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High School Sports

  • Lady Bulldogs look to build on last year's soccer success

    BRIGHTON – Last year, the Brighton Lady Bulldogs soccer team finished 10-5-1 and finished third in the East Metro Athletic Conference.

    And they had no seniors.

     

    Returning 12 letterman, four all-conference players and nearly everyone from last year’s team, Brighton looks to continue building the program and make the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.

    “Our goal is always to make the playoffs,” said head coach Gonzalo Godinez Luna, who enters his second season guiding the program.

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  • Gonzales ready to take the reins for Prairie View softball

    BRIGHTON — One thing is for sure. New Prairie View softball coach Mark Gonzales is excited to start next season, even though he has to wait five months or so for the first day of practice.
        Gonzales, who coached the Fort Lupton softball program for three years, takes over for Brandin Becher, who stepped down to spend more time with his family.  Becher guided the T-Hawks for their seven years of existence.
        Gonzales is the T-Hawks bench coach for the baseball team, too.

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  • Becher steps down after seven years as PVHS softball coach

    BRIGHTON — The only softball coach in Prairie View High School history won’t be back next year.
        “The direction I wanted to go with the program isn’t what others felt was needed,” Brandin Becher said. “I didn’t want to make that paradigm shift, so I decided to get out and try something different. I had an idea what I wanted to do. But it wasn’t accepted as much as I would have liked.

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  • Two games in two places turn into two losses for PVHS boys

     

     

    Prairie View played an unusual baseball twin bill Saturday. One game was in Erie. The second was a make-up of a snowed-out game at Overland against the Trailblazers.
        The game was moved to Overland’s field because the aftereffects of last week’s snowstorm. The ThunderHawks couldn’t pull out a win in either contest. Erie beat PVHS 13-3 in a game shortened to six innings because of the state’s mercy rule. Overland beat the T-Hawks 11-4 in the nightcap.

     

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  • BHS girls all-conference basketball

        Brighton High School landed four players on the Eastern Metro Athletic Conference girls basketball squads this season.
        Brielle Brady was a first-team choice. Cheyenne Siemering, Bryana Reyes, Cassie Kaiser and Aili Kremer were members of the second team.
        BHS advanced to the second round of the state 5A tournament.

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  • BHS boys all-conference hoops

        Collin Tabor of Brighton High School was a first-team selection to the all-Eastern Metro Athletic Conference boys basketball roster this season.
        The Bulldogs qualified for the state 5A tournament but lost in the opening round.

     

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  • PVHS all-conference girls hoops

        Prairie View High School walked away with the top two honors in postseason voting among the Eastern Metro Athletic Conference coaches.
        Rachel Parker was the conference’s coach of the year, and senior Jordan Wilson was the conference’s player of the year.
        Wilson was a first-team, all-EMAC selection. So was teammate Cierra Mendoza. Karissa Cardenas and Halley Lind were second-team choices.

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  • Hernandez inks with Hastings (Neb.) College

    BRIGHTON — Joel Hernandez had to make a mad dash across the student parking lot at Brighton High School Friday afternoon, minutes before a letter-of-intent program at which he was the featured attraction.
        Hernandez had to move his car out of the line of fire of the Bulldogs’ baseball practice Once that was accomplished, Hernandez raced inside the school and upstairs to the library.

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  • Fuller joins NCAA swimming elite again

    Editor's note: Breann Fuller of Brighton placed 24th in Friday's preliminary round of the 100-yard backstroke. Her time was 53.26.

    Her preliminary round of the 200-yard backstroke was Saturday morning, and again, she finished 24th in the field. Her time was 1:55.04, the third-fastest time in Colorado State University history. Fuller, who is a senior, finished seven places ahead of her pretournament seeding spot.
     

     

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  • Oberfoell takes the college plunge

    BRIGHTON — When Nikki Oberfoell leaves Brighton to play college volleyball, she will have to say so long to the Five Star Volleyball Club, too.

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