{"id":42791,"date":"2022-01-11T14:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-shocks-durango-in-overtime-84-74\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:55:38","slug":"m-chs-shocks-durango-in-overtime-84-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-shocks-durango-in-overtime-84-74\/","title":{"rendered":"M-CHS shocks Durango in overtime, 84-74"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miles
Miles Frost of Montezuma-Cortez comes up with a rebound while playing Durango on Saturday. (Cody Olivas\/Durango Herald)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

BAYFIELD \u2013 Had the 2022 Four Corners Southwest Classic\u2019s de facto third-place game lasted any longer Saturday, Durango likely would have fouled out down to their last Demon if it meant possibly defeating former 4A\/5A Southwestern League rival Montezuma-Cortez.<\/p>\n

After incredibly tipping in fellow senior Lincoln Clay\u2019s missed last-second shot at the buzzer, tying the contest at 70-70 and sending it into overtime, Landon Roberts became the first of four Durango players to foul out during the extra period when he picked up his fifth personal with 2:30 left.<\/p>\n

Clay would do likewise with 1:49 remaining, followed by junior Tyler Harms with 0:58 left and junior A.J. Folk with 0:19 to go. And with senior big Walter Stauffer having already fouled out with 2:23 left in the fourth quarter, Durango head coach Alan Batiste \u2013 whose roster was already minus five players when the tourney commenced the previous evening \u2013 could only watch in disbelief as the Panthers pulled away at the free-throw line in prevailing 84-74.<\/p>\n

M-CHS junior guard Austin Wood, who had canned four three-pointers during regulation time, finished with 19 points after going a crucial 7-of-10 from the charity stripe in OT (during which the team went 12-of-22, finishing 22-of-43 overall). And also finishing the game playing with three personals, senior guard J.T. Carver sank six 3-pointers and went 4-of-8 from the foul line in racking up a career-high 32 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeels amazing, definitely,\u201d said Carver, who hit three threes and totaled 17 points during a 59-48 loss Friday inside Bayfield High School Gymnasium to Ignacio. \u201cWe\u2019ve always been pretty good rivals with Durango, and it\u2019s good to get that (career-high) against a team like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAustin\u2019s just smart. He knows what to do, we rely on him to be our point guard and do everything for us. And J.T., obviously, he\u2019s a senior now and been in the (3A Intermountain) league for a while, knows what to do, and he\u2019s just a good scorer,\u201d head coach Michael Hall said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, we were down by six going into the fourth quarter, but we fought back and pulled out a win,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just heart; these kids have it, they know what they need to do because we\u2019re undersized, and they\u2019re never going to quit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Luke
Luke Wesley of Durango sinks a contested shot against Montezuma-Cortez on Saturday at the Southwest Classic. Wesley scored 26 in the loss. (Cody Olivas\/Durango Herald)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Having trailed Durango 18-14 after one quarter, 34-33 at halftime, then 54-48 through the third \u2013 after Demon junior guard Luke Wesley logged 11 of his team-high 26 points \u2013 the Panthers (3-4, 0-0 IML) went on a game-altering 11-0 run capped by three consecutive Isaak Lewis drives to the rim.<\/p>\n

But the Panthers junior would foul out with 4:10 left in regulation, allowing Clay (11 points) to hit one free throw and finally get Durango (5-7, 0-0 SWL) restarted offensively, down 59-55. Clay would nail two more freebies with 2:36 left, at last re-tying the score at 59, but after Stauffer (8 points) departed 13 seconds later, Carver cashed a three and Panthers sophomore Miles Frost (6 points) swished two FTs \u2013 putting Montezuma-Cortez again up five and setting the stage for the teams\u2019 wild finish.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get down on ourselves a lot when we\u2019re down \u2013 we were down six going into the fourth quarter today \u2013 but we changed it up,\u201d Carver said. \u201cWe had positive self-talk and came out with a win.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, we came in off Christmas break, and I think yesterday we were a little slow, couldn\u2019t get any kind of rhythm going. But Ignacio\u2019s really good,\u201d said Hall. \u201cToday we played hard; we came out and played our style of basketball, kept the pace up. Durango\u2019s a lot bigger and a lot more physical than us, but we have heart; that\u2019s what I preach to the boys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freshman Tay Wheat came off Hall\u2019s bench to contribute seven points, and senior Trinidad \u201cL.T.\u201d McDonnell chipped in eight.<\/p>\n

Roberts and Harms each totaled nine points in defeat, while junior Zach Haber came off Batiste\u2019s bench to score six.<\/p>\n

Up next, Montezuma-Cortez will begin IML play hosting Centauri (7-0, 0-0 IML) Friday. Meanwhile, Durango\u2019s SWL work begins Saturday at home versus Grand Junction, which stood 8-5 overall prior to visiting 3A Coal Ridge Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

32; DHS ends with four on floor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[600,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-42791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-basketball","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42791","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=42791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42791"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=42791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}