MEEKER | More than 20 Meeker High School track and field athletes spent their first day of spring break in Rifle competing in a track meet, where several did well despite the weather. The teams will be idle this week but they will come back from break and prepare for their[Read More…]
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BMS wrestlers finish second in league finale
MEEKER | Nineteen Barone Middle School wrestlers competed in the final league tournament of the school season in Rangely last Saturday, with 17 returning with medals and a second place team trophy. A few of the young Cowboys will wrestle in the state-qualifying regional tournament this weekend in Grand Junction but[Read More…]
Track practice …
Members of Meeker’s track program were recently running the streets getting ready for the season, which will feature their first home meet in several years. The Bob King Track, which was new last year, will host a home meet March 30 and coach John Strate is asking for volunteers to[Read More…]
Cheery …
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…]
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…]
Correction …
MEEKER | Lady Cowboy Kirsten Brown was incorrectly identified as Denise Brown in last week’s paper. We regret the error.
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…]
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…]
