{"id":71014,"date":"2016-11-06T22:31:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hoehne-too-much-for-mancos\/"},"modified":"2016-11-07T05:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:31:31","slug":"hoehne-too-much-for-mancos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hoehne-too-much-for-mancos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoehne too much for Mancos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bb9fa72a-2358-4e5b-a9a1-61d96d3cbffb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1931\" height=\"1296\" alt=\"Senior Bowen Strazza-Whalen leads the Mancos football team through a crowd of well-wishers during the Blue Jays\u2019 send-off on Friday morning.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Senior Bowen Strazza-Whalen leads the Mancos football team through a crowd of well-wishers during the Blue Jays\u2019 send-off on Friday morning.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jardyn Angell\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Mancos Blue Jays lost five key contributors from last year\u2019s playoff team to graduation.<\/p>\n<p>But, with questions at the quarterback position entering the 2016 season, senior Riley Burton and freshman Breccen Morelli provided answers under center to help lead the Jays to a 5-4 regular season record and a second consecutive postseason appearance.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving the No. 13 seed in the 8-Man Football State Playoffs, Mancos traveled to No. 4 Hoehne on Saturday for their opening round contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays hung tough early and trailed just 8-0 after one quarter. However, they were unable to shut down Hoehne quarterback Jacob Yates, and the Farmers built a 44-0 lead at the break and went on to win 56-0 to end Mancos\u2019 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir quarterback is very good,\u201d said Mancos co-head coach Adam Priestley. \u201cFirst quarter we were only down 8-0, but the second quarter we just couldn\u2019t contain him. He\u2019s an excellent player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Priestley said the Jays\u2019 offensive game plan was to spread the field and throw the ball, but the Farmers were able to bring pressure and throw them off to record a shut out.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing the season 5-5, Mancos will lose seven seniors from this year\u2019s squad to graduation, including most of its offensive and defensive line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve watched them grow up to be young men,\u201d Priestley said of his seniors. \u201cAnd they\u2019re hard workers and dedicated and I wish them luck in the future. They\u2019ve meant a lot to the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he said it will be difficult to replace the graduating class, Priestley expects to have another strong freshman class coming up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur middle school has been very good for the last two years,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re really excited to see that talent come up. I think we\u2019ll be a different ball team than we have been in the past because of that type of talent. So, overall I think we\u2019re really excited to see what will happen in the next year or so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>consecutive playoff appearance, Blue Jays\u2019 season ends in first-round loss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71014","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\/71014","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=71014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71014"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}