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LAKEWOOD – As Noah Gabel turned on the jets to reclaim the lead for Vista Ridge on the 1,600-meter relay, his three teammates could sense victory as they urged the senior to the finish line. Gabel, along with fellow seniors Aaron Johnson, Pierre Copeland and Darrian Morgan, then celebrated in earnest once the clock showed the Wolve

PARKER • Soccer is a game of grace and finesse. Or at least it should be. During a decade of watching Colorado high school girls’ soccer, I’ve seen a variety of questionable tactics. Well, actually, the tactics sometimes travel beyond questionable into the realm of flat-out dirty. That’s why I was happy to

LAKEWOOD • The only time Coronado standout Bailey Roth struggled at the state track meet was climbing to the top of the nine-step podium Saturday. Fighting to stay upright after his 4-minute, 18-second win in the 4A state championship 1,600 meters, Roth joined Discovery Canyon big man Jackson Spalding and Cañon City speedster

PARKER • Two first-half penalty kicks were too much for Palmer Ridge to overcome in its 4A state semifinal soccer struggle with Broomfield. The Bears lost, 2-1, Saturday. The second penalty kick baffled Palmer Ridge coach Nick Odil. The goal came after a hand ball on Cydney Skinner. “It was real iffy,” Odil said.

DENVER • More than once, The Classical Academy’s season flashed before its eyes. And that was just in the final 2 minutes. Ultimately, the top-seeded Titans survived a rare deficit and two late breakaway chances for Colorado Academy star Marin McCoy to prevail 2-1 on Meghan Troupe’s overtime goal Saturday, capping a jour

AURORA - No matter how many times Cañon City tried to rally, Northridge kept its lead. And by the time the No. 4 Tigers’ bats got hot, the score was well out of reach. Cañon City scored five times in the bottom of the seventh, yet No. 8 Northridge still won 14-8 on Saturday at Cherokee Trail High School to eliminate C

NIWOT - A school record-setting season came to a sudden end for Peyton baseball. No. 4 seed Lutheran of Parker took advantage of four Panthers errors to score 11 runs in the first inning en route to a 14-1 mercy-rule victory in the regional semifinals of the 2A state tournament. “That was unfortunate,” Peyton coach Ke

DENVER • Air Academy’s boys’ lacrosse team only lost twice this season, and it happened against the best 4A team in the state both times. Wheat Ridge defeated the Kadets for the second time in 2013 with a 14-2 rout in the 4A state championship game Saturday at Sports Authority Field. While Wheat Ridge (15-4) won

THORNTON • Air Academy capped its second straight 4A boys’ swimming state title with an exclamation point Saturday. Senior Devon Davis, chosen as the 4A Swimmer of the Year after the meet, anchored the winning 400-yard freestyle relay for the Kadets in his final high school swim to help give Air Academy a wide final margin. Th

Coronado sets relay state record Coronado’s 200 freestyle relay team of Kyle Allison, Bryan Rossmanith, Eric Albers and Danny Kay set a 4A state record en route to the state crown with a time of 1 minutes, 26.66 seconds. That was nearly a second faster than the previous mark and helped propel the Cougars to a third-place tea

DENVER – Down by three goals to Air Academy just six minutes into Saturday’s state girls’ lacrosse semifinal, Cherry Creek knew it had been there before. With a quick comeback and a dominating goaltending performance, the No. 3 Bruins rallied past No. 2 Air Academy 13-9 at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium at the University

TCA defends boys’ and girls’ crowns The Classical Academy went about its business in two entirely different ways the past three days at the state track and field meet at Jeffco Stadium. But both the boys’ and girls’ teams arrived at the same goal of repeating as 3A state champions. The girls

LAKEWOOD • By the slimmest of margins, by the hair in your soup, by a blink; there were those who stood atop the podium and those who were slumped over in defeat at the state track and field championships. Friday, Lewis-Palmer’s 800 medley relay clipped Harrison by a fraction of a second for the 4A state record and title, whil

LAKEWOOD • Please forgive Rajon O’Quinn if her mind wanders, if it seems she is lost in thought about something else. She probably is. Ballet is first and foremost on her mind. Schoolwork, track and field, basketball — these are simply the means to an end. “If I could do anything, it would be dance,

LAKEWOOD – Colt Sessions had a confession to make. The sound of a pop coming from his left ankle after a failed running front flip two months ago sent tremors through the defending 4A state high jumping champion. “I was goofing off,” Sessions said. “I had done it before, and I debated whether I should lie about it

THORNTON • Discovery Canyon coach Terre Christensen was brought to tears midway through the boys’ 4A state swimming and diving championships Friday. Thunder swimmers set school records in all three relays at the Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center and took six spots in the finals of the individual events, much to Christensen&rsq

LAKEWOOD - Two batters in and Cañon City knew it was going to be a long day. Casey Dunlap, the second batter of the game, stroked the first of his two, two-run home runs and No. 5 Durango knocked off the No. 4 Tigers 19-5 in five innings in the double-elimination 4A state tournament Friday at All-Star Park in Lakewood. Dun

Lewis-Palmer sets school records at 5A prelims At Grand Junction: With state records falling by the wayside, Lewis-Palmer swimmers caught the momentum and rode it to several school records at Mesa State on Friday. Michael Havenar shattered the school record by 9 seconds in the 500 free

LAKEWOOD - Coronado's Bailey Roth never runs with a watch. He isn't concerned about times. But in the 3,200-meter race at the Colorado track and field championships, his time of 9 minutes, 26 seconds was the best. "I wasn't worried about times. I never am," said Roth, who moved to Colorado Springs from Georgia at the

BOYS’ SWIMMING 5A preliminaries At Grand Junction: With state records falling by the wayside, Lewis-Palmer swimmers caught the momentum and rode it to several school records at Mesa State on Friday. Michael Havenar shattered the school record by 9 seconds in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4 minutes,

The experience of competing at the state track and field meet, which can be overwhelming for some, didn’t stop Palmer sophomore Ryan Becker, Discovery Canyon junior Jackson Spalding or Ellicott senior Alex Hill from winning individual titles in their first appearances. Becker, a high jumper, cleared 6 feet, 5 inches on his first at

LAKEWOOD – Tucker Hamilton had much more to think about Thursday than just his 5A 3,200-meter final at the state track and field championships at Jeffco Stadium. As it turns out, he takes his schoolwork just as seriously as his running. While he’s pretty good at both, chances are the Rampart senior won’t earn a state ch

Josh Day had a pretty good idea that the boys’ swimming team at Lewis-Palmer would be pretty good when the program got off the ground in 2005. Day, now a second-year assistant coach for the Rangers, departed the program upon graduation in 2008, his team on a 33-match dual winning streak. He left, then came back. Guess what?

Fountain Valley’s hockey team will play an independent prep school schedule beginning next season, the school announced Thursday. The planned move is the culmination of a strategic plan that began when the Danes brought back hockey in 2007 after a 19-year hiatus. “We hired Mike Payne to lead the hockey program six years ago,

The Classical Academy’s jacked up student section was already rushing the field before senior Joanie Jacks' euphoric, game-winning penalty kick sailed into the top left corner 6 minutes into the first overtime of Wednesday’s 3A girls’ soccer state quarterfinal game. Once Jacks' foot left the rain-glistened ball, her tea