{"id":1318288,"date":"2020-02-17T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=993715"},"modified":"2020-02-17T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:22:47","slug":"coal-ridge-boys-in-the-mix-for-3a-league-title-depending-on-how-the-chips-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/coal-ridge-boys-in-the-mix-for-3a-league-title-depending-on-how-the-chips-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Ridge boys in the mix for 3A league title, depending on how the chips fall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coal Ridge\u2019s Moises Contreras glides to the basket during the boys game against Grand Valley in late January.<\/strong>
Kyle Mills\/Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The Coal Ridge High School boys basketball team finds itself in position to steal the 3A Western Slope League title this week, but they\u2019ll need a little help to do it.<\/p>\n

First order of business: the Titans, at 6-1 in league and 13-4 overall, have a pair of must-win road games to close out the regular season.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, they face a surging Roaring Fork team in Carbondale that\u2019s had a rough season at 5-12 overall but stands at 4-3 in league on the heels of a two-game winning streak \u2014 Friday over Cedaredge, 50-37, and Saturday versus Moffat County, 60-52.<\/p>\n

After that, for the Titans, it\u2019s on to Craig Thursday night against the Moffat County Bulldogs, which is the only league team to beat the current WSL leaders, the 7-1 Gunnison Cowboys \u2014 a 65-61 Moffat win Jan. 17.<\/p>\n

Even with a pair of wins, Coal Ridge would need Delta (4-3, 7-10) to pull off the upset at Gunnison on Thursday for the Titans to retake the title they last won in the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not out of the question. Delta has had a down season after winning the league title last year, but the Panthers did score a 79-75 overtime win at Moffat County on Feb. 7, and played Coal Ridge to within four points on Jan. 24. The Titans prevailed 59-55.<\/p>\n

Gunnison has the upper hand should the Cowboys and Titans conclude with identical league marks, by virtue of a 73-66 win at Coal Ridge on Jan. 18. However, the current state RPI power rankings have Coal Ridge at No. 9 and Gunnison at No. 14.<\/p>\n

Coal Ridge enters the final week of play before the post-season run begins averaging 64.3 points per game and 33.2 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

Senior Austin Gerber leads the team averaging 18.5 points, with an impressive 49% field goal percentage. He\u2019s also pulling down 4.7 rebounds per game, in complement to junior Hank DiMarco\u2019s 6.1 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

3A girls all about seeding<\/h4>\n

On the girls side of the league title hunt, Delta is in the driver\u2019s seat at 7-0 (14-3 overall), followed by Cedaredge at 7-1 (15-3).<\/p>\n

That pretty much leaves Roaring Fork at 5-2, Moffat County and Grand Valley at 5-3 each, and Coal Ridge at 4-3 to play their way into the other top-5 seedings going into next week\u2019s District tournament.<\/p>\n

jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

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

Coal Ridge\u2019s Moises Contreras glides to the basket during the boys game against Grand Valley in late January.Kyle Mills\/Post Independent The Coal Ridge High School boys basketball team finds itself in position to steal the 3A Western Slope League title this week, but they\u2019ll need a little help to do it. First order of business: […]<\/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-1318288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 19:28:25","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\/1318288","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=1318288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}