MEEKER I After qualifying 10 wrestlers and placing third as a team in the 2014 Colorado State Wrestling Championships, the Meeker Cowboys will begin their quest to improve this season, starting in Grand Junction, when they compete in the Colorado Mesa University Duals.
Sports
Rangely girls’ basketball to open season at Meeker’s WREA Shootout
RANGELY I The Rangely High School girls’ basketball team began its season last night against Nucla.
Meeker girls’ basketball opens as host of WREA Cowboy Shootout
MEEKER I The Meeker High School girls’ basketball team will host the annual White River Electric Cowboy Shootout, which started last night with Meeker playing Hayden at 7:30 p.m. to open the 2014/2015 basketball season.
Winter sports…
Two-time defending state wrestling champion T.J. Shelton is pictured practicing with teammate Casey Turner in preparation for the upcoming mat season at Meeker High School.
Correction
RANGELY I In the Nov. 13 edition of the Herald Times, a sports photo incorrectly identified No. 3 Sarah Midgely of the CNCC Spartan women’s basketball team as No. 3 Terrylee Wedgeworth of the CNCC men’s basketball team. We regret the error.
Rangely Jr. High Boys’ Basketball…
The Rangely Junior High School boys’ seventh- and eighth-grade basketball teams were in Meeker Saturday to play the Steamboat Springs Sailors and Soroco Rams.
BMS Basketball…
The Barone Middle School boys’ seventh- and eighth-grade basketball teams played Saturday against the Soroco Rams and the Steamboat Springs Sailors, each beating the former and losing to the latter. Above left, playing for the seventh-grade this season, in front, are: Elijah Deming, Tanner Ridgeway, Nick Massey, Colton Wille, Charles[Read More…]
Meeker golf guru Jim Cook honored by Colorado PGA
MEEKER I Long-time local golf guru Jim Cook of Meeker was recognized as a 2014 Noble Chalfant Challenge Inductee by the Colorado Professional Golfers Association at the Colorado PGA Awards Gala on Nov. 2 at the Colorado Golf Club in Parker.
Post-season play ends one game early as MHS gridders fall short vs. Buena Vista
MEEKER I Five years had passed since the Meeker Cowboys qualified for the 1A Colorado state football playoffs. While there this year, they won two games before ending their season in Buena Vista, losing in the semifinals to the Demons 48-18.
Several members of CNCC equine team place in Montana competition
RANGELY I On Nov. 5, the Colorado Northwestern Community College Horse Show Team traveled to Billings, Mont., to compete Saturday and Sunday in an IHSA Horse Show hosted by Rocky Mountain College, showing well and placing several members within the top 10.
Spartan men and women cagers open season; women topple Western
RANGELY I The Colorado Northwestern Community College Spartan women’s basketball team opened its season with a victory while the men’s team was not quite as fortunate.
Cowboys throttle Rye, advance to state semi-finals in Buena Vista
MEEKER I “We were awfully excited about the way we started,” Meeker head football coach Shane Phelan said after his Cowboys jumped out to a 28-0 first half lead in the Colorado 1A state playoffs against the Rye Thunderbolts in a filled to overflowing Starbuck Stadium Saturday.
