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Today's Sports

  • Earthworm population takes a...

    The damp, downright wet weather continues. All weekend, it has been wet and miserable. As I write, more rain is falling. Another gray day makes me wonder what happened to the sunshine that brought my late husband Bill and me to Colorado.

    Both of us, having grown up in western New York, were tired of damp gray days that were brought to us by Lake Erie. On our first trip west, we attended a birders’ convention in Colorado and were impressed by a full week of sunshine. We vowed we would return, and we did 49 years ago next April.

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  • Sports briefs

    BOYS GOLF
    D’Evelyn edges Evergreen for 4A Jeffco League title
    LITTLETON     — D’Evelyn High edged defending conference champion Evergreen 304-311 to capture the 4A Jeffco League boys golf championship Sept. 9 at Raccoon Creek Golf Course. D’Evelyn ended up beating the Cougars by 12 strokes during the regular season.
    EHS senior Kyle Peterson, however, repeated as the league’s Most Valuable Player. He carded a 74 at Raccoon Creek. Fellow senior Kyle Malazdrewicz shot a 77 and freshman Liam Short scored a 78.

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  • Arvada West runs away with tri-...

    ARVADA — Juggling academics and athletics is a challenge for any high school athlete, especially early in the school year. The Chatfield Chargers’ gymnastics team knows that.
    Their tri-meet Sept. 5 at Arvada West High School, which included 4A Evergreen, was pretty much a one-sided affair, as the host Lady Wildcats were dominant in all four events. Arvada West had the top two scorers in every event, including the top five in the balance beam, to score 178.55 points. Chatfield was second with 162.025, and Evergreen was third at 148.575.

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  • Cougars’ youth, speed pays off

    LAKEWOOD — The first half was classic Evergreen boys soccer. Peter Jeans’ squad lulled Green Mountain with its brand of ball-control offense, though the scoring opportunities were few and far between.
    The second half, especially midway through the game’s final 40 minutes, was more like a fast break in basketball. The Cougars offensively played at a breakneck speed that Green Mountain struggled to keep up with.

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  • Several wildflowers continue to...

    Most of our late summer flowers are yellow, and many of them belong to the composite family. In the common vernacular of many botanists, the flowers are referred to as DYCs. DYC stands for damn yellow composites, which refers to the fact that they are a big family; most of them are yellow and difficult to identify.

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  • It’s the right time of year for...

    Although the greatest number of wildflowers bloom in spring or early summer, there are some that do not grow as quickly, so they don’t bloom until late summer or early fall. One of these is the common milkweed.

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  • Sports briefs

    BOYS SOCCER
    Air Academy holds off Evergreen with OT victory
    COLORADO SPRINGS     — Alex Granados scored the game’s only goal in overtime as host Air Academy held off a stern challenge from Evergreen for a 1-0 victory on Aug. 29.
    Matt Pipan made three saves in net for the Kadets.
    Senior goalkeeper Matt Hornbecker had 11 saves for the Cougars, who took six shots. Senior Collin Molleur had two of those shots.

    CROSS COUNTRY
    Evergreen girls take seventh in season-opening run

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  • Cougars struggle to stay with CA

    By Craig Harper
    For the Courier
    Opening a rebuilding season against perennial Class 4A boys tennis power Colorado Academy, Evergreen co-coach Bob Greenman wasn’t expecting a victory.

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  • Wickham’s pitching, early runs...

    BOULDER — Ragan Wickham wouldn’t take the credit for her pitching. As the Evergreen senior said, it’s not on her as much as it’s the defense that is backing her up. But, rest assured, the hard-throwing right-hander had just as much to do with the Lady Cougars’ success at the Boulder CreekSide Classic as the defense behind her did.
    Wickham allowed just three runs over 19 innings, including two on five hits in the Aug. 31 finals. Three first-inning runs in the round-robin finals held up in Evergreen’s 3-2 victory over 5A Boulder.

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  • D’Evelyn keeping EHS in sight

    By Craig Harper
    For the Courier
    ARVADA — Evergreen’s breakthrough run to the 4A Jeffco League boys golf championship over D’Evelyn a year ago was almost too easy. Believe it or not, Cougars coach Mike Kuzava feared it might be the same in 2012.
    Yes, feared.
    But to his relief, it isn’t.

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