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Thus, it was not altogether surprising when senior Cristoffer Rudosky and sophomore Blake Keetch received first-team all-league honors from the Intermountain League. Cristoffer Rudosky was also named Intermountain League \u201cPlayer of the Year\u201d and Panthers\u2019 head coach Micah Rudosky was voted the Intermountain League\u2019s Coach of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n Playing his final season of high school golf, Rudosky delivered several memorable performances, including a 3-over-par round at the Monte Vista Invitational, which was good enough to capture medalist honors in the tournament.<\/p>\n Although the senior struggled slightly during his team\u2019s regional tournament, he rebounded at the Class 3A State Tournament, where he finished fourth overall.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were excited for (Cristoffer),\u201d M-CHS head coach Micah Rudosky said. \u201cTaking fifth at state is great, we\u2019re proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n Entering the 2017 season, Keetch was not especially well-known on the Western Slope golf circuit, but a season that featured several top finishes, the M-CHS sophomore became recognized as one of the area\u2019s top talents.<\/p>\n Chief among Keetch\u2019s accomplishments was a second-place finish at the Monte Vista Invitational and a sixth-place finish at the Class 3A Region 4 Tournament. Keetch capped off his year with a 19th place finish at state.<\/p>\n \u201cBlake has a lot of talent and he works had and loves the game,\u201d Micah Rudosky said \u201cHe was right in the (state tournament), and it wouldn\u2019t surprise me to see him a state champion in the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n Entering the 2017 season with a few experienced players and several newcomers, M-CHS head coach Micah Rudosky again got the most out of his team.<\/p>\n In addition to helping Cristoffer Rudosky and Keetch qualify for the state tournament, Micah Rudosky aided in the improvement of Tim Wyman and Justin Brunner, who showed vast improvement over the course of the season.<\/p>\n Intermountain League coaches voted Micah Rudosky the league\u2019s coach of the year.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m proud of Cristoffer and Blake and the rest of our guys,\u201d said Micah Rudosky. \u201cThey represented Montezuma-Cortez High School well throughout the year and at the state tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cristoffer Rudosky named league’s Player of the Year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770],"tags":[21,13,2261,36,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-golf","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101382"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}