Two Roaring Fork High School spring sports programs were in action one final time before the end of the school year last weekend.
The Rams baseball team advanced to the 3A Regionals as the 27th seed in the 32-team tournament, falling to regional host No. 6 Colorado Academy in Denver on Saturday, May 18 by a score of 9-5.
The teams were knotted 2-2 coming into the fourth inning, before the Mustangs broke it open with three runs in the bottom of the fourth and four in the fifth. Roaring Fork answered with three runs in the sixth, but couldn’t complete the comeback.
Junior Cole Fenton had two hits with four plate appearances, with runs batted in by sophomores Kenny Riley and Donny Read, and freshman Chase Fenton.
The Rams concluded the season at 11-13 overall after finishing third in the 3A Western Slope League at 6-3.
Three Roaring Fork senior baseball players concluded their prep sports careers with the final game: Noel Richardson, Ben Oldham and Max Seitel-Hayes.
Two Roaring Fork track athletes represented the Rams and Carbondale at the State Track and Field Championships in Lakewood in the 3A division over the weekend.
Senior Kyra Reeds just missed the cut for finals in the 100-meter hurdles, finishing 11th with a time of 16.9 seconds. In the 300-meter hurdle event, she was 17th in 50.39 seconds.
Sophomore teammate Nikki Tardif competed in the 400-meter dash, finishing 15th with a time of 1 minute, 3.22 seconds.
Basalt High School had four podium finishes among its athletes at the state meet, including three by senior Jacey Read: fifth in the 100-meter dash in a season-best time of 12.47 seconds, fourth in the 200-meter dash with another season-best of 25.38 seconds, and fifth in the high jump, clearing 5 feet, 1 inch.
Also medaling, for the Longhorns boys, was junior Lorenzo Salazar Tedin in the 300-meter hurdles (sixth in the season-best 41.27 seconds). Junior Jared Tennenbaum qualified for finals in the 110-meter hurdles on Thursday with a seventh-place finish in 15.48 seconds, but was unable to compete in the Saturday finale.
Also competing at state for Basalt were senior Willow Bower, 18th in the 300 hurdles (50.90), the girls 4×100 relay team and, for the boys, senior Owen Lambert, 16th in the 800-meter run (2:00.05), and Tedin in the high jump, 14th (5-9).
