{"id":1316564,"date":"2019-11-10T07:56:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T14:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=990696"},"modified":"2019-11-10T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T14:56:18","slug":"basalt-football-holds-off-classical-academy-will-face-wsl-foe-rifle-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/basalt-football-holds-off-classical-academy-will-face-wsl-foe-rifle-in-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Basalt football holds off Classical Academy, will face WSL foe Rifle in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/BHSfootball-atd-111019-1-1-1024x705-1024x705.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/BHSfootball-atd-111019-1-1-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/BHSfootball-atd-111019-1-1-1024x705-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/BHSfootball-atd-111019-1-1-1024x705-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Basalt&#8217;s Jackson Rappaport pushes through a pile of The Classical Academy defenders during the Longhorns&#8217; 13-7 2A playoff win Saturday in Colorado Springs.<\/strong><br \/><em>Lindsey Smith\/The Gazette<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 Basalt High School coach Carl Frerichs preached all season the importance of winning the turnover battle \u2014 especially during playoff football.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, a turnover proved to be the spark the No. 9-seeded Longhorns needed for the eventual game-winning touchdown in a 13-7 win over No. 8 The Classical Academy to punch their ticket to the second round of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chsaanow.com\/2019-11-03\/class-2a-football-state-playoff-bracket-2019\/\" class>Class 2A playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basalt will face No. 1 Rifle in the quarterfinals next week. The Longhorns faced Rifle just two weeks ago in a 21-9 2A Western Slope League loss. Rifle opened with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/sports\/total-domination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"48-15 win (opens in a new tab)\">48-15 win<\/a> against Englewood Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>On the first play from scrimmage Titan quarterback Sam Guilez fumbled on the handoff, recovered by the Longhorns on the Titan 23. Basalt moved the chains once before junior quarterback Matty Gillis sent a touchdown pass to senior Jackson Rapaport.<\/p>\n<p>Aided by two TCA 15-yard penalties, Gillis led the Longhorns\u2019 first charge down the field, ending with a 10-yard pass to Rapaport.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans responded with a first-drive touchdown of their own thanks to a 2-yard rush by sophomore Cade Palmer. But it proved to be the last time TCA would find the end zone the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>For more from this game, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/high-school-sports\/tca-football-falls-to-basalt-in-first-round-of-a\/article_6fe1f840-0363-11ea-bd9a-571e27c861a9.html\" class>gazette.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/sports\/basalt-football-holds-off-classical-academy-will-face-wsl-foe-rifle-in-second-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basalt&#8217;s Jackson Rappaport pushes through a pile of The Classical Academy defenders during the Longhorns&#8217; 13-7 2A playoff win Saturday in Colorado Springs.Lindsey Smith\/The Gazette COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 Basalt High School coach Carl Frerichs preached all season the importance of winning the turnover battle \u2014 especially during playoff football. Saturday, a turnover proved to be [&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-1316564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 13:56:20","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\/1316564","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=1316564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}