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The Town of Iliff would like to give a BIG Thank You to all of the people, companies and organizations that provided help during our recent crisis due to a water main

break. Your concern and generosity was invaluable and was truly appreciated.U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and Aid Alan Foutz State Sen. Jerry Sonnenburg State Rep. Representative Jon BeckerLogan County Commissioner Rocky Samber Northeast Colorado Health Department Mike Burnett Sterling City Manager Don SalingColorado Office of Emergency Management Kevin Kuretich and Cory Stark Logan County Office of Emergency Management Cody Adams

State of Colorado Department of Local Affairs Greg Etl, Don Sandoval and Robert ThompsonNorthern Colorado American Red Cross/Carol Brom Colorado Rural Water Association Mark Hartman

Sterling Recreational Center – Crook Fire Department – Sterling Fire Department - United Church of Crook – Highline Electric Cabelas – Fastinal – Banner Health – CHS – Jimmy’s Pizza – COWARNS – Marick’s Waste Disposal - City of Aurora

Very special thank yous to Logan County Road and Bridge and Chad Wright, you went above and beyond, and to JVA Consulting Engineers Kristin Johansen, Josh McGibbon and Simon Farrell because we could not have come

through this without their expertise. A very, very special thank you to Concrete Specialties – Alan Krier and crew – you are the reason we have water in Iliff and we are all very grateful for your hard work and compassion.

Sports

By Ken McDowell Sports Editor Is there such a thing as too much baseball? Not according to Sterling Xpress Coach Tom Myers, whose team played 7 games in 3 days to close out the 2015 regular season. Sterling won 6-out-of-7 of those games to tie for second place in the Rocky Mountain Baseball League (RMBL) with 2 other teams with a 22-11 league mark. Overall, the Xpress posted a 25-12 record. “I don’t think there’s such a thing as too much baseball, Myers laughed, “but the players may not think so after last weekend.” The marathon of games began Friday with a double-header at Plainsmen Park against the Denver Pirates in the final home games of the season. The Xpress went out in style, sweeping the RMBL twin-bill by scores of 10-1 and 11-1. The team got up bright and early Saturday morning to travel to Columbine High School for a RMBL single game against the Denver Cougars. Sterling took a 5-3 lead going into the final inning but the Cougars plated 3 runs to steal the contest away by a 6-5 score.

That was the only loss of the entire weekend as the Xpress went to Golden and defeated the Grizz 13-2 in another RTMBL league contest. If that wasn’t enough baseball, the Xpress rounded out the weekend and the regular season Sunday with a triple-header, defeating the Belmont Owls 10-3 at Standley Lake and then traveling to Long Lake Ranch in Arvada where Sterling once again met up with the Denver Pirates and won 15-4 and closed out with a 12-1 victory over Golden. “That’s a lot of games in 3 days, and then we had the triple-header on Sunday,” Myers said. “I don’t think I’ve been involved playing a triple-header, except maybe in little league. “It was a good weekend for us. It was rough losing that game Saturday in the late innings. We should have won that game and went 7-0, but we went 6-1 and did exactly what we needed to do. We ended up with the number 3 seed going into the post-season, which is really good.” The Arvada Colts won the RMBL title with a 26-7 mark and Sterling, the Boulder Collegians and the Colorado Sox all finished with a Please See Sterling Page 26

Sterling Xpress on a roll heading into regional tournament

The Sterling Xpress will open play in the Rocky Mountain baseball League Regional Tournament tonight Wednesday) in Aravada against the Laramie, Wyo., Colt. (Photo Courtesy Of Tom Kiel.)

22-11 league record. However, the Colorado Sox received the second seed with Sterling third and Boulder fourth. The RMBL Regional Tournament gets underway this week at Long Lake Ranch in Arvada, but with the number 3 seed the Xpress won’t have to play until tonight (Wednesday) at 7:30 p.m. against the Laramie, Wyo., Colts, the team that placed sixth with a 19-14 slate. If the Xpress win that game they will take the field again Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Long Lake Ranch.

A loss tonight would push the Xpress in the loser’s bracket of the double-elimination tournament to Thursday at 5 p.m. The tournament will resume Saturday and conclude Sunday with the first championship game slated for 12 p.m. and a second, if needed, at 3:30 p.m. The top 2 teams advance to the National Baseball Congress (NBC) World Series, beginning July 24 in Wichita, Kan. By winning the RMBL title, the Arvada Colts already have the

nod to advance to the NBC World Series. “If Arvada makes it to the championship game then whoever else is in that championship game with them will also make it to the NBC World Series,” Myers explained. “So the league winner and the regional tournament winner, or the second place team if it’s Arvada, gets to go the NBC World Series. Myers added that he is pleased with Sterling’s number 3 seed in