{"id":30755,"date":"2023-11-10T02:51:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/plateau-valley-stuns-mancos-in-state-volleyball-opener\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:24:42","slug":"plateau-valley-stuns-mancos-in-state-volleyball-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/plateau-valley-stuns-mancos-in-state-volleyball-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Plateau Valley stuns Mancos in state volleyball opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2d56100a-b6c5-5ca8-82b3-98fde6f6340a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1389\" height=\"1389\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>DENVER \u2013 Momentum can be tremendously fickle, especially on the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>For two sets, No. 4 Mancos (23-3) looked unstoppable in their first state tournament match since 2011. The Jays pummeled kills and a bevy of aces to take a 2-0 lead over No. 5 Plateau Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in a flash it was gone. The energy swung to the Cowgirls (25-2) side of the Denver Coliseum, as Plateau Valley built large leads in each of the subsequent three sets to complete the five-set rally, 21-25, 19-25, 25-18, 25-18, 15-4.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos, in search of the program\u2019s first win in the state tournament in over 15 years, will look to regroup behind the leadership of head coach Brianna Yeomans-Allison and their pair of seniors, Haylie Higgins and Teya Yeomans.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat for the Bluejays will send them into the contenders bracket of the 2A state tournament, where No. 6 Strasburg awaits for an 8 a.m. contest on Friday, Nov. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos will need to win twice on Friday to make it to championship Saturday. The winner of their match will face either No. 7 Swink or No. 8 Ignacio on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cowgirls overturn two-set deficit to top Bluejays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,39,28,37,36],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-dove-creek-high-school","tag-headlines","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\/30755","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=30755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81193,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30755\/revisions\/81193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30755"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}