Arguably the hardest working athletes at Meeker High School, definitely the most cheerful, the MHS cheerleading squad practices two hours a day, four days a week, starting in the fall and cheering at all home events, then traveling to state competitions. The squad grew to 12 girls this year and[Read More…]
Author: Bobby Gutierrez
Take me out to the ballgame …
Baseball practice started before basketball season was over and on Monday several players from the third place state basketball team were wearing mitts and on the Sixth Street field ready to practice. The Cowboys are scheduled to play their first game of the season today in Carbondale against the Roaring[Read More…]
Lady Panthers get first state-level win
RANGELY | The lady Panthers finished their 2018 season at the state tournament in Loveland this last weekend. The Panthers went into the tournament the No. 6 seed, and they matched up with the No. 3 Wray Eagles in the first round at the Budweiser Events Center on Thursday. The game[Read More…]
Cowboys finish third in 2A Colorado State Basketball Championships
MEEKER | The senior-dominated Meeker boys’ basketball team, ended its season with a win and a third place, 2A Colorado State Basketball Championship trophy for the high school lobby. The Cowboys qualified for the state tournament this year as District and Region 5 champs and for a second time in this[Read More…]
BMS wrestlers finish second at Oak Creek
MEEKER | Twenty Barone Middle School wrestlers competed in Oak Creek last Saturday and three-quarters of them came back with medals, including four gold. The young Cowboys will end the regular season Saturday in Rangely in the Northwest League Championships, yet some wrestlers will continue on in the middle school regional[Read More…]
Who let the dogs out …
Meeker local Kerri Schwartz was one of several mushers competing in the second annual Meeker Sled Dog Race last weekend at the C Lazy S Ranch next to the White River. The two-day event was sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Sled Dog Club and the Meeker Chamber of Commerce. Four,[Read More…]
Lady Cowboys end season at regionals
MEEKER | “The game was fast and exciting to the last second,” Meeker girls’ head coach Jamie Rogers said of the Region 7 championship game, where the lady Cowboys, for a second week in a row, lost the team title by one-point, this time to the Clear Creek Golddiggers. “I’m[Read More…]
Cowboys win region, advance to ‘Elite Eight’
MEEKER | March Madness for the Meeker Cowboys boys’ basketball team tips off tonight at 8:30 p.m., when the Region 5 champion Meeker Cowboys will play the Region 3 champion Highland Huskies (20-3) in the Budweiser Event Center in Loveland. For a fifth time in his 20-year coaching career in Meeker,[Read More…]
Barone wrestlers win dual meet tourney
MEEKER | Sixteen varsity Barone Middle School wrestlers won four dual meets Saturday to win the team title for the Gypsum Creek Dual tournament. Five JV BMS wrestlers got matches by wrestling on other teams and all BMS varsity and JV wrestlers won at least one match. The young Cowboys will[Read More…]
MHS girls come in second
MEEKER | The lady Cowboys lost to their Rio Blanco County rival in league play but won a tie-breaker to enter the District 5 tournament as the number one seed, only to have the Rangely Panthers beat them by one point on a last second shot. The Cowboys will continue their[Read More…]
Cowboys win District 5 team championship; host regionals Friday
MEEKER | Post-season play will continue for the Meeker boys’ basketball team after it won the District 5 championship last weekend in DeBeque, earning the opportunity to host the state-qualifying Region 7 boys’ tournament this weekend. The Cowboys are currently 18-4, seeded fifth in the 2A regional bracket, which features[Read More…]
BMS wrestlers finish second in Hayden
MEEKER | Middle school wrestling starts while high school wrestling is winding its season up. One week after five Meeker High School wrestlers competed in the state tournament, more than 20 Barone Middle School wrestlers opened the season in Hayden. BMS entered 23 young Cowboys into the tournament and 15[Read More…]
