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Today's Sports

  • Have fun and win

    By Will Petersen

    For the Courant

    GEORGETOWN — Just off of I-70, in the middle of a Little League field, about 40 adults gathered every Wednesday night for the last eight weeks. Their mission: Have fun, socialize and win some games. Their sport: broomball. 

    Stacey Todd, recreation coordinator for Clear Creek County, switched jobs from Breckenridge to Clear Creek about two years ago and brought the sport with her. 

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  • Golddiggers score first varsity...

    WATKINS — It didn’t take long. Two games to be exact, but Clear Creek’s boys lacrosse program has its first varsity victory.

    Behind four goals from junior midfield Chandler Morgan, the visiting Golddiggers topped Ridgeview Academy 9-3 on March 18. Jordan Howard added two goals and four assists, while senior captain Walter Michener also scored twice. Fellow captain Nate Kocol scored Clear Creek’s other goal.

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  • Ready to have a ball

    Zak Ball has seen first-hand the hard work that he and his Clear Creek High baseball teammates have put in as they prepare for the 2013 season.

    “Everybody came in doing what they’re supposed to be doing,” said the junior catcher/outfielder. “People showed up really looking forward to the season, looking forward to being able to play and to work toward becoming a better player.”

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  • Schwecke, Clear Creek’s...

    Relatively new to the sport of volleyball, sophomore middle blocker Anna Schwecke is still getting her feet wet, but even she can tell that her confidence has grown by leaps and bounds from a season ago.

    “(There’s) definitely a lot more than last year. Last year, I just didn’t have a lot,” Schwecke said. “And this year, I have generally felt my confidence grow.”

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  • Diggers mascot in name game

    He’s got a bushy white mustache and wears blue bib overalls, a yellow gold miner’s hat and yellow work gloves, though you wouldn’t know the latter based on the mural that adorns the Clear Creek High School gymnasium.

    He’s Golddigger Gus. The school adopted the name and mascot in 1959 after the Georgetown and Idaho Springs high schools merged. Golddigger Gus represents the miners and the mining industry that helped build Colorado since gold was first discovered here in Chicago Creek near Idaho Springs in 1859 by George Jackson.

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  • Clear Creek’s season over after...

    LA JARA — Clear Creek’s girls basketball season ended with a 61-29 loss to 16th-seeded Olathe in the first round of the 3A Donald Wilson regional on March 8 at Centauri High School.

    The 17th-seeded Lady Golddiggers finished the 2012-13 season with a 16-7 record.

    Clear Creek ended the season on a two-game losing streak after having won 10 straight prior to back-to-back defeats to the Denver School of Science and Technology in the Frontier District finals and to Olathe at regionals.

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  • Buzzer-beater beats Diggers

    ALAMOSA —  Samuel Bilderbeck’s buzzer-beating layup in overtime lifted sixth-seeded Alamosa to a nail-biting 49-48 victory over 27th-seeded Clear Creek in the 3A regional tournament March 8.

    The loss ended the Golddiggers’ season with a 15-9 record.

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  • Rematch provides similar result

    EDGEWATER — The last time the Clear Creek Lady Golddiggers faced Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) things didn’t end well. The Lady Diggers lost by 24 points. When they faced them in the 3A Frontier District girls basketball tournament championship game March 2 the outcome wasn’t any better.

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  • Brothers pull CCHS together vs...

    EDGEWATER — The odds were against them, as were the circumstances. But as the Clear Creek Golddiggers’ boys basketball team defeated The Academy Wildcats 57-51 on March 2 at Jefferson High School for fifth place in the 3A Frontier District tournament, the reality of their accomplishment started to set in. 

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  • Experience worth trip for Kocol

    DENVER — The atmosphere that embraced the Pepsi Center didn’t affect Nate Kocol. He wouldn’t let it.

    “I just kind of zone out, focus on one thing and one thing only and that’s the match,” Kocol said.

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