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DURANGO GIRLS START YEAR WITH A PAIR OF WINS

Durango girls start year with a pair of wins

BY CODY OLIVAS HERALD SPORTS EDITOR

The Durango Herald | 1/11/2022

PHOTO CREDIT: Cody Olivas/Durango Herald

The Durango High School girls basketball team picked up where it left off in 2021, beating Bloomfield 51-39 on Saturday and dominating Aztec 66-32 on Tuesday.

After the two wins, the Demons improved to 10-3 overall and extended its winning streak to five games.

“We came out and played better that game,” DHS head coach Tim Fitzpatrick said after Tuesday’s win. “We were a little rusty at the beginning (against Bloomfield), but played better in the second half.“

Against Aztec, the Demons created lots of turnovers to start the contest and turned most of them into points.

“We were able to get some steals and get some easy buckets,” Fitzpatrick said. “We’ll have to continue to do that to get some easy points.”

Mason Rowland stole several balls and turned them into fast-break points to start the game as DHS jumped out to a 15-0 lead. Aztec scored its first field goal in the last minute of the opening quarter, but Ellie White knocked down a pair of free throws to give DHS a 17-2 lead.

In the second, Sydney Flores knocked down a pair of 3-pointers for Durango. Riley Campbell took two steals coast-to-coast for baskets and she also turned two offensive rebounds into buckets, including a 3-pointer.

Campbell finished with 18 points in the game. “That was huge for us,” Fitzpatrick said.

The Demons took a 44-11 lead into halftime.

To start the third, Rowland knocked down a pair of free throws, Flores sunk a shot and then Rowland took a steal coast to coast for another basket, putting DHS up 51-11, before both players took a seat on the bench. DHS took a 61-23 lead into the fourth and held on to win 66-32.

Rowland finished with 21 points, including a contested reverse layup in the second quarter. Flores scored nine.

The Demons were without four players, but underclassmen stepped up in their absence.

“We’re missing four kids, so a bunch of ninth graders got a bunch of playing time, which is huge,” Fitzpatrick said.

Freshmen Mariah Maestas and Ellie White each scored four points for the Demons.

On Saturday, Rowland scored 25 points, going 10-for-10 from the free-throw line to lead DHS over Bloomfield. Flores scored 11, Campbell added six, Katelyn Sheppard scored four, and Adde Neiman, Ellie White and Mariah Maestas also chipped in baskets.

Rowland began Tuesday averaging 21.7 points per game, which is the fifth most of any girl, regardless of classification, in Colorado. She has scored more than 100 points more than four girls ahead of her as well since none o... Click here to read full article

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