Kelsey Loupee scored in the 60th minute to give the Colorado Rush U-18 girls team a 2-2 draw with Team Boca of Florida on Friday to advance to Sunday’s championship game of the U.S. Youth Soccer national championships in Phoenix.
Haley Stading scored the first goal for the Rush, which topped the preliminary round with seven points on two wins and Friday’s draw. The Rush play FC Milwaukee early Sunday for the title.
• The Real Colorado National U-19 team lost its last game of the preliminary round, 1-0 to the Dallas Texans 92, but still advanced to Sunday’s title game as co-winner of the preliminary round with two wins and Friday’s loss. Real gets a rematch vs. Dallas on Sunday morning for the title.
RTD still has service to Rockies.
Rockies fans can still get to Coors Field next week via RTD despite a temporary light-rail closure.
Fans can take the bus shuttle service from the 10th and Osage Station to Union Station and walk north to Coors Field on Wynkoop, or they can take the light rail to the 16th and California or 16th and Stout stations and jump on the free MallRide to Market Street Station and head to Coors Field on Blake Street.
Colorado golfers finish third.
Cole Nygren of Longmont finished sixth and Cameron Harrell of Colorado Springs was 10th to lead the Colorado Golf Association team to its best finish ever, third place, at the Junior America’s Cup at Hiwan Golf Club in Evergreen.
The team from Northern California won the Cup for the ninth time, beating 17 four-man teams from the western U.S. with a 640 total, good for a 12-stroke margin over Southern California. Colorado was next at 657.
“It’s weird thinking we got third because Colorado is not known for doing real well in this event, so it’s pretty cool,” Harrell said.
• Mark Hubbard shot a 3-under-par 69 in the final round of the Pacific Coast Amateur in Truckee, Calif., finishing 18th with a three-round total of 2-over 290. He finished 13 strokes behind the winner, Chris Williams of Moscow, Idaho. Michael Harrington of Colorado Springs was 33rd at 296, and Matt Schovee of Cherry Hills Village was 39th at 298.
FLC Hall of Famer dies.
The first woman to be inducted into the Fort Lewis athletic Hall of Fame, Nellie Oldfield Horvath, 86, passed away Wednesday.
Horvath was born on Sept. 14, 1924, in Hesperus, a few miles away from the Fort Lewis A&M Junior College campus that she would attend from 1942-45.
Horvath played basketball and volleyball while FLC was at the Old Fort campus south of Hesperus in the 1940s and later taught physical education and mathematics at Farmington (N.M.) Junior High School for more than 30 years.
