MEEKER — The challenge was huge for the Meeker boys’ basketball team: play the defending state champions in the semifinals game of the district tournament, a must win for the Cowboys.
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Paonia ends season for lady Cowboys in double overtime
MEEKER — “They played so hard, the final score was not indicative of the game,” Meeker girls head basketball coach Hallie Blunt said of the district semifinal game her team played against the Eagles in Paonia last Friday. The Eagles ended the season for Meeker with a 70-55 victory. The[Read More…]
Four RBC wrestlers finish second in the big show
RBC — “It was the first time I got to walk out of the tunnel,” Rangely head wrestling coach Jeff LeBleu said of the parade of champions, a ceremony where coaches and/or fathers walk out of the four tunnels and onto the floor of Pepsi Center with wrestlers before the[Read More…]
Meeker defeats Plateau Valley Cowboys to advance to semis
MEEKER — A 59-44 win over the Plateau Valley Cowboys in the quarterfinal round of the district tournament advances the Meeker Cowboys to the semifinals this Friday in Paonia. Meeker will play the No. 1 seeded and defending state champion Grand Valley Cardinals.
Meeker girls team end season for lady Panthers
RBC — The two Rio Blanco County girls basketball teams played against each other in the final week of the regular season and were matched up in the first round of the district tournament. The second game was closer but the outcome was the same. Meeker defeated Rangely 47-35 last[Read More…]
Lady Cowboys end regular season with two wins
MEEKER — The Meeker girls basketball team finished the regular season on a winning note and earned a home game in the quarterfinals of the district tournament.
Cowboys batter Rams in season finale
MEEKER — Parents’ night at the final home varsity basketball games is a tradition that allows players an opportunity to show appreciation to their parents and supporters prior to the game and it’s always made better when the home team can achieve a victory. Saturday the Meeker High School Cowboys[Read More…]
Cowboys send four to state wrestling in Denver
MEEKER — Josh Prescott has been on Meeker’s varsity wrestling team all four years of his high school career and and has qualified for the “big show” all four years but never as a regional champion.
Cowboys grounded by Eagles 37-70
MEEKER — The Paonia Eagles easily handled the MHS Cowboys last Friday night in Paonia 37-70. The loss makes this week’s game with cross-county rival Rangely pivotal for both teams as the winner will receive the number three seeding for the upcoming district tournament.
BMS A-teams beat Sailors
MEEKER — The Barone Middle School girls basketball teams hosted the Steamboat Springs Sailors last Saturday and won three of four games.
Meeker loses league game in Paonia
MEEKER — The lady Cowboy basketball team traveled to Paonia last Friday and lost a league game to the Eagles 60-41. Meeker will host the Rangely Panthers Friday and Soroco Saturday. “We are still trying to get the flow back we had right after Christmas,” head coach Hallie Blunt said.[Read More…]
Cowboys take on bigger schools, beat Hotchkiss
MEEKER — The Cowboys used six pins and a forfeit to defeat the 3A Hotchkiss Bulldogs last Friday in front of their last hometown crowd of the season. “We needed a lot of them,” Meeker’s head coach Willy Theos said of the pins that allowed the Cowboys to win the[Read More…]