{"id":27152,"date":"2012-09-22T03:40:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T10:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:16:55","slug":"west-covina-0-diamond-ranch-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=27152","title":{"rendered":"West Covina Finishes Strong Against Diamond Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

West Covina HC Mike Maggiore rallies his troops to finish. (Photo by Saile Ramirez)<\/p><\/div>\n

By Saile Ramirez<\/p>\n

(Pomona) The West Covina Bulldogs, led by running backs Aaron Salgado and Jimmy Escoto, finished strong for a victory over the Diamond Ranch Panthers 20-14 Friday night in their Hacienda League opener.<\/p>\n

“We want to finish any game, if we’re up by 40, down by 40 or in a tight game like this we want to finish games,” said Bulldogs Head Coach Mike Maggiore.<\/p>\n

Late in the fourth quarter West Covina found themselves on the Diamond Ranch 47 looking to end the game. Three consecutive runs by Escoto put them in a manageable fourth and four and an opportunity to ice the game. The Bulldogs were forced to punt after a delay of game penalty pushed them back.<\/p>\n

“We had a chance to seal the game a little bit,” said Maggiore of the late situation. “Luckily our defense made some big plays.”<\/p>\n

D-Ranch gets ball with 1:21 to play at its own 26. After three consecutive incomplete passes Xavier Beltran is sacked by WC\u2019s Adam Romero to ice the game.<\/p>\n

The night’s scoring began when the Bulldog’s Escoto plowed his way into the endzone from three yards out, capping off an eight play drive.<\/p>\n

The Panthers, behind William Bryan (26 carries, 163 yards TD), roared back with a lengthy drive where Bryan ran the ball eight times with his final touch being a 12-yard touchdown run. The game tied 7-7.<\/p>\n

Salgado again put WestC0 in the lead, scoring a seven yard touchdown run. WC led 14-7 with 4:50 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Diamond Ranch received a huge spark from their special teams when they returned the ensuing kickoff to the Bulldog 13. From there Allen Salguero punched it in from a yard out to tie the game again at 14.<\/p>\n

West Covina began the ensuing drive on their own 20 and 1:34 left in the half.\u00a0WestCo\u2019s Antonio \u201cNoodles\u201d Hull led the Bulldogs on an 80-yard drive completing four of five passes for 73 yards, including a 12-yard strike to Ryan Crosby for a 20-14 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

Both teams where held scoreless for the rest of the game. The Panthers had a huge opportunity late in the third when they found themselves on the Bulldog six, but were unable to capitalize turning the ball over for the second time in the quarter.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Saile Ramirez (Pomona) The West Covina Bulldogs, led by running backs Aaron Salgado and Jimmy Escoto, finished strong for a victory over the Diamond Ranch Panthers 20-14 Friday night in their Hacienda League opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-27152","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\/27152","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59087,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions\/59087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}