Emmett Layman put the Skyhawks on the board in the 10th minute and goals from Anton Hjalmarsson and Gabriel Legendre slammed the door shut late in the second half to guide the Fort Lewis College men's soccer team to its first win of the season over Eastern New Mexico University 3-1 on Saturday at Dirks Field.
FLC improved to 1-1 overall with the win and will close out its three-game home stand at 7 p.m. Saturday against West Texas A&M University.
Sophomore Josie Coulter and freshman Abila Tapia scored their first career goals on Monday, guiding the Fort Lewis College women's soccer team to a 2-1 win over Adams State University in a nonconference tilt.
Fort Lewis improved to 1-0-1 on the year after tying Eastern New Mexico University on Saturday in its season opener in neutral Alamosa. Monday’s victory was the program's first on the road since the 2021 season. The Skyhawks outshot the Grizzlies 8-2, including a 5-1 advantage in shots on goal.
FLC will next play Midwestern State on Friday and Chaminade University on Sunday on a neutral field in Gunnison.
The Fort Lewis College volleyball team wrapped up its opening weekend with a pair of four-set losses at the Patriot Classic in Texas to start its year 1-3 overall.
FLC rallied to beat St. Edwards 3-2 on Friday to improve to 1-1. On Saturday, FLC took the University of Texas-Tyler into extra points in two games, but ultimately fell 25-10, 25-22, 24-26 and 28-26.
The Skyhawks closed out the tournament against Southern Nazarene University, but came up short 25-22, 18-25, 25-20 and 25-17.
The Skyhawks will next host their home tournament on Thursday through Saturday in Whalen Gymnasium. FLC is scheduled to play Texas A&M International at 5 p.m. Thursday, Angelo State University at 3 p.m. Friday, East Central University at 7 p.m. Friday and Southwestern Oklahoma State at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
A day after beating Pueblo West 4-1, the Durango High School boys soccer team scored a second win on the Front Range. The Demons trailed Mead 1-0 at halftime in their contest on Saturday, but DHS rallied and scored two goals in the second half to earn a 2-1 victory.
The Demons (4-1 overall) will next host Grand Junction (2-1-1) to start league play at 5 p.m. Friday.
The Bayfield High School cross-country teams ran in the Lake County Cross-Country Invitational on Saturday in Leadville.
Porter Sutherlin finished sixth in 21 minutes and 49 seconds in the high school boys to lead BHS. Parker Perkewicz (37th), Will Kennedy-Jones (42nd), Hunter Carrol (51st) and Ryan Kurtz (72nd) also ran for the Wolverines, who finished seventh as a team. Green Mountain won the boys title, led by individual champ Bryce Weeks (20:50).
The BHS girls didn’t post a team score, but had four runners compete. Wrenalee Moore finished 23rd in 27:37 to lead BHS while Mila Feely crossed 54th, Kamala Smith was 70th and Sage Flinders finished 83rd. Lake County won the girls team title, led by first-place finisher Keira King (23:25).
BHS will next run at the Joe Vigil Invitational in Alamosa on Saturday.
The fifth annual Durango Devo Film Fest will take place on Sept. 15 at the Chapman Hill Ice Rink. The event will have an hour of local films and then feature Anthill Films’ movie, “The Engine Inside.” Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with the films starting at 6:30 p.m.
The fundraiser benefits the team’s scholarship fund, coach training, vehicle maintenance and more. More information and tickets at https://durangodevo.com/film-fest/
The CHSAA Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve a modification to how the MaxPreps and RPI rankings are combined to form the CHSAA Seeding Index recently.
This modification only targets how the RPI and MaxPreps ranking systems are combined. The system itself is not changing.
In the past, the rankings from the RPI and MaxPreps systems were combined and averaged. This resulted in an average of more than one-third of teams from each classification being tied in the final CHSAA Seeding Index across sports. Therefore, the Board – which, by policy, determines the process for postseason qualification ranking systems – voted to address the overwhelming number of ties in the current format.
Effective this fall season, each team's MaxPreps and RPI ranking values will be normalized within their classification, then combined and averaged. This normalization will put the values on a common scale, so they can be combined in a meaningful way.
This does not modify the weighting of the RPI and MaxPreps in the Seeding Index. They both will continue to account for 50% of a team’s final value.
