Football’s 2017 state playoff bracket for Class 2A.
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Month: October 2017
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Class 1A football state playoff bracket
Football’s 2017 state playoff bracket for Class 1A.
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8-man football state playoff bracket
Football’s 2017 state playoff bracket for 8-man.
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Playoff brackets out for 8-man, 1A and 2A football; Sedgwick County, Bennett, Platte Valley top seeds
(Ryan Casey/CHSAANow.com) AURORA — Sedgwick County, Bennett and Platte Valley head their respective playoff fields as state football brackets were unveiled in 8-man, 1A and 2A on Sunday.
Find complete brackets here:
The brackets are composed to automatic qualifiers — league champions — and then the next highest finishers in the final RPI standings of the regular season. In the case of all three brackets, the top 16 teams in the RPI all qualified for the postseason.
(Sedgwick County/NFHS Network) Sedgwick County enters as the No. 1 seed in 8-man football following a 9-0 regular season. The Cougars are the defending champions and have actually won 19 consecutive games — most in the state along with 5A’s Valor Christian.
Also hosting first-round games in 8-man are West Grand, Merino, Hoehne, Holly, Rocky Mountain Lutheran, Sargent and Springfield.
Bennett, the top seed in 1A, is also unbeaten so far this year at 9-0. The Tigers were semifinalists a year ago.
Among high seeds in 1A are Meeker, Centauri, Strasburg, Burlington, Clear Creek, Crowley County and Peyton. All will host games in the first round.
Platte Valley football also enters its postseason undefeated at 9-0. The Broncos will host D’Evelyn in the first round of the 2A playoffs.
2A’s other high seeds include Kent Denver, Bayfield, La Junta, The Classical Academy, Basalt, Faith Christian and Eaton. La Junta is the defending champion.
First round games for all three classes are set for this coming weekend. Semifinals will be Nov. 18, and all three championship games for 2A, 1A and 8-man will be held on Nov. 25 at a home site of one of the finalists.
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Final results: 2017 state cross country championships
COLORADO SPRINGS — Complete results from the 2017 state cross country meets, held at the Norris-Penrose Event Center.
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No. 1 Mead football stays undefeated with win over No. 4 Erie
(Cannon Casey/CHSAANow.com) ERIE — Nathan Mackey put the game on ice.
No. 1 Mead, which entered the game outscoring opponents 354-78, beat No. 4 Erie 42-28 to move to 9-0 this season.
“We go one week at a time,” Mackey said. “As soon as we have the next team on the schedule, we keep rolling. The resiliency of this team is amazing. They came after us. We got down, they got up, we got back up again.”
Mackey’s 41-yard touchdown run to put Mead up 42-28 — his third of the night — came after Mead recovered a fumble on the kickoff.
“I was just trying not to get caught from behind,” Mackey said. “I get so much crap for getting caught from behind. When I scored, it was a great feeling. I had to go give my linemen a hug. I thought we got the win after that.”
A 37-yard touchdown pass from Tyler Keys to Dom Esters gave Mead the lead with 2:48 left in the game. On the ensuing kickoff, the ball bounced off the chest of an Erie player on the front line and into the hands of the Mead kickoff team.
“Sometimes the ball bounces your way, sometimes it bounces their way,” Mead coach Jason Klatt said. “That one, it bounced our way.”
The swing came at an opportune time as Erie came back from a 14-point deficit to tie the game.
“The best part about it was how we battled,” Klatt said. “We came up against some adversity and we handled the adversity. We haven’t been in a whole lot of battles, and that was a battle. That was really good for us.”
Down 28-14, Erie put up two touchdowns. Jacob Mansdorfer ran in the first touchdown, then Erie took advantage of a Mead fumble to erase the Mead lead. Noah Roper’s 9-yard touchdown run tied the game at 28.
(Cannon Casey/CHSAANow.com) With Erie facing a fourth down and six earlier in the quarter, Mead stopped the Tigers short of the first down marker.
On the opening play of the Mead drive after taking over on downs, Jake Wachter shot down the sideline for an 80-yard touchdown to put the Maverick up 28-14.
On the previous drive, Mead went to Mackey twice in a row inside the one-yard-line.
After being stuffed, Mead went right back to Mackey, and Mackey punched it in to give the Maverick a 21-14 lead.
“We knew we would have to lean on our senior leaders,” Klatt said. “Nathan has been carrying us for three years. We wanted the ball in his hands late.”
Erie’s Noah Roper returned the ensuing kickoff to the other side of the 50, down to the 28.
But, the Mead defense held tough with the fourth down stop.
Erie fed Roper on the opening drive and marched down for the score. Roper ran it in from one yard out after eating up about seven minutes.
Mead responded on the next drive with a 12-yard touchdown run by Keys.
Then, Roper got back to work. The junior took a handoff 51 yards down inside the five yard line, then finished it off with a physical touchdown run.
Roper had one man to beat, and went right through him as he bowled the defender over.
With about two minutes before the half, Mead wasted no time in responding yet again. The Maverick took just six plays to even the game.
Nathan Mackey’s 31-yard touchdown run tied it up at 14 before the half was over.
“That was the fastest first half that I’ve ever had,” Klatt said. “I was thinking, we only had three possessions in the first half, and we turned the ball over on one of them. We needed to maximize our possessions.”
Erie was unable to turn a turnover early in the third quarter into points. Nathan Hackney set up the Erie drive with a diving interception as quarterback Tyler Keys was hit as he threw and the ball popped up into the air.
Mead forced an Erie punt and took over at the 26, before distancing itself for the win.
Mead will play Berthoud next week with a shot at going undefeated.
“Every game this year has been harder and harder and harder. Every single one,” Mackey said. “It’s been a ladder, and this is the hardest one. Next one we have is going to be hard. When we come out and do good against good teams, it helps us with our confidence.”
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Football roundup: Windsor clinches league title with OT win over Skyline
Windsor broke up a two-point conversion attempt in overtime to seal a wild 56-55 win over Skyline and wrap up the Northern League championship on Friday.
The fifth-ranked Wizards had led 49-33 with 5:47 remaining, but Skyline came storming back to tie the game at 49 following two touchdowns and two-point conversions.
Windsor scored first in overtime — quarterback Connor Apodaca faked a handoff up the middle and ran to an open end zone to his left — but No. 10 Skyline again responded. The Falcons’ Nathan McGregor hit Austin Robison on a play-action pass on fourth-down.
Skyline then went for two, its fourth such attempt of the game. This time the pass was broken up in the left side of the end zone. According to the Fort Collins Coloradoan, it was senior Bryce Kellum who had the big play.
The result was a Windsor win, and a conference championship. The Wizards are now 8-1 this season, and 4-0 in their league. Every other Northern team has at least two league losses.
Skyline is now 7-2, including 2-2 in the Northern.
“It was awesome,” Kellum told the paper of the win. “Just awesome.”
Windsor led 35-20 at halftime, a lead secured by a key interception from junior Tayt Gallatin in the end zone.
Noah Montague had two rushing scores for the Wizards, including a 91-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter. Isaiah Salazar also rushed for two touchdowns, according to the Coloradoan’s Kevin Lytle.
Skyline’s star running back Jeremy Hollingsworth had two touchdowns. McGregor had four total touchdowns, including a pass to Jack Wathen with 15.7 seconds left in regulation that helped tie the game.
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6-man playoffs:
- Top-seeded Stratton/Liberty rolled to a 52-6 win over No. 16 Briggsdale.
- No. 7 Kit Carson advanced to the quarterfinals with a 46-12 win over Cotopaxi.
- The remaining six first-round games are on Saturday.
- Here’s an updated 6-man bracket.
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Notables:
- 4A No. 4 Fruita Monument wrapped up its first conference title since 2002, according to Matt Meyer of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, with a 50-16 win over George Washington.
- 3A No. 7 Canon City locked up at least of share of the Southern League with a 48-7 win over Woodland Park. The Tigers also hold a potential tiebreaker with a win over Discovery Canyon last week.
- 5A No. 4 Columbine is now in the same position in the Mount Cameron Conference, sitting at 4-0 after a 50-0 win over Mountain Range on Friday. The Rebels hold a potential tiebreaker over Fairview (which is 3-1 in league play).
- In 8-man, No. 3 Merino beat No. 9 Haxtun 39-24.
- No. 8 Burlington edged No. 5 Limon 29-28. “It was a great ballgame that could’ve gone either way,” coach Glynn Higgs told the Colorado Preps Scoreboard Show.
- 8-man No. 2 West Grand cruised to a 52-0 win over No. 6 Gilpin County.
- Another top-10 clash in 8-man, where No. 10 Sargent rolled past No. 8 Mancos 54-14.
- The 2A game between Pagosa Springs and Montezuma-Cortez was delayed following a power outage in the first half. The delay lasted 45 minutes. Pagosa ultimately won 48-7.
- In 1A action, Wray beat rival county rival Yuma 19-7 to retain the Harvest Cup.
- Another 1A game: Cedaredge and Hotchkiss were scoreless in regulation, and then Cedaredge won in overtime, 3-0.
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More coverage:
- No. 1 Mead football stayed unbeaten with a win over No. 4 Erie.
- Pueblo East took control of the South Central League with an upset of No. 5 Harrison.
- 4A No. 3 Chatfield survived a test against Dakota Ridge.
- An updated top-10 scoreboard after Friday’s games, and Saturday’s top-10 slate.
- All scores from Friday, and Saturday’s full schedule.
- Updated RPI standings.
- Replay the night via our live coverage.
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4A No. 3 Chatfield football survives test against rival Dakota Ridge
LAKEWOOD — Nothing like a good old-fashion football rivalry game to get the competitive fire burning on a chilly Friday night at Jeffco Stadium.
Chatfield, No. 3 in the current CHSAANow.com Class 4A football poll, put the game into the hands of senior running back Ben Frenette and its massive offensive line against Dakota Ridge. Frenette went over the 1,000-yard mark on the ground for the season while rushing for a trio of scores in a 38-17 victory.
“We told him (Frenette) to take the game over,” Chatfield coach Bret McGatlin said.
Chatfield’s Keland Rumsey, right, attempts to break the tackle of Dakota Ridge’s Tyson Demgen. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics) After Dakota Ridge closed the gap to 23-17 midway through the third quarter, Chatfield senior Cole Ingersoll recovered a key fumble by the Eagles to get the ball back into the hands of the Chargers’ workhorse. Frenette had his longest run of the game with a 47-yard touchdown with 4:51 left in the third quarter to open up a 31-17 lead after a successful 2-point conversion.
“It took a lot of energy tonight,” said Frenette, who had well over 150 yards rushing on the night and now has 16 rushing touchdowns on the season.
Chatfield’s defense held Dakota Ridge to just a field goal in the second half. The Chargers iced the game with a 61-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Colton Arne to senior Josh Swinney with less than 4 minutes to play to make the final score 38-17.
The victory, coupled with Golden’s 28-27 victory over Heritage officially wrapped up the Class 4A Plains League title for Chatfield (8-1, 4-0 in league).
Chatfield’s Ben Frenette (23) went over the 1,000-yard mark on the season Friday night. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics) “It feels good to get it done on our Senior Night,” Frenette said about clinching the conference title. “These are the best guys I’ve met in my entire life. It feels great to do this with them.”
The Chargers weren’t feeling good early on against the Eagles. Chatfield got popped in the mouth early against south-Jeffco rival Dakota Ridge.
Senior Anthony Salvi intercepted a pass by Arne on the opening drive of the game. Dakota Ridge capitalize on the good field position when Salvi caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Drew Dominic to give the Eagles a bit of a surprising early lead.
“I wasn’t going to overlook them and our players wouldn’t either,” said McGatlin. “We didn’t think this would be a blowout by any means.”
The Chargers hadn’t been tested yet during their conference stretch. Chatfield had outscored its pervious three conference foes 175-14.
“We knew we could play with them,” Dakota Ridge coach Ron Woitalewicz said. “A couple of costly fumbles that turned into touchdowns for them. Physically … when they are 270 (pounds) across the front and we are 185 (pounds) across the defensive front we just had to try to hang on for dear life.”
Dominic scored the other touchdown for Dakota Ridge with a 19-yard scramble with 2:22 left in the second quarter to make it a 16-14 game. However, a long pass from Arne to senior Keland Rumsey in the closing minutes before halftime set up a late touchdown run by Frenette to make it a 2-score game at halftime.
“I think we were kind of comfortable the whole time. You always have to come out each drive with a positive mindset and that is what we did,” Chatfield senior linebacker Cameron Manzanares said. “I always feel comfortable when we are giving the ball to #23 (Frenette). If we are down or if we are winning.”
Chatfield’s Chandler Callejo, left, breaks up a pass intended for Dakota Ridge’s Anthony Salvi. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics) Chatfield has now won eight straight games after dropping its opener against Braden River (FL) in Orlando back on Aug. 24. Braden River holds a 7-1 record and is one of the top teams in the 7A District 11 standings in Florida.
Chatfield closes out its regular season on the road against Heritage next Friday night at Littleton Public Schools Stadium.
“I think this game will help us prepare for the playoffs,” Manzanares said. “This was a competitive game. It will help us get better.”
Dakota Ridge (5-4, 3-1) had its 4-game winning streak snapped with the loss. The Eagles wrap up their regular season schedule against Adams City next Thursday night at Trailblazer Stadium in Lakewood.
As it stands right now, it looks like Chatfield might be the only Plains League team to make the 16-team field of the 4A state tournament. The Chargers will grab the automatic bid as conference champions and no other team in the league is currently in the top 16 in the RPI standings.
“We’ll play Adams City and see what happens,” said Woitalewicz, who added he was extremely pleased with the effort of his players against Chatfield. “I’ll go on the bus and pull up ColoradoPreps.com to see what everyone else is doing.”
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Pueblo East football takes control of South Central league with win over No. 5 Harrison
(Dan Mohrmann/CHSAANow.com) COLORADO SPRINGS — Anyone who thought a 0-5 start was going Pueblo East’s year was sadly mistaken. The Eagles are getting hot at the right time as evidenced by the impressive 46-14 win over Harrison on Friday night.
In fact, the defending Class 3A state champions dominated the CHSAANow.com No. 5-ranked Panthers (8-1 overall, 3-1 South Central) from start to finish. In perhaps the most important game of its season, Pueblo East (4-5, 4-0) demonstrated that it cannot be ignored as a state championship contender.
“We’re going to be a tough team to beat come playoff time,” quarterback Luc Andrada said. “This is where we start playing the football that we’ve been showing glimpses of in the first five weeks. Now this is where it comes into fruition.”
Before it even seemed like East had a chance to get in a groove, it was able to take a 14-0 lead. Luis Martinez broke off a 19-yard touchdown run and on the next drive, Luc Andrada found Kain Medrano for a 25-yard touchdown pass.
On that ensuing kick-off, Darius Cheatom fielded the ball out the end zone, but was chased in where he took a knee, resulting in a safety for the Eagles and a 16-0 lead. After getting off to a slow start on the field, mental mistakes weren’t a welcome sight for Harrison coach Al Melo.
The Panthers defense dug in as time in the first quarter ticked away and held Pueblo East to a 37-yard field goal attempt. The kick from Efran Perez was good, putting the Eagles up 19-0.
(Dan Mohrmann/CHSAANow.com) The Harrison defense again stood tall, getting a strip-sack on Andrada to give the offense a chance to score and make it a two-possession game. But East responded in kind as a hard hit on quarterback Orlando Westbrook knocked the ball loose and it was Medrano who scooped it up and took it to the end zone.
After just one quarter of play, the Eagles had built a 25-0 lead and it was a lead they knew they needed to have in this one.
“We had to jump on a quick lead because games like this, they come out strong in the second half,” Medrano said. “We needed to get that important lead at halftime so we could come out and try and build on it.”
In the second quarter, the Panthers got a much-needed offensive spark as Aumiere Shedrick broke free for a 49-yard touchdown. It was the only score of the second quarter as the Harrison defense finally found a way to slow down the high-flying Eagles offense. Shedrick would later add a 69-yard touchdown run and led all rushers with 145 yards on the night.
That trend continued into the second half as the Eagles were unable to score in their first two possessions. But a bad snap for the Panthers gave them a third chance in the third quarter and East took advantage.
An 18-yard completion to Medrano set up a 14-yard touchdown run for Andrada to push the lead to 32-6, giving the Eagles a feeling that they are hitting their stride and playing their best football of the year.
“We had to bounce back from the way the season unfolded in the first five week,” coach Andy Watts said. “They’ve done nothing but respond in an awesome way.”
And with a fourth-straight win now in the books, the Eagles have to once again be a part of the state championship conversation.
Andrada is in command of the offense, as he showed by throwing two touchdown passes and running in two. The offense is dynamic, and the defense is good enough to shut down opposing offenses, even if a big play is given up here and there.
Simply put, the Eagles refuse to let anyone else have that title until it is pried out of their hands.
“At this point in time, it’s all us beating ourselves right now,” Andrada said.
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Photos: No. 6 Cherry Creek football rolls past Prairie View
GREENWOOD VILLAGE — No. 6 Cherry Creek football jumped out to a big lead at halftime and went on to beat Prairie View 49-14 on Friday night.
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