The Coal Ridge High School girls track and field team dominated at the 3A Western Slope League championships at Stocker Stadium in Grand Junction on Friday and Saturday, taking home the league title with 183.5.
Both Glenwood Springs High School basketball programs earned player- and coach-of-the year honors in the Western Slope League All-Conference selections announced this week. In the revamped 5A league that included Glenwood Springs, Palisade, Eagle Valley.
Three straight years of tough losses in the second round of the state playoffs served as motivation enough for this year’s Glenwood Springs High School girls basketball senior players to take it to the next.
Driving home from the Glenwood girls’ playoff game on Friday night, I heard senior guard Ruby Patch on the radio making a comment about how all five of the seniors on the Demon team had.
For the group of five senior girls who have played basketball together since they were in grade school, Friday night’s 51-35 win over Green Mountain in the state playoffs round of 16 must have felt.