{"id":29162,"date":"2024-02-18T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/claire-goodwins-school-record-jolts-jays-into-postseason\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:50:02","slug":"claire-goodwins-school-record-jolts-jays-into-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/claire-goodwins-school-record-jolts-jays-into-postseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire Goodwin\u2019s school record jolts Jays into postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"\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=ea8542c7-cc81-5d11-bab2-c91392c63fbb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"3000\" alt=\"Mancos freshman Claire Goodwin (31) lines up a 3-pointer over Telluride's Tjarn Lyons (10) during SJBL action Friday at MHS. In terms of points, Goodwin scored 31 points.  (Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos freshman Claire Goodwin (31) lines up a 3-pointer over Telluride's Tjarn Lyons (10) during SJBL action Friday at MHS. In terms of points, Goodwin scored 31 points.  (Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>MANCOS \u2013 Former Indiana Pacer Reggie Miller \u2013 one of the game\u2019s deadliest marksmen in his playing days \u2013 made the simple statement during NBA All-Star Weekend that \u201cshooters shoot\u201d after Milwaukee\u2019s Damian Lillard drained a contest-winning 3-pointer on his final ball of the 3-point shooting competition.<\/p>\n<p>The statement applied to the notion that great basketball players can rise to the occasion and make big shots in clutch moments, no matter the gym or the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos sophomore Claire Goodwin demonstrated she fits the bill, knocking down 11 3-pointers to help the Bjuejays crush cross-county rival Dolores 70-13 on Friday night \u2013 all while shooting her way to a school-record 45 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Bluejays also beat Telluride 53-10 the following day, entering the San Juan Basin League tournament with a surge of momentum and a four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos (14-5 overall, 7-1 in 2A\/1A San Juan Basin League play) erupted with a 26-point quarter in the second stanza against Dolores, pushing its lead to 34-7 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin\u2019s night was just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>The sophomore buried five of her 11 threes in the third quarter, with her teammates looking to get her the ball, knowing she had something special going.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Dolores (3-16, 1-7 in league play) entered the game with some recent bright spots in the form of a 50-17 win over Telluride on Feb. 6 and tough 36-34 loss against Ridgway.<\/p>\n<p>The Bluejays posted another dominant day against the Miners (1-17, 1-7 in league play), with Goodwin on pace for another monster scoring output. She had 22 at the break, but the Bluejays altered course and turned to a more balanced attack in the second half. Three other players (Randi Lewis, Haylie Higgins and Mandi Peacock) each scored four or more points.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos enters the district tournament in Telluride as the top seed, with it sights set on a district title and prospective opportunity to host a regional site game in the 2A state tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore pours in 45 against Dolores, Jays sweep weekend action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[600,38,39,28,642,37,36],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-29162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-basketball","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-dove-creek-high-school","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-sports","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\/29162","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=29162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80652,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29162\/revisions\/80652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29162"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=29162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}