tennis Polls
Voted upon by coaches and media members around the state. New voters can sign up by emailing rcasey@chsaa.org.
Class 5A RK TEAM PTS PVS 1 Cherry Creek (9) 99 1 2 Fairview (1) 91 2 3 Arapahoe 67 3 4 Fossil Ridge 61 5 5 Grand Junction 59 4 6 Regis Jesuit 48 6 7 Mountain Vista 44 7 8 Denver East 31 9 9 Boulder 30 8 10 Chatfield 7 10 Others receiving votes: Chaparral 5, Rocky Mountain 4, Fort Collins 2, Highlands Ranch 1, Poudre 1. Class 4A RK TEAM PTS PVS 1 Kent Denver (3) 48 1 2 Niwot (2) 45 2 3 Colorado Academy 38 4 4 Cheyenne Mountain 36 3 5 Air Academy 29 5 6 Discovery Canyon 26 6 7 Steamboat Springs 19 9 8 Valor Christian 16 8 9 Mullen 13 7 10 Vail Mountain 7 – Others receiving votes: Aspen 2, Broomfield 1. -
Alexander Dawson takes over No. 1 spot in 3A boys golf
Alexander Dawson is the new No. 1 team atop the Class 3A CHSAANow.com boys golf ranking this week.
Elsewhere, Regis Jesuit (5A) and Valor Christian (4A) retained their No. 1 spots.
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CHSAANow.com Boys Golf Polls
Voted upon by coaches and media members around the state. New voters can sign up by emailing rcasey@chsaa.org.
Class 5A RK TEAM PTS PVS 1 Regis Jesuit (5) 50 1 2 Boulder 38 2 3 Cherry Creek 37 3 4 Fossil Ridge 24 4 5 Columbine 22 5 6 Ralston Valley 19 6 7 Douglas County 17 7 8 Fairview 15 9 9 Heritage 12 10 10 Arapahoe 9 8 Others receiving votes: Legacy 8, Pine Creek 6, Monarch 5, ThunderRidge 5, Rock Canyon 4, Prairie View 2, Brighton 1, Fruita Monument 1, Abraham Lincoln 0, Adams City 0. Class 4A RK TEAM PTS PVS 1 Valor Christian (3) 39 1 2 Pueblo South (1) 36 2 3 Cheyenne Mountain 33 6 4 Montezuma-Cortez 28 8 5 Silver Creek 20 3 6 Mullen 17 – 7 Windsor 15 5 8 Evergreen 11 – 9 Rifle 9 – 10 Coronado 6 4 Others receiving votes: Battle Mountain 3, D’Evelyn 2, Vista Ridge 1, Air Academy 0, Alameda 0, Arvada 0, Berthoud 0, Broomfield 0, Canon City 0, Centaurus 0. Class 3A RK TEAM PTS PVS 1 Alexander Dawson (3) 39 – 2 Peak to Peak 34 – 3 Kent Denver (1) 30 1 4 Holy Family 29 2 5 Lutheran 28 8 6 Estes Park 17 6 7 Aspen 14 5 8 Vail Christian 11 3 9 Sterling 10 – 10 Trinidad 5 4 Others receiving votes: Alamosa 2, Colorado Academy 2, Basalt 0, Branson 0, Brush 0, Buena Vista 0, Burlington 0, C.S. Christian 0, C.S. School 0, Cedaredge 0. -
Photo gallery: Ralston Valley beats Mullen in Zero Week
Ralston Valley beat Mullen 43-0 to open the season during Zero Week.
Photos from the game:
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Top-10 football scoreboard
A look at how football’s top-10 teams fared this weekend. Find complete CHSAANow.com rankings here.
A full scoreboard of all games is here.
All games are Friday, unless noted.
Go to: 5A | 4A | 3A | 2A | 1A | 8-man | 6-man
Class 5A RK Team W-L Result 1 Valor Christian 1-0 W 31-7 vs. Central (Calif.) (Sat.) 2 Cherokee Trail 0-0 Bye 3 ThunderRidge 0-0 Bye 4 Cherry Creek 0-0 Bye 5 Pomona 0-0 Bye 6 Grandview 0-0 Bye 7 Ralston Valley 1-0 W 43-0 at Mullen 8 Columbine 0-0 Bye 9 Chaparral 0-0 Bye 10 Regis Jesuit 0-0 Bye Class 4A RK Team W-L Result 1 Monarch 0-0 Bye 2 Denver South 0-0 Bye 3 Wheat Ridge 0-0 Bye 4 Pine Creek 0-0 Bye 5 Pueblo West 0-0 Bye 6 Vista Ridge 0-1 L 47-22 at Montrose 7 Ponderosa 0-0 Bye 8 Windsor 0-0 Bye 9 Mesa Ridge 0-0 Bye 10 Falcon 0-0 Bye Class 3A RK Team W-L Result 1 Silver Creek 1-0 W 41-25 at Poinciana (Fla.) (Thurs.) 2 Rifle 0-0 Bye 3 Elizabeth 0-0 Bye 4 Pueblo East 1-0 W 35-15 vs. Lewis-Palmer (Sat.) 5 Conifer 1-0 W 14-0 at Glenwood Springs 6 Discovery Canyon 1-0 W 28-7 at (7) Pueblo Central 7 Pueblo Central 0-1 L 28-7 vs. (6) Discovery Canyon 8 Roosevelt 0-0 Bye 9 Holy Family 0-0 Bye 10 The Classical Academy 0-0 Bye Class 2A RK Team W-L Result 1 Kent Denver 0-0 Bye 2 Platte Valley 0-0 Bye 3 Florence 0-0 Bye 4 Eaton 1-0 W 63-0 vs. The Academy 5 Bayfield 0-0 Bye 6 Brush 0-0 Bye 7 La Junta 0-0 Bye 8 Faith Christian 1-0 W 21-10 vs. Bennett 9 Grand Valley 0-0 Bye 10 Strasburg 0-0 Bye Class 1A RK Team W-L Result 1 Cedaredge 0-1 L 42-28 at Eagle Valley 2 Buena Vista 0-0 Bye 3 Limon 0-0 Bye 4 Centauri 0-0 Bye 5 Wray 0-0 Bye 6 Monte Vista 0-0 Bye 7 Wiggins 0-0 Bye 8 Hotchkiss 0-0 Bye 9 Holyoke 0-0 Bye 10 Resurrection Christian 0-0 Bye Class 8-man RK Team W-L Result 1 Hoehne 0-0 Bye 2 Granada 0-0 Bye 3 Fowler 0-1 L 20-14 at Sargent 4 Dayspring Christian 1-0 W 46-14 at Kiowa 5 Elbert 0-0 Bye 6 Walsh 0-0 Bye 7 Akron 0-0 Bye 8 Caliche 0-0 Bye 9 Dove Creek 0-0 at Simla (Sat.) 10 Hayden 0-0 Bye Class 6-man RK Team W-L Result 1 Fleming 0-0 Bye 2 Eads 0-0 Bye 3 Deer Trail 0-0 Bye 4 Hi-Plains 0-0 Bye 5 Liberty/Stratton 0-0 Bye -
Grand Junction, Prairie View upstage Mother Nature in wild opener
Prairie View’s Alex Munoz tackles Grand Junction’s Theron Verna while Jack Parsons looks on during the first half. (Kathy Schneider/MetroWest Newspapers) HENDERSON — Mother Nature threatened to ruin the 2013 football opener for Grand Junction and Prairie View, but the teams got the last laugh in staging one of the wildest games of the early season.
After a delayed start, the visitors walked off the field at 11:12 p.m. with a 61-42 win that resembled more of a 6-man football game.
The game was scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., but a severe thunderstorm prompted game managers to, wisely, postpone the start until 8:05. The teams started an abbreviated warm-up only to be pulled off the field by game officials for another delay. By the time the teams returned, it was nearly 8:45.
Prairie View’s Skylar Severance (84) grabs a hold of Grand Junction running back Austin Lewis. (Kathy Schneider/MetroWest Newspapers) The Tigers opened the game by trying an onside kick, but Prairie View covered the kick. PVHS struggled on it first possession and GJHS’s Tanner Griffin blocked the punt and then recovered it in the end zone. PVHS got its first score when Anthony Prespotino recovered a muffed punt in the end zone. Jessica Dunn’s first of six PATs gave the Thunderhawks a short-lived lead at 7-6.
That started the scoring onslaught and created nightmares for both defenses. The score was 21-18 after the first quarter in favor of Prairie View and 31-28 Grand Junction at the half.
Grand Junction added a pair of scores early in the third, took at 46-28 lead at 9:37 in the third and thwarted numerous attempts from the potent Thunderhawk offense to start 1-0.
Both teams’ offenses had plenty of stars. The Tigers quarterback Tyler Heinsma threw for over 250 yards and three TDs. Theron Verna was a force in the game, scoring on passes of 73 and 22 yards and taking a pitch from Heinsma and sprinting 58 yards to score. Austin Lewis had three scores on a pass and two runs.
Not to be outdone, Prairie View’s RJ Martinez is a home run threat every time he touches the ball, especially on kickoffs where he amassed over 100 return yards and had an 80-yard kickoff return called back by penalty. Cole Barone had two scoreds on runs of 56 and 68 yards for Prairie View, while quarterback Ben Meraz added a 46-yard TD run of his own.
Stormy weather forced Grand Junction and Prairie View to delay their kickoff until 8:45 p.m. (Bert Borgmann/CHSAANow.com)