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Today's Sports

  • By leaps and bounds

    LAKEWOOD — Brighton’s Kiana Gomez started the state 5A 100-meter hurdles by setting a personal record.
        And then it got better.
        Gomez, who is just a freshman, took sixth place in Saturday’s finals. Her time was 15.01, which is .05 of a second off her top time set in Thursday’s preliminary round.

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  • PVHS' Wilkins, BHS'...

    GRAND JUNCTION -- Prairie View's Jordyn Wilkins finished the state 5A golf tournament in a tie for 54th place.

    She shot a 91-94 -- 185 in the two-day tournament at Tiara Rodo Golf Course.

    Brighton's Reagan Ritchey wound up in a tie for 51st place. She fired a 99-93 -- 182 at state.

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  • State track meet gods not kind...

    LAKEWOOD — Brighton’s Deziree Lipsett was disappointed after her parts in this year’s state 5A track and field meet.
        She was so disappointed, she was near tears.
        “I was disappointed with what I did. I can do so much better. But I made it, and that’s what matters,” said the BHS junior.

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  • BHS freshman triple jumper...

    LAKEWOOD — After some moment to think about an eighth-place finish in her first state 5A track-and-field meet, Brighton’s Angelica Santos allowed as how she was happy.
        “Umm. Yes. I guess,” she said. “I also PR’d (set a personal record) today. This isn’t close to my old record. I didn’t think I was going to place. I started in 11th and made my way up to eighth because other girls didn’t compete as well.”

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  • Cole stays in area for more...

    BRIGHTON -- Prairie View's Andrew Cole found a school in northwest Denver that offers college football and a chance to pursue his interest in biblical studies.

    That school is Zoubida Cole College, and Cole signed his letter of intent May 15.

     

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  • Tabor's search for hoops,...

    BRIGHTON -- Collin Tabor signed his letter of intent to play basketball at Webster University in St. Louis May 15.

     

    He wanted to play for a school in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Some RMAC schools offered him a football scholarship but nothing for basketball.

    Webster University offered the next best option .. a chance to play basketball and to study journalism.

    "I'm really excited to play a sport I love for four more years," he said. "It's really a special day."

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  • BHS lands all-EMAC swimmers

        Here’s the list of all-Eastern Metro Athletic Conference swimmers from Brighton High School for the recent spring season.
        Leo Keefe: Second team 50-yard freestyle; second team 100- butterfly; first team 200-freestyle relay; first team, 400-freestyle relay.
        Aaron Hewlett: Second team 50-freestyle and 100- butterfly; first team 200-freestyle relay and 400-freestyle relay.
        Carson Combs: Second team, 200-medley relay.

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  • PVHS needs girls golf coach

        Prairie View High School needs a new girls golf coach. Apply online at www.sd27j.org and reference No. 685.
     

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  • Area all-conference baseball...

        The two local prep baseball teams were well-represented on this year’s all-conference rosters in the Eastern Metro Athletic Conference.
        Brighton’s Ty Archuleta, TJ Egloff, James Smith, Ricky Lane, Brian Kelley, Rodney Morales and Caden Pratt were first-team choices. So were Prairie View’s Caleb Dameron and Ian Downs.

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  • Brighton area baseball alums...

    One former Brighton baseball player is in the National Junior College World Series this weekend in Grand Junction, but another ex-player didn’t quite make it that far.

                Brighton High School grad Zac Nance, who played for the Bulldogs two years ago, and the rest of his Cochise Junior College teammates won the NJCAA Western District tournament over the weekend in Sterling and advanced to the JUCO World Series.

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