{"id":27888,"date":"2024-05-02T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/panthers-bulldogs-enter-final-stretch-in-baseball\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:14:44","slug":"panthers-bulldogs-enter-final-stretch-in-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/panthers-bulldogs-enter-final-stretch-in-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers, Bulldogs enter final stretch in baseball"},"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=519aaa13-3792-560e-9b43-31a90672532f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1665\" height=\"2116\" alt=\"Montezuma-Cortez looks to repeat as Intermountain League champions in 2024. Special to The Journal \u2013 Ben Bradley\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montezuma-Cortez looks to repeat as Intermountain League champions in 2024. Special to The Journal \u2013 Ben Bradley<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ \u2013 As the calendar turns to May, Montezuma-Cortez and Dove Creek are entering the final stretch of their regular-season schedules. Here\u2019s a look at this weekend\u2019s action:<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Dove Creek enters District 1-1A tournament as top seed<\/div>\n<p>The Bulldogs (5-11) received a first-round bye and will face fourth-seeded Antonito (8-8-1) in the district tournament semifinals on Friday, starting at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>No. 2 seed Sierra Grande (13-1) and No. 3 seed Nucla (7-10-1) will square off in the other district tournament semifinals matchup on Friday, starting at noon.<\/p>\n<p>The district championship game will start at 2 p.m. Friday. The tournament will be held Friday at Ignacio.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams out of the district tournament advance to the regional round of the state tournament, which will be held on May 11.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">League-leading Panthers face Falcons at home<\/div>\n<p>Montezuma-Cortez (9-8, 3-1 in Intermountain League play) will host Centauri (7-12, 1-5) in a Saturday doubleheader, starting at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The twin bill will take place at Parque de Vida in Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>begins district tournament, while Montezuma-Cortez hosts Centauri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,39,28,2428,37,36,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-27888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-dove-creek-high-school","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-baseball","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27888","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=27888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80227,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27888\/revisions\/80227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27888"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=27888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}