Telluride, Colo. - One of the fastest growing sports in the country is also one of the fastest growing sports in Telluride. Lacrosse, once limited mainly to the East Coast and a few scattered prep schools, has journeyed all the way to the one-horse Western Slope of Colorado. Club teams in Grand Junction, Montrose, Eagle and Telluride give kids the opportunity to learn this fast-paced sport.
And why not? It’s one of the sports genuinely invented by North Americans. When they arrived, French missionaries discovered that Native Americans were playing lacrosse. Now it’s all over the country, in middle schools, high schools and colleges, and there’s even a professional league.
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Steamboat Springs — It didn’t take a lucky shot, an advantageous referee’s call or a bizarre twist of fate.
The Steamboat Springs High School girls lacrosse team won its first game of the season, beating Mountain Range, 6-3, on Wednesday in Steamboat, by simply outplaying the Mus tangs.
Sailor senior Mollie Wun der scored two goals in the first half and sophomore Hannah Poland scored three in the second as Steamboat built and maintained a comfortable lead.
“To get a win is great, and not just for me,” Wunder said. “It’s great because we have a lot of new players this year. I know what it feels like to win and letting them know what it feels like is great.”
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ASPEN — Ricky Frias and the Aspen lacrosse team gave Eaglecrest no time to catch its breath Saturday.
The senior scored three goals in the first four minutes - and finished with eight in the game - and he and running mate Charlie Olson, who picked up eight assists, led the Skiers to a convincing 17-10 victory.
“The boys came out and put their heart and hustle into the game from the first whistle,” Aspen coach Mike Goerne said. “We got the lead, and we kept it.”
Goerne admitted he didn’t know what to expect when his team lined up against the Centennial school. Early on, however, it looked like the Raptors were the ones looking unsettled.
Frias and Olson connected one minute into the game on a perfectly-executed give-and-go. The duo, in what would become a familiar sight for Eaglecrest defenders, struck again two minutes later when Olson passed off to Frias from left of the net; Frias wound up and fired a sharp grounder into the bottom corner.
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