Meeker Sports

Cowboys win five in Gold Crown tourney

MEEKER — High school basketball coach Klark Kindler took 10 players to the state capitol last week to compete in the Gold Crown team tournament. The Cowboys won five of eight games, in gyms ìall over the Denver area,” according to Kindler.

6 wrestlers compete in Pagosa Springs

MEEKER — Six Meeker High School wrestlers and their new head coach traveled to Pagosa Springs for a four-day wrestling camp, featuring clinicians from the Olympic Training Center (OTC).

Cowboys attend team camp

Play in Denver this weekend MEEKER — Fifteen members of the Meeker High School basketball program traveled to Alamosa for a team camp at Adams State College June 11-14. The Cowboys will take a team to Denver this weekend for another camp.

Stewart gets hole in one

MEEKER — While playing with friends during men’s night last week to practice for the upcoming White River Electric Tournament, Grant Stewart recorded his first hole in one.

Golf course gets new manager

Sisters Boudreaux, Edwards win Ladies Deerfly MEEKER — Darrin Rohn’s first tournament as the new manager of the Meeker Golf Course was the Ladies Deerfly, which was won by two Rio Blanco County sisters. “Some of the women were asking for heaters,” Rohn said of the chilly temperatures when the[Read More…]

Girls softball season begins

MEEKER — “We’re young, but I think we are going to have a really good team this year,” said Janae Shelton, who along with Deb Henderson, will coach the 15-and-under Meeker girls fast-pitch softball team. The team will play its first game tonight in New Castle and will host New[Read More…]

Wix takes third at state track meet

MEEKER — Ten athletes from the Meeker track teams qualified for the state meet in Pueblo last weekend. Johnny Wix competed first for the Cowboys in the discus on Friday morning. He threw 135-9, not his best throw but good enough under the pressure to place third. The men’s 4×800[Read More…]

34 under par wins Bob Tucker Memorial

MEEKER — ”It was wonderful,” said Jo Tucker about the first annual golf tournament played in memory of her husband Bob. The Coach Bob Tucker Memorial raised funds for a scholarship in the former Meeker graduate/teacher/ coach’s name.

McPhail uses seven iron to ace No. 7

MEEKER — Joseph McPhail has been playing golf since he was 10 years old, now after only four years of experience, he has accomplished something most golfers will never — make a hole-in-one.