Demons quarterback Haden Camp could’ve given the Buena Vista backfield – but not the offensive line – the night off Friday as Class 2A spring football playoffs opened.
En route to a 49-0 drubbing of Clear Creek, Camp had a direct hand – and feet – in the Demons’ first five touchdowns, which spanned just the first quarter plus 10 seconds.
“They were some tough ones this past week,” Lady Demons volleyball coach Jaime Page said.
Clear Creek may have watched game film of the 4-0 Demons and decided they weren’t going to be the third team in a row tackled for a loss on the first play from scrimmage.
After surviving the opening kickoff fumble caused by Haden Camp’s hit, the Golddiggers (0-4) came out throwing. They could have tried running.
Buena Vista won its first volleyball match of the spring season with a 3-match victory over South Park April 1.
Experience and height paid off for visiting county rival Salida March 31 and the Lady Demons fell 25-17, 25-21, 25-23.
The Buena Vista defense smothered Grand Valley by controlling the line of scrimmage in a 42-7 victory Saturday. The Demon defense ruled its home field by stopping the Fighting Cardinals on their first four possessions – and they stopped them hard. In order, Buena Vista ran back a punt for touchdown, forced and recovered a fumble and then picked off passes on consecutive defensive stands to open the game.
Buena Vista sidestepped losing a fumble at midfield on the fourth play from scrimmage and routed Roaring Fork 46-0 at home Saturday.
Buena Vista battled at Lake County March 18, but lost in 4 games.
Spring sports began at the beginning of this month at Buena Vista Schools with sports Demon fans normally see in the fall.
Last weekend, when the Buena Vista Demons traveled to Pueblo for the CHSAA state wrestling championships, it represented the end of the Hutchings brothers career wrestling together in high school.
Freshman Caleb Camp’s undefeated season led a Buena Vista High School-record six state medalist wrestlers to a fourth-place team finish last weekend in the Class 2A state tournament in Pueblo.
The Buena Vista Demons wrestled to the regional championship by more than 50 team points and qualified nine to a pared-down state field Saturday.
“Another week, another quarantine, unfortunately,” Demons coach Scott Crites mused.
Buena Vista did get a game in at Ellicott and brought back a 58-36 victory.
The Lady Demons held Woodland Park scoreless for an entire quarter en route to their one victory last week in between a pair of tough road losses.
Bright sunshine, clear skies, cold temps and low winds delivered a great day of ski racing Feb. 24 for the Lake County Middle School Panthers.
Alpine racers closed out their racing season with a slalom event at their home mountain of Ski Cooper on Black Powder.
Demon wrestlers posted victories over Rocky Ford, Dolores Huerta and La Junta but came up short against TCA last week.
Buena Vista battled the No. 6 Meloneers of Rocky Ford, one of the traditional powerhouses in the small school division in Colorado.
Nope. Almost there, but turn it around and head home. That was the first cancellation of the week for the Basketball Demons. The second came less than an hour before tipoff. Still, Buena Vista did get one game in last week.
Buena Vista wrestlers defeated Gunnison 36-19 in their first home dual of the year. Buena Vista rescheduled Friday and instead of going to Woodland Park, travelled to the northeast to battle the defending 3A state champion Eaton and the 5th-ranked 3A home squad, Bennett.
Friday at St. Mary’s,the Lady Demons got off to a slow start and fell behind 23-8 after the opening quarter.
The fall season for Buena Vista High School’s newest athletic group, the Clay Target Team, wrapped up November in third statewide, and the 2021 spring season began in February.
The Lady Demons split action last week in a pair of lopsided games.
Buena Vista (5-1, 4-1) won two of three games last week after being freed from quarantine early Tuesday.
Buena Vista wrestlers won two of three matches last week.
Third-ranked Buena Vista swept through a half-dozen wrestling matches last week, including win over a pair of Top 10 squads.
The Demons beats the hosts 54-21, Ellicott 57-4 and Salida 54-12 at Manitou Sprigs Feb. 2.
The Demons battled through two solid wins last week and COVID uncertainty over the weekend to enter the week 3-0 on the young season.
The team was quarantined from Friday until Tuesday, when it was cleared following negative testing.
Once delayed by heavy snow over Monarch Pass, the Lady Demons opened their season with a convincing win, then split action during week 2.
Buena Vista won 46-28 at Gunnison to open the season Jan. 28, fell to Colorado Springs Christian School and routed James Irwin last week.
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Third-ranked Buena Vista swept through a half-dozen wrestling matches last week, including win over a pair of Top 10 squads.
The Demons beats the hosts 54-21, Ellicott 57-4 and Salida 54-12 at Manitou Sprigs Feb. 2.
The Demons battled through two solid wins last week and COVID uncertainty over the weekend to enter the week 3-0 on the young season.
The team was quarantined from Friday until Tuesday, when it was cleared following negative testing.
Once delayed by heavy snow over Monarch Pass, the Lady Demons opened their season with a convincing win, then split action during week 2.
Buena Vista won 46-28 at Gunnison to open the season Jan. 28, fell to Colorado Springs Christian School and routed James Irwin last week.
The third-ranked Demon wrestlers began the season with just a handful of grapplers at a quadrangular meet in Florence Saturday.
Buena Vista and Gunnison both survived the opening quarter of the season with the Cowboys leading 5-4. Both teams relaxed into the flow of the game and battled to a one-point outcome.
The Buena Vista school district reported eight confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in its schools Monday morning.
The start of the winter high school sports season B has been delayed.
Buena Vista High School found a sense of normalcy in an unusual school year with a brief homecoming-style parade Saturday afternoon. The caravan of floats traveled down Railroad Street from East Main to the school.
The Colorado High School Activities Association released the spring season C football league alignments and schedules Nov. 13.
As of now, Buena Vista High School is planning on beginning Season B of its sports seasons on Jan. 4, said athletic director Troy Baker.
The 2020 cross country season was an unprecedented one for Buena Vista High School – not only because of the looming omnipresence of COVID-19, not only because the Lady Demons finished the season undefeated, but because, for the first time in school history, the girls took home the Class 2A state championship.
Buena Vista’s Chandler Smethers finished in a tie for 56th place out of 84 golfers in the state golf tournament last week.
The BVHS cross country teams are headed to the state championship meet Saturday in Colorado Springs.
BV runners fill four of the top six spots in Tri-Peaks varsity race; boys take second
Chandler Smethers and Cole Reavis finished the last two league matches at Pueblo Country Club and Hollydot G.C. to finish eighth and 10th in the final standings to earn all-conference honors in the Tri-Peaks League. Team finished in 4th place.
The Buena Vista High School cross country teams had a great weekend for varsity at Salida’s Vandeever Ranch and the JV, who ran around Frantz Lake, BVHS coach Julia Fuller said.
The Buena Vista cross country teams hosted their annual run, this time over 3 days and away from its traditional home along the Arkansas River.
Buena Vista High School was closed to in-person instruction Tuesday to investigate a possible exposure to a positive case of COVID-19, Chaffee County Public Health director Andrea Carlstrom said.
Buena Vista schools will participate in C season sports, including football during the spring this year, said Buena Vista School District athletic director Troy Baker.
The Buena Vista High School Demons cross country varsity teams raced last weekend on the state course in Colorado Springs.
“It is always exciting to get everyone’s feet on the trails out there. We saw impressive performances across the board,” said BVHS coach Julia Fuller, adding “and it’s fun to foreshadow the possibilities for a state race a month from now.”
“Its been a little slow as far as high school tourneys go,” Demons golf coach Scott Crites deadpanned. “We had three cancelled last week because of weather.”
After the Colorado High School Activities Association’s board of directors voted to stick to the current modified 2020-2021 sports schedule last week, the association took up the issue again on Friday
The Buena Vista High School Lady Demons cross country teams won two meets last week.
The state 2A runner-up lady Demons won a valley neighbors meet with Salida and Leadville Friday.
“It was a wonderful start to the season,” said BVHS coach Julia Fuller.
The Buena Vista High School golf team placed tenth in the Montrose Invitational tournament Aug. 14.
The Buena Vista Demons opened the 2020 golf season with a fourth-place tournament finsih at Cedaredge Aug. 7.
Sports and art will imitate life this school year with slow rollouts of seasons and competitions that may take different approaches from previous seasons.
The games will go on this year in Colorado, but the high school sports seasons have been modified and shortened in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Buena Vista High School’s newest official team sport was one of the very few that was able to complete its season in spite of COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns and closures.
The Feb. 20 story published in The Times was, in fact, incorrect.
Salida High School junior basketball players Myles Godina and Rachel Pelino both recently received All-State honorable mentions from the Colorado High School Activities Association.
Two Buena Vista High School basketball athletes received statewide recognition. Senior Maddy McFee and junior Isaac Bears were named to the Class 3A honorable mention all state teams.
The Buena Vista High School Lady Demons finished their basketball season at Delta when they lost to regional host Delta 68-30. Delta was the No. 4-seed in the field of 32 teams.
The Buena Vista Lady Demons picked up a win in the final game of Tri-Peaks District Tournament play and will advance to the 32-team state tournament regional round.
The Buena Vista Lady Demons finished their regular season with a one point 34-33 nail-biter victory over Chaffee County rival Salida Feb. 18.
Three Buena Vista wrestlers came home with medals as the Demons scored 67 points to finish ninth at the Colorado High School State Wrestling Tournament at the Pepsi Center in Denver last weekend.
The Buena Vista Demons made two trips to Salida to play basketball last week.
Buena Vista picked up two Tri-Peaks League wins over the last week while dropping a game to a very tough St. Mary’s team.
The Buena Vista Lady Demons played at Trinidad Feb. 15, and came out on the short end of a 52-40 Tri-Peaks League game.
Ten Buena Vista wrestlers are headed to Denver’s Pepsi Center to compete in the state championship tournament based on their performances at the regional tournament Feb. 14-15.
The Buena Vista Demons finished second out of 10 teams wrestling at the Tri-Peaks League tournament in La Junta Feb. 8.
Buena Vista dropped two Tri-Peaks League games in the past week with a 44-34 loss at La Junta and a 72-26 home loss against Manitou Springs.
The Lady Demons won 38-20 at La Junta and dropped a close 45-35 game at home against Manitou Springs.
Buena Vista hosted Colorado Springs Christian School Jan. 31 and both teams came into the contest hoping to pick up a much-needed Tri-Peaks League victory. CSCS did so with a 53-35 win.
Buena Vista improved to 9-6, 4-2 with a league win over Colorado Springs Christian School Jan. 31, in a game that was close throughout.
Buena Vista finished fourth at the Valley Classic in Center Feb. 1.
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