{"id":61361,"date":"2014-02-27T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lady-bears-conclude-season\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T07:17:08","slug":"lady-bears-conclude-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lady-bears-conclude-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bears conclude season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ec863d72-9524-468d-b8f2-e988dffbb745&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1079\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"The ball gets away from Brianna Schwartz as she's knocked to the floor.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The ball gets away from Brianna Schwartz as she's knocked to the floor.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/Dolores Star<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>For the Dolores High School girls basketball team, the end of the 2013-14 season was painful and swift.<\/p>\n<p>Bears lose to Ridgway<\/p>\n<p>Opening last week\u2019s play in Ridgway on Feb. 21, the Bears fell victim to one of the San Juan Basin League\u2019s top teams, losing 74-36.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing heavily to the Bears loss were defensive struggles, which allowed Ridgway to build a 46-18 lead by halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Bears continued to battle hard, aided by senior Brianna Schwartz and sophomore Nichole Kibel, the large deficit proved too much to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Schwartz and Kibel combined for 28 points as each guard chipped in 14.<\/p>\n<p>Bears defeated by Mancos<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to pick up a win against Mancos on Feb. 22, the Bears were defeated again, losing 59-56 on their home floor.<\/p>\n<p>Playing a key role for the Bears was senior Brianna Schwartz, who, scoring a career high 35 points, nearly willed her team to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the Bears, Schwartz\u2019s stellar performance was not enough however as the team was outscored 33-29 in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Complimenting Schwartz\u2019s 35 points, sophomore Larissa Umberger scored seven points and junior Taylor Elder scored six.<\/p>\n<p>Bears end season with loss to Mancos<\/p>\n<p>Looking to advance into the District Tournament with a win in Mancos on Feb. 25, the Bears suffered their second consecutive three-point loss, falling 42-39 to their rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Playing extremely well early in the contest, the Bears jumped out to a 23-14 halftime lead courtesy of a balanced scoring attack led by Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p>In all, four Bears players, including Schwartz, Elder, Umberger and Kibel, scored in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played good defense and our offense was clicking,\u201d said Bears\u2019 head coach Tim Kercher. \u201cWe were making shots and playing our game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Dolores, things began falling apart early in the second half as Mancos closed out the third quarter on a 10-2 run.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the fourth quarter with a 30-28 lead, the Bears did their best to hold on, could not keep pace with the Bluejays, who scored twice in the final minute to pull ahead 42-38.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz added one last free throw for the Bears before time expired.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Schwartz scored 18 points in her final high school game to pace the Bears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to miss her,\u201d said Kercher of Schwartz. \u201cWhat a year she had. She kept us in a lot of games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Bears finished the season with a 7-13 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schwartz wraps up stellar senior season with three solid games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-61361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61361","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=61361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61361"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=61361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}