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Joel Reichenberger

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Fletchers ski to 7th in Nordic combined World Cup event

The Germans dominated a Sunday sprint relay event at a World Cup Nordic combined event in Lahti, Finland while the United States pair of Bryan Fletcher and Taylor Fletcher finished seventh.

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Yuma overwhelms Hayden, ends Tigers boys basketball season

Hayden led late in the third quarter but was held nearly scoreless in the fourth before losing in the regional championship to Yuma, 50-33.

Tigers boys basketball advances, plays for state berth Saturday

The Hayden High School boys basketball team took care of business Friday night, and now it faces its most important test of the season at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Grand Junction.

Joel Reichenberger: A toast to the mapless

I know where I’m going. I thought that was the key to skiing, but after spending last week chasing my girlfriend's family around unfamiliar resorts, I discovered both the joys and follies of a different approach.

Routt County collegiate athletes roundup for March 5

Winter sports are wrapping up for Routt County athletes now competing for colleges around the country.

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Steamboat Park Challenge flies through terrain park

A rescheduled competition didn’t facilitate a large competitive field, but those skiers and snowboarders who did show up to compete Sunday at The Ride slope-style throwdown, a Steamboat Park Challenge event, laid down a barrage of top tricks.

Hayden boys basketball faces tough test at regional tournament

They have to beat them all at some point. At least, that’s what the Hayden High School boys basketball team is telling itself after it was disappointed Sunday by the regional basketball pairings.

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Steamboat Nordic combined athletes show well at Junior Nationals

Jasper Good and Natalie Bohlmann led the way for a strong weekend of competition for Steamboat Springs Nordic combined skiers at the Junior Nationals in Minneapolis.

Fletcher, Demong slowed by jumps, team up for 6th at World Championships

Scorching performances on the ski course have defined the season for U.S. Nordic combined team members Taylor Fletcher and Billy Demong, but a weak jumping round kept the pair at bay Saturday, limiting them to a sixth-place finish in the final World Championships event.

Hayden boys hoops advance past Paonia

With a dramatic flourish, the Hayden High School boys basketball team advanced Friday to play Saturday for the district championship at 2:30 p.m. in Paonia against Meeker.

Steamboat girls basketball bounced from state playoffs

The Sailors led the game into the second half but couldn't stop a surge from highly ranked Windsor.

Steamboat girls basketball hopes for another upset Friday

The Steamboat Springs High School girls basketball team pulled the biggest upset of the first round of the Class 4A tournament Tuesday and no doubt earn that distinction again if they find a way around Windsor in a 7 p.m. game Friday.

Tigers boys basketball set for district tournament

The Hayden High School boys basketball team plays Friday in the district tournament against Paonia.

Demong leads US team at World Championships large hill competition

Billy Demong led the way for the U.S. Nordic combined team Thursday in the large hill competition at the World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy, skiing to a 15th-place finish.

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U.S. Nordic combined team grabs bronze at World Championships in Italy

Taylor Fletcher, Bryan Fletcher, Todd Lodwick and Billy Demong teamed up to place third in the team relay event at the World Championships in Italy on Sunday.

Steamboat boys, girls each get No. 11 seeds in tournament, play Wednesday

The Steamboat Springs High School boys and girls basketball teams found out their state fates on Sunday as the brackets for the Class 4A state basketball tournaments were revealed.

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Hayden's Domson 4th at state wrestling

It wasn’t what he dreamed when he entered the tournament, but it also wasn’t what he feared when he was told last summer that a knee injury had eliminated any chance of his participation in the state tournament.

Steamboat boys basketball locks down Glenwood for big win at districts

The Sailors rode their defense to a win against rival Glenwood Springs, 53-47, in a strange game at the district tournament in Grand Junction.

Steamboat girls basketball falls to Durango at districts

The Steamboat Springs High School girls basketball team broke down defensively in an overtime period and fell Friday, 54-49, against Durango.

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Routt's only remaining wrestler, Hayden's Domson, dropped to state consolation bracket

Hayden senior Ryan Domson lost Friday night in the 182-pound semifinals at the Class 2A state wrestling tournament in Denver.

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Hayden's Domson moves on; all other wrestlers drop to consolation bracket

Hayden High School senior Ryan Domson got a win in the tournament’s first round, but his four fellow Tigers, as well as a pair of Soroco Rams, lost their matches and were cast to Friday’s consolation bracket.

Steamboat girls hoops opens postseason play Tuesday; boys play Thursday

A weekend of action set up the district tournament for the Steamboat Springs High School basketball teams. Teams from Soroco and Hayden also were busy.

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Big mountain Steamboat skiers place high at Sunlight competition

Steamboat Springs skiers showed well last weekend in a big mountain freeskiing event at Sunlight Ski Resort.

Routt County college athletes roundup for Feb. 18

A weekly roundup of the performances of collegiate athletes with Routt County ties.

Joel Reichenberger: Five years in and I'm in

Five years, I was told. I’d be a local in five years. Well guess what, Steamboat. I’m there.

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Hayden's Domson back at state after incredible recovery

Hayden senior Ryan Domson was told there was no way he could recover from a devastating knee injury in time to compete in any sports in his senior season. One thing about Domson: he hates being told what he can and can't do.

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Soroco girls basketball overcomes slow start for yet another win

The Rams had to fight through a lackluster first half before they finished off a 46-26 win against Plateau Valley.

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Soroco boys hoops explodes in 2nd half, knock off Plateau Valley

The Soroco High School boys basketball team played a lackluster half, a great quarter and a good quarter, and that all added up to enough for a win against Plateau Valley, 59-46.

Hayden boys basketball team wins another easy one

The Tigers gave up one point in the first quarter and just two more in the second en route to a 66-21 shellacking at home against De Beque.

Soroco boys basketball knocks off De Beque

The Soroco High School boys basketball team flew by De Beque on Friday night, winning on the road, 77-34.

Hayden boys basketball rolls by Plateau Valley

The Hayden High School boys basketball team had no trouble with Plateau Valley on Friday night, winning on the road, 74-47.

Hayden girls basketball wins on the road

Hayden beat Plateau Valley on the road Friday, 39-25.

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Steamboat girls blast Battle Mountain

The Steamboat Springs High School girls basketball team ran it up on Battle Mountain on Friday night, blasting the Huskies in Steamboat, 62-12.

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Battle Mountain tips over Steamboat boys hoops in crucial game

Battle Mountain got a tip-in game winner as time expired Friday night to beat Steamboat Springs.

Routt County wrestling teams wrap up regular season

The Hayden and Soroco high school wrestling teams got in their final work of the regular season Saturday and both reported goods results from a duals tournament in Meeker.

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Magill grabs podium finish at annual gelande jumping event

Tim Magill has been jumping in Steamboat Springs for 50 years, but he's never had a jump quite like the one he had on Sunday.

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Access Granted: Recreation in Routt County's backcountry becoming a big trend

An ongoing revolution in snow sports equipment has changed the way residents in Steamboat Springs recreate.

Access Granted: Before backcountry, there was just skiing

Sidecountry skiing is such a new term that many old-timers feel compelled to put air quotes around it. Backcountry skiing isn’t exactly an old term, either, because it wasn’t long ago that what’s now referred to as “backcountry skiing” was simply “skiing.”

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Access Granted: The backcountry skier's omerta

You know what would be great? A list of the best backcountry runs in Routt County. Or maybe a collection of the best backcountry stories from around Steamboat, the kind of runs they talked about in cheesy 1980s and ’90s ski movies. They’d have names like Dead Man’s Bluff or Slippery Pete’s Escape. There’s only one problem. Slippery Pete is quite content taking his escape to his grave.

Hayden boys hoops win easy at North Park

The Hayden High School boys basketball team blasted North Park on Saturday, winning on the road, 61-35.

Soroco boys fall in OT at West Grand

Soroco fell in overtime, 77-74, on the road as West Grand avenged a game from earlier this season.

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Life rolls on at International Muzzleloading Biathlon

Many things have changed, but as laughter echoed around the event’s award ceremony, it was clear that in the event's 39 years, many things were exactly the same.

Hayden girls basketball fall at North Park

The Hayden High School girls basketball team couldn’t make it two in a row, falling Saturday on the road against North Park. The Wildcats broke away late in a close game, winning 41-36.

Soroco boys win 7th game, knock off North Park

The Soroco High School boys basketball team got 22 points from Ryan Jeep and 20 from Nic Paxton on Friday as it pulled away from North Park in the fourth quarter, winning at home, 75-58.

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Hayden girls basketball hits new high with 3rd win of season

The Hayden girls basketball team pieced together its best game of the season Friday. Behind Olivia Zehner's 22 points, the Tigers beat West Grand, 51-36.

Soroco girls survive scare against North Park

Briana Peterson scored with three seconds remaining, lifting Soroco over North Park in a nail biter in Oak Creek, 49-48.

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Hayden boys basketball leans on reserves in win against West Grand

Juniors Dan Engle and Greg Frentress, who’ve played off the bench most of the season, came through Friday night to help Hayden hold off a determined West Grand squad, 71-52.

Hayden sweeps Routt County wrestling duals

Hayden won both ends of its wrestling doubleheader Thursday. The Tigers took down Steamboat, 39-15, then Soroco, 54-15.

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Steamboat's Cariveau scores 2nd-place finish at Cyclocross Worlds

Steamboat Springs' Jon Cariveau surged to a second-place finish in the masters 45 to 49 division at the Cyclocross World Championships last weekend in Kentucky.

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Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club snowboard program records more top results

The podiums just keep coming for a Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club snowboarding program that already is in the midst of one of the best seasons of its existence.