{"id":30820,"date":"2023-11-05T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dove-creek-volleyball-team-cruises-to-state-tournament\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:26:33","slug":"dove-creek-volleyball-team-cruises-to-state-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dove-creek-volleyball-team-cruises-to-state-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Dove Creek volleyball team cruises to state tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ec905203-14b8-55be-86e5-b051ced4d8b9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Dove Creek volleyball\u2019s head coach Lacey Murphy's varsity recorded its 10th overall victory already in the 2023 season on Saturday with a 15-25, 27-25, 25-21, 25-13 road win at Ignacio.  Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dove Creek volleyball\u2019s head coach Lacey Murphy's varsity recorded its 10th overall victory already in the 2023 season on Saturday with a 15-25, 27-25, 25-21, 25-13 road win at Ignacio.  Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Often, the big end-of-season goals go unspoken through the grinding early season practices and matches. By the time November rolls around, the goals become more imminent, and those big aspirations finally take shape.<\/p>\n<p>For Dove Creek, the goal has been clear \u2013 to make the 1A state championships for the third straight year. On Friday night on their home court, the Bulldogs made sure that there wouldn\u2019t be any doubt.<\/p>\n<p>In their Region 8 match against No. 17 DeBeque, Dove Creek blasted the Dragons 3-0 to qualify for the state tournament in Denver to be held on Nov. 9-11.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs picked up their 11th straight match victory via sweep, easing past DeBeque (15-9) 25-17, 25-13, 25-21. The win earned head coach Lacey Murphy\u2019s team their 16th straight win overall.<\/p>\n<p>Now, led by a trio of seniors, Dove Creek will once again look to make plenty of noise in the 1A field after a strong showing in 2022. The Bulldogs and the rest of the 12 teams that compromise the 1A field will learn their assignments in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulldogs sweep regional match, head back to Denver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[80,39,28,1877,29,345],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dove-creek","tag-dove-creek-high-school","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-volleyball","tag-newsletter","tag-volleyball"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30820","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=30820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81217,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30820\/revisions\/81217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30820"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}