MONUMENT — Cameron Brummond and Christian Perry each had two goals and an assist as No. 7 Lewis-Palmer hockey beat Doherty 5-0 on Friday.
Nicholas Roscoe had four assists in the win, while Marcus Smith notched the shutout for the Rangers, his second of the season.
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COLORADO SPRINGS – Colorado Springs Christian School continued make a push to repeat as the Class 3A state champs with an 87-56 win over Pueblo Centennial.
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CENTENNIAL – After climbing to No. 5 in this week’s hockey rankings, the Mountain Vista Golden Eagles showed it’s no fluke as they topped Doherty 7-1 Thursday night.
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Below are this week’s wrestling rankings from On The Mat.
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Go to: 5A | 4A | 3A | 2A
| Class 5A | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RK | TEAM | PVS | |||
| 1 | Pomona | 1 | |||
| 2 | Pine Creek | 2 | |||
| 3 | Poudre | 4 | |||
| 4 | Legacy | 3 | |||
| 5 | Ponderosa | 5 | |||
| 6 | Cherokee Trail | 6 | |||
| 7 | Rocky Mountain | 7 | |||
| 8 | Fruita Monument | 10 | |||
| 9 | Grand Junction | 8 | |||
| 10 | Chaparral | – | |||
| Dropped out | |||||
| Grand Junction Central (9). | |||||
| Class 4A | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RK | TEAM | PVS | |||
| 1 | Pueblo County | 1 | |||
| 2 | Greeley Central | 2 | |||
| 3 | Windsor | 3 | |||
| 4 | Thompson Valley | 4 | |||
| 5 | Discovery Canyon | 6 | |||
| 6 | Pueblo East | 5 | |||
| 7 | Cheyenne Mountain | 7 | |||
| 8 | Mesa Ridge | 8 | |||
| 9 | Longmont | 10 | |||
| 10 | Fort Morgan | 9 | |||
| Dropped out | |||||
| None. | |||||
| Class 3A | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RK | TEAM | PVS | |||
| 1 | Valley | 1 | |||
| 2 | Berthoud | 2 | |||
| 3 | Dolores Huerta | 3 | |||
| 4 | Sheridan | 4 | |||
| 5 | Olathe | 5 | |||
| 6 | Lamar | 6 | |||
| 7 | La Junta | 7 | |||
| 8 | Delta | 9 | |||
| 9 | Alamosa | 8 | |||
| 10 | Sterling | – | |||
| Dropped out | |||||
| Eaton (10). | |||||
| Class 2A | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RK | TEAM | PVS | |||
| 1 | Rocky Ford | 1 | |||
| 2 | Centauri | 2 | |||
| 3 | Meeker | 3 | |||
| 4 | Norwood/Nucla | 4 | |||
| 5 | Hotchkiss | 5 | |||
| 6 | Paonia | 6 | |||
| 7 | Highland | 7 | |||
| 8 | Buena Vista | 8 | |||
| 9 | John Mall | 9 | |||
| 10 | Ignacio | 10 | |||
| Dropped out | |||||
| None. | |||||
CHSAA commissioner Paul Angelico was the recipient of the Excellence in Leadership Award from the Colorado chapter of Positive Coaching Alliance on Thursday night.
Angelico, who is now in his sixth year as commissioner of the Association, was honored at a banquet along with other award winners.
In his time leading CHSAA, Angelico has overseen a number of sportsmanship initiatives, such as You Can Play! Colorado, Why We Play, Shift Why, and outreaches through PCA. In July, he wrote a widely-shared open letter to parents saying, in part, that it was “imperative” that they “understand what these sports and activities are designed to accomplish.”
“This award gives more credence to the fact that we’re on the right track to spend our energies focused on why and how people coach — through things like Shift Why, the PCA outreaches, and other efforts — not the short-term goals of winning at all costs,” Angelico said on Friday.
Still, he added, “My name may be on the award, but this is about our staff.”
AURORA — The lacrosse committees have recommended standard postseason qualification and seeding criteria for both the boys and girls sports, starting with the 2017 seasons.
The committees, which met on Tuesday, also realigned conferences — again, for 2017, not this coming spring season.
The recommendations will now head to the Legislative Council at its April meeting for final approval.
Currently, the girls and boys had different postseason qualifying procedures, though both allow league champions to automatically qualify. The girls use a selection and seeding committee that decides which teams make the 20-team field. The boys have a system whereby a committee votes on the field, with only certain teams eligible (the top 50 percent of each league, plus one team). The 16-team fields are then seeded by a committee.
Under the proposed format, both the boys and the girls would move toward what nearly every other sport has adopted to this point: League champions automatically qualify for the field, and then the rest is filled in based on the final standings in the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) of the regular season.
The seeding criteria is also standardized in the recommendation: RPI would be the primary consideration, with slight adjustments allowed due to geography or to avoid league opponents. That adjustment would likely only be a seed or two.
“There was no reason to not align all of lacrosse to look similar in the selection and the seeding,” said Harry Waterman, the CHSAA assistant commissioner in charge of lacrosse. “Both committees worked very well together to find common seeding that worked for everyone.”
The postseason fields would remain at 20 teams (girls) and 16 teams (5A and 4A boys).
The realignment was also done with any eye toward the postseason. Leagues were relatively balanced out in terms of the number of teams, and the committees tried to find some competitive balance, as well.
“They made an attempt to be sure there was competitive balance in every league while maintaining the balance in numbers,” Waterman said. “Now, this would also allow teams to go field a competitive non-league schedule if they so desire as they take the strength-of-schedule component of the RPI into consideration.”
Lacrosse teams play a 15-game regular season. The 5A boys leagues are comprised of seven or eight teams. In 4A, most are six-team leagues with one seven-team league. The girls have five eight-team leagues, one nine-team league, and four independents.
The proposed new league alignment is below.
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| Centennial (8) |
| Arapahoe |
| Cherokee Trail |
| Cherry Creek |
| Eaglecrest |
| Grandview |
| Mullen |
| Overland |
| Smoky Hill |
| Continental (8) |
| Chaparral |
| Castle View |
| Heritage |
| Rangeview |
| Regis Jesuit |
| ThundeRidge |
| Valor Christian |
| Rock Canyon |
| Jeffco (9) |
| Chatfield |
| Columbine |
| Conifer |
| Dakota Ridge |
| Golden |
| Green Mountain |
| Ralston Valley |
| Wheat Ridge |
| Evergreen |
| Mountain (8) |
| Aspen |
| Battle Mountain |
| Durango |
| Eagle Valley |
| Fruita Monument |
| Grand Junction |
| Steamboat Springs |
| Summit |
| Southern (8) |
| Air Acedemy |
| Cheyenne Mountain |
| Liberty |
| Palmer |
| Palmer Ridge |
| Pine Creek |
| Pueblo West |
| Rampart |
| Metro (8) |
| Centaurus |
| Colorado Academy |
| Denver East |
| Kent Denver |
| St. Marys Academy |
| Thompson Valley |
| Rocky Mountain |
| Bear Creek |
| Independent (4) |
| Denver North |
| J.F.Kennedy |
| Denver South |
| Northfield |
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Class 4A
| Foothills (6) |
| Conifer |
| Evergreen |
| Golden |
| Green Mountain |
| Clear Creek |
| Littleton |
| Pikes Peak (6) |
| Dawson |
| Windsor |
| Thompson Valley |
| Twin Peaks |
| Jefferson Academy |
| Denver North |
| Metro (6) |
| Air Academy |
| Cheyenne Mountain |
| Colorado Springs School |
| Pueblo West |
| St. Mary’s |
| Lutheran |
| Mountain (7) |
| Valor Christian |
| Ponderosa |
| Denver South |
| J.F. Kennedy |
| Machebeuf |
| Thomas Jefferson |
| Eagle |
| Mountain (6) |
| Aspen |
| Durango |
| Grand Junction* |
| Fruita Monument* |
| Telluride |
| Montrose |
* – 5A team playing in a 4A league.
| Western (6) |
| Battle Mountain |
| Eagle Valley |
| Glennwood Springs |
| Steamboat Springs |
| Summit |
| Vail Mountain |
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Class 5A
| Jeffco (8) |
| Chatfield |
| Columbine |
| Dakota Ridge |
| Lakewood |
| Bear Creek |
| Palmer |
| Pine Creek |
| Lewis-Palmer |
| Front Range (7) |
| Boulder |
| Fairview |
| Fort Collins |
| Monarch |
| Prairie View |
| Ralston Valley |
| Wheat Ridge |
| Douglas County (8) |
| Castle View |
| Chaparral |
| Douglas County |
| Highlands Ranch |
| Legand |
| Mountain Vista |
| Rock Canyon |
| ThundeRidge |
| Centennial (8) |
| Arapahoe |
| Cherokee Trail |
| Cherry Creek |
| Eaglecrest |
| Grandview |
| Mullen |
| Overland |
| Smoky Hill |
| South Suburban (8) |
| Colorado Academy |
| Denver East |
| Gateway |
| George Washington |
| Heritage |
| Kent Denver |
| Rangeview |
| Regis Jesuit |
PARKER — Dozens of female athletes were honored Friday afternoon at Douglas County School District’s Girls & Women in Sports Luncheon at Chaparral High School.
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COLORADO SPRINGS – The Palmer Ridge Bears knocked off the defending Class 4A state champion Air Academy 46-40 Wednesday night. It was the first time the Bears had beaten the Kadets since 2013.
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Katie Rainsberger, who set a course record in winning the Class 4A championship in the fall, was named the state’s girls cross country runner of the year by Gatorade on Thursday.
This is the second straight year in which Rainsberger has won the award, joining Niwot’s Elise Cranny (2013-14) and Boulder’s Kelsey Lakowske (2009-10) as the only other multiple winners.
Rainsberger carries a 4.49 weighted GPA, and helped the Kadets win the team title as well with her course record of 17:39.
“Individual titles are great,” Rainsberger told CHSAANow.com last October, “but when you are working with a team and for a team, it means all the more.”
After the Colorado season, Rainsberger won the Nike Cross Nationals individual championship, as well as the NXN Southwest Regional title.
She was also the 4A runner of the year as part of CHSAANow.com’s all-state team.
“Despite Katie’s remarkable talent, she’s humble and puts her team before herself,” Air Academy coach Steve Rischling said in a statement from Gatorade. “She is a once-in-a-career runner, but she’s still a better person than she is a runner.”
Rainsberger, a senior, has signed with Oregon.
She now becomes a finalist for the national award, which will be announced next week.
AURORA — Tenth-ranked Cherokee Trail boys basketball edged Grandview 57-53 on Wednesday.
The game was tied at 39 heading to the fourth quarter, and the Cougars pulled away in that frame.
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