{"id":69990,"date":"2016-09-15T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jays-look-to-bounce-back-against-demons\/"},"modified":"2016-09-15T23:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:33:11","slug":"jays-look-to-bounce-back-against-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jays-look-to-bounce-back-against-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Jays look to bounce back against Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e34117f4-2877-45b1-a4b2-6c731447c21f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1697\" alt=\"Tayler Power-Bahr digs out a spike last Friday night against Norwood.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Tayler Power-Bahr digs out a spike last Friday night against Norwood.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Mancos Lady Blue Jays are hoping to stop an early slide on Friday at home against Ridgway.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the season on September 2 at the Rangely Tournament, the Lady Jays dropped their first two contests of the year to Hotchkiss and Soroco.<\/p>\n<p>They were swept 2-0 by Hotchkiss, but managed to steal one game against Soroco to fall 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost against Hotchkiss in two games,\u201d said head coach Brittany Lang. \u201cIt was the first game for a lot of those underclassmen so the nerves were pretty high. But slowly by slowly I think they are starting to understand the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jays bounced back in their third game against Hayden to sweep the Tigers in two sets to finish the tournament with a win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely think that when the girls talk and they\u2019re enthuasitc they play better,\u201d Lang explained. \u201cAnd that was a big talking, having fun, exciting game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the season-opening tournament, Mancos was swept by Nucla and Norwood in San Juan Basin League contests to settle their record at 1-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, it was the first league game of the season and those underclasmmen their nerves kind of get to them. And then Norwood, same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been saying to the girls every day that we\u2019re getting better,\u201d she continued. \u201cBut we need a lot more practice and we need to learn how to talk. We\u2019re trying to put pieces together, that\u2019s kind of where we\u2019re at right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays (1-4, 0-2 SJBL) host the Ridgway Demons (4-1, 3-0 SJBL) on Friday at 5 p.m., and then the Telluride Miners (5-2, 2-1 SJBL) come to Mancos on Saturday morning for a 10 a.m. matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridgway for third league game of season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mancos-high-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69990","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=69990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69990"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}