{"id":74780,"date":"2020-02-10T14:18:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T21:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-boys-basketball-team-blasts-telluride\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:35:57","slug":"mancos-boys-basketball-team-blasts-telluride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-boys-basketball-team-blasts-telluride\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos boys\u2019 basketball team blasts Telluride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=64694359-6041-4025-8e9b-f1f11381ede0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"777\" height=\"682\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Heading into his team\u2019s season, Mancos High School boys basketball coach Elijah Knepper that his team\u2019s offense would be good.<\/p>\n<p>But Knepper might not have envisioned performances like the one that his team delivered against Telluride High School on Feb. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Connor Showalter led Mancos in scoring with 20 points in the 73-44 win, while seniors Caden Showalter and Anthony Medina, and sophomore Evan Sehnert scored in double figures with 16 points, 15 points and 14 points, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Orchestrating the Mancos offense, which converted 31 of its 56 field goal attempts for a field goal percentage of 55%, was junior point guard Christian Cova, with a career-high 11 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Caden Showalter\u2019s 12 rebounds in addition to his scoring gave him the 51st double-double of his high school career. The Mancos senior is now just two double-doubles shy of tying Colorado\u2019s all-time record.<\/p>\n<p>With its record now at 12-3 overall and 6-1 in the SJBL, Mancos will square off against rival Dolores High School at home Feb. 11, before returning to its home court to face Nucla High School Feb. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showalter scores 20 points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[600,83,29,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-basketball","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74780","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=74780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90384,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74780\/revisions\/90384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74780"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}