COLORADO SPRINGS — Moments after netting the game-winning goal 48 seconds into double overtime on Wednesday, Valor Christian senior Don Provost couldn’t help but wonder about a future meeting with Cheyenne Mountain.

“I was happy to be done with that game,” Provost said after the Eagles’ 9-8 road victory Wednesday. “Cheyenne Mountain is a hell of a team, and they gave us the best game we’ve had all season. It feels good to get my first win against them. They’ve always been a thorn in our side, and I’m sure we’ll see them again.”

Provost took a pass from Cole Baker and rifled a shot past Indians goalkeeper Nate Robledo, who earlier made a point-blank save on Grayson Goodyear late in the first four-minute overtime and also stopped Ryan Russell in the closing seconds of regulation.

Goodyear scored three goals for the top-ranked Eagles (14-0), Class 4A’s only undefeated team, while Russell added three assists. Meanwhile, Mitch Page also netted a hat trick for No. 3 Cheyenne Mountain (10-3), which suffered its first loss to a 4A opponent.

Now, a rematch seems all Paige can think about.

“I’m excited because I know we’ll see them again,” Paige said. “We have things we can work on, and I know we can come out on top. It just depends on when and where.”

Cheyenne Mountain scored three unanswered goals to end the third quarter, erasing a 7-4 Valor advantage. The Indians then went ahead after Jack Clancy beat Eagles goalkeeper Shawn Johnson after a nice spin move behind the net gave him an opening in front.

Baker then tied the game, faking a defender to create space, and blasting one past Robledo with 5:34 left in the fourth quarter.

Early, Cheyenne Mountain held its own, grabbing a 4-1 lead, thanks to three consecutive goals from Paige.

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By halftime, however, the Indians had lost their scoring touch and gave up two Goodyear goals — part of a five-goal outburst — that gave the Eagles a 6-4 advantage heading into halftime.

“We just collected ourselves,” Johnson said. “That’s what helped us. They got out in front, but we kept them out of the middle. We knew that we could come back, one play at a time. We picked out who their shooters were and made them take bad shots.”

Now, all eyes will be upon the 4A playoff bracket, the high seeds these teams likely will earn, and an almost inevitable rematch, possibly May 15 in the state championship game.

“The real work starts next week,” Eagles first-year coach John Grant Jr. said. “I couldn’t be prouder of the way they played. All I could say was three words: ‘What tremendous heart.’ This is a big win for the program, but this means nothing if we don’t take care of business in a couple of weeks, and I’m sure we’ll see them again somewhere along the way.”

LAKEWOOD — Josh Ramirez threw a no hitter in Green Mountain’s 4-0 win over Evergreen in Class 4A baseball on Wednesday.

Ramirez was a walk away from a perfect game. He struck out eight in improving to 5-1 this season with a 1.37 ERA. It was the first no-hitter of his high school career.

Perhaps more importantly for Green Mountain, ranked No. 8 in this week’s 4A poll, the win moved the Rams into the third-place spot in the 4A Jeffco standings. The top three teams from the league automatically qualify for the playoff field.

Wyatt Featherston also contributed to Wednesday’s win with two RBIs. Ramirez was also 2-for-3 at the plate.

GREENWOOD VILLAGE — Maxwell Tennant scored four goals to lead an offensive explosion as No. 1 Cherry Creek beat Grandview 20-10 in Class 5A boys lacrosse on Wednesday.

Michael Morean added three goals, while Patrick O’Neil, Asher Nolting, Connor Till and Griffin Gharrity each had a pair.

Expect lots of clouds, and rain, next week. (Ryan Casey/CHSAANow.com)

The Class 3A, 4A and 5A baseball regular seasons are set to end next Tuesday. And that may be a huge issue, if the rain which is forecast for the early part of next week comes to fruition.

Monday’s forecast calls for a 75 percent chance of rain on the early evening along the Front Range, while Tuesday’s hovers around 70 percent in the morning, and 50 percent in the afternoon.

Because of this, the CHSAA office on Wednesday urged baseball teams to either push games up to Saturday, or prepare contingencies for postseason qualification.

Seeding for the 3A, 4A and 5A district tournaments is on Wednesday. As such, there is no wiggle room to reschedule games after Tuesday. So it leaves Saturday, or even Friday, as the only possibility in a sort of preemptive rescheduling should teams want to be sure they finish their schedule.

The 3A, 4A and 5A tournament fields all rely heavily upon automatic qualification, which is based on league finish. Most of the games scheduled for Monday and Tuesday are important league games, and therefore, will help determine that league finish.

Moving the seeding, and thus, the district tournaments, is not an option as it would push back the rest of the schedule for the state tournament. Those tournament dates are set in stone as facilities have been rented.

Additionally, the final date to report updates for Wild Card points is Tuesday before noon, according to the bulletin. Any game completed after that time will not be counted in the Wild Card points, which help determine at-large qualifiers, and seeding positions.

The following is an excerpt of an email sent by Bert Borgmann, CHSAA assistant commissioner who oversees baseball, to member schools:

There is a real chance this year that some leagues will be unable to finish their league schedule prior to the seeding date. Should this happen, each league must still submit their list of automatic qualifiers (in order of qualification).

It is in the best interest of each league to make the determination on how that will be accomplished now and not wait until May 5 or 6 to do so. You need to explore your “back up plans for qualifiers.”

After perusing the various weather sites this week, it appears that the Front Range is in for rain Monday and Tuesday, while it will be hit or miss at points west. This underscores the need for leagues to have their alternate qualifying plans in place.

The 3A, 4A and 5A state tournaments begin on May 15 with their respective Finals 8s. Championship games are May 23.

The CLOC committee met on Wednesday. (Ryan Casey/CHSAANow.com)

AURORA — The Classification and League Organizing Committee met on Wednesday to work on the state’s alignment for the 2016-18 two-year cycle.

Nothing was set — in fact, it’s not even close to being finalized — but the committee did have a lot of work to do since they have been charged with evenly distributing teams into classifications for next cycle.

And there was one wrinkle that took up much of their time on Wednesday: That they have flexibility to move the cutoff line for a classification up or down five percent in order to balance the number of schools.

Those numbers, and the potential enrollment cutoff splits, are listed below. Schools should be looking to see if they could potentially fall within this cutoff range. The CHSAA office will send out a survey asking schools about their preference for a classification. If they fall within that cutoff zone, that preference will be taken into consideration, though will not always be granted.

Keep in mind that this is only Step 1 of this new CLOC process. Further steps will be explained in detail in the months to come.

Note that football’s numbers are hard-and-fast numbers, and the 5 percent buffer does not apply to its enrollment cutoffs. As a result, those numbers are not included below. They are listed in this story.

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2016-18 enrollment cutoffs, and the cutoff zone

Note: These numbers are for the bottom end of a classification. So, in 5A team sports, anything at 1357 (or, potentially, 1425 or 1289) and above is 5A. Anything below that number then falls into the next class (in the example, 4A).

The middle number is the number which was set by CLOC, and approved at Legislative Council in January. Above that is the enrollment cutoff with a 5 percent increase. The bottom number is the enrollment cutoff with a 5 percent decrease.

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Results are updated as they are entered from site directors at each regional.

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HIGHLANDS RANCH — Mallory Pugh couldn’t quite strike early. But she was able to strike often for the Mountain Vista Golden Eagles as they took down Class 5A’s No. 1-ranked ThunderRidge 4-1 to claim the Continental League title.

The Golden Eagles (13-2 overall, 10-0 5A Continental League) haven’t lost since they dropped their March 10 game against Pine Creek and have clear momentum going into the postseason.

“There’s soccer and then there’s Mallory Pugh soccer,” Golden Eagles coach Theresa Echtermeyer said. “She’s a special player for us and for this community. We’re very blessed to have her.”

Pugh nearly had the Eagles on the board in the opening minutes. She found herself on a clean breakaway and her shot went off Sabrina Macias and trickled toward the goal. It was kicked away at the last second by Mealii Enos to keep the game scoreless.

“I would’ve loved for it to go in,” Pugh said. “I know Sabrina, she and I are really good friends, I was disappointed in myself but I gotta give it to her, she made a really good save there.”

The Grizzlies (13-1, 9-1) were able to to take advantage of the break minutes later as a Shae Holmes shot went was deflected by Golden Eagles keeper Kylie Love but into the waiting foot of Jamie Brunworth who found the open net.

“We felt good about it,” Grizzlies coach Chris Smith said. “We had the momentum and we knew they had pace, but we didn’t know they had that much pace.”

The Golden Eagles didn’t let the 1-0 deficit get to them continued to press on the attack. They hit pay dirt in the 25th minute as Katie Joella found Pugh who made a great move to shake her defender and bury her shot to tie the game.

“In these big games, I know that we all kind of settle down,” Pugh said. “We were all really flustered in the first 10 minutes when they scored and after that we really brought it and started communicating.”

Mountain Vista continued to dominate time of possession and the tie game was short-lived as a result. Pugh was able to corral the ball from the Grizlies and beat Macias again to give her team a 2-1 lead that would hold until halftime.

The second started with some bad news for ThunderRidge as Macias didn’t start the second half due to an injury she suffered in the first 40 minutes.

“Our trainer knew she needed to be looked at so we got her through the half,” Smith said. “We got her off, iced her up and she took (the second half) off.”

Sierra Roth came in to replace Macias and played well through the majority of the second half. It wasn’t until the 68th minute that Megan Rumbold got the ball over Roth’s head from 35 yards out that the Golden Eagles scored again. Megan Massey added one more in the waning seconds to give Mountain Vista the 4-1 win and the league title.

“ThunderRidge is a really good team and we couldn’t look past them,” Pugh said. “I’m really proud of my teammates for pulling through and keeping a high standard and mentality against this team.”

BROOMFIELD — Marin McCoy had a hat trick to lead No. 1 Colorado Academy girls soccer past No. 3 Jefferson Academy, 6-1, on Tuesday.

McCoy scored the first goal of the game in the 20th minute, but Jefferson Academy’s Alycia Wright answered nine minutes later.

In the 37th minute, CA’s Julia Murphy scored on a deep free kick, but it was called back on an offside call. Not to be denied, Murphy scored 20 seconds later, which opened the floodgates for the Mustangs. McCoy added her second goal two minutes later to end the half with her team up 3-1.

McCoy completed the hat trick with another goal in the 46th minute.

With the win, Colorado Academy clinched the league title with a perfect 9-0 record. They handed Jefferson Academy its first loss of the season.

MONTROSE — Grand Junction and Montrose played to a scoreless tie after two overtimes on Tuesday.

Vince Massey, the new athletic director at Mullen. (Courtesy of Mullen HS)

Mullen has named Vince Massey, a longtime figure in the school, as its new athletic director.

The school announced the move in a press release on Wednesday morning.

Massey has been at Mullen for 20 years, serving most recently as wrestling coach, dean of students, and director of safety and security. He has coached wrestling for 19 seasons.

In addition, Massey has taught social studies, and been an assistant football coach.

He will remain as director of safety and security.

“For the last five years, as Dean of Students, Mr. Massey transformed the role of Dean, modeling the Lasallian principles of positive discipline,” Mullen principal Janell Kloosterman said in a statement.

“At the national Lasallian Huether Conference last fall, Mr. Massey’s presentation was widely acclaimed and has been implemented in several of our Lasallian schools. While Dean of Students, Mr. Massey also served as the Director of Safety and Security. Vince Massey will continue to serve Mullen High School in this role.”