{"id":43167,"date":"2021-12-17T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/football-players-bates-knight-named-first-team-all-state\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:12:05","slug":"football-players-bates-knight-named-first-team-all-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/football-players-bates-knight-named-first-team-all-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Football players Bates, Knight named first-team all-state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=95a95be3-f375-5363-8a55-e676ea09eec7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1043\" alt=\"Durango\u2019s Josh Bates readies to snap the ball during on Thursday during practice at DHS. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Durango\u2019s Josh Bates readies to snap the ball during on Thursday during practice at DHS. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Colorado High School Activities Association released its all-state football teams on Thursday, honoring six Durango Demons and five Bayfield Wolverines.<\/p>\n<p>Durango had two players land on the all-state first-team in Class 3A \u2013 linemen Joshua Bates and William Knight. Bates was one of only three juniors named to the first team.<\/p>\n<p>Junior running back Zach Haber made the all-state second team.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors Kooper Mann (offensive line), Cole Matava (linebacker) and Walter Staufer (OL\/DL) all received all-state honorable mentions.<\/p>\n<p>In Class 2A, senior quarterback Isaac Ross led Bayfield\u2019s honorees with a second-team all-state nod.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors James Mars (wide receiver\/defensive back) Cael Schaefer (running back\/defensive back) and Kobe Prior (offensive line) all received all-state honorable mentions.<\/p>\n<p>Durango and Bayfield both won league titles this year and advanced to their respective state tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>No Ignacio players were honored in Class 1A.<\/p>\n<p>After reaching the 8-man state title game, six Mancos players received all-state honors. Luika Cova, Chase Moore and Andres Moreno were selected for the all-state first team. Mason Goodwin and Lane Greenlee made the second team, and Ayden Mathews received an honorable mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demons, four Wolverines honored<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1871,592],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bayfield-high-school","tag-durango-high-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43167","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=43167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85600,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43167\/revisions\/85600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43167"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}