Summer Schedules Current & Incoming Freshmen Click HERE for the schedule. All games played at Lifebridge Church, Longmont. JV Squad Click HERE for the schedule. All games will be played at Berthoud High School. Varsity Squad Click HERE for the schedule. All games will be played at Berthoud High School. CSU Team Camp June 14 - 17.
Contact Coach Kloster for any questions. Congratulations to the Girls Basketball team finishing their 2011-12 season with an overall record 18-6. The team ended their successful run in the second round of the 4A Colorado State Tournament, with 47-50 loss to Delta High School. Click here for the 4A Colorado State High School Girls Basketball Bracket
LITTLETON -- Everything was going as planned for Silver Creek, which expected to reach the 4A state quarterfinals. But one bad quarter against Delta put the Raptors plans on hold.
Having led the first three quarters, the fourth-seeded Raptors lost the lead in the fourth and fell 50-47 to the fifth-seeded Panthers at D'Evelyn High School on Friday.
After a playoff game that started so well and ended in heartbreaking defeat, senior point guard Ana Gurau was more stunned than anyone.
"I definitely never envisioned going out like this," Gurau said. "It's kind of crazy to me. I didn't imagine we could lose the first game we played.
"In the third quarter, they picked up the intensity a lot and we kind of freaked out, I guess."
The Raptors' 18-6 record in 2011-12 gave them the second best regular season record in school history. Raptors senior Rygell Hubert said the team will remember that as the defining characteristic of this season, rather than the final loss.
"I'm so proud of the girls and this is by far the best team I've been a part of," said Hubert, who scored eight points. "This was truly a family and we have a lot to be proud of this season."
Normally defensive-minded, junior Shelby Keil shot 56 percent from long range to lead the Raptors with 15 points. Silver Creek shot 43 percent from 3-point range as a team.
"Usually, I don't come out on the offensive end. I usually make an impact more on the defensive side," Keil said. "But I guess I was just on it tonight. I wanted to come out hard for my teammates.
The Raptors pulled ahead by 10 points in the first quarter and held the lead through the third. But an 8-point Panthers run erased the seven-point lead the Raptors had to start the fourth and gave them a 36-35 lead.
Keil's fifth 3-pointer gave the lead back to the Raptors, who pulled away 45-36 with under five minutes remaining. The Panthers (20-4) responded with a 12-0 run to retake the lead 48-45 with 2:30 remaining.
Junior forward Emily Rembert made a layup to bring the Raptors within one. Following a Raptors foul, Panthers forward Callie Gafford made one of two free throws to give them a two-point lead.
Gurau's fifth foul sent Gafford back to the line with 24.3 seconds left. She made the first and missed the second but her teammate Skylyn Webb got the rebound.
The Raptors got the ball back and brought it into the halfcourt. But they couldn't find an open shot and time ran out.
The Raptors turned the ball over seven times in the fourth quarter and the Panthers outscored them 22-12.
"They made some good plays there at the end and we didn't respond on the defensive end of the floor," Raptors head coach Dan Kloster said. "I gotta give them credit. They rebounded well and when all was said and done, I think the difference in the game was rebounding."
The Panthers out rebounded the Raptors 19-12. With 5-foot-11 forwards Callie Gafford and Chelby Curtis, who combined for 23 points and 11 rebounds, the Panthers' size inside also bothered the Raptors
defensively.
Raptors junior post threat Emily Rembert, who scored double digits in 10 of her last 11 games, was held to eight points. Junior forward Grace Reed scored six and Gurau, who had five steals and three assists, scored four points.
"I thought they did a great job in the paint, especially against Emily," Kloster said. "I thought we could have maybe gone more to Grace. She was open, we simply didn't get her the ball enough."
The Raptors will lose two seniors, Gurau and Hubert, and Kloster said they have high expectations for next year. Delta will move on to the quarterfinals of the Tracy Hill Region next weekend at Colorado School of Mines. Girls basketball: Broomfield makes up for miscues with 'D' Eagles hand Silver Creek Raptors first home loss By Gary Baines (BoCoPreps.com)
LONGMONT -- When a basketball team turns the ball over 27 times and misses 14 free throws in a matchup with a top-10 opponent, the result is normally a loss.
But the Broomfield girls aren't your normal team.
The five-time defending state champions in 4A can certainly have off nights on offense, but their defense rarely lets them down, which is why the fourth-ranked Eagles escaped with a 45-39 road victory over No. 8 Silver Creek Friday night.
In a game that had title implications in the 4A Northern League, Broomfield's pressure "D" contributed greatly to Silver Creek's 28 turnovers and limited the Raptors to 32 field goal attempts for the night.
"We're happy to get out of here in one piece," Eagles coach Mike Croell said. "This has always been a very, very tough place to come play, and boy tonight it sure lived up to that.
"Our defense was pretty darn tough, and that saved our butts because we sure gave it back to them a bunch."
In handing Silver Creek its first home loss of the season (8-1), the Eagles (18-3 overall) gained sole possession of first place in the league at 11-1 with Centaurus losing to Mountain View on Friday. On Tuesday, Broomfield will host CHS, which handed the Eagles their only league loss this season.
As for the Raptors (16-5, 9-3), who had won eight straight games going into Friday, they saw their league title hopes end with the loss to Broomfield.
"Of course we're disappointed," said coach Dan Kloster, whose Silver Creek team lost by seven and six points to Broomfield in their two meetings this season.
"We wanted a shot at the league title, but we didn't make it happen tonight. But at the end of the day, the top three or four teams from the Northern Conference are going to get a pretty good seed in the state tournament."
The Raptors led 17-13 in the second quarter Friday -- thanks in part to Broomfield missing 10 of its first 12 free throws -- but the Eagles scored the last nine points of the half, including four in the last three seconds.
With sophomore Emilie Rembert leading the way with 14 points -- her ninth straight game with 13 or more -- Silver Creek rallied to cut the deficit to 36-35 with six minutes remaining in the game. But that's when Broomfield's Meagan Prins began to take over.
The senior not only scored six of the Eagles' next eight points, but she blocked a shot and made a steal during an 8-2 surge that clinched the win for Broomfield.
"I was worried (when the game was close), but I knew we had to stay composed if we wanted to pull this game off," Prins said. "It was up to the seniors and other players to step up and make big plays, to keep our heads in it. I knew if we lost our heads, we'd be in trouble. So I said, 'Let's stay composed. We've got this.'
"We need that one badly. It's a good feeling to win."
Croell fully realized what a big role Prins played in the victory despite the fact that she sat out a long stretch after picking up three fouls in the second quarter.
"I told her that's the best game she's ever played in a Broomfield High uniform; it wasn't even close," he said.
The Eagles ended up winning despite 11-for-25 accuracy from the foul line.
"I told the girls, 'That's going to catch up to you,'" Croell said. "In close games you can't do that." While Broomfield will host Centaurus on Tuesday, Silver Creek will visit Mountain View following a seven-game homestand. The regular season ends next Friday. Girls basketball: Silver Creek makes statement Rembert leads Raptors past No. 3 Centaurus By Pat Rooney (BoCoPreps.com)
LONGMONT -- Silver Creek's girls basketball team had been waiting almost an entire month to show Centaurus it belongs among the contenders in the Class 4A Northern League.
Despite being forced to wait an additional three days due to Friday's snowstorm, the Raptors finally made their statement on Monday.
Silver Creek overcame an early deficit by putting together dominant runs on either side of halftime before holding on down the stretch for a 56-51 victory. It was the seventh consecutive win for Silver Creek, which suffered a lopsided loss at Centaurus on Jan. 10.
The Warriors, ranked third in Class 4A, had their 12-game winning streak snapped and fell into a first-place tie with Broomfield. Silver Creek (15-4, 8-2 Northern League) owns sole possession of third place and sits one game back of the frontrunners going into Tuesday's game against Thompson Valley. The Raptors host Broomfield in another rematch showdown on Friday.
"The last time we played them, we were really angry because we lost by almost 20," Silver Creek sophomore Emilie Rembert said. "We were pretty pumped to come back and face them again."
For roughly the first 12 minutes, it looked like more of the same for Silver Creek, which fell into a 14- point hole as Centaurus' Lyndie Puckett came off the bench to provide instant offense for the Warriors. Puckett made 5 of 7 shots in the first half, and her third 3-pointer of the game put the Raptors in a 26-12 deficit.
Silver Creek, however, answered with eight consecutive points and used a 10-2 run that closed the second quarter to cut Centaurus' lead to 28-22 at the break. The Raptors opened the second half with a 12-3 run that was capped by a 3-pointer from Rembert, and although the Warriors remained close, Silver Creek never trailed the rest of the way.
"Having the run in the second quarter going into the break, it was very uplifting," Rembert said. "We went into the locker room and were just like, 'We got this. We're not going to let down.' They played a great game, but we wanted it so bad."
Silver Creek established an eight-point lead early in the fourth, but Puckett's fourth 3-pointer kept the Warriors within five points with 1:11 remaining. Yet turnovers plagued Centaurus throughout the contest, and late miscues combined with solid free throw shooting by Silver Creek allowed the Raptors to maintain their lead down the stretch.
"They kind of put us in a fast-pace tempo and we made some mistakes," Centaurus coach Jeff Jackson said. "We didn't take care of the basketball, and they thrived off it. We wanted to slow it down and run some of our sets, but we didn't do a great job of that. Credit to them -- they're well coached and they played hard."
Rembert continued her torrid scoring streak for Silver Creek, finishing with a game-high 18 points. The sophomore recorded just two double-digit scoring performances during the first 12 games of the year, yet Rembert has scored at least 13 points in each of the past seven games while averaging 17.7 points during that span.
Sophomore guard Margaret Davis went 8-for-11 at the free throw line and finished with 10 points. Ana Gurau, Silver Creek's leading scorer, went scoreless during the first half but contributed eight crucial points after halftime. Puckett paced Centaurus (16-2, 9-1) with 17 points.
"We didn't come out playing very composed and we made a lot of mistakes early," Silver Creek coach Dan Kloster said. "Part of mental toughness is playing with composure and playing determined. We played with a lot more composure and we didn't make the same kind of mistakes. Then we settled into our game. I was really proud of how they responded to the adversity they faced at the beginning of the game."
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