{"id":72083,"date":"2017-03-20T19:12:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bears-baseball-competitive-in-ignacio\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T01:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:12:03","slug":"bears-baseball-competitive-in-ignacio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bears-baseball-competitive-in-ignacio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears baseball competitive in Ignacio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fe2e529b-3f05-4796-a140-dbbf38c6f330&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>Competing at the Ignacio Tournament last weekend, the Dolores High School baseball team won its second game of the season and competed well against several larger schools.<\/p>\n<p>Playing its first game of the tournament against Sargent on March 17, Dolores pulled ahead 3-0 in the second inning, extended its lead to 6-1 in the fifth and held on for a 6-5 victory.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bears manager Rusty Hamilton, senior Brandon Ward started on the mound  and pitched five strong innings. Justin Purkat pitched the final two to secure the victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played good baseball \u2026 and the teamwork was the biggest key for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Later on March 17, Dolores faced off against Salida and lost 12-2 in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Dakota Smith started on the mound for the Bears and pitched two innings before being replaced by Seth Nicholas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are a strong batting team, and we were probably a little tired,\u201d Hamilton said. \u201cThey consistently hit the ball where we weren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dolores played its final game against Pagosa Springs on March 18 and narrowly lost, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Farias started for the Bears and surrendered four runs in the first inning and a run in the second before being replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Playing his first varsity game, Cameron Chavez provided a spark, allowing just one run in six innings. The sophomore also came through with a three-run double in the second inning, which cut Pagosa\u2019s lead to 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Chavez) is very calm on the mound,\u201d said Hamilton. \u201cHe\u2019s a strong smooth baseball player. He came through in a big way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dolores, 3-2, plays Monticello at home on March 30, then goes to Paonia on April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball team goes 1-2 against Class 3A competition in Ignacio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,44,38],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-baseball","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-high-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72083","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=72083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72083"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}