Sports

18 teams compete in tourney

RANGELY — Golfers competed in the 27-hole two-man tournament this past weekend at Cedar Ridges Golf Course. Eighteen teams, divided into two separate flights, teed off from the championship gold tees to start. The first nine holes were a scramble format. The next nine consisted of a best-ball competition off[Read More…]

Locals do well in the cage

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…]

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.

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.