The National High School Trail Championship race came down to a photo finish for the boys, as brothers Sullivan and Porter Middaugh raced across the finish line just 0.02 second apart, with Porter diving forward trying to beat his older brother.
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The Buena Vista girls placed fourth of 13 teams while the boys finished 10th place at the Tri-Peaks League conference track meet in Salida June 19.
The Buena Vista Demon baseball team advanced to the semifinals of the Colorado High School Class 2A state championships last week.
The Buena Vista Lady Demons soccer team played in the final 8 of the Class 2A State Soccer Championships on Saturday, June 19. They were on the road to play Crested Butte on the pitch at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison.
Buena Vista High School recently completed its second spring season. This year included 5 Stand as a competition as well trap. On the trap range Buena Vista did exceptionally well.
Senior Hadley Ross and junior Mya Rollo both qualified last week for the Colorado High School Activities Association 3A state golf tournament.
The Buena Vista Lady Demons soccer team had their final game of the season prior to entering state tourney competition when they went to Lake County in Leadville on Monday, June 7.
The Buena Vista Baseball Demons (12-4) entered the postseason as the Class 2A No. 7 seed in the 2021 CHSAA State Baseball Championships.
The girls won the 14-team meet and the boys took fifth of 15 as the Buena Vista track teams competed in a twilight meet at Del Norte High School June 11.
The Buena Vista Demons made it a clean sweep in the past week by winning two games over Centauri and then a nine-inning affair at Hotchkiss. The Demons improved to 9-1 on the season.
The Buena Vista Lady Demons soccer team won the Tri-Peaks League championship with a 2-1 win over Lamar June 1.
Jamison Litvay had both goals as the Lady Demons won the league title for just the second time.
The Buena Vista track teams competed at the Friday Night Lights meet at Pueblo West on a warm afternoon June 4.
The girl’s team finished eighth with 37 points among the 18 teams entered while the boys were tenth with 19 points.
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In the final week of school filled with all the usual activities including exams, final projects, graduation, prom and others, the Buena Vista Demon baseball team went 4-for-5 this week.
The Lady Demons soccer team won a pair of home games in the past week.
Buena Vista swept the first two doubleheaders of the spring/summer baseball season.
Buena Vista’s girls soccer program is getting noticed around the state as they keep winning matches. The Lady Demons notched an 8-0 shutout on the road and 3-2 overtime win in their home opener.
The Buena Vista girls brought home the trophy from the Del Norte Tiger Invitational May 21.
Zalia Smith and Mallory Salazar’s 1-2 podium punch in the 800 (2 minutes, 39.63 seconds and 2:43.67, respectively) and 1,600 (5:43.95 and 5:51.67) runs, a pair of relay team wins and a slew of other top 10 finishes gave Buena Vista the team win.
The Baseball Demons open the season Thursday at Salida.
The Lady Demon cross country state champions are making themselves get noticed early in the spring-into-summer prep track season.
The Lady Demons soccer team brought home a 2-1 victory over the Alamosa Mean Moose May 17.
The Buena Vista-Manitou Springs semifinal in the 2021 CHSAA Football Championships (Spring) Class 2A tournament was very evenly matched, but for one key difference that contributed to the Demons 20-17 loss Friday.
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Season D sports are getting underway for Buena Vista High School athletics.
After a year of sports seasons in rearranged order due to COVID-19, the spring will have “Normal, traditional sport seasons,” said Buena Vista High School athletic director Troy Baker: Baseball, track and girl’s soccer.
The Lady Demons rebounded from a 3-2 season-opening loss at Woodland Park Wednesday with a 5-0 shutout at Florence Friday.
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.
The No. 1 Buena Vista Demons passed their biggest test of the spring football season 42-18 to enter the playoffs as the top 2A seed.
The Demons will host Clear Creek again, this time at 7 p.m., Friday. The Demons won the April 7 game at home 42-0.
Buena Vista closed out the spring volleyball season playing its best ball of the year.
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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.
The No. 1 Buena Vista Demons passed their biggest test of the spring football season 42-18 to enter the playoffs as the top 2A seed.
The Demons will host Clear Creek again, this time at 7 p.m., Friday. The Demons won the April 7 game at home 42-0.
Buena Vista closed out the spring volleyball season playing its best ball of the year.
“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.
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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.
Experience and height paid off for visiting county rival Salida March 31 and the Lady Demons fell 25-17, 25-21, 25-23.
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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.
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Spring sports began at the beginning of this month at Buena Vista Schools with sports Demon fans normally see in the fall.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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The third-ranked Demon wrestlers began the season with just a handful of grapplers at a quadrangular meet in Florence Saturday.
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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.
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The start of the winter high school sports season B has been delayed.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The Buena Vista High School Lady Demons cross country teams won two meets last week.
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