MEEKER | Main Street was busy Tuesday with the annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament hosted by the Eastern Rio Blanco Metropolitan Recreation and Park District. Teams were as follows: 6th-8th Grade Females Number of Teams: 1 Team Name: Hot Tamales Players: Emma Luce, Autumn Hobbs, Mackenzie Keetch 6th-8th Grade Males: Six[Read More…]
Meeker Sports
Blended Western Slope team wins district Little League championship
By John Hanson Special to the Herald Times RBC | As 10-year-old right fielder Quentin Kramer from Rifle circled under the fly ball and squeezed it in his glove for the final out, one would have thought he had caught lightning in a bottle. With that final out the young[Read More…]
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Wrestling Camp…
Seven Meeker wrestlers traveled to Gunnison for a team camp at Western State College, last week and all of them wrestled at least 10 matches. Tannen Kennedy (left), who will be a junior this fall, won 16 matches and was the only Cowboy to advance into the all-star round, which[Read More…]
Basketball Camp…
Co-ed softball season gets underway at Paintbrush Park
MEEKER | Seven teams, including the defending champion, Ace Trucking, are participating in the annual coed softball season at Paintbrush Park. Games are played on both fields at Paintbrush Park on Mondays and Wednesdays (no games are scheduled for July 3), with the first games starting at 6:30 p.m. Watt’s[Read More…]
Meeker Summer Rodeo Series results from June 15
Bull Riding 1st Kaiden Decker Jr. Bulls 1st Logan Durham Amateur Bulls 1st Riggen Myers Breakaway 1st Lori Ann Klinglesmith 2nd Samantha Pearce 3rd Jewell Vreeman #11 Header 1st Joe Wood 2nd Joe Wood 3rd Cody Edinger #11 Heeler 1st Brett Watson 2nd TJ Toon 3rd Brett Watson #8 Header[Read More…]
Elams, Sanson, Back win Ladies Deerfly at Meeker Golf Course
MEEKER | Only eight team played in the annual Ladies Deerfly golf tournament, held last Saturday at the Meeker Golf Course, but Rio Blanco County teams finished in the money. Cory and Trilby Elam finished seven shots behind Rifle’s Choate and Spaulding (70) in the championship flight of the tournament[Read More…]
Rockies Skills Challenge {PHOTO}
Ball players honored by Western Slope League
MEEKER | Five Meeker High School baseball players were recently honored by the Western Slope League and recognized by their coaches at the annual banquet. The Cowboys finished the season with a 14-7 record and advanced to the District semifinals before being eliminated. Senior Ty Gibson was named to the[Read More…]
Klinglesmith still deciding between rodeo and graduation
MEEKER | Life is full of tough decisions and Lori Ann Klinglesmith, a senior at Meeker High School, is trying to decide if she will attend her high school graduation this Saturday or pursue her passion to rodeo by traveling to Buffalo, Wyo., to compete in a rodeo Saturday, then[Read More…]
Meeker girls finish third in 2A at state track meet
MEEKER | “Our girls knew heading in they could compete at the state level and they were right,” Meeker head track coach John Strate said after the 2017 Colorado State Track and Field Championships held last weekend in Denver. The girls’ team finished third as a team in 2A. Although[Read More…]