{"id":25683,"date":"2012-08-16T18:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=25683"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:49:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:49:57","slug":"monrovia-sets-sights-on-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=25683","title":{"rendered":"Monrovia Sets Sights on Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19985\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19985\" class=\" wp-image-19985\" title=\"Blake Heyworth\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/TC-MT7-672x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"652\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monrovia quarterback Blake Heyworth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Monrovia) &#8211; For years Monrovia was the team without a CIF title.\u00a0Now the Wildcats are setting\u00a0their sights\u00a0on a\u00a0third championship in three years.\u00a0CIF has made it a little more difficult to for the Cats to accomplish\u00a0that goal by moving the Alpha League into the Mid- Valley Division.\u00a0In case you&#8217;re not aware the Alpha features such powerhouses\u00a0as Sierra Canyon and Paraclete.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21709\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21709\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21709\" title=\"Mason Bryant\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mason-Bryant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"419\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M-Town&#8217;s Mason Bryant has several offers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On paper, Monrovia seems more than capable of a three-peat. When you have a roster loaded with\u00a0players\u00a0such as George Frazier, Anthony Craft, Blake Heyworth, Brett Walsh, Mason Bryant, Isaac Miravet&#8230;etc. returning it&#8217;s tough to see\u00a0them falling short.\u00a0Nobody\u00a0will touch them in the Rio Hondo and just like last year,\u00a0some predict they\u00a0will run the regular season table.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25689\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25689\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25689\" title=\"8-14-12 Monrovia- Schurr 003\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8-14-12-Monrovia-Schurr-003-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going through the drills<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Wildcats lost three games in 2011 (Arcadia, San Dimas, South Hills) before reeling off\u00a0ten straight to win the title. This year&#8217;s non league schedule could be a test as well.\u00a0Monrovia has Ayala, Arcadia, San Dimas, South Hills and St. Francis. Only Arcadia and South Hills are at home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25691\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25691\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25691\" title=\"mon-sp 11-11-11 003\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mon-sp-11-11-11-003-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WR\/DB Anthony Craft<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more later. Here&#8217;s a few shots.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25692\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25692\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25692\" title=\"8-14-12 Monrovia- Schurr 009\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8-14-12-Monrovia-Schurr-009-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hard work in August pays dividends in December<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_25693\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25693\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25693\" title=\"8-14-12 Monrovia- Schurr 004\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8-14-12-Monrovia-Schurr-004-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Running Down the Dream<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_25694\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25694\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25694\" title=\"8-14-12 Monrovia- Schurr 007\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/8-14-12-Monrovia-Schurr-007-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keep the eyes on the prize<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Monrovia) &#8211; For years Monrovia was the team without a CIF title.\u00a0Now the Wildcats are setting\u00a0their sights\u00a0on a\u00a0third championship in three years.\u00a0CIF has made it a little more difficult to for the Cats to accomplish\u00a0that goal by moving the Alpha League into the Mid- Valley Division.\u00a0In case you&#8217;re not aware the Alpha features such powerhouses\u00a0as [&hellip;]<\/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":[12816],"tags":[2107,6678,7924,5795,6198,1375,6647,1589,1169,5301,7435,6344,7742,7127,8118],"class_list":["post-25683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-anthony-craft","tag-arcadia-football","tag-ayala-football","tag-blake-heyworth","tag-brett-walsh","tag-george-frazier","tag-isaac-miravet","tag-mason-bryant","tag-mid-valley-division","tag-monrovia-football","tag-paraclete-football","tag-rio-hondo-league","tag-san-dimas-football","tag-sierra-canyon-football","tag-south-hills-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683","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=25683"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59306,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683\/revisions\/59306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}