High Schools

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Baldwin, Tigers seek league, state title in baseball

Grand Junction High School has won the past four Southwestern League baseball titles, and the Tigers don’t plan on leaving the top of the hill this season. The Tigers again are putting what looks to be a competitive team on the field ...

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Smart Jocks: Rachel Ryan march 12, 2009

Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel Student-Athlete of the Week is selected by the school’s athletic director. Palisade’s Mike Krueger selected Rachel Ryan, who has a 3.63 grade-point average in the school’s International ...

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Fruita flowing with talent at many positions

Most teams like to set benchmarks at the beginning of the season projecting what the group wants as a final result. For the Fruita Monument baseball team, one could assume its goals might involve a championship of the Southwestern League ...

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Montrose High School girls team reaches the state Final Four

Short of having the five most talented players in the state, it takes a near harmonic convergence for a high school basketball team to reach the state Final Four. Everything the Montrose High School girls team has needed to go right, has gone ...

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Reed, Paonia focused on title in fourth straight trip to state

Johanna Reed will never forget her first playoff experience. As a freshman for Paonia High School in 2007, it was up to her to get her team to the next round. “Freshman year we weren’t expected to even make it past regionals, so ...

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Chemistry has ’Dogs confident this season

The Palisade High School baseball team has a bright future. Two years removed from a group that had 10 seniors and won 15 games, the 2009 squad is made up of mostly underclassmen but with experienced upperclassmen peppered in. “I am ...

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Warriors expecting to mesh on the fly

In high school sports there always seems to be a senior-laden team. For Central High School, that was the 2008 baseball team, which finished 11-8 with a group of 12 seniors, including nine starters.  With that varsity experience ...

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Defense leads Paonia to Class 2A Region 5 title

Paonia put on a defensive clinic Saturday, holding Rangely to 28 points in a 41-28 victory in the Class 2A girls Region 5 tournament championship game at Mesa State, the Eagles’ third district title in a row. Paonia now heads to Pueblo ...

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Hot shooting lifts Meeker past Custer County at Brownson

Meeker used a big first half Saturday against Custer County, taking a 39-21 lead en route to a 69-46 victory in the Class 2A boys Region 5 championship game at Mesa State College. The victory sends Meeker to the Class 2A state tournament this ...

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Griffins use individual points to help team

Sometimes it’s hard to think of swimming as a team sport. That was not that case on Saturday as the District 51 Griffins hosted their season opening meet at Orchard Mesa Community Pool, a set of relays. “You’ve always got ...

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