Jim Bossert already is sporting a checkered-flag pattern on his partly shaved head, but it’s next year that he thinks Pine Creek will find Victory Lane.

Bossert finished fifth in the 100-yard butterfly and 100 backstroke to help lead the Eagles to third Saturday in the Metro League swimming and diving meet at Rampart.

It’s the third straight year Pine Creek has finished behind Lewis-Palmer and Cheyenne Mountain. But the Eagles have a changing of the guard in mind. And it’s all because of Bossert and fellow juniors Justin Holmes, Forrest Gaskill and Luke Greer.

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