{"id":105078,"date":"2016-05-17T21:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T03:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gabby-begay-and-tayla-topaha-selected-to-americas-team\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T21:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T03:27:27","slug":"gabby-begay-and-tayla-topaha-selected-to-americas-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gabby-begay-and-tayla-topaha-selected-to-americas-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabby Begay and Tayla Topaha selected to America\u2019s Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:c6a1e545-3340-4677-ae21-4560d292fdde --><\/p>\n<p>Two Montezuma-Cortez softball players have been selected to join America\u2019s Team on a tour of Australia this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Gabby Begay and senior and three-time All-Southwestern League selection Tayla Topaha were handpicked by longtime Farmington-area softball coach Darin Wright to join the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, who is in his second year coaching an America\u2019s team, led a team on a tour of Italy last summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to its website, America\u2019s Team is an organization that partners with the American Council for International Studies to allow student athletes to compete and learn abroad during educational tours.<\/p>\n<p>Begay and Topaha will join players from the four corners area, Denver and Chicago in an eight-game exhibition to Sydney and Brisbane from July 13-July 25.<\/p>\n<p>They will play two doubleheaders at each stop, but will also have time to explore and sightsee.<\/p>\n<p>Players are required to raise $6,000, and they are currently accepting donations and selling raffle tickets for a nine-millimeter handgun, 12-gauge shotgun and a black powder rifle to help fund their trip.<\/p>\n<p>To make a donation or purchase raffle tickets, contact Darin Wright at 505-402-1562.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and Tayla Topaha set to play for America\u2019s Team this summer in Sydney and Brisbane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-105078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105078","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=105078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105078"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=105078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}