Fossil basketball earns a complete rack of wins against Greeley West High School

Emily Brey • January 28, 2017

Friday, January 27, the Fossil Ridge boys basketball teams traveled to Greeley West High School, and ended the night with a complete rack of wins. Often a lot of the focus regarding sports here at Fossil is centered around the varsity teams, but with the talent in this program, each of our teams has had a solid season thus far, and are in need of some recognition.

Last night D team, after coming back from quite a big score differential, won 42-32 with strong efforts from Luke Neiman and Jack Eastwood bringing the team back into the game. It wasn’t until the end of the second quarter, when Neiman hit a three point shot, that the SaberCats pulled ahead 25-24 going into halftime. After the second half was underway, the boys began to distance themselves further from the Spartans. It was a great comeback, the boys didn’t give up on the game, and ultimately that work ethic rewarded them.

C team hung on to their lead until the final whistle was blown, winning 66-51. Jv played an extremely close game, only winning by three points. The final score was 47-44 in favor of the SaberCats after they had gone into an intense overtime quarter.

Varsity destroyed the Spartans 60-28; Andrew Schimmels, Braxton Bertolette, Cam Dehart, Garrett Ripsam, and Luke Lauby all had great games, however, every Fossil player looked confident on the court. The players mentioned above put away a handful of shots, ending the game with a combined total of 48 pts.

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By the end of the first quarter our varsity team held a 13-8 lead, which quickly increased as halftime approached. Alex Price, once again, came out and did his job. He made a big impact on the game, hitting a handful of three point shots, layups, as well as working back to play defense.

Again, Schimmels and Bertolette each had a great night. With 3:36 left in the second quarter the boys were ahead, 29-11, and there was no way Greeley West was going to slow them down. By the time the first half came to a close, the Sabercats were up 33-15 over the Spartans.

The second half brought similar results as the first, the boys walked all over the Spartans. At the end of the game, the SaberCats had pulled away 60-28 in a crushing defeat over their opponent.

The boys’ next game is on Tuesday, January 31, at Fort Collins High School. Come out and support them as they take on another cross town rival at 7:00 pm.

Fossil Ridge Basketball. Photo Credit: Google Images

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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.