{"id":106719,"date":"2016-02-12T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/all-conference-bears\/"},"modified":"2016-02-12T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T01:02:07","slug":"all-conference-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/all-conference-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"All-conference Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=16d3f3c5-11e7-4542-9b7f-f2656c1c1726&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=16d3f3c5-11e7-4542-9b7f-f2656c1c1726&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=16d3f3c5-11e7-4542-9b7f-f2656c1c1726&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=16d3f3c5-11e7-4542-9b7f-f2656c1c1726&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=\"2000\" height=\"1215\" alt=\"The Dolores Bears announced players named to the Southern Peaks league all-conference teams during their end of the year banquet on Wednesday. Left to right: Tristen Medina (first team), Jalen Balderrama (first team), Josh McCoy (second team), Forrest Pejsa (second team), Tyln Yarbrough (honorable mention) and Branden Donaldson (honorable mention).\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Dolores Bears announced players named to the Southern Peaks league all-conference teams during their end of the year banquet on Wednesday. Left to right: Tristen Medina (first team), Jalen Balderrama (first team), Josh McCoy (second team), Forrest Pejsa (second team), Tyln Yarbrough (honorable mention) and Branden Donaldson (honorable mention).<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Dolores Bears football team held its end of the year banquet on Wednesday and head coach Chris Trusler announced team members named to the Southern Peaks all-conference teams.<\/p>\n<p>Senior quarterback Jalen Balderrama and junior wide receiver\/defensive back Tristen Medina were each named first team all conference.<\/p>\n<p>Balderrama passed for a league-leading 1021 yards and seven touchdowns on the season and Medina led the league with 437 yards receiving and four touchdown receptions.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Josh McCoy and freshman Forrest Pejsa represented the Bears as second team all conference selections.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy led the Bears in rushing, averaging 5.5 yards per carry and finishing the season with 525 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>At linebacker, Pejsa led the team with 119 tackles, which were good for second most in the Southern Peaks league.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Tyln Yarbrough and senior Branden Donaldson were each honorable mentions.<\/p>\n<p>Yarbrough played offensive and defensive line and saw time at fullback later in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Donaldson broke his collarbone in the season-opener against Coal Ridge, but he returned in the Bears\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 final game against Ignacio and rushed for 91 yards in the season-ending 34-0 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolores announces all-conference football selections at banquet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770],"tags":[44],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-dolores"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106719","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=106719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106719"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}