{"id":50239,"date":"2015-10-10T01:22:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T08:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.midvalleysports.com\/?p=50239"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:02:31","slug":"panthers-pilfer-one-from-bulldogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=50239","title":{"rendered":"Panthers Pilfer one From Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50246\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/new.midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=50246\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50246\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50246\" src=\"http:\/\/new.midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_1620-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"David Aldapa (Left) and Davion Gaisie combined to score five touchdowns for the Panthers\" width=\"520\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Aldapa (Left) and Davion Gaisie combined to score five touchdowns for the Panthers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(West Covina) \u2013 Diamond Ranch scored three touchdowns in the last seven minutes to pull off an improbable 50-43 win over West Covina Friday night on the Bulldogs home field.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->West Covina was comfortably up 43-28 after Ruben Velasco scored on a 49-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter. Then things went inexplicably, and horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Everything that could go wrong for Westco seemingly did. To come back the Panthers needed a botched snap on a punt. West Covina gave them that. To rally Diamond Ranch needed to recover an onside kick and yes, the Panthers did. And in the end they needed a turnover and an interception with the game tied led to the Panthers game winning touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Sebastian, who replaced the injured starter Ethan Cota in the second half, fired the game winner with 2:23 left to David Aldapa who got behind the West Covina secondary for a 25-yard touchdown. The West Covina faithful, who moments earlier had been in a celebratory mood, now sat in stunned silence.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers took over on the West Covina 39 after they picked off Aaron McCorkle. West Covina made the stop and forced Diamond Ranch to punt but a roughing the kicker penalty gave the Panthers a first down at the 27. Three plays later Sebastian found Aldapa with the dagger.<\/p>\n<p>A bad snap on a punt set up Diamond Ranch at the West Covina 27. On third down Carter Henderson caught a 20-yard TD strike from Sebastian to to cut it to 43-36 after two-point conversion.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the inevitable onside kick and the inevitable Diamond Ranch recovery. Davion Gaisie busted off a 40 yard scoring run on third down to get the Panthers even.<\/p>\n<p>On the ensuing possession, the turnover&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*** West Covina led 29-14 at the half as Kevin Thomas had a 49-yard touchdown run and a 22-yard TD jaunt.<\/p>\n<p>*** Leading 22-14 Jacob Acosta hauled in a 34-yard pass from McCorkle to out the Bulldogs up 29-14.<\/p>\n<p>*** Gaisie had three touchdowns on the night including an 80-yard run to put the Panthers up 7-0.<\/p>\n<p>*** Gaisie had 125 yards on 15 carries and the three scores.<\/p>\n<p>*** Thomas had 197 yards on 20 carries and two touchdowns for West Covina.<\/p>\n<p>*** Mike Gomez&#8217; 52-yard run in the third quarter gave West Covina a 36-22 advantage in the third.<\/p>\n<p>*** Gomez finished with 118 yards on nine carries and a score.<\/p>\n<p>*** Cota left the game in the third quarter after throwing for 141 yards and a 35-yard rushing touchdown in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>*** The Bulldogs scored on a double pass in the second quarter when Quintus Alton took a toss from McCorkle and connected with Velasco for a 61-yard pass play.<\/p>\n<p>*** \u201cWe came out a little flat. But we never quit and came out and got the W. We made the plays when we needed to.\u201d &#8211; Diamond Ranch HC Jimmy Welker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (West Covina) \u2013 Diamond Ranch scored three touchdowns in the last seven minutes to pull off an improbable 50-43 win over West Covina Friday night on the Bulldogs home field.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-50239","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\/50239","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=50239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50247,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50239\/revisions\/50247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}