Posts by Joel Priest

Ignacio’s Joe Garcia (front row, fifth from right) listens to post-game exhortations following Team Laulima’s 24-0 triumph over Team Lokahi at the 20201 Hawaii Tiki Bowl – played Jan. 7 inside Orlando, Florida’s Camping World Stadium, a relocation necessitated by COVID-19 precautions.

Fri Jan 15th, 2021

Ignacio senior RB flings TD in Florida

Ignacio Athletics/Activities Director Leo Garand gazes hopefully at gridiron action in La Jara, where IHS challenged the powerhouse Falcons. CHSAA recently said that long-delayed winter sports should get underway with first practices on Jan. 18, 2021 – good news indeed, should it hold true, for Garand, who is in charge of making (and revising) the Bobcats’ already-reduced schedules.

Wed Dec 30th, 2020

Winter sports’ start date now January 18

Ignacio’s Ebonee Gomez (23) puts on a proper game face prior to second-half play inside IHS Gymnasium during the 2019-20 season. Now a senior, as were Elizabeth Valdez, Bella Pena and Makayla Howell (all visible at rear) last winter, she’ll be one of the Lady Bobcats’ primary leaders ... if and when the COVID-shortened 2020-21 season tips off. The season was delayed for a second time as of Dec. 6.

Fri Dec 18th, 2020

State’s COVID stance benches Lady ’Cats … again

Ignacio’s Joe Garcia (23) extends the football just far enough over the goal line to register a touchdown during the Bobcats’ season-ending home win over Del Norte and would-be tacklers Malachi Gallegos (6) and Gage Trujillo. The senior running back/linebacker was recently named First Team All-SPC for 2020.

Fri Dec 18th, 2020

2020 All-SPC Football Team lists released

Fri Dec 18th, 2020

’Cats are off the mats … for now

Fri Dec 4th, 2020

Wrestling schedule’s first draft released

Ignacio sophomores Jace Carmenoros (63) and John Riepel (4) drop Del Norte’s Fletcher Madrid (33) for a loss during season-ending 1A Southern Peaks Conference action Friday night at IHS Field. The hosting Bobcats blanked the Tigers 40-0.

Fri Nov 20th, 2020

SHUT-OUTRO: IHS ends ’20 blanking Tigers

Senior Charlize Valdez (533) leads Rye’s Clarissa Peterson (534) and La Jara Centauri’s Austyn Shawcroft (528) around a bend in the Norris-Penrose Event Center course during the 2020 CHSAA Class 2A State Championships in Colorado Springs. Again a front-runner for SJBL Girls’ Runner-of-the-Year, Valdez was recently named All-SJBL as well as First Team Academic All-State.

Fri Nov 20th, 2020

Harriers receive their postseason due

Ignacio’s Jace Carmenoros (63) brings Centauri quarterback McKay Russell down a split-second late on a first-half pass attempt during 1A Southern Peaks Conference road action Friday afternoon, Oct. 30, at Falcon Field.

Fri Nov 6th, 2020

Birds of Prey: Falcons humble hyped ’Cats

Fri Oct 23rd, 2020

Boys’ XC season bogs down in Delta

Fri Oct 23rd, 2020

Excellent Eighth: Lady ’Cats solid at State

Jace Carmenoros (63) gets congratulations from John Riepel (4) after rising to his feet with a first quarter-ending fumble recovery during the Bobcats’ 2020 season-opener Thursday evening, Oct. 15, at Center. Carmenoros also logged a momentum-shifting quarterback sack in the second quarter as IHS defeated CHS 27-18.

Fri Oct 23rd, 2020

Bobcats vanquish Vikings away, 27-18

Ignacio’s Vanessa Gonzales (515) prepares to attack the last straightaway closing out the Mancos-hosted Chicken Creek Challenge’s girls’ varsity race, Oct. 3 north of town. She placed 18th in 25:58.

Fri Oct 9th, 2020

Challenge Met: Harriers survive Chicken Creek

IHS Field will see gridiron action in 2020 after all. The Colorado High School Activities Association Board of Directors convened Wednesday night, Sept. 16, to discuss athletic variances approved by the COVID-19 Response Team from the Office of Gov. Jared Polis, and by a 12-3 vote, traditional CHSAA-sanctioned fall sports of football, field hockey, and sideline spirit were approved to proceed – if teams are able to do so safely under guidelines set by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. According to an Association press release from Assistant Commissioner Bert Borgmann’s office, schools will continue to have the option to play those sports in Spring ’21 (or Season C; Fall ’20 also goes by Season A) as previously upheld by the Board, if they elect not to in the fall. He noted that though the seasons would be treated equitably, schools may not play in both – allowing for schools and districts to make the determination locally. Requested variances for CHSAA’s remaining fall sports – including Girls’ Volleyball – still remain under consideration by the Response Team.

Fri Oct 9th, 2020

Bobcats to face difficult gridiron grind

Lexy Young (537) and Lauren deKay (538) pursue Fruita Monument’s Kelli Bond (520) during the Grand Junction Tiger Invitational’s JV feature Friday evening, Sept. 11.

Fri Sep 25th, 2020

Lady ‘Cats cop fifth at Southwest Classic