The days are finally warming up, and the outdoor practice fields in Carbondale have come alive with spring sports.
For Roaring Fork High School, that means baseball, girls soccer, girls lacrosse, boys and girls track and field, plus a combined school boys lacrosse team hosted by Glenwood Springs High, and girls tennis and golf hosted by Basalt High.
The Rams baseball team is off to a 1-3 start to the young season, recording home losses to Evergreen, 9-1, on March 11, and to Montrose 16-7 on March 13, with a road loss at Kent Denver, 6-5, on March 12.
The lone win so far came March 16, 11-0 over Littleton at home.
Next up for the Rams is a road trip to Grand Junction on Thursday to play Castle View at Canyon View Field. Then it’s back home for a double header on Saturday versus Liberty Common. Game times are 10am and 2pm at Ron Patch Memorial Field.
Roaring Fork’s track and field team opened the season at the Rifle Invitational on March 15, where sophomore Nikki Tardif took second in her first-ever 400 meter race, with a time of 1 minute, 3.68 seconds. Tardif also took 10th in the 200 meter event (28.84) and senior Kyra Reeds was 12th in the 100 meter hurdles (20.42).
The soccer ladies got a win Tuesday at home over Fruita Monument, 1-0, to improve their record to 1-1-1. The Rams’ goal came in the second half off a corner kick from junior Emma Charters.
In earlier soccer action, Roaring Fork tied Vail Mountain at home 2-2 on March 13, with goals coming from Charters and senior Avery Shook. The Rams lost 3-0 at Montrose on March 16.
The soccer team is off until after spring break, when they host Coal Ridge on April 4.
Girls lacrosse, which combines players from Roaring Fork, Basalt and Glenwood Springs, is 0-2 after a pair of close losses to start the season: 16-14 at Mullen on Tuesday and 8-7 at Aspen on March 13.
Against Aspen, junior Hailey Wolfe found the net three times, with goals also coming from junior Josie McKinley-Kitchell, senior Gracie Garcia, senior Lucianna Phillips and sophomore Jordyn Miller.
Boys lacrosse is 1-0 after a 19-4 win March 16 at Durango. Goals in the season opener came from sophomore Kiko Pena (5), junior Tristen Bledsaw (4), senior Cooper Chacos (3), junior Sawyer Harrington (3), senior Ian Cole (2, with 5 assists), senior Jett Weatherred, and junior Canyon Cherney. Senior goaltender Marek Senn had 15 saves.
The Demons are at Eagle Valley on Thursday, ahead of the spring break.
Girls tennis opens their season at Aspen on Thursday.