{"id":54691,"date":"2016-08-28T05:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=54691"},"modified":"2016-08-29T10:57:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T17:57:51","slug":"arroyo-14-covina-10-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=54691","title":{"rendered":"Arroyo-Covina Tie in Knightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Did<\/a>

Did Covina’s Devonte Bevel make it out of the end zone? Photo by Joe T.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the last line from \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d\u2026It\u2019s not overly optimistic but hopeful. Kind of like a Zero Week football game. No matter the outcome, it shouldn\u2019t create a false expectation but it should at least give you some hope.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the case Saturday night at Covina District Field at the conclusion of the Arroyo-Covina, 17-17 tie. Instead of hope, you were left with the same feeling you might get at the end of \u201cThe Heart of Darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The horror, the horror.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/a>

Joe T.’s High School football novel is available through Amazon.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The Knights gave the ball away seven times, twice in the last three minutes, once at the Colts two, and the last time with 10-seconds left at the one.<\/p>\n

Arroyo quarterback Jason Villa was 25 of 39 for 288 yards through the air. He had two touchdowns and two picks.<\/p>\n

Devin Knight was leading receiver with 10 grabs for 100 yards and Steven Ocariz lead team with 48 yards on 13 carries.<\/p>\n

The Knights first two possessions of the game were highlight reels. The first ended with a 27-yard pass, over the top, to Rey Cotero. Then, after Covina, responded with a tying touchdown, Villa went over the top again. This time, he hit Yezdan Marquez to make it a 14-7 game.<\/p>\n

Here, Colts defensive coordinator Martin Bacon\u2019s unit woke up and Knights\u2019 offensive coordinator, Chris MacMillan\u2019s squad closed up shop.<\/p>\n

Arroyo\u2019s next three possessions ended with a fumble, turnover, and fumble. The fourth (if we can count that as a possession) possession ended on a fumbled punt return, and the fifth ended with a punt.<\/p>\n

In between all this Knights\u2019 linebacker Manuel Santana had a pick-six return called back due to a roughing the passer call.<\/p>\n

Arroyo\u2019s first possession of the second half, ninth of the game, ended with an interception.
\nIts tenth was short-circuited by a fumbled snap that they did recover but forced them to punt.<\/p>\n

The Colts added a 28-yard field goal to make it 14-10 midway through the third quarter.<\/p>\n

The Knights suffered another punt and a turnover on downs before Jesse Ortiz nailed 26-yard field goal to make the score 17-10 with 7:56 remaining.<\/p>\n

Covina\u2019s Tristan Sprague returned the kickoff 30-yards to his team\u2019s 45 and just when Arroyo looked like it was going to get off the field they were hit with another roughing the passer call and then holding.<\/p>\n

With 5:56 to play, the Colts Devonte Bevel went 13-yards to tied the contest.<\/p>\n

For a moment it seemed like the Knights offense woke up. Beginning at their 22, they used nine plays to advance all the way to the Colts seven. Facing a third and six, Villa rolled right and then headed for the end zone but was stripped along the way.<\/p>\n

Taking possession at the two, the Colts were quickly forced into a third and 11. The ball went to Bevel who was stopped twice, it appeared, in the end zone but was able to break past the goal line to avoid the safety.<\/p>\n

The Arroyo defense got angry, words were spoken, and a 15-yard penalty flag was thrown for unsportsmanlike conduct.<\/p>\n

Three plays later and with 35 seconds left on the clock, Covina\u2019s Anthony Meneses was intercepted by the Knights\u2019 Marquez.<\/p>\n

A 17-yard pass from Villa to Knight pushed the ball to the 13. Then a 12-yard pass to Daniel Martinez took it to the one. Then disaster struck again, Villa lost the ball on a play going left\u2026The Colts recovered and the game ended in a tie.<\/p>\n

The horror, the horror<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Joe Torosian \u201cSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.\u201d It\u2019s the last line from \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d\u2026It\u2019s not overly optimistic but hopeful. Kind of like a Zero Week football game. No matter the outcome, it shouldn\u2019t create a false expectation but it should at least give you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7283,3616,7636,11798,3542,365,11755],"class_list":["post-54691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-arroyo-football","tag-covina-district-field","tag-covina-football","tag-high-school-football-novel","tag-joe-t","tag-joe-torosian","tag-tangent-dreams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54691"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54725,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691\/revisions\/54725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}