{"id":76166,"date":"2017-11-06T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dove-creek-falls-just-short-at-regionals\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:46:13","slug":"dove-creek-falls-just-short-at-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dove-creek-falls-just-short-at-regionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dove Creek falls just short at regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d20acbec-ed79-4938-bd21-699a81dbf0d2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1738\" height=\"1098\" alt=\"Dove Creek's Breea Meyer (7) prepares to spike past Ignacio blocker Misty Egger-Morris on Sept. 7.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dove Creek's Breea Meyer (7) prepares to spike past Ignacio blocker Misty Egger-Morris on Sept. 7.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Pine River Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>With cheers raining down from hometown fans and ahead two sets in the Class 1A Region E championship on Nov. 3, the Dove Creek High School volleyball team (16-7 overall, 8-2 in SJBL) appeared well on its way to the state tournament. Pressure has a way of doing funny things to high school athletes however, and for the young Bulldogs, the heat of the moment proved too much as Sangre de Cristo (19-6 overall, 9-1 in Southern Peaks League) rallied 23-25, 22-25, 25-22, 25-17, 15-11.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Thunderbirds captured one of eight automatic berths in the Class 1A state tournament, while Dove Creek was eliminated from contention despite its 16-7 record on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Dove Creek\u2019s loss to Sangre de Cristo followed a gutsy performance in the opening match of the Region E tournament, which saw the Bulldogs defeat Nucla, 23-25, 25-20, 25-22, 25-27, 15-9. The victory marked Dove Creek\u2019s third over Nucla this season.<\/p>\n<p>With its season now complete, Dove Creek will turn its attention to preparing underclassmen Breea Meyer, Madilyn Hankins, Cassie Gatlin, Jolena Spigner, Taylor Hickman and Grace Hatfield for next season.<\/p>\n<p>While seniors Mikayla Hankins, Marissa Hatfield, Faith Johnson and Larissa Randolph will be sorely missed, the Bulldogs\u2019 young core figures to render Dove Creek a force at the Class 1A level in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulldogs lose five-set match to Sangre de Cristo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[80,29,345],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-76166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dove-creek","tag-newsletter","tag-volleyball"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76166","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=76166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76166"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=76166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}