The Rocky Mountain Rage minor-league hockey team will suspend operations for a year but hopes to return for the next season, the Central Hockey League announced today.
CHL commissioner Duane Lewis said the team will remain in good standing with the league with plans to play the 2010-11 season at the Broomfield Event Center.
Lewis said the team’s goals during the time off will be to increase marketing, get more corporate partners on board and work with BEC’s new managers.
“Getting that time to focus on the off-ice part of business will be good to re-establish themselves in the community,” Lewis said by phone Friday.
All players automatically become free agents and can start signing with other teams immediately, Lewis said.
The Rage management stated several factors in the suspension, including the transition of BEC management and securing a long-term lease agreement.
CSU lands UCLA transfer.
Tailback Raymond Carter, a four-star prospect on in 2007, is transferring to Colorado State from UCLA. He told the Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze: “It was down to New Mexico State and Colorado State, and at the end, they both looked equal.” He said he went with CSU because of the coaching staff.
Carter carried 25 times for only 29 yards last season after suffering a knee injury in his first week the previous year. He will have three years of eligibility left after sitting out this season. He was a four-star pick out of Los Angeles Crenshaw.
— Natalie Meisler
Clement, Yaussi Icing up.
Former Mullen High School and University of Miami star quarterback Ryan Clement and ex-Wyoming and Colorado Crush kicker Deric Yaussi signed with the Colorado Ice. Both are former Ice players. The Loveland team has qualified for the Indoor Football League playoffs.
— Natalie Meisler
Two top seeds fall at City Open.
One day after the men’s top seed was upset at the Denver City Open, two of the women’s top seeds were eliminated.
No. 2 seed Lauren Strasburger, last year’s runner-up and a former Colorado State player, lost to No. 6 seed Marie Matrka of Wilmington, Ohio, 6-1, 7-5. No. 7 seed Simona Bruetting of Highlands Ranch upset No. 3 seed Tabatha Knop of Colorado Springs 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. Bruetting and Knop face each other in semifinal play this morning. No. 1 seed Mallory Voelker, a former standout at the University of Denver, downed Casey Wetzig of Colorado Springs 6-0, 6-2. She faces 2006 champion Rhona Kaczmarczyk of Denver in the other semifinal.
The men’s quarterfinals are also set: No. 2 seed Clancy Shields of Grand Junction will face former Open champion and No. 3 seed Cory Ross of Littleton. No. 13 seed Will Vasos of Fort Collins, who upset defending champion and No. 1 seed Luke Shields on Thursday, will face No. 4 Chris Lam, an assistant coach at DU, who defeated his boss and the Pioneers’ head coach, No. 7 seed Danny Westerman, 6-4, 6-3.
White, Glissmeyer chasing trio.
Dustin White of Pueblo shot a 6-under-par 64 at the Nationwide Tour Fort Smith Classic in Arkansas and is eight strokes behind three co-leaders.
White, a 27-year-old who played his college golf at Washington State, is at 3-under 137 after two rounds. White’s best finish this year is a tie for ninth at the South Georgia Classic.
Former Cheyenne Mountain High School standout Tom Glissmeyer made the cut with an even-par 140. Glissmeyer is just starting his pro career after his senior season at Southern California.
