{"id":15723,"date":"2025-11-11T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-autumn-candelaria-takes-second-at-regional-elks-soccer-shoot\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:50:57","slug":"cortez-autumn-candelaria-takes-second-at-regional-elks-soccer-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-autumn-candelaria-takes-second-at-regional-elks-soccer-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez\u2019 Autumn Candelaria takes second at regional Elks Soccer Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=08ff4258-4d41-52d4-b09a-172cfc5d8e28&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"317\" height=\"519\" alt=\"Cortez Elks Soccer Shoot participant Autumn Candelaria, joined by Elks regional Soccer Shoot director Cory Bungard, poses with her trophy from the Regional Soccer Shoot competition in El Dorado, Kansas. Candelaria placed second in the regional event after winning the Colorado State Championship in the under-10 division. (Courtesy Lanette Candelaria-Mitchell.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez Elks Soccer Shoot participant Autumn Candelaria, joined by Elks regional Soccer Shoot director Cory Bungard, poses with her trophy from the Regional Soccer Shoot competition in El Dorado, Kansas. Candelaria placed second in the regional event after winning the Colorado State Championship in the under-10 division. (Courtesy Lanette Candelaria-Mitchell.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>EL DORADO, Kan. \u2013 What began with the Cortez Elks Lodge\u2019s area Soccer Shoot led Montezuma County\u2019s competitors to the regional stage. Three local athletes advanced to El Dorado, Kansas, on Nov. 2 for the regional Elks Soccer Shoot: under-10 participant Autumn Candelaria, under-12 division\u2019s Noah Hobbs and under-14 qualifier Salvador Moreno.<\/p>\n<p>Candelaria competed against state champions from Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Texas and Kansas, finishing second in her age division. The shootout was held at Butler Community College in the heart of the Sunflower State.<\/p>\n<p>The Elks Soccer Shoot grid-goal format requires participants to shoot from approximately the penalty spot at a goal divided into nine scoring zones. Each athlete receives 15 shots and aims to score as many points as possible to win the title.<\/p>\n<p>Candelaria, Hobbs and Moreno earned their spots as Colorado state champions after progressing through increasingly competitive rounds. Candelaria\u2019s high-point performance in Ca\u00f1on City two months after the Cortez Elks Soccer Shoot secured her place at regionals, as did Hobbs and Moreno\u2019s results in their respective divisions.<\/p>\n<p>The Elks Soccer Shoot is a program of the Elks National Foundation, which promotes youth involvement in positive, community-focused activities, including its annual Hoop Shoot. For more information, visit http:\/\/www.elks.org\/programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional competition in Kansas pitted state champions against each other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,39,28,37,36],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-dove-creek-high-school","tag-headlines","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723","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=15723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19808,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions\/19808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15723"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}