{"id":68948,"date":"2016-09-13T18:25:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/blue-jays-bounce-back-with-monster-win\/"},"modified":"2016-09-14T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:25:40","slug":"blue-jays-bounce-back-with-monster-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/blue-jays-bounce-back-with-monster-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays bounce back with monster win"},"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=3d0fa7fa-9318-4939-ba53-16a6c73b1dc5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1203\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"Mancos freshman Anthony Medina runs upfield during the Blue Jays season-opening loss to Plateau Valley. The Jays bounced back to defeat Shiprock Northwest, 51-0 last weekend.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos freshman Anthony Medina runs upfield during the Blue Jays season-opening loss to Plateau Valley. The Jays bounced back to defeat Shiprock Northwest, 51-0 last weekend.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After dropping their season opener to Plateau Valley (1-0, 0-0 A-8 Northwest), the Mancos Blue Jays (1-1, 0-0 A-8 Southwest) made quick work of the Northwest Falcons (0-1, 0-0 8-Man District 1) on Friday in Shiprock.<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos defense forced five takeaways, giving the ball back to the offense, which dominated and scored 51 points in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p>And with New Mexico Activities Association\u2019s mercy rule, the game was called at half after the Jays were up by more than 50 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything went so fast,\u201d said co-head coach Josh Gardner. \u201cI\u2019ve never been a part of game like that in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe scored almost every time we touched the ball,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe game was less than 30 minutes, long and we were actually leaving by the time some of the parents were getting there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner said that the Blue Jays went into the contest focusing on winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n<p>And with the Falcons struggling to get the exchange down from center to quarterback, the Jays\u2019 nose tackles were able to just fall on the ball and return it to the offense, who finished without giving away any turnovers of its own.<\/p>\n<p>This week, though, the Blue Jays will face a bigger challenge in the Melrose Dutchmen (1-0, 1-0 Mid State Football League).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they lost some seniors this year, but on film they still look pretty solid,\u201d said Gardner. \u201cTheir quarterback throws the ball like 75-percent of the time, so they\u2019re a huge passing team. And we\u2019ve never faced anyone that passes as much, so that will be a challenge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner said the team is obviously working on its pass defense prior to taking on the Dutchmen, but that they\u2019re still emphasizing winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n<p>In order to trim the travel time for both squads, they contest will be held at Menaul High School in Albuquerque on Friday at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiprock Northwest 51-0 loss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[83,37],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mancos","tag-mancos-high-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68948","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=68948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68948"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}