{"id":97419,"date":"2018-10-18T10:10:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-softball-is-off-to-the-state-3a-tournament\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:10:05","slug":"m-chs-softball-is-off-to-the-state-3a-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-softball-is-off-to-the-state-3a-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"M-CHS softball is off to the state 3A tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Montezuma-Cortez High School softball team poses for a picture before leaving for Aurora to play in the state 3A championship. The team is led by seniors Morgan Short, Taylor Comisky, Mandy McAffee, Sarai Cruzan and Kailey Case.<\/span>Carter Pape\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The Montezuma-Cortez High School softball team is en route to Aurora for its state 3A championship. The team left at 9 a.m. Thursday for the eight-hour drive.<\/p>\n

The team, seeded No. 15 in the 3A tournament, will play its first game against No. 2 Eaton High School at 12:15 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n

The team received gift bags prepared by parents containing a customized water bottle, cupcake and other items.<\/p>\n

First-year coach Brittney Whiteman led the team to a 13-9 record and the team\u2019s first appearance in the tournament since 2010. Before then, M-CHS had appeared in the 2003 tournament, when Whiteman was a player on the team.<\/p>\n

The softball team was escorted down Main Street by two police cars as it left town, joined by a stream of drivers honking their car horns. Before the players left, parents celebrated the team\u2019s achievements with photos, words of advice and a surprise silly string attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

accompanied out of town by police escort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13,36,596],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-97419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-softball"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97419","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=97419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97419"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=97419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}