{"id":27583,"date":"2024-05-19T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortezs-hot-streak-ends-in-regional-final\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:05:48","slug":"montezuma-cortezs-hot-streak-ends-in-regional-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortezs-hot-streak-ends-in-regional-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez\u2019s  hot streak ends in regional final"},"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=b628f9d1-f3f7-5f7e-bf6f-29787d065792&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2968\" alt=\"Panthers sophomore Darren Daves smashes a base hit in a game against Delta at McAndrew Field in Cortez. Ben Bradley\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Panthers sophomore Darren Daves smashes a base hit in a game against Delta at McAndrew Field in Cortez. Ben Bradley\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>NEW CASTLE \u2013 A resilient Montezuma-Cortez baseball team found themselves right back on the precipice of a second straight regional title and appearance in the state tournament bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Their run fell one game short, as the Panthers and head coach Jake Huff closed out a league championship season with a 13-3 defeat to No. 5 seed Coal Ridge on the Titans\u2019 home field Saturday afternoon. No. 12 M-CHS (16-9) had advanced to the regional final courtesy of a back-and-forth 8-7 victory over No. 21 Valley earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>While the Panthers never trailed the Vikings in their regional opener, the Panthers needed every one of their eight runs \u2013 three apiece in the fourth and fifth innings \u2013 to extend their winning streak to eight.<\/p>\n<p>The momentum appeared to carry over into their matchup against the Titans, with M-CHS scoring twice in the top of the second inning to hold an early edge. Coal Ridge responded with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning, then took a lead they wouldn\u2019t relinquish with big innings in the third and fourth frames.<\/p>\n<p>A trio of seniors \u2013 Dean York, Cash Clark, and Miles Frost \u2013 saw their days in orange and black draw to a close, capping careers as part of a fantastic four year stretch where the program finished .500 or better each season. Their success included a pair of IML titles, and the program\u2019s first ever state tournament appearance in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers, still very young, return a wealth of talent in 2025 seeking a league three-peat along with ambitions of another postseason run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>knocks out M-CHS one game shy of state tournament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27584,"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-27583","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\/27583","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=27583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80116,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27583\/revisions\/80116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27583"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=27583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}