Adam Busack

4 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Adam Busack

The annual Rides and Vibes mountain bike races took place Saturday in downtown Grand Junction and the popular Lunch Loops and other singletrack trails. The bike races featured 15, 30, and 40 mile amateur mountain bike races as well as a professional 40 mile men's and women's races with a $20,000 cash purse for the top finishers split evenly between men and women. Kyle Trudeau of Tuscon, Arizona was winner in the men's pro race, knocking out the 40-mile ride in 3 hours, 6 minutes, 39.2 seconds.

4 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Adam Busack

You’d need all 10 of your fingers to count the number of consecutive Southwestern League titles the Fruita Monument High School baseball team has won. The 10th straight title came Friday after the Wildcats defeated Grand Junction 6-3 at Canyon View Park. The Tigers defeated Fruita Monument 5-4 on Tuesday to turn Friday’s contest into a de facto league championship matchup.

4 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Adam Busack

The starting gate at Stocker Stadium has been extra busy this year when the boys 100-meter dash is about to begin. A new phenomenon is sweeping District 51 track and field scene this season — football players from all four high schools have taken to sprinting for their school’s track team as a way to stay in shape during the offseason of their main sport.

5 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Adam Busack

For the second consecutive game, the Colorado Mesa baseball team scored nine runs. For the second consecutive game, nine runs was enough to lift the Mavericks to a win. CMU defeated CSU Pueblo 9-6 on Thursday to advance to semifinals of the RMAC Tournament. Thursday’s game was a back-and-forth affair in the early going, as the lead changed four times — including three times in the first three innings.

6 days ago | gjsentinel.com | Adam Busack

Top-seeded Colorado Mesa cruised to a 9-3 victory Wednesday over CU-Colorado Sprints on the first day of the RMAC Tournament at The Diamond at Hamilton Ballpark. The Mavericks took a 1-0 lead in the third inning and stretched it in the fourth with Paul Schoenfeld’s wall-scraping grand slam into the left-field bullpen. The 361-foot blast stretched the lead to 5-0 and CMU never relinquish the lead, tacking on a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth and another pair in the bottom of the eighth.