In tiny Western Slope town of De Beque, Scottie Vines emerges as record-breaking high jumper

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In tiny Western Slope town of De Beque, Scottie Vines emerges as record-breaking high jumper

Motorists whizzing along Interstate 70 between Rifle and Grand Junction are unlikely to notice tiny De Beque, a tumbleweed town of fewer than 500 souls with only four students in the high school’s graduating class. A CHSAA official measures out seven feet, four-and-one-quarter inches before De Beque high-jumper Scottie Vines attempts to break the Colorado high school high jump record during a track meet at Stocker Stadium in Grand Junction, Colo…