Athletes sign with colleges

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

National Letter of Intent signing day was Feb. 3 and here is a list of all athletes this year who have been reported by high schools to have signed and which colleges they will be attending next season. If schools did not report athletes, they are not listed.

Arapahoe: Samuel Bsllas, football, Fort Lewis; Rylee Buesing, soccer, Dominican; Makaiah Carlson, soccer, Black Hills State; Addison Craig, soccer, John Brown; Addie Doyle, soccer, Air Force; Brynn Dzengelewski, eld hockey, Maine; Ava Escorcia, track and eld, Colorado State; Fred Fulkerson, lacrosse, Christopher Newport; Matthew Greene, football, UNLV; Finnegan Hauhuth, lacrosse, Maryland; Noah Hilgert, lacrosse, Colorado Mesa; Ryan Johnston, swimming, Kansas; Emily Lamontagne, track and eld, North Carolina; Lindsey Louder, swimming, Tampa; Taylor Miller, softball, Furman; Ava Mitchell, track and eld, Northern Arizona; Antonia Mohren, soccer, Virginia Wesleyan; Graydon

Pytlinski, baseball, Coe; Ty Scheckenbach, lacrosse, Lindenwood; Eva Searle, lacrosse, Kent State; Jackson Smith, football, Northern Colorado; Sydney White, basketball, California

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Castle View: Annabell Haugen, soccer,Adams State; Rielley McNeill, track and eld, Chicago; Luke Cushman, golf, Boise State; Kade Bracken, golf, Oregon Institute of Technology; Riley Schultz, lacrosse, Marquette; Samantha Hughes, lacrosse, Florida; Evelyn Tanella, lacrosse, San Diego State; Ace Malone, track and eld, Miami; Cooper Harrison, football, Adams State; Cole Stanley, football, Fort Lewis; Mason Rego, baseball, Morningside; Owen Clark, track and eld, Metro State; Cole Jenkins, baseball, Missouri Valley; Sophie Schwartz, weightlifting, Concordia.

Chaparral: Landon LaFlam, lacrosse, Canisius; Blake, lacrosse, Adams State; Gavin Morgan, lacrosse, CSU-Pueblo; Shane Hanson, baseball, Santa Barbara City College; Violet ompson, cross country, track, Ft. Lewis; Jackson Parrill, cross country, South Dakota Mines; Benjamin Flora, football, Dordt;

Brayden Munroe, football, Northern Colorado.

Cherry Creek: Chase Brackney, football, Iowa; Logan Brantley, football, Kansas; Blake Purchase, football, Oregon; Javon Smith-Combs, football, Colorado State; Hank Zlinskas, football, Colorado; Ismael Cisse, football, Stanford; Braylen Warren, football, Northern Colorado;

Highlands Ranch: Enrich Kephart, baseball, Lubbock Christian; Mason Kajfosz, swimming, Purdue; Daniela Cranford, volleyball, Idaho State; McKenna Carnesi. gymnastics, Washington; Rylan Smith, soccer, San Francisco; Bailey Williamson, rowing, Kansas State

Heritage: Gavin Batron, cross country, track, Metro State; Kate Bryant, gymnastics, Clemson; Sophia Capp, swimming, Purdue; Austin Carr, baseball, South Mountain Community; Sophie Castro, soccer, Army; Amy Champagne, volleyball, Baker; Lila Crowley, track and eld, Texas Tech; Patrick Deevy, swimming, Lynn; Zach Dickman, swimming, Lafayette; Hanna Doerr, soccer, Belmont Abbey; Inge Ehm, swimming, Texas Christian; Sam twisting layup — brought Canyon to within a point at 24-23.

But every time the Jaguars started to get too close, the Golden Eagles went on a run of their own to reclaim the momentum and put some distance between themselves and Canyon.

Aidan Peck’s and-one play out of a timeout trimmed Vista’s lead to 36-32 with 3:38 left in the third quarter, but the Golden Eagles quickly went on a 7-0 run to take their biggest lead of the game.

Then, after seven consecutive Jaguars points made the score 4339 early in the fourth quarter, the Golden Eagles outscored Canyon 8-2 over a 1:27 stretch to push their lead back to 10.

The Jaguars were never able to get closer than eight points the rest of the way.

“This has always been a team of runs,” 11th-year Canyon coach Kent Grams said of Vista. “They’re a heck of a team.

“I told our guys, `Being number one comes with a great responsibility.’ Tonight just wasn’t our night.”

Vista shot 47% (23-for-49) overall from the field. Cal Baskind scored 14 points, Brendan Diehl had three and Ian Strawbridge chipped in a pair to round out the scoring for the Golden Eagles.

Canyon connected on 37 percent (16-for-43) of its shots, though many of the Jaguars’ misses came late when they were in desperation mode. Hershberger paced Canyon with 18 points. e Jaguars’ other scorers were Peck (16), Mac Terry (eight), Hudson Ellwood ( ve), Kasen Lehman (three) and Reid Finch (two).

Garcis, track and eld, Lewis and Clark; Garrett Gurley, swimming, Colorado Mesa; Cade Kunz, baseball, Barton Community; Trevor Landen, baseball, Northern Colorado; Mary Macaulay, swimming, North Carolina; Mitchell Oliver, swimming, Arizona; Hank Orr, baseball, Barton Community; Jake Paczkowski, baseball, San Joaquin Delta; Ashlyn Porter, softball, Campbell; Zyrig Siegler, football, Western Colorado; Annika Sokol, volleyball, Central Florida: Kayla Truong, soccer, Black Hills State; Linda Weigang. track and eld, Ft. Lewis.

Littleton: Dalana Jakovljevic, basketball, Snow; Brycen Mhlanga, football, Adams State; Aiden Lauer, football, Adams State; Ethan Bird, football, Adams State; Carter Wasson, lacrosse, Aurora; Skye Fanch, soccer, Lake Forest.

Mountain Vista: Alexander Turpin, football, Colorado Mesa; Dawson Long, lacrosse, American International; Brandt Ward, lacrosse, Sacred Heart; Joel Palasz, lacrosse, Sacred Heart; Brady Brown, lacrosse, underRidge: Jack Bakke, swimming, Chapman; Josie Byrne, track and eld, South Dakota Mines; Kenny Carpenter, track and eld, Colorado State; Kira Chaney, volleyball, Hartford; Nate Geiger, football, Wyoming; Sam Green, lacrosse, Woester; Jonah Lassen, baseball, Bethel; Aiden Olshan, football, Wyoming; Ryan Oro, golf, Charleston; Kaden Shouse, football, Wyoming.

Monmouth; Riley Jenkins, lacrosse, Canisius; Ethan Pearson, lacrosse, Towson; Abby Aeschleman, golf, Creighton; CJ Meehan, lacrosse, Marquette; Talia Reading,lacrosse, Northwestern; Kamryn Wilson, soccer, Stetson; Brooke Conway, cross country, track, Cal Poly; Keira Gamily, cross country, track, Northeastern; Cayley Swain, cross country, track, Vassar; Rachel Bair, track, Utah; Valerie Stoltz, volleyball, Susquehanna; Michael Wittren, beach volleyball, Grand Canyon; Mai Kawahata, swimming, Santa Barbara; Sean Marlow, baseball, St. omas; Jeremy Bergeron, baseball, Ausustana; Zeke Borel, baseball, Concordia-Irvine; Noah Baker, baseball, Murray State; Brendan Diehl, baseball, Doane.

Ponderosa: Lauren Stucky, softball, Colorado State; Kayli Spall, basketball, Doane; Caden D’Lallo, lacrosse, Adams State; Ryan Kennett, track and eld, Colorado Mines; Camden Stanley, lacrosse, Westminster; Katherine Rank, volleyball, New Haven; Gabriel Jacobs, baseball, Azusa Paci c; Elli Brown eld, gymnastics, Lindenwood; Logan Matthews, football, New Mexico Highlands; Jacob Bostelman, wrestling, Northwestern; Lyam Edwards, football West Texas A&M; Jack Taylor, football, Briar Cli ; Cape Olsen, football, Ft. Lewis.

Rock Canyon: Savanna Barbosa, lacrosse, Tampa; Sean Barta, Baseball, Pima Community College; Luc Belvill, lacrosse, Stevenson; Bryce Bienvenu, baseball, Centenary; Ben Case, track, Cornell College; Neila Castaneda, basketball, Luther;Alex Cutone, lacrosse, Boston U; Murrie Dodge, cross country, track, New Mexico St.; Aidan Duda, football, Western Colorado; Abby Gardner, swimming, Bu alo; Addison Gilbert- son, lacrosse, Old Dominion; Chase Goode, baseball, Miles Community College; Alina Hajewski, volleyball, Trenton St.; Gavin Hershberger, basketball, Upper Iowa; Chase Jaworsky, baseball, Union Valley; Carsen Krell, baseball, Morningside; Savannah Larsen, lacrosse,Ohio Northern; Jasper Lorenz, soccer, William & Mary; Samantha Loft, soccer, South Dakota; Ethan Meyer, lacrosse, LeMoyne; Daniel Morton, lacrosse, William Penn; Ben Rome, basketball, Gustavus Adolphus; JT Shank, baseball, Paci c; Ava Todd, soccer, Kent St.; Addison Vali, soccer, SMU; Michael Vargas, cross country, track, UCCS.

Aiden Olshan:Colorado Mesa University for Football

Ryan Oro:University of Charleston for Golf

Kaden Shouse:University of Wyoming for Footb

Valor Christian: Cashel Dugger, baseball, UCLA; Gavin Hunt, baseball, Azusa Paci c; Brn Leikam, baseball, Wichita St.; Carson Tinney, baseball, Notre Dame; Anna Allison, basketball, Arizona Christian; Sydney Baller, basketball, Mass Institute of Technology; Macey Huard, basketball, Montana; Ali Wetta, basketball, Utah State; Taylor Rorick, cross country, track, Creighton; Brooke Wilson, cross country, track, Wake Forest; Rowdy Beers, football, Florida International; Brody Bliek, football, Northern Colorado; Tanner Morley, football, Colorado State; Trey Stott, football, San Diego; Roman Bradley, football, Air Force; Elle Higgins, golf, Montana; Anya Turner, gymnastics, Georgia; Audra Dial, lacrosse. Kent State; Reagan Diggy, lacrosse, Duke; Kyle Green, lacrosse, William Jewell; Kaley Kakac, lacrosse, John Hopkins; Kadin Bolin, soccer, Wartburg; Sabin Bolin, soccer, Wartburg;Zac Brooks, soccer, Cedarville; Jaiden Kinch, soccer, South Alabama; Julia Lambert, soccer, John Brown; Anja Lewis, soccer, Abilene Christian; Ella Lloyd, soccer, Adams St.; Patrick Mandy, soccer, South Carolina;Jo Sees, soccer, Kansas St.;Addie Whitehouse, soccer, Santa Clara; Peyton Holmes, track, Northwest Missouri St.; Jack Wetterling, track, Colorado State; Jocelyn Millican, cross country, track, Davidson; Peyton Brown, volleyball, Mass Institute of Technology; Sasha Cohen, volleyball, Central Florida; Erin McNair, volleyball, Princeton; Shearn Tucker, volleyball, Vassar.