Delta coaches Luis Meza, center, and Clayton Curtis congratulate 152-pound senior Hunter Brasfield after an upset win sent him into the 4A Region 4 semifinals.
Hotchkiss senior Joe Boyle controls Ruben Chagoya of Basalt to win a 3A Region 1 title. He is one of 7 Hotchkiss state qualifiers.
Hotchkiss and Paonia boys will square off this week on the basketball courts. Both are 6-4 in league play.
Delta senior Brooke Taylor scores two of her 12 points against Summit after grabbing an offensive rebound.
Paonia 195-pounder Tyler “TK” Kendall sets Rangely’s Drew Collins up for a pin.
Paonia freshman Bo Pipher sets TJ Richard of North Park up for a pin in Saturday’s regional semifinal round. He is one of 13 Paonia wrestlers headed to state!
Surrounded by coaches and his dad, Conner Beard signs Letter of Intent to play football for the University of Nebraska Kearney.
Hotchkiss' Jacobe Galley signed a Letter of Intent to play football and study engineering at Colorado Mesa University.
Hotchkiss senior Cody Bartlett signed his National Letter of Intent to run cross-country for Hawaii Pacific University.
Photo by Tamie Meck Cedaredge freshman Austin Todd (left) faces No. 2-ranked senior Cameron Ham of Custer County in the 106-pound championship round of the Screaming Eagle tournament.Cedaredge placed five wrestlers and scored 94 points to place seventh at the 16-team Paonia Screaming Eagle tournament. The Bruins, as well as some of the 16 other teams, brought their varsity squad and several junior varsity team members to the tournament.
Bruin 106-pound freshman Austin Todd placed second. Todd lost his third match of the season when he went up against undefeated Cameron Ham of Custer County in the championship round. Todd scored an escape with 49 seconds remaining in the first period, and trailed 2-1 at the end of the first period.
Ham opened the second period with an escape, and led 6-1 after scoring a three-point near fall to end the second period. Ham, who has won 10 of his 14 matches by pin, was unable to get the best of Todd, and won by a 10-1 decision.
Todd pinned seventh-ranked Colin Hobbs of Dove Creek to advance to the championship match.
At 195 pounds, Alejandro Alejandre was 3-1 for the tournament, winning by a 5-1 decision over Manny Pedigo of Custer County to place third.
Heavyweight sophomore Tim Montano pinned Nucla's Raphael Spencer in 41 seconds to place third.
Brian Leahy placed fifth at 170 pounds after pinning Blaine Mickey of Ignacio in 1:25.
Peter Williamson was 3-2 for the tournament. Williamson (11-6, 132 pounds) pinned wrestlers from Paonia, Custer County and Ignacio and lost by technical fall to tournament champion Cole Baughman of Dove Creek. Williamson forfeited the fifth-place match due to the rule allowing wrestlers to compete in five matches in a day.
The Bruins won two duals at Friday night's Paonia Duals, defeating Dolores/Norwood, 66-12, and Ignacio 66-6. Cedaredge will host the 3A Western Slope Duals on Friday, Feb. 8.
