Durango needed overtime in its first road game of the season, but Elijah Fenton wouldn’t allow the team to get back on the bus without a win.
The Durango High School senior scored a goal at the end of the first overtime Saturday at Pueblo Centennial to give the Demons (2-0) a 1-0 win against the Bulldogs (1-2).
Durango dominated the OT period. Leland Heinicke fed a 30-yard pass to Max Wilson, and Wilson took a shot that the Pueblo Centennial goalkeeper didn’t have a clear view of. A rebound came to Fenton as he crashed the net, and he fired a shot into the back of the goal for his second of the season and 41st of his career.
“We felt good about the win,” DHS head coach Dalon Parker said. “We’re happy to get out of there with a win. We’re still trying to find our feet and identity and how to execute the identity we want. A game like this at the beginning of the year helps us.”
DHS was without senior goalkeeper Trey Furnas, who is temporarily sidelined with an injury. Bryce Diethrich kept a clean sheet in goal Saturday.
The Demons will be busy with three games in the next week. DHS will open 5A/4A Southwestern League play Tuesday at Fruita Monument. The team will return to Durango that night and attend class Wednesday before getting back on the bus Thursday to visit Grand Junction Central. Then the Demons will host Evergreen at 11 a.m. Saturday.
“We’re going to be busy,” Parker said. “We aren’t doing back-to-backs on league road trips this year. We pulled away from that because we were the only team doing back-to-backs. I thought we would play one home game and one road game each week, but I never thought it would be two away games in the same week. They find a way to make it hard for us.”
One day after a 3-2 double overtime loss to Ridgway, the Wolverines’ boys soccer team bounced back with a 3-1 win Saturday at home against Telluride.
Tilden Berriman scored two goals Saturday, and Marcus Isiordia added the third. Berriman’s first goal came on a penalty kick in the 12th minute. He added another goal in the opening minutes of the second half. Isiordia’s goal came in the 62nd minute.
BHS received goals Friday from Berriman and Berman Abdallah-Boehm.
Next up for the Wolverines (2-1, 1-1 3A Intermountain League) is a trip to face Montezuma-Cortez on Tuesday.
SoftballThe Durango High School softball team has already more than doubled its win total from last season after going 4-0 at the Sheridan Tournament this weekend.
The Demons dominated their division of the tournament, beating Peak to Peak 9-6 and Jefferson 22-1 on Friday before rolling past Platte Valley 20-7 and Sierra 15-0 Saturday.
“I have to say that I am very proud of this group of girls this season,” Durango coach Melissa Fundora said in an email to The Durango Herald. “They are really coming together and playing strong softball.”
The Demons offense has been dominant so far this season, scoring double-digit runs in every game but the Peak to Peak win.
Pitchers Morgan Allen, Autumn Rymerson and Tori Raybourn has strong showing during the weekend and got solid play from the defense.
Durango will play a doubleheader against Delta on Friday in Delta.
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