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Today's Sports

  • By the numbers

    10: It’s a given that sports and numbers go hand in hand. With the conclusion of the recent 2011-12 high school athletic season, the Clear Creek Courant takes a look back at the season through the numbers. The following are 10 numbers that identify the recently completed prep season.

  • Still doing her thing

    Jennifer Whalen first moved to Idaho Springs in 2003 and a few years later to Evergreen to be closer to downhill mountain bike riding. After all, it was easier than driving an hour to Keystone, Silverthorne and the likes.
    But competitive racing for the 36-year-old NORBA (National Off Road Bicycling Association) Pro Women’s Super D champion has been few and far between since her 2005 championship season.

  • Cougars’ Tenney backs in to state


    ARVADA — Madison Tenney, for most of the 2012 girls golf season, has been Evergreen’s most consistent player. And while her play was anything but consistent at the 4A Metro West Regional it was enough to qualify her for next week’s 4A state tournament.
    The Evergreen sophomore shot a 95 on May 14 at West Woods Golf Course, just making the cut for state, which is scheduled for May 21-22 at Boomerang Golf Course in Greeley. She was the next-to-last player of 16 individual qualifers not on the regional championship team to make it in the field.

  • Diggers make late run for state...

    For three years, Megan Smith, Elise Pate and Molly Quaranto have tried to qualify for the 3A state track and field championships in the 4x100 relay, and three times they’ve been on the outside looking in.

  • Losing streak reaches 12 as...

    GRANBY — Austin Allen scored both of Clear Creek’s runs, but the Golddiggers dropped a 24-2 decision in their regular-season finale at Middle Park on May 1.
    Clear Creek (1-19 overall, 0-9 3A Frontier League) ended the season on a 12-game losing streak.
    Allen, Kenny Larson, Morgan Foelsch and Zak Ball each had hits for Clear Creek.
    Middle Park was led by Cort Brennan, who went 2-for-2 with a pair of doubles, three RBIs and two runs scored. Six other players also had two hits and Middle Park had 15 overall.
     

  • Making all the right moves

    In the first half of the first game of the regular season, Ally Huff stood in goal. It was a position the Clear Creek junior had played a few years prior in club soccer. It was a position that with a few years under her belt and training the right way who knows maybe this would be the spot for her.

  • Rebels deny Cougars share of...

    LAKEWOOD — Winning a boys lacrosse conference championship is uncharted territory for Columbine. It had never happened before. And though the Rebels knew what was on the line when they played Evergreen on April 25 at Trailblazer Stadium, they also knew it wouldn’t come easy.
    And it didn’t. But Columbine stayed the course and a third-period flurry would be all it would need to make history.

  • Final tuneup before regionals...

    GOLDEN — On one hand, it could be looked at as underachieving. But when the Evergreen Lady Cougars’ girls golf team sets goals prior to a tournament, like it did for the Ashley Forey Invitational on April 30 at Rolling Hills Country Club, it’s probably more ambitious than anything else.
    The course got the better of Evergreen on this day, but not before the Lady Cougars’ foursome got in one last-minute tuneup before regionals.

  • Struggling Clear Creek drops...


    Clear Creek’s losing streak stretched to 10 games with a home doubleheader loss to Sheridan on April 28.
    The Golddiggers surrendered 28 hits in a 32-8 setback in Game 1. Then  in Game 2, Sheridan added 20 more hits in a 27-14 shootout victory.
    Justin Miller went 8-for-9 and drove in nine runs, while Gino Estrada drove in seven runs for Sheridan. The Rams scored in every inning but the fifth in both games.

  • Lady Golddiggers bound for state...

    To say Ally Huff knew just how big her 27th goal of the season was would be an understatement. In all reality, it was Clear Creek’s biggest goal in school history.

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