Today's Sports

No, Hamadi Ali Abid doesn’t have a fan club, but maybe he should. The small, but vociferous crowd at Littleton Public Schools Stadium certainly voiced their approval of the junior forward during and after Littleton’s 2-1 victory over Cherokee Trail on Aug. 28, especially after Ali Abid scored the game-winning goal eight minutes into sudden-death overtime.

The speedy Ali Abid beat the defender before punching the game-winning goal into the lower right corner past Cherokee Trail goalkeeper Kamden Weis in the 88th minute.

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COLUMBINE REBELS
Head coach: Dirk Visser
Classification: 5A Jeffco League
Runners to watch: David Blair, Soph.; Jerod Kuhn, Soph.; Daniel Lupo, Sr.; Bryce Rombach, Soph.; Max Sagrillo, Jr.; Justin Hinckley, Sr.
Season opener: Aug. 29, Arapahoe Warrior Invite, DeKoevend Park, 4 p.m.

LAKEWOOD — Columbine entered its season-opening football game against Fountain-Fort Carson trying to cope with the losses of speedy running back Bernard McDondle to graduation and quarterback Michael Tait, who is focusing on golf this season. The losses showed, as the Rebels’ struggled to finish drives in a 12-7 defeat on Aug. 22 at Jefferson County Stadium.

“We were our own worst enemy,” Columbine head coach Andy Lowry said. “We had some decent drives in the first half, we just couldn’t finish them.”

Expanding the use of social media is a key strategy of the communications and community plan for Jeffco Open Space, which Thea Rock presented to the Open Space Advisory Committee on Aug. 7.

“We have 3,000 people who follow us on Facebook. We would like to increase that to 7,000,” Rock said.
Expanding Twitter followers from 1,300 to 5,000 also is in the plan, she said.

“They reach a different demographic,” Rock remarked.

A recent study showed that 26 percent of the community would like to receive information about parks through e-mail, and 23 percent use the Internet, said Rock.