{"id":40063,"date":"2022-06-13T19:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T01:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-volleyball-represents-at-all-state-match\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:53:27","slug":"dolores-volleyball-represents-at-all-state-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-volleyball-represents-at-all-state-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores volleyball represents at all-state match"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dolores Volleyball product Erin Brown (1) forces a kill through the block of Merino's Taysa Conger (5) during the 2022 CHSCA All-State Games' first-place volleyball match Saturday, June 11, in Pueblo. Brown and team White would defeat Conger and team Blue 3 games to 1. (Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal)<\/span>Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Brown, Hollen lead winning White team in Pueblo<\/div>\n

PUEBLO \u2013 Served the first ball of the championship match Saturday morning, Dolores\u2019 Erin Brown ultimately put down the decisive two as she closed out her high school volleyball career playing for the victors at the 2022 Colorado High School Coaches Association All-State Games.<\/p>\n

After a Brown kill down the near sideline brought up match point, 24-17, in the best-of-five\u2019s fourth game, opponent Taysa Conger (Class 1A Merino) briefly kept the Blue team alive with a scoring shot, but Brown then downed another ball past Rachael White (2A Wiggins) and Emily Flanscha (2A Fowler) to lock up for White a 25-13, 25-13, 17-25, 25-18 triumph on the main court inside CSU-Pueblo\u2019s Massari Arena.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people are all so good \u2013 a lot of them are going to go play college volleyball \u2013 and it\u2019s fun to play like this,\u201d said Brown, who was coached at the Games by 3A Englewood Kent Denver\u2019s Emily Danitz plus 2A DHS\u2019 own Gina Hollen. \u201cIt\u2019s such high-level volleyball; I just feel really lucky to be here \u2026 to have fun and just enjoy the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joel Priest\/Special to The JournalDolores Volleyball head coach Gina Hollen and Englewood Kent Denver's Emily Danitz (rear) guided the 2022 CHSCA All-State Games' winning White team, June 10-11 in Pueblo.<\/span>Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dolores Volleyball product Erin Brown (1) blocks against Monument Palmer Ridge's Maddie Wilson (10) during the 2022 CHSCA All-State Games' first-place volleyball match Saturday, June 11, in Pueblo. Brown and team White would defeat Wilson and team Blue 3 games to 1. (Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal)<\/span>Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dolores Volleyball product Erin Brown (1) stands between mother Teresa Brown-Sanchez (left) and Niwot's Morgan Daugherty (2) while listening to player\/parent introductions prior to the 2022 CHSCA All-State Games' first- and third-place matches Saturday, June 11, in Pueblo. Brown, Daugherty, and the White team would win the championship over Blue, 3 games to 1. (Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal)<\/span>Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s emotional,\u201d Hollen said. \u201cI mean, she came to me as a freshman and to be able to finish this out with her. \u2026 Like, this is not something everybody gets to share or see, so it\u2019s extra meaningful to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know Gina before this, so it was really fun to just be able to work with someone different, learn from someone different,\u201d said Danitz. \u201cAnd just being in this atmosphere with coaches from all over the state \u2013 I didn\u2019t know any of them before this \u2013 was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having defeated Red in the previous afternoon\u2019s semifinals, White came out of the gate slowly against Blue and trailed 4-0 early in Game 1. But after tying at 8-8, White had little difficulty pulling away and authoritatively securing not only Game 1 but also Game 2, threatening to bring about a quick end to the action.<\/p>\n

But Blue nearly bounced back, taking a 6-3 lead early in Game 3 before Brown bashed a cross-court kill. She\u2019d further cut Blue\u2019s advantage down to 7-6 with an ace through the top of the net, then a block on Morgan McReynolds-Leake (1A Cheraw), but Blue \u2013 coached by 1A Fleming\u2019s Megan Chintala and 1A La Veta\u2019s Amber Huff \u2013 somehow discovered enough energy to go on a momentum-swiping 5-0 run, pressing White\u2019s coaches into taking a timeout.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first two games we were controlling the serve, which was really important,\u201d said Danitz. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s what happened in the third; our serving kind of backed off a little, which was why we struggled. But they found it again in Set Four; we were really controlling the serve-pass game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe kind of changed the rotation a little bit, but they knew what they needed to do,\u201d Hollen said. \u201cWe told them to refresh, refocus \u2026 try not to make as many mistakes, and they did that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little nervous coming in, just because they\u2019d all played as All-Staters before and I hadn\u2019t,\u201d said Brown, alluding to the fact that, due to injury, she\u2019d been bench-bound at the Colorado Coaches of Girls\u2019 Sports All-State Games up in Fort Collins back in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast time I was, like, super-energetic; it was more fun to (actually) play \u2026 to see Hollen coach at that higher level, and have Emily alongside us. And two of my future (Colorado Mesa University) teammates were here \u2013 I got to \u2026 actually meet them for the first time just this weekend! So it was cool; I\u2019m so excited to get to play with them every day \u2026 and I\u2019ll keep pushing hard so I can have more moments like these.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a big cheerleader of, and a fan of really good volleyball, so \u2026 just being around this level of volleyball, it\u2019s going to be fun to bring that back to my program and say, \u2018Look what we could do,\u2019\u201d Danitz said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have an athlete herethis year \u2013 but this gives me a firsthand account to tell them, like, \u2018This should be something that you\u2019re striving toward.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Minus 3A Intermountain Leaguers Avery Wright (Montezuma-Cortez) and Annie Fusco (Bayfield), neither of whom made the trip, Black fell 18-25, 22-25, 21-25 to Red in the third-place match, contested simultaneously \u2013 but on the adjacent, alternate court \u2013 with the grand finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dolores Volleyball product Erin Brown (1) forces a kill through the block of Merino's Taysa Conger (5) during the 2022 CHSCA All-State Games' first-place volleyball match Saturday, June 11, in Pueblo. Brown and team White would defeat Conger and team Blue 3 games to 1. (Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal)Joel Priest\/Special to The Journal Brown, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,28,345],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-40063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-headlines","tag-volleyball"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40063","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=40063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84534,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40063\/revisions\/84534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40063"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=40063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}