Two Roaring Fork High School spring sports teams are in the state playoffs, and another is also in a good position to earn a postseason bid.
Starting off with the combined Roaring Fork-Glenwood-Basalt-CRMS girls lacrosse team, the Rams enter the 24-team 4A state playoffs as the No. 3 seed — the highest postseason seeding in the program’s eight-year history.
The Rams concluded the regular season at 13-2 overall and finished second in the 4A Mountain East League at 8-2, behind only Battle Mountain. The Huskies handed Roaring Fork its only two losses this spring and earned the No. 1 seed for the state playoffs. Golden is the No. 2 seed.
The Rams closed out the regular season last week with a 17-3 win at Summit on April 29 (six and five points respectively for seniors Jordyn Miller and Juliana Pittz) and a 22-1 win at Denver North on May 1 (six points for freshman Scarlett Jones).
The win streak solidified a first-
round bye, and the Rams are set to play on their home field at 6:30pm Thursday against No. 14 Fruita Monument, 13-11 winners over No. 19 Horizon on Tuesday. “The captains have been huge this year, just setting the pace and the tone, and really working hard in practice,” first-year head coach Dahl Miller said of senior co-captains Alivya Malcolm, Ava Montemayor, Jordyn Miller and Juliana Pittz. “We’ve been doing a lot of competitive practices, just to keep sharp and keep that energy up.”
Dahl also credited new assistant coaches Jessica Owings and Ashley Travis for helping to establish team expectations and getting player buy-in this season.
“We’re not playing ‘me’ ball out there,” he said. “We have a handful of younger kids that are really contributing a lot this year, and I think that stems from that leadership.”
A win Thursday will give the Rams another home quarterfinal game on Saturday afternoon, game time to be determined.
*Also making it to the postseason was the combined Glenwood-Roaring Fork-Basalt boys lacrosse team. The Demons entered as the No. 15 seed, but fell at home Tuesday 6-5 to No. 18 Mullen.
Girls soccer is in
The Roaring Fork Lady Rams soccer team also earned a trip to the 3A state playoffs, as the 30th seed in the 32-team field.
The Rams were set to travel to play No. 3 Colorado Academy on Thursday, after concluding the season at 4-8-3 overall and 3-3-2 in the 3A Western Slope League, finishing fifth.
Roaring Fork lost 5-2 at home versus Mullen on April 30 (goals by sophomore Helina McCracken and freshman Jocelyn Rivera), and closed out the regular season with a 4-1 win at Rifle on May 2.
Baseball in position
The Rams baseball team carries a four-game win streak into the final two games of the regular season. A 7-6 win over North Fork at home Tuesday night bettered the Rams’ position ahead of the 3A playoffs, to be announced this weekend.
Before the latest win, Roaring Fork scored a 4-1 win at Rifle on April 29, and won a double-header sweep (8-4 and 12-2) over Moffat County in Carbondale on senior night May 1.
As of earlier this week, Roaring held the No. 28 spot out of 32 playoff teams. The Tuesday win improved their record to 10-11 overall, while sitting at 5-5 in league play.
The Rams were set to close out the regular season with a pair of games against league-leading Aspen, starting at the Skiers place on Wednesday (game result not available by press time), and closing things out at home this Saturday, May 9 (12pm game time at Ron Patch Memorial Field).
Track & Field
Roaring Fork’s track and field athletes competed at the Class 3A Western Slope League Championships, held at Coal Ridge High School on April 30 and May 1. Placing in the top eight of their respective events (several with personal record times along the way) to earn team points were:
Girls — junior Karysa Close, fifth 100-meter dash (14.11 seconds); senior Caroline Cole, eighth in both the 1600- and 800-meter runs (5:53.06/2:36.49); sophomore Kinley Richmond, seventh 3200 meters (13:45.14); sophomore Juni Mullet, seventh 100-meter hurdles (20.12); 4×100 relay (Close, Mullet, and juniors Kenna Bure and Sadie Silcox), fifth (55.29); 4×200 relay (Friel, Mullet, Bure, and sophomore Sophia Warner), fifth (2:07.43); 4×800 relay (Richmond, Cole, Silcox and junior Miley Stuart), fourth (10:57.32); 4×400 relay (Warner, Richmond, Mullet, and freshman Maggie Cole), sixth (5:11.3).
Boys — sophomore Levi Friday, third 1600 (4:43.14) and eighth 800 (2:07); junior Quentin Galbraith, sixth 400 meters (53.24); senior Eli Norris, sixth long jump (18 feet, 8 inches); freshman Colby Horst, seventh 100 (24.64); 4×100 (Galbraith, Horst, junior Davey Noyola and sophomore Michael Fefes), fourth (45.62); 4×800 (Friday, sophomores Kaiden Werth and Waylon Applegate, and freshman Elliot Galbraith), sixth (10:14.26).
Roaring Fork athletes were set to compete at a pair of “last chance” meets this week, at Grand Junction on Wednesday and in Parachute on Saturday.