Alister Ratcliff, Fort Lewis’ collegiate national road champion, has signed with Team Chipotle, Team Garmin-Cervelo’s continental cycling team. The squad also signed Adam Leibovitz, a multiple national track champion out of Marian University in Indianapolis.
Ratcliff is a former junior All-America triathlete who also won the college omnium national championship and the 2011 Tour of the Catskills. In 2011, Leibovitz won the elite pursuit national championship, the collegiate pursuit and kilo national titles, the collegiate criterium national title and the team time trial national title. He also won the 2009 Ster van Zuid Limburg prologue.
John Henderson, The Denver Post
Grand Junction may get Ghosts.
The Grand Junction City Council has given the city manager approval to proceed with talks with the Monfort Investment Group on a minor-league baseball franchise.
The Monfort Investment Group, led by Rockies co- owners Dick and Charlie Monfort, bought the Casper Ghosts this year. That created speculation the rookie- level Pioneer League team might leave Casper.
Grand Junction Mayor Tom Kenyon said at a council meeting Wednesday that in an executive session before the meeting, council members had given the city manager approval to proceed with talks.
An item requiring the Grand Junction City Council’s vote is expected to be on the agenda for the council’s Oct. 17 meeting, but the city isn’t releasing details.
Denver Post staff and wire services
