{"id":33840,"date":"2023-05-26T00:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T06:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-baseball-gets-big-sendoff-to-state-tournament\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:13:54","slug":"montezuma-cortez-baseball-gets-big-sendoff-to-state-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-cortez-baseball-gets-big-sendoff-to-state-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma-Cortez baseball gets big sendoff 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=29378e0e-a819-5396-be5b-b87a33381ea1&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1081\" alt=\"Fire trucks and police vehicles were on hand to send the players off in style. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fire trucks and police vehicles were on hand to send the players off in style. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of Montezuma-COrtes High School commencement Thursday evening, the Panthers baseball team received a police and fire escort through town on Main Street as they headed to Greeley to play in the state tournament Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In Greeley, the Panthers will play No. 4 Coal Ridge (25-0) Friday, at 11:30 a.m. at University High School. The winner of that contest will advance in the winner\u2019s bracket of the double-elimination tournament to a 2 p.m. game, also at University High School, against the winner of No. 1 Eaton (25-0) and regional surprise No. 25 Peak to Peak (12-13).<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5ca9fc29-b833-5a6d-a26a-2f715b845548&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1059\" alt=\"The M-CHS boys baseball team and coaches prepare to depart for state right after the high school graduation ceremony wraps up. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The M-CHS boys baseball team and coaches prepare to depart for state right after the high school graduation ceremony wraps up. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>trucks and police vehicles were on hand to send the players off in style. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal) At the end of Montezuma-COrtes High School commencement Thursday evening, the Panthers baseball team received a police and fire escort through town on Main Street as they headed to Greeley to play in the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33841,"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-33840","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\/33840","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=33840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82370,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840\/revisions\/82370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33840"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}