AURORA — Second-ranked Eaglecrest volleyball got 35 assists, 11 kills and six blocks from Jordyn Poulter as it beat No. 7 Cherry Creek in Class 5A on Tuesday.
Rachelle Perrine also had 16 kills, while Kalee Maricle added 11 for the Raptors. Toni McDougald led Cherry Creek with 17 kills.
BROOMFIELD — Eighth-ranked Broomfield beat Rocky Mountain 2-1 in Class 5A boys soccer on Tuesday.
Tyler Hulst and Porter Milner scored for the Eagles. Goalkeeper Michael Genge made four saves.
AURORA — With rain in the forecast for both Denver and Pueblo on Thursday and Friday morning, the structure of boys tennis’ state tournaments are very likely to change.
The Class 5A tournament is scheduled to be at Gates Tennis Center in Denver, while 4A is at Pueblo City Park in Pueblo. The tournaments could expand to additional sites.
Update, 7:45 a.m. Thursday: The 5A tournament will also play matches at City Park in Denver.
Update, 10:11 a.m. Thursday: The 4A tournament has been delayed by rain.
Both tournaments are slated for Thursday to Saturday, though that, too, could change. Sunday and/or Monday are options to finish the tournaments, should it be needed.
“We are going to do everything in our power to get this tournament done by Saturday night,” said CHSAA assistant commissioner Bethany Brookens, who oversees tennis. “We thank you for your support and patience and flexibility. We are still looking forward to two great tournaments and hope that drastic steps do not have to be taken in order to complete it.”
What follows is the contingency plan which was sent out to schools on Wednesday afternoon:
Kyle Winkler, a key figure in Chatfield’s baseball successful season last spring, announced on Monday night that he had committed to Miami (Ohio) to play baseball.
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The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Winkler, a senior, led the Chargers with a .525 batting average last season, and also had three home runs, eight doubles and 24 RBIs.
Chatfield went 20-4 last season en route to reaching the Final 8. The Chargers are again expected to be one of Class 5A’s top teams in 2015.
PrepColorado.com reported that Winkler would likely play third base in college.
Miami (Ohio) plays in Division I’s Mid-American Conference, and went 26-30 last year.
The Redhawks don’t currently have any other Colorado players on their roster, though 2014 Fairview grad Sam Martin is on the university’s football team, and caught four touchdowns in a win over UMass on Saturday.
Winkler is also the quarterback for Chatfield’s football team. He has thrown for 942 yards and thrown for for nine touchdowns in the school’s hurry-up attack. Chatfield is 2-4 thus far this season.
He becomes the 14th known local baseball commit from the Class of 2015. Last year’s class produced 129 baseball recruits, including 46 Division I players.
| Team scores | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rank | School | Score |
| 1 | Buena Vista | 141.35 |
| 2 | Canon City | 148.775 |
| Team scores | |||
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| Rank | School | Score | |
| 1 | Niwot | 170.90 | |
| 2 | Thornton | 167.60 | |
| Team scores | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rank | School | Score |
| 1 | Green Mountain | 173.425 |
| 2 | Elizabeth | 169.225 |
| 3 | Evergreen | 153.025 |
| Vault | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Kathy Nguyen | Green Mountain | 9.40 |
| 2 | Mya Sinha | Green Mountain | 9.225 |
| 3 | Camille DiPaola | Green Mountain | 9.125 |
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| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Camille DiPaola | Green Mountain | 9.025 |
| 2 | Morgan Maddox | Green Mountain | 9.00 |
| 3 | Brooke Burton | Elizabeth | 8.50 |
| Beam | |||
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| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Mya Sinha | Green Mountain | 8.85 |
| 2 | Jessie Gerczynski | Elizabeth | 8.80 |
| 3 | Morgan Maddox | Green Mountain | 8.475 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Camille DiPaola | Green Mountain | 9.125 |
| 2 | Amanda Taylor | Elizabeth | 9.05 |
| 3 | Dillon Lind | Elizabeth | 9.00 |
| All-Around | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Camille DiPaola | Green Mountain | 35.60 |
| 2 | Mya Sinha | Green Mountain | 35.125 |
| 3 | Kathy Nguyen | Green Mountain | 34.90 |
AURORA — Girls golf won’t be using a Modified Stableford Scoring system, at least not in 2015.
CHSAA’s golf committee on Tuesday decided not to pursue the system for the coming spring season. It means that the change, seen by some as a way to create a better experience for all girls’ players and speed up pace of play, won’t be mandated.
However, CHSAA is still recommending that tournaments use the system on their own discretion during the regular season in order to gather data. That data would be used with an eye on looking at making the change in 2016.
“We’ll keep exploring it,” said CHSAA associate commissioner Tom Robinson, who administers golf.
The idea was first introduced this summer. In essence, a Stableford system awards points for strokes in relation to par on a hole-by-hole basis, as opposed to the traditional method of simply counting strokes. It also means golfers pick up after reaching the stroke limit on a hole, which has great potential to speed up pace of play.
If a golfer picks up their ball on a hole under the traditional system, they are disqualified from the tournament. In Colorado, that’s not an uncommon occurrence.
A Modified Stableford system simply tweaks the points awarded. Utah currently uses a modified system.
A CHSAA survey asked 82 school administrators and girls golf coaches if they would be in favor of using a Modified Stableford system at regular season tournaments in 2015. The result was a dead split — 41 for, 41 against.
Research conducted in advance of the golf committee meeting showing that a Modified Stableford system would have no effect on the top-10 finishers at the 5A and 4A state tournaments from last season, as well as all regional events. However, a major hangup for the committee was concern over how the use of a Stableford system would affect the college recruitment of golfers.
Robinson plans on gathering data from Utah to see how (or if) recruitment of girls golfers has changed since the installation of their modified scoring system.
Elsewhere, the committee did mandate the use of the iWanamaker system to track scores during all regular season events. With all data in once place, that could lead to a type of handicapping system for regionals and state qualification down the road. Arizona does something similar.
The committee also briefly discussed discontinuing the use of private courses for state championship events, but ultimately decided to stick with them as private courses can offer a type of prestige that other sports enjoy with their championships at professional venues — for instance, the soccer championships at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
Draws for the Class 5A boys tennis state tournament, held Oct. 9-11 at Gates Tennis Center in Denver, are below.
All matches start at 9 a.m. each day. The first two rounds at each position will be played Thursday. Friday morning will be all semifinals, and the playback matches will start immediately afterwards. All third- and fourth-place matches and finals will be at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Should weather intervene, check CHSAANow.com for contingency plans.
These results are being updated throughout the tournament.
For more information on the process for creating these brackets, click here or scroll down.
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Only those teams who qualify four or more positions to state are eligible for the CHSAA state team championship title. The bracket creation process is as follows:
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| Rank | School | Score |
| 1 | Rocky Mountain | 171.525 |
| 2 | Thornton | 171.025 |
| Vault | |||
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| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Sierra Kirylo | Thornton | 9.45 |
| 2 | Autumn Bottke | Rocky Mountain | 9.25 |
| 3 | Julie Piz | Rocky Mountain | 9.20 |
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| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Autumn Bottke | Rocky Mountain | 8.975 |
| 2 | Sydney Gainley | Rocky Mountain | 8.65 |
| 3 | Hannah VanHorn | Thornton | 8.45 |
| Beam | |||
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| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Sierra Kirylo | Thornton | 9.475 |
| 2 | Autumn Bottke | Rocky Mountain | 9.30 |
| 3 | Kwanli Young | Thornton | 8.55 |
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| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Autumn Bottke | Rocky Mountain | 9.60 |
| 2 | Sara Michie | Thornton | 9.40 |
| 3 | Sierra Kirylo | Thornton | 9.375 |
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| Rank | Name | School | Score |
| 1 | Autumn Bottke | Rocky Mountain | 37.125 |
| 2 | Sierra Kirylo | Thonton | 36.65 |
| 3 | Sydney Gainley | Rocky Mountain | 34.875 |