COLORADO SPRINGS — Discovery Canyon is continuing its successful fall season as the boys golf team took the win at Monday’s Cheyenne Mountain Invite.

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Green Mountain junior Gabe Goodman cruised to the medalist title Monday at Bear Creek Golf Club with a 2-under-par, 70. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)

LAKEWOOD — There was no place like home for Green Mountain junior Gabe Goodman on Monday.

On his home course — Bear Creek Golf Club — the junior easily grabbed the lowest round of the day at the Class 5A/4A Jeffco League match and invitational hosted by Green Mountain High School. Goodman shot a 2-under-par 70 to leap past Evergreen senior Lenny Urbas for the overall 4A Jeffco medalist lead at the midway point of the conference season.

“I just played really solid throughout. I made a couple of really good putts on the front-nine for birdies,” said Goodman, who fired a 33 on the front-nine. “This is my home course so I know it pretty well. I know were you can miss and today I put the ball where I needed to.”

It was the first individual medalist victory of the season for Goodman. Urban captured the opening two 4A Jeffco tournaments at Deer Creek and Foothills, but a 10 on a par-4 on the front-nine was a big reason why Urban failed to win his third straight league tournament.

Goodman holds a two-stroke lead over Urban with three league tournaments to play. Each individual is able to drop their worst round to have only five tournaments count in the final individual standings.

“The 10 was not good,” said Urbas, who finished with a respectable round of 78. “It’s definitely a good course to play. It’s an eye opening course. It really touches on the parts of your game that you can get better.”

Evergreen senior Lenny Urbas chips onto the 9th green Monday at Bear Creek Golf Club. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)

Evergreen was able to expand its team lead over 4A defending state champion Valor Christian. The Cougars hold a 34-stroke lead at the midway point.

“It’s very important. I lot of things can happen in those last couple of (league) tournaments,” Urbas said of Evergreen’s lead in the team standings. “Having a little bit of a cushion is nice. Hopefully we can expand on that.”

On the 5A side, Lakewood continued its dominance winning its third 5A Jeffco tournament. The Tigers are closing in on a 100-stroke lead over second-place Ralston Valley.

Senior Griffin Barela shot a 4-over-par 76 to win the 5A Jeffco medalist title at Bear Creek. Lakewood junior Jack Castiglia (80) and senior Max Camp-Oberhauser (86) joined Barela in the top-10.

“These last two tournaments I haven’t played my best, but I think we are still in a good spot,” Barela said. “Going into these last three (league) tournaments, I really like all three courses so I should put some good rounds together to wrap up the individual title and team title.”

Lakewood junior Jack Castiglia eyes a chip Monday at Bear Creek Golf Club. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)

The closest contender to Barela is Columbine senior Marcus Tait, who wasn’t happy with his round of 80 on Monday. Tait is six shots behind Barela in the overall 5A Jeffco medalist standings.

“I didn’t putt well and didn’t do well around the green. I hit the ball well. I just have to figure things out,” Tait said. “I want to play these last three league tournament even or under-par so I can wave this 80 away and finish the season well.”

The next 5A/4A Jeffco League tournament is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 2, at Indian Tree Golf Course in Arvada. Urbas had a little tongue-in-cheek comment heading into the next league meet.

“I’m going to kick everyone’s butt at Indian Tree later this week,” Urbas said with a smile.

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Bear Creek Golf Club

Class 5A Jeffco

Team results

Lakewood 330, Ralston Valley 361, Columbine 373, Dakota Ridge 373, Chatfield 375, Bear Creek 377, Pomona 398, Arvada West 400

Individual results (top-10)

Griffin Barela, Lakewood, 76
Riese Delarber, Bear Creek, 78
Landon Thunell, Ralston Valley, 79
Marcus Tait, Columbine, 80
Jack Castiglia, Lakewood, 80
Nick DiNapoli, Chatfield, 82
Jax Jones, Ralston Valley, 85
Max Camp-Oberhauser, Lakewood 86
Bryce Sutton, Pomona, 86
Max Mowry, Dakota Ridge, 87

Class 4A Jeffco

Team results

Evergreen 326, Green Mountain 335, Valor 336, Golden 336, D’Evelyn 360, Littleton 407, Wheat Ridge 412, Standley Lake 416, Conifer 450, Arvada 502

Individual results (top-10)

Gabe Goodman, Green Mountain, 70
Lenny Urbas, Evergreen, 78,
Bridger Tenney, Evergreen, 78
Willy O’Brien, Golden, 78
Jake Welch, Valor, 79
Nolan Miller, Evergreen, 81
Jack Schoenborn, Valor, 82
Chance Suadurapa, Golden, 85
Parker Skiles, Golden, 86
Zach Zurcher, Valor, 86

Columbine senior Marcus Tait still has a shot to win the 5A Jeffco medalist title with three league tournaments to go. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)

AURORA — Eighth-ranked Grandview softball beat Bear Creek 6-4 on Monday afternoon.

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Blake Olson gets you ready for Week 1 of high school football in Colorado.

Legend meets nearby rival Ponderosa. That is our Game of The Week onFootball America! You can watch it live at livestream.com/LoclyzMedia and will also be archived on Blake Olson’s YouTube Channel.

AURORA — Alyssa Yoshida and Delanie Cox each had three RBIs as Cherokee Trail softball beat No. 2 Chaparral 12-2 on Monday.

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This fall marks the start of my 40th season in high school sports and activities. The amazing thing about this milestone is that this season is every bit as exciting and exhilarating as the first one, as well as every year in between. It seems that the start of school and the fall season is always filled with optimism and hope.

Every team, coach, student athlete, parent and community gets to start with a clean slate, and has the ability to make this season better than last year. Everyone starts out with the intent to be better, do better, learn more, and in general make the most of the limited time high school sports programs have to make student athletes better people.

With those thoughts in mind, I wanted to take a minute to remind all of us to think in the long term, and to keep the perspective that the huge issues of today will be a distant memory tomorrow.

I am reminded that the first students I coached forty years ago are now in their fifties with kids and grandkids of their own. While I can remember many instances of tears, disappointment and trials of all sorts, for the life of me I have no idea what those were about.

I only hope that today’s students can look back with nothing but fond memories of their high school experiences. I can only hope that whether they know it or not, today’s high school experiences will contribute to make our students the good parents and citizens they will become tomorrow.

Are you familiar with the benefits of drinking milk after exercise? Looking to share these benefits with your team for a season?

The dairy farm families of Western Dairy Association are offering Fuel Up with Milk Grants in conjunction with the Colorado High School Activities Association for Colorado’s spring 2017 sports season.

Recipients of the grant will receive funding to purchase milk (both white and chocolate) for your team to replenish after practices and games. For more information and grant specifics, visit this page.

DID YOU KNOW THAT MILK is NATURE’S SPORTS DRINK?

Milk, both white and chocolate, provides key nutrients needed after exercise. Milk is 90% water and a great tasting choice after practice and games. Milk’s fluids and electrolytes, including calcium, potassium and magnesium, rehydrate the body and replenish what is lost in sweat. Carbohydrates in milk refuel muscles and replenish glycogen (energy) stores. High-quality protein aids in muscle recovery and repair. Calcium, vitamin D and phosphorus build & maintain strong bones. Milk provides potassium to help ward off muscle cramping. B vitamins in milk help convert food to energy.

Athletes can train harder and perform better with proper nutrition! Would you like to see your athletes excel both on and off the field by replenishing their bodies with chocolate milk? Your team could win funds to provide FREE milk for a season. If your student athletes aren’t fueling up with low-fat white or chocolate milk, this is a great opportunity to get started!

For more information on the Fuel up with Milk Grant visit Western Dairy Association’s sports nutrition webpage.

Antonito has officially dropped its football program for the 2016 season because of low numbers.

The school, which plays at the 6-man level, officially notified opponents and the CHSAA office prior to the start of their season. As such, those games will go down as no contests for all opponents, and no forfeits will be awarded, according to CHSAA assistant commissioner Harry Waterman.

As far as the RPI is concerned, Anonito’s opponents will not be affected as the formula is an average of winning percentages.

(Dan Mohrmann/CHSAANow.com)

COLORADO SPRINGS — Discovery Canyon’s Owen Pasvogel made birdie on the 16th hole at the Country Club of Colorado and appeared almost exasperated.

He just wanted to get to the clubhouse.

He would go on to par the 17th and birdie the 18th to finish 3-over-par 74. It was good enough for the win at Monday’s Cheyenne Mountain Invite. The Thunder also brought home the team win thanks to Pasvogel’s 74, as well as Luke Trujillo and Caleb Blackburn each coming in with a 76.

“Seeing the course and all the pins that everyone had to play, I knew that it wasn’t going to be easy for anyone,” Pasvogel said. “Realistically, pars are good when I’m playing poor. So I just hit fairways and hit greens, just like last time.”

The last time that he was referring to was the Spartan Invitational at the Colorado Springs Country Club. At that tournament, Pasvogel brought home the individual win and Discovery Canyon won the team title as well.

It’s becoming a theme.

The tournament boasted a field that included the defending Class 4A state champion Valor Christian, as well as 5A programs from around Colorado Springs. It’s a field that Cheyenne Mountain coach John Carricato knows will help not just his team, but the other teams there better for when the postseason rolls around.

“The field is pretty competitive and you have the defending state champs here,” Carricato. “You have Discovery Canyon who is showing that they’re going to be formidable state champion contenders.”

And they’ve shown that very effectively early in the season. The Thunder is not paced just by one standout player with three supporting scores just getting tossed in.

On any given day, any one of the Discovery Canyon golfers can step up and help lead the team to a win.

“I think it’s know that we have four solid players and that if one guy has a bad day, we have him covered,” Blackburn said. “If one of us drops, we’re still going to have good scores that can contribute.”

But so far Pasvogel, he hasn’t dropped off too much. His birdie on the 18th combined with a bogey on the 17th for Rampart’s Steven Roschke (who started his round on the 18th) put them both in the clubhouse with a 74. But since Pasvogel shot a 35 on the back nine and Roschke shot 36, it was the Discovery Canyon senior who was declared the winner.

“I made a good bender, a 25-footer on 18 for birdie and that sparked my round,” Pasvogel said. “It got me in the clubhouse with a good score.”

With under a month until the state championship tournament Thunder coach Mark Liggett is pleased with what he’s seeing out of his players and know that they can push each other to be even better than they have been for the first few weeks of the season.

“(They’re) competing against each other and helping each other out,” Liggett said. “They know the game.”

If the Thunder golfers continue to compete and improve, they’ll certainly be a force for the rest of 2016 season.

CHSAANow has launched a new mobile app, and it is now available for Apple and Android devices.

The app, which is free, features much of what is also available on CHSAANow.com, but it is native to mobile devices and will provide a faster and more unique experience for mobile users.

It provides up-to-the minute news, features and information from around the state. The app also has valuable resources such as bylaws, calendars and bulletin board information.

It also is connected to our YouTube account, as well as our social media presence.

In short, the CHSAANow app contains everything you ever wanted to know about Colorado high school sports and activities in one spot.

New features are also planned for native development into the app, such as scoreboards, RPI standings, postseason brackets and live coverage capabilities. This is version 1.0 — much more is to come!

The app can be found by following these links:

• Apple Store
• Google Play

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