{"id":20362,"date":"2011-11-18T18:54:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T01:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=20362"},"modified":"2011-11-19T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:16:14","slug":"sierra-vista-at-arroyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=20362","title":{"rendered":"Knights Move Into the Quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brandon Jauregui celebrates first playoff win since 2005 and first at home since 2004.<\/p><\/div>\n

(El Monte)- “Any time you win in the first round its a good thing,” said relieved Arroyo HC Jim Singiser.<\/p>\n

The Knights returned to the land of the post-season living with a 42-17 victory over Sierra Vista Friday night at B.L. Bergstrom Stadium.<\/p>\n

The win improved Arroyo to 10-1 and set up a quarterfinals match at home with San Gabriel.<\/p>\n

Knights quarterback Steven Rivera, in what is becoming terrifying for opposing defensive coordinators, is making the five touchdown performance ho-hum. Against the Dons he went\u00a022 of 26 passing for 311 yards and three touchdowns. He also ran for a score, 13-yards, and\u00a0stripped and scored on a 41-yard fumble recovery. This gave him his third straight five-touchdown performance and sixth overall on the season.<\/p>\n

After a fumbled ball cost Arroyo its first drive inside the Sierra Vista 20 (A turnover that resulted in Giovanni Rivera’s 7-yard touchdown run and a 7-0 Dons lead), Rivera led his team back with two touchdown passing on its next drives. First 9-yards to Melvin Palacios, then 27-yards to Hunter Duran.<\/p>\n

While the Sierra Vista defense couldn’t stop Arroyo, the Arroyo defense couldn’t get SV off the field.<\/p>\n

After their first score the Dons were able to tack on a 28 yard field goal by Sergio Gonzales before half time to make it 14-10. This drive was aided by a second roughing the punter penatly and several missed tackles.<\/p>\n

“I think my guys were just geeked up,” said Singiser. “They were geeked up because it was the playoffs and settled down in the second half.”<\/p>\n

The second half began with Steven Rivera stripping SV’s Giovanni Rivera and returning it 41-yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n

“He’s the best I’ve seen,” said Singiser of Rivera and his ability to make plays. “I can say that now.”<\/p>\n

Andre Kerkhoff then padded Arroyo’s advantage when he intercepted Dons quarterback Jonathan Mora on the first play of SV’s next possession. Kerkhoff returned it 27-yard to make it 28-10.<\/p>\n

A good kick-off return by Rayshawn McCarthy set up Sierra Vista’s next possession. And it was McCarthy who fumbled the ball after a reception at the Arroyo eight that was picked up by the Dons David Gonzales and carried into the end zone.<\/p>\n

Steven Rivera got the score back on a 13-yard run, and then closed the scoring with a 58-yard strike to Anthony Leon on a crossing route that the receiver took upfield.<\/p>\n

Peter Aholoka added\u00a0 16 carries for 71 yards.<\/p>\n

Knights host San Gabriel next week in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Sierra Vista finished the season 6-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[5049],"class_list":["post-20362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-brandon-jauregui"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362","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=20362"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20475,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions\/20475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}