{"id":2437084,"date":"2019-01-30T01:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T08:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=296438"},"modified":"2019-01-30T01:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T08:15:56","slug":"basalt-girls-basketball-beats-rifle-for-second-win-of-season-boys-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/basalt-girls-basketball-beats-rifle-for-second-win-of-season-boys-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Basalt girls basketball beats Rifle for second win of season; boys fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BASALT GIRLS 53, RIFLE 32<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Basalt High School girls basketball team won its second game of the season on Tuesday in a 53-32 victory at Rifle. The Bears led 18-15 after a quarter, but the Longhorns dominated the second to the tune of 21-3 and led 36-21 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The BHS defense held the Bears to 11 points in the second half for the non-league win.<\/p>\n<p>Rifle fell to 4-12 overall. Basalt improved to 2-13 overall and will jump back into 3A Western Slope League play on Friday with a trip to Roaring Fork.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RIFLE BOYS 58, BASALT 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the boys\u2019 game, Rifle cruised to a 58-24 win over Basalt. Rifle, playing without senior guard Omar Chavez, got a career-high 20 points from junior Carter Pressler. Rifle led 22-14 at halftime.<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Bears improved to 11-6 overall, while the Longhorns fell to 3-12 overall. After traveling to Carbondale on Friday, Basalt is scheduled to host Grand Valley on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Aspen High School boys and girls basketball teams are off until hosting Summit on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Glenwood Springs Post Independent sports editor Josh Carney contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:acolbert@aspentimes.com\">acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/sports\/basalt-girls-basketball-beats-rifle-for-second-win-of-season-boys-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BASALT GIRLS 53, RIFLE 32 The Basalt High School girls basketball team won its second game of the season on Tuesday in a 53-32 victory at Rifle. The Bears led 18-15 after a quarter, but the Longhorns dominated the second to the tune of 21-3 and led 36-21 at halftime. The BHS defense held the [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2437084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 22:45:37","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}