The majority of the local winter sports teams will compete in their first games and matches and meets this weekend. Of the county’s 15 high school teams, all but two will compete this week.
Bayfield’s wrestlers will be only teams at home this weekend. The Wolverines, both boys and girls, will begin their seasons at home on Friday, competing against Ignacio, Piedra Vista and Pagosa Springs in a quad.
The Durango boys wrestling team, meanwhile, will compete at the Moab Invitational on Friday. The Durango girls wrestling team will head to Pueblo for a pair of competitions, wrestling at Pueblo Central on Friday and at Dolores Huerta Prep on Saturday.
Four local basketball teams will head to la Jara to compete in Centauri’s Mountain Top Classic, including both Durango’s boys and girls and Ignacio’s boys and girls. The tournament was scheduled to begin on Thursday.
The Bayfield boys basketball team will begin its season at the Wolf Creek Classic in Pagosa Springs and play Montrose in the first round on Thursday. Bayfield’s girls were scheduled to play their first game Thursday night against Durango’s junior varsity.
The Durango girls swimming team is scheduled to race twice this week. On Friday, the Demons will race at Glenwood Springs. The team will then turn around and race at the GJ Relays Saturday at Colorado Mesa University. The team is scheduled to host its only two home meets of the season next week at Fort Lewis College, swimming against Sargent and Glenwood Springs at 4:30 p.m. Friday and Glenwood again at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Durango’s alpine skiing and ice hockey teams will be the last teams to compete. The Durango High School hockey team will begin its inaugural season competing as a CHSAA-sanctioned sport on its home ice next weekend at Chapman Hill. DHS will play Steamboat Springs next Friday in its first game. The coed ski team, meanwhile, will have its first race Jan. 9 in Keystone.
