Sports

With two returning state qualifiers, the Montezuma-Cortez wrestling program is looking to pick up where it left off. Second place state finisher Victor Perez graduated in the spring, but senior...

The Mancos Blue Jays will enter the 2016-17 season with a new head man. After falling in last year’s regional tournament and finishing with a 9-13 record, former head coach Rodney Cox and assistant...

The San Juan Basin League recognized three area volleyball players after the 2016 season. Mancos senior Nicole Hess and Dolores junior Josie Majors were each named to the SJBL all-conference second...

Head coach Mike Hall has high hopes entering his third season at the helm of the Montezuma-Cortez boys basketball team. Hall accrued a 10-31 record in his first two seasons with the Panthers, and...

Without a single senior on last year’s squad, the Dolores Bears are returning an experienced group of wrestlers for the 2016-17 season. Led by last season’s only state qualifier Brandon Ward, head...

The Montezuma-Cortez volleyball team landed two seniors on Intermountain League all-conference teams. Danielle McDonald was selected to the conference’s second team, and Skylar Robinson was named...

A new ski season has dawned in Durango, although unseasonably warm, dry weather has kept Purgatory from transforming into a winter wonderland just yet. Predicted snowstorms failing to deliver much...

Montezuma-Cortez seniors Manuel Martinez and Skyler Yarbrough have been named to the Intermountain League’s all-conference second team. Because M-CHS finished last in league play, the Panthers were...

The Western Slope League has announced its all-conference teams for the 2016 softball season, and two Montezuma-Cortez players were nominated. After the Lady Panthers’ 6-13 season, senior Gabby...

The Mancos Blue Jays lost five key contributors from last year’s playoff team to graduation. But, with questions at the quarterback position entering the 2016 season, senior Riley Burton and...