Sports (Page 7)

Area Class 1A track and field athletes competed in the University Bulldog Invitational in Greeley last Saturday. They will go different directions on Saturday, but all of them again will be at the Yuma Bill Kalb Invitational on Monday. (Saturday’s Eaton Invitational has been moved to Monday due to weatherContinue Reading

Yuma High School’s track and field teams will be hoping for better conditions the competition resumes Saturday. The Outlaws, and all other local high schools, opened the season last Saturday in the Yuma Early Qualifier. The weather turned out to be cold and windy, though it did get warmer towardContinue Reading

Area Class 1A track and field athletes should be able to enjoy nicer weather for the second weekend of competition. Tracksters from Otis, Lone Star and Arickaree opened their season last Saturday in the Yuma Early Qualifier, dealing with cold temperatures and a strong wind out of the south. AllContinue Reading

The Otis High School baseball team is off to a fast start in the 2024 season. The Bulldogs were 4-0 heading into this past Tuesday’s scheduled home game against Akron, if the weather allowed. They are at Weldon Valley on April 2. Otis opened its season with a 12-0, 6-3Continue Reading

It was opening day this past Tuesday for the Yuma High School baseball team. It was a beautiful day for the Outlaws’ opener against Merino, at the YHS diamond. The opener was not pretty as the Outlaws lost 13-4, but they rallied for an interesting 14-13 win in the nightContinue Reading

Yuma High School’s boys basketball team had players named to the 2023-24 All-LPAA team in its final year in the league. The Class 3A champions tied Merino for the most selections. Yuma All-LPAA Brody Sheffield — The sophomore led the Outlaws in scoring with an average of 18.6 points perContinue Reading

How does one describe the Yuma High School boys basketball Class 3A championship team? It’s as easy as 1-2-3 as the Outlaws won each of their Great 8 games by one point, on the way to program’s seventh state title, but first in 3A. That possibly is the first timeContinue Reading

If you ain’t first, you’re last. Well heck, you could still be second, third, fourth or even fifth. With sincerest apologies to Reese Bobby from “Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights” the Yuma High School girls basketball team will take a third-place finish in the Class 3A State Basketball Tournament, last weekendContinue Reading

Yuma High School’s boys basketball team is two wins away from advancing to the Class 3A Great 8 for the second consecutive season. This time the Outlaws get to try to do it at home, after having to go to Leadville last year for regional. “Playing two games in TheContinue Reading