Courtesy of Theresa Hamilton
The boys’ and women’ basketball groups at Glenwood Springs Excessive Faculty each began their season off on the proper foot Tuesday evening with victories over inter-county rival Rifle Excessive.
The Glenwood boys gained 63-40, regardless of giving up 18 factors from the free throw line to the host Bears, Demons coach Fred Heisel stated. On the defensive facet, nevertheless, Glenwood held Rifle scoreless within the first quarter and constructed a 33-15 benefit at halftime.
Junior Sim Wenger led the Demons with 21 factors, adopted by senior Edwin Olave with 10 and second Alan Hernandez with 9.
Rifle was paced by junior Logan Gross with 22 factors.
Each Glenwood Springs and Rifle are in motion on the highway Thursday, with the Demons at D’Evelyn at 7 p.m. and Rifle at Grand Junction at 3:30 p.m.
The Girl Demons outscored host Girl Bears within the women’ recreation on Tuesday, successful 65-24 and holding the Bears in single digits in every of the 4 quarters.
The Glenwood women host Chatfield for a non-league recreation at 3 p.m. Saturday.
In different Opening Week basketball motion on Tuesday, the Coal Ridge boys outscored the visiting Vail Mountain Gore Rangers, 44-33.
The Titans held a 24-19 benefit at halftime and held Vail Mountain to only 4 factors within the third quarter.
Coal Ridge senior James Webber had 17 factors, together with two from past the three-point arc, and junior Logan Simpson additionally had a pair of treys, which is his six factors on the evening.
Sophomore Ben Simons had 9 rebounds, six of them defensively.
Subsequent up for the Titans will likely be a pair of match video games on Dec. 7 and eight in opposition to Basalt and Montrose, adopted by a Dec. 10 go to to Glenwood Springs to tackle the Demons.
This weekend marks the annual Roaring Fork Excessive Faculty Brenda Patch match in Carbondale. The Rams boys will face Plateau Valley at 6:30 p.m. Friday and West Grand at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. The Rams women play Rifle at 5 p.m. Friday and Steamboat Springs at 1 p.m. Saturday.
New rankings for zone groups
The winter basketball season ushers in new classifications for space highschool groups.
The Colorado Excessive Faculty Actions Affiliation (CHSAA) has established a brand new 6A classification for Colorado’s largest faculties (enrollment of 1,453+ college students), all however one (Fruita Monument) within the Entrance Vary.
The ensuing reclassification break up a number of the conventional 3A and 4A groups within the Western Slope League which have produced epic clashes in recent times.
Glenwood Springs is now taking part in at degree 5A (939-1,452 college students) with WSL enemies Battle Mountain, Eagle Valley, and Palisade. The Demons will likely be grouped into the 4A/5A league throughout the common season with Rifle, Coal Ridge and Basalt, all of whom now play on the 4A degree (412-938 college students) so far as the playoffs go. Summit and Steamboat Springs, which had been in the identical rating with Glenwood Springs in latest seasons, will now even be included on this rating.
In the meantime, Roaring Fork and Grand Valley begin the season within the realigned Western Slope League 3A (191-411 college students) together with Cedaredge, Gunnison, Meeker, North Fork and Olathe.
The girls and boys of Aspen will play in separate rankings this season, with the boys competing within the WSL 4A and the women making use of for the 3A degree after the Girl Skiers’ varsity program was suspended for the previous two seasons in an effort to rebuild .
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