The Panthers (3-6) were first tested on Friday by Pagosa Springs (8-3), losing in three straight sets (17-25, 26-27, 21-25).<\/p>\n
However, they rebounded from the early loss to take down Aspen (0-4) in four games (25-14, 23-25, 25-17, 25-12).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty much a team effort,\u201d said head coach Andi Pickens. \u201cEverybody played well together.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the Panthers again split two matches, first defeating Gunnison in four games (25-19, 20-25, 25-20, 25-17), then falling to an undefeated Delta team in three (25-21, 25-17, 25-13).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing I think they struggled with was finishing a game,\u201d Pickens said noting the team\u2019s close losses. \u201cThey would let teams come back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they played defense really well,\u201d she continued. \u201cThey were really scrappy in all of the games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pickens also said that the tournament highlighted aspects that the Panthers\u2019 need to refine as the season continues.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we can improve our serving and using blocks,\u201d she said. \u201cWe played against some really big girls that could block really well, so that was part of our struggle. But we will work on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Panthers will next host Monument Valley (2-2) on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Panthers (3-6) were first tested on Friday by Pagosa Springs (8-3), losing in three straight sets (17-25, 26-27, 21-25). However, they rebounded from the early loss to take down Aspen (0-4) in four games (25-14, 23-25, 25-17, 25-12). \u201cIt was pretty much a team effort,\u201d said head coach Andi Pickens. \u201cEverybody played well together.\u201d […]<\/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":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-109562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/109562","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=109562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109562"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=109562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}