{"id":114404,"date":"2015-02-21T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T01:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ward-wins-to-guarantee-spot-on-podium\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T01:12:09","slug":"ward-wins-to-guarantee-spot-on-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ward-wins-to-guarantee-spot-on-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward wins to guarantee spot on podium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Sam Green\/Dolores Star<br><br>Brandon Ward struggles to pin Eric Rojo and advance to wrestle for third place in the state wrestling championships in Denver on Feb. 21.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Competing in the Colorado state wrestling tournament for the first time, Dolores High School sophomore Brandon Ward is making the most of his opportunities.<\/p>\n

Ward (30-12) continued his impressive run through the consolation bracket in the Class 2A consolation bracket with a 6-1 victory over Hotchkiss High School\u2019s Colton Cordova (30-10).<\/p>\n

With the victory, Ward guaranteed to finish no worse than sixth place.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels great,\u201d said the sophomore, when asked to voice his thoughts about making the podium. \u201cI worked so hard this season to get here.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the first period of Ward\u2019s match with Cordova ended with the score tied 0-0, the Dolores sophomore fell behind 0-1 early in the second period.<\/p>\n

Ward took Cordova down late in the second period to pull ahead 2-1 however, before dominating throughout the third period on his way to a relatively easy victory.<\/p>\n

Once again, the Dolores sophomore\u2019s long limbs proved to be a difference maker in the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith long arms and long legs, I can get their legs much easier on my ankle picks and I can leg ride,\u201d said Ward.<\/p>\n

Ward will continue his quest for third place in the tournament with a matchup against Holyoke High School\u2019s Eric Rojo (25-9) later in the morning on Feb. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

matches remaining, Dolores sophomore can finish no worse than sixth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6362],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-114404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-sports","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114404","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=114404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114404"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=114404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}