Ralston Valley [e]Xpress Newspaper

This has been the most up and down season in the histroy of Ralston Valley Boys Basketball. A rough start after losing to rival Golden was a preview of how the seasoon was about to unfold.

RV won their next thre games becoming 3-1, however they lost their next three games and went into the holliday break with a 4-4 record.

A loss to the Lincoln Lancers after the break put RV under .500 and it would be some time before they would get over that hump.

The league schedule started the next game against Dakota Ridge. This was one of the biggest wins of the season for RV as the league records started to unfold. They were unable to take the momentum fromo this win and lost three in a row to Standley Lake, Pomona, and Denver East.

The Mustangs came back and beat Lakewood and Arvada West in their first two home games of the league season. However a 21 point loss to chatfield ended hopes of a nice winning streak.

R.V. at this time had a 7-9 record, definately not the record that Ralston is accustom to.

They came back and got a very solid win against columbine in front of a huge crowd in perhaps their most solid game of the season. But all momentum was lost after an embarassing loss to Green Mountiain. The Mustangs at this point were 8-10 and 4-4 in league.

The mustangs since that point have gone on a five game winning streak. Including beating Pomona and Standley Lake, both teams who nipped the Mustangs earlier in the season. Also a win against Rival Arvada west in the Cats house was huge for the Mustangs. And two wins agains Lakewood and Bear creek -the worst two teams in the league- got the mustangs to where they are.

Now they have a 13-10 record, and a currently half a game behind Dakota Ridge who is second in League. That win the Mustangs had in the first league game gives them the tie breaker over the Eagles. Dakota and Columbine play tonight and if Columbine wins, R.V. will have second place in league and a lot of momentum heading into the state playoffs.