{"id":29545,"date":"2024-01-25T23:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T23:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-wrestling-to-salute-seniors-friday-night\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:58:40","slug":"bayfield-wrestling-to-salute-seniors-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-wrestling-to-salute-seniors-friday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayfield wrestling to salute seniors Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fbe1525b-20c4-5d05-a983-493a4424379a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Bayfield's Keaton Pickering pins Durango's Asher Thiessen during the Ignacio-hosted La Plata County Duals on Jan. 17. Pickering and his fellow BHS seniors are slated to see their final home action Friday evening versus non-league Walsenburg. (Joel Priest\/Special to the Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Bayfield's Keaton Pickering pins Durango's Asher Thiessen during the Ignacio-hosted La Plata County Duals on Jan. 17. Pickering and his fellow BHS seniors are slated to see their final home action Friday evening versus non-league Walsenburg. (Joel Priest\/Special to the Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Weather permitting, Bayfield will wrestle its final home dual of the 2023-24 season Friday night against an uncommon opponent in the Walsenburg Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Having posted a 2-3 mark this past Saturday at the 2024 Tiger Duals in Aztec, the Wolverines and Lady Wolverines are both slated to compete on Senior Night, starting at 5 p.m. Keaton Pickering, Donovan \u2018Dante\u2019 Candelaria, Daxson Michaeli and Dawson Lewis will be honored.<\/p>\n<p>The Walsenburg girls will be arriving particularly ready, having just hosted a quad on Wednesday against La Junta, Monte Vista and Florence.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend in Aztec, Bayfield defeated Aztec JV 40-18 and New Mexico\u2019s Socorro High School 40-30, but then lost against Bloomfield (51-16), Montrose (57-12) and Utah\u2019s Monticello High School (42-33).<\/p>\n<p>Forfeits at the two uppermost weights were ultimately Bayfield\u2019s undoing. Bayfield in what had been something of a seesaw showdown; BHS won four bouts by forfeit and the Buckaroos \u2013 who won four of the six contested weights \u2013 three.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Reese Appenzeller (133 pounds) pinned Monticello sophomore Ronnie Harris in the second period, and freshman Connor Martindale (107 pounds) defeated freshman Arturo Gutierrez 9-7.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Mars (114 pounds), Michaeli (152 pounds), Caelan Ramos (160 pounds) and Micah Cornelia (189 pounds) all won their matches unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Wolverines, meanwhile, ventured all the way north to Castle Rock for Douglas County\u2019s 2024 Tiara Challenge last weekend, placing 30th out of 44 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Led by freshman Autumn Annen\u2019s first-place 4-0 run (including a pin of freshman teammate Audrina Velasquez) through the event\u2019s 110-pound Purple bracket, Bayfield\u2019s girls totaled 41 team points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverines hosting Walsenburg in dual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1871,642,2587,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-29545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bayfield-high-school","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-school-wrestling","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545","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=29545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80780,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions\/80780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29545"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=29545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}