MEEKER | Back and forth, back and forth, so goes the Rio Blanco County Cup, a traveling trophy, which will now go back to Rangely and into the Cedar Ridges club house once again after Rangely golfers beat Meeker golfers in match play by a “significant margin” last weekend. Rangely[Read More…]
Sports
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…]
Elliot/Choate top golfers, Collins/Hooks take top net honors
MEEKER | Twenty-three teams, many from out-of-town, played in the annual two-man best ball golf tournament held last weekend at the Meeker Golf Course. It was out-of-town teams taking the top honors in both flights but locals finished in the money in both flights too. Perennial champs Joe Elliot of[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…]
Undefeated lady Panthers win league championship
RANGELY | The girls are all under 10 and most have been playing together for three or four years but they used their experience together to win all 12 of their league games and four more in the recent league tournament in Vernal, Utah, capping an undefeated (16-0) season as[Read More…]
National College Rodeo Finals
RBC | The College National Finals Rodeo kicked off yesterday and the Spartan rodeo athletes are off to a great start. Teague Crane was the only CNCC competitor in the first performance and she didn’t let any CNFR rookie jitters get to her. Crane clocked a respectable 3.4 second run[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…]
Klinglesmith, Anderson qualify for National High School Rodeo Finals
MEEKER | Lori Ann Klinglesmith and Ellie Anderson did what they had to do to qualify for the 2017 National High School Rodeo Finals (NHSRF), which included becoming a Wyoming state champion and winning a “short go” to come from behind to qualify. The NHSRF will be held July 15-23[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…]
