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CONIFER — The Conifer Lobos shouldn’t be offended if Evergreen comes off a little offensive. It’s just the Cougars’ style.

On the soccer field, that is.

The way Evergreen head coach Peter Jeans sees it is that if his Cougars can play a more offensive-style of game and play a ball-control attack then it only increases the likelihood his team will win. That’s exactly how Evergreen approached its Mountain Challenge Cup battle with the host Lobos on Sept. 30.

The University of Colorado Buffs has honored Shaye Evans, an eighth-grader at Evergreen Middle School, for great attitude.
Qwest, Fox Sports Network Rocky Mountain and CU have named Evans a 2010-11 Winning Attitude Award winner. Winners are selected from a pool of stories submitted by middle school students explaining how their winning attitude made a difference in their communities. Students are honored for their outstanding efforts in sportsmanship, community involvement and teamwork.

LITTLETON — Evergreen’s Jak Hamilton won the Division 2 boys race at the Dave Sanders Invitational at Clement Park on Oct. 1, and the girls team took top honors with three finishers in the top four.

Hamilton won the boys race in a time of 16 minutes, 29 seconds, beating out Pomona’s Dezmin Rameriz by six seconds. Fellow Evergreen runners Jackson Sayler and Andre Lane finished in the top six, but Pomona placed six runners in the top 15 en route to team honors by three points over the Cougars.

While the 2010 general election day is still almost four weeks away, Colorado citizens will begin voting very soon. Mail ballots, which have become the preferred method of voting for election officials and increasing numbers of people, will go out next week. After that, early voting stations will open. In Jefferson County, voters can vote early from Oct. 18 until Oct. 29, except that polls will be closed Sunday, Oct. 24. The polls will then be open for every precinct Nov. 2.