12 Brighton Standard Blade
LOCAL
May 12, 2021
SPORTS
SLIPPING AWAY
Prairie View’s Payten Wilson and Thompson Valley’s Macie Oberhammer want control of the ball during the teams’ non-conference game May 6 at PVHS. The Eagles used three goals from Marit Klagge to pick up a 6-3 win. Cienna Rush, Chloe Gray and PHOTO BY STEVE SMITH Brooklyn McKinney scored the goals for Prairie View.
PITCHING CAN’T OVERCOME BRIGHTON
Mountain Range’s Michael Acierno fires a pitch toward the plate against Brighton May 6. Acierno struck out 12 in his five innings on the mound, but BHS won the game 6-5 in eight innings. PHOTO BY STEVE SMITH
Ravens return to the field with a win BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
It seems reasonably certain that the Riverdale Ridge baseball team was happy to get back on a field and play a game May 5, its first in almost two years. As for coach Ray Garza, he wasn’t sure what to expect.
“ I was a little worried to start. It ended up working for us,” Garza said. “We have a good core of kids that gel well together. A number of kids have done a lot of work in the time we’ve been away, whether it’s with baseball-related skills, their body. That was the biggest key. These kids had to do something on their own.”
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Whether it was the offseason work or the preseason lineup of games so that Garza and his staff could find the right players to fill the slots on the team, it worked out well for RRHS. The Ravens scored nine times in their last three turns at-bat and beat visiting Berthoud 9-5. Dakota Pruitt had three hits, including a two-run single in the fifth
inning to tie the score. Elijah Lofton then added an RBI double to pad RRHS’ lead to 6-4. He finished with two hits and two RBIs. “It was the jitters. We haven’t played in two years,” Pruitt said. “We were just getting those first ABs out of the way, settling into our spot. SEE BASEBALL, P13
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