Cherry Creek, after even more overtime, wins state hockey title
It’s not often you get a championship that was 25 years in the making.
It’s not often you get a championship that was 25 years in the making.
Cherry Creek won hockey’s state title on Saturday with a three-overtime, 3-2 win over Monarch on Saturday.
The Great 8 of Class 5A girls basketball was on Friday at the Denver Coliseum.
Cherry Creek’s athletic department, through its rich history, has claimed 189 state championships — 105 more than any other school. But they have never won it all in girls basketball.
Seventy-six minutes and 36 seconds into the game, the night ended. After six overtimes. But before the game had to be suspended.
After their respective performances in the quarterfinals, the stakes were high for goaltenders Brady Mielnicki and Joey Owston. Neither would disappoint.
Cherry Creek and Monarch will meet in hockey’s championship game on Saturday after both teams won in the semifinals on Thursday night.
The landscape of girls lacrosse in Colorado could look much different in 2015 thanks to some major coaching changes.
A back-and-forth game all night, Monarch edged Fossil Ridge 51-47 in the Class 5A girls basketball Sweet 16 on Tuesday evening.
Defending champions and teams that lost in last season’s title games make up the preseason No. 1 teams in baseball this season.