{"id":101392,"date":"2017-12-21T20:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T03:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dove-creek-wrestlers-compete-in-walsenburg\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T20:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T03:33:40","slug":"dove-creek-wrestlers-compete-in-walsenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dove-creek-wrestlers-compete-in-walsenburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Dove Creek wrestlers compete in Walsenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b2edd194-e68d-405e-bcdb-87acde61b4db&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b2edd194-e68d-405e-bcdb-87acde61b4db&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b2edd194-e68d-405e-bcdb-87acde61b4db&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b2edd194-e68d-405e-bcdb-87acde61b4db&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"853\" height=\"757\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><hardreturn>For the Dove Creek High School wrestling team, the Pete and Ina Gomez Invitational in Walsenburg on Dec. 16 served as a learning experience.<\/hardreturn><\/p>\n<p>Leading the way for Dove Creek\u2019s five wrestlers was 120-pounder Rhette Quackenbush, who finished fourth overall after winning four of his five matches. The Dove Creek senior opened the tournament by pinning Miami-Yoder\u2019s Chelsea Garcia before being pinned by Sierra Grande\/Centennial\u2019s Alejandro Valasquez.<\/p>\n<p>Quackenbush went on to pin Colorado Springs Christian School\u2019s Johan Barstad, Sargent\u2019s Ethan Gearhard and Pueblo Central\u2019s Josh Atencio to finish the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Other Dove Creek wrestlers competing included 113-pounder Larissa Randolph, 113-pounder Gage Bailey, 145-pounder Logan Meyers and 152-pounder Will McKellips, who all lost both of their matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs finished 22nd in the 27-team tournament, which was won by Lamar High School<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Dove Creek will be the Pagosa Springs Invitational, which will take place in Pagosa Springs on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quackenbush finishes fourth at the Pete and Ina Gomez Invitational<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770],"tags":[80,1205],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-dove-creek","tag-wrestling"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101392","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=101392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101392"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}