{"id":50905,"date":"2015-11-20T22:14:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T05:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=50905"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:02:10","slug":"big-man-has-big-night-in-big-win-for-st-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=50905","title":{"rendered":"Big Man Has Big Night in Big Win for St. Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"CENTER\">By Rich Whittington<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50907\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=50907\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50907\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50907\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/areg-nazarian-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Areg Nazarian takes a handoff from Miles Bryant in St. Francis win over Burroughs\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Areg Nazarian takes a handoff from Miles Bryant in St. Francis win over Burroughs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(La Canada) &#8211;\u00a0In football, linemen get very little glory. They line up, play after play, across from other lineman, and purposely hurl themselves in to each other in an effort to clear the way for \u201cskill players\u201d, whose names routinely dominate the sporting news. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are, however, rare instances where a lineman\u2019s Herculean effort makes him the story of the game. Such was the case Friday evening at St. Francis\u2019 High School\u2019s Friedman Field, where the Golden Knights beat the visiting Burroughs Indians: 21-7.<\/p>\n<p>St. Francis Senior Sean Davitt plays both Defensive End and Tight end. Davitt stands 6 foot, 5 inches tall, and weighs 225 pounds. By any measure, he is a big man. In Friday evenings contest, Davitt made himself at home in the Burroughs backfield, recording six quarterback sacks, for a total loss of 43 yards. If this weren\u2019t enough, he was also credited with a 16 yard touchdown\u00a0reception from\u00a0Miles Bryant.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50931\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=50931\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50931\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50931\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/milesburrough-st-francis-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"St. Francis QB Miles Bryant takes a shot against Burroughs \" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Francis QB Miles Bryant takes a shot against Burroughs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>St. Francis never trailed in the contest. In addition to the \u201cBryant to Davitt\u201d score, the Golden Knights found\u00a0the end zone on two additional occasions. Areg Nazarian scored on a 16 yard\u00a0run, and Bryant connected with\u00a0Jasher Foster for a 66 yard touchdown, which completed the St. Francis scoring for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Burroughs got on the scoreboard with 6:54 remaining in the fourth quarter of play, when\u00a0Ash Hawkins scored on a one-yard\u00a0run, making it\u00a014-7. Burroughs attempted an on-side kick, which was recovered by St. Francis to\u00a0effectively end the game.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burroughs&#8217; Ash Hawkins- 1 -yard touchdown.<\/li>\n<li>St. Francis&#8217; Areg Nazarian- 17 carries for 66 yards, 10 yard touchdown.<\/li>\n<li>The score at Halftime: St. Francis 7- Burroughs 0.<\/li>\n<li>Penalties: St. Francis: 5 for 35 yards, Burroughs: 4 for 20 yards.<\/li>\n<li>Turnovers: St. Francis: 3- Burroughs: 2.<\/li>\n<li>Burroughs\u2019 \u201cO\u201d Line: RT- Anthony Garcia, RG- Bryce Martinez,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>C- Erwin Hernandez, LG- Justin Gonzalez, LT- Jesse Chamberlain.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>St. Francis\u2019 \u201cO\u201d Line: RT- Matthew Barriga, RG- Matt Nixon,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>C- Michael Guida, LG- Josh Milner, LT- Cade Mockary.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>St. Francis advances to the CIF Southeast Division Semi-Finals, where they will host\u00a0La Serna.<\/li>\n<li>Burroughs finishes the\u00a0season with an overall record of 10-2, 7-0 in Pacific League play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rich Whittington (La Canada) &#8211;\u00a0In football, linemen get very little glory. They line up, play after play, across from other lineman, and purposely hurl themselves in to each other in an effort to clear the way for \u201cskill players\u201d, whose names routinely dominate the sporting news.<\/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":[7610,11547,7439],"class_list":["post-50905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","tag-burroughs-football","tag-southeast-division","tag-st-francis-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50905","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=50905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50932,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50905\/revisions\/50932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}