Winter break recap and stolen win against Loveland

Emily Brey • January 14, 2017

Braxton Bertolette drives to the basket in their game against Loveland High School. Photo Credit: Haley Rockwell.

Winter break is a time to spend with family, with friends, and apparently, on the court. Our boys basketball team played three games during their time off of school, and now have a 5-7 record for this 2016-2017 season. They first took on Pine Creek High School and took a substantial (81-43) win. Next up was Monarch High School, the Sabercats fell short (61-65) in a neck-in-neck game, and to close out break the ‘Cats took on Highlands Ranch High School and unfortunately lost to the skilled Falcons (60-62).

On Thursday, January 12, Fossil Ridge took a lead on Loveland High School early on in the game. The final score was (47-42) in favor of Fossil Ridge, but the Indians made a strong comeback towards the end of the game; time just wasn’t on their side. Braxton Bertolette had a solid game, getting himself 13 more points, but he wasn’t the only player catching eyes. Senior Alex Price earned himself 9 points, and sank a handful of three point shots to increase their lead in the third and fourth quarters. After the game, in a quick interview with Price, he commented, “Going into the game, myself and the rest of the team felt confident that we could handle the pressure that Loveland presented. We believed that as long as we executed our plays and pressured them on defense that we would have a good chance to get the win. I thought we had a promising first half, but starting in the second we drifted away from the things that were making us successful in the first, everything from offensive execution to our defense in general.”

The game was played with fast pace, both teams controlling the ball when they had possession, but the Sabercats ultimately did a better job at finishing with the ball. Price also mentioned, “Overall, I thought we didn’t play to our full potential by any means. I think we could’ve done a better job pertaining to on the ball defense, just being able to keep our man out of the paint, and I also think that we could’ve improved on our offensive aggression. It wasn’t a terrible game, but it wasn’t a great one either.” Price along with the rest of the team was ready to take on Poudre in their next game, there will be an article on that game soon, stay tuned.

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Emily Brey, Sports Editor

Emily Brey is a senior at Fossil Ridge High School who is in her third year on the Etched In Stone staff and is Co-Editor of the Sports BEAT. Emily plays varsity soccer for Fossil and also plays for Arsenal Colorado on the ‘00 Academy team. She is committed to play soccer at Colorado State University - Pueblo and plans to study business and law in college. After attending CSUP, she hopes to attend CU where she will go for her MBA.

Between taking on a full schedule and all of her extracurricular commitments, Emily is a very busy bee this year. Emily is serving as Vice President of FBLA here at Fossil, and is a member of Key Club and NTHS (National Technical Honor Society). She is an ambitious young lady whose reliability, organization, and work ethic has helped her achieve many goals in her time thus far at Fossil Ridge. She is a huge fan of Lana Del Rey and the bands, All Time Low, SWMRS, Waterparks, and The Wrecks. She enjoys spending time outside and organizing things, which relaxes her. When she isn’t covering a story or playing soccer, Emily enjoys being a homebody and watching movies.

The friendly, family-like environment that the journalism program at Fossil encompasses has been something she has valued since freshman year. She would love to be able to continue journalistic work after high school. Emily looks forward to leading the Journalism 1 writers, no matter if that’s in journalism or just life in general. Plus, she hopes to inspire the younger writers to report on other topics besides sports, just because that’s something that she wishes she would’ve done the past two years. Her main goal for the year in journalism is to get better with her coverage, especially with using multiple media platforms. Emily wants to try and expand from her comfort zone of sports writing, hoping to experience writing different journalistic topics.