{"id":68142,"date":"2016-12-12T19:41:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/8-man-all-conference-teams-released\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T02:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:41:18","slug":"8-man-all-conference-teams-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/8-man-all-conference-teams-released\/","title":{"rendered":"8-man all-conference teams released"},"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=e3766481-7550-4517-9ea1-035f27e4415a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2035\" alt=\"Mancos football players pose with their all-conference nominations last week. From left to right, front: Richard Martinez, Nic Huver and Cameron Fury. Back: Axel Bonde, Breccen Morelli, Kaleb Hargraves and Casey Orange.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos football players pose with their all-conference nominations last week. From left to right, front: Richard Martinez, Nic Huver and Cameron Fury. Back: Axel Bonde, Breccen Morelli, Kaleb Hargraves and Casey Orange.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Athletes from Dove Creek and Mancos have been named to A-8 Southwest Football League all-conference teams following the 2016 season.<\/p>\n<p>Dove Creek junior Tristen Martinez and freshman Cade Curtis each received nominations after the Bulldogs finished the year with a 1-5 league record.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was named first team all-conference and Curtis was selected to the second team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTristen was one of our captains, and he\u2019s just a junior so he\u2019ll be back,\u201d said Dove Creek head coach Shane Baughman. \u201cHe brought a little bit of that experience to our team and just his work ethic was contagious. I think that leadership helped the team a bunch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCade, just his grit, I guess would be the word to use with him,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe\u2019s just a gritty kid. He\u2019s not the biggest kid but he never complains and is just a tough kid. And he\u2019s just a freshman, so hopefully good things to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos Blue Jays fared better in league play this season, finishing with a 4-2 conference record and making their second consecutive playoff appearance.<\/p>\n<p>And their success didn\u2019t go unnoticed, as seven players received league honors.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors Axel Bonde and Richard Martinez, junior Kaleb Hargraves and sophomore Casey Orange were all named first team all-conference, juniors Cameron Fury and Nic Huver were selected to the second team, and freshman Breccen Morelli received honorable mention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a pretty good team this year,\u201d said Mancos co-head coach Josh Gardner. \u201cYou know, a little bit of a disappointment in the playoffs, but when it came down to it we had some kids who were some really hard workers and really stepped up this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only two of Mancos\u2019 seven all-conference selections will graduate this year, so Gardner and co-head coach Adam Priestley can expect to return a talented group next season.<\/p>\n<p>And while Gardner said that accolades can distract some players, he expects they will only motivate his players even more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome athletes it can get to your head,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut these guys love playing football and this is just going to be more inspiration for them to try and attain that goal again. So, I think it definitely does motivate these guys to come back and work even harder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>home seven league nominations; Dove Creek two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[80,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dove-creek","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68142","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=68142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68142"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}