The 4A Southwestern league-leading Durango High School boys soccer team beat the No. 2 team in the SWL, Grand Junction High School 3-0 on Saturday to tighten its grip on the league.
The Demons led 2-0 at halftime and added an insurance goal in the second to improve to 12-0 overall and 5-0 in the SWL. Sam Persing, Nik Korte and Teryk Webber scored for DHS.
Grand Junction is now 8-3, 4-2 after suffering its first home loss of the year.
In the 4A/5A Southwestern volleyball league, Durango, also No. 1 in the standings, beat Grand Junction Central on Friday, 25-14, 25-11 and 25-15.
Leah Wolf recorded a team-high 11 kills in the game while six Demons served at least one ace. Brooklyn Messier also had 20 digs in the win.
On Saturday, however, the Demons lost their first league game at Fruita Monument, snapping the team’s six-game winning streak. The Wildcats won 25-20, 25-18, 21-25 and 25-22. Durango, however, still leads the league at 5-1 and 10-3 overall. Montrose (4-8, 3-1) is second with one league loss as well; the two teams will face off at 5 p.m. Thursday, not Friday as originally scheduled, at DHS. Fruita is third in the league at 6-7, 4-2.
Durango was also scheduled to play Pagosa Springs on Tuesday as this paper was going to press.
The Ignacio High School volleyball team picked up a pair of league wins over Ridgway on Saturday, 25-8, 25-10, 25-5 and then 25-15, 25-19, 25-16 to improve to 9-7 overall and 3-1 in the 2A/1A San Juan Basin League. Ignacio is second in the league behind Dove Creek (15-0, 5-0).
Fort Lewis football played at Colorado State University Pueblo on Saturday, but got blown away 75-3. CSU Pueblo averaged roughly 10 yards per play in the first half while holding FLC to about one yard per play to build a 49-3 halftime lead and cruise. Fort Lewis finished with 157 yards of total offense, including 140 passing yards, while CSUP gained 537.
For FLC volleyball, senior libero Kamryn Lopez registered 19 digs in a four-set win over Westminster College on Saturday to become the 15th player in program history to surpass 1,000 career digs. FLC won the match 31-29, 25-20, 23-25 and 25-22. On Friday, however, No. 21 Colorado Mesa beat the Skyhawks, 25-15, 25-19 and 25-10.
Gabriel Legendre and Tomas Duenes both scored to lift the Fort Lewis College men's soccer team to its first Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference win of the season over Colorado Mesa University 2-1 on Friday night.
On Sunday, however, the Skyhawks struggled and fell to Westminster, 3-0.
Senior Madyson Barela scored her second goal in as many games as the Fort Lewis College women's soccer team captured a 3-1 win over Colorado Christian University in RMAC play on Friday.
On Sunday, FLC shut out Adams State, 1-0, to score its third straight win.
After a scoreless first half, Hannah Paschke drew a foul inside the box in the 64th minute. Paschke made the most of the penalty kick and drilled a goal in the top right corner that proved to be the game winner.
The Fort Lewis men’s golf team competed at the Ryan Palmer Invitational in Amarillo, Texas, but couldn’t overcome some Day 1 struggles and finished 14th as a team. FLC shot a 303 as a team in the first round, followed by a 290 in the second round and then finished with a Round 3 score of 279.
