{"id":16366,"date":"2025-09-29T00:44:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bears-panthers-volleyball-primed-for-homecoming-week\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:57:11","slug":"bears-panthers-volleyball-primed-for-homecoming-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bears-panthers-volleyball-primed-for-homecoming-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears, Panthers volleyball primed for homecoming week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=73009443-628e-5372-a956-520160fe15b8&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1612\" alt=\"The Montezuma-Cortez volleyball team celebrates a point in a match against Alamosa on Friday night in The Jungle. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Montezuma-Cortez volleyball team celebrates a point in a match against Alamosa on Friday night in The Jungle. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Dolores High School volleyball team is in the midst of one of the best seasons in program history. The Bears (11-1, 6-1 2A\/1A SJBL) will host Mancos (7-7, 4-2 SJBL) on Thursday, Oct. 2, in one of the headlining events of homecoming week.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma-Cortez (9-7, 1-3 3A IML), meanwhile, has earned its highest win total since 2021. Their large senior class hopes to continue a memorable season with a home match against Monument Valley (Utah) on Friday night in The Jungle.<\/p>\n<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=7ee626a3-0874-539e-869c-b04d40cdd270&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1314\" height=\"1562\" alt=\"Dolores juniors Madi Thornburgh and Akaia Edwards form a wall to deny a Demon attack in a match against Ridgway inside DHS Fieldhouse.  Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dolores juniors Madi Thornburgh and Akaia Edwards form a wall to deny a Demon attack in a match against Ridgway inside DHS Fieldhouse.  Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- gallery:130acddf-28e8-4d8a-a16e-220757e78ff4 --><!-- gallery:8891257e-51b3-4b53-a4ec-74b0731541b4 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montezuma-Cortez volleyball team celebrates a point in a match against Alamosa on Friday night in The Jungle. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal The Dolores High School volleyball team is in the midst of one of the best seasons in program history. The Bears (11-1, 6-1 2A\/1A SJBL) will host Mancos (7-7, 4-2 SJBL) on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16367,"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-16366","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\/16366","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=16366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20778,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions\/20778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16366"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}