{"id":68734,"date":"2016-10-20T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-holds-off-m-chs-on-senior-night\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T02:33:00","slug":"durango-holds-off-m-chs-on-senior-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-holds-off-m-chs-on-senior-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango holds off M-CHS on senior night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0ea97b4f-41f1-4797-9d08-54cfc1fc0557&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1540\" height=\"885\" alt=\"Aryelle Wright (left) and Danielle McDonald (right) attempt to block a hit from Durango\u2019s Celia Hale on Tuesday in Durango.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Aryelle Wright (left) and Danielle McDonald (right) attempt to block a hit from Durango\u2019s Celia Hale on Tuesday in Durango.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>          <!-- gallery:cb4d5fb1-738b-4e74-8f0c-037e30ff975f --><\/p>\n<p>After falling to Durango 3-1 at home earlier this season, the Montezuma-Cortez Panthers attempted to spoil the Demons\u2019 senior night on Tuesday in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>But after the Durango seniors were honored before the game, they came out and took the first set 25-12, and it looked to be a quick night for the opposing Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>However, M-CHS fought back in a big way, stealing momentum with a 25-21 second set win behind fantastic play from sophomore Aryelle Wright and junior Tyra Pinnecoose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of the fight our girls showed,\u201d said Panthers head coach Dave Robinson. \u201cBayfield and Alamosa are in our league, so we\u2019re used to playing top-quality teams. We knew Durango was good and it would be a tough win to get, but I\u2019m really happy with the effort and attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next two sets could have gone either way with Durango taking the third and Cortez squeaking out a back-and-forth fourth. That set the stage for a decisive tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>DHS senior Josie Surmeier dominated at the net and led the Demons in blocks and kills. And her presence allowed the Demons to grab an 11-2 lead in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the Panthers came back and cut the deficit to 14-9 before Taylor Edwards put the nail in the coffin for Durango to take the match (25-12, 21-25, 25-22, 23-25, 15-9).<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"Nimrod Ital\">Jardyn Angell of The Journal contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers take Demons to five, but fall short<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,592,427,345],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-durango-high-school","tag-prep-sports","tag-volleyball"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68734","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=68734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68734"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}