Colorado High School Basketball News

Elisha Jahnke drives towards the basket during a Grand Junction girls basketball team practice.

Sure, it's early, very early, but Fossil Ridge High School might have the best team in program history.

After looking slightly sluggish early in their opener against Shiprock's junior varsity team on Dec. 6, the Panthers came together in the second half and pulled away for a 71-41 victory.

The Sterling wrestling team had four wrestlers go undefeated and finished second out of 11 teams on Saturday at the St. Francis Invite in St. Francis, Kansas.

After limping into the locker rooms up 17-12 and frustrated by turnovers and bad shots against the Bulldogs' zone defense, the Wildcats lit up the scoreboard for 18 points in the third quarter to break the game open en route to a 46-30 win.

On Saturday against Otis, the Caliche team that returned the bulk from last season's state playoff team was back to true form in its 70-31 rout of Otis to claim its third straight Carlile Classic girls' championship.

"We only had five or six practices with those football boys. We didn't get to put in a lot of our offenses, but they did pretty good.

On a frigid Saturday, the senior made a sweet pass for the winning points, then converted a game-saving steal as Arapahoe slipped past host Chatfield 56-55 in Class 5A nonleague basketball.

Fruita Monument's Matt Story scores two of his eight points Saturday as Lewis-Palmer's Joe DeCoud defends during the Wildcats' 74-51 loss in the final day of the Warrior Challenge.

Platte Valley's Cameron Maxey battles for control over a rebound with Eaton's Jaxon Hobbs during the game Saturday night at Eaton High School.

Hayden Graham throws in the ball during the second half of a game against South Dakota at the Air Force Academy on Thursday, December 5, 2013..

The Eaton boys basketball team came out in the second half and struggled offensively in its 56-47 home loss to Fort Morgan on Friday night in the second round of the Northern Colorado Basketball Classic.

It's tournament time still here for high school basketball, and Central High School was the site for the annual Warrior Challenge.

A year ago, Elijah Cherrington came off the bench for an emerging Legend, which raised some eyebrows and stirred some segments of the metropolitan area when it advanced to its first Class 5A final four.

Dalton Walker is the man. During the past two years, he was one of the key players for the Windsor High School boys basketball team, but there was always somebody else who carried the main scoring burden.

Weld Central's Kelli Carlson reaches for the ball against Platte Valley's Emily Vande Steeg while playing in Kersey on Friday night.

Four games were played on Friday in the first round to decided who will play in today's consolation and championship rounds.

Here is a quick look at what is coming next week. Next week is a good week if you are a wrestling fan as the Mustangs have two home wrestling dates.

The Fort Collins High School wrestling team got a statement win early in the season, topping Fossil Ridge High School 42-28 in a home dual Thursday night.

The Sterling boys' basketball team opened its season on Wednesday night in the Skyline tournament with style as it used strong second and third quarter efforts to cruise past 4A foe Englewood 53-33.