Timber Weber and Orion Musser competed in the 2023 Colorado Elementary and Colorado Middle School State Wrestling Championships. Weber, who wrestles in Meeker for Athlos Life, placed fourth. Orion is little brother to Tanner Musser, the state Class 2A, 285 pound runner-up, and an eighth grader at Barone Middle School.[Read More…]
Sports
Cowboys battle Miners
MEEKER | Spring baseball in western Colorado is more like baseball in less winter. The Cowboys traveled to the banana belt of the region Tuesday to take on the North Fork Miners, a traditional powerhouse in the sport that was once in the same class, the Miners have moved up[Read More…]
Panthers begin season with snow shoveling
The Rangely High School track and field team opened up their season on March 17, 2023, after a long, cold winter at the Rifle High School Invitational. The 41 athletes on the roster were prepared for this first meet not just by lots of running, jumping and throwing, but also[Read More…]
Rangely lady Panthers play Sedgwick County and Del Norte at state tourney
The Rangely Panthers played March 9-10 at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, Colorado, in the Great Eight of the CH- SAA 2A Girls Basketball tournament. Heading into the tournament the Pan- thers were the No. 7 seed and were set to take on the Cougars from Sedg- wick County[Read More…]
YOUTH WRESTLING
Last Saturday, Meeker had eight youth wrestle at the Rocky Mountain Nationals Elementary School Regionals Tournament in Grand Junction: Timber Weber, Kaden Krueger, Jaxson McPherson, Uriah Grant, Lucas Simpson, Connor Moody, Bryant Turner and Orion Musser. | COURTESY PHOTOS The tournament was extremely difficult and challenged each of the wrestlers[Read More…]
Rangely Panthers 0-2 to start season
RANGELY | The Rangely High School Panthers baseball team continues to improve. Practicing inside a gym or in a parking lot has been the routine for the Panthers this season. The Panthers traveled to Fruita Monument High School on their spring break to get one practice outside under their belts[Read More…]
BMS WRESTLING . . .
(Left) Johnny Rust took 4th place during the Meeker Middle School Tournament last Saturday. (Right) Jace Vroman scored 14 points towards towards Meeker taking second place as a team during the Meeker Middle School Tournament. COURTESY PHOTOS
Cowboy baseball wins two games
MEEKER | The cold and snow in Meeker did not hold the Cowboys back from a two-game victory over Nucla last Friday. All of March’s games will be away due to the winter weather still present in Meeker. “Last year we began the year 0-7, this year we are focusing[Read More…]
MHS harriers brave the cold in Rifle
MEEKER | When the track team left town Friday it was five degrees in Meeker. By the time the track meet finished it was 29 degrees with a windchill of 15 degrees. “Considering the start of the season was multiple weeks indoors, I think our kids did OK,” said assistant[Read More…]
YOUTH ARCHERY
Ten Meeker youth traveled to Grand Junction, Colorado, on March 12 for the Colorado State S3DA Indoor Archery Tournament. Five of them placed in the top three of their class. Brighton Bair earned a first place and also won scholarship opportunities; Auri Murray took second place; Jemma Bair took first[Read More…]
BMS WRESTLING
Barone Middle School wrestlers took first place as a team in South Routt County (Soroco) last weekend, with a number of Cowboys earning gold. | TANIA VALERIANO PHOTOS
MHS golfers ace first test of spring season
MEEKER | The Meeker Cowboy Lady Golf team opened up their spring season at Chipeta on Monday. Head coach Amanda Back took five girls; Averee Woodward, Aiyana McCook, Adi Knowles and Joelle Soler played in a scramble. Woodward and McCook, the veterans on the scramble team, led the girls to[Read More…]
