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  • Chargers’ Gaytan focused on state

    LAKEWOOD — Erik Gaytan displayed the look of a focused athlete, and he ran like one as well.
    The Chatfield senior won the 100, 200 and 400 meters — all in convincing fashion — at the 5A Jeffco League track and field championships May 12 at Jeffco Stadium.

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  • Gonzales, Rebels lay all out to...

    AURORA — Jake Gonzales has scored his fair share of goals for the Columbine Rebels. But giving everything he had against Mullen on May 12 to keep the ball from going out of bounds and running out the clock may have topped them all.
    The junior attackman, who scored four goals in the state quarterfinal game at Regis Jesuit’s Lou Kellogg Stadium, exemplified the Rebels’ will to win in an 11-10 decision that pushes Columbine to the state semifinals for the first time in school history.

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  • Vance fires 71, captures...

    Gillian Vance was so dialed in to her game that the Dakota Ridge freshman didn’t realize what she shot.
    What she scored was a 1-under-par 71 on May 10 at the 5A Metro West Regional at the 5,518-yard Raccoon Creek Golf Course. That was good enough to not only win a regional championship, but to do so by five strokes over Jeffco League champion Shannon Lubar of Chatfield.

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  • Guerra’s three-run homer, wild...

    Dakota Ridge took the long way to a district title last May 12 at Dakota Ridge High School.
    The Eagles overcame a three-run deficit in the seventh inning to defeat Cherokee Trail 8-7, winning the 5A District 8 championship and advancing to their first state tournament since 2008. Dakota Ridge (17-3), seeded sixth, will play Regis Jesuit (17-4) in the first round of the eight-team double-elimination tournament on May 18 at 10 a.m. at Bishop Machbeuf High School.

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  • Mustangs slam door on Rebels’...

    The host Columbine Rebels baseball team lost to Mountain Range 11-3 in the first round of 5A District 3 tournament May 12, stunning ending their season and state tournament hopes.
    “Columbine is a great team,” Mountain Range head coach Jeremy Lustik said. “We are not better than them, but I think we got a couple clutch hits that we needed.”

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  • Carter, Chargers prepared for...

    ARVADA — The Chatfield boys swimming team is hoping to make a splash at state. With three Jeffco League record-breaking performances just one week prior to the big event, the Chargers are looking good.
    Chatfield started off the 5A Jeffco League meet May 12 at Meyers Pool with a dominant near three-second win in the 200-yard medley relay. And with the bar set high, senior standout Bryce Carter didn’t disappoint.
    The University of Wyoming recruit set league records in the 50 freestyle (20.96 seconds)and 100 freestyle (46.36).

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  • Sports briefs

    GIRLS SOCCER
    Morris’ second-half goal sends Columbine to state quarterfinals
    LAKEWOOD     — Ashley Morris scored the game’s lone goal off as assist from Rylie O’Keefe as fourth-seeded Columbine posted a 1-0 win over No. 13 Denver East in the Sweet 16 of the 5A state girls soccer playoffs on May 12 at Lakewood Memorial Field.
    The Jeffco League champion Lady Rebels advanced to the quarterfinals where they hosted Cherry Creek on May 15 at Lakewood Memorial Field. Results from that game weren’t available at press time.

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  • Jeffco title belongs to Columbine

    A year ago, Columbine made an improbable run to be one of the final five teams left in 5A baseball before losing in the state tournament. This year, the run started much earlier and it came with 5A Jeffco League supremacy to boot.
    Austin Anderson had three hits, Jaxon Mohr scored twice and Columbine scored four first-inning runs and never trailed in fending off host Chatfield 8-6 on May 5. The win sewed up a conference championship for the Rebels.

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  • Lady Rebels set early tone in...

    Scoring goals in the first half is a tone-setter for the Columbine Lady Rebels, but they haven’t always come easily. There’s a goal here and there, but not at the frequency they would like with the 5A state playoffs on the horizon. That wasn’t a problem on May 3 against Mullen.
    Ember Albertson and Ashley Morris scored in the first six minutes as host Columbine tripped the Lady Mustangs 3-0 in the regular-season finally for both teams.
    Getting off to an early start was imperative, Albertson said.

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  • Lions go out with heads held high

    AURORA — It would’ve been easy for the Littleton Lions to call it quits after Cherokee Trail opened their boys lacrosse state playoff game with six straight goals. It would’ve been just as easy to pack it in at halftime down by that same six-goal deficit with few signs of a comeback on the horizon.
    But that’s not what Littleton is all about, and the Lions proved that on May 4 at Legacy Stadium.

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