{"id":45991,"date":"2014-12-28T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=45991"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:04:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:04:18","slug":"southeast-newcomer-of-the-year-2014-cathedrals-andrew-tovar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=45991","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Newcomer of The Year 2014: Cathedral&#8217;s Andrew Tovar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45990\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Andrew-Tovar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45990\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45990\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Andrew-Tovar.jpg\" alt=\"Cathedral QB, southpaw, Andrew Tovar\" width=\"269\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathedral QB, southpaw, Andrew Tovar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Andrew\u00a0 Tovar didn&#8217;t think\u00a0his chance\u00a0would come at Cathedral until 2015. The Phantoms already had a quarterback in MC Poe\u00a0who had thrown\u00a0for over 1400 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2013 and was coming back for his senior season. But Poe transferred\u00a0out of state and Tovar was suddenly thrust into the spotlight and given his time to shine.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->And shine he did. The sophomore threw for 3530 yards and 45 touchdowns\u00a0(not a typo) while leading Cathedral into the second round of the playoffs. Those numbers were more than three times what Poe had put up the year before.\u00a0Tovar had some of his best performances\u00a0against quality opponents. He threw for 419 yards and\u00a0six touchdowns in a loss to St. Francis and 393 yards and three scores in a first round playoff victory over Muir.<\/p>\n<p>Tovar didn&#8217;t miss a game all season\u00a0and\u00a0completed over 64 percent of his passes with a QB rating\u00a0of 124.7. From the time the southpaw stepped up in week one, another win over Muir, the Phantoms knew they had nothing to worry about\u00a0at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Tovar grabbed\u00a0his opportunity and not only took advantage of it but owned it in 2014.\u00a0For that he is our Southeast Division Newcomer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew\u00a0 Tovar didn&#8217;t think\u00a0his chance\u00a0would come at Cathedral until 2015. The Phantoms already had a quarterback in MC Poe\u00a0who had thrown\u00a0for over 1400 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2013 and was coming back for his senior season. But Poe transferred\u00a0out of state and Tovar was suddenly thrust into the spotlight and given his time to [&hellip;]<\/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":[10648,9116,7620,11547,7439],"class_list":["post-45991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-andrew-tovar","tag-cathedral-football","tag-muir-football","tag-southeast-division","tag-st-francis-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45991","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=45991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45996,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45991\/revisions\/45996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}