BASKETBALL

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Marissa Gradoz (Niwot) pulled down a team-high eight rebounds for Colorado College in a 74-64 win over Johnson & Wales University.  Gradoz almost posted a triple-double in a 69-52 win over Nebraska Wesleyan, with 11 rebounds, eight assists and nine points.

Terri Ward retired from coaching girls basketball at Niwot High, but that doesn’t mean she’s away from the game.  Ward, who teaches PE at Niwot Elementary School, arranged for twenty fourth and fifth-grade girls from Niwot Elementary School, along with ten eighth-grade girls from Sunset, Altona, TrailRidge and Sacred Heart middle schools, to take part in the Denver Parade of Lights.  The girls were promoting the newly unveiled logo for the 2012 Women’s Final Four NCAA Basketball Tournament, which will be held in Denver.  The girls dribbled glow-in-the-dark basketballs in the parade in front of a large helium filled basketball balloon.  Ward is on the organizing committee for the 2012 Denver Women’s Final Four.  The girls were Reiley Eutsler, Emma Carruthers, Lola Tapia, Gabbi Lettow, Haley Dickerson, Dani Michelson, Mimi Fisher, Kolbi Dietmeier, Emma Falk, Emma Temaat, Emily Link, Alexandra Tornquist, Adara Pauluhn, Zanni Gregg, Maraya Haynes, Katelyn Strub, Katie Hirsch, Darby Patterson, Jami Albert, Kate Hranko, Marika VanGent, Monica Pilewskie, Sierra Keppler, Ella Thramann, Hannah Sarosi, Emma Gibbs, Claire Sarosi, Grace Lettow, Aimee Graham, and Cecily Powell.   Watch for those names in high school basketball box scores in a few years.