{"id":25607,"date":"2024-09-23T10:51:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-boys-chase-down-fifth-place-at-boggy-draw\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:21:47","slug":"montezuma-cortez-boys-chase-down-fifth-place-at-boggy-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-boys-chase-down-fifth-place-at-boggy-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez boys \u2018Chase\u2019 down fifth place at Boggy Draw"},"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=f6ddafc6-9c72-5ced-9ea6-4f79760187f1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1897\" height=\"2846\" alt=\"Montezuma-Cortez senior William Blair (525) leads Pagosa Springs' Connor Thomas (549) into the final 250 meters of Dolores' 2024 Boggy Draw Bear Chase's high school boys' feature Friday morning. Blair finished 20th in a time of 20:44.09. Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma-Cortez senior William Blair (525) leads Pagosa Springs' Connor Thomas (549) into the final 250 meters of Dolores' 2024 Boggy Draw Bear Chase's high school boys' feature Friday morning. Blair finished 20th in a time of 20:44.09. Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Almost joining the 2024 Boggy Draw Bear Chase\u2019s top finishers in breaking 20 minutes on the challenging forested course north \u2013 both geographically and vertically \u2013 of Dolores High School, Montezuma-Cortez sophomore Cruz Plewe still managed a time of 20:30.43 in pacing M-CHS\u2019 boys to a fifth-place team finish.<\/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=7632756d-c371-5094-9d22-a915acd4eea5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3000\" alt=\"Montezuma-Cortez senior Sophie Wright (459) begins the final 250 meters of the 2024 Boggy Draw Bear Chase on Friday. She posted a time of 30:46.71 and placed 33rd. Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma-Cortez senior Sophie Wright (459) begins the final 250 meters of the 2024 Boggy Draw Bear Chase on Friday. She posted a time of 30:46.71 and placed 33rd. Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b489b56e-2c2c-5d2c-a5d0-262051b72678&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Montezuma-Cortez senior Luna Moore (460) begins the final 250 meters of the 2024 Boggy Draw Bear Chase Friday morning. She finished 36th in a time of 32:19.14. Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma-Cortez senior Luna Moore (460) begins the final 250 meters of the 2024 Boggy Draw Bear Chase Friday morning. She finished 36th in a time of 32:19.14. Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=316569c0-a3c1-52fd-b7dc-c55afe8fd37f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3000\" alt=\"Montezuma-Cortez senior Corbin Myers (529) runs within the final 250 meters of the 2024 Boggy Draw Bear Chase Friday morning. Myers placed 21st in a time of 20:47.62. Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma-Cortez senior Corbin Myers (529) runs within the final 250 meters of the 2024 Boggy Draw Bear Chase Friday morning. Myers placed 21st in a time of 20:47.62. Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Coach Dan Tamminga\u2019s Panthers posted an adjusted score-4 count of 72 points, placing them behind Bayfield (68), Monticello (57), Utah, and event-hosting DHS (35) as all teams were left in the wake of Blanding, which finished 1-2-3-4 for a perfect score of 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Not far behind 17th-place Plewe, senior William Blair was M-CHS\u2019 No. 2 finisher, placing 20th in 20:44.09. Senior Corbin Myers (20:47.62) was right behind in 21st, and junior Roberto Sauzameda (37th, 22:48.73) completed the squad\u2019s lead quartet, with junior Kenai Cotonuts (54th, 26:01.95) following farther back.<\/p>\n<p>In the preceding high school girls\u2019 feature, senior Sophie Wright clocked a 33rd-place 30:46.71 as Montezuma-Cortez\u2019s top finisher. Senior Luna Moore took 36th in 32:19.14, and senior Jori Polich was 46th in 43:58.16.<\/p>\n<p>Prevailing with a tiebreaking performance by its No. 5 runner, Telluride earned the team title despite matching Monticello\u2019s low of 33, while Pagosa Springs ended up third with 43.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS will next compete Friday at the Sweitzer Lake Invitational in Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>leads Panthers to fifth-place finish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607","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=25607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79014,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607\/revisions\/79014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25607"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}