{"id":29005,"date":"2024-02-28T17:27:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T00:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-basketball-teams-will-get-a-police-escort\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:46:38","slug":"montezuma-cortez-basketball-teams-will-get-a-police-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-basketball-teams-will-get-a-police-escort\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez basketball teams will get a police escort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ec2bb189-1945-5887-8929-0a7178666f7e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"776\" alt=\"The Panthers' senior cheerleaders, along with senior basketball players, earned recognition as part of the Senior Night festivities in Cortez. Ben Bradley\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Panthers' senior cheerleaders, along with senior basketball players, earned recognition as part of the Senior Night festivities in Cortez. Ben Bradley\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma-Cortez High School basketball teams will get a police and fire escort out of town 9 a.m. Thursday as they travel to the state regional tournaments in Yuma and Meeker.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup for the escort will start at 8:45 a.m., and the escort will begin at 9 a.m. The escort by Cortez Police Department and the Cortez Fire Protection District will drive south on South Sligo Street, then take East Seventh Street to South Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the community are encouraged to participate in the escort with signs, honking and words of encouragement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=37.344636%2C-108.561181&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>Tournament play begins Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The girls team qualified for the tournament <a href=\"https:\/\/chsaanow.com\/news\/2024\/2\/25\/class-3a-girls-basketball-regional-state-tournament-bracket-2024.aspx\" id=\"link-405814905dd75e7010b15c3f6a4e9655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bracket<\/a> for the first time in 15 years, coming in as the No. 12 seed. In Round 1, they will play No. 21 Meeker at 7:30 p.m. Friday. If they win, they would play No. 5 Yuma or No. 28 Brush in Round 2 at 1 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The boys team is the No. 23 seed, and they will play No. 10 Banning Lewis Academy at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Meeker High School. If they win Round 1, they would advance in the <a href=\"https:\/\/chsaanow.com\/news\/2024\/2\/25\/class-3a-boys-basketball-regional-state-tournament-bracket-2024.aspx\" id=\"link-1d0e2738ae81538c36cb0de7e2bcb4c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bracket<\/a> to play No. 7 Meeker or No. 26 Florence at 1 p.m. Saturday<\/p>\n<p>If either team wins twice, they will secure a spot in the state quarterfinals March 7-9 at the University of Denver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>girls teams will play in regional tournaments <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[600,21,28,679,680,60,36,29,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-29005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-basketball","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-boys-basketball","tag-high-school-girls-basketball","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29005","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=29005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80602,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29005\/revisions\/80602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29005"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=29005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}