Sports

Since 1991, the Firecracker Golf Tournament has been a yearly highlight at Conquistador Golf Course. According to course pro and manager Micah Rudosky, the event is comparable in size to the Ute...

The Mesa Verde Aquatics Club Rapids and Cortez Leopard Sharks each sent swimmers to the Telluride Open and Grand Junction Invite the weekend of June 23-25. In what MVAC head coach Kevin Ketterer...

After 31 years as an RE-1 employee, Montezuma-Cortez High School athletic director Stacey Hall is retiring. Hall’s retirement becomes official on July 1, 2016, but she will stay at M-CHS for one...

The Cortez Bass Masters are two tournaments into their season after hosting events at McPhee Reservoir on May 21 and again on June 18. Mike Carver was the big winner of the opening tournament after...

The Conquistador Junior Golf Program held its Cortez Junior Golf Tournament last Thursday as a conclusion to the youth camp the week prior. “We had 80 in our program and 37 [in the tournament], and...

The Dolores High School football coaching staff had its hands full last week. Head coach Chris Trusler and assistants Jamie Biard, Ray Davis and Dylan Ferguson welcomed 72 young athletes to the...

Kiselya Plewe didn’t even warm up for the playoff. After her round of play on Tuesday in the United States Golf Association’s U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Qualifier at Hidden Valley Country Club in...

The Cortez Leopard Sharks and Mesa Verde Aquatics Club (MVAC) each traveled to the Durango Summer Invite for their first away swim meet of the season last weekend. With 14 teams competing, the...

The Cortez Burst Triathlon is set to return for its seventh running on the Fourth of July. The event was started in 2010 by Friends of Recreation for a Healthy Community in order to raise money to...