GRAND JUNCTION | On a dramatic day at Bookcliff Country Club in Grand Junction, the Cherokee Trail boys golf team made history.

The Cougars had fallen agonizingly close to winning the Class 5A state championship in the previous two seasons, but settled for second both times when other teams came through in the clutch.

On Oct. 7, it was Cherokee Trail’s mix of seasoned veterans in seniors Brayden Forte and Dalton Sisneros and state newcomers in freshman Jeffrey Chen and senior Braydon O’Neill that got it done.

Coach Ryan Stevens’ Cougars — who had played like the state’s top team all season, but got off to an abnormally slow start in the opening round — shot 10-under-par as a team on the final day to get into a tie for first, then outlasted Denver East to bring home the program’s first

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