{"id":30583,"date":"2023-11-19T18:31:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T01:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-mancos-headed-to-state-football-finals-for-rematch-with-haxtun\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:21:22","slug":"photos-mancos-headed-to-state-football-finals-for-rematch-with-haxtun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-mancos-headed-to-state-football-finals-for-rematch-with-haxtun\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Mancos headed to state football finals for rematch with Haxtun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cf34dd02-8b0e-5830-a847-060a39c5cf68&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" alt=\"Broc Imel and Kaiden Wyatt celebrate after the Bluejays' victory over Lyons on Nov. 18, 23.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Broc Imel and Kaiden Wyatt celebrate after the Bluejays' victory over Lyons on Nov. 18, 23.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Colorado\u2019s Eight-Man Football State Championship will feature No. 1 Mancos and No. 3 Haxtun.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos has never won a state football title. Haxtun will be playing for the ninth championship, which would tie Revere for the fifth-most football titles in the Colorado High School Activities Association, CHSAA said.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos advanced to the final game by defeating No. 4 Lyons, 44-22, and Haxtun advanced by beating No. 2 Simla, 30-12.<\/p>\n<p><!-- gallery:33aed0ed-1d89-4212-af5e-94a8328b329a --><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Haxtun scored on a last-minute interception on Sept. 16 to beat Mancos 28-22 in Fairplay.<\/p>\n<p>In that game, Mancos posted a second-half rally and had No. 1 Haxtun on the ropes, only to see the Bulldogs score twice in the final three minutes, including a tiebreaking interception and return on the game\u2019s final play, to steal a breathtaking 28-22 win over the Bluejays.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 27, 2021, Haxtun beat Mancos 40-0 for the state championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluejays beat No. 4 Lyons 44-22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583","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=30583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81126,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583\/revisions\/81126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30583"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}