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Steamboat Springs — Two Steamboat Springs High School hockey players found themselves with postseason awards Tuesday.

Senior captain Ian Anderson was named honorable mention All-State by the Colorado High School Coaches Association.

Anderson and junior center Jake Bearss also were named honorable mention All-Conference.

“It’s the other coaches seeing the value in our guys’ play,” said Steamboat coach Jeff Ruff, noting that coaches could not vote for their own players.

Bearss led the Sailors in scoring this season, and Anderson anchored the blue line.

The team also doled out individual awards at Tuesday’s banquet. Bearss was recognized for leading the team in total points and goals, and senior Vladan Chase was recognized for leading the team in assists.

Jon Winkelblech, a senior and the only four-year letterman winner on this year’s team, received the team’s High School Hobey Baker Award.

That award “exemplifies what we think our program goals are,” Ruff said. “It’s dedication to hockey, love of the sport and achieving that at a high skill level. That’s what we base it on. He was an all-around team guy.”

The team also was named aca­­demic All-State with a 3.3 team grade-point average. Ander­­son, Winkelblech, Erik Owen and Patrick Weston were named academic All-State, as well.

Cross-country JO event in Maine off to a fast start

The Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club cross-country team began its Junior Olympic competition Monday in Presque Isle, Maine.

The team features 12 competitors.

Competing in the J2 girls division are Emily Hannah, Lucy Newman, Dori McNeill, Mary O’Connell, Madison Keeffe and Mallory Richey. Max Scrimgeour is the lone competitor in the J2 boys.

Betsy Neal, Haley Piske and Michaela Frias are competing in the J1 girls division, and Molly Newman and Eliot Neal are competing in the OJ division.

The event began Monday with a classic sprint race. In the J2 girls division, McNeill was seventh, Newman was 18th, Hannah was 20th, O’Connell was 28th, Richey was 32nd and Keeffe was 40th.

Scrimgeour was eighth in the boys J2 class after getting tripped in the semifinal.

Frias was 12th in the J1 girls, Piske was 32nd, and Betsy Neal was 59th.

Newman finished 26th in the girls OJ girls division, and Eliot Neal was 39th in the boys OJ division.

The competition continues today with 5-, 10- and 15-kilometer classic races.

— To reach Luke Graham, call 871-4229 or e-mail lgraham@steamboatpilot.com