EAGLE \u2014 Battle Mountain hockey moved into the Sweet 16 with a 6-1 drubbing of Mullen on Wednesday night at the Eagle Pool & Ice Rink during Round 1 of the state hockey playoffs.<\/p>\n
Garrett Flaagan\u00a0opened the scoring on a helper from Bronson Fiore during the first period. In the second, it was a whole lot of Dillon Flaagan. He had a hat trick during the middle stanza. Dillon\u2019s first goal came from Harry Green and Garrett.<\/p>\n
Green and Parker Nash fed Dillon Flaagan for No. 2, and Garrett Flaagan\u00a0had his third short-handed from Fiore. In the middle of that hat trick, Joey Beveridge put one in the net as the Huskies had a commanding 5-0 lead after two periods.<\/p>\n
With two assists in his pocket, Green scored Battle Mountain\u2019s sixth. The Huskies ended up outshooting the Mustangs, 51-13.<\/p>\n
The No. 12-seeded Huskies advance to the second round against No. 5 Denver East at the Family Sports Arena in Denver on Friday.<\/p>\n
Holy bracket-buster, Batman.<\/p>\n
Eagle Valley boys’ basketball brought a little early March Madness as the No. 41 Devils upended No. 24 Conifer, 57-53, on Wednesday night during the first round of the 4A state playoffs.<\/p>\n
And, with the win, the Devils (9-13) are off to Centaurus on Saturday for Round 2.<\/p>\n
“The guys are just loving it,” Devils coach Justin Brandt said. “They gelling as a team, and enjoying that they get to keep on spending more time together.”<\/p>\n
One of the members of the team was rather wet after the Conifer win. Junior Keegan Garvey rightly got the water-bottle treatment after leading the team with 17 points, helped by a 5-for-7 night from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Xaver Johnson had 13 points for the triumphant Devils, while Tony Hernandez did the job defensively on Conifer point-guard Landon Wallace.<\/p>\n
The Devils last made the postseason in 2017, a 58-56 loss to Wheat Ridge, in Gypsum. Eagle Valley’s last postseason win was on Feb. 27, 2013, a 45-36 win over Erie<\/a>.<\/p>\n By the way, Conifer won the Colorado 8 League this season, so that’s a feather in the collective cap of the 4A Slope.<\/p>\n No. 3 Steamboat Springs and No. 7 Glenwood Springs had byes through the first round. Battle Mountain fell to Widefield, 62-59, on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n