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Today's Sports

  • Camp offers youths the game’s...

    IDAHO SPRINGS — This past spring was Lucas Gerding’s first year of playing baseball. The 12-year-old novice has barely gotten his feet wet with the game. So when his coaches recommended that he attend the four-day Mark Drury Baseball Camp last week, he jumped at the opportunity.

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  • Family comes first for Gillen

    It’s Father’s Day, and it’s everything that 43-year-old Brian Gillen could ask for.

    With his family in attendance, the veteran tie-down roper sits atop his wife’s horse, Zaney, and shoots out of the gate in pursuit of the runaway calf. Unfortunately, this time, at the El Pinal Rodeo Arena as part of the 47th annual Evergreen Rodeo, he couldn’t catch up. Though the end result isn’t what any rider hopes for, the sheer excitement of the competition is well worth it, Gillen said.

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  • Ally Huff

     Ally Huff, as a freshman, was just learning to play the game. As a sophomore and junior, Huff’s confidence was building as she understood what she needed to do on the court and the playing field. This past year, as a senior, she exploded as a leader, even if her game statistics didn’t always show that.

    Huff was a first-team 3A Frontier League all-conference selection in volleyball, basketball and soccer, and for a second consecutive year she has been named the 2012-13 Clear Creek Courant Female Athlete of the Year.

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  • Tevin Lucas

     When you’re the best player for multiple teams, it’s a bit of a no-brainer you’ll be the Male Athlete of the Year. After excelling in three different sports, Tevin Lucas earned that honor from the Clear Creek Courant. 

    Lucas led the Clear Creek football team in touchdowns, the basketball team in points per game, and was a league champion and a state qualifier for the track and field team.  

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  • Mark Ackerman

     The early-season schedule didn’t provide much of an indication of just how well Mark Ackerman’s girls basketball team played during the 2012-13 season. After all, Clear Creek started out 3-4.

    It didn’t help that the team suffered the defection of its top two scorers from a season ago — Haleigh Washington via a transfer to Doherty High School and foreign exchange student Paula Fernandez.

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  • By the numbers

    Sports and numbers are inseparable. They go together.
    With the conclusion of the 2012-13 high school athletic calendar,
    the Clear Creek Courant looks back at the season that was through numbers. The following are 10 numbers that identify the latest prep campaign.

     

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  • ‘We like to play. We have fun’

    GOLDEN — Home plate sits off to the left of the field, away from the catcher. There are two first bases — one for the fielder and another for the runner. After two strikes a batter’s next hit ball must be fair or he’s out. A team can only score five runs in any given inning, except for the seventh when it can score at will. Oh, and there are four outfielders.

    Welcome to slow-pitch senior softball.

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  • Tenney’s game on the upswing

    ENGLEWOOD — If one was to identify Madison Tenney’s golf game they could come up with a number of qualities to define it.

    There is her athletic ability, the kind in which Evergreen head coach Mike Kuzava could tell her what type of shot she needs to hit and the Lady Cougars junior can hit it. A lot of kids can’t grasp that concept.

    There’s also her temperament. She is maturing not only as a golfer, but as a person, Kuzava said.

    “She is doing nothing but getting better,” he said.

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  • Exchange student Estrada tackles...

    LAKEWOOD — There were a lot of things that Javier Pena Estrada hadn’t done before the Spanish exchange student transferred into Clear Creek High School last year. Some of those included playing sports.

    Yet in the past nine months he’s kicked for the CCHS’ football team, played a key reserve role on the boys basketball squad and ran track. 

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  • Lucas toes the line in long jump

    LAKEWOOD — All Tevin Lucas was trying to do was put his best foot forward. After all, he was at the 3A state track and field championships, competing in the long jump. But the Clear Creek junior was a little too aggressive for his own good.

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