Sports

Panthers win homecoming

RANGELY I Wins for the Rangely Panther football team and first year head coach Paul Fortunato have been hard to come by this season but the Rangely players and coaches earned a victory over the Lake County Panthers in the 2011 homecoming game held last Saturday on Yeager Field.

Cowboys lose two in Vail

MEEKER I No matter the outcome of the final match of the regular season, the lady Cowboy varsity volleyball team will have to travel for the round of the district tournament, which will start Tuesday, Oct. 25, after losing two matches in Vail last Saturday.

Ladies lose two matches

MEEKER  I “It was not our best weekend of the season,” Meeker’s head volleyball coach Christy Atwood said of losing efforts to Paonia and Vail Mountain.

Chilly cross country race

RANGELY I Leaving at 5:30 a.m. to run a cross country race at an elevation of nearly 8,000 feet on a snowy fall morning in Aspen, Colo., may not be for everyone but it’s exactly what two daring Rangely junior high athletes did this past Saturday.