The Gunnison High School football team dropped to 0-4 on Friday in a homecoming loss to the North Fork Miners, 42-6.Cody Casebolt gained 120 yards, while Jakob Miller rushed for 32 yards and one touchdown, the only Gunnison score of the game, and Miller’s first of the season.As the Gunnison football team looks to hit the reset button for the rest of its season, Casebolt wants to play like a kid again. After a winless September, the Cowboys head towards league play. All their goals are still attainable.It’s time to win some games and play with the enthusiastic freedom kids show in front yards, at the park or after school just before the sun comes down and you’re called in for dinner. “I look at it like the same game I was playing in elementary school outside with friends,” Casebolt said. “I want to do cool stuff and impress people. I always thought it would be so cool if I could go out every play and do cool stuff.”First, the Cowboys (0-4) have to travel to Montezuma-Cortez for their Class 2A Intermountain opener at 7 p.m. on Friday. Last year the Panthers opened October with a 51-26 win in Gunnison. This year, Montezuma-Cortez (2-2) has sandwiched a pair of wins against out-of-state competition with big losses to the class of 2A; Wellington and Strasburg. Another chance to get their season back on track awaits the Cowboys. They’ll search for consistency and hope to string together a series of good plays. Casebolt also wants teammates to remember the scoreboard might not always play in their favor, but play with the joy of a sandlot game and good things will happen. “Right now, it seems like we are building,” Casebolt said. “A lot of what we are doing doesn't show on the scoreboard. But we are doing so much. We are getting little growth here and there. Hopefully soon we will be able to put it all together when it matters most in these league games.”GHS coach Chase Starman has seen progress as well. Thus far, the Cowboys have been outscored 157-28. But, it’s been a brutal schedule. Delta is a Top 5 team in the Colorado Preps rankings and Meeker and North Fork are in the “others receiving votes” category of the weekly Top 10. And Eagle Valley, who topped the Cowboys 28-7 in the season opener, exploded with a 6-0 start. The Cowboys are battle tested, but now is the time to show that adversity has made them stronger. “We do something cool, then do six bad things in a row,” Starman said. “It’s there, we have spurts, we’ve done great things. Now, we have to go all gas and no brakes.”
The Gunnison High School football team dropped to 0-4 on Friday in a homecoming loss to the North Fork Miners, 42-6.
Cody Casebolt gained 120 yards, while Jakob Miller rushed for 32 yards and one touchdown, the only Gunnison score of the game, and Miller’s first of the season.
As the Gunnison football team looks to hit the reset button for the rest of its season, Casebolt wants to play like a kid again. After a winless September, the Cowboys head towards league play. All their goals are still attainable.
It’s time to win some games and play with the enthusiastic freedom kids show in front yards, at the park or after school just before the sun comes down and you’re called in for dinner.
“I look at it like the same game I was playing in elementary school outside with friends,” Casebolt said. “I want to do cool stuff and impress people. I always thought it would be so cool if I could go out every play and do cool stuff.”
First, the Cowboys (0-4) have to travel to Montezuma-Cortez for their Class 2A Intermountain opener at 7 p.m. on Friday. Last year the Panthers opened October with a 51-26 win in Gunnison. This year, Montezuma-Cortez (2-2) has sandwiched a pair of wins against out-of-state competition with big losses to the class of 2A; Wellington and Strasburg.
Another chance to get their season back on track awaits the Cowboys. They’ll search for consistency and hope to string together a series of good plays. Casebolt also wants teammates to remember the scoreboard might not always play in their favor, but play with the joy of a sandlot game and good things will happen.
“Right now, it seems like we are building,” Casebolt said. “A lot of what we are doing doesn't show on the scoreboard. But we are doing so much. We are getting little growth here and there. Hopefully soon we will be able to put it all together when it matters most in these league games.”
GHS coach Chase Starman has seen progress as well. Thus far, the Cowboys have been outscored 157-28. But, it’s been a brutal schedule. Delta is a Top 5 team in the Colorado Preps rankings and Meeker and North Fork are in the “others receiving votes” category of the weekly Top 10. And Eagle Valley, who topped the Cowboys 28-7 in the season opener, exploded with a 6-0 start.
The Cowboys are battle tested, but now is the time to show that adversity has made them stronger.
“We do something cool, then do six bad things in a row,” Starman said. “It’s there, we have spurts, we’ve done great things. Now, we have to go all gas and no brakes.”
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