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Today's Sports

  • High Five: The best sports...

    What did you want for the holidays?

    World peace? An Xbox? Snowboard? How about yet another year-end list?

    Since we’re all out of the first three items, you’ll get the last. And you’ll like it.

    The world doesn’t revolve around sports, but it sure makes things a lot more fun. And sports is a major part of the identity of folks along the 285 corridor -- from Conifer to Platte Canyon.

    Since you asked for it, here it is, folks. The top five sports stories of 2009 in the order they happened.

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  • Conifer girls take it to D&...

    The D’Evelyn Jaguars certainly had Conifer’s attention before the two teams met again Dec. 18.

    The Jaguars were just one point worse than the Lobos in their Dec. 12 nonleague meeting in Steamboat Springs.

    “They came in really confident,” Lobos junior Alison Gorrell said of the visitors. “We kind of let our confidence get down from the other game, because we knew we didn’t play well, so we just tried to stay together as a team and keep our confidence up.”

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  • Swim coach staying strong...

    EVERGREEN — If  you ever catch a look of discomfort amid the smiles on Julia Purrington’s face, you’re probably right.

    Getting run over by a car, spending weeks in the hospital, struggling to recover from horrific injuries while having good days, not-so-good days and bad days as an elite triathlete, wife and mother of two will weigh down even the lightest spirit.

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  • Depth to carry Lobos

    For once, both Platte Canyon and Conifer high schools get to compete in the same class. Whether that’s good or not may depend on who you ask.

    For Platte Canyon, a 2A school in most other sports, its swim team has to compete with schools that have three times the amount of students enrolled.

    “It’s brutal on us, going up against 4A schools” coach Glenn Hardy said. “We’re overmatched in most cases.”

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  • Conifer boys, girls open hoops...

    Boys basketball

    Tough start begins with tough

    results for Lobos

    At 14,115 feet, Pikes Peak is a daunting fixture of nature.

    The Pikes Peak Tip-Off Classic proved to be a daunting trio of fixtures for the Conifer Lobos.

    The Lobos returned to the annual Colorado Springs-based tournament to open their season last week and went 0-3 with losses to Class 5A power Palmer, defending 4A state champion and top-ranked Sierra, and 5A’s Littleton.

    Ain’t no mountain high enough.

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  • Jackson, Sun Devils topple...

    Mikey Gunkel didn’t know what to say.

    After Platte Canyon saw its perfect season come to a screeching halt with a 42-21 loss to Kent Denver in the Class 2A state semifinals, all Gunkel could do was fight back tears and shrug his shoulders.

    “We played our (butts) off,” the junior running back/linebacker said. “We just fell short.”

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  • Despite loss, season was a...

    Rarely has history repeated itself in such drastically different ways.

    Yet here we all were Nov. 28, watching the 12-0 Platte Canyon Huskies go down swinging in the Class 2A state semifinals. The Huskies followed the same script that ended last year with a loss to Erie, making just a slight modification from 2007 when they lost in the final to Platte Valley.

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  • What is toughness?

    Andy Magelky chases Holy Family quarterback Joe Sommers out of the pocket, deeper into the cold shade and a moment of decision. Frustratingly close, Sommers throws before a sprinting Magelky can catch him, connecting with Bryan Murphy for a 16-yard gain to give the Tigers a first down and put them on the Platte Canyon 34-yard line.

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  • Huskies rally past Tigers

    All signs seemed to be pointing to something sinister Nov. 21 for the Platte Canyon Huskies.

    First possession? Three-and-out, which Holy Family quickly turned into a touchdown.

    Second possession? Fumble, recovered by the Tigers and turned into another touchdown.

    Third possession? Fumble.

    OK, so regroup at halftime and start over, right? First possession in the third quarter? Fumble on the first play.

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  • Loss tough to swallow

    FALCON — Football can be a cold and unforgiving sport.

    Considering just how cold it was Saturday in a small town 14 miles northeast of Colorado Springs, and just how painfully the Conifer Lobos lost, it made for one cruel afternoon.

    The Lobos (7-4), seeded 11th in the Class 3A state playoffs, dominated the sixth-seeded Falcon Falcons (10-1) all day, save for two plays. Those two plays went for touchdowns — the game-winner coming with 1:49 remaining — as the Lobos were defeated 12-7 to bring their season to a frosty end.

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