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Today's News

  • Volleyball, pre-med send Miller to CSU-Pueblo

    BRIGHTON — The Prairie View pipeline to Colorado State University-Pueblo is open again.
        This time, it claimed ThunderHawks’ volleyball player Lindsay Miller. She signed her letter of intent last week.
        “I had interest from schools in West Virginia and Maryland,” she said. “I didn’t want to go that far. I also had Oklahoma Panhandle interested. For a few years I had some smaller colleges and Junior Colleges like Otero and Trinidad.”

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  • Downs picks a junior college for two more years of baseball

    BRIGHTON — In the end, Prairie View’s Ian Downs thought a junior college would be the best fit for him to continue his baseball career. So Downs signed with Phoenix College in Phoenix, Ariz., last week.

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  • Fast start by Mountain Vista downs Prairie View girls in the first round

    HIGHLANDS RANCH — Early goals by Megan Massey and Amy Alexander of Mountain Vista within the first four minutes of the game may have rattled Prairie View a little.
        “We may have been shook up a little bit,” head coach Jason Oulman said. “I don’t think we were totally 100 percent ready for their speed. I think after those first two goals, it woke us up and we were able to pull together after that.”

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  • Brighton competitive in losing effort against No. 3 Rock Canyon

        HIGHLANDS RANCH — Brighton gave a good effort against No. 3-seeded Rock Canyon during rainy conditions at Shea Stadium May 8.
        Although the effort was good, the outcome of the game did not go the way the Lady Bulldogs hoped as they suffered a 6-0 defeat during the first round of the class 5A girls state soccer championships.

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  • Late Eagles' rally ends BHS' baseball season

    Devin Robb
    Special to the Brighton Blade

        LITTLETON — An amazing season for Dakota Ridge came to a sour conclusion last Saturday at Dakota Ridge High School. After overcoming a 3-0 deficit to defeat Brighton 4-3 in the district semifinals, the Eagles lost to Mountain Vista 8-6 in a hard-fought championship game.

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  • Reflections on a year of sharing my opinions with you

    This week’s column is a major milestone.
        Perhaps there have been some bigger, but to me, this one is quite big. This week’s issue marks one year that I have been writing a column for the Commerce City Sentinel Express as well as the other MetroWest newspapers.
        To say that writing a column for the local paper is an ego boost would be like saying Custer had Indian problems.

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  • Wagner, Fishback to wed

        Richard and Julie Wagner of Brighton, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Audrey Leann Wagner, to Matthew Allen Fishback, son of Richard Fishback, of Grand Junction, and Pam Hohnstein of Denver.

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  • Syria saga a Middle Eastern re-run

    Donald Kaul

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  • Want to cut government waste? Start with all the blathering

    Oh, to be a chiropractor in Colorado these days.
        The amount of self-congratulatory back-patting being done by our elected officials in the Colorado Legislature is sure to prompt some pain after a while, given the superfluous exultations about the legislative session that ended last week.

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  • Two T-Hawks make it to state track meet

    BRIGHTON -- Two members of the Prairie View track and field team earned slots in this weekend's state 5A track meet at Jeffco Stadium.

    Shiloh Ortega qualified in two field events. His best high-jump effort of the season was 6 feet 3 inches, set at the conference meet in Westminster. The state competition begins at 8:30 a.m., Thursday. He also qualified in the triple jump, thanks to a leap of 43-6 3/4 at the Last Chance meet earlier this month. The triple jump begins at 8:30 a.m., Saturday.

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