{"id":1316190,"date":"2019-10-28T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T23:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=990224"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T23:52:03","slug":"five-garfield-county-prep-soccer-teams-make-it-to-the-state-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/five-garfield-county-prep-soccer-teams-make-it-to-the-state-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Garfield County prep soccer teams make it to the state playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/GlenwoodMontrosesoccer-GPI-091319-1-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/GlenwoodMontrosesoccer-GPI-091319-1-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/GlenwoodMontrosesoccer-GPI-091319-1-1-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Glenwood Springs Demon Alan Videla dribbles the ball past the defending Montrose Indians in a Sept. 12 1-0 win at home.<\/strong><br \/><em>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Garfield County will have a No. 1 seed and one other top-five seed as the Colorado high school boys soccer state playoffs are set to begin later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Glenwood Springs Demons earned the No. 13 seed in the Class 4A playoffs, and will host their first game on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>State playoff pairings were announced Monday by the Colorado High School Activities Association.<\/p>\n<p>Carbondale\u2019s Colorado Rocky Mountain School enters the 12-team 2A state tournament as the top seed in the smaller-school classification.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The independent college prep school soccer team, under the tutelage of coach Dan Pittz, compiled a 7-3-1 record on the season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Oysters earned a bye to the quarterfinals and won\u2019t play until Nov. 6 versus the winner of a first-round matchup between No. 8 Mile High Academy and No. 9 Denver Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky Mountain School would host the game. However, depending on the weather over the week, Pittz said the match could be moved to a location that has an artificial turf field.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Rams No. 5 in 3A<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Across town, the 3A Western Slope League champion Roaring Fork High School Rams earned the No. 5 seed among 32 teams in the state 3A tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Roaring Fork (11-2-1 overall) will face the No. 28 Peak to Peak Pumas (6-9), likely either Friday or Saturday. Though the Rams would play host, that venue could also be determined by this week\u2019s winter weather, coach Nick Forbes said.<\/p>\n<p>Other area 3A teams in the playoffs include Basalt at No. 29, playing at No. 4 Aurora West on the road (date and time TBD); and Coal Ridge (5-9-1), seeded 30th and playing at No. 3 Atlas Preparatory School. Salida is the top seed in that division.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Demons host first-round game&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Glenwood Springs finished a strong season at 10-2-3 but placed second in the 4A Western Slope League, behind the No. 1 4A seed and league champion Battle Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>The Demons will play No. 20 Standley Lake (9-6) out of the Jefferson County League, at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Stubler Memorial Field.<\/p>\n<p>Also making the 32-team 4A playoff field is Rifle (10-5), seeded 23rd. The Bears will play No. 10 Discovery Canyon (12-3) out of the Pikes Peak League at 3 p.m. Friday in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/sports\/five-garfield-county-prep-soccer-teams-make-it-to-the-state-playoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenwood Springs Demon Alan Videla dribbles the ball past the defending Montrose Indians in a Sept. 12 1-0 win at home.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent Garfield County will have a No. 1 seed and one other top-five seed as the Colorado high school boys soccer state playoffs are set to begin later this week. Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 15:40:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}