{"id":51571,"date":"2016-01-19T21:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T04:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51571"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:46:57","slug":"mid-valley-division-defensive-coordinator-of-the-year-san-dimas-danny-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51571","title":{"rendered":"Mid Valley Division Defensive Coordinator of the Year: San Dimas&#8217; Danny Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7897.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51573\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7897.jpg\" alt=\"San Dimas\" width=\"562\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Saints made an unexpected run into the Mid Valley Division final in 2015. According to Head Coach Mark Holman, his defense played a huge role in making that happen. The architect of that defense this year was Danny Lopez.<!--more-->San Dimas strung together six straight wins to get to the final game that included wins over Mid Valley stalwart Paraclete, and\u00a0a 26 &#8211; point win over Viewpoint while\u00a0Zach Chulak in check.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, the Saint defense held a potent Sierra Canyon offense, averaging close to 50 points a game, to\u00a0 a paltry 20 and kept things close enough to have everyone believing there was still hope.<\/p>\n<p>For the season the San Dimas defense gave up just over 18 points and Lopez had the chance to mentor\u00a0stellar defenders\u00a0Josiah Erickson (158 total tackles) and Steven Ojeda (147 tackles).<\/p>\n<p>In a &#8220;transition&#8221; year with no one expecting the Saints to get to the finals, head coach Mark Holman said &#8220;the job Danny Lopez did as our defensive coordinator kept us in games when we made mistakes in other areas of our games.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints made an unexpected run into the Mid Valley Division final in 2015. According to Head Coach Mark Holman, his defense played a huge role in making that happen. The architect of that defense this year was Danny Lopez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-51571","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\/51571","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51580,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51571\/revisions\/51580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}