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Today's Sports

  • She's just one of the boys

    Inez Gonzales is a tomboy with a feminine side. She’s also a baseball player.
    “She just loves the game,” said Steve Gonzales, Inez’s father.
    The 11-year-old sixth-grader at Henry World Middle School first got interested in the sport via T-ball six years ago as an option to sitting around the house all summer, and she’s been in love with the game ever since. And she’s quite good at it, too. Be it at pitcher, catcher, first base or shortstop, Inez can play there or anywhere else her team needs her.

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  • The sound of relentless

    The U.S. flag waved in the wind as the national anthem played. The Chatfield girls soccer players stood with their hands over their hearts as the notes rang through the P.A. system. One of those players, Mia White, calmly listened to the anthem even though she could “hear” it only through an interpreter signing the words.
    The 15-year-old sophomore is a competitive, athletic and passionate soccer player. She also is deaf.

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  • Winter sports all-conference...

    The following are the 5A Jeffco League all-conference selections for girls swimming and wrestling:

    GIRLS SWIMMING

    FIRST TEAM

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  • Miller wins battle of brothers...

    By Craig Harper

    For the Courier

    LAKEWOOD — Location makes Columbine and Dakota Ridge natural rivals in any sport. Now there’s a sibling rivalry adding spice to the recipe in boys lacrosse.

    A year ago, brothers Jake and Riley Miller were freshman teammates on Dakota Ridge’s first varsity team. But Jake transferred to Columbine for the 2013-14 school year, and the two went head-to-head for the first time on March 21.

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  • Chargers relish chance to play...

    DENVER — It was approximately 1:45 p.m. when the Chatfield Chargers’ team bus pulls up to Coors Field for a 3 p.m. game with Horizon. The butterflies started to set in, but Jacob Falbo said that he and his teammates were ready.

    “We were hungry for a win, and we got one,” Falbo said after Chatfield sent 11 batters to the plate in a six-run first inning of a 12-2 defeat of the Horizon Hawks on March 21.

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  • Walker, Chargers make a...

    GREENWOOD VILLAGE — The nerves were there. After all, the Chatfield Lady Chargers were playing Cherry Creek, the defending girls lacrosse state champ and a perennial powerhouse. But once Chatfield got the momentum — and it did so early on by scoring the game’s first five goals — the realization set in that they not only could compete with the Lady Bruins, they might just be able to beat them.

    That’s exactly what the Lady Chargers did March 21 at the Stutler Bowl.

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  • County commissioners approve new...

    After a month’s delay, the county commissioners have approved a new master plan for Jeffco Open Space.

    The board was originally scheduled to vote on the plan at its Feb. 11 public hearing but unanimously granted a delay at the request of several developers who wanted more time to comment.

    The master plan now has a section defining its purpose as a guide to open space acquisition and not as a tool for zoning and land development. 

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  • 2013-14 all-conference boys...

    The following are the 5A Jeffco League all-conference selections for 2013-14 in boys and girls basketball:

    BOYS BASKETBALL
    FIRST TEAM
    Darius Reiter, Chatfield; Marcus Asmus, Standley Lake; Thomas Neff, Arvada West; DJ Miles, Bear Creek; Brandon Wilson, Columbine; Evan O’Dorisio, Lakewood; Jacob Flores, Dakota Ridge; Dallas Walton, Ralston Valley; Cambrian Antrillo, Dakota Ridge; Andrew St. Germain, Chatfield
    SECOND TEAM

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  • Miscues costly to Eagles in loss...

    By Craig Harper
    For the Courier
    The news could have been worse for Dakota Ridge. The Eagles surrendered four unearned runs in the first inning of a 6-4 loss to visiting Grand Junction on March 14, then saw No. 1 pitcher Bryce Evans leave the season’s second game in the second with soreness in his throwing elbow.

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  • Shoe on the other foot as Rebels...

    By Craig Harper
    For the Courier
    DENVER — When they squared off early last season, Columbine was the veteran boys lacrosse team and Colorado Academy was young and with a new coach. When they met in a 2014 rematch of preseason top-10 teams at Colorado Academy on March 15 it was just the opposite, but no new coach for the Rebels.

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