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  • The Pinnacle sets tone, pace...

    FEDERAL HEIGHTS — It’s commonplace for Clear Creek boys basketball coach Clay Dubois to express the importance to his team of starting out quickly and setting the pace. But not even he had any answers for what happened at The Pinnacle on Feb. 8.

    What happened was Chase Gonzales. Specifically, it was Gonzales scoring nine of his game-high 22 points and the host Timberwolves dictating the flow of the game in a 59-44 victory over Clear Creek. Chase Phillips added 19 points as The Pinnacle won its third straight and ninth in 10 games.

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  • Early hole, Academy's...

    It's not how you start, but how you finish. That's the old saying, but Clear Creek's boys basketball team debunked that theory on Feb. 1. That wasn't a good thing, either.
    The slow-starting Golddiggers fell behind by 17 points early in the second quarter and were forced to play catch up all night. They eventually did catch up – twice to be exact – but that momentum wasn't enough in a 75-69 setback to The Academy at Clear Creek High School.

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  • Diggers find openings in low post

    There was a sense of aggravation in Clear Creek girls basketball coach Mark Ackerman’s voice. His team wasn’t play up to its capability in the first quarter against The Academy and yet somehow it still held the lead.

    Fortunately, the sloppy, listless play that plagued the Lady Golddiggers in the opening eight minutes was a distant memory by the time the second, third and fourth quarters were over as CCHS rolled to a 50-38 victory at Clear Creek High School.

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  • Potter sizes up field for...

    It’s not like Anthony Potter needed anymore motivation. The Clear Creek senior 145-pounder had plenty.

    First, Potter had his sophomore season ended in late January 2011 due to a freak injury in which he popped the cap off his tibia bone. Then last year he placed fourth at regionals only to lose in a wrestleback which cost him a berth at the 3A state tournament.

    So is 2013 the year he finally breaks through and makes it to state?

    “Oh yeah,” Potter said.

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  • Diggers hit on all cylinders,...

    By Will Petersen

    For the Courant

    It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. 

    OK, maybe not quite “A Tale of Two Cities,” but it was a tale of two halves for the Clear Creek boys basketball team Jan. 25 in an 80-65 win over Jefferson. The catch? Both halves were darn good in their own way. 

    The Golddiggers sizzled from outside in the first half, hitting seven 3s and shooting an eye-popping 70 percent from distance, en route to a 42-26 lead at the break.

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  • Second-quarter surge sparks Lady...

    By Will Petersen

    For the Courant

    It was probably closer for longer than the standings suggested it would be. But it wasn’t in doubt for long. The Clear Creek girls basketball team used a monster second quarter to help knock off Jefferson 73-28 on Jan. 25 at Clear Creek High School.

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  • CCHS in control from the get-go

    DENVER — The Clear Creek girls basketball team worked on its full-court pressure. It worked on the half-court trap. It worked on the five out offensive set. It worked on what it wanted, when it you wanted. You get the point.

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  • Diggers steal win at the buzzer

    DENVER — Jordan Howard was sitting on the Clear Creek bench during the team’s final timeout, along with his teammates, and they knew they needed a defensive stop. That’s when the coaches looked to foreign exchange student Javier Pena Estrada. One of the Golddiggers’ best defenders hadn’t been in the game yet with the boys basketball squad trailing Bruce Randolph by two points with 18.1 seconds remaining.

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  • Spread offense propels Diggers

    It took a few minutes and, ironically, a 3-pointer from Laura Cortiz Feal to get the ball rolling, but once Clear Creek’s five-out offense found a rhythm there was little stopping the Lady Golddiggers.

    Clear Creek, with a sizable height advantage in the paint, went to the motion offense initially to get visiting Platte Canyon to spread out from its 2-3 zone defense. The Lady Huskies did, and Clear Creek took advantage in a 57-35 victory Jan. 11.

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  • Clear Creek’s experience pays off

    Kellen Cosby can see the veteran leadership that the Clear Creek boys basketball team has. And he believes that the Golddiggers can keep themselves composed in a tight game. That’s a good thing because CCHS needed all of that chemistry to fend off a spirited Platte Canyon squad on Jan. 11.

    Cosby finished with a team-high 18 points, Jared Cook added 15 and Tevin Lucas scored 11 as Clear Creek scored a hard-fought 73-63 victory at CCHS.

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