{"id":18283,"date":"2011-09-16T06:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T13:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=18283"},"modified":"2011-09-16T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T18:20:20","slug":"alhambra-33-temple-city-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=18283","title":{"rendered":"Moors Finish Strong, Top Rams 33-13"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We're seeing this a lot...Alhambra's Ezra Broadus running away from everyone.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Johnathan Saller<\/p>\n

(Temple City) \u2013 Alhambra started slow but finished with a flurry scoring 27 of its 33 points in the second half in a 33-13 win over Temple City at North Field Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Temple City took a 7-6 lead into the half when Rams signal caller Mikal Quintanilla rolled to his left, buying time to find receiver Anthony Valencia alone in the seam for a 56-yard scoring strike.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a bad week of practice and the first half was an extension of that bad week,\u201d Moors head coach Lou Torres said. \u201cWe looked deep inside us [at halftime] and we came out and played and don\u2019t get me wrong, Temple City had a lot to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the second play of the third quarter, running back Ezra Broadus sparked the Alhambra offense with a 55-yard trot to paydirt putting the Moors up 12-7 following a second failed extra point.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was real tough up front and it was difficult to run all of our run-game, we had to exploit them a little bit on the outside,\u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n

Moors quarterback Joshua Mendoza had a huge game, throwing for 225-yards and three scores on 17 of 25 passing. His first touchdown pass went to receiver Demetrius Russell on a fade for ten yards with 4:26 left in the third.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was there,\u201d Torres said on the Moors passing attack. \u201cThey were bent on stopping the run game which is what we do best but a lot of teams are going to realize that we do throw the ball well.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the Rams ensuing drive, back to back bad snaps led to a fumble in TC territory that was recovered by Moors Linebacker Nathan Quinones. The turnover culminated in another Mendoza to Russell score, this one for fifteen yards, putting Alhambra up 26-7 late in the third.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a new thing, we haven\u2019t had any problems with that,\u201d Rams head coach Mike McFarland said on the center-quarterback exchange. \u201cThere was one that was bobbled, there was one that was missed and there was one that was a miscommunication on the count. So, we\u2019ve got to work on it, we\u2019ve got to get better. We can\u2019t make mistakes against good football teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Moors got major contributions in its running attack from Broadus, eight rushes for 75-yards with two scores and Oscar Gayton, six rushes for 55-yards. Alhambra racked up 204-yards on 28 carries on the ground. Coupled with Mendoza\u2019s big night the Moors balanced offense gained 429-yards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re only three games in, we\u2019ve shown a lot but we\u2019ve also got a lot to prove and hopefully we can convince a few people how good we are,\u201d Mendoza said.<\/p>\n

Next week Alhambra (3-0) hosts Wilson and Temple City (0-2) travels to Arcadia for the annual Brawl for the Mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Johnathan Saller (Temple City) \u2013 Alhambra started slow but finished with a flurry scoring 27 of its 33 points in the second half in a 33-13 win over Temple City at North Field Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6119,6118,5200,3354,5553,3590,3353,2064,4038,64,5905,6117,921],"class_list":["post-18283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-alhambra-moores","tag-anthony-valencia","tag-chris-reed","tag-demetrius-russell","tag-ezra-broadus","tag-jamie-dea","tag-josh-mendoza","tag-lou-torres","tag-mikal-quintanilla","tag-mike-mcfarland","tag-nathan-quinones","tag-oscar-gaytan","tag-temple-city-rams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18283"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18285,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283\/revisions\/18285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}