MEEKER — The event was billed as “Rampage in the Cage,” the first mixed martial arts fight to take place in Meeker. Several local fighters competed in the event, which was sanctioned by the Colorado Boxing Commission, in front of more than 400 people in the indoor arena at the[Read More…]
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Wrestlers learn from three-time champs
MEEKER — Keenan Turner, Brandan Stewart and Joe LeBlanc, Meeker’s three, three-time state wrestling champions held a takedown clinic last Saturday for wrestlers in the exhibition hall at the Rio Blanco County Fairgrounds.
10U baseball team rebounds to 2-2 record
MEEKER — Meeker’s 10-and-under baseball team has played four games so far this season and are currently 2-2. Meeker beat Parachute in the season opener, then lost a doubleheader to Rangely before beating New Castle.
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…]
Brown, Collins win championship
MEEKER — “We usually win the net,” Erik Brown said. “It was the first time we won the gross.”
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…]
Cowboys place in top 5 at regional track meet
MEEKER — The Cowboy track teams competed in a field of 20 2A Western Slope teams last Saturday in the regional track meet at Stoker Stadium in Grand Junction.
