{"id":25199,"date":"2024-10-24T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/panthers-softball-departs-for-3a-state-tournament\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:11:59","slug":"panthers-softball-departs-for-3a-state-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/panthers-softball-departs-for-3a-state-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers softball departs for 3A state tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e6f20d15-4a79-5562-a8fd-7f843996def2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"The Montezuma-Cortez Panther softball team departed to Aurora on Thursday morning for the 3A state tournament, which kicks off on Friday morning. (Courtesy of Hannah Yazzie)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Montezuma-Cortez Panther softball team departed to Aurora on Thursday morning for the 3A state tournament, which kicks off on Friday morning. (Courtesy of Hannah Yazzie)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Hannah Yazzie<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>For the fourth time in the past seven years, Montezuma-Cortez High School will send its softball team to the state tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers loaded up the bus Thursday morning en route to Aurora for the 16-team 3A state tournament, which begins on Friday. Montezuma-Cortez (14-10) will take on No. 3 seed University (18-7) at 12:15 p.m. Friday at the Aurora Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma-Cortez is the No. 14 seed by virtue of its regional tournament victory over Sterling last week.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Round of 16 matchup will face either No. 6 Rocky Ford or No. 11 Alamosa in the quarterfinals at approximately 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The four teams left standing from the opening two rounds will play in the state semifinals at 10 a.m. Saturday, with the championship game slated for 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montezuma-Cortez will open tournament Friday in Aurora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,642,36,596,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-sports","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-softball","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199","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=25199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78840,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions\/78840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}