WESTMINSTER — Mountain Range wrestling beat Ponderosa 40-24 in a dual meet on Wednesday.
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Photo gallery: Girls swimming’s Coaches Invite
THORNTON — Fairview won girls swimming’s annual Coaches Invite at VMAC on Saturday. The Knights’ 271 total team points bested second-place Cherry Creek (238) and third-place Regis Jesuit (217).
Team results are below. Find complete results on MaxPreps.
Coaches Invite: Team scores Place Name Dive Total Total 1 Fairview 271 2 Cherry Creek 238 3 Regis Jesuit 31 217 4 Heritage 155 5 Ralston Valley 147 6 Fossil Ridge 9 145 7 ThunderRidge 125 8 Mountain Range 13 120 9 Mountain Vista 112 10 Chaparral 98 11 Niwot 83 12 Arapahoe 60 13 Broomfield 53 14 Monarch 6 45 15 Rock Canyon 7 39 T16 Highlands Ranch 36 T16 Grandview 36 T18 Silver Creek 35 T18 Boulder 35 20 Lakewood 2 33 21 Mullen 28 28 22 Brighton 26 23 Pine Creek 1 25 24 Windsor 24 25 Legend 20 26 Chatfield 19 19 T27 St. Mary’s Academy 17 17 T27 Smoky Hill 17 29 Castle View 15 15 30 Greeley West 14 31 Golden 9 32 Thompson Valley 8 33 Northglenn 7 34 Dakota Ridge 6 35 Fort Collins 3 3 36 Legacy 2 37 Skyline 1 [divider]
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Photo gallery: Top-ranked Holy Family girls basketball moves to 2-0
WESTMINSTER — Holy Family, the No. 1 team in the 3A girls basketball poll this week, improved to 2-0 with a 52-38 win over 5A Mountain Range on Thursday.
Sophomore Katie Chavez led the way for the Tigers with 10 points and seven assists. Lindsey Chavez had nine points, while Megan Mcgillin and Maggie Spitzer each had eight. Mcgillin also had eight rebounds, two assists and three streals.
Abby Brich had 11 points for Mountain Range in the loss. Lauren Bohan had 10.
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Photo gallery: Mountain Range beats Longmont wrestling
WESTMINSTER — Mountain Range wrestling topped Longmont in a dual on Wednesday, winning 43-34.
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Photo gallery: Mountain Range boys basketball opens season with win
WESTMINSTER — Mountain Range led 42-20 at the half, then cruised to a 72-31 win over Prairie View on Monday as the season opened.
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Preseason On The Mat wrestling rankings released
Arvada West, which placed eighth at last season’s Class 5A state wrestling tournament, begins the season atop the On The Mat rankings.
Defending champions Broomfield (4A) and Paonia (2A) also open the season as preseason No. 1s. Brush, a fifth-place finisher last season, is atop the 3A ranking.
Pomona, the defending 5A champion, opens the season at No. 4.
Alamosa won the 3A title last year, and is No. 5 in that preseason ranking.
Complete team rankings for all classes are below.
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On The Mat Wrestling Rankings
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Class 5A RK TEAM PVS 1 Arvada West – 2 Rocky Mountain – 3 Ponderosa – 4 Pomona – 5 Cherry Creek – 6 Coronado – 7 Chaparral – 8 Fruita – 9 Fountain Fort Carson – 10 Grand Junction – 11 Greeley West – 12 Pine Creek – 13 Fossil Ridge – 14 Mountain Range – 15 Lakewood – Class 4A RK TEAM PVS 1 Broomfield – 2 Thompson Valley – 3 Discovery Canyon – 4 Pueblo South – 5 Windsor – 6 Pueblo Central – 7 Palisade – 8 Montrose – 9 Weld Central – 10 Mead – 11 Mesa Ridge – 12 Longmont – 13 Air Academy – 14 Pueblo East – 15 Erie – Class 3A RK TEAM PVS 1 Brush – 2 Valley – 3 Dolores Huerta – 4 Lamar – 5 Alamosa – 6 Centauri – 7 Fort Lupton – 8 Monte Vista – 9 LaJunta – 10 Bennett – 11 Jefferson – 12 Strasburg – 13 Buena Vista – 14 Sterling – 15 Holy Family – Class 2A RK TEAM PVS 1 Paonia – 2 Meeker – 3 Baca County – 4 Swink – 5 Rocky Ford – 6 Sedgwick County/Fleming – 7 Akron – 8 Merino – 9 Wray – 10 Center – 11 Dove Creek – 12 Highland – 13 Norwood – 14 Holly – 15 Crowley County – -
Playoff football roundup: Columbine runs over Grand Junction
More photos. (Jack Eberhard/JacksActionShots.com) Columbine ran Grand Junction right out of town.
The seventh-seeded Rebels got three rushing touchdowns from Jeremy Aparicio and easily handled No. 10 Grand Junction, 41-7, in the second round of the Class 5A playoffs.
Aparicio had scoring runs of 58, 4 and 1 yards, while Michael Tait passed for a score and rushed for another. Austin Norton had a 30-yard touchdown run and caught Tait’s 28-yard scoring toss.
The Rebels will play at No. 2 Valor Christian in the quarterfinals. The Eagles exploded for 28 second-quarter points in pulling away from No. 15 Ralston Valley. Up just 14-6 after the first quarter, Valor scored on the first play of the second frame and never looked back.
It was 42-6 at halftime and a 49-20 final.
Valor quarterback A.J. Cecil was 19-of-23 for 278 yards and four touchdowns. Christian McCaffrey rushed 13 times for 121 yards and two scores and also caught six passes for 110 and two more touchdowns. The carries were the most McCaffrey has had since he rushed 11 times against Fountain-Fort Carson on Sept. 27.
Ralston Valley scored two late touchdowns after recovering three-consecutive onside kicks in the fourth quarter.
We’ll have at least two rematches in the 5A quarterfinals: No. 1 Fairview hosting No. 8 Pomona and No. 3 Cherry Creek hosting No. 6 Cherokee Trail.
Fairview topped No. 16 Douglas County 45-17 on Friday. Knights quarterback Anders Hill had five total touchdowns, four passing. He tossed scores to Steve D’Epagnier (twice), Cam Frazier and Sam Martin. Fairview also got a 50-yard interception return for a touchdown from Carlo Kemp.
Douglas County was in the game in the first half, trailing 14-10 after the first quarter, and 21-17 later in the second, but Fairview’s Jonathan Swartzwelter nailed a 47-yard field goal just before the half to give Fairview a spark heading to the locker room.
When the night ended, Fairview had scored the game’s final 24 points.
In the quarters, the Knights will get Pomona, a team they beat 33-30 on Oct. 18. Pomona beat Chatfield 49-35 on Friday. (Find a full recap of that game here.)
Cherry Creek, meanwhile, beat No. 19 Overland for the second time this season with a 49-14 victory Friday. The Bruins got 21 second-quarter points to make it a 35-7 halftime margin.
Cherry Creek plays Cherokee Trail in the quarterfinals. The two teams played a tight one on Oct. 4 — a 28-27 Creek win.
Cherokee Trail easily handled No. 11 Mountain Range, 41-7, on Friday. Quarterback Aric Johnson was 14-of-19 for 171 yards and two scores through the air. He also rushed for 84 yards and two more touchdowns.
Junior running back Cameron Smith had 163 yards and two touchdowns.
No. 5 ThunderRidge beat No. 12 Doherty, 56-35, on Friday. The Grizzlies could get a rematch, as well: No. 5 Regis Jesuit and No. 20 Grandview play Saturday. Should Regis win, it would give ThunderRidge a chance to avenge its only loss of the season, which came Sept. 27 to the Raiders.
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Class 4A
Fifth-seeded Pueblo South was in trouble heading into the fourth quarter against No. 12 Longmont.
The Colts trailed 27-17 following a 15-point outburst from Longmont in the third quarter, but rallied with 21 fourth-quarter points for a 38-27 win.
Trailing 27-24 with 5:34 to play, South converted a fourth-and-6 and went on to score the go-ahead touchdown. The Colts stopped Longmont on fourth-and-13 on their ensuring drive, and sealed the game with a score a few plays later.
In other 4A games, No. 3 Pine Creek beat No. 14 Pueblo West, 35-18, and No. 2 Monarch handled No. 15 Vista Ridge, 62-28.
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Class 3A
No. 7 The Classical Academy looked to be in control. But, late in the third quarter, a Conifer touchdown cut the Titans’ lead to 14-6. Then, with six minutes to play in the fourth, Conifer made it 14-12.
A stop of a two-point conversion attempt on the try gave TCA its first postseason victory in school history, 14-12, over the tenth-seeded Lobos.
In Friday’s other 3A game, No. 3 Roosevelt cruised past No. 14 Frederick, 47-13, to move to the quarterfinals.
Higher seeds were 13-0 in Friday night’s football playoffs.
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Photo gallery: Mountain Range wins first playoff football game in school history
WESTMINSTER — Quarterback Andrew Wamsley threw for two touchdowns as Mountain Range topped Heritage 24-20 for the first playoff win in school history.
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5A football playoff bracket
Football’s 2013 state playoff bracket for Class 5A.
2013 CHSAA State Football Championships CHSAA 5A Football Championship
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Fairview grabs 5A’s top seed as football brackets are released
Fairview is the No. 1 seed in 5A. (Courtesy photo) The groundwork, as is so often the case, was laid four years ago. Tom McCartney saw it in his freshmen then. Those freshmen are now seniors, and that group has Fairview seeded No. 1 overall in the Class 5A football playoffs.
“We knew that it was a special group,” McCartney, Fairview’s coach, said Sunday morning. “We also knew that for them to do the things and reach some of the goals they’ve set, you’ve got to have junior compliments. You want to know that your juniors are also part of that.
“We’ve been kind of waiting on this group of seniors for a while, and a lot of them have gotten a lot of playing time as sophomores and juniors,” he continued. “When you get in those kinds of battles against teams like Pomona and Ralston Valley, and Legacy and Arvada West and Boulder — and Grandview in the playoffs last year, and Regis the year before — all of those experiences help. So, yes, to be honest with you, we’ve seen this coming from this particular group. We knew this was a talented group.”
The Knights were the lone 5A team to finish the regular season unbeaten (9-0). They were ranked No. 2 in the CHSAANow.com football poll in recent weeks, but were No. 1 in Wild Card points during that stretch, and finished atop the final Wild Card standings released Sunday morning.
And so, when the 5A bracket was unveiled, it was Fairview in the No. 1 spot. (See the full bracket.)
“It feels awesome,” McCartney said. “It’s playoff football. We’re just going to prepare. We understand that if you win you move on, and if you don’t you’re done. We want to keep playing. The best way to keep playing is to be prepared and to improve.”
Fairview draws No. 32 Mountain Vista (3-6) in the first round. The two teams played in 2010 and 2011, both Mountain Vista wins.
“Our seniors, when they were freshmen, played them. And so we know a little bit about them,” McCartney said. “We’ve got a ton of respect for coach (Ric) Cash. His teams are always prepared. They’re always hard-nosed.”
Rounding out the top-5 seeds in 5A were No. 2 Valor Christian, No. 3 Cherry Creek, No. 4 Regis Jesuit and No. 5 ThunderRidge.
The top 16 seeds host in the first round, meaning No. 6 Cherokee Trail, No. 7 Columbine, No. 8 Pomona, No. 9 Chatfield, No. 10 Grand Junction, No. 11 Mountain Range, No. 12 Doherty, No. 13 Prairie View, No. 14 Rangeview, No. 15 Ralston Valley and No. 16 Douglas County will get home games.
Other qualifiers were No. 17 Legend, No. 18 Arapahoe, No. 19 Overland, No. 20 Grandview, No. 21 Gateway, No. 22 Heritage, No. 23 Westminster, No. 24 Rocky Mountain, No. 25 Fountain-Fort Carson, No. 26 Hinkley, No. 27 Arvada West, No. 28 Castle View, No. 29 Fort Collins, No. 30 Lakewood and No. 31 Eaglecrest.
The 2A, 1A, 8-man and 6-man brackets were also released on Sunday.
Brush is 2A’s top seed. As the top-8 host in the first round, No. 2 Manitou Springs, No. 3 Platte Valley, No. 4 Faith Christian, No. 5 Gunnison, No. 6 Bennett, No. 7 Kent Denver and No. 8 Florence will all get home games.
Also qualifying in 2A were No. 9 Strasburg, No. 10 Lamar, No. 11 Olathe, No. 12 Fort Lupton, No. 13 Aspen, No. 14 Ridge View Academy, No. 15 Jefferson and No. 16 The Academy.
In 1A, Buena Vista got the top seed. No. 2 Limon, No. 3 Centauri, No. 4 Paonia, No. 5 Monte Vista, No. 6 Hotchkiss, No. 7 Yuma and No. 8 Platte Canyon will also host first-round games.
Additional 1A qualifiers were No. 9 Resurrection Christian, No. 10 Rye, No. 11 Burlington, No. 12 Cedaredge, No. 13 Colorado Springs Christian, No. 14 Wray, No. 15 Lyons and No. 16 Front Range Christian.
Hoehne is 8-man’s top seed. Also hosting in the first round will be No. 2 Dayspring Christian, No. 3 Norwood, No. 4 Simla, No. 5 Caliche, No. 6 Kiowa, No. 7 Sargent and No. 8 Dove Creek. Also qualifying were No. 9 Sanford, No. 10 Vail Christian, No. 11 Merino, No. 12 Walsh, No. 13 Akron, No. 14 West Grand, No. 15 Fowler and No. 16 Granada.
Liberty/Stratton grabbed 6-man’s top seed. Also qualifying were No. 2 Hi-Plains, No. 3 Eads, No. 4 Prairie, No. 5 Otis, No. 6 Peetz, No. 7 Hanover and No. 8 Flagler