{"id":70182,"date":"2016-10-05T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-gets-comeback-win-over-sanford\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T02:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T02:50:11","slug":"mancos-gets-comeback-win-over-sanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-gets-comeback-win-over-sanford\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos gets comeback win over Sanford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c2c6f402-199b-4210-96c5-9c43c476c61c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1613\" alt=\"Axel Bonde takes the ball down the sideline in the Blue Jays\u2019 win over Sangre de Cristo earlier this season. The Jays will take on the No. 5 ranked Norwood Mavericks on Friday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Axel Bonde takes the ball down the sideline in the Blue Jays\u2019 win over Sangre de Cristo earlier this season. The Jays will take on the No. 5 ranked Norwood Mavericks on Friday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The  Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After thumping the No. 8 ranked team in the state 42-6 the week prior, the Mancos Blue Jays trailed the winless Sanford Indians 22-12 at halftime last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know who showed up the first half, because that wasn\u2019t Mancos football,\u201d said Mancos co-head coach Josh Gardner. \u201cWe weren\u2019t getting to the second level blocking, we were not attacking aggressively on defense and we did not have a very good game the first half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Jays responded to the challenge by Gardner and co-head coach Adam Priestley and scored 28 unanswered points in the second half to come from behind and win 40-22.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos is now 4-2 on the year and 3-0 in the A-8 Southwest League, and the Blue Jays will face one of their biggest challenges of the season on Friday in an away game against the No. 5 ranked Norwood Mavericks (4-1, 2-1 A-8 SW).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect them to be physical as usual,\u201d said Gardner. \u201cBut I do believe that we\u2019re a physical team as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks ended Mancos\u2019 season last year in the opening round of the 8-man playoffs. But Gardner said that the Blue Jays aren\u2019t necessarily viewing the loss as motivation, and that they\u2019re preparing for Friday as they do every game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re sticking to our game plan and what we usually do,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to get outside of our comfort zone. We\u2019re going to stick to our game plan that we usually have, we just need to be on our A game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>up: No. 5 ranked Norwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70182","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=70182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70182"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}