{"id":75586,"date":"2017-12-11T16:54:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bluejays-show-potential-in-dawg-fight\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T23:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:54:45","slug":"bluejays-show-potential-in-dawg-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bluejays-show-potential-in-dawg-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluejays show potential in Dawg Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c486ea6a-8338-4fea-9619-4b8914070e40&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>Loaded with talent at the upper weights, the Mancos High School wrestling team rolled into Dove Creek for the Dawg Fight Invitational on Dec. 9 and placed sixth in the 13-team field.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the Bluejays was 182-pound Cameron Fury, who pinned his first four opponents before defeating Kirtland High School\u2019s Jerryd Polard, 8-2, for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the podium for Mancos was 220-pound Nic Dan, who pinned  four opponents before being pinned by Bayfield\u2019s Daniel Westbrook in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Bluejays heavyweight Casey Orange suffered a similar fate. He pinned  four opponents before being pinned by Farmington\u2019s Dante Norberto in the finals and finishing second overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a good team this year,\u201d Orange said. \u201cI think that several of us can make state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ty Everett lost his opening round at 106 pounds  to Dolores\u2019 Cameron Chavez. He rebounded with a pin victory over Farmington\u2019s Jacob Culler and a 6-2 decision over Durango\u2019s Owen Eicher to finish third.<\/p>\n<p>At 113 pounds, freshman Lot Martin finished fourth, and teammate Cooper McClain finished fifth. Andrew Ruatti lost his first two matches before pinning Durango JV wrestler Eric Dang for a win at 138 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not wrestle in middle school, but I wrestled in elementary school,\u201d Marin said.  \u201cLast year, I decided to wrestle with the peewees a little bit, and I competed in the Aztec Warrior last year. I\u2019m really liking high school wrestling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Mancos will be the Panther Wrestling Classic at Piedra Vista High School. The tournament will take place in Farmington on Dec. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Fury wins title at 182 pounds; Mancos places sixth overall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1205],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wrestling"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75586","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=75586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75586"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}