{"id":72029,"date":"2017-03-16T18:37:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-shuts-down-dove-creek-for-first-win-since-2015\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T00:37:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:37:54","slug":"dolores-shuts-down-dove-creek-for-first-win-since-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-shuts-down-dove-creek-for-first-win-since-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores shuts down Dove Creek for first win since 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=92440419-84d7-41a4-a667-8a1ab2fa6fa6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1621\" alt=\"Dolores\u2019 Brandon Ward pitches at Ignacio in 2016.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dolores\u2019 Brandon Ward pitches at Ignacio in 2016.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>For the first time in nearly two years, the Dolores High School baseball players walked off the field as winners as the team hit the road and defeated Dove Creek, 13-2, in five innings on March 14.<\/p>\n<p>Earning the victory on the mound was Bears\u2019 senior pitcher Brandon Ward, who allowed two runs over four innings and struck out five batters.  Sophomore Dakota Smith relieved Ward in the fifth inning and pitched a scoreless inning to record the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrandon pitched well and had pretty good control,\u201d Dolores manager Rusty Hamilton said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hamilton, the Bears\u2019 day at the plate was highlighted by a fourth inning at bat from junior Justin Purkat, whose drive to the center field wall with the bases loaded resulted in a two-run double.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a few more feet and (Purkat) would have had a grand slam,\u201d said Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Dove Creek was led at the plate by freshman Ty Smith, who recorded two hits in two ad bats and drove in one run.  Sophomore Ryan Delano-Martinez also registered two hits, including a double.<\/p>\n<p>Delano-Martinez took the loss on the mound for Dove Creek, giving up eight runs and seven hits over three innings.  Four of the runs given up by Delano-Martinez were unearned.<\/p>\n<p>Now 1-1 on the season, Dolores will work to brush up on its hitting before returning to action at the Ignacio tournament against Sargent on March 17.  Dove Creek\u2019s next game is March 17 at the San Juan Slugfest against Monticello.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our batters needs more plate appearances,\u201d Hamilton said, when asked how his team can improve.  \u201cWe\u2019re going to work on batting in practice the next few days.  The more at bats we get, the better off we will be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitching leads to first win since 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72029","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=72029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72029"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}