Using a tenacious defense, No. 4-seeded Sanford upset top-seeded Ignacio 47-37 Friday in a Class 2A state semifinal game at Colorado State University-Pueblo’s Massari Arena.
When Chandler Sturms walked to the free throw line, her heart was pounding. The Lutheran junior, however, didn’t get lost in the pressure of the moment.
The Grandview Wolves rode the wave of freshman Michaela Onyenwere to the state final four, but it was the senior leadership of Fossil Ridge’s Savannah Smith that would be their undoing.
