{"id":107976,"date":"2015-11-30T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T02:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/blue-jays-basketball-is-back-at-it\/"},"modified":"2015-11-30T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T02:00:02","slug":"blue-jays-basketball-is-back-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/blue-jays-basketball-is-back-at-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays basketball is back at it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After graduating five seniors including three of last year\u2019s starters, coach Rodney Cox has some holes to fill.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Mancos returns its leading scorer and 2015 First Team All-Conference selection Ro Paschal (18.7 ppg) and point guard Adrian Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays finished with a 16-7 record last season and a regional tournament appearance, but this year will be a much different squad.<\/p>\n<p>They may be different, but they\u2019re not entirely inexperienced.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Andrew Plunkett played in every game last year and averaged over five points, and Cox believes that he and fellow junior Andrew Christensen will be significant contributors.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays also have a handful of sophomores in the mix, with Caleb Yoder, Griff Huver and Jake McKie vying for playing time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a new team and a new season, but Cox plans to play the same kind of style and hopes to remain competitive in the San Juan Basin League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be fundamentally sound enough to compete with Dolores, Dove Creek and Ridgway and Ignacio,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just want to be able to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paschal and Hernandez  look to anchor new team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5770],"tags":[83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-107976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107976","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=107976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107976"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=107976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}