{"id":114470,"date":"2015-02-18T18:48:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/brandon-ward\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:48:42","slug":"brandon-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/brandon-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Ward"},"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=de4616fb-c122-46dd-ac2c-a2e588aa8b13&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=de4616fb-c122-46dd-ac2c-a2e588aa8b13&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=de4616fb-c122-46dd-ac2c-a2e588aa8b13&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=de4616fb-c122-46dd-ac2c-a2e588aa8b13&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=\"298\" height=\"451\" alt=\"Xxx\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Xxx<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Prior to this season, Dolores High School sophomore Brandon Ward was somewhat of a question mark after an up and down freshman season.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately however, the lanky 106-pounder put all questions to rest as he dominated throughout the year on his way to a 27-11 record and a regional championship.<\/p>\n<p>Ward capped off his regional championship run with a 20-8 victory over Dove Creek High School\u2019s Colin Hobbs on Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the fourth-ranked 106-pound wrestler in Class 2A, Ward will kick off his bid to become state champion with a matchup against Holyoke\u2019s Eric Rojo (23-8) on the afternoon of Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p>If Ward wins, he will wrestle against Rye High School\u2019s Colton Sims (12-18) or Calhan High School\u2019s Zach McCrary (23-16) on the morning of Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just have to wrestle my best and wrestle like I know how,\u201d said Ward, when asked about his plan entering state.<\/p>\n<p>Off the mat<\/p>\n<p>Favorite band: Guns \u2018N Roses<\/p>\n<p>Favorite book: Where the Wild Things Are<\/p>\n<p>Favorite movie: American Sniper<\/p>\n<p>Favorite TV show: The Simpsons<\/p>\n<p>Favorite team: Dallas Cowboys<\/p>\n<p>Favorite athlete: Nolan Ryan<\/p>\n<p>Dream job: Engineer<\/p>\n<p>Historic dining partner: Nolan Ryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore set to try for state title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114471,"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-114470","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\/114470","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=114470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114470"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=114470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}