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The Lady Panthers also struggled on the defensive end largely as a result of Durango\u2019s Hilda Garcia, who drained five three-pointers in the contest and scored a game-high 19 points. Garcia\u2019s second quarter was especially impressive as the senior drained three 3-pointers to help her team build a 22-4 halftime lead.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a good effort, and it was a great game, but we just didn\u2019t contain (Hilda Garcia),\u201d M-CHS head coach John McHenry said. \u201cShe rang us up for five or six threes, and she\u2019s a great driver.\u201d<\/p>\n Among the few highlights for M-CHS in the lopsided contest was the shooting of Presley Frost, who caught fire in the second half and drilled three 3-pointers much to the dismay of Durango head coach Tim Fitzpatrick, who implored his team to cover the hot shooter.<\/p>\n The first of Frost\u2019s bombs came early in the third quarter to cut Durango\u2019s lead to 22-7, and the second came moments later when the sophomore connected from the right wing to cut Durango\u2019s lead to 25-10. Frost sank her final 3-point shot midway through the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n \u201cThe team was passing to me in the right moments,\u201d Frost said. \u201cI saw the open shots, and I took them. I hit the most (3-pointers) that I\u2019ve ever hit in a game.\u201d<\/p>\n Aside from Frost\u2019s hot shooting, M-CHS struggled offensively as the team registered one point in the first quarter, three points in the second quarter, and four points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n The Lady Panthers\u2019 inability to score points was also the product of Durango\u2019s full-court press as ball handlers consistently found themselves trapped along the sideline with no easy outlets. Thanks in large part to its numerous turnovers, M-CHS trailed 11-1 at the end of the first quarter, 22-4 at halftime, and 34-14 at the end of three quarters of play.<\/p>\n \u201cWe just have to calm down and hit some key passes and not try to force things,\u201d McHenry said. \u201cIn situations (where we face a full court press), we need to believe in our press break and be where we are supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n High scorers for M-CHS included Frost, who finished the game with nine points, and sophomore Malia Begay, who chipped in three. Maddy McManus scored nine points for Durango and Danielle Lee and Emma Fitzgerald each scored four.<\/p>\n Now 2-11 on the season, the Lady Panthers will look to increase their win total this weekend when they face off against Bayfield on Jan. 26 and Alamosa on Jan. 27. Both games will take place in Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Turnovers and poor shooting doom M-CHS girls basketball team in 43-19 loss to Durango<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770],"tags":[36,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-sports","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\/101418","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=101418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101418"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}