{"id":39077,"date":"2014-05-16T22:36:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T05:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39077"},"modified":"2014-05-16T23:37:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T06:37:26","slug":"east-again-24-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39077","title":{"rendered":"East Again! 24-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/010-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39079\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/010-2-635x768.jpg\" alt=\"Hall of Fame Game\" width=\"480\" height=\"580\" \/><\/a>(West Covina) &#8211; The East\u00a0took the lead for the first time in the third quarter\u00a0and then had to rally again to beat the West\u00a024-13 Friday night in the 35th Annual Hall of Fame Game at West Covina High School.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Michael Gonzalez of Bishop Amat made the biggest play of the game intercepting\u00a0a Charles Ontiveros pass and\u00a0returning it 60 yards for a touchdown to give the East its first lead at 10-7 with 7:42 left in the third quarter.\u00a0The West answered quickly on a 62 yard\u00a0bomb from Arroyo&#8217;s Nathan Coto\u00a0to Jeremy Franco of Gabrielino\u00a0to jump back in front. But the East closed it out with a 20-yard touchown pass\u00a0from Frankie Palmer (La Serna) to Chino&#8217;s Malik Demby late in the third and a\u00a0six-yard TD romp in the fourth by Bonita&#8217;s Jake Payton.<\/p>\n<p>The victory\u00a0didn&#8217;t come easy but it was the seventh straight\u00a0win\u00a0for the East in the Hall of Fame game.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39080\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39080\" class=\"wp-image-39080\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/082-632x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chino&#8217;s Malik Demby hauls in the TD<\/p><\/div>\n<p>***The game was scoreless until 1:17 left in the first half when San Marino&#8217;s Andrew Ferraco scored on a six-yard run.<\/p>\n<p>***The East scored on their last possession of the half when Cal&#8217;s Eric Amezquita booted a 24 yard field goal as time expired.<\/p>\n<p>***Amezquita, who was kicking 50 yarders in pre game warmups, missed a 35 yard attempt in the first quarter when the snap was bad.<\/p>\n<p>***Palmer completed 11 of 15 for 107 yards and a touchdown and also rushed for 52 yards. Xavier Beltran of Diamond Ranch also took a few snaps for the East.<\/p>\n<p>***John Brown (Muir) fumbled on a kick off return and the East recovered but he got some redemption when he recovered an East fumble on the ensuing series. Neither team cashed in on the turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>***Jake Payton had a camera on his helmet during pregame warmups. The Bonita running back led the East in rushing with 13 carries for 78 yards and a score. Joseph Mayorga ran for 69 yards.<\/p>\n<p>***Matthew Rosales of La Serna had seven catches for 60 yards.<\/p>\n<p>***Bryce Harvey of La Salle was ejected from the game after an altercation on the Gonzalez interception return for a score. A minor scuffle broke out but it was quickly contained by the officials. Harvey had hauled in two passes for 59 yards.<\/p>\n<p>***Mark Pachorek of Arcadia had five catches for 87 yards for the West while Coto completed four of five passes for 137 yards and a touchdown. Ferraco threw for 91 yards.<\/p>\n<p>***The West punted with just over two minutes left in the game, down 24-13.<\/p>\n<p>Tim can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:tim@midvalleysports.com\">tim@midvalleysports.com<\/a> or on Twitter @tspeterson40<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(West Covina) &#8211; The East\u00a0took the lead for the first time in the third quarter\u00a0and then had to rally again to beat the West\u00a024-13 Friday night in the 35th Annual Hall of Fame Game at West Covina High School.<\/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-39077","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\/39077","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=39077"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39086,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39077\/revisions\/39086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}