{"id":68144,"date":"2016-12-12T19:43:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-takes-third-at-home-tourney\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T02:43:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T02:43:32","slug":"m-chs-takes-third-at-home-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-takes-third-at-home-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"M-CHS takes third at home tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c00c7bfd-8815-4922-b93a-bd544dfc4300&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1245\" height=\"1016\" alt=\"Payton Keith ties up a Soroco defender Friday night at Montezuma-Cortez High School.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Payton Keith ties up a Soroco defender Friday night at Montezuma-Cortez High School.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Opening their home tournament on Friday against the visiting Soroco Rams, the Lady Panthers were getting the shots they wanted, but they couldn\u2019t connect and trailed 16-6 after one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that they were going to be pretty good and pretty quick and press us, and we wanted to get shots off,\u201d said M-CHS head coach John McHenry. \u201cThat\u2019s kind of the way it was in Moab too. We got lots of shots, just our shooting percentage was down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Panthers got into the bonus in the second quarter, but they also struggled from the free-throw line, hitting just 3-of-11 to go to the break down 29-11.<\/p>\n<p>After picking up a technical in the first half, McHenry was hit with a second at halftime and was ejected for the remainder of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>His Lady Panthers continued to struggle against the Rams\u2019 pressure, and Soroco turned turnovers into points to take a 46-19 lead entering the final frame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just need to settle in,\u201d McHenry said. \u201cWe\u2019re young, and I think as teams get to know us they\u2019re going to come at us that way, so we have to adjust to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS had its best scoring output in the fourth, tallying 15 points, but Soroco went on to win 70-34.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Brittney Whiteman filled in for McHenry on Saturday for the Panthers\u2019 third-place game against Nucla.<\/p>\n<p>And employing full-court pressure and traps near the midline, M-CHS took a 17-15 lead into the half.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Panthers continued to hound the Mustangs in the second half, forcing turnovers and over-and-back calls. And they were able to push the tempo and pull away to win 43-26 for their first victory of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all the different key factors that went into that finally clicked for them to where they knew they could go out there and win,\u201d Whiteman said. \u201cAnd I hope with this win it continues to keep rolling with our next games coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Panthers are now 1-2 on the young season with their next contest on the road against Durango on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-CHS bounces back from loss to Soroco to take down Nucla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68144","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=68144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68144"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}