Having seen their eight-game winning streak snapped by a six-run loss in the first of two home games Tuesday, the Ignacio Bobcats bounced back in a big way and not only split a doubleheader with 2A/1A.
Denied a series of triumphant, curtain-calls three nights earlier by Nucla — in front of perhaps their most expectant home crowd yet — Telluride’s seniors departed Dove Creek on Monday,
For every shot Nucla’s men made Thursday night, Jan. 25, Telluride’s made one even bigger and kept the rallying Mustangs from completing a comeback inside their own brand-new gymnasium.
It’s not uncommon for, say, an Academy Award to be given to an actor seemingly to atone for a previous snub, leaving interested Oscar observers to comment like ‘Really? He/She won for this? She/He was.