{"id":1758,"date":"2009-07-01T21:12:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T04:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2009-07-01T21:12:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T04:12:40","slug":"duarte-update-18-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"Duarte Update: 18 and Counting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1760\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1760\" href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=1760\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1760\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1760\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Duarte-and-Tip-008-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tip Sanders Running Practice\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tip Sanders Running Practice<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->By Tim Peterson \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Duarte) \u2013 We won\u2019t say things are looking up for Duarte or even that the Falcons are back on track. Let\u2019s just say it\u2019s getting better. A roster that consisted of six players a month ago is now three times that amount.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re up to 18 players now,\u201d said Duarte Coach Tip Sanders while overlooking the practice Wednesday. \u201cYeah we\u2019ll have a team this year but we\u2019ll have a lot of freshman. We won\u2019t have a JV team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1761\" href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=1761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1761\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Duarte-and-Tip-013-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> The Falcons went through the typical drills that all high school teams are going through on the first day of July but just with a lot less players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 I asked Sanders if he had any seniors coming back at all. \u201cYeah, that guy right there,\u201d Sanders said pointing to a blonde kid running out to the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Sanders had one group running and hopping through squares while an assistant presided over passing and catching drills. The lack of numbers didn\u2019t seem to bother Sanders too much though as he urged, and exhorted his team to pick up he pace and work hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1762\" href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=1762\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1762\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Duarte-and-Tip-005-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Sanders has brought respectability to programs like Marshall and Blair in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u201cI was fighting a lot of rattlesnakes that first year at Blair. Guys missing practice, and showing up when they felt like it,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cBut eventually they bought in and it translated out on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Sanders is hoping the same thing will happen with the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u201cFrom what the principal and others tell me a lot more players will show up in August. But I said \u2018what kind of program is that?\u2019 We\u2019ll see,\u201d Sanders added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[249,248],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-duarte-football","tag-tip-sanders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","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=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}