{"id":1317895,"date":"2020-01-24T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/roaring-fork-boys-finally-find-elusive-win\/"},"modified":"2020-01-24T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T05:52:00","slug":"roaring-fork-boys-finally-find-elusive-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/roaring-fork-boys-finally-find-elusive-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaring Fork boys finally find elusive win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roaring Fork’s Tristan Maker (No. 23) puts a shot up against Olathe defender Gavin Hall during the Rams 43-39 win Friday night in Carbondale.<\/strong>
John Stroud\/Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The Roaring Fork boys basketball team applied tough defense and used its size to control the boards en route to just its second win of the season, 44-39, over the visiting Olathe Pirates in Carbondale Friday night.<\/p>\n

The win came against the only team the Rams (2-11, 1-2 3A Western Slope League) have managed to defeat this season, but, boy, did it feel good to finally add a notch to the \u201cW\u201d column. Roaring Fork also defeated Olathe 45-37 before the holiday break.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so happy for the boys,\u201d Roaring Fork coach Tony Gross said. \u201cThey come to practice every week and work tails off, and they don\u2019t feel sorry for themselves. They come and they work hard, and they like playing with each other. I\u2019m just proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rams opened fast, jumping out to a 13-7 lead at the end of the first quarter, and maintaining the 22-20 edge at halftime. Olathe forced several turnovers to open the second half, and grabbed a one-point lead, 25-24, midway through the third quarter.<\/p>\n

But Roaring Fork responded behind the speed and pin-point outside shooting of junior guard Graham Pietch, who led all scorers on the night with 23 points.<\/p>\n

Olathe pulled to within two points again late in the fourth quarter, but Pietch and senior Jaime Vega were true from the free-throw line down the stretch to seal the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got some winable games coming up, but we\u2019ve still got to play better than we did tonight,\u201d Gross said. \u201cOur defense was much better tonight than it\u2019s been, and our rebounding was better. But we still turned the ball over too much.\u201d<\/p>\n

GIRLS \u2014 Roaring Fork 49, Olathe 36<\/span><\/p>\n

The Roaring Fork girls looked to have things well in control against the Pirates, building a 24-10 lead at the half and opening a 23-point lead early in the third period.<\/p>\n

But Olathe found a way to put the clamps down with an aggressive full-court press that rattled the host Rams, who saw their big lead dwindle to 11 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to control the tempo and pace of the game all the time, and we\u2019re playing fast, so it\u2019s something they\u2019re still learning,\u201d Roaring Fork coach Juan Quintero said. \u201cThey just need to know when not to rush.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s a win or a loss, we just try to learn from it and improve,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a good learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Balanced scoring helped the Rams\u2019 cause, as eight players got on the scoreboard, led by Caroline Wisroth with 10, Emily Broadhurst and Isabella Hernandez with nine each, and Maya Lindgren with eight.<\/p>\n

The Rams improved to 8-5 overall and 2-1 in the WSL to stay in the hunt for a league title.<\/p>\n

Other scores from Friday night:<\/p>\n

Girls \u2014 Delta 64, Coal Ridge 42; Rifle 49, Eagle Valley 29<\/p>\n

Boys \u2014 Coal Ridge 59, Delta 55; Grand Valley 65, Moffat County 40<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roaring Fork’s Tristan Maker (No. 23) puts a shot up against Olathe defender Gavin Hall during the Rams 43-39 win Friday night in Carbondale.John Stroud\/Post Independent The Roaring Fork boys basketball team applied tough defense and used its size to control the boards en route to just its second win of the season, 44-39, over […]<\/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-1317895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 04:08:11","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\/1317895","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=1317895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}