{"id":25892,"date":"2012-08-25T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=25892"},"modified":"2017-06-10T01:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T08:01:25","slug":"antelope-valley-0-maranatha-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=25892","title":{"rendered":"Antelopes Slash Minutemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26012\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/maranathaav8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26012\" class=\" wp-image-26012  \" title=\"Xavius Boone\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/maranathaav8-e1345910746770-1024x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maranatha&#8217;s Xavius Boone makes the stretch.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Saile Ramirez<\/p>\n<p>(Pasadena)- Maranatha plagued by sloppy tackling that allowed two kick return scores fell to Antelope Valley 29-15 Friday night at home.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>AV\u2019s Daniel Bernard led the charge with 153 total yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re not tackling well, particularly on special teams, we gave up two kickoffs to the house and that\u2019s the difference in the game,\u201d said Minutemen HC Pete Karavedas.<\/p>\n<p>Senior quarterback Andrew Elffers scored late in the game to bring Maranatha within a touchdown, but on the ensuing kickoff Bernard scored on a 75-yard return to ice the game for the Antelopes.<\/p>\n<p>Elffers\u00a0ended the night 17 of 35 for 204 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Minutemen began the game with a huge kickoff return by Omar Younger setting themselves up with great field position. Elffers and company stalled in the red zone and settled for a 17-yard field goal by Reid Pike.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the second quarter Bernard capped off a nine play drive with a one-yard touchdown run giving the Antelopes a 6-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>After trading punts, AV\u2019s quarterback Cameron French added to his team\u2019s lead with a big 34-yard touchdown run. The extra point was missed. Valley lead 12-3 with 1:21 left in the half.<\/p>\n<p>After another Maranatha punt the Antelopes found themselves knocking on the door seconds before the half. Third and ten, on the Minutemen 29 yard-line, French dropped back and was picked off by Daniel Rasmussen who returned it to mid field. A couple AV personal fouls put Maranatha 37 yards away from paydirt\u00a0 with six second left.<\/p>\n<p>Elffers, while rolling to create time, connected on a huge touchdown pass with his receiver Pike. Antelopes led at half 12-9.<\/p>\n<p>On the second half opening kickoff, Antelope Valley return man Marcel Jones scored on 97-yard return extending the lead 19-9. The Antelopes added a field goal early in the fourth to extend the lead to 22-9.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saile Ramirez (Pasadena)- Maranatha plagued by sloppy tackling that allowed two kick return scores fell to Antelope Valley 29-15 Friday night at home.<\/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":[12816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892","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=25892"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58880,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892\/revisions\/58880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}