{"id":20617,"date":"2011-11-23T00:31:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T07:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=20617"},"modified":"2011-11-23T00:40:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T07:40:55","slug":"game-night-mid-valley-division-quarterfinals-san-gabriel-arroyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=20617","title":{"rendered":"Game Night Mid-Valley Division Quarterfinal: San Gabriel-Arroyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20624\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20624\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20624\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SG-MARA-11-18-11-0091-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Lopez and the Mats march into B.L. Bergstrom Friday night<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Friday November 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kick off 7:30 PM (Plan for 7:00 PM)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->San Gabriel (7-4) at Arroyo (10-1) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Meeting: 11\/21\/03: San Gabriel 44-10: Division VII CIF Playoffs First Round<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six weeks ago this game would have looked like Arroyo in a rout. But since then the Matadors have won six straight, an Almont League championship and a first round playoff game. We knew the offense could be explosive (69 points vs. Alhambra, 48 vs. Montebello) but now the defense is lights out too. Carlos Purser is a monster\u00a0&#8211; just ask Maranatha.<\/p>\n<p>Arroyo has lost only once all year and showed some resiliency in wins over Rosemead and El Monte. For the Knights it\u2019s the Rivera factor. Steven Rivera, a four year starter, doesn\u2019t let his team lose. The quarterback has answered all the questions about why he plays defense also. Without him on that side of the ball Arroyo might have at least three losses.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s going to win? I don\u2019t know how about drawing straws? Since we can\u2019t do that I\u2019ll go with San Gabriel. If the Mats\u2019 defense shut out Andrew Elffers, Darien McGee and company can\u2019t they do enough to beat Arroyo? If not what I meant to say is Rivera is just too much. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>San Gabriel 24 Arroyo 21\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Friday November 25 Kick off 7:30 PM (Plan for 7:00 PM)<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-20617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617","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=20617"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20627,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions\/20627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}