Montrose defeated Durango 3-1 on Saturday afternoon inside the Durango gymnasium behind efficient play from the Indians’ outside and middle hitters, as the Indians won 25-20, 25-19, 16-25 and 25-20.
Durango got off to a fast start in the first game, getting out to an early 9-3 lead before the Indians hitters started finding their rhythm. Montrose took the lead at 16-15 and would not relinquish it. Durango got within four points twice, at 16-20 and 20-24, but the Indians put the set away the very next point.
In the second set, Durango got off to a slow start, as it went down 0-4 and 4-8 before head coach Colleen Vogt called a timeout. Even after the stoppage in play, the closest the Demons would get would be two points midway through the second set after Kyle Rowland aced the Indians that forced Montrose to call a timeout at 14-16. Montrose responded after the timeout.
Durango (1-5, 0-1 5A/4A Southwestern League) responded and stormed back to win the third set in impressive fashion with a 7-3 run to win the set.
However, Durango’s errors were too much to overcome in the final set, as the Demons gave up numerous hitting and service errors to help the Indians to a 25-20 win.
Taylor Wolf led the Demons with 12 kills on the afternoon.
“I was proud of them,” Vogt said. “We were missing our captain today (Milie O’Ketter), but I was really proud of the way the younger girls and all of the girls stepped up. We still made too many unforced errors, but I still thought we played really well.”
The Telluride Miners defeated Ignacio volleyball Saturday morning, sweeping the Bobcats in straight sets, 25-15, 25-9 and 25-13. The Bobcats (2-5, 1-3 Sam Juan Basin) will play at 5 p.m. at Dolores on Tuesday.
The Durango boys soccer team (6-1, 2-0 Southwest League) came out victorious Saturday afternoon against Grand Junction after Logan Fullington scored a brace with a goal in each half that was enough to earn a conference win.
“We came out a little bit complacent against our opponent today,” said Demons head coach Aaron Champenoy. “We didn’t respect our opponent enough, got an easy goal and let them climb back into it. We talked to them about having more intensity and putting in the effort that we knew it would take. The second half was much better and we dominated the field of play, our conditioning took over and we found a way to get that second goal and got the result.”
Durango will visit Montrose at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
A late offsides call put an end to Bayfield’s chance at a comeback Saturday against league rival Alamosa.
The Mean Moose (6-4, 4-0 2A Intermountain League) earned a 3-2 win at Bayfield (1-5, 1-1 IML) on Saturday.
Jose Mateo-Andres scored on a penalty kick in the seventh minute and again found goal in the 37th minute. Darrin Rodriguez scored the other Alamosa goal in the 34th minute.
Bayfield answered with goals from Dylan Doskocil and Jason Schneider in the second half.
Bailee Blakeslee made 13 saves in goal for the Wolverines, who will play at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Telluride.
At the Bayfield XC Invitational Saturday, both area teams had impressive showings, as the Durango High School girls team won with 20 points and had four out of the top-five finishers, while the Bayfield boys squad finished second overall. The Wolverine girls finished in last place with 137 points. In a race where the Demons did not bring its top runners, it was still an impressive performance with Tea Forrest winning the race in 23 minutes, 18.31 seconds, while Breanna Wolf was not far behind in third-place with a tine if 23:51.42. Rounding out the top-five was Abby Fehr at 23:54.25 and in fifth was Kayleigh Frazer, crossing the tape with a time of 23:54.56.
The Durango High School boys tennis team fell in both matches this weekend, falling Friday afternoon to Air Academy 1-6, and Saturday, getting swept by Coronado, 0-7. The lone winner for the Demons this weekend was Ethan Craig, who won at the No. 1 singles slot Friday afternoon, defeated his opponent 6-2, 6-1.
“It was a good opportunity for our young kids,” said head coach Alan Batiste. “We traveled pretty much freshmen and sophomores and it was a good experience before next week’s matches at home,”
Durango will host the only home games of its season next weekend, when they will play Grand Junction at 1 and 3 p.m. Friday afternoon and Grand Junction Central at 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
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