{"id":94510,"date":"2019-04-19T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-baseball-team-squeaks-past-monticello\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T00:34:00","slug":"m-chs-baseball-team-squeaks-past-monticello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-baseball-team-squeaks-past-monticello\/","title":{"rendered":"M-CHS baseball team squeaks past Monticello"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:d85b13a2-a638-46c4-8cea-cd6184372389 --><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the humming fastball and powerful hitting of junior Preston Davidovich, the Montezuma-Cortez High School baseball team earned a home victory over Monticello High School on April 16.<\/p>\n<p>Among the game\u2019s highlights were a two-run double by Davidovich, who also pitched 51\/3 innings for the Panthers while allowing four earned runs and striking out a game-high nine batters.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS fell behind 1-0 in the first inning and trailed 2-1 at the end of the second inning before evening the score with a run in the top of the third. After Monticello pulled ahead 4-3 in the top of the fifth, the Panthers scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth and held on for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Davidovich earned the victory on the mound, and senior Ryan Medina pitched 1\u00b2\/3 scoreless innings and struck out three batters in relief.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Travis Beeson, senior Cordell Baer, sophomore Ty Blackmer and junior Logan Birch all drove in a run for the Panthers. Blackmer had three total hits and scored two runs and senior Clayton Yoder was credited with a triple.<\/p>\n<p>With its record now at 6-4 overall and 1-1 in the Intermountain League, M-CHS will prepare for an Intermountain League doubleheader against Bayfield High School in Cortez on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston Davidovich drives in two runs, earns victory on the mound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94510","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=94510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94510"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}