{"id":107892,"date":"2015-12-02T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bulldog-wrestling-opens-at-moab\/"},"modified":"2015-12-02T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T04:42:12","slug":"bulldog-wrestling-opens-at-moab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bulldog-wrestling-opens-at-moab\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldog wrestling opens at Moab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b8e7ae55-81ed-4b30-a179-2458908f74a6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b8e7ae55-81ed-4b30-a179-2458908f74a6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b8e7ae55-81ed-4b30-a179-2458908f74a6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b8e7ae55-81ed-4b30-a179-2458908f74a6&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=\"1018\" height=\"2063\" alt=\"Case Baughman breaks away from Jeremy Fraser at the state wrestling tournament in Denver last year. Baughman lost 4-3 in the semifinal match.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Case Baughman breaks away from Jeremy Fraser at the state wrestling tournament in Denver last year. Baughman lost 4-3 in the semifinal match.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After sending three wrestlers to the state tournament last year, the Dove Creek Bulldogs have only four wrestlers out for the 2015-2016 season.<\/p>\n<p>Returning for the Bulldogs are Case Baughman, Ricky Adams and Rhett Quackenbush, with newcomer Logan Myers rounding out the squad. While Myers is entering his first year, the other Bulldogs bring valuable experience.<\/p>\n<p>Baughman placed third at the state tournament last year, and Adams and Quackenbush were each one match away from qualifying for state.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Shane Baughman said all three returners have their sights on a state appearance, noting their performances at a camp in Las Vegas this summer.<\/p>\n<p>He explained how Baughman lost only one match to a California wrestler, and that Quackenbush was the only Bulldog to go undefeated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got promise,\u201d Baughman said of the sophomore Quackenbush. \u201cHe\u2019s got his goals pretty high. He wants to be a top-three guy at state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baughman acknowledged the team\u2019s small roster, and believes the demands of the sport may be responsible for the low turnout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWrestling is just a hard sport, and that\u2019s why a lot of the kids are thinking twice,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a grueling season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the four Bulldog wrestlers have been putting in the work, preparing for their season-opening tournament in Moab starting on Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t just wrestle for fun,\u201d Baughman continued. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty intense. We want to win it all or we don\u2019t want to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creek team has big goals for season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770],"tags":[80],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-107892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-dove-creek"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107892","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=107892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107892"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=107892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}