Day three of the JUCO World Series saw a couple of teams suffer their first loss of the tournament, as well as the field get trimmed down to seven teams
The Blinn Buccaneers had a successful first game of this year’s JUCO World Series, taking down the Gaston Rhinos at a final of 9-3 in their first game back in the Grand Valley in nine years.
Day one of the Junior College World Series saw some games go dramatically back and forth, and some, where teams showed why they made it to Grand Junction.
The Central Florida Patriots and Johnson County Cavaliers are the top two seeded teams at this year’s JUCO World Series, and both are bringing star studded rosters to Grand Junction.
After Nikola Jokic’s monster game in the opener, his pick-and-roll partner Jamal Murray took the spotlight in the Western Conference finals Thursday night.Murray scored 23 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter, propelling the Denver Nuggets to a 108-103 come-from-behind win over the Los Angeles Lakers for a 2-0 lead in the series.
The Palisade Bulldogs Baseball Team is scorching hot just in time for state playoffs. After a hot-and-cold start to the season, the Bulldogs snapped bacl to their usual dominant form, going 8-0 in the Western Slope League and rattling off 15 consecutive wins.
Nikola Jokic's powerful display at both ends of the court propelled the Denver Nuggets past the Los Angeles Lakers 132-126 in the opener of the Western Conference Finals.
CMU Baseball came into the RMAC Tournament as the number one seed, and acted like it all tournament long, outscoring their opponents 49-18 en route to the 2023 Tournament Title.
The Palisade Bulldogs Baseball Team took both games of their double header against the Eagle Valley Devils to close out their regular season. In doing so, not only did they extend their winning streak to fifteen games, but they also captured the Western Slope League Title for a seventh consecutive season. The title also makes it six in a row under Head Coach Nate Porter.
Denver's series victory comes two seasons after the Nuggets were embarrassed in a second-round postseason sweep by the Suns. The Nuggets will play in the conference finals for the first time since they lost to the Lakers in five games in the Florida bubble during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Fruita Monument High School Girls Lacrosse Team came into their first-round playoff matchup against the Steamboat Springs Sailors with one thing on their mind, redemption.The Wildcats had lost to the sailors during the regular season at a score of 13-7.
Jurickson Profar hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the top of the seventh inning to lift Colorado by Pittsburgh 4-3. Less than 24 hours after homering twice in a 10-1 rout
With the regular seasons in the Western Slope League and Southwestern League coming to a close the Palisade High School Bulldogs and Fruita Monument High School Wildcats both finished at the top of their respective standings.
With the Nuggets the top-seed in the Western Conference, Denver has never seemed to be mistaken for much beyond an NBA novelty. And if there really is gold at the end of all those rainbows, a real Nuggets fan will have to see it to believe it.
The Delta Panthers Baseball Team was an absolute buzzsaw in the month of April. Outscoring their competition by a ten to one margin over their last eight games.
The return of the Junior College World Series to Grand Junction is less than a month away. Here’s the latest rankings from the NJCAA, with some of the teams that could look to make a tournament run at Suplizio Field.
Jamal Murray scored 34 points, hitting six of Denver's 16 3-pointers, and the Nuggets sprinted past the Phoenix Suns 125-107 in Game 1 of their second-round series.
Geraldo Perdomo homered among his three hits and drove in four runs, Christian Walker also homered among his three hits and the Arizona Diamondbacks sent the Colorado Rockies to a seventh consecutive home loss
Artturi Lehkonen scored twice, including an empty-net goal in the closing seconds, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Seattle Kraken 4-1 to force a Game 7
The Colorado Avalanche are not commenting on the status of forward Valeri Nichushkin, who has been away from the team for a few days. The team also will not comment on a police report about an incident at the team hotel in Seattle last weekend.
Grand Junction High School Sophomore Will Applegate can hit his receivers in stride on the gridiron, hit shots on the basketball court, and hit line drives on the baseball diamond.
Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen scored in a 1:28 span early in the third period and the Colorado Avalanche spoiled Seattle Kraken's first home playoff game with a 6-4 victory Saturday night in Game 3 of the first-round series.
Nick Castellanos hit his first two home runs of the season and Cristian Pache also went deep for the first time this season to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 4-3 win over the Colorado Rockies.
Nikola Jokic had his seventh career triple-double in the playoffs with 20 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists as the Denver Nuggets fended off the Minnesota Timberwolves 120-111 to take a 3-0 lead in their first-round NBA playoff series.
Devon Toews scored with 7:01 remaining to complete Colorado's rally from two goals down as the Avalanche beat the Seattle Kraken 3-2 to even their first-round series at a game apiece.
Ryan Feltner tossed 5 2/3 scoreless innings, C.J. Cron homered and the Colorado Rockies snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 5-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Palisade Baseball Team made history taking down the Fruita Monument Wildcats for the first time in a really long time. A huge contributor, both on the mound and at the plate was Senior Pitcher and Outfielder Ryker Harsha
Alex Wennberg had a goal and an assist, Philipp Grubauer stopped 34 shots and the Seattle Kraken made a successful playoff debut by beating the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche 3-1. The second-year Kraken became the 13th expansion franchise to earn a win in their first postseason game
Jack Suwinski homered twice and drove in three runs, Vince Velasquez recovered from a rough start to pitch six solid innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat Colorado 5-3, sending the Rockies to a season-high seventh consecutive loss.
Evan Rodrigues scored the go-ahead goal on a wrist shot early in the third period to help the Colorado Avalanche remain in control for the Central Division crown with a 4-2 win over the Winnipeg Jets.
The Fruita Monument High School Girls Soccer Team has been outright dominating on the soccer pitch, winning seven straight matches. But it’s not just that they’ve been winning but how they have been winning. In all of the seven wins during this winning streak the Wildcats haven’t surrendered a goal
Nolan Gorman sparked St. Louis' three-run ninth inning with a tiebreaking solo homer off Pierce Johnson, and the Cardinals topped the Colorado Rockies 9-6.
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