The Steamboat Pilot & Today

Bantam A hockey team wins tournament

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009

The Steamboat Springs Bantam A hockey team started the season just how it wanted to during the weekend, winning the Fright Fest Tournament in Denver. Steamboat went 4-1 in the tournament, beating rival Littleton for the title. Read story.

Steamboat winter sports camps open

High school teams to start training before official practices

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009

Steamboat Springs High School hockey coach Jeff Ruff said the benefits are endless.
Starting a preseason conditioning camp allows his players — new and old — to get into the system, get their legs under them and get a jump on the winter season. Read story.

Luke Graham: A team to believe in

Monday, Nov. 2, 2009

The Steamboat Springs High School football team is dangerous. Offensively, there might not be a match in Class 3A, where they arguably have a trio of top-of-the-class players: the best quarterback in Austin Hinder, the best running back in Joe Dover and the best wide receiver in Jack Spady. Read story.

Sailors volleyball team loses at districts

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009

The Steamboat Springs High School volleyball team’s season came to an end Saturday at the District 8 volleyball tournament in Montrose. Steamboat lost, 3-1, to Montezuma-Cortez and 3-0 to Mullen in pool play. The 18-25, 25-17, 25-21 and 25-17 loss to Montezuma-Cortez proved to be the deal-breaker. Read story.

Storied 1979 football season ‘set the tone for the football family’

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009

As storied a season as the 1979 Steamboat Springs High School football season was, that season wasn’t necessarily about wins and losses. Sure, Steamboat finished on top, but when players talk about that game and season, it’s the tears of never getting to line up next to one another. Read story.

Joel Reichenberger: Welch is back on the bike

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009

Realistically, Essam Welch had no choice but to “get back up on that horse.” Welch and his bike are a fixture in Steamboat Springs, no matter the season. He doesn’t even own a car, happily pedaling day in and day out from his home to his job at Orange Peel in downtown Steamboat. Read story.

John F. Russell: Down to a moment

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009

A few months from now, on the snow-covered slopes surrounding Vancouver, the world will watch as Olympic champions are determined in terms of meters and seconds. The journey to the games can be measured in years of hard work, measured in seemingly never-ending training sessions. Read story.

Tigers football finishes with win

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009

For the second consecutive year, the Hayden football team finished its season with a win, pounding West Grand on Friday night, 35-7. The Tigers got two rushing touchdowns from Jake Walker, two from Treyben Letlow and one from Brian Hoza, running over the Mustangs for their fourth win of the season. Read story.

Broncos alumni fall in game against Sailors All Stars

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009

The Denver Broncos Alumni suited up to play a charity game of basketball Saturday morning at Steamboat Springs High School and proved to be plenty popular with a crowd of locals as they were hounded for autographs after the game ended. Read story.

Sailors volleyball falls at districts

Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

Steamboat Springs High School started out strong but lost to Montezuma-Cortez and Mullen today, eliminating its chances to advance to next weekend’s regional tournament. The Sailors finished 15-6 on the season. Read story.

Tom Ross: Maine’s approach to Nordic skiing is on target

Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

I wasn’t raised in a hunting family and have almost no familiarity with firearms. So it came as a surprise one dreary day this month in Fort Kent, Maine, when I was handed an exotic-looking .22-caliber biathlon rifle and invited to see whether I could hit a small black disc of a target 50 meters away. Read story.

County volleyball teams out at districts

Hayden, Soroco high school teams miss out on semifinals

Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

High hopes met a quick end Friday for the Hayden and Soroco high school volleyball teams. Both entered the district tournament at Meeker with hopes of upsets and semifinals, but neither was able to win in pool play, and both saw the season end. Read story.

Steamboat Springs football blast past Buena Vista, 58-13

Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

Like a snowball rolling down a hill, the Steamboat Springs High School football team is nearly impossible to stop when it gets going. Steamboat found that mom­entum and rhythm early, kept building it up and turned Friday’s game against Buena Vista into a complete 58-13 avalanche. Read story.

Sailors hope to stay undefeated

Friday, Oct. 30, 2009

As storied a coaching career as Bob Marken has had, the Buena Vista High School football coach knows what his team faces. Class 2A Buena Vista isn’t just playing up a classification against Steamboat Springs at 7 p.m. today at Gardner Field. The Demons might be playing the best team in Class 3A. Read story.

Hayden, Soroco volleyball hope to find peak

Friday, Oct. 30, 2009

The Hayden High School volleyball team and its cross-county counterpart, Soroco, enter today’s district tournament knowing why they are among the bottom seeds. Soroco is the sixth seed, and Hayden is No. 8 among the eight district teams. Read story.