Results from the Class 5A girls and boys Great 8 on Saturday at the Denver Coliseum.  Girls: No. 2 Green Mountain 50, No. 7 Mead 40. Despite losing star senior Kantyn Pearson to a knee injury in the regular-season finale, the Rams kept on humming to advance to their second consecutive Final Four a mid their 23rd straight win this season. Green Mountain hasn’t lost since a 59-48 defeat to Cherokee Trail, the top seed in Class 6A which is in that bracket’s Final Four, on Dec. 6. The Rams looked poised and seasoned on Saturday while rallying from a 24-14 deficit late in the first half. 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(Photo by Timothy Hurst/The Denver Post) Boys: No. 13 Silver Creek 62, No. 12 Mesa Ridge 55. The Raptors’ dream run in the final season of retiring head coach Bob Banning’s 25-year tenure at the school continued with a gritty win over the Grizzlies. The back-and-forth game featured seven lead changes, and the Raptors got balanced scoring from the trio of senior guards Connor Bonsett (15 points), Luke Schmeeckle (14) and Blake Gorr (14). Senior 6-foot-6 center Cooper Herchert also came up clutch, with nine points and 11 rebounds. Those four players helped Silver Creek offset a game-high 19 points by Mesa Ridge senior J’marius Jones, plus double-digit rebounds by seniors Eligah Myles and Brian Lamar. Silver Creek also shot well from 3 (6-for-11), while Mesa Ridge struggled at the line (4-of-12). Standley Lake’s Jojo Martin (12) puts up a game-winning shot as time expired to beat Windsor in a 5A Great 8 playoffs game on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at the Denver Coliseum in Denver. (Photo by Timothy Hurst/The Denver Post) Girls: No. 5 Standley Lake 68, No. 4 Windsor 62. Call it the JoJo Martin Game. With 5.7 seconds left, the Standley Lake freshman phenom stole the ball off a Windsor inbound and hit a buzzer-beating, running jumper in the lane to earn the Gators their first Final Four appearance in program history. In a game where each team had four players score in double figures, Martin dropped a game-high 33 points with seven rebounds and two steals, the most critical of which helped propel the Gators to where they’ve never gone before. Freshman Chloe Miller (14 points), senior Aaliyah Valenzuela (11) and freshman Ireland Kassatly (10) all also came up with critical buckets throughout the game to outlast Windsor in an instant-classic that saw four lead changes and eight ties. The Wizards, who held a significant edge in rebounds (36-20) and points in the paint (40-28), were led by junior Nola Greenwald’s 18 points. They also got scoring from junior Gracie Worsley (15), senior Gabriella Gates (14) and junior Paityn Deselms (10). A 3 by Worsley with 22 seconds left tied it, but then Windsor was careless with the ball off the inbound under its own basket in the waning seconds, and Martin made the Wizards pay. Boys: No. 11 Windsor 63, No. 3 Severance 51. The defending champions are back in the Final Four following a wire-to-wire victory headlined by Wyoming commit Madden Smiley. The senior guard turned in a game-high 19 points along with nine rebounds, and senior Brady Kingsley chipped in 13 points while sophomore Marek Noel had 12. The Wizards led by as many as 14 points at one point, and capitalized on Severance miscues with 16 points off 16 turnovers. The Knights were led by 13 points apiece from senior Blake Varney and sophomore Christian Powell. Windsor took an 14-8 lead after one quarter and Severance was never able to make it interesting after that. The Wizards looked like a battle-tested team that played much of their regular-season schedule against Class 6A and out-of-state opponents. Girls: No. 3 Montrose 61, No. 6 Air Academy 54. It was Kinley Asp vs. Everybody, and Everybody won. Asp, the Air Academy star senior guard committed to Boston College, ripped off 36 points. But she got very little scoring help from her surrounding cast, and Montrose’s more balanced attack catalyzed the Red Hawks to victory. Senior forward Mayce Oberg led Montrose with 20 points, while freshman guard Landree Johnson added 14 points and senior guard Maggie Legg had 13. Beyond Asp, no one else on the Kadets had more than five points. The Red Hawks owned the opening frame, 16-8, but Air Academy battled back to tie it 26-26 at halftime. A key difference in the game was Montrose’s shooting from deep (9-of-18 from 3) and the Red Hawks also held a 17 to 7 advantage in points off turnovers as they led for all but 1:07. Montrose, the Southwestern League champions, improved to 26-0. They are one of only two undefeated girls hoops teams remaining in Colorado, along with Simla in Class 2A. Boys: No. 1 Palisade vs. No. 8 Lewis-Palmer Girls: No. 1 Lutheran vs No. 9 Pueblo East Boys: No. 2 Grand Junction vs. No. 10 Lutheran Class 5A Final Four Schedule The Class 5A Final Four will be Thursday, March 12, back at the Denver Coliseum. Boys No. 1 Palisade/No. 8 Lewis-Palmer vs. No. 13 Silver Creek No. 2 Grand Junction/No. 10 Lutheran vs. No. 11 Windsor Girls No. 1 Lutheran/No. 9 Pueblo East vs. No. 5 Standley Lake No. 2 Green Mountain vs. No. 3 Montrose Want more sports news? Sign up for the Sports Omelette to get all our analysis on Denver’s teams. ...read more read less