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The start of the 2026-2027 school year is right around the corner as area schools look to begin classes during the second week of August.

The annual Jimmy Patterson Memorial Two-Man Scramble & Calcutta once again lived up to its reputation as the premier event on the Eads Golf Course summer schedule as 39 teams spent two days competing for flight championships and bragging rights on one of southeastern Colorado’s most enjoyable municipal golf courses.

There are golf tournaments that raise money, and then there are golf tournaments that build communities.

For four years, Tailee Weeks-Johnson has been one of the most consistent throwers in Colorado Class 1A track and field. Now, the Eads High School standout will take her talents to one of the nation’s premier collegiate throwing programs after signing her National Letter of Intent with Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska.

In their final tournament of the long summer softball season the local traveling team known as the Colorado Warriors competed in the La Junta Softball Tournament over the weekend. This tournament took place during the unprecedented heat wave that rocked all of Colorado, sending the temperature soaring on Sunday to 111 degrees—the hottest temperature recorded across the state.

The start of the 2026-2027 school year is right around the corner as area schools look to begin classes during the second week of August. With the start of school that also means the highly anticipated start of the fall sports seasons of which southeastern Colorado schools participate largely in six sanctioned sports.

The grain markets are once again reminding us that July is rarely boring. Just when it looked like corn and soybeans might settle into a weather-driven trading pattern, China stepped back into the soybean market in a big way, hot weather crept into parts of the Corn Belt, and geopolitical tensions added fresh support to the energy markets.

The name “Warriors” was never more adequate than this weekend when the local players on the Colorado Warriors 12U traveling team converged onto the IPGSH Tournament of Champions state tournament at Pawlowski Fields, formerly Brighton Youth Sports Complex. These Warriors eventually ended up as the Colorado State runner-up team after playing an unheard of nine games in two days—including six games on Sunday.

The Eads 10U Minors softball team entered the Lamar League Tournament with an 8-4 overall record and would have a steep climb to win the league tournament with the number of good teams in the league—most who had defeated them in the season.

The Eads 8U Coach Pitch softball team won the Lamar League Tournament on Tuesday, July 14 after defeating Springfield in the semifinals in an exciting win, 6-5, and then winning the championship over McClave, 15-5.

The Colorado Warriors 10U team competed in their last tournament of the summer softball season at the Colorado IPGSA Tournament of Champions held in Brighton, Colorado on July 11-12. They met up with stiff competition but battled wo a 2-2 pool record but then losing out in the first round of the tournament bracket.

Three years after moving from Lamar to Ketchikan, Alaska, the Bradley family has found no shortage of opportunities to stay active—and 10-year-old Jamesson Bradley has embraced nearly every one of them.

The annual Eads Golf Course Two-Man-One-Woman Scramble once again produced outstanding golf as teams from across the area competed on the par-72 layout on Sunday, July 12. The popular summer event featured three flights of competition and a unique format that requires all three players to contribute throughout the round.

It was a hot and exciting weekend of baseball in Limon last weekend as the East Central League hosted the 2026 Babe Ruth Colorado State Baseball tournament for several age divisions including the 8U, 9U, 10U, 11U, 12U, and 16U. East Central is a large league that consists of players in all divisions coming from Limon, Flagler, Stratton, Burlington, Goodland (KS) and all points along the I70 corridor.

Hundreds of fans from across Colorado were on hand in Limon over the past weekend to take part in the 2026 Colorado Babe Ruth State Baseball Championships hosted by the East Central League consisting of teams from Limon, Flagler, Stratton, Burlington, Goodland (KS) and all points in between along the I70 corridor. The tournament was well-run and offered plenty of excitement from multiple divisions including 8U, 10U, 11U, 12U, and 16U.

The Lamar 11U All-Star team struggled at the 11U Colorado Babe Ruth State Tournament held in Limon over the weekend. There were only four teams in this age division and Lamar finished last in pool play with a 0-3 record which eliminated them from the bracket.