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- FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (11/08/2010)
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS EARNED THE NUMBER TWO SEED IN THE STATE AND WILL HOST THE ENGLEWOOD PIRATES THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 0’CLOCK IN A FIRST ROUND PLAYOFF GAME.IN 2A FOOTBALL, THE COAL RIDGE TITANS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. THEY’RE SEEDED 15TH AND WILL BATTLE THE SECOND SEEDED SUN DEVILS AT KENT DENVER HIGH SCHOOL SATURDAY.
THE BASALT LONGHORNS EARNED A 12TH SEED AND WILL TRAVEL TO FAITH CHRISTIAN TO PLAY THE NUMBER 5 EAGLES. THE ASPEN SKIERS GET TO STAY HOME AND HOST PLATTE VALLEY.VOLLEYBALL
_____________THE ROARING FORK RAMS TOOK SECOND PLACE OVERALL AT LAST WEEKEND’S REGIONAL TOURNAMENT AND QUALIFIED FOR THE STATE TOURNAMENT IN DENVER THIS WEEKEND. THE RAMS’ FIRST MATCH IS AGAINST EATON THIS FRIDAY MORNING AT 8 AT THE DENVER COLISEUM.
Continue reading →HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL __________________________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS EARNED THE NUMBER TWO SEED IN THE STATE AND WILL HOST THE ENGLEWOOD PIRATES THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 0’CLOCK IN A FIRST ROUND PLAYOFF GAME. IN 2A FOOTBALL, THE COAL RIDGE TITANS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. THEY’RE ... - KMTS Game of the Week: Glenwood Survives Bear Attack with Last-second Win
GLENWOOD SPRINGS (11/5/10) — In the last second of the last league game for thirteen Glenwood senior football players, the Demons trailed Rifle by five points. As the clock turned to zero, Luke Jacob faked right, went left, and “The hole opened up for me,” he said afterwards. The Glenwood quarterback danced untouched into the end zone for a 20-19 victory over Rifle, to preserve the third undefeated league season in the past four years for the Demons and propel them into the number two seeding in the 3A state playoffs.
“That’s what high school football is all about,” senior Nick Ciani, team co-captain with Jacob, said after that three-yard touchdown overcame a valiant effort by a young Bears team (with just six seniors) that has defied expectations all season, and sitting in the number 20 spot in the 3A playoff wildcard standings, had Glenwood (9-1, 7-0, and ranked second in the state by Colorado Preps) “back on our heels,” Ciani admitted.
“It was way fun, but scary,” said senior Drew Halsch, whose 6-yard TD run with time running down in the third quarter gave Glenwood its first lead of the game, 14-13 after JD Weeden booted the extra point through the uprights. That kick would turn out to be decisive, because three minutes earlier, Rifle’s Hector Ruiz had his second attempt at a PAT blocked following a penalty.
For the only time since the Montrose game that Jacob missed because of a concussion, the Demons failed to score in the first quarter, managing just one first down to four by the Bears, whose 11-play drive ended when Rigo Garcia broke up a 4th-down pass in the end zone. Rifle’s second possession was similar, going 10 plays before Chad Montover sacked Bear QB Keaton Deere on a 4th-and-6 at the GSHS 37.
The Bears forced a third consecutive Demon punt, and used nearly 6 minutes and 16 plays before sophomore Ryan Moeller covered the final 14 yards for the game’s first score. At that point, the beleaguered Demon defense had been on the field for 37 of the game’s 50 plays. Still it took an acrobatic catch by Rian Creech on 3rd-and-11, and a 4th-and-2 plunge by Moeller to keep the drive alive. Ruiz booted the extra point for a 7-0 Rifle lead with 4:22 before halftime.
Jacob surpassed Glenwood’s entire offensive output by one as he ran 20 yards on the first play after the kickoff, and Drew Halsch went 21 yards on the next play to the Bear 35. Montover covered the remaining distance on the subsequent play, but a holding penalty nullified the score. No matter, the suddenly revived Demon offense gained a first down at the 23 before freshman Henry Hill, catching just his second pass of the season at about the 10, maintained his footing to stumble in for the touchdown. Weeden’s kick with 2:25 left in the half knotted the score at 7.
Glenwood forced Rifle to punt for the first time following the second half kickoff, but fumbled the ball back to the Bears on the next play at the Demon 44. The Glenwood defense seemed to have held, until Rifle coach Damon Wells called a sweep-reverse pass, facing 4th-and-10 at the 32.
Moeller took a pitch toward the right, handed off to Taylor Webb on the reverse, and the junior lofted a pass to the wide-open Creech, who easily covered the remaining yards to put Rifle up 13-7 with 6:10 to go in the quarter. Ruiz’s extra point kick was good, but a penalty moved the ball back to the 15, and his next attempt was blocked. That miss allowed the Demons to take a 14-13 lead with a seven-play, 3:22 minute drive as Halsch and Jacob took turns consuming the entire on the ground.
Undaunted, the Bears responded, overcoming a fumble (recovered for a first down by Kyle Shaw at the RHS 39) and a procedure penalty, when Deare connected with Austin Booth for a 26 yard completion on 4th-and-6 to the Glenwood 15. The same combo moved the ball to the four, and Moeller took it in for a 19-14 Rifle lead with 9:33 to play in the game. But the officials ruled Webb’s catch of the conversion pass was trapped.
Fully untracked now, the Halsch-Jacob ground game ran up three first downs, reaching first-and-goal at the Rifle five, but Jacob was sacked to the nine and three pass attempts fell incomplete. The Bears had 6:40 to go for a spectacular upset that would insure their place in the playoffs. Moeller fumbled on their second play, but Creech recovered it, and in fighting for the ball, Glenwood was flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.
This gave the Bears new life, but for the first time all game, the Demon defense halted halted an option pitch to Moeller on third-down, Montover tackling him for no gain. Facing 4th-and-3 on their own 34, the Bears decided to punt and the ball rolled to the Glenwood 33.
Glenwood’s positioning in the state tournament, as well as the Bears’ playoff hopes, now depended on whether the Demons could go 67 yards in the 3:25 left in the game.
With 3:25 left in the final regular season football game, trailing 19-14, Glenwood Springs had to go 67 yards to remain undefeated in Western Slope play, and the Rifle Bears didn’t make it easy, as the Demons faced third down three times in the game-winning drive.
The most spectacular play came on 3rd-and-10, with 42 seconds left at the Bear 37 and Rifle mounting a full-out blitz. Luke Jacob barely managed to shovel the ball to Drew Halsch: “I wasn’t supposed to have guys in my face, and he (Halsch) made a great play,” managing to gain nine yards to the 28. On fourth-and-one, Jacob’s keeper from under center was close enough for a measurement, but ruled a first down with 17 ticks left on the clock.
Next play, Jacob found Henry Hill open in the left flat and the pass gained 20 yards to the Rifle 7. “I made the wrong read, and he made an amazing catch,” Jacob said of the freshman, making just his third varsity reception. With 5 seconds remaining, Glenwood was still saving its final time out, calling the next play while the chains were moved. Jacob tried to hit Willy Pelland crossing in front of the goal posts, but he was hit early by a Rifle defender and pass interference was called. The ball was moved half the distance to the goal as coach Rocky Whitworth called time out with the clock reading, 0:01.
Glenwood’s most effective play in the second half had been the fake to Halsch one way, with Jacob going the other. Following the time out, Jacob said, “We ran the play a little different, and they bit on the fake.” As time expired, the senior quarterback was burried by teammates in the end zone, and the Glenwood stands errupted, while Rifle players and fans, so hopeful a second earlier, stared unbelieving as the scoreboard showed the home team prevailing, 20-19.
“They fought hard,” senior co-captain Nick Ciani said, paying tribute to the Rifle effort.
“It was the last chance to play Rifle for me,” Jacob said on behalf of a group of seniors who concluded four straight wins over the Bears with back-to-back, 20-19 victories. There was no need to attempt the extra point since the clock had expired on the final play.Bear sophomore Ryan Moeller gained 118 yards on 24 carries for two touchdowns and senior quarterback Keaton Deare completed 10-of-13 passes for 120 yards. Junior Austin Booth had 5 catches for 66 yards. Jacob was 7-of-12 for 86 yards and rushed for 66 on 14 carries, leaving him four yards short of 1,000 for the season. Halsch bounced back from a sub-par game against the loaded Delta defense to lead the Bears with 77 yards on 12 carries.
The win sends Glenwood (9-1, 7-0 WSL) into the first-round of the state playoffs on an eight-game winning streak, seeded second to Elizabeth, the lone undefeated 3A team, which finished the regular season 10-0 by defeating Glenwood’s first-round opponent, Englewood 49-7, Friday. The Metro South Pirates (8-2, 4-2 and seeded 15th) won their first six games before losing 45-13 at Evergreen.
Rifle’s impressive showing was not enough to get the 20th-ranked Bears (6-4, 4-3), who lost their last three league games, into the 16-team playoffs. The only other Western Slope team to make the playoffs is 4th-seeded Palisade, which hosts Silver Creek (7-3, seeded 13th) and is on the same side of the bracket with number-one Elizabeth. The Glenwood-Englewood winner will meet the winner of Centaurus (7th, 8-2) and Lewis Palmer (10th, 8-2).
Moffat County (6-4, 5-2), was ranked 16th in the state 3A wild card standings, but trouncing winless Steamboat Springs, 42-8 wasn’t enough to make the playoffs. Delta (5-5, 3-4) was ahead of the Bears by one spot (19th), but was defeated by Palisade, 28-14.
Continue reading →GLENWOOD SPRINGS (11/5/10) — In the last second of the last league game for thirteen Glenwood senior football players, the Demons trailed Rifle by five points. As the clock turned to zero, Luke Jacob faked right, went left, and “The hole opened up for me,” he said afterwards. The Glenwood quarterback ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (11/05/2010)
STATE 3A SOCCER
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THE COAL RIDGE TITANS LOST TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY LAST NIGHT IN COLORADO SPRINGS 4 TO NOTHING. THE TITANS FINISHED THEIR BEST YEAR EVER AT 16 AND 2.
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_____________THE STATE’S THIRD SEEDED ROARING FORK RAMS HOST THE REGION C TOURNAMENT TOMORROW MORNING IN CARBONDALE. THE RAMS WELCOME SAINT MARY’S, JEFFERSON ACADEMY AND COLORADO ACADEMY.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
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TONIGHT, THE CURTAIN COMES DOWN ON THE 2010 REGULAR SEASON. THE 3A WESTERN SLOPE LEAGUE CHAMPION GLENWOOD DEMONS TAKE ON THE RIFLE BEARS WHO NEED TO WIN TO KEEP THEIR PLAYOFF HOPES ALIVE. KICK OFF SET FOR 7 O’CLOCK WITH PRE-GAME COVERAGE BEGINNING AT 6:45 RIGHT HERE ON KMTS.THE COAL RIDGE TITANS ARE ALSO ON THE PLAYOFF BUBBLE AND NEED TO BEAT GRAND VALLEY TONIGHT IN PARACHUTE. ROARING FORK LOOKS TO PLAY THE SPOILER TONIGHT IN ASPEN WHILE BASALT TRAVELS TO CEDAREDGE. THE PLAYOFF SEEDINGS WILL BE
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RELEASED SUNDAY.STATE 3A SOCCER __________________ THE COAL RIDGE TITANS LOST TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY LAST NIGHT IN COLORADO SPRINGS 4 TO NOTHING. THE TITANS FINISHED THEIR BEST YEAR EVER AT 16 AND 2. VOLLEYBALL _____________ THE STATE’S THIRD SEEDED ROARING FORK RAMS HOST THE REGION C TOURNAMENT TOMORROW MORNING IN CARBONDALE. THE RAMS WELCOME SAINT MARY’S, JEFFERSON ACADEMY AND ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (11/01/2010)
SOCCER
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THE COAL RIDGE TITANS BEAT WELD CENTRAL 2 TO NOTHING TO ADVANCE TO THE QUARTERFINALS. THEY’LL TAKE ON THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY THIS THURSDAY.
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THE DISTRICT CHAMPION ROARING FORK LADY RAMS WILL HOST THE REGIONALS THIS WEEKEND.
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS DEFEATED DELTA 24 TO 7 AND CLAIMED THE WESTERN SLOPE CROWN THANKS TO PALISADE’S WIN OVER RIFLE. THE DEMONS TAKE ON RIFLE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE REGULAR
SEASON FINALE.SOCCER ________ THE COAL RIDGE TITANS BEAT WELD CENTRAL 2 TO NOTHING TO ADVANCE TO THE QUARTERFINALS. THEY’LL TAKE ON THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY THIS THURSDAY. VOLLEYBALL _____________ THE DISTRICT CHAMPION ROARING FORK LADY RAMS WILL HOST THE REGIONALS THIS WEEKEND. FOOTBALL __________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS DEFEATED DELTA 24 TO 7 AND CLAIMED THE WESTERN SLOPE CROWN THANKS TO PALISADE’S ... - KMTS Game of the Week: GLENWOOD WRAPS UP LEAGUE TITLE AT DELTA, 24-7
DELTA (10/29/10) — The Rifle-Glenwood rivalry doesn’t mean what it once did — not due to the Bears moving down to class 3A with Coal Ridge High School in most sports, but because next week’s anticipated showdown will no longer determine this season’s Western Slope League championship.
The Demons (8-1, 6-0) clinched their third WSL crown in four years Friday night when an amped-up defense broke open a mistake-filled game in the fourth quarter at Delta for a 24-7 win, while 90 miles to the northeast, the Bears (6-3, 4-2) were falling 38-20 at home to Palisade. Combined with last weekend’s loss at Moffat County, Rifle can no longer catch Glenwood, even with a win over the Demons next Friday. And that circumstance would not help the Bulldogs (8-1, 6-1) either because the Demons’ 21-20 win at Palisade September 23 gave Glenwood the tiebreaker.
So, who let the air out of the regular season finale between the Bears and Demons? Among others, Chad Montover and Nick Ciani can share the credit. Montover scored Glenwood’s only first-half touchdown early in the second quarter after Ciani’s juggling interception (the first of four thrown by Panther sophomore, Mitchel Whiteside) positioned the Demons at the Delta 35. Luke Jacob’s option pitch to Drew Halsch gained 15 yards and a pass from Jacob to Austin Tribble set up Montover’s one yard TD for a 10-0 Glenwood lead with 8 minutes remaining in the half.
It was Montover’s turn for an interception on Delta’s next series, but a poor pitch and a dropped pass prevented Glenwood from capitalizing, and though Chris Ayala’s second sack of Whiteside forced the Panthers to punt, the ball caromed off a Glenwood player and was recovered by Delta at the Glenwood 40. Whiteside completed passes to Devon Ruble and his senior brother, David, to set up the sophomore QB’s one-yard plunge to shave the score to 10-7 just before halftime.
Jacob matched Whiteside with his second interception and the teams exchanged punts throughout a scoreless third quarter. But Delta put together three first downs with the help of Glenwood’s second pass interference penalty that set up a 36 yard tying field goal try by Miguel Ramirez on the first play of the final period.
JD Weeden had given Glenwood a 3-0 first-quarter lead with a 23 yard field goal at about the 3-minute mark (the scoreboard clock went out shortly after the game began — never to return), but Ramirez was victimized by one of his home field’s many muddy spots and his feet went out from under him as he attempted to plant, sending his kick low and far short of the cross bar.
Clinging to their three-point advantage, that bit of good luck was followed by another for the Demons when Jacob fumbled on the next play, but recovered the ball for a first down. However, after two more first downs, Glenwood’s season-long plague of procedure penalties continued, stalling the drive at Delta’s 40.
Then Montover changed the Demons’ fortunes for good, picking off his second interception of the game at about the Panther 25 and returning it for a touchdown with 9:18 remaining in the game. “I was mad about my mistake before and wanted to make up for it,” the senior linebacker said. With Weeden’s extra point, Glenwood upped its advantage to a much safer 17-7.
Levi Fetterhoff, who had been outleaped by Nolan Britain on a long pass play earlier, also gained a measure of redemption by batting away Whiteside’s deep pass near the end zone on the next possession, and Ciani provided another defensive exclamation when he separated Whiteside from the ball on a devastating, perfectly-timed blitz, then recovered the fumble at the Panther 14.
Jacob, whose 84-yard touchdown run in the first quarter was called back when Glenwood was flagged for a holding penalty just before he reached the end zone, scored his 11th TD of the season on the next play with 1:07 to go. As a final punctuation, Fetterhoff snared the Demons’ fourth interception on Whiteside’s final pass attempt of the game.
Jacob completed just 6 of 17 passes (all to Tribble) for 70 yards and threw two interceptions, but helped overcome Glenwood’s three-turnover, 90-yard penalty night, by rushing for 139 yards on 18 carries. The beefy Delta defense limited Halsch to just 36 yards on 11 carries, but it was enough to put him over the 1,000 yard rushing mark for the season (1,007). Whiteside was 13-of-27 for 202 yards but turned the ball over five times with the fumbled sack and four picks.
Glenwood, which had won back-to-back Western Slope titles in 2007 and 2008 before Steamboat Springs interrupted the streak by defeating the Demons in their final league game last year, can record its third undefeated WSL season in this group of seniors’ four years with a win at home versus Rifle next week — which should be enough motivation to spark the rivalry once more.
Continue reading →DELTA (10/29/10) — The Rifle-Glenwood rivalry doesn’t mean what it once did — not due to the Bears moving down to class 3A with Coal Ridge High School in most sports, but because next week’s anticipated showdown will no longer determine this season’s Western Slope League championship. The Demons (8-1, 6-0) clinched ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/29/2010)
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA TO TAKE ON THE PANTHERS. THE DEMONS COULD CLINCH THE LEAGUE TITLE TONIGHT WITH A WIN AND A RIFLE LOSS TO PALISADE AT BEAR’S STADIUM. CATCH ALL THE ACTION TONIGHT FROM DELTA ON KMTS WITH PRE-GAME COVERAGE BEGINNING AT 6:45.
IN OTHER KEY GAMES TONIGHT….COAL RIDGE TRAVELS TO BASALT, ASPEN VISITS OLATHE AND ROARING FORK HOSTS GRAND VALLEY.
Continue reading →HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL _________________________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA TO TAKE ON THE PANTHERS. THE DEMONS COULD CLINCH THE LEAGUE TITLE TONIGHT WITH A WIN AND A RIFLE LOSS TO PALISADE AT BEAR’S STADIUM. CATCH ALL THE ACTION TONIGHT FROM DELTA ON KMTS WITH ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/28/2010)
IN THE STATE 3-A HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER PLAYOFFS….
THE COAL RIDGE TITANS SHUTOUT TELLURIDE YESTERDAY IN PEACH VALLEY, 3 -ZIP. THE TITANS WILL TRAVEL TO PLAY WELD CENTRAL SATURDAY IN A SWEET 16 GAME.
BASALT BLANKED SALIDA 5-NOTHING AT HOME AND WILL HIT THE ROAD TO PLAY SAINT MARY’S ON SATURDAY.
THE ROARING FORK RAMS DEFEATED PAGOSA SPRINGS 1 TO NOTHING AND WILL BATTLE THE TOP-SEEDED LIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS CHRISTIAN.
ASPEN LOST TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY 6-NIL.
Continue reading →IN THE STATE 3-A HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER PLAYOFFS…. THE COAL RIDGE TITANS SHUTOUT TELLURIDE YESTERDAY IN PEACH VALLEY, 3 -ZIP. THE TITANS WILL TRAVEL TO PLAY WELD CENTRAL SATURDAY IN A SWEET 16 GAME. BASALT BLANKED SALIDA 5-NOTHING AT HOME AND WILL HIT THE ROAD TO PLAY SAINT MARY’S ON SATURDAY. THE ROARING FORK RAMS DEFEATED ... - State Soccer Playoffs: Coal Ridge Advances to Sweet 16
PEACH VALLEY – Coal Ridge soccer coach Brian Blair normally doesnt get too excited on the sidelines, but frequent first-half scoring opportunities that failed to add to a 1-0 lead had the coach known as “B” frustrated. “Doesnt anyone in white (the home team Titans) want to get to the ball?” he wondered on the sideline. Thirty minutes into the second half, the Titans finally got that elusive second goal and went on to defeat Telluride, 3-0, in the first round of the state 3A soccer tournament Saturday.
Coal Ridge, 15-1 on the season and seeded 12th in the 3A state tournament, had outshot 21st-seeded Telluride (7-7-1), 24-4 in the first half, yet a last second flurry by the Miners produced three of those attempts, the final try stopped by a diving Tyler Guettler in front of the Titan goal. “One mistake and were tied at half,” Blair said after the Titans finally put Telluride away for the first playoff soccer win in school history. Last season, the Titans lost to Ridgeway, 1-0, in its first state appearance.
Another one-nil loss, two weeks ago to Basalt, derailed an undefeated season and cost Coal Ridge the league title, but the Titans dominated Telluride on a field that was in good shape despite the recent wet weather. Sunny skies and a load of sand that left goalie Guettler feeling confident of his turf had the Titans excited to play their first home playoff game.
Coal Ridge dominated the ball from the opening face-off, and with 24 minutes remaining in the first 40-minute half, Carlos Rodriguez centered a ball from the left corner that Dusty Hibdon rammed off a Miner defender and into the net for the first score.
Shortly afterwards, Guettler fielded an easy roller for his first save of the contest. The Titans continued to be the aggressors and nearly scored with three minutes remaining when Eliel Ruiz fired a rebound shot that was saved by Brendan Kelley, the diving Telluride goalie.
After Guettler turned aside the late threat by the Miners before halftime, he had to field only one shot, a mild one-hopper, in the second half. Coal Ridge continued to have opportunities, but of their first eleven second-half attempts, only a free kick by Dale Bauer and a shot from the left side by Rey Chairez came close until Jorge Hernandez scored on a breakaway pass from Sam Klomhaus with nine minutes remaining. The sophomore midfielder drove in toward the goal, and when Kelley dove at him, chipped it over his head to make the score 2-0 and take the pressure off the Titans. “That (second goal) sealed the deal,” Blair said.
Coal Ridge tacked on a final goal during the stoppage time near the game’s end as Eliel Ruiz placed the ball into the far corner of the net following a pass from Carlos Rodriguez.
For the Round of 16, the Titans will travel to Keenesburg (24 miles SE of Greeley, 32 miles NE of Aurora) next Saturday to meet 5th-seeded Weld Central Rebels (13-3), who defeated Alexander Dawson (5-10-1) 5-0.
Continue reading →PEACH VALLEY – Coal Ridge soccer coach Brian Blair normally doesnt get too excited on the sidelines, but frequent first-half scoring opportunities that failed to add to a 1-0 lead had the coach known as “B” frustrated. “Doesnt anyone in white (the home team Titans) want to get to the ball?” ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/26/2010)
SOCCER
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AND COAL RIDGE. THE 12TH SEEDED TITANS HOST TELLURIDE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 3:30. NUMBER 11 BASALT WELCOMES SALIDA TO TOWN.
THE 17TH SEEDED RAMS TRAVEL TO PAGOSA SPRINGS WEDNESDAY WHILE THE 29TH SEEDED ASPEN SKIERS TRAVEL TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY.VOLLEYBALL
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HOST THE DISTRICT 6 TOURNAMENT THAT ALSO INCLUDES COAL RIDGE, LAMAR AND SALIDA. BASALT WILL TRAVEL TO SAINT MARY’S HIGH
SCHOOL FOR THE DISTRICT 8 TOURNAMENT.SOCCER ______ THE BRACKETS HAVE BEEN SET FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STATE SOCCER TOURNAMENT. FOUR LOCAL TEAMS ARE PLAYING TOMORROW IN THE 3A TOURNAMENT INCLUDING ROARING FORK, ASPEN, BASALT AND COAL RIDGE. THE 12TH SEEDED TITANS HOST TELLURIDE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 3:30. NUMBER 11 ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/25/2010)
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS BEAT THE EAGLE VALLEY DEVILS FRIDAY NIGHT 33 TO 6. GLENWOOD NOW SITS ALONE ATOP THE WESTERN SLOPE CONFERENCE WITH A 5 AND O LEAGUE RECORD THANKS TO MOFFAT COUNTY’S 21-18 OVERTIME WIN OVER RIFLE. THE DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA THIS FRIDAY NIGHT. THE BEARS HOST PALISADE.THE COAL RIDGE TITANS PULLED OFF A BIG UPSET FRIDAY NIGHT, BEATING THE NUMBER ONE ASPEN SKIERS, 27 TO 14.
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THE GLENWOOD LADY DEMONS WERE SWEPT BY DELTA SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN THE FINAL MATCH OF THE REGULAR SEASON. GLENWOOD FINISHES FIFTH IN THE LEAGUE STANDINGS AND WILL NOW PREPARE FOR THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT. THE LEAGUE CHAMPION EAGLE VALLEY DEVILS WILL HOST THE TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND.
IN 3A VOLLEYBALL, THE ROARING FORK LADY RAMS WRAPPED UP THE REGULAR SEASON WITH AN 18 AND 1 RECORD, WITH THE ONLY LOSS COMING AGAINST A NON-LEAGUE OPPONENT. ROARING FORK WILL HOST THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT THIS SATURDAY.CROSS COUNTRY
_______________THE GLENWOOD DEMONS BOY’S TEAM TOOK SECOND PLACE AT THE REGIONAL MEET WHILE THE LADY DEMONS CAPTURED FOURTH PLACE. BOTH SQUADS QUALIFIED FOR THE STATE MEET THIS SATURDAY IN
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AURORA.HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL _________________________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS BEAT THE EAGLE VALLEY DEVILS FRIDAY NIGHT 33 TO 6. GLENWOOD NOW SITS ALONE ATOP THE WESTERN SLOPE CONFERENCE WITH A 5 AND O LEAGUE RECORD THANKS TO MOFFAT COUNTY’S 21-18 OVERTIME WIN OVER RIFLE. THE DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA ...
- FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (11/08/2010)
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS EARNED THE NUMBER TWO SEED IN THE STATE AND WILL HOST THE ENGLEWOOD PIRATES THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 0’CLOCK IN A FIRST ROUND PLAYOFF GAME.IN 2A FOOTBALL, THE COAL RIDGE TITANS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. THEY’RE SEEDED 15TH AND WILL BATTLE THE SECOND SEEDED SUN DEVILS AT KENT DENVER HIGH SCHOOL SATURDAY.
THE BASALT LONGHORNS EARNED A 12TH SEED AND WILL TRAVEL TO FAITH CHRISTIAN TO PLAY THE NUMBER 5 EAGLES. THE ASPEN SKIERS GET TO STAY HOME AND HOST PLATTE VALLEY.VOLLEYBALL
_____________THE ROARING FORK RAMS TOOK SECOND PLACE OVERALL AT LAST WEEKEND’S REGIONAL TOURNAMENT AND QUALIFIED FOR THE STATE TOURNAMENT IN DENVER THIS WEEKEND. THE RAMS’ FIRST MATCH IS AGAINST EATON THIS FRIDAY MORNING AT 8 AT THE DENVER COLISEUM.
Continue reading →HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL __________________________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS EARNED THE NUMBER TWO SEED IN THE STATE AND WILL HOST THE ENGLEWOOD PIRATES THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 0’CLOCK IN A FIRST ROUND PLAYOFF GAME. IN 2A FOOTBALL, THE COAL RIDGE TITANS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. THEY’RE ... - KMTS Game of the Week: Glenwood Survives Bear Attack with Last-second Win
GLENWOOD SPRINGS (11/5/10) — In the last second of the last league game for thirteen Glenwood senior football players, the Demons trailed Rifle by five points. As the clock turned to zero, Luke Jacob faked right, went left, and “The hole opened up for me,” he said afterwards. The Glenwood quarterback danced untouched into the end zone for a 20-19 victory over Rifle, to preserve the third undefeated league season in the past four years for the Demons and propel them into the number two seeding in the 3A state playoffs.
“That’s what high school football is all about,” senior Nick Ciani, team co-captain with Jacob, said after that three-yard touchdown overcame a valiant effort by a young Bears team (with just six seniors) that has defied expectations all season, and sitting in the number 20 spot in the 3A playoff wildcard standings, had Glenwood (9-1, 7-0, and ranked second in the state by Colorado Preps) “back on our heels,” Ciani admitted.
“It was way fun, but scary,” said senior Drew Halsch, whose 6-yard TD run with time running down in the third quarter gave Glenwood its first lead of the game, 14-13 after JD Weeden booted the extra point through the uprights. That kick would turn out to be decisive, because three minutes earlier, Rifle’s Hector Ruiz had his second attempt at a PAT blocked following a penalty.
For the only time since the Montrose game that Jacob missed because of a concussion, the Demons failed to score in the first quarter, managing just one first down to four by the Bears, whose 11-play drive ended when Rigo Garcia broke up a 4th-down pass in the end zone. Rifle’s second possession was similar, going 10 plays before Chad Montover sacked Bear QB Keaton Deere on a 4th-and-6 at the GSHS 37.
The Bears forced a third consecutive Demon punt, and used nearly 6 minutes and 16 plays before sophomore Ryan Moeller covered the final 14 yards for the game’s first score. At that point, the beleaguered Demon defense had been on the field for 37 of the game’s 50 plays. Still it took an acrobatic catch by Rian Creech on 3rd-and-11, and a 4th-and-2 plunge by Moeller to keep the drive alive. Ruiz booted the extra point for a 7-0 Rifle lead with 4:22 before halftime.
Jacob surpassed Glenwood’s entire offensive output by one as he ran 20 yards on the first play after the kickoff, and Drew Halsch went 21 yards on the next play to the Bear 35. Montover covered the remaining distance on the subsequent play, but a holding penalty nullified the score. No matter, the suddenly revived Demon offense gained a first down at the 23 before freshman Henry Hill, catching just his second pass of the season at about the 10, maintained his footing to stumble in for the touchdown. Weeden’s kick with 2:25 left in the half knotted the score at 7.
Glenwood forced Rifle to punt for the first time following the second half kickoff, but fumbled the ball back to the Bears on the next play at the Demon 44. The Glenwood defense seemed to have held, until Rifle coach Damon Wells called a sweep-reverse pass, facing 4th-and-10 at the 32.
Moeller took a pitch toward the right, handed off to Taylor Webb on the reverse, and the junior lofted a pass to the wide-open Creech, who easily covered the remaining yards to put Rifle up 13-7 with 6:10 to go in the quarter. Ruiz’s extra point kick was good, but a penalty moved the ball back to the 15, and his next attempt was blocked. That miss allowed the Demons to take a 14-13 lead with a seven-play, 3:22 minute drive as Halsch and Jacob took turns consuming the entire on the ground.
Undaunted, the Bears responded, overcoming a fumble (recovered for a first down by Kyle Shaw at the RHS 39) and a procedure penalty, when Deare connected with Austin Booth for a 26 yard completion on 4th-and-6 to the Glenwood 15. The same combo moved the ball to the four, and Moeller took it in for a 19-14 Rifle lead with 9:33 to play in the game. But the officials ruled Webb’s catch of the conversion pass was trapped.
Fully untracked now, the Halsch-Jacob ground game ran up three first downs, reaching first-and-goal at the Rifle five, but Jacob was sacked to the nine and three pass attempts fell incomplete. The Bears had 6:40 to go for a spectacular upset that would insure their place in the playoffs. Moeller fumbled on their second play, but Creech recovered it, and in fighting for the ball, Glenwood was flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.
This gave the Bears new life, but for the first time all game, the Demon defense halted halted an option pitch to Moeller on third-down, Montover tackling him for no gain. Facing 4th-and-3 on their own 34, the Bears decided to punt and the ball rolled to the Glenwood 33.
Glenwood’s positioning in the state tournament, as well as the Bears’ playoff hopes, now depended on whether the Demons could go 67 yards in the 3:25 left in the game.
With 3:25 left in the final regular season football game, trailing 19-14, Glenwood Springs had to go 67 yards to remain undefeated in Western Slope play, and the Rifle Bears didn’t make it easy, as the Demons faced third down three times in the game-winning drive.
The most spectacular play came on 3rd-and-10, with 42 seconds left at the Bear 37 and Rifle mounting a full-out blitz. Luke Jacob barely managed to shovel the ball to Drew Halsch: “I wasn’t supposed to have guys in my face, and he (Halsch) made a great play,” managing to gain nine yards to the 28. On fourth-and-one, Jacob’s keeper from under center was close enough for a measurement, but ruled a first down with 17 ticks left on the clock.
Next play, Jacob found Henry Hill open in the left flat and the pass gained 20 yards to the Rifle 7. “I made the wrong read, and he made an amazing catch,” Jacob said of the freshman, making just his third varsity reception. With 5 seconds remaining, Glenwood was still saving its final time out, calling the next play while the chains were moved. Jacob tried to hit Willy Pelland crossing in front of the goal posts, but he was hit early by a Rifle defender and pass interference was called. The ball was moved half the distance to the goal as coach Rocky Whitworth called time out with the clock reading, 0:01.
Glenwood’s most effective play in the second half had been the fake to Halsch one way, with Jacob going the other. Following the time out, Jacob said, “We ran the play a little different, and they bit on the fake.” As time expired, the senior quarterback was burried by teammates in the end zone, and the Glenwood stands errupted, while Rifle players and fans, so hopeful a second earlier, stared unbelieving as the scoreboard showed the home team prevailing, 20-19.
“They fought hard,” senior co-captain Nick Ciani said, paying tribute to the Rifle effort.
“It was the last chance to play Rifle for me,” Jacob said on behalf of a group of seniors who concluded four straight wins over the Bears with back-to-back, 20-19 victories. There was no need to attempt the extra point since the clock had expired on the final play.Bear sophomore Ryan Moeller gained 118 yards on 24 carries for two touchdowns and senior quarterback Keaton Deare completed 10-of-13 passes for 120 yards. Junior Austin Booth had 5 catches for 66 yards. Jacob was 7-of-12 for 86 yards and rushed for 66 on 14 carries, leaving him four yards short of 1,000 for the season. Halsch bounced back from a sub-par game against the loaded Delta defense to lead the Bears with 77 yards on 12 carries.
The win sends Glenwood (9-1, 7-0 WSL) into the first-round of the state playoffs on an eight-game winning streak, seeded second to Elizabeth, the lone undefeated 3A team, which finished the regular season 10-0 by defeating Glenwood’s first-round opponent, Englewood 49-7, Friday. The Metro South Pirates (8-2, 4-2 and seeded 15th) won their first six games before losing 45-13 at Evergreen.
Rifle’s impressive showing was not enough to get the 20th-ranked Bears (6-4, 4-3), who lost their last three league games, into the 16-team playoffs. The only other Western Slope team to make the playoffs is 4th-seeded Palisade, which hosts Silver Creek (7-3, seeded 13th) and is on the same side of the bracket with number-one Elizabeth. The Glenwood-Englewood winner will meet the winner of Centaurus (7th, 8-2) and Lewis Palmer (10th, 8-2).
Moffat County (6-4, 5-2), was ranked 16th in the state 3A wild card standings, but trouncing winless Steamboat Springs, 42-8 wasn’t enough to make the playoffs. Delta (5-5, 3-4) was ahead of the Bears by one spot (19th), but was defeated by Palisade, 28-14.
Continue reading →GLENWOOD SPRINGS (11/5/10) — In the last second of the last league game for thirteen Glenwood senior football players, the Demons trailed Rifle by five points. As the clock turned to zero, Luke Jacob faked right, went left, and “The hole opened up for me,” he said afterwards. The Glenwood quarterback ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (11/05/2010)
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THE COAL RIDGE TITANS LOST TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY LAST NIGHT IN COLORADO SPRINGS 4 TO NOTHING. THE TITANS FINISHED THEIR BEST YEAR EVER AT 16 AND 2.
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TONIGHT, THE CURTAIN COMES DOWN ON THE 2010 REGULAR SEASON. THE 3A WESTERN SLOPE LEAGUE CHAMPION GLENWOOD DEMONS TAKE ON THE RIFLE BEARS WHO NEED TO WIN TO KEEP THEIR PLAYOFF HOPES ALIVE. KICK OFF SET FOR 7 O’CLOCK WITH PRE-GAME COVERAGE BEGINNING AT 6:45 RIGHT HERE ON KMTS.THE COAL RIDGE TITANS ARE ALSO ON THE PLAYOFF BUBBLE AND NEED TO BEAT GRAND VALLEY TONIGHT IN PARACHUTE. ROARING FORK LOOKS TO PLAY THE SPOILER TONIGHT IN ASPEN WHILE BASALT TRAVELS TO CEDAREDGE. THE PLAYOFF SEEDINGS WILL BE
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RELEASED SUNDAY.STATE 3A SOCCER __________________ THE COAL RIDGE TITANS LOST TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY LAST NIGHT IN COLORADO SPRINGS 4 TO NOTHING. THE TITANS FINISHED THEIR BEST YEAR EVER AT 16 AND 2. VOLLEYBALL _____________ THE STATE’S THIRD SEEDED ROARING FORK RAMS HOST THE REGION C TOURNAMENT TOMORROW MORNING IN CARBONDALE. THE RAMS WELCOME SAINT MARY’S, JEFFERSON ACADEMY AND ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (11/01/2010)
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SEASON FINALE.SOCCER ________ THE COAL RIDGE TITANS BEAT WELD CENTRAL 2 TO NOTHING TO ADVANCE TO THE QUARTERFINALS. THEY’LL TAKE ON THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY THIS THURSDAY. VOLLEYBALL _____________ THE DISTRICT CHAMPION ROARING FORK LADY RAMS WILL HOST THE REGIONALS THIS WEEKEND. FOOTBALL __________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS DEFEATED DELTA 24 TO 7 AND CLAIMED THE WESTERN SLOPE CROWN THANKS TO PALISADE’S ... - KMTS Game of the Week: GLENWOOD WRAPS UP LEAGUE TITLE AT DELTA, 24-7
DELTA (10/29/10) — The Rifle-Glenwood rivalry doesn’t mean what it once did — not due to the Bears moving down to class 3A with Coal Ridge High School in most sports, but because next week’s anticipated showdown will no longer determine this season’s Western Slope League championship.
The Demons (8-1, 6-0) clinched their third WSL crown in four years Friday night when an amped-up defense broke open a mistake-filled game in the fourth quarter at Delta for a 24-7 win, while 90 miles to the northeast, the Bears (6-3, 4-2) were falling 38-20 at home to Palisade. Combined with last weekend’s loss at Moffat County, Rifle can no longer catch Glenwood, even with a win over the Demons next Friday. And that circumstance would not help the Bulldogs (8-1, 6-1) either because the Demons’ 21-20 win at Palisade September 23 gave Glenwood the tiebreaker.
So, who let the air out of the regular season finale between the Bears and Demons? Among others, Chad Montover and Nick Ciani can share the credit. Montover scored Glenwood’s only first-half touchdown early in the second quarter after Ciani’s juggling interception (the first of four thrown by Panther sophomore, Mitchel Whiteside) positioned the Demons at the Delta 35. Luke Jacob’s option pitch to Drew Halsch gained 15 yards and a pass from Jacob to Austin Tribble set up Montover’s one yard TD for a 10-0 Glenwood lead with 8 minutes remaining in the half.
It was Montover’s turn for an interception on Delta’s next series, but a poor pitch and a dropped pass prevented Glenwood from capitalizing, and though Chris Ayala’s second sack of Whiteside forced the Panthers to punt, the ball caromed off a Glenwood player and was recovered by Delta at the Glenwood 40. Whiteside completed passes to Devon Ruble and his senior brother, David, to set up the sophomore QB’s one-yard plunge to shave the score to 10-7 just before halftime.
Jacob matched Whiteside with his second interception and the teams exchanged punts throughout a scoreless third quarter. But Delta put together three first downs with the help of Glenwood’s second pass interference penalty that set up a 36 yard tying field goal try by Miguel Ramirez on the first play of the final period.
JD Weeden had given Glenwood a 3-0 first-quarter lead with a 23 yard field goal at about the 3-minute mark (the scoreboard clock went out shortly after the game began — never to return), but Ramirez was victimized by one of his home field’s many muddy spots and his feet went out from under him as he attempted to plant, sending his kick low and far short of the cross bar.
Clinging to their three-point advantage, that bit of good luck was followed by another for the Demons when Jacob fumbled on the next play, but recovered the ball for a first down. However, after two more first downs, Glenwood’s season-long plague of procedure penalties continued, stalling the drive at Delta’s 40.
Then Montover changed the Demons’ fortunes for good, picking off his second interception of the game at about the Panther 25 and returning it for a touchdown with 9:18 remaining in the game. “I was mad about my mistake before and wanted to make up for it,” the senior linebacker said. With Weeden’s extra point, Glenwood upped its advantage to a much safer 17-7.
Levi Fetterhoff, who had been outleaped by Nolan Britain on a long pass play earlier, also gained a measure of redemption by batting away Whiteside’s deep pass near the end zone on the next possession, and Ciani provided another defensive exclamation when he separated Whiteside from the ball on a devastating, perfectly-timed blitz, then recovered the fumble at the Panther 14.
Jacob, whose 84-yard touchdown run in the first quarter was called back when Glenwood was flagged for a holding penalty just before he reached the end zone, scored his 11th TD of the season on the next play with 1:07 to go. As a final punctuation, Fetterhoff snared the Demons’ fourth interception on Whiteside’s final pass attempt of the game.
Jacob completed just 6 of 17 passes (all to Tribble) for 70 yards and threw two interceptions, but helped overcome Glenwood’s three-turnover, 90-yard penalty night, by rushing for 139 yards on 18 carries. The beefy Delta defense limited Halsch to just 36 yards on 11 carries, but it was enough to put him over the 1,000 yard rushing mark for the season (1,007). Whiteside was 13-of-27 for 202 yards but turned the ball over five times with the fumbled sack and four picks.
Glenwood, which had won back-to-back Western Slope titles in 2007 and 2008 before Steamboat Springs interrupted the streak by defeating the Demons in their final league game last year, can record its third undefeated WSL season in this group of seniors’ four years with a win at home versus Rifle next week — which should be enough motivation to spark the rivalry once more.
Continue reading →DELTA (10/29/10) — The Rifle-Glenwood rivalry doesn’t mean what it once did — not due to the Bears moving down to class 3A with Coal Ridge High School in most sports, but because next week’s anticipated showdown will no longer determine this season’s Western Slope League championship. The Demons (8-1, 6-0) clinched ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/29/2010)
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA TO TAKE ON THE PANTHERS. THE DEMONS COULD CLINCH THE LEAGUE TITLE TONIGHT WITH A WIN AND A RIFLE LOSS TO PALISADE AT BEAR’S STADIUM. CATCH ALL THE ACTION TONIGHT FROM DELTA ON KMTS WITH PRE-GAME COVERAGE BEGINNING AT 6:45.
IN OTHER KEY GAMES TONIGHT….COAL RIDGE TRAVELS TO BASALT, ASPEN VISITS OLATHE AND ROARING FORK HOSTS GRAND VALLEY.
Continue reading →HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL _________________________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA TO TAKE ON THE PANTHERS. THE DEMONS COULD CLINCH THE LEAGUE TITLE TONIGHT WITH A WIN AND A RIFLE LOSS TO PALISADE AT BEAR’S STADIUM. CATCH ALL THE ACTION TONIGHT FROM DELTA ON KMTS WITH ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/28/2010)
IN THE STATE 3-A HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER PLAYOFFS….
THE COAL RIDGE TITANS SHUTOUT TELLURIDE YESTERDAY IN PEACH VALLEY, 3 -ZIP. THE TITANS WILL TRAVEL TO PLAY WELD CENTRAL SATURDAY IN A SWEET 16 GAME.
BASALT BLANKED SALIDA 5-NOTHING AT HOME AND WILL HIT THE ROAD TO PLAY SAINT MARY’S ON SATURDAY.
THE ROARING FORK RAMS DEFEATED PAGOSA SPRINGS 1 TO NOTHING AND WILL BATTLE THE TOP-SEEDED LIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS CHRISTIAN.
ASPEN LOST TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY 6-NIL.
Continue reading →IN THE STATE 3-A HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER PLAYOFFS…. THE COAL RIDGE TITANS SHUTOUT TELLURIDE YESTERDAY IN PEACH VALLEY, 3 -ZIP. THE TITANS WILL TRAVEL TO PLAY WELD CENTRAL SATURDAY IN A SWEET 16 GAME. BASALT BLANKED SALIDA 5-NOTHING AT HOME AND WILL HIT THE ROAD TO PLAY SAINT MARY’S ON SATURDAY. THE ROARING FORK RAMS DEFEATED ... - State Soccer Playoffs: Coal Ridge Advances to Sweet 16
PEACH VALLEY – Coal Ridge soccer coach Brian Blair normally doesnt get too excited on the sidelines, but frequent first-half scoring opportunities that failed to add to a 1-0 lead had the coach known as “B” frustrated. “Doesnt anyone in white (the home team Titans) want to get to the ball?” he wondered on the sideline. Thirty minutes into the second half, the Titans finally got that elusive second goal and went on to defeat Telluride, 3-0, in the first round of the state 3A soccer tournament Saturday.
Coal Ridge, 15-1 on the season and seeded 12th in the 3A state tournament, had outshot 21st-seeded Telluride (7-7-1), 24-4 in the first half, yet a last second flurry by the Miners produced three of those attempts, the final try stopped by a diving Tyler Guettler in front of the Titan goal. “One mistake and were tied at half,” Blair said after the Titans finally put Telluride away for the first playoff soccer win in school history. Last season, the Titans lost to Ridgeway, 1-0, in its first state appearance.
Another one-nil loss, two weeks ago to Basalt, derailed an undefeated season and cost Coal Ridge the league title, but the Titans dominated Telluride on a field that was in good shape despite the recent wet weather. Sunny skies and a load of sand that left goalie Guettler feeling confident of his turf had the Titans excited to play their first home playoff game.
Coal Ridge dominated the ball from the opening face-off, and with 24 minutes remaining in the first 40-minute half, Carlos Rodriguez centered a ball from the left corner that Dusty Hibdon rammed off a Miner defender and into the net for the first score.
Shortly afterwards, Guettler fielded an easy roller for his first save of the contest. The Titans continued to be the aggressors and nearly scored with three minutes remaining when Eliel Ruiz fired a rebound shot that was saved by Brendan Kelley, the diving Telluride goalie.
After Guettler turned aside the late threat by the Miners before halftime, he had to field only one shot, a mild one-hopper, in the second half. Coal Ridge continued to have opportunities, but of their first eleven second-half attempts, only a free kick by Dale Bauer and a shot from the left side by Rey Chairez came close until Jorge Hernandez scored on a breakaway pass from Sam Klomhaus with nine minutes remaining. The sophomore midfielder drove in toward the goal, and when Kelley dove at him, chipped it over his head to make the score 2-0 and take the pressure off the Titans. “That (second goal) sealed the deal,” Blair said.
Coal Ridge tacked on a final goal during the stoppage time near the game’s end as Eliel Ruiz placed the ball into the far corner of the net following a pass from Carlos Rodriguez.
For the Round of 16, the Titans will travel to Keenesburg (24 miles SE of Greeley, 32 miles NE of Aurora) next Saturday to meet 5th-seeded Weld Central Rebels (13-3), who defeated Alexander Dawson (5-10-1) 5-0.
Continue reading →PEACH VALLEY – Coal Ridge soccer coach Brian Blair normally doesnt get too excited on the sidelines, but frequent first-half scoring opportunities that failed to add to a 1-0 lead had the coach known as “B” frustrated. “Doesnt anyone in white (the home team Titans) want to get to the ball?” ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/26/2010)
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AND COAL RIDGE. THE 12TH SEEDED TITANS HOST TELLURIDE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 3:30. NUMBER 11 BASALT WELCOMES SALIDA TO TOWN.
THE 17TH SEEDED RAMS TRAVEL TO PAGOSA SPRINGS WEDNESDAY WHILE THE 29TH SEEDED ASPEN SKIERS TRAVEL TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY.VOLLEYBALL
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HOST THE DISTRICT 6 TOURNAMENT THAT ALSO INCLUDES COAL RIDGE, LAMAR AND SALIDA. BASALT WILL TRAVEL TO SAINT MARY’S HIGH
SCHOOL FOR THE DISTRICT 8 TOURNAMENT.SOCCER ______ THE BRACKETS HAVE BEEN SET FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STATE SOCCER TOURNAMENT. FOUR LOCAL TEAMS ARE PLAYING TOMORROW IN THE 3A TOURNAMENT INCLUDING ROARING FORK, ASPEN, BASALT AND COAL RIDGE. THE 12TH SEEDED TITANS HOST TELLURIDE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 3:30. NUMBER 11 ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/25/2010)
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS BEAT THE EAGLE VALLEY DEVILS FRIDAY NIGHT 33 TO 6. GLENWOOD NOW SITS ALONE ATOP THE WESTERN SLOPE CONFERENCE WITH A 5 AND O LEAGUE RECORD THANKS TO MOFFAT COUNTY’S 21-18 OVERTIME WIN OVER RIFLE. THE DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA THIS FRIDAY NIGHT. THE BEARS HOST PALISADE.THE COAL RIDGE TITANS PULLED OFF A BIG UPSET FRIDAY NIGHT, BEATING THE NUMBER ONE ASPEN SKIERS, 27 TO 14.
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THE GLENWOOD LADY DEMONS WERE SWEPT BY DELTA SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN THE FINAL MATCH OF THE REGULAR SEASON. GLENWOOD FINISHES FIFTH IN THE LEAGUE STANDINGS AND WILL NOW PREPARE FOR THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT. THE LEAGUE CHAMPION EAGLE VALLEY DEVILS WILL HOST THE TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND.
IN 3A VOLLEYBALL, THE ROARING FORK LADY RAMS WRAPPED UP THE REGULAR SEASON WITH AN 18 AND 1 RECORD, WITH THE ONLY LOSS COMING AGAINST A NON-LEAGUE OPPONENT. ROARING FORK WILL HOST THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT THIS SATURDAY.CROSS COUNTRY
_______________THE GLENWOOD DEMONS BOY’S TEAM TOOK SECOND PLACE AT THE REGIONAL MEET WHILE THE LADY DEMONS CAPTURED FOURTH PLACE. BOTH SQUADS QUALIFIED FOR THE STATE MEET THIS SATURDAY IN
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AURORA.HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL _________________________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS BEAT THE EAGLE VALLEY DEVILS FRIDAY NIGHT 33 TO 6. GLENWOOD NOW SITS ALONE ATOP THE WESTERN SLOPE CONFERENCE WITH A 5 AND O LEAGUE RECORD THANKS TO MOFFAT COUNTY’S 21-18 OVERTIME WIN OVER RIFLE. THE DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA ...
- FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (11/08/2010)
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS EARNED THE NUMBER TWO SEED IN THE STATE AND WILL HOST THE ENGLEWOOD PIRATES THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 0’CLOCK IN A FIRST ROUND PLAYOFF GAME.IN 2A FOOTBALL, THE COAL RIDGE TITANS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. THEY’RE SEEDED 15TH AND WILL BATTLE THE SECOND SEEDED SUN DEVILS AT KENT DENVER HIGH SCHOOL SATURDAY.
THE BASALT LONGHORNS EARNED A 12TH SEED AND WILL TRAVEL TO FAITH CHRISTIAN TO PLAY THE NUMBER 5 EAGLES. THE ASPEN SKIERS GET TO STAY HOME AND HOST PLATTE VALLEY.VOLLEYBALL
_____________THE ROARING FORK RAMS TOOK SECOND PLACE OVERALL AT LAST WEEKEND’S REGIONAL TOURNAMENT AND QUALIFIED FOR THE STATE TOURNAMENT IN DENVER THIS WEEKEND. THE RAMS’ FIRST MATCH IS AGAINST EATON THIS FRIDAY MORNING AT 8 AT THE DENVER COLISEUM.
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS (11/5/10) — In the last second of the last league game for thirteen Glenwood senior football players, the Demons trailed Rifle by five points. As the clock turned to zero, Luke Jacob faked right, went left, and “The hole opened up for me,” he said afterwards. The Glenwood quarterback danced untouched into the end zone for a 20-19 victory over Rifle, to preserve the third undefeated league season in the past four years for the Demons and propel them into the number two seeding in the 3A state playoffs.
“That’s what high school football is all about,” senior Nick Ciani, team co-captain with Jacob, said after that three-yard touchdown overcame a valiant effort by a young Bears team (with just six seniors) that has defied expectations all season, and sitting in the number 20 spot in the 3A playoff wildcard standings, had Glenwood (9-1, 7-0, and ranked second in the state by Colorado Preps) “back on our heels,” Ciani admitted.
“It was way fun, but scary,” said senior Drew Halsch, whose 6-yard TD run with time running down in the third quarter gave Glenwood its first lead of the game, 14-13 after JD Weeden booted the extra point through the uprights. That kick would turn out to be decisive, because three minutes earlier, Rifle’s Hector Ruiz had his second attempt at a PAT blocked following a penalty.
For the only time since the Montrose game that Jacob missed because of a concussion, the Demons failed to score in the first quarter, managing just one first down to four by the Bears, whose 11-play drive ended when Rigo Garcia broke up a 4th-down pass in the end zone. Rifle’s second possession was similar, going 10 plays before Chad Montover sacked Bear QB Keaton Deere on a 4th-and-6 at the GSHS 37.
The Bears forced a third consecutive Demon punt, and used nearly 6 minutes and 16 plays before sophomore Ryan Moeller covered the final 14 yards for the game’s first score. At that point, the beleaguered Demon defense had been on the field for 37 of the game’s 50 plays. Still it took an acrobatic catch by Rian Creech on 3rd-and-11, and a 4th-and-2 plunge by Moeller to keep the drive alive. Ruiz booted the extra point for a 7-0 Rifle lead with 4:22 before halftime.
Jacob surpassed Glenwood’s entire offensive output by one as he ran 20 yards on the first play after the kickoff, and Drew Halsch went 21 yards on the next play to the Bear 35. Montover covered the remaining distance on the subsequent play, but a holding penalty nullified the score. No matter, the suddenly revived Demon offense gained a first down at the 23 before freshman Henry Hill, catching just his second pass of the season at about the 10, maintained his footing to stumble in for the touchdown. Weeden’s kick with 2:25 left in the half knotted the score at 7.
Glenwood forced Rifle to punt for the first time following the second half kickoff, but fumbled the ball back to the Bears on the next play at the Demon 44. The Glenwood defense seemed to have held, until Rifle coach Damon Wells called a sweep-reverse pass, facing 4th-and-10 at the 32.
Moeller took a pitch toward the right, handed off to Taylor Webb on the reverse, and the junior lofted a pass to the wide-open Creech, who easily covered the remaining yards to put Rifle up 13-7 with 6:10 to go in the quarter. Ruiz’s extra point kick was good, but a penalty moved the ball back to the 15, and his next attempt was blocked. That miss allowed the Demons to take a 14-13 lead with a seven-play, 3:22 minute drive as Halsch and Jacob took turns consuming the entire on the ground.
Undaunted, the Bears responded, overcoming a fumble (recovered for a first down by Kyle Shaw at the RHS 39) and a procedure penalty, when Deare connected with Austin Booth for a 26 yard completion on 4th-and-6 to the Glenwood 15. The same combo moved the ball to the four, and Moeller took it in for a 19-14 Rifle lead with 9:33 to play in the game. But the officials ruled Webb’s catch of the conversion pass was trapped.
Fully untracked now, the Halsch-Jacob ground game ran up three first downs, reaching first-and-goal at the Rifle five, but Jacob was sacked to the nine and three pass attempts fell incomplete. The Bears had 6:40 to go for a spectacular upset that would insure their place in the playoffs. Moeller fumbled on their second play, but Creech recovered it, and in fighting for the ball, Glenwood was flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.
This gave the Bears new life, but for the first time all game, the Demon defense halted halted an option pitch to Moeller on third-down, Montover tackling him for no gain. Facing 4th-and-3 on their own 34, the Bears decided to punt and the ball rolled to the Glenwood 33.
Glenwood’s positioning in the state tournament, as well as the Bears’ playoff hopes, now depended on whether the Demons could go 67 yards in the 3:25 left in the game.
With 3:25 left in the final regular season football game, trailing 19-14, Glenwood Springs had to go 67 yards to remain undefeated in Western Slope play, and the Rifle Bears didn’t make it easy, as the Demons faced third down three times in the game-winning drive.
The most spectacular play came on 3rd-and-10, with 42 seconds left at the Bear 37 and Rifle mounting a full-out blitz. Luke Jacob barely managed to shovel the ball to Drew Halsch: “I wasn’t supposed to have guys in my face, and he (Halsch) made a great play,” managing to gain nine yards to the 28. On fourth-and-one, Jacob’s keeper from under center was close enough for a measurement, but ruled a first down with 17 ticks left on the clock.
Next play, Jacob found Henry Hill open in the left flat and the pass gained 20 yards to the Rifle 7. “I made the wrong read, and he made an amazing catch,” Jacob said of the freshman, making just his third varsity reception. With 5 seconds remaining, Glenwood was still saving its final time out, calling the next play while the chains were moved. Jacob tried to hit Willy Pelland crossing in front of the goal posts, but he was hit early by a Rifle defender and pass interference was called. The ball was moved half the distance to the goal as coach Rocky Whitworth called time out with the clock reading, 0:01.
Glenwood’s most effective play in the second half had been the fake to Halsch one way, with Jacob going the other. Following the time out, Jacob said, “We ran the play a little different, and they bit on the fake.” As time expired, the senior quarterback was burried by teammates in the end zone, and the Glenwood stands errupted, while Rifle players and fans, so hopeful a second earlier, stared unbelieving as the scoreboard showed the home team prevailing, 20-19.
“They fought hard,” senior co-captain Nick Ciani said, paying tribute to the Rifle effort.
“It was the last chance to play Rifle for me,” Jacob said on behalf of a group of seniors who concluded four straight wins over the Bears with back-to-back, 20-19 victories. There was no need to attempt the extra point since the clock had expired on the final play.Bear sophomore Ryan Moeller gained 118 yards on 24 carries for two touchdowns and senior quarterback Keaton Deare completed 10-of-13 passes for 120 yards. Junior Austin Booth had 5 catches for 66 yards. Jacob was 7-of-12 for 86 yards and rushed for 66 on 14 carries, leaving him four yards short of 1,000 for the season. Halsch bounced back from a sub-par game against the loaded Delta defense to lead the Bears with 77 yards on 12 carries.
The win sends Glenwood (9-1, 7-0 WSL) into the first-round of the state playoffs on an eight-game winning streak, seeded second to Elizabeth, the lone undefeated 3A team, which finished the regular season 10-0 by defeating Glenwood’s first-round opponent, Englewood 49-7, Friday. The Metro South Pirates (8-2, 4-2 and seeded 15th) won their first six games before losing 45-13 at Evergreen.
Rifle’s impressive showing was not enough to get the 20th-ranked Bears (6-4, 4-3), who lost their last three league games, into the 16-team playoffs. The only other Western Slope team to make the playoffs is 4th-seeded Palisade, which hosts Silver Creek (7-3, seeded 13th) and is on the same side of the bracket with number-one Elizabeth. The Glenwood-Englewood winner will meet the winner of Centaurus (7th, 8-2) and Lewis Palmer (10th, 8-2).
Moffat County (6-4, 5-2), was ranked 16th in the state 3A wild card standings, but trouncing winless Steamboat Springs, 42-8 wasn’t enough to make the playoffs. Delta (5-5, 3-4) was ahead of the Bears by one spot (19th), but was defeated by Palisade, 28-14.
Continue reading →GLENWOOD SPRINGS (11/5/10) — In the last second of the last league game for thirteen Glenwood senior football players, the Demons trailed Rifle by five points. As the clock turned to zero, Luke Jacob faked right, went left, and “The hole opened up for me,” he said afterwards. The Glenwood quarterback ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (11/05/2010)
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THE COAL RIDGE TITANS LOST TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY LAST NIGHT IN COLORADO SPRINGS 4 TO NOTHING. THE TITANS FINISHED THEIR BEST YEAR EVER AT 16 AND 2.
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_____________THE STATE’S THIRD SEEDED ROARING FORK RAMS HOST THE REGION C TOURNAMENT TOMORROW MORNING IN CARBONDALE. THE RAMS WELCOME SAINT MARY’S, JEFFERSON ACADEMY AND COLORADO ACADEMY.
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TONIGHT, THE CURTAIN COMES DOWN ON THE 2010 REGULAR SEASON. THE 3A WESTERN SLOPE LEAGUE CHAMPION GLENWOOD DEMONS TAKE ON THE RIFLE BEARS WHO NEED TO WIN TO KEEP THEIR PLAYOFF HOPES ALIVE. KICK OFF SET FOR 7 O’CLOCK WITH PRE-GAME COVERAGE BEGINNING AT 6:45 RIGHT HERE ON KMTS.THE COAL RIDGE TITANS ARE ALSO ON THE PLAYOFF BUBBLE AND NEED TO BEAT GRAND VALLEY TONIGHT IN PARACHUTE. ROARING FORK LOOKS TO PLAY THE SPOILER TONIGHT IN ASPEN WHILE BASALT TRAVELS TO CEDAREDGE. THE PLAYOFF SEEDINGS WILL BE
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RELEASED SUNDAY.STATE 3A SOCCER __________________ THE COAL RIDGE TITANS LOST TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY LAST NIGHT IN COLORADO SPRINGS 4 TO NOTHING. THE TITANS FINISHED THEIR BEST YEAR EVER AT 16 AND 2. VOLLEYBALL _____________ THE STATE’S THIRD SEEDED ROARING FORK RAMS HOST THE REGION C TOURNAMENT TOMORROW MORNING IN CARBONDALE. THE RAMS WELCOME SAINT MARY’S, JEFFERSON ACADEMY AND ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (11/01/2010)
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THE COAL RIDGE TITANS BEAT WELD CENTRAL 2 TO NOTHING TO ADVANCE TO THE QUARTERFINALS. THEY’LL TAKE ON THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY THIS THURSDAY.
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THE DISTRICT CHAMPION ROARING FORK LADY RAMS WILL HOST THE REGIONALS THIS WEEKEND.
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS DEFEATED DELTA 24 TO 7 AND CLAIMED THE WESTERN SLOPE CROWN THANKS TO PALISADE’S WIN OVER RIFLE. THE DEMONS TAKE ON RIFLE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE REGULAR
SEASON FINALE.SOCCER ________ THE COAL RIDGE TITANS BEAT WELD CENTRAL 2 TO NOTHING TO ADVANCE TO THE QUARTERFINALS. THEY’LL TAKE ON THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY THIS THURSDAY. VOLLEYBALL _____________ THE DISTRICT CHAMPION ROARING FORK LADY RAMS WILL HOST THE REGIONALS THIS WEEKEND. FOOTBALL __________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS DEFEATED DELTA 24 TO 7 AND CLAIMED THE WESTERN SLOPE CROWN THANKS TO PALISADE’S ... - KMTS Game of the Week: GLENWOOD WRAPS UP LEAGUE TITLE AT DELTA, 24-7
DELTA (10/29/10) — The Rifle-Glenwood rivalry doesn’t mean what it once did — not due to the Bears moving down to class 3A with Coal Ridge High School in most sports, but because next week’s anticipated showdown will no longer determine this season’s Western Slope League championship.
The Demons (8-1, 6-0) clinched their third WSL crown in four years Friday night when an amped-up defense broke open a mistake-filled game in the fourth quarter at Delta for a 24-7 win, while 90 miles to the northeast, the Bears (6-3, 4-2) were falling 38-20 at home to Palisade. Combined with last weekend’s loss at Moffat County, Rifle can no longer catch Glenwood, even with a win over the Demons next Friday. And that circumstance would not help the Bulldogs (8-1, 6-1) either because the Demons’ 21-20 win at Palisade September 23 gave Glenwood the tiebreaker.
So, who let the air out of the regular season finale between the Bears and Demons? Among others, Chad Montover and Nick Ciani can share the credit. Montover scored Glenwood’s only first-half touchdown early in the second quarter after Ciani’s juggling interception (the first of four thrown by Panther sophomore, Mitchel Whiteside) positioned the Demons at the Delta 35. Luke Jacob’s option pitch to Drew Halsch gained 15 yards and a pass from Jacob to Austin Tribble set up Montover’s one yard TD for a 10-0 Glenwood lead with 8 minutes remaining in the half.
It was Montover’s turn for an interception on Delta’s next series, but a poor pitch and a dropped pass prevented Glenwood from capitalizing, and though Chris Ayala’s second sack of Whiteside forced the Panthers to punt, the ball caromed off a Glenwood player and was recovered by Delta at the Glenwood 40. Whiteside completed passes to Devon Ruble and his senior brother, David, to set up the sophomore QB’s one-yard plunge to shave the score to 10-7 just before halftime.
Jacob matched Whiteside with his second interception and the teams exchanged punts throughout a scoreless third quarter. But Delta put together three first downs with the help of Glenwood’s second pass interference penalty that set up a 36 yard tying field goal try by Miguel Ramirez on the first play of the final period.
JD Weeden had given Glenwood a 3-0 first-quarter lead with a 23 yard field goal at about the 3-minute mark (the scoreboard clock went out shortly after the game began — never to return), but Ramirez was victimized by one of his home field’s many muddy spots and his feet went out from under him as he attempted to plant, sending his kick low and far short of the cross bar.
Clinging to their three-point advantage, that bit of good luck was followed by another for the Demons when Jacob fumbled on the next play, but recovered the ball for a first down. However, after two more first downs, Glenwood’s season-long plague of procedure penalties continued, stalling the drive at Delta’s 40.
Then Montover changed the Demons’ fortunes for good, picking off his second interception of the game at about the Panther 25 and returning it for a touchdown with 9:18 remaining in the game. “I was mad about my mistake before and wanted to make up for it,” the senior linebacker said. With Weeden’s extra point, Glenwood upped its advantage to a much safer 17-7.
Levi Fetterhoff, who had been outleaped by Nolan Britain on a long pass play earlier, also gained a measure of redemption by batting away Whiteside’s deep pass near the end zone on the next possession, and Ciani provided another defensive exclamation when he separated Whiteside from the ball on a devastating, perfectly-timed blitz, then recovered the fumble at the Panther 14.
Jacob, whose 84-yard touchdown run in the first quarter was called back when Glenwood was flagged for a holding penalty just before he reached the end zone, scored his 11th TD of the season on the next play with 1:07 to go. As a final punctuation, Fetterhoff snared the Demons’ fourth interception on Whiteside’s final pass attempt of the game.
Jacob completed just 6 of 17 passes (all to Tribble) for 70 yards and threw two interceptions, but helped overcome Glenwood’s three-turnover, 90-yard penalty night, by rushing for 139 yards on 18 carries. The beefy Delta defense limited Halsch to just 36 yards on 11 carries, but it was enough to put him over the 1,000 yard rushing mark for the season (1,007). Whiteside was 13-of-27 for 202 yards but turned the ball over five times with the fumbled sack and four picks.
Glenwood, which had won back-to-back Western Slope titles in 2007 and 2008 before Steamboat Springs interrupted the streak by defeating the Demons in their final league game last year, can record its third undefeated WSL season in this group of seniors’ four years with a win at home versus Rifle next week — which should be enough motivation to spark the rivalry once more.
Continue reading →DELTA (10/29/10) — The Rifle-Glenwood rivalry doesn’t mean what it once did — not due to the Bears moving down to class 3A with Coal Ridge High School in most sports, but because next week’s anticipated showdown will no longer determine this season’s Western Slope League championship. The Demons (8-1, 6-0) clinched ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/29/2010)
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA TO TAKE ON THE PANTHERS. THE DEMONS COULD CLINCH THE LEAGUE TITLE TONIGHT WITH A WIN AND A RIFLE LOSS TO PALISADE AT BEAR’S STADIUM. CATCH ALL THE ACTION TONIGHT FROM DELTA ON KMTS WITH PRE-GAME COVERAGE BEGINNING AT 6:45.
IN OTHER KEY GAMES TONIGHT….COAL RIDGE TRAVELS TO BASALT, ASPEN VISITS OLATHE AND ROARING FORK HOSTS GRAND VALLEY.
Continue reading →HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL _________________________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA TO TAKE ON THE PANTHERS. THE DEMONS COULD CLINCH THE LEAGUE TITLE TONIGHT WITH A WIN AND A RIFLE LOSS TO PALISADE AT BEAR’S STADIUM. CATCH ALL THE ACTION TONIGHT FROM DELTA ON KMTS WITH ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/28/2010)
IN THE STATE 3-A HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER PLAYOFFS….
THE COAL RIDGE TITANS SHUTOUT TELLURIDE YESTERDAY IN PEACH VALLEY, 3 -ZIP. THE TITANS WILL TRAVEL TO PLAY WELD CENTRAL SATURDAY IN A SWEET 16 GAME.
BASALT BLANKED SALIDA 5-NOTHING AT HOME AND WILL HIT THE ROAD TO PLAY SAINT MARY’S ON SATURDAY.
THE ROARING FORK RAMS DEFEATED PAGOSA SPRINGS 1 TO NOTHING AND WILL BATTLE THE TOP-SEEDED LIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS CHRISTIAN.
ASPEN LOST TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY 6-NIL.
Continue reading →IN THE STATE 3-A HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER PLAYOFFS…. THE COAL RIDGE TITANS SHUTOUT TELLURIDE YESTERDAY IN PEACH VALLEY, 3 -ZIP. THE TITANS WILL TRAVEL TO PLAY WELD CENTRAL SATURDAY IN A SWEET 16 GAME. BASALT BLANKED SALIDA 5-NOTHING AT HOME AND WILL HIT THE ROAD TO PLAY SAINT MARY’S ON SATURDAY. THE ROARING FORK RAMS DEFEATED ... - State Soccer Playoffs: Coal Ridge Advances to Sweet 16
PEACH VALLEY – Coal Ridge soccer coach Brian Blair normally doesnt get too excited on the sidelines, but frequent first-half scoring opportunities that failed to add to a 1-0 lead had the coach known as “B” frustrated. “Doesnt anyone in white (the home team Titans) want to get to the ball?” he wondered on the sideline. Thirty minutes into the second half, the Titans finally got that elusive second goal and went on to defeat Telluride, 3-0, in the first round of the state 3A soccer tournament Saturday.
Coal Ridge, 15-1 on the season and seeded 12th in the 3A state tournament, had outshot 21st-seeded Telluride (7-7-1), 24-4 in the first half, yet a last second flurry by the Miners produced three of those attempts, the final try stopped by a diving Tyler Guettler in front of the Titan goal. “One mistake and were tied at half,” Blair said after the Titans finally put Telluride away for the first playoff soccer win in school history. Last season, the Titans lost to Ridgeway, 1-0, in its first state appearance.
Another one-nil loss, two weeks ago to Basalt, derailed an undefeated season and cost Coal Ridge the league title, but the Titans dominated Telluride on a field that was in good shape despite the recent wet weather. Sunny skies and a load of sand that left goalie Guettler feeling confident of his turf had the Titans excited to play their first home playoff game.
Coal Ridge dominated the ball from the opening face-off, and with 24 minutes remaining in the first 40-minute half, Carlos Rodriguez centered a ball from the left corner that Dusty Hibdon rammed off a Miner defender and into the net for the first score.
Shortly afterwards, Guettler fielded an easy roller for his first save of the contest. The Titans continued to be the aggressors and nearly scored with three minutes remaining when Eliel Ruiz fired a rebound shot that was saved by Brendan Kelley, the diving Telluride goalie.
After Guettler turned aside the late threat by the Miners before halftime, he had to field only one shot, a mild one-hopper, in the second half. Coal Ridge continued to have opportunities, but of their first eleven second-half attempts, only a free kick by Dale Bauer and a shot from the left side by Rey Chairez came close until Jorge Hernandez scored on a breakaway pass from Sam Klomhaus with nine minutes remaining. The sophomore midfielder drove in toward the goal, and when Kelley dove at him, chipped it over his head to make the score 2-0 and take the pressure off the Titans. “That (second goal) sealed the deal,” Blair said.
Coal Ridge tacked on a final goal during the stoppage time near the game’s end as Eliel Ruiz placed the ball into the far corner of the net following a pass from Carlos Rodriguez.
For the Round of 16, the Titans will travel to Keenesburg (24 miles SE of Greeley, 32 miles NE of Aurora) next Saturday to meet 5th-seeded Weld Central Rebels (13-3), who defeated Alexander Dawson (5-10-1) 5-0.
Continue reading →PEACH VALLEY – Coal Ridge soccer coach Brian Blair normally doesnt get too excited on the sidelines, but frequent first-half scoring opportunities that failed to add to a 1-0 lead had the coach known as “B” frustrated. “Doesnt anyone in white (the home team Titans) want to get to the ball?” ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/26/2010)
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AND COAL RIDGE. THE 12TH SEEDED TITANS HOST TELLURIDE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 3:30. NUMBER 11 BASALT WELCOMES SALIDA TO TOWN.
THE 17TH SEEDED RAMS TRAVEL TO PAGOSA SPRINGS WEDNESDAY WHILE THE 29TH SEEDED ASPEN SKIERS TRAVEL TO THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY.VOLLEYBALL
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HOST THE DISTRICT 6 TOURNAMENT THAT ALSO INCLUDES COAL RIDGE, LAMAR AND SALIDA. BASALT WILL TRAVEL TO SAINT MARY’S HIGH
SCHOOL FOR THE DISTRICT 8 TOURNAMENT.SOCCER ______ THE BRACKETS HAVE BEEN SET FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STATE SOCCER TOURNAMENT. FOUR LOCAL TEAMS ARE PLAYING TOMORROW IN THE 3A TOURNAMENT INCLUDING ROARING FORK, ASPEN, BASALT AND COAL RIDGE. THE 12TH SEEDED TITANS HOST TELLURIDE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 3:30. NUMBER 11 ... - FROM THE KMTS SPORTS DESK… (10/25/2010)
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THE GLENWOOD DEMONS BEAT THE EAGLE VALLEY DEVILS FRIDAY NIGHT 33 TO 6. GLENWOOD NOW SITS ALONE ATOP THE WESTERN SLOPE CONFERENCE WITH A 5 AND O LEAGUE RECORD THANKS TO MOFFAT COUNTY’S 21-18 OVERTIME WIN OVER RIFLE. THE DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA THIS FRIDAY NIGHT. THE BEARS HOST PALISADE.THE COAL RIDGE TITANS PULLED OFF A BIG UPSET FRIDAY NIGHT, BEATING THE NUMBER ONE ASPEN SKIERS, 27 TO 14.
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THE GLENWOOD LADY DEMONS WERE SWEPT BY DELTA SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN THE FINAL MATCH OF THE REGULAR SEASON. GLENWOOD FINISHES FIFTH IN THE LEAGUE STANDINGS AND WILL NOW PREPARE FOR THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT. THE LEAGUE CHAMPION EAGLE VALLEY DEVILS WILL HOST THE TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND.
IN 3A VOLLEYBALL, THE ROARING FORK LADY RAMS WRAPPED UP THE REGULAR SEASON WITH AN 18 AND 1 RECORD, WITH THE ONLY LOSS COMING AGAINST A NON-LEAGUE OPPONENT. ROARING FORK WILL HOST THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT THIS SATURDAY.CROSS COUNTRY
_______________THE GLENWOOD DEMONS BOY’S TEAM TOOK SECOND PLACE AT THE REGIONAL MEET WHILE THE LADY DEMONS CAPTURED FOURTH PLACE. BOTH SQUADS QUALIFIED FOR THE STATE MEET THIS SATURDAY IN
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AURORA.HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL _________________________ THE GLENWOOD DEMONS BEAT THE EAGLE VALLEY DEVILS FRIDAY NIGHT 33 TO 6. GLENWOOD NOW SITS ALONE ATOP THE WESTERN SLOPE CONFERENCE WITH A 5 AND O LEAGUE RECORD THANKS TO MOFFAT COUNTY’S 21-18 OVERTIME WIN OVER RIFLE. THE DEMONS TRAVEL TO DELTA ...
