Yuma High School boys basketball team is 0-2 early in the 2021 season, but showed grit in battling back in the fourth quarter of a 54-47 loss to top-ranked Limon, Saturday in the Indians’ home opener in The Pit. Limon dominated most of the first three quarters. The Badgers scoredContinue Reading
Yuma High School’s girls basketball team looked like a completely different squad in its second game of the shortened 2021 season. The Indians nearly pulled off the upset of Class 2A second-ranked Limon before eventually succumbing 42-35, Saturday afternoon in their home opener in The Pit. After getting dominated inContinue Reading
The Yuma High School boys wrestlers traveled south on Saturday, picking up two more dual wins to improve to 4-0 on the young season. Yuma opened Saturday’s action at 9 a.m. against host County Line, cruising to a 45-18 win. John Smith opened the action with a first-period pin againstContinue Reading
The Yuma High School girls’ wrestling team made its presence felt during its season-opening quadrangular at Doherty High School in Colorado Springs, Saturday. The Indians first went two rounds with host Doherty. In the first round, Eva Ruiz and Makenzie Phelps each won by pin. Ashley Marshall lost by decision,Continue Reading
A great start eventually gave way to a disappointing finish for the Yuma High School boys basketball team, Thursday night in its season opener in Brush. The Indians raced out to a 11-1 lead in the game’s first two minutes. However, Brush battled back, sending the Indians home with aContinue Reading
The Yuma High School girls basketball team experienced a rough start to its season with a 61-37 loss at Brush, Thursday night. A new-look lineup, breaking in a new system under first-year head coach Jeremy Robinson, ran into an experienced Beetdiggers squad that featured plenty of scoring options. Brush quicklyContinue Reading
Wrestling returned to The Pit, Thursday night. The mats were rolled out on the venerable old gym’s floor for the first time in nearly a year as the Yuma High School wrestlers opened their shortened Season B with a sweep of Highland and Sterling in a triangular hosted by theContinue Reading
Kyle Newton is getting closer to making his head coaching debut for the Yuma High School wrestling teams. An assistant for the past few years, Newton was promoted to head coach last spring following the retirement of Rory Lynch. His hiring came at a time when there was not aContinue Reading
Jeremy Robinson picked a heck of a year to become the head coach for Yuma High School girls basketball. “Not a good year for a new program, but it is what it is,” he said Monday prior to the first official practice for the shortened Season B. “The girls haveContinue Reading
It is finally time to have something to play for. “It’s just good to be in a spot to get to do something,” Yuma High School boys basketball head coach Dave Sheffield said Monday, prior to the first official practice. The Indians first actual high school-sanctioned game is next Thursday,Continue Reading