The Class 4A Region 2 cross country meet was held on Friday.
Month: October 2020
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Friday night football hub: Week 1 streams, scores and more
It’s Week 1 of the football season around the state.
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- Live scoreboard
- Top-10 scoreboard | Full rankings
- Full schedule & scoreboard | @ColoHSFootball
- RPI standings
- Colorado Preps Scoreboard Show (9:30 p.m.)
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Photos: No. 4 Mead softball runs by No. 13 Palisade in 4A tournament
No. 4 Mead advanced to the second round of the Class 4A softball tournament after beating No. 13 Palisade 11-0 on Wednesday.
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Photos: No. 5 Riverdale Ridge powers past No. 12 Pueblo South in 4A softball tournament
No. 5 Riverdale Ridge advanced to the second round of the Class 4A state softball tournament with a 7-2 win over No. 12 Pueblo South on Wednesday.
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Here’s what happened at the state softball quarterfinals
The state softball tournaments continue with the quarterfinals in 5A, 4A and 3A on Thursday.
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Spectator information for the state softball semifinals and finals
(Ryan Casey/CHSAANow.com) The CHSAA State Softball Tournament will have a different look this year. With guidelines established by CHSAA and the Tri-County Health Jurisdiction, each school is limited to 60 spectators. Those will be determined by the school. No tickets will be sold at the gate.
All spectators, players, coaches, team personnel, workers, umpires and staff will go through the check-in process, with the semifinal games starting a 10:00 and 10:30 on each of the three complexes at Aurora Sports Park. Championship game times are 1:00 p.m. (3A), 1:15 p.m. (4A) and 1:30 p.m. (5A).
Teams losing in the semifinals and their fans will need to exit the facility after their game.
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4A boys golf: Cheyenne Mountain wins team title, Montrose’s Jennings captures individual crown
(Paul Soriano) COLORADO SPRINGS — It was a milestone day in so many ways for Cheyenne Mountain.
As the school’s namesake loomed large in the near distance, the boys golf team captured the Class 4A state tournament championship Tuesday at the Country Club of Colorado.
In the process, the school became just the second program in Colorado to win 100 state crowns. Cherry Creek High School, with 217, was the first. This is the school’s second boys golf championship, with the first coming in 2004.
Cheyenne Mountain, which trailed Mullen High School by four strokes after Monday’s first round, roared back to win in the final round by five strokes over the Mustangs (459-464).
“I can’t be any prouder of my team and the heart they showed, starting on the back nine yesterday and carrying over into today,” said Cheyenne Mountain head coach John Carricato, now in his sixth year at the helm.
“We don’t talk about the outcome. We talk about being competitively mature and being able to stay in the moment, and they did a great job doing that these past two days. I can’t be any happier for them.”
It was truly a team win for Cheyenne Mountain, which placed three golfers in the top 15.
Sophomore Carter Surofchek (77-75, 152) finished in a tie for sixth place, followed by senior Connor Moberly (80-74, 154) in a tie for ninth place. Another sophomore, Thomas Herholtz (78-78, 156), finished in a five-way tie for 11th place.
“It feels great, especially being the 100th win for Cheyenne Mountain,” Surofchek said. “I’m almost speechless. It’s just a great feeling. We’ve worked so hard. We’ve outworked everyone.
“We really came back in the second round and worked our butts off,” he added. “It was a true team win. We trusted ourselves, we trusted our teammates and everything came together.”
Montrose, which had won the previous three team titles (2017, 2018, 2019), finished third with a score of 472.
But the team still had reason to celebrate afterwards thanks to Jordan Jennings.
(Paul Soriano) The senior carded a 3-under-par 68 to win the state championship by four strokes over Mario Dino of Mullen.
Jennings, who was tied with five other players for second place after the first round, started the final round hot as he posted three straight birdies after a par on the first hole.
“I got off to a great start. I knew that I had to,” he admitted. “I was making some good putts and hitting the ball a lot better.”
Jennings made the turn at 1-under par, then scorched the back nine, going bogey-free along with two birdies to win going away.
“I think I was three-strokes back going into the back nine, and I just told myself to keep my head up. It’s not over yet, and I’ve got a lot of golf left,” he added. “I stayed positive, made a few putts coming down the stretch and got it done.”
For Montrose head coach Steve Skiff, it was a mission accomplished.
“Jordan has been playing this way all year. He’s been a really steady golfer for us,” Skiff said. “We wanted him to win a state championship his senior year, and he went out and played an awesome round today … really the last two days.
“It couldn’t happen to a better kid,” Skiff added. “He’s the rock of our program, and has been for the last four years. I just couldn’t be more proud of him, and I’m so happy to coach him.”
Jennings, who is headed to Colorado State next season, had some encouraging words for his teammates after watching Cheyenne Mountain snap the Indians’ streak of three-straight titles.
“We fell short this year,” said Jennings. “Obviously, I’m so excited to win as an individual, but those young kids definitely have a few state titles coming their way if they just keep working.
“They’re great players and great kids. I think they’re going to do well in the future.”
And as happy as he is for his Cheyenne Mountain golfers, Carricato is also excited about the future.
“It’s hard to describe, but the reason [my team] accomplished what they did is because there are about 10 other kids in this program that push them,” he said. “Those other players are good enough to be on a state team.
“Our depth is one of our biggest strengths, and we’re lucky to be able to build that program with that depth,” Carricato added. “We’re looking forward to what’s going to happen in the next couple of years, too.”
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5A boys golf: Clutch putt gives Lucas Schulte and Valor Christian championships
ARVADA – He didn’t know it at the time, but Lucas Schulte captured one of the biggest moments in Colorado high school boys golf history on Tuesday.
On the final hole of his two-round state tournament at The Club at Rolling Hills, the Valor Christian senior sank a seven-foot putt to make eagle on the par-5 18th. The emphatically clutch finish capped an excellent 1-over day to wrap up his prep career.
Schulte was thrilled to go out the way he did.
(Brad Cochi) He was even more thrilled when he found out afterwards the eagle ended up winning him the Class 5A individual championship and also clinched the team title for the Eagles.
“It’s special,” Schulte said. “The individual title is really special, obviously. But the team, we got fourth in league and I have to admit I was on the fence about our chances even though one of our teammates, Jack Armstrong, was super confident. All of our guys played really well and when that putt went in, I was shaking pretty good because I knew we might have a chance.”
Schulte didn’t win an event all season until Tuesday and never led throughout the state tournament. That lead largely belonged to Arapahoe senior Graham Dzengelewski, who eagled the first hole of the tournament on Monday and was the frontrunner the rest of the way until he made a double bogey on the par-4 16th of Day 2.
In a close home stretch that at one point included a three-way tie for the lead, Schulte’s dagger eagle putt and 72 were just enough to hold off late charges from Ralston Valley senior Trey Kirschner and Regis Jesuit senior Ryan Occhionero, who shot 69 and 70, respectively, to tie for second place.
The team title was also settled by Valor Christian chasing down Arapahoe with the latter leading after a brutally windy first day.
Down three strokes with two holes to play, the Eagles had two players on the course after junior Jack Armstrong had come in earlier with a tone-setting round of 74. Sophomore Colin Young had to punch his ball out of the trees on No. 18 but was able to get up and down for birdie and card a 78 and set up Schulte’s winning eagle.
That big point swing allowed the Eagles to win with a final team score of 452, which was just two strokes ahead of Arapahoe.
“I shared with them after our practice round that the team that is OK with not always being OK is going to manage to get through the rest of the round,” Valor Christian head coach Justen Byler said. “These are difficult greens and these are difficult courses they put you on for the state championship. I think it’s important to point out, too, that the Jeffco League is phenomenally competitive and playing some of the best teams in the state every week really has prepared us for moments like these.
“I’m super proud of our guys because they managed to have a lot of resolve and grind their way through. We had all four of the guys score at some point this weekend and as a result, a team truly won. Wow, what a special moment.”
Led by Occhionero, the Regis Jesuit boys made a Day 2 charge to finish third in the team competition after opening the final round in ninth place. Ralston Valley moved up four spots on the second day to finish fourth and Rock Canyon was fifth.
Individually, Prairie View’s Jeff Nelson, as well as Pine Creek’s Wesley Erling and Dzengelewski, who were tied for the lead after Day 1, finished in the three-way tie for fourth place.
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3A boys golf: Aspen’s Nic Pevny battles as Colorado Academy grabs team title
(Dan Mohrmann/CHSAANow.com) GUNNISON — Through the course of the entire back nine on Tuesday at the Dos Rios golf club, Aspen’s Nic Pevny hit just a single fairway. And he made bogey on the hole.
Fairways and greens are often preached as the keys to shooting a solid round, but with the way Pevny played to capture Aspen’s first Class 3A boys golf individual champion fairways are overrated.
Pevny finished his round shooting an even-par 71 to end his tournament at 2-under total, good enough to be the last man standing.
“The front, I wasn’t hitting my approach shots too well but I got out of there at 2-under so I was happy,” Pevny said.
He should be. He opened the day just one shot ahead of Montezuma-Cortez’s Thayer Plewe. They both made bridie on No. 1 but Pevny stuck his tee shot on two and stretched his lead out to two strokes.
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A two shot swing on the next hole tied the two at the top of the leaderboard. Plewe hit the flagstick on No. 3 and tapped in for birdie while Pevny lipped out a near gimme.
On No. 6, Plewe, a lefty, pushed his drive left while Pevny pounded driver down the relatively tight fairway. Pevny made birdie while Plewe made bogey and the two-shot lead for the Aspen junior.
On the back, he shot 2-over but hit two definitive shots that locked up his championship. He made a clutch 10-foot birdie putt to make par on 14 and stuck his second shot on the par-5 16th to about 20 feet for eagle. At that point, he knew the championship was well within his grasp.
(Dan Mohrmann/CHSAANow.com) “I had that up-and-down which kind of got the round back. That was really big, that up-and-down,” Pevny said. “I knew (after 16) that if I just made pars, that if I made par on 17, it was probably over.”
As Pevny was busy holding on to his individual lead, Colorado Academy was busy taking over the team race. The Mustangs entered the day in second place behind Kent Denver which didn’t bother them a bit. Rather than dealing with the pressure of holding onto a lead, they had the freedom to chase it down and it was a challenge they happily accepted.
“There was a part of not being in first that was nice,” coach Beth Folsom said. “The expectation wasn’t out there for us to hold it. We just had to make up some ground.”
Sophomore JT Timmers led the way and completely took apart the back nine at Dos Rios. He made birdies on 10, 12, 13 and 16 and only bogeyed 18. He ended his day with a 72 and finished in 7th place.
The key for the Mustangs was Timmers and really everyone, just not allowing mistakes to derail the team title hunt early.
“Bo (Turnage) got a par on the first hole which he doubled yesterday,” Timmers said. “On the back, Jack (Pashel) and I were just feeling like it was going to be a good day. We were playing well coming into this tournament. We all held it together.”
Pashel shot a 74, Turnage shot a 76 and TJ Giordano shot an 86 to help the Mustangs claimed their first boys golf team championship in school history.
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Photos: The Class 5A boys golf state tournament
Photos from both days of the Class 5A boys golf state tournaments.