Editor’s note: John Stroud is a Roaring Fork High School track and field coach and a substitute teacher at several Roaring Fork School District schools.
The Roaring Fork High School varsity boys soccer team picked up a pair of wins over the past week to move to 2-1 on the young season.
The Rams hosted Telluride on Aug. 28, downing the Miners 7-1 after going up three goals to one in the first half, and collecting a 4-0 shutout in the second half.
Senior Oliver Shook scored three goals and had an assist in the contest, and senior goalie Quentin Galbraith had three saves.
The next day, the Rams made the short trip to Glenwood Springs, scoring a 3-0 win. Scoring stats were not posted for the game.
Next up, Roaring Fork is scheduled to play on the road at Steamboat Springs on Thursday, Sept. 3, and the Rams are due back home on Sept. 9 for a matchup with intradistrict rival Basalt (6pm game time) at Rams Field.
Girls volleyball
The Lady Rams volleyball team moved to 2-5 overall and 0-1 in 3A Western Slope League play this past week during a three-game home stand.
Roaring Fork won 3-0 over 2A Grand Valley (25-20, 25-15, 25-19) on Aug. 25, followed by a 1-3 loss to 2A North Fork (11-25, 26-24, 14-25, 11-25) on Aug. 27, and a 0-3 loss to 3A league foe Gunnison (27-29, 11-25, 18-25) on Aug. 29.
Games stats have not been posted to MaxPpreps.
This week, the Lady Rams were to travel to play league rival Coal Ridge on Tuesday, before taking the Labor Day weekend off. Roaring Fork is on the road at Glenwood Springs on Tuesday, Sept. 8 (6:30pm varsity game time).
Football
Following a 41-0 defeat at the hands of Gunnison in the season opener, the Roaring Fork football program has decided to cancel the varsity schedule and play a junior varsity slate of games instead, to be determined.
Softball
The combined Basalt-Roaring Fork-Glenwood Springs girls softball team scored a pair of wins at home on Aug. 29, 17-14 over Valley and 13-11 over Platte Valley, to improve to 3-5 on the season.
Against Valley, the Longhorns’ Elsie Mile had four hits and six runs brought in, and against Platte Valley, Hadley Ivy had four hits, including a home run, with three RBIs, while also pitching a complete game with two strikeouts and three earned runs.
Community track meet fundraiser
Coming up on Monday, Sept. 14, at the Rams Field track (next to Carbondale Middle School) is the inaugural Carbondale Community All-Ages Track meet, from 5-7:30pm. This is a fundraiser for the RFHS Track & Field Team. The fee is $25 for adults to enter as many events as they’d like, and free for students K-12. Donations are welcome. Events will include 100 meters, 200M, 400M, 800M, 1600M, a 110M hurdle shuttle relay, 4×100 and 4×400 relays, high jump, long jump, shot put and a special 3.2 kilometer cross country race.