Today's Sports

By Craig Harper
For the Courier
A common theme prevailed for Chatfield, Columbine and Evergreen’s top gymnasts at the 5A/4A Jeffco League championships on Oct. 19 at Evergreen High School: good but there’s room for improvement heading into this week’s regionals and the following week’s state meets.

LITTLETON — Caitlin Schmitt and Cat Moss finished second and third, respectively, and Evergreen had four runners in the top seven as the Lady Cougars won the 4A Region 1 cross country championship on Oct. 17 at deKoevend Park.
Evergreen finished with 37 points to easily top Jeffco rival D’Evelyn, which finished second with 73 points.
The Evergreen boys, who had four runners finish in consecutive order from eighth through 11th, also won a team regional championship with 60 points. Ponderosa was second with 88.

By Tim Donohoo
For the Courier
LAKEWOOD — The Evergreen Cougars dealt with the adversity throughout the entire week. Leading up to the most important game of the year Oct. 12 against D’Evelyn, the Cougars knew the Jaguars were going to be a formidable opponent who they were trying to defeat for the first time since 2004.
And boy, did Evergreen ever deliver this time.

Bergen Valley students and faculty, along with a couple dozen local, county and state dignitaries, celebrated on Oct. 9 the completion of the NEAT trail, a 10-year project that helps children get to school more safely.

NEAT — North Evergreen Activity Trails — is a nonprofit that set out in 2002 to find the money to build a sidewalk that links Evergreen Middle School and Bergen Meadow Elementary with the Bergen Park shopping area and Bergen Valley. The 2-mile project has been built in five segments since 2006 and cost nearly $950,000.