{"id":16416,"date":"2025-09-24T20:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-volleyball-races-past-dove-creek-in-san-juan-basin-league\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:57:11","slug":"mancos-volleyball-races-past-dove-creek-in-san-juan-basin-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-volleyball-races-past-dove-creek-in-san-juan-basin-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos volleyball races past Dove Creek in San Juan Basin League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c57d0e28-da6b-5a88-b0b7-26c1cdbe68ab&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1609\" alt=\"Mancos senior Destiny Kramer\u2019s spike is met by high hands from Dove Creek sophomore Leah Barnett (left) and junior Kaybree Smith in a match between Mancos and Dove Creek on Tuesday night. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos senior Destiny Kramer\u2019s spike is met by high hands from Dove Creek sophomore Leah Barnett (left) and junior Kaybree Smith in a match between Mancos and Dove Creek on Tuesday night. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>MANCOS \u2013 Now into the middle third of their schedule, it looks like the Bluejays are hitting their stride.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos (7-7, 4-2 2A\/1A SJBL) swept Dove Creek at Bluejay Fieldhouse on Tuesday night for its fourth win in six matches. The Bluejays won decisively: 25-19, 25-17, 25-16, securing a season sweep of the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p>First-year head coach Delaney Wright\u2019s squad leaned on steady back-line play, led by senior libero Lexi Lyons, to limit errors and apply pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Down 21-9 in the second set, the Bulldogs (1-9, 0-3 2A\/1A SJBL) put together their best stretch, compiling eight straight points to close the gap to 21-17. Mancos responded with four quick points to take a 2-0 lead and closed out the match with a dominant third set.<\/p>\n<p>The Bluejays rank inside the top 36 of the 2A CHSAA Seeding and Selection Index, on the cusp of playoff positioning. They face a tough road stretch next week: Dolores (Oct. 2), Telluride (Oct. 4) and league-leading Ignacio (Oct. 9).<\/p>\n<p>Dove Creek looks to bounce back with a Homecoming match against Norwood (Sept. 26), followed by a trip to Ouray (Sept. 30).<\/p>\n<p><!-- gallery:64bd8f74-1496-422a-a9db-e1e11712f62d --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluejays use big surges in each set to pick up sweep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16417,"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-16416","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\/16416","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=16416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20782,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions\/20782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16416"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}