{"id":16497,"date":"2025-09-18T03:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/panthers-down-bluejays-to-continue-strong-season\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:58:42","slug":"panthers-down-bluejays-to-continue-strong-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/panthers-down-bluejays-to-continue-strong-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers down Bluejays to continue strong season"},"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=c8a4ad25-2994-5720-bdab-0de1152de457&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1182\" height=\"1556\" alt=\"M-CHS senior Siana Elliott prepares to attack the ball with three Mancos players bracing to defend in a match between the Panthers and Bluejays at M-CHS on Tuesday night.  Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">M-CHS senior Siana Elliott prepares to attack the ball with three Mancos players bracing to defend in a match between the Panthers and Bluejays at M-CHS on Tuesday night.  Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ \u2013 With each passing week, the Panthers\u2019 ambition continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>With a win over Mancos on Tuesday night in The Jungle, second-year head coach Danielle Waltman and her Panthers have eclipsed their 2024 win total and appear to be on their way to the program\u2019s first postseason appearance since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS (8-5, 1-1 3A IML) swept past Mancos, 25-17, 25-18, 25-13, on the strength of the same gritty mindset that helped them collect their second league win in four years. The Panthers followed Saturday\u2019s 3-1 win over Pagosa Springs with another home victory.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS senior Siana Elliott led an emphatic Panthers performance at the net, pacing the orange and black.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos (5-7, 2-2 2A\/1A SJBL) remains in the top 36 in the 2A CHSAA Seeding and Selection Index with a strong strength of schedule, as its senior leaders look to develop the upcoming wave of Bluejays.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS returns to the court with a road match at Cedaredge on Saturday, Sept. 20, before a big back-to-back weekend against league-leading Alamosa and Centauri on Sept. 26-27. Mancos returns home to face Nucla in a key SJBL battle on Saturday before taking on Dove Creek for the second time this season on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p><!-- gallery:8ba31c62-8d86-4de1-b005-400c616444ee --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-CHS betters their 2024 win total with sweep of local rival <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16498,"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-16497","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\/16497","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=16497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20787,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497\/revisions\/20787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}