{"id":1317968,"date":"2020-01-29T14:38:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=993073"},"modified":"2020-01-29T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:38:53","slug":"lady-bears-basketball-wins-2-games-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/lady-bears-basketball-wins-2-games-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bears basketball wins 2 games in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rifle High School girls basketball team puts the squeeze on a player from Eagle Valley during last Friday\u2019s home game in Rifle. (Theresa Hamilton)<\/strong>
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The Rifle High girls basketball team has shaken off a rough stretch to start the season, winning three of their last four games, including a 41-28 win at Summit on Tuesday to improve to 3-1 in the 4A Western Slope League.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, the Lady Bears defeated Eagle Valley, 46-29, on the heels of a 61-17 loss versus Grand Valley. Prior to that, Rifle got the best of the Sailors at Steamboat Springs, 41-32.<\/p>\n

At Summit on Tuesday, a close game at the half, 21-18, in favor of the Bears, took a turn in Rifle\u2019s favor in the third quarter with an 11-3 run.<\/p>\n

Sophomore guard Jaime Caron led Rifle (4-10 overall) in the scoring column with 10 points, while senior April Quinones had nine points and junior Mackenzie Elizardo added eight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree out of four wins has been good,\u201d Rifle coach Eric Caros said. \u201cThe girls are starting to look like themselves again, and I think the effects of sickness and injury is starting to fully fade.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I can ask of the girls is to continue to work hard and hopefully we continue to roll,\u201d he said, adding that a post-season playoff spot remains the team\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n

Summit Boys 42, Bears 37<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the road at Summit County on Tuesday, the Rifle boys basketball team got tripped up in the league run with a 42-37 loss to fall to 6-8 on the season and 0-4 in 4A WSL play.<\/p>\n

The Tigers jumped out to a 10-5 lead, before Rifle came storming back with a 14-1 run in the second quarter to lead 19-11 at halftime. An 11-10 third quarter favored the host team, before the Tigers romped on the visiting Bears 20-8 to close out the game.<\/p>\n

In earlier action, the Rifle boys defeated Grand Valley 54-44 on Jan. 21, before falling 57-52 at home against Eagle Valley three days later.<\/p>\n

Coal Ridge boys 57, Grand Valley 45<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also Tuesday night, the Titans defeated 3A Western Slope League and western Garfield County rival Grand Valley.<\/p>\n

Coal Ridge (9-4, 3-1 league) controlled the pace through three quarters, building a 39-21 lead before the Cardinals (6-6, 1-2) made it 24-18 run in the fourth.<\/p>\n

The Titans got 16 points from senior Austin Gerber and 10 from junior Moises Contreras.<\/p>\n

Grand Valley girls 63,
Coal Ridge 54<\/strong><\/p>\n

A close battle between 3A WSL teams Tuesday night saw Grand Valley ahead 34-29 at the half, and add four points to the lead in the third quarter for the final margin of victory.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals improved to 9-3 overall with the win and 2-1 in league play, while Coal Ridge drops to 7-6 and 2-2.<\/p>\n

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

The Rifle High School girls basketball team puts the squeeze on a player from Eagle Valley during last Friday\u2019s home game in Rifle. (Theresa Hamilton) The Rifle High girls basketball team has shaken off a rough stretch to start the season, winning three of their last four games, including a 41-28 win at Summit on […]<\/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-1317968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 03:26:19","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\/1317968","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=1317968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}