{"id":71285,"date":"2016-11-28T20:34:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T03:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/preview-mancos-girls-basketball\/"},"modified":"2016-11-29T03:34:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T03:34:27","slug":"preview-mancos-girls-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/preview-mancos-girls-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Mancos girls basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2dd0f461-e4ee-4632-8bf2-b5e331c45816&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1454\" alt=\"The Lady Blue Jays run through a passing drill during a practice early this season.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Lady Blue Jays run through a passing drill during a practice early this season.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Mancos Lady Blue Jays finished the 2015-16 season with a 10-11 record under former head coach Mallory Morgan \u2013 the most wins the program has seen since 2008-09.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll look to ride that momentum this year under Cory Cole, who stepped in as head coach following Morgan\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Jays will miss the production and leadership of 2016 graduate Jessica Gutierrez, but Cole has a strong, experienced duo of seniors in Brittney Peacock and Emma Most to lean on. He also expects Ashley and Emily Cole and Ericka Peacock to be major contributors, and sees freshmen Emmalee Asnicar, Kasey Wallace and Isis Jaime to chip in as well.<\/p>\n<p>As for the style of play Cole plans to install with the group, speed is the name of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to have more of an up-tempo game, both offensively and defensively,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat\u2019s what we want to do. I think we were a little bit slow last year, they stood around a lot, so I\u2019m going to try to make it go faster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Jays finished smack in the middle of the San Juan Basin League last season with a 5-6 conference record, and it\u2019s likely to be a fierce league again this year.<\/p>\n<p>The middle-of-the-pack squads should remain competitive, last year\u2019s bottom dwellers Telluride and Dove Creek should each make leaps forward, and the top dogs Norwood and Ignacio each return their top two scorers from last season.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Cole has liked what he\u2019s seen from his squad early in the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re going to be right there with them,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we\u2019re going to have a lot of heart and a lot of courage, and these girls are excited and I think they\u2019re ready to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Blue Jays are scheduled to kick off their 2016-17 campaign on Saturday, Dec. 3 in Bayfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to move forward under new coach Cory Cole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71285","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\/71285","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=71285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71285"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}