{"id":44049,"date":"2021-10-28T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-volleyball-sweeps-durango\/"},"modified":"2021-10-28T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T23:30:00","slug":"bayfield-volleyball-sweeps-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-volleyball-sweeps-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayfield volleyball sweeps Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Joined by teammates Payton Killough (14) and Kenasea Byrd, Bayfield's Annie Fusco (8) shouts in celebration during the Wolverines' 3-0 sweep of Montezuma-Cortez on Tuesday night. Fusco registered a 17-kill, 14-dig double-double as BHS won their 3A Intermountain League opener. (Joel Priest\/Special to the Herald)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Unable to rescue victory against CHSAANow.com\u2019s eighth-ranked Montrose three days before, Durango volleyball\u2019s rough ride into the postseason continued Tuesday at Bayfield.<\/p>\n

Defensively, the Demons did plenty of work in hopes of slowing the Wolverines\u2019 attack; sophomore Brooklyn Messier came up with a match-best 16 digs, juniors Leah Wolf and Mason Rowland each came up with nine, and freshman Eva Stewart dug six. Sophomore Aava Dreger was credited with three blocks and Wolf two, but in the end it wasn\u2019t enough as BHS dealt DHS a fourth consecutive defeat: 25-17, 25-22, 25-20.<\/p>\n

Rowland ripped eight kills offensively for Durango. Wolf spiked seven, and sophomore Sarah Somrak had three as Stewart (10 assists) and Rowland (seven) shared setting duties.<\/p>\n

Bayfield senior setter Sage Killough, meanwhile, totaled 36 assists in looking mainly to classmates Annie Fusco and Emily Nelson for big swings with devastating consequences. Fusco smashed 24 kills in 46 attempts with just seven errors \u2013 making for an outstanding .370 percentage. Fusco also served five aces. Nelson booked 11 kills at a .250 rate.<\/p>\n

Defensively for the 3A Intermountain champion Bayfield, now 12-7 overall and 7-1 in the IML, junior libero Myrah Abdallah-Boehm came up with 11 digs. Fusco logged eight and Nelson, Killough and senior Payton Killough had six each as the Wolverines won their fourth straight outing. BHS will next compete in the Discovery Canyon Invitational on Saturday in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n

Durango also will wrap up its regular-season in tournament fashion, with the Ponderosa Mustang Classic in Parker on Friday and Saturday. The Lady Demons will first face Highlands Ranch-area 5A programs Rock Canyon (9-10) and No. 5 Mountain Vista (14-4) \u2013 at 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., respectively \u2013 on Friday in Pool A.<\/p>\n

Durango is 9-9 overall, but dropped to a third-place 4-4 in the 4A\/5A Southwestern League after losing Saturday at Montrose, 17-25, 25-19, 26-24, 19-25 and 14-16.<\/p>\n

Fruita Monument (16-3, 7-1) won the SWL via a head-to-head sets-won tiebreaker over Montrose. Fruita will also be at the Mustang Classic.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the field at the Discovery Canyon Invite will be Montrose (16-3, 7-1 SWL), 4A Erie, 4A Woodland Park, 5A Colorado Springs\u2019 Doherty, Denver\u2019s 4A Mullen, Longmont\u2019s 5A Silver Creek, 3A Colorado Springs Christian and Thornton\u2019s 5A Horizon.<\/p>\n

Bayfield will begin Pool D play Saturday morning versus Colorado Springs\u2019 5A Air Academy and then battle Colorado Springs\u2019 4A Coronado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

24 kills for Wolverines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[345],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-volleyball"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44049","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=44049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44049"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}