Soccer Review

The Rangeview boy’s soccer team’s season came to a close with a second round loss to number one seed Cherry Creek. Leading the team was Senior Davey Armstrong with ten goals and five assists and Junior Martin Nindih leading the team in goals with 17 and was seventh overall in goals in the 5A Division. Armstrong the senior leaves RHS with the all time goal scorer in RHS with 52 goals and winning his 4th MVP in his historic career at RHS.


“Playing with my best friends, and for Coach Strouse, who’s an amazing coach, I'm going to miss it,” said Armstrong

With blowout wins including a 7-2 pounding against Palmer and shutouts against Highland Ranch and Mountain Vista, RHS was one of the leading teams in scoring with 51 goals in the division. Averaging three goals per game and only giving up one per game RHS had a tough defense this year but could not beat Cherry Creek losing 2-0.

Grinding out victories was the Achilles heel for the raider team with losing all of their games by two goals or less and losing in upsetting fashion against Arapahoe, Littleton, Ponderosa, and Heritage, RHS has only allowed 17 goals this season.

Finishing the regular season with a shutout against Regis ending with a record of eleven wins and four losses, three of these losses were in conference games with two overtime losses that the Raiders could not squeeze out.

“We’ve been outplayed in only one game we just need to score goals to win and the one thing we lacked was maturity,” said Coach Strouse

In the end of last year RHS lost 13 seniors from the varsity team and the beginning of this year had 8 new starters including Coach’s Award winner Sophomore Connor Campbell, “It felt great, it was an honor winning the award. It was fun, we had a great team and starting made it even better,” Campbell said after winning the award.

All-league nominees include: Davey Armstrong, Thomas Broeker, James Rucker, Matt Taphorn, Christian Mbasi, Miles Payne, and Connor Campbell. With the exception of Davey Armstrong most of the starters returning next year RHS has high hopes with more experience to go farther than the 2nd round of the playoffs and maybe becoming league champs once again. Coach Strouse said “This is a team of underachievers; we played as good then any team in Rangeview history”

-Kennedy Ynclan