{"id":68759,"date":"2016-10-17T16:18:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T22:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-soccer-team-gets-hot-as-season-winds-down\/"},"modified":"2016-10-17T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T22:18:22","slug":"m-chs-soccer-team-gets-hot-as-season-winds-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-soccer-team-gets-hot-as-season-winds-down\/","title":{"rendered":"M-CHS soccer team gets hot as season winds down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1ce03e73-b19b-478e-8ce0-a8fc8df248d9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1450\" alt=\"Shawn Higgins, Jesus Ruiz and Skyler Yarbrough celebrate after a goal against Ridgway earlier this season. The Panthers beat Ridgway 5-4 last Friday and then beat Telluride 3-2 on Saturday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Shawn Higgins, Jesus Ruiz and Skyler Yarbrough celebrate after a goal against Ridgway earlier this season. The Panthers beat Ridgway 5-4 last Friday and then beat Telluride 3-2 on Saturday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Montezuma-Cortez soccer team dropped contests to both the Ridgway Demons and Telluride Miners at home earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>But last weekend, with the season winding down, the Panthers caught fire to come away with road victories over both.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, senior Manuel Martinez led M-CHS over the Demons with a four-goal performance.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez scored twice in the first half, and Juan Para added another goal for the Panthers, who led 3-1 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Ridgway scored three times in the second half, but Martinez found the net twice more to push the Panthers on to a 5-4 win.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Ruiz finished with two assists and Skyler Yarbrough, Alden Adams and Para each had one.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, head coach Sean Fitzgerald mixed things up at the goalkeeper position.<\/p>\n<p>Davian Robinson played 45 minutes in goal and came up with four saves while allowing two scores, and then Tyler Cutrone played 10 minutes allowing one goal.<\/p>\n<p>Yarbrough finished in the net for M-CHS, playing 25 minutes and tallying three saves while allowing one score.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkyler did really well,\u201d said Fitzgerald. \u201cSo he stayed goalie on Saturday as well and he stepped it up big time for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Miners had thumped the Panthers 8-0 earlier in the season in Cortez. But on Saturday, Yarbrough came up with 14 saves and Martinez finished with a hat trick to lead the Panthers to a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>It was not only a bit of revenge from their previous loss, but the Panthers got the last laugh by ruining Telluride\u2019s chance to make the playoffs and spoiling the Miners\u2019 opening ceremony at their brand new field, winning both the varsity and junior varsity matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was one heck of a weekend for us,\u201d said Fitzgerald. \u201cBecause kind of what we thought we were going to do in the beginning of the season is what we\u2019ve done in the last two games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS is now 3-10 on the year and 2-9 in Intermountain League play. The Panthers will finish out the season on Tuesday in Pagosa Springs (4-8-2, 4-5-2 IML).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-CHS soccer team takes down Ridgway, ends Telluride\u2019s playoff hopes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68759","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\/68759","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=68759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68759"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}