Baseball opens March 20
With a quick turnaround from winter to spring sports, Dragon baseball players are scheduled to open their season Monday, March 20. The varsity doubleheader will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Wray.
Sports
Austin Herman battles around a Sedgwick County player as he heads to the basket. The senior led the team scoring effort Saturday with 15 points. —Johnson Publications
With Sedgwick County defenders on both sides, Gunnar Kroeger pops up a 3-point attempt in the second half of Saturday’s game. —Johnson Publications
Dragons are #1 in Colo. 2A
After winning once and losing once in regular season to Sedgwick County, Holyoke’s neighbor to the north, and falling in the district championship to the team two weeks prior, the Dragon boys w
Senior Alex Strauss is unstoppable by Paonia defense as he reaches for a layup Friday night. He put up 18 points for the Dragons in their 64-63 overtime win. —Johnson Publications
The student section at Friday’s semifinal matchup rallies for a Holyoke comeback in the fourth quarter against Paonia. Dragon fans from near and far were out in full force throughout the 2A state basketball tournament in Loveland March 9-11. They packed the house in green and gold at the Budweiser Events Center to cheer on their hometown boys to win a state championship. —Johnson Publications photo
Tenacious Dragons come back for OT win in Final Four
Talk about tenacity.
Holyoke hangs on for 43-38 first-round win over Fowler
It was a nerve-wracking start to the big state tournament at Loveland’s Budweiser Events Center Thursday, March 9, as Holyoke’s sometimes-shaky first-round game against the Fowler Grizzlies cam
Dragon starter M.J. Taylor flies through the air to sneak past a Paonia defender in Friday’s semifinal game. —Johnson Publications
NE Colorado dominates at state basketball
Holyoke and its neighboring towns made themselves known in both the girls and boys state basketball tournaments Thursday-Saturday, March 9-11.