While their coach plays the Grinch, the Vista PEAK girls basketball team entered winter break with visions of the Denver Coliseum dancing in their heads.
Regis Jesuit’s Fran Belibi, Discovery Canyon’s Ashten Prechtel and Cherry Creek’s Jana Van Gytenbeek have found a shared basketball home.
Regis Jesuit (in 5A) and Air Academy (in 4A) are each now atop their respective polls in this week’s girls basketball rankings.
In Colorado’s showdown of the year thus far in the 4A girls basketball season, No. 3 Air Academy defeated Pueblo West in the championship game of the Pueblo County Holiday Classic.
In a battle of unbeaten teams, No. 10 Montrose girls basketball beat Roaring Fork on Friday.
No. 7 Valor Christian takes 30-point victory over shorthanded Columbine before both teams head to out-of-state tournaments.
The game matched up the top two ranked teams in Class 5A girls basketball, but it was Fran Belibi who stole the show.
Greeley Central, Montrose, Grand Valley, Eaton, Alamosa, Sanford, Paonia, and North Park have all joined this week’s girls basketball rankings.
Dakota Ridge girls basketball gets upset victory over two-time defending Class 4A state champion Evergreen on the Cougars’ home court.
In a battle of top-three teams, No. 2 Colorado Springs Christian girls basketball beat No. 3 Lutheran 52-40 on Wednesday.