{"id":15213,"date":"2011-03-05T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T23:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2011-03-06T13:35:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T20:35:59","slug":"soccer-dons-claim-division-4-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=15213","title":{"rendered":"Soccer: Dons Claim Division 4 Crown (See interview with HC Dominic Picon & David Lopez)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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El Rancho Head Coach Domininc Picon (left) receives CIF Championship Plaque from Principal Sam Genis after the Dons 4-2 victory <\/p><\/div>\n

By Tony Solorzano<\/p>\n

(Downey) \u2013 Two goals by Francisco Lara helped El Rancho overcome Oak Hills to capture the CIF Southern Section Division 4 Boys Soccer Championship in a 4-2 victory Saturday morning at Warren High\u2019s Justice Stadium.<\/p>\n

It was no mistake that head coach Dominic Picon was wearing a shirt from the last time the Dons (23-2-1) won a CIF title, the 2002-2003 season, when El Rancho was declared co-champions with La Palma Kennedy. The Dons were facing off against a still-young Bulldogs squad (23-3-3) who reached last year\u2019s Division 6 Finals against Mountain View, but like last year\u2019s effort, the Bulldogs fell short, so on this day, Picon had other plans for the shirt.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m going to retire it now,\u201d Picon said after the Dons\u2019 victory. \u201cThey were a special group of boys and these are a special group of boys.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the first half, the Dons got on the board midway through the half on Alejandro Haro\u2019s goal on Bulldogs goalkeeper Ricardo Ramirez in the 23rd<\/sup> minute. However, in the 34th<\/sup> minute, Brett Croft evened the score with a shot past Dons goalie David Lopez. But the tie game would last only one minute as Lara scored the first of his two goals in the 35th<\/sup> minute, putting the Dons up 2-1 at the half.<\/p>\n

In the second half the Bulldogs evened the score on Juan Nu\u00f1o\u2019s goal from a pass by Miguel Vilchis from the left side of the box in the 54th<\/sup> minute. \u00a0However, Lara put the Dons back up on top with his second goal of the match at the 65th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n

Six minutes later, the Dons increased the lead as Erik Argueta dribbled in a free kick past Ramirez at the 71st<\/sup> minute to ice the win.<\/p>\n

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Argueta understood the importance of the win. \u201cWe wanted to represent the school and the history the team has,” Argueta said after the game. \u201cThis was really important for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tony Solorzano (Downey) \u2013 Two goals by Francisco Lara helped El Rancho overcome Oak Hills to capture the CIF Southern Section Division 4 Boys Soccer Championship in a 4-2 victory Saturday morning at Warren High\u2019s Justice Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4625,2299,4624,4629,4623,4627,4628,4630,4626],"class_list":["post-15213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-alejandro-haro","tag-brett-croft","tag-dominic-picon","tag-erik-argueta","tag-francisco-lara","tag-gabriel-lopez","tag-juanmiguel-vilchis","tag-nuno","tag-ricardo-ramirez"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15213"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15246,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions\/15246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}