Today's Sports

Evergreen’s Christian Harriman lay on his stick, five feet from the goal, with just over two minutes to play in a tied lacrosse game against the Castle View Sabercats on March 25 – the victim of a devastating blow by a Sabercats defender.

But Harriman had one very important thing going for him: he had the ball.

“I was on the ground and I went to get up and leaned forward, and the stick came out from under me and the ball rolled in,” Harriman said.

Terry Hensley has been coaching baseball a long time.

Twenty-seven years, in fact.

Safe to say, he’s seen a lot of games. Some good, some bad.

Evergreen’s game against Castle View on March 19 at Coors Field has vaulted close to the top of his favorites list.

In that game, the Cougars were down 3-0 in the sixth inning but rallied to win 4-3 on a sun-soaked March afternoon.

While I was visiting Bosque del Apache, an exceptionally fine photograph of a northern goshawk was printed in the Community Eye feature of the Canyon Courier. It was taken by Richard Gristak on Bear Mountain. I was pleased to see this beautiful bird’s photo for two reasons: one, because I have not seen a goshawk in the area for some time, and secondly, because I had been wondering what hawk was making the birds at my feeder so antsy.

Though everyone knows that soccer is played on grass, on a chilly, early spring night in Evergreen, the Lady Lions of Littleton put the Evergreen Cougars’ soccer team on ice.

After scoring a pair of goals just days earlier against St. Mary’s Academy, the Cougars were held scoreless against the Class 5A Continental League Lions, who managed just one goal of their own to nab the 1-0 victory.