{"id":74169,"date":"2019-09-02T00:25:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T00:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-bluejays-showcase-firepower-during-68-0-win\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:00:24","slug":"mancos-bluejays-showcase-firepower-during-68-0-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-bluejays-showcase-firepower-during-68-0-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos Bluejays showcase firepower during 68-0 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=47ab97ca-f636-4939-85e5-9e925199aa42&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1389\" height=\"1389\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>On the first play of its season, the Mancos High School football served notice in Colorado that it will be a force to be reckoned with as senior Anthony Medina took the kickoff back for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Then, for the remainder of his team\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 68-0 road win Plateau Valley on Aug. 31, Medina produced several impressive plays while scoring three rushing touchdowns and returning an interception for a score.<\/p>\n<p>Several other Mancos players got in on the action, including sophomore running back Chase Moore, whose speed proved to be a difference-maker during each of his three touchdown runs.<\/p>\n<p>Senior quarterback Breccen Morelli scored a rushing touchdown and returned a fumble for a touchdown as the Bluejays jumped out to a 24-0 first quarter lead and led 54-0 at halftime. Two fourth-quarter touchdowns put Mancos ahead by 68 points as the Bluejays defense refused to yield a score.<\/p>\n<p>Now 1-0 on the season, Mancos will prepare for a road matchup against Merino High School on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be especially important to the Bluejays given that Merino eliminated Mancos from the first round of the eight-man playoffs last season with a resounding 40-0 upset victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>season with five-touchdown performance over Plateau Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5882,5770,5775,5774,5773],"tags":[4845,37,29,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-football","category-high-school-sports","category-mancos-high-school","category-newsletter-high-school-sports","category-sports-high-school-sports","tag-american-football","tag-mancos-high-school","tag-newsletter","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74169","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=74169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92539,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74169\/revisions\/92539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74169"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}