Valor Christian scored two second-half goals to rally and beat The Classical Academy 3-2 on Wednesday. Find photos from the game here.
Month: September 2019
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Photos: Cherokee Trail and Smoky Hill soccer play to a 1-1 tie
Cherokee Trail and Smoky Hill boys soccer played to a 1-1 tie on Wednesday. Find photos from the game here.
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Top-10 football schedule and scoreboard for 2019’s Week 5 games
A complete schedule and scoreboard for football’s top-10 teams during Week 5 of the 2019 season.
- Live scoreboard
- Complete CHSAANow.com rankings
- Full schedule and scoreboard of this week’s games
- RPI standings
- Follow all the action live beginning at 7 p.m. Friday
- Colorado Preps Scoreboard Show (9:30 p.m. Friday)
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Class 5A 1 Columbine 5-0 Friday: W 24-21 at Olathe North 2 Cherry Creek 5-0 Thursday: W 49-7 at Chaparral 3 Valor Christian 4-1 Friday: W 49-7 vs. Rocky Mountain 4 Grandview 5-0 Friday: W 42-12 vs. Mullen 5 Ralston Valley 5-0 Thursday: W 42-0 at Fossil Ridge 6 Regis Jesuit 5-0 Thursday: W 34-13 at Horizon 7 Eaglecrest 5-0 Friday: W 55-30 at Arvada West 8 Fairview 4-1 Friday: W 28-19 vs. Rock Canyon 9 Pomona 2-3 Friday: W 30-20 at Highlands Ranch 10 Legend 5-0 Saturday: W 34-27 vs. Castle View Class 4A 1 Pine Creek 3-1 Friday: W 41-13 at (3) Pueblo West 2 Broomfield 4-0 Friday: W 34-14 vs. Monarch 3 Pueblo West 4-1 Friday: L 13-41 vs. (1) Pine Creek 4 Dakota Ridge 4-0 Friday: W 20-6 at (7) Ponderosa 5 Montrose 4-0 Thursday: W 21-0 at (3A 6) Palisade 6 Chatfield 4-1 Thursday: W 21-15 at Greeley West 7 Ponderosa 1-3 Friday: L 6-20 vs. (4) Dakota Ridge 8 Heritage 3-1 Friday: W 55-20 vs. Liberty 9 Vista Peak Prep 4-0 Friday: W 42-0 at Aurora Central 10 Silver Creek 3-1 Friday: L 21-24 vs. Mountain View Class 3A 1 Palmer Ridge 4-0 Friday: W 24-19 at (3) Pueblo South 2 Mead 4-0 Off this week. 3 Pueblo South 3-1 Friday: L 19-24 vs. (1) Palmer Ridge 4 Discovery Canyon 4-1 Thursday: W 34-20 at Pueblo East 5 Green Mountain 3-1 Friday: W 36-13 vs. Standley Lake 6 Palisade 2-2 Thursday: L 0-21 vs. (4A 5) Montrose 7 Frederick 4-0 Friday: W 72-0 vs. Lincoln 8 Lutheran 3-1 Friday: W 40-7 vs. Falcon 9 Durango 3-2 Friday: W 55-0 at Bayfield 10 Erie 2-2 Friday: W 35-7 at Canon City Class 2A 1 Rifle 4-0 Friday: W 34-7 at Glenwood Springs 2 Delta 4-0 Friday: W 41-0 vs. Bennett 3 Platte Valley 3-1 Off this week. 4 Sterling 3-1 Off this week. 5 Resurrection Christian 3-1 Friday: W 54-0 vs. Weld Central 6 Faith Christian 3-1 Friday: W 26-7 vs. University 7 Alamosa 3-1 Friday: L 25-48 at Lamar 8 La Junta 3-1 Thursday: W 33-14 vs. Raton 9 Basalt 4-0 Friday: W 20-0 vs. Paonia 10 Eaton 2-2 Friday: W 44-8 vs. Bishop Machebeuf Class 1A 1 Limon 3-1 Saturday: L 20-13 vs. (2) Strasburg 2 Strasburg 4-0 Saturday: W 20-13 at (1) Limon 3 Holyoke 4-0 Friday: W 24-21 vs. Highland 4 Florence 4-0 Friday: W 14-0 vs. Trinidad 5 Meeker 3-1 Off this week. 6 Colorado Springs Christian 3-1 Saturday: W 55-8 vs. Ellicott 7 Centauri 4-1 Friday: W 37-0 at (8) Buena Vista 8 Buena Vista 3-1 Friday: L 0-37 vs. (7) Centauri 9 Rye 4-0 Off this week. 10 Burlington 2-2 Friday: W 47-8 at Manual 8-man 1 Sedgwick County 5-0 Friday: W 66-6 at Byers 2 Fowler 4-0 Friday: W 68-22 at Holly 3 Mancos 4-0 Friday: W 58-0 vs. Del Norte 4 Caliche 3-1 Friday: L 18-24 vs. (5) Dayspring Christian Academy 5 Dayspring Christian Academy 4-0 Friday: W 24-18 at (4) Caliche 6 Merino 3-1 Friday: W 39-0 at Haxtun 7 Sanford 4-0 Friday: W 48-6 vs. Norwood 8 Vail Christian 4-0 Friday: W 12-6 at (9) West Grand 9 West Grand 3-2 Friday: L 6-12 vs. (8) Vail Christian 10 Rangely 3-1 Off this week. 6-man 1 Kit Carson 5-0 Thursday: W 61-20 vs. Cheraw 2 Fleming 5-0 Saturday: W 60-20 vs. (6) Prairie 3 Stratton/Liberty 4-1 Friday: W 54-14 vs. Otis 4 Cheyenne Wells 5-0 Saturday: W 76-36 vs. (7) Granada 5 Flagler/Hi-Plains 5-0 Saturday: W 66-26 vs. Idalia 6 Prairie 3-2 Saturday: L 60-20 at (2) Fleming 7 Granada 4-1 Saturday: L 76-36 at (4) Cheyenne Wells 8 Branson/Kim 5-0 Friday: W 70-6 at La Veta 9 North Park 4-1 Saturday: W 63-26 at Peetz 10 Briggsdale 3-2 Friday: W 70-18 at Weldon Valley -
Boys golf regionals: Montrose, Rock Canyon and Montezuma-Cortez are team champs
Montrose, Rock Canyon and Montezuma-Cortez won regional boys golf championships on Wednesday.
This follows three regionals held on Tuesday, and six on Monday.
A final regional will be held Thursday.
Recaps of each regional is below.
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4A Region 4
(Courtesy of Ty Jennings) For the fourth-straight year, Montrose has won the 4A Region 4 tournament. They finished with a team score of 223 (3-over). Mullen was second at 238. Summit and Conifer were tied for third third at 250. Palisade was fourth at 251.
“Great win for the team,” Montrose coach Dave Woodruff said. “Looking forward to state.”
For the second year in a row, Micah Stangebye and Jordan Jennings tied for first at even par. Stangebye won the playoff after one hole which made him a four-time regional champion.
“Today I hit the driver pretty well,” Strangebye said. “The pin placements were very tough on the greens. It is really great to say I’ve won the regionals as a team and individually four years in a row. Now on to state.”
Said Jennings: “I didn’t play my best today, but hung in there. Most excited about the team. We have more more goal to reach. I’m super excited for Micah to be a four time regional champ is awesome.”
Their Montrose teammate, Ryan Lords, tied for third along with Rhett Johnson of Mullen and Hunter Swanson of Northfield at 3-over.
“I putted good today, but just hit a few that put me behind a little bit,” Ryan Lords said. “It is a great accomplishment to win regionals four times in a row.”
— Tom Hoganson
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5A Western Regional
Rock Canyon won the region, held at Gold Course, by finishing at 3-over. Fairview (+6) was second, and Valor Christian (+17) placed third.
The Jaguars were paced by Nick Fallin, who won the region after finishing his round tied at 2-under with Fairview’s Ryder Heuston and winning in a playoff. Rock Canyon also had Finn Olson (+2) place fifth, and Beck Duncan (+3) tie for sixth.
Legacy’s Trenton Homchanh placed third individually at even, and Prairie View’s Jeff Nelson (+1) was fourth.
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3A Region 4
Montezuma-Cortez captured the region, held at Aspen Golf Club, with a team score of 23-over. Host Aspen was second at 25-over, Basalt (+44) was third, Delta (+46) was fourth, and Gunnison (+60) placed fifth.
The Panthers had the top two individual finishers, with Blake Keetch claiming top individual honors at 2-over, and Thayer Plewe (+3) placing second.
Delta’s Atley Harris (+4) was third, and Aspen teammates Nic Pevny and Jack Pevny tied for fourth at 5-over.
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Durango boys soccer tops Montrose to take control of the Southwestern League
MONTROSE — Durango went on the road to pick up a win over Montrose on Wednesday, and secured sole possession of first place in the Southwestern League.
The Demons won, 4-3.
“We always expect a battle when we come to Montrose,” Durango coach Aaron Champenoy said. “They’ve had some good results this year and we knew it was going to take a good effort from us.”
Durango jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first half on goals by AJ Carlson, assisted by Braden Lyons, and an unassisted goal from Sawyer Fornella.
“We had a quick start and capitalized on two early set pieces,” Champenoy said. “It was great since we worked on them this week leading up to the game.”
Montrose responded with a goal by Bryan Delgado, assisted by Bo Duncan, and another by Sean Alex, assisted by Jorge Baez.
Durango added one more before the first half ended when Lyons scored his second goal again, this one assisted by Leland Heinickie.
“It was huge for us to get the third goal and take the lead into halftime,” Champenoy said.
In the second half, Durango added to its lead when Heinickie scored.
With less then two minutes to go, Montrose’s Alex scored again to make it 4-3.
“We had some defensive adjustments and played much better in the second half and were able to punch in one more goal late which ended up being the game winner,” Champenoy said.
Said Montrose coach Cassie Snyder: “We played our hearts out the whole game and things just didn’t go our way. We had one of the best games we have played all year, even though we were facing a lot of adversity. I’m so proud of how much growth my team has made and this will only make us stronger for the rest of the season.”
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Cherokee Trail softball hits five consecutive home runs in win over Mullen
(Courtesy of Jeff Gilbreath) Cherokee Trail softball had its bats working in a win over Mullen on Wednesday.
The Cougars hit five consecutive home runs in the third inning, going back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back as part of a 10-run inning. They ultimately hit six home runs in the 18-6 win with senior Hunter Gilbreath hitting two, and driving in five runs.
Also hitting home runs on Wednesday: Abby Rupeka, Jenna Medhus, Kelsey Bell and Cheyenne Ausborn.
Cherokee Trail is now 9-6 this season and one of three remaining unbeaten teams in Centennial League play at 2-0.
In the face of such a performance, Mullen displayed exemplary sportsmanship, specifically pitcher Morgan Margeson. In an email to the CHSAA office, home plate umpire Mike Coulter lauded her sportsmanship: “During this whole time [she] kept her composure, even smiled after the fourth one, kept her spirit up.”
As it happens, Margeson led off the top of the fourth inning for Mullen with a double down the right-field line.
After the game, Coulter walked to the circle to speak with Margeson, and told her “that she just demonstrated the best of what high school sports is all about. I told her she should be proud that she set a standard of sportsmanship and grit [which] would be the envy of any high school athlete.”
Coulter also applauded Cherokee Trail’s sportsmanship in the game: “The whole Cherokee Trail team (coaches and players) did their best not to rub it in, which demonstrated a tremendous amount of sportsmanship,” he wrote.
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Gymnastics results: Rocky Mountain vs Niwot on 9/25
Event type: Dual
Host: Rocky MountainTeam scores Rank School Score 1 Niwot 170.85 2 Rocky Mountain 169.2 Vault Rank Name School Score 1 Fiona Rankin Rocky Mountain 9.2 2 Emma Chicco Rocky Mountain 9 3 Olivia Garvin Rocky Mountain 8.9 Bars Rank Name School Score 1 Mia Curry Niwot 9.075 2 Laura Zupancic Rocky Mountain 8.65 3 Audrey Biggerstaff Rocky Mountain 8.525 Beam Rank Name School Score 1 Mia Curry Niwot 9.075 2 Olivia Sroka Niwot 8.575 3 Nataniah Lucero Rocky Mountain 8.4 Floor Rank Name School Score 1 Mia Curry Niwot 9.15 2 Nataniah Lucero Rocky Mountain 9.05 3 Olivia Sroka Niwot 9 All-Around Rank Name School Score 1 Mia Curry Niwot 35.95 2 Olivia Sroka Niwot 34.4 3 Savannah Slater Niwot 33.675 -
No. 3 Golden boys soccer edges Standley Lake in 4A Jeffco opener
Golden teammates Ian Persky (12) and Christian Sekavac (19) try to maintain possession of the ball as Standley Lake junior RJ Krapes (1) slide tackles the ball away Tuesday at the North Area Athletic Complex in Arvada. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics) ARVADA — Golden boys soccer wouldn’t mind a carbon-copy result to its Class 4A Jeffco League run as last year.
The Demons won the conference title in 2018 by starting off league play with a close 2-1 victory over Standley Lake. Golden — No. 3 in the latest CHSAANow.com 4A boys soccer poll — replicated last year’s conference opener with another 2-1 victory over the Gators late Tuesday afternoon at the North Area Athletic Complex.
Golden junior Carter Novak keeps a close eye on the ball during a run in the first half Tuesday against Standley Lake. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics) “It’s always tough when you play Standley Lake. They are a good program and he (Ken Wood) is a very good coach,” Golden coach Larry Harding said. “At times the game isn’t as pretty as you want it to be, but you grind out the win. You get the win and go home.”
Golden senior Christian Sekavac scored the eventually game-winning goal in the 44th minute. His score into the back of the net broke up a 1-1 tie early in the second half.
“I just tried to stay composed and put it on frame. It hit the bar and went it,” Sekavac said. “After that one we had our motivation back up and I knew we were back in the game.”
The last few minutes saw scoring chances by both teams. Golden senior Ian Persky hit the cross bar in the 76th minute and then had another near goal with a header in the 79th minute that was saved by Standley Lake junior goalie David Crosby.
Standley Lake (6-4, 0-1 in league) nearly had the equalizer in the 77th minute junior Kellen Bundgaard’s free kick from distance had to be punched out by Golden senior goalie David Koury to preserve the victory for the Demons (7-1-1, 1-0).
Standley Lake senior Sawyer Bundgaard (5) is a step ahead of Golden senior Christian Sekavac (19) during the first half Tuesday at the NAAC. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics) “We started out really slow and knew it would be a sluggish game,” Sekavac said. “I think in the second half we were able to execute a little bit more. We pulled out the 2-1 win.”
Golden struck first with a goal in the 12th minute. Senior Nate Thompson’s low shot from inside the goal box slipped out of the reach of Crosby.
The Demons controlled most of the play in the first half, but the Gators got the equalizer in the 30th minute. Following a free kick, junior RJ Krapes was able to get his foot on the loose ball and put it past Koury to tie the game at 1-1 going into halftime.
“The (4A) Jeffco League is difficult. There are no easy games,” said Harding, who guided the Demons to their first boys soccer conference title in more than a decade. “You have to come into every game to play and to play to win. If you come in differently, you might come out on the wrong end of things.”
Golden is back in action Thursday night at Lakewood Memorial Field. The Demons face D’Evelyn (3-3-1, 1-0).
“We are hoping to be better this year,” Sekavac said. “I think we have really improved this year and can bring a lot to the table.”
Standley Lake has a bit of a break before returning to the field to face Evergreen on Oct. 2 at Lakewood Memorial Field.
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Photos: 1A No. 4 Merino volleyball beats 2A No. 1 Limon in five-set thriller
It took five thrilling sets, but it was Class 1A No. 4 Merino volleyball coming away with a win over 2A No. 2 Limon.
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Photos: 5A No. 5 Valor Christian volleyball beats 4A No. 6 Palmer Ridge
Class 5A No. 5 Valor Christian volleyball improved to 6-1 on the season after Tuesday’s win over 4A No. 6 Palmer Ridge.