Durango’s boys lacrosse team had never beaten Aspen going into Saturday. With 4 seconds to play in the game, the Skiers made sure that streak continued.
Tied at 8-8, Aspen received a bounce-shot goal from Reece Cohan. DHS head coach John Robinette said the shot came from about 17 yards out and couldn’t have been placed any better. The goal gave Aspen a 9-8 victory.
“We’re disappointed,” Robinette said. “We’re happy with the effort, but we didn’t get it done.”
Durango (4-1) trailed 4-2 after one quarter but outscored the Skiers (3-1) 4-0 in the second quarter to take a 6-4 lead into halftime. It was tied at 7-all going to the final quarter.
A Collin Barkley goal assisted by Cullen Robinette gave the Demons a brief lead, but the Skiers tied it three minutes later.
“There was won good back-and-forth action,” coach Robinette said. “We missed some opportunities, and there were good saves at both ends by the keepers. It was up-and-down action to the finish.”
Cullen Robinette had two goals and three assists. Kyle Robinette had one goal and scooped up seven ground balls. Jackson Steigelman had one goal and one assist in his first game back from a minor injury.
Barkley, Corbin Randle, Tommy Rodgers and Ryan Smith each scored one goal. Defenseman Dillon Coleman also had one assist.
DHS goalie Dylan Gaver made nine saves. Easton Verduzco was 11-of-15 on faceoff wins. Aspen had 30 shots, while Durango had 26.
Durango will get a chance at revenge May 6 at home against Aspen. The team will face Montrose on the road Tuesday before getting a few weeks off to gear up for the second half of the season.
The DHS girls lacrosse team fell to 0-4 over the weekend with a 9-6 loss Saturday at Steamboat Springs. The team also lost Friday at Summit. No score was reported.
Baseball
BaseballBattling into extra innings, the Durango Demons once again were on the wrong side of a walk-off game Saturday in Farmington.
The Demons closed out six games in two weeks at Farmington’s Ricketts Park with an 11-10 loss in eight innings to the Scorpions of Farmington High.
Durango is now 1-5 this season, but the team’s five losses have been by a combined six runs, and three have come via walk-off. A few at-bats are the difference in the Demons being 1-5 instead of 5-1.
“The odds of that seem pretty low,” DHS head coach Eric Baker said of the one-run losses. “The situation can either fracture the team and drive people apart or we can use it as motivation to know we could easily be winning these games. Losing like that is a tough thing, and it could go either way. We’ll have to find out.”
Durango out-hit Farmington 14-13. The Demons held a 8-6 lead going into the bottom of the seventh, but 12 walks in the game caught up to the DHS pitching staff. Farmington scored twice in the seventh to tie the game and send it to extra innings. Durango answered with two runs in the top of the eighth, but the Scorpions won it with three more runs in the bottom half of the extra frame.
Max Hyson had two runs batted in for Durango on a 2-for-5 day at the plate. Jacob Bourdon, Ryan Genauldi, Mark Lamareaux, Gavin Mestas, Tyler Ruetschle and Peyton Woolverton also drove in one run each. Dakota Padoven, Genauldi, Ruetschle and Woolverton all had two hits in the game, but DHS was held without an extra-base hit.
The Demons used five pitchers in the game. They struck out four and walked 12 in the combined effort.
Durango will try to regroup on the road in two weeks against Ponderosa and Fountain-Fort Carson.
The Wolverines opened their baseball season with a split doubleheader on the road.
After falling 5-4 to Gunnison in the first game, Bayfield responded with an 11-3 thumping of Olathe in the first games under new head coach Danny Petrie.
Statistics were not made available.
The Wolverines will stay on the road for their next four games, beginning with a trip Tuesday to San Juan in Blanding, Utah.
The Bobcats opened the season by hosting an invitational tournament. Ignacio lost all three games it played, including Saturday’s 14-0 loss in the fifth-place game to Sargent.
Ignacio lost 11-8 to Pagosa Springs and 4-1 to Buena Vista on Friday.
The Bobcats were held to two hits in Saturday’s loss. Marcus Chapman had a single to left in the bottom of the first, and Lawrence Valdez had a double in the second. Sargent pitcher Ryan Davis then sat down 10 of the next 11 batters he faced with one hit-by-pitch to Kai Roubideaux. Dalton Labarthe took the loss on the mound for Ignacio. He gave up four earned runs in two innings in which he walked three and struck out three and allowed three hits.
Ignacio will hit the road to face Hotchkiss on April 1.
Girls Soccer
Girls SoccerKailee Millard made 15 saves Saturday a day after making 14 against Manitou Springs. But it wasn’t enough for the Wolverines in a 4-1 loss to St. Mary’s.
Peri Milner scored in the 52nd minute with an assist from Savannah Kaufmann, but that was all the scoring the Bayfield girls soccer team (1-3) received in its third consecutive loss.
St. Mary’s scored three times in the first half and once in the second to secure the win. Goals from the Pirates came from Fatih Heery, Isabella Thomas, Cassidy Sorensen and Marisa Shigio.
Bayfield is back in action next Saturday at home against Crested Butte.
jlivingston@durangoherald.com
