SaberCats fall short to Denver East concluding their 2016-2017 season

Emily Brey • February 26, 2017

Cam DeHart driving to the basket and drawing a foul from Denver East defender. Photo Credit: Haley Rockwell.

On Saturday, February 25, the Fossil Ridge SaberCats suited up for what would be their final game this year against Denver East High School. After a hard fought game, the ‘Cats fell (56-72) to the Angels, which concluded their playoff run and ultimately their season for the 2016-17 school year.

After the game, Coach Johannsen of Fossil Ridge commented, “This is a season ending loss today, but to say I’m proud of this group is an understatement. From where we started to where we finished this year it’s been an amazing journey. These guys have given and achieved so much, so all I can say is thank you to this team.”

Fossil will be saying goodbye to a handful of seniors this year, and wishing them luck as they venture into the next chapters of their lives’. To Andrew Schimmels, Luke Lauby, Cam Dehart, Colby Pipher, Ted Niemann, Charlie Johnston, Braxton Bertolette, and Alex Price, congratulations on all of your guys’ achievements over your few years here at Fossil, and good luck in where ever you find yourselves next.

Braxton Bertolette with his father Marty Bertolette and the rest of the class of 2017. Photo Credit: Marty Bertolette

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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.