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  • Cougars’ best bet denied state...

    BROOMFIELD — It was a confidence boost that Lane Hanson was hoping to build on. His victory over Valor Christian’s Coby Welch a week earlier at the Pre-Regional Rumble was a first for the 113-pound Evergreen junior. It would take a second, this time in the 4A Region 1 consolation semifinals, for Hanson to make it to the state tournament. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be.

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  • Sports briefs

    GIRLS BASKETBALL
    Elmgreen’s 17 points, seven rebounds paces the Lady Cougars
    GOLDEN     — Emily Elmgreen had a team-high 17 points and seven rebounds, while Hannah Orr added 11 points as Evergreen won for the seventh time in eight games 50-37 over host Golden on Feb. 13.
    Seven players scored for the Lady Cougars (14-7 overall, 9-3 4A Jeffco League), including seven points from Samantha Kisiel and six from Lauren Troeger.
    Golden, which only trailed 36-33 entering the fourth quarter, dropped to 10-11, 6-6 in league play.

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  • Key victory gives EHS’ Hanson...

    By Craig Harper
    For the Courier
    LAKEWOOD — Lane Hanson hasn’t yet realized his goal of qualifying for the 4A state wrestling tournament. But with one win in the Feb. 8 Pre-Regional Rumble at Bear Creek High School the Evergreen junior’s psyche jumped from hope to belief heading into this week’s regional.

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  • Depth pays off as EHS repeats

    ARVADA — You want to know why the Evergreen Lady Cougars won a second straight 4A Jeffco League girls swimming championship on Feb. 8. It wasn’t the number of victories — D’Evelyn had twice as many — but rather it was the number of finalists the Lady Cougars had.

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  • Sports briefs

    GIRLS BASKETBALL
    Elmgreen, Lady Cougars upset 4A Jeffco-leading D’Evelyn
    LAKEWOOD     — Emily Elmgreen scored a team-high 26 points and pulled down 10 rebounds as the Evergreen Lady Cougars upset host and 4A Jeffco-leading D’Evelyn 61-57 on Feb. 7.
    Samantha Kisiel added 15 points and five boards, wile Logan Newhall scored 10 points.

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  • Kisiel, Cougars shut down Golden

    Samantha Kisiel knows that Haley Blodgett is the heart of the Golden girls basketball team. So it was up to the 5-foot-11 sophomore to do her best to slow Blodgett down.

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  • Missed chances, Demons’ size...

    The plan was simple for Evergreen: Stick to the regular game plan and get all the open shots its players could take. That worked as well, if not better, than the Cougars could’ve hoped for in the first three quarters Jan. 29 against Golden.

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  • Cougars sweep Conifer, Pomona

    By Craig Harper
    For the Courier
    Rachel Bahl keeps tinkering with Conifer’s lineup in the 200-yard medley relay, searching for the formula that will result in a 4A state-qualifying time.
    The Lady Lobos again came excruciatingly close to reaching the standard at a Jan. 30 triangular with Evergreen and Pomona at the Wulf Recreation Center. Conifer’s time of 2 minutes, 8.72 seconds — good for third place in the race — fell short of the qualifying mark of 2:05.

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  • EHS’ defensive pressure keeps...

    One could point to Evergreen’s nine different scorers or a game-opening 11-0 run as to why the Cougars controlled from start to finish in a 61-32 thumping of rival Conifer on Jan. 24 at Evergreen High School.

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  • Elmgreen, Lady Cougars charge...

    Emily Elmgreen wasn’t about to take credit for her career-high 33 points. Instead, the Evergreen senior deferred the accolades to her teammates, who drove the lane before dishing the ball off to her. That’s why she went off for 24 points in the second half in the host Lady Cougars’ 67-45 girls basketball conquest of Conifer on Jan. 24.
    “(They) were cluttering up the defense, and it left me wide open. I had plenty of time” to get her feet set and square up for shots, Elmgreen said.

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