Sports
Get an in-depth look at this week’s marquee game from an award-winning staff dedicated to prep sports in Lakewood.
Get an in-depth look at this week’s marquee game from an award-winning staff dedicated to prep sports in Lakewood.
To say the Bear Creek Bears dominated the Spartans of Thomas Jefferson would not do justice to the feat. Annihilation, probably wouldn’t work either. Think somewhere in the middle and you’ll begin to get the picture of how Saturday’s second-round playoff game went at Jeffco Stadium Saturday afternoon.
With football, soccer and other fall sports fading from the spotlight, Lakewood’s athletic teams begin to focus to winter sports. Practice for boys and girls basketball, ice hockey, girls swimming and wrestling officially begins November 12.
Ask any coach or athlete and they’ll tell you a week long layoff can be the kiss of death when the playoffs roll around. So with a two week layoff, one could well understand coach Mike Ackerman’s concern. When the Bear Creek Bears came out sluggish in their first-round state playoff game against the Coronado Cougars, Ackerman’s concern turned to real angst.
For a team built on batting, Green Mountain’s Ram softball team lost their bid in the state tournament Friday in a pitching duel during which the Rams could manage only two hits.
The Tiger’s season ended briskly Friday, much like the chilling afternoon breeze at Aurora Sports Complex, brought to an end by a hard-hitting team from Grand Junction Central.