Fossil Ridge comes out on top against 7 time League Champion Broomfield High School

Emily Brey • January 27, 2017

Cam Dehart goes in for a layup against Broomfield High School defender, Tuesday, January 24. Photo Credit: Haley Rockwell.

Tuesday night, January 24, Fossil Ridge took the court against 7 time League Champions Broomfield High School (7-9), and ended the night on top with a 77-74 win. In a very close game, with a handful of equally talented players, senior Colby Pipher (21 pts) couldn’t help but draw eyes, as the Sabercats defeated one of the best 5A teams in the league.

After an interview with Pipher he commented, “I knew that Broomfield was a good team, but there best player was out. That being said, I thought we had a good chance to win if we went out and did what we needed to do.” In the first few minutes of play, Bertolette hit a three point shot, and Pipher made a shot along with two free throw shots, putting the SaberCats in the lead 8-4 early.

The Eagles tied the game 10-10 with 1:50 left in the first quarter; junior Sam Foster (21 pts) of Broomfield lead their team into the second half of the game with confidence in not only himself but the team as a whole, and believed they could make a comeback.

The SaberCat defense held their own, stuffing a handful of Eagle drives, and kept the ball in the hands of Braxton Bertolette (22 pts) and Andrew Schimmels (9 pts).

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Senior Braxton Bertolette driving to the basket against Broomfield High School defender, Tuesday, January 24. Photo Credit: Haley Rockwell.

In an interview with Foster after the game, he said, “We all knew Braxton was one of the best players in the state, so we knew we were going to have our hands full with him, but our coach also mentioned Schimmels to us knowing he was one of the stronger competitors too. When it came to our offensive play, Colby was basically a brick wall, he made it hard for us in the paint in the first half.”

Fossil was sitting thirteen points ahead of Broomfield, with a 59-46 lead, at the end of the third quarter. However, in the last 4 minutes of the game, the Eagles shortened the score gap, then trailing the SaberCats 69-63.

In the last minutes of play, the energy was heightened between both teams, and each player was working to get down and up the court; ultimately Fossil came out on top, 77-74. After the game Pipher mentioned, “I think overall there were glimpses of good play for us as a team, but what allowed us to win was our mental toughness to continue to play hard even when the other team would go on runs.”

Foster was frustrated after the game saying, “I felt good going into the game, I really did. Our team knew it was going to be tough so we were prepared to play until the final whistle. We were playing well offensively up until the second half, but our defense wasn’t where it needed to be and that is what hurt us in the long run.”

Come out to Greeley West High School tonight as the boys take on Greeley West at 6:30.

Luke Lauby taking the ball up the court against Broomfield High School, Tuesday, January 24. Photo Credit: Haley Rockwell.

Cam Dehart taking a shot in game against Broomfield High School. Tuesday night, January 24. Photo Credit: Haley Rockwell.

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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.