Mile High advantage?

my hardest. After the rain I just really wanted to go to play.”

Anika Sharma defeated Laird 6-1, 6-2, to win the individual title three days before the team title match.

Creek’s No. 1 singles player, senior Lorena Cedeno, lost the individual state title match to Fairview’s Quinn Bernthal but rebounded with a win over Bernthal on May 16.

“It was a makeup from last week,” said Cedeno. “I knew what I was going to do because we just played. I felt so much better. It was good. I knew what to do.”

Creek also got wins from its No.3 doubles team of Farrah Bendell and Zoey Hochstadt and the No 4 doubles pairing of Julia Karlberg and Zoey Hao. Bendell was part of the individual state championship team and Karlberg and Hao were also individual title winners.

Arapahoe Warriors Youth Hockey league takes the Windy City by storm

Colorado youth hockey teams invaded the Windy City recently, as the Arapahoe Warriors Youth Hockey League entered seven teams in an annual Chicago tournament.

e local teams may have had an advantage from training in the Mile High altitudes as all seven teams made their way into the championship rounds of the three-day tournament. e tournament featured teams from Colorado, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota for age groups between 8 years old and 18. e Arapahoe Warroirs Youth Hockey League announced on May 22 that of the seven teams, four of them brought back rst-place championship banners in 10U A, 10U B, 12U B and 14U B. e remaining three teams nished the tournament in second place.

Between May 19 and May 21 the teams traveled throughout the Chicago suburbs to participate in the annual Windy City Spring Classic hockey tournament.

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