SPORTS B THE DAILY SENTINEL TUESDAY MARCH 9, 2010 UCONN WOMEN MAKE HISTORY, PAGE 2B ■ THERE’S A DILEMMA IN NASCAR, PAGE 4B SUMMER BOND Ready to roll GRETEL DAUGHERTY/The Daily Sentinel CENTRAL’S WHITE TEAM CAPTAIN Tyler Zimmerman and the Warriors are heading to Colorado Springs on Saturday for the bowling state championships. DEAN HUMPHREY/The Daily Sentinel Central sending two teams to MONTROSE JUNIOR NATE ROBERTSON is part of a solid pitching staff that has Indians coach Landon Wareham excited this season. Montrose is 2-0 this season after a pair of wins in the Bill Fanning Classic. bowling state championships LAYING A FOUNDATION By PATRICK BAHR Patrick.Bahr@gjsentinel.com Saturday, the best high school teams from across the state will battle to be called the best. With basketball teams playing at various sites around the state, the high school bowling state championships are at Harmony Bowl in Colorado Springs. The Central High School bowling team is send- ing two teams to the tournament. Larry Robbins Montrose baseball team establishes unity, is primed for stellar season started the program seven years ago and has seen it grow into three teams at the school. “We usually start out with about 30 kids a year,” Robbins said. “Even though we aren’t quite rec- By PATRICK BAHR guys who started at least 50 percent of the season ognized as a CHSAA (Colorado High School Ac- Patrick.Bahr@gjsentinel.com last year, and we have all of our arms back.” tivities Association) sport, we try to follow all the This season has started well for the Indians, CHSAA rules.” H who won their first game against Eagle Valley Those rules include staying eligible in class and igh school baseball teams regular attendance at practice and tournaments. 6-3. Last Friday, Montrose improved to 2-0 with a are developed the 14-2 win over Woodland Park in the Bill Fanning Robbins said the players keep each other account- summer before the spring Classic. Wareham said people have started to able. season. During those dog notice the Indians’ success. “We treat it like a (CHSAA) sport, everyone has “We had our first home game (against Eagle to show up at practices or else you don’t bowl,” days, teams will play as many as 50 Valley), and I bet we had close to 350 people there, White team captain Tyler Zimmerman said. “I games, not only honing their and I’ve never seen it like that,” Wareham said. think it’s a great sport.” fundamentals, but bonding as a “It was awesome, and we are trying to do our team. part to keep it going.” See BOWLING, page 4B ® Montrose is led by seven seniors, including Jer- That’s when the Montrose High School base- emy Storter, an all-SWL selection last season. ball team gets to work. When the summer season The Indians also have a solid group of juniors is over, a majority of the players move on to a in Nathan Robertson, Roland McLaren and fall, then a winter sport. Bryce Gaber. Despite the long layoff McLaren, an all-conference outfielder last sea- from swinging a bat or son, said what makes the Indians strong is their playing catch, second-year cohesiveness. Montrose coach Landon “We’ve played together for five years, and it’s Wareham knows the base basically the same team,” McLaren said. “We established in the summer is want to keep getting better and stronger, and always there. just do the best we can.” BASEBALL “With as many games as Offensively, the Indians should have enough Plethora of pitchers we played with this group to compete with most teams, but it’s the pitching Nate Robertson, junior the past two summers, they staff that has Wareham excited. A half-dozen Jeremy Storter, senior know how to play ball,” DEAN HUMPHREY/The Daily Sentinel pitchers are fairly interchangeable, with Robert- Glayden Berry, senior Wareham said. “It’s hard JEREMY STORTER, LEFT, WAS an all-SWL selection son, Storter, Glayden Berry, Bryce Gaber, Jake Bryce Gaber, junior during the normal high Plankis and Zane Hemond. Jake Plankis, senior Zane Hemond, sophomore school season because you last season, and this season should lead the Indians “We don’t have a clear-cut guy that’s our get 19 games. It’s the summer and second-year coach Landon Wareham. Friday night guy, but we also don’t drop off,” when they play 50 games that Wareham said. “We have one guy that’s a lefty, we get so much better.” Montrose finished 8-9 and made the Class 4A one guy’s a side-armer, so it depends on what we Wareham has been a large reason for the playoffs, winning its first round-game against want. None of them are overpowering, but they GRETEL DAUGHERTY/The Daily Sentinel program’s turnaround. The Indians were 6-13 Fort Lupton 13-7. all give us a good chance to win.” CENTRAL SENIOR RICHARD REED bowls during the year before Wareham, who starred at Olathe This year, Montrose should continue to im- Montrose will be busy during spring break High School before becoming an All-American prove with a majority of its starters returning. week, hosting Paonia today before playing in the practice at Orchard Mesa Lanes. Reed recently bowled at Mesa State College, arrived. Last season, “We are deep,” Wareham said. “We have 10 Broomfield tournament beginning Thursday. a 278 at a bowlathon fundraiser. Master Mackey Musher seeks 4th straight win in Iditarod By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Going into the race, Mackey to become the only musher ever said his 16-dog team looked to win both the Iditarod and the ANCHORAGE, Alaska — sharp, with new youngsters 1,000-mile Yukon Quest Interna- Both knees are shot, injected and a core of veterans that tional Sled Dog Race in the same with synthetic cartilage until he are capable of beating 70 other year, taking about two weeks off can have surgery next summer. teams to the finish line in Nome between races. It’s a feat he has His right arm is still healing on Alaska’s western coast. accomplished twice. from a major operation to fix a The Fairbanks musher, whose Mackey speaks openly about staph infection. He continues father and brother are past Idi- using medical marijuana on the to deal with other side effects tarod winners, said he feels as trail as a post-cancer painkiller of cancer. competitive as he has been in and appetite enhancer. He also But Lance Mackey is gunning the past, despite a host of health talks about facing a misdemean- for his fourth consecutive win issues that make you wonder or count of marijuana posses- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS in the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail how he can even get to the trail. sion after being found with a Sled Dog Race, which started “I know. A lot of people say small amount at the Anchorage THREE-TIME DEFENDING IDITAROD CHAMPION LANCE MACKEY, left, coaches Jamaican rookie Newton Sunday in Willow. the same thing,” he said. “But airport in January, after his Marshall on Sunday before the start of the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Willow, Alaska. Mackey is Musher Paul Gebhardt of I make up mentally what I’m medical marijuana card had mentoring Marshall and aiming for a fourth straight win. Kasilof was the first Monday to lacking a little bit physically.” expired. reach the checkpoint at Rainy That motto could apply to his For this race, he said he’s include Marinol, a government- that pot has given him an ad- Stan Hooley, executive direc- Pass, about 224 miles beyond entire mushing career since staying away from pot. That’s approved drug that contains the vantage. tor of the Iditarod Trail Com- Anchorage. He arrived with all he was diagnosed with throat because the Iditarod for the first active ingredient in marijuana, “We’re going to prove some mittee, said it would be “hard 16 dogs late Monday morning, cancer in 2001 and underwent time is testing mushers for alco- but Mackey said he’s even lay- people wrong,” he said. “The to deny” speculation that the and passed the first musher to extensive surgery as well as hol and illegal drugs, although a ing off on his own prescription. dogs are the ones doing all the implementation is targeted at leave the previous checkpoint in radiation treatment and the loss provision allowing testing has Mackey believes the policy is work, for the most part. I don’t Mackey. Finger Lake — Canadian Sebas- of his salivary glands. After re- been on the rule books since directed at him. He said other see much of an argument be- tian Schnuelle. turning to the sport, he went on 1984. Officials say exemptions competitors have complained yond that.” See MACKEY, page 4B ®