{"id":76771,"date":"2018-02-12T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-boys-girls-basketball-topple-montezuma-cortez\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:00:12","slug":"bayfield-boys-girls-basketball-topple-montezuma-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-boys-girls-basketball-topple-montezuma-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayfield boys, girls basketball topple Montezuma-Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=34a89728-4e36-43e4-a214-ac37ca30250d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"653\" height=\"594\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Bayfield High School boys basketball team completed a season sweep of Montezuma-Cortez with an 86-66 victory in the Wolverines\u2019 final home game of the regular season Saturday at in Bayfield.<\/p>\n<p>Bayfield\u2019s defense contained Cortez\u2019s Teagan Whiteskunk and Jasen Engel to 11 and eight points, respectively, but Cordell Baer went off for 30 points for the Panthers (10-8, 4-5 IML).<\/p>\n<p>Four Wolverines finished with double-digit scoring. Ryan Phelps led the way with 25 points and 18 rebounds. Dax Snooks had 18 points, McKay Wells had 15 points, and Keyon Prior added 13 points. Prior had five rebounds, five steals and four assists. \u201cHe drove from midrange to score, posted up, rebounded, made some jumpers and even hit a 3,\u201d Bayfield head coach Jeff Lehnus said of Baer. \u201cHe was on fire. \u2026 We\u2019ll have to give him a little more attention if we see them again in the (IML) tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a good effort and, more importantly, we had some fun on parents\u2019 night, and you always want to have a good game for parents\u2019 night,\u201d Lehnus said.<\/p>\n<p>Hayden Farmer, who was dealing with the flu, had nine points for BHS (12-6, 7-2 3A Intermountain League).<\/p>\n<p>Bayfield plays the Mean Moose of Alamosa (16-2, 8-1 IML) on Thursday in Alamosa, while the Panthers will wait to learn their opponent for the league tournament.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Girls basketball<\/div>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Bayfield 43, M-CHS 33<\/div>\n<p>Bayfield High School\u2019s girls basketball team broke its game against Montezuma-Cortez open in the first half for a 27-6 halftime lead and held on for a 43-33 victory Saturday at BHS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt came down to defensive effort,\u201d BHS head coach Josh Kitchen said. \u201cWe came out and played really hard on the defensive end and didn\u2019t give them many open 3s or second-chance points, and I think that\u2019s what helped us get out to the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wolverines (6-12, 3-6 3A Intermountain League) picked apart the Panthers (4-14, 2-8 IML) with their half-court offense and had big games from their two seniors \u2013 Tiarra Christensen and Cinnaman Varnell \u2013 on senior night. Christensen had 10 points and Varnell added nine points.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Lanning matched Christensen for the team high with 10 points, and Tymbree Florian added seven points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>way for Bayfield sweep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[600,1871,846,36,29,427,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-76771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-basketball","tag-bayfield-high-school","tag-ignacio-high-school","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter","tag-prep-sports","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76771","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=76771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76771"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=76771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}