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Durango Colorado Sports Briefs
High School Volleyball
CHSAA announces BHS opponents for Districts
The No. 1- seeded Bayfield High School volleyball team ( 18- 0 overall, 9- 0 Intermountain League) will first host Trinidad, then Lamar, then St. Mary’s – three Tri-Peaks teams – in District 7 pool play this Saturday. Matches likely will begin at 8 a.m.
The Colorado High School Activities Association released its 32-team 3A bracket Sunday.
The top two will move on to Regional play the following weekend for the right to make state finals Nov. 7.
Demons draw No. 18, will visit Grand Junction
The Durango High School volleyball team (12-7 overall, 73 Southwestern League) will travel to Grand Junction this weekend as the No. 18 seed in the 5A rankings for matches against No. 7 Grand Junction Central (18-1), No. 10 Doherty (14-5), No. 26 Cherokee Trail (8-11), No. 39 Fruita (8-10) and No. 42 George Washington (8-10).
CHSAA released its 48-team, eight-district bracket Sunday.
The top two at the end of pool play will move onto Regionals the following weekend.
High School Soccer
Air Academy awaits DHS in first round Wednesday
The Durango High School soccer team (7-7-1 overall, 7-21 Southwestern League) drew the No. 20 seed in the 32-team state championship bracket announced by CHSAA on Sunday. DHS will travel to face Air Academy on Wednesday in what is expected to be a snowy game. Their opponents finished third in the difficult Colorado Springs Metro League while featuring two of the state’s top goal scorers in Geno Bigelow with 18 and Mark Dotseth with 14 and 20 assists.
Bigelow, a national team player in his age group, suffered an injury last week against Palmer and may not play, said DHS coach Scott Emrich.
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