Meeker High School freshman Jake Boesch broke the five-minute-mile time barrier last Saturday during a cold and rainy day in Rifle. Several other members of the Meeker track team set personal records (PR). The Meeker boys’ team finished second behind the host team and the girls placed sixth.
Sports
Cowboys compete in two meets
The Cowboy track team continues to improve, qualifying more members for the state meet and several marking personal records in their events.
Turner Memorial features RBC wrestlers
The Rangely Panther wrestling team was in Meeker this past weekend. Twenty-five Panther wrestlers competed in the Casey Turner Memorial tournament and 18 placed in the top four. The team has shown signs of improvement each week.
Coal Ridge and Glenwood Invites
The RHS track team had its first overnight trip last weekend as they competed in both the Coal Ridge and Glenwood Springs Invitational meets.
Panthers run in Utah
The Rangely High School track and field team traveled to Vernal, Utah for the Uintah Invitational meet and then to Grand Junction for Palisade’s annual Frank Woodburn meet last weekend.
Panthers defeat Cowboys
The Rangely Panther baseball team defeated the Meeker Cowboys last Saturday 12-1 in the first game and 9-8 in the second, on a cold day.
Toby Casias won the 100- and 200-meter dashes last Saturday in Stocker Stadium in Grand Junction at the annual Frank Woodburn Invitational track meet. Casias’ top placing helped his team finish seventh in a field of 15 teams, featuring mostly 3A, 4A and 5A schools.
Soccer skills …
The Rangely Panther soccer team played the Grand Valley Cardinals last week, with the first game going into overtime and still ending in a 1-1 tie.
2nd annual indoor 3D archery shoot
Thanks to several sponsors, new targets were used for the second annual indoor 3D shoot, sponsored by the Meeker Sportsman’s Club.
RHS awards banquet
Rangely seniors Torie Slagle, Kelsey Harvey, Rozilynn Thacker, Victoria Phelan and Marie Morton are pictured with head basketball coach Jimmie Mergelman after the team’s recent awards banquet.
Pee Wee Wrestlers
Brothers Elijah and Noah LeBlanc wrestled in Hayden last Saturday
RHS competes at Cedaredge
This last weekend, the Rangely High School track and field team traveled to Cederedge to compete in their 11th annual invitational meet.