{"id":42670,"date":"2022-01-18T23:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/basketball-games-wrestling-meet-in-southwest-colorado-canceled-because-of-covid\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:08:38","slug":"basketball-games-wrestling-meet-in-southwest-colorado-canceled-because-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/basketball-games-wrestling-meet-in-southwest-colorado-canceled-because-of-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball games, wrestling meet in Southwest Colorado canceled because of COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=19f35876-39e5-4181-8059-f60aede4395f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"High school basketball teams will have to wait at least until Feb. 1 to take the court for 2021 games.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">High school basketball teams will have to wait at least until Feb. 1 to take the court for 2021 games.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Joel Priest\/Pine River Times file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Several competitions originally scheduled for Tuesday were postponed or canceled as COVID surges.<\/p>\n<p>The Ignacio girls basketball team scheduled for Tuesday night at Montezuma-Cortez canceled \u201cdue to COVID reasons,\u201d said IHS Athletic Director Leo Garand in an email.<\/p>\n<p>That game will be rescheduled for a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Bayfield\u2019s girls basketball team, scheduled to play Durango\u2019s junior varsity Tuesday, was canceled  \u201cdue to COVID issues,\u201d said BHS coach Lauren Moran.<\/p>\n<p>Bayfield\u2019s other games this week also were called off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just got word from the district that all school and activities are canceled for the rest of the week,\u201d Moran said Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Ignacio\u2019s boys and girls wrestlers were scheduled to host Del Norte and Dove Creek in a triangular meet Tuesday, but the event was scratched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter trying to match up weights on skeletal dual teams, coach (Jordan) Larsen and myself have come to the conclusion that It would not be advantageous to hold the ti-meet tomorrow,\u201d Garand said in an email Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ignacio, however, picked up matches on Jan. 28 against Montezuma-Cortez and Bayfield.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-0899e8bd3d68048083553e513750ff12\">Contributing reporter Joel Priest contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools reaching from Bayfield to Dove Creek affected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-42670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85416,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42670\/revisions\/85416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42670"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=42670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}