MEEKER | With 25 wrestlers out for the Cowboy wrestling team, including 10 freshmen, Meeker head coach J.C. Watt, who is starting his eighth year at the helm, hopes to fill all 14 varsity weights this season, which opens in Grand Junction with the Maverick Duals, Saturday. “We are excited[Read More…]

MEEKER | The 2018 lady Cowboys basketball season is upon us. Coming off a successful 18-6 season in 2017-2018, the Cowboys will host the Cowboy Shoot Out this Thursday and Friday as their opening games. The coaching staff is led by head coach Jamie Rogers, who is in her ninth[Read More…]

Meeker High School senior basketball players Zach Dinwiddie, Valentin Rosas, Eli Newman, Doak Mantle, Logan Hughes and Trapper Merrifield were recently honored at their annual basketball banquet, with most being honored by the Northwest League and two earning state recognition. Dinwiddie, Mantle and Hughes were all named to the Northwest[Read More…]

MEEKER |  Lady Cowboy Kirsten Brown was incorrectly identified as Denise Brown in last week’s paper. We regret the error.

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

By BOBBY GUTIERREZ [email protected] MEEKER | The Cowboys finished the regular season with an overall 15-4 record and were 11-1 in the Western Slope League (WSL), after a 74-42 thumping of the Soroco Rams Friday last in front of their hometown fans in the final game of the regular season.[Read More…]

By Bobby Gutierrez [email protected] MEEKER | Meeker, Rangely and Soroco girls’ basketball teams finished the regular season with a 10-1 Western Slope League records and since Rangely beat Meeker and Soroco beat Rangely, then Meeker beat Soroco last Friday in the final game of the regular season, Meeker will be[Read More…]