Sports

Rodeo champion earns two titles in Las Vegas

Hatch area six-year-old Klay Tohsonii is San Juan County’s youngest rodeo world champion. Klay competed in and won two Six and Under World Dummy Roping Championships last weekend. On December 9, Klay won the 2021 Six and Under Stetson Country Christmas World Dummy Roping Championship in Las Vegas,...

San Juan boys basketball team suffers its first loss of young season but bounces back for win

The San Juan High School basketball team entered the past week with a 3-0 record set to take on what will most likely be the toughest opponent they’ll face all season. For the second straight year the David Evans-helmed Real Salt Lake Academy visited the Broncos in Blanding Wednesday, December 8,...

Buckaroo boys bball team picks up first win

The Monticello boys basketball team went 1-2 in the past week, getting their first win of the season in Colorado before heading to the 1A Preview in Richfield, UT over the weekend. Monticello opened the week on December 7 in Dove Creek against the Bulldogs. The game started with Landon Ewart...

Whitehorse boys basketball team improving following long time off

The Whitehorse High School boys basketball team went 1-2 on the week, getting a win over Navajo Pine before heading to the 1A Preview in Richfield. Coach Evan Grant says that after not playing for 18 months, the team is slowly building to what they want to be at the end of the season. One of the...

San Juan wins Dawg Fight to lead way for county wrestling teams

The San Juan High School wrestling team won a hard-fought championship trophy at the Dove Creek Dawg Fight Tournament on December 11. The Broncos racked up 165 team points to narrowly defeat the Mancos Bluejays, who scored 163 points. Whitehorse scored 18 points to finish ninth in the team score,...

Strong performance for Monticello High wrestlers at Juab Tournament

The Monticello Buckaroo wrestlers traveled to Nephi to compete in the 24-team Juab Tournament over this past weekend, December 10-11. The Bucks wrestled eight duals in the two-day event. With six open weights they gave up 36 points in forfeits in each dual but wrestled well in head-to-head matches...

Raiders open 2021-22 season at Shiprock Chieftain Invitational

The Whitehorse Raiders boys basketball team opened their season at a tournament in Shiprock on December 2,3, and 4. The Raiders opened the year with one win and two losses. The Raiders won their first game of the season 79-23 over Shiprock Northwest. D’Wayne Nakai led the way for the Raiders...

Monticello girls basketball team hosts San Juan in early-season rivalry matchup Nov. 30

With their seasons just underway, the San Juan and Monticello girls basketball teams squared off for the first of two meetings this past Tuesday, November 30 in the MHS gymnasium with both teams looking for their first win. The Lady Buckaroos were 0-2 coming off a tough 1A Preview trip to Richfield...

Broncos cruise through Preview, prepare for a challenging week

After opening their new season with an easy win over Grand County a couple days before Thanksgiving, the San Juan High School boys basketball team was looking to continue a strong start when they traveled to Richfield, UT for the 2021 2A/3A Central Utah Boys Basketball Preview at the Sevier Valley...

Buck wrestlers open new season

The Monticello Buckaroo wrestlers took to the mat last weekend at the Red Rocks Invitational in Moab to open their new season. The Buckaroos had 14 wrestlers competing, with juniors Javlin Robison and Josh Wheeler leading the pack with first-place finishes. Robison was 8-0 with five of his wins by...