{"id":18658,"date":"2011-09-30T23:19:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=18658"},"modified":"2011-10-01T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T00:18:56","slug":"covina-16-pomona-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=18658","title":{"rendered":"Covina Hangs on 16-14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Covina Bubba Ben Rodriguez<\/p><\/div>\n

(Pomona) – With Billy Livingston out of the lineup with an injury, Covina Coach Darryl Thomas knew he would have to rely on the running attack.\u00a0Vinny Venegas and Gevontray Ainsworth responded by rushing for 209 yards combined in the Colts 16-14 win over Pomona Friday night in the Valle Vista League opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Venegas did most the of the damage running for 137 yards and a touchdown on\u00a027 carries. His\u00a0score came early in the third quarter on a five yard run to cap an 80 yard drive to put the Colts up 14-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“That third quarter drive was huge, ” Thomas said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Colts were threatening to go up 21-0 later in the quarter,\u00a0but Pomona had a goal line stand stopping the Colts on four straight\u00a0downs inside the five yard line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After taking over at the three, a bad snap over the head of Brandon Schreiman resulted in a Covina\u00a0safety and a 16-0 lead with 11:06 left in the contest.<\/p>\n

Pomona looked dead and buried but\u00a0instead made one last push.\u00a0Schrieman started connecting with Terell Mosby and the Red Devils came to life. A pass interference penalty on Covina set up a 15 yard touchdown pass from Schreiman\u00a0to Mosby to cut the lead to 14-8\u00a0after Mosby also caught a two point conversion pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the Colts\u00a0fumbled on thier next possession Pomona was in\u00a0 business again. First Mosby hauled in a 45 yard pass from Schreiman\u00a0down to the Colt 13.\u00a0Three plays later Schreiman found Mosby again for a seven yard score. However the Colt defense stiffened when Schreiman’s pass was batted down on the two point conversion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pomona recovered the onside kick following the touchdown but a Red Devil player touched the ball\u00a0before it traveled the necessary ten yards and Covina retained possession.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Covina then ran out the clock thanks to a couple of first downs and a\u00a0personal foul penalty on\u00a0Pomona.<\/p>\n

The Colts led 7-0 at the half and it came on a trick play.\u00a0Darren Torres, lining up for\u00a0a field goal, instead took the snap, rolled out and hit Nick Simons for a 16 yard touchdown pass\u00a0with 5:12 left in the second quarter.\u00a0The fake field goal caught the Devils by surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Covina only threw the ball four times.\u00a0Daniel Sifuentes\u00a0was one for two,\u00a0Venegas 0-1 and then Torres’\u00a0TD strike.\u00a0But the running game made up for Livingston’s absence.<\/p>\n

“We just wanted to keep the ball on the ground\u00a0and chew up some clock. We’re happy to get out of here with a victory,” Thomas said.<\/p>\n

For Pomona Mosby had four receptions for 102 yards and two touchdowns, all in the second half.\u00a0Sir-Darius Yabrough had 10 carries for 40 yards.<\/p>\n

Pomona dropped to 2-3 and 0-1 in the Valle Vista while Covina improved\u00a0to 4-1 and 1-0.<\/p>\n

C\u00a0 0\u00a0 7\u00a0 7\u00a0\u00a0 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16<\/strong><\/p>\n

P\u00a0 0\u00a0 0\u00a0 0\u00a0 14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

2nd Qtr: <\/strong><\/p>\n

C 5:12 Simon 16 yd pass from Torres (Torres Kick) <\/strong><\/p>\n

3rd Qtr:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

C 4:56 Venegas 5 yd run (Torres Kick) <\/strong><\/p>\n

4th Qtr: <\/strong><\/p>\n

C\u00a011:06 – Pomona\u00a0bad snap out of end zone – Safety\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

P 8:37 Mosby 15 yd pass from Schreiman (Mosby pass from Schreiman – 2 pt) <\/strong><\/p>\n

P 2:44 Mosby 7 yd\u00a0pass from Schreiman (2 pat pass incomplete)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Pomona) – With Billy Livingston out of the lineup with an injury, Covina Coach Darryl Thomas knew he would have to rely on the running attack.\u00a0Vinny Venegas and Gevontray Ainsworth responded by rushing for 209 yards combined in the Colts 16-14 win over Pomona Friday night in the Valle Vista League opener.\u00a0<\/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":[6224,2084,3299,6132,667,2837,6226,5950,6225,2836],"class_list":["post-18658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-ben-rodriguez","tag-billy-livingston","tag-brandon-schreiman","tag-darren-torres","tag-darryl-thomas","tag-gevontray-ainsworth","tag-nick-simon","tag-sir-darius-yabrough","tag-terell-mosby","tag-vinny-venegas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18658","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=18658"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18668,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18658\/revisions\/18668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}