MEEKER | Normally, it does not take 30 minutes to run a high school cross country race, which is five kilometers but there is nothing normal about the Devil’s Thumb Hill Climb race in Delta, which Meeker runners attempted last Saturday. The Cowboys will run in Hotchkiss this Saturday. “The[Read More…]
Meeker Sports
Back repeats as women’s club champ; Watt regains men’s title
MEEKER | Five women and 18 men, divided into two flights, played 36 holes of golf last weekend at the Meeker Golf Course to determine women and men’s club champions, along with bragging and parking rights. After two days of play, Meeker’s Peggy Back defended her Women’s Club title and[Read More…]
Cowboys win opener in Starbuck Stadium 40-0
MEEKER | The last game the Meeker High School football team played in Starbuck Stadium was the 1A Colorado State Football Championship game, the only loss of the season last year for the Cowboys. They started their new season with a new team and a new group of seniors who[Read More…]
MHS softball team defeats defending champs in opener
MEEKER | “Base hit and we celebrate,” third base coach Dr. Chris Williams told his batter Tilly Brown during the opening game against the Basalt Longhorns, defending league champs. She did just that, and she and her team celebrated after defeating the Basalt Longhorns 6-5. The lady Cowboys will host[Read More…]
Meeker cross country competed in Grand Junction, head to Delta Friday
MEEKER | Meeker Cross Country traveled to Grand Junction to compete in the Warrior Invitational on Saturday. The varsity boys raced first for the Cowboys, and Matthew Beck was Meeker’s first to the finish in 26th place at 19:25. Pake Burke was Meeker’s second to cross the line, at 21:34[Read More…]
Lady Cowboys start season with new coach at helm
MEEKER | The lady Cowboy varsity volleyball team’s first match will be in Walden against the North Park Wildcats and will mark the start of a new era with new head coach Greg Cravens leading the team, which returns seven with varsity experience. Two-a-day practices started the week before school[Read More…]
Men’s golf champs …
MHS cross country team opens in Grand Junction
MEEKER | “We have some new faces,” Meeker High School cross country coach Marty Casey said about his team, which will run competitively for the first time this season in Grand Junction, Saturday. “We have also changed our schedule a bit and it will be fun to see our runners[Read More…]
Softball …
Ace Trucking wins coed softball tourney
MEEKER | Ace Trucking capped off an undefeated season with a 19-15 win over Ripped Shorts, the defending champs, in the championship game of the annual Coed Softball League, sponsored by the ERBM Recreation and Parks. “Thanks to the rec. district for another great season and the maintenance crew for[Read More…]
Couples tournament nets out for locals
MEEKER | Twenty-eight couples were split into two flights for the annual Couples tournament held at the Meeker Golf Course last weekend, where locals were not the best golfers on the course but they finished with the best net scores in the end. The Chapman format was used for the[Read More…]
Meeker Summer Rodeo Series names event leaders through July
MEEKER | The Meeker Summer Rodeo series produced by Farris Bucking Bulls of New Castle continues today at 7 p.m., Rio Blanco County Fairgrounds. Tonight’s performance will be the ninth of the series which continues every Thursday through Aug. 31. The current event leaders through July 27 are: bull riding,[Read More…]
