{"id":55072,"date":"2016-09-09T23:35:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T06:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=55072"},"modified":"2016-09-10T16:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T23:17:02","slug":"montebello-21-whittier-7-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=55072","title":{"rendered":"Oilers Pull Away in Second Half"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Montebello<\/a>

Montebello QB Gabriel Tapia threw for one and ran for one<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

(Montebello) – Montebello broke open\u00a0a scoreless\u00a0tie with three touchdowns in the third quarter\u00a0and went on to beat Whittier 21-7 Friday night in front of the home crowd. <\/p>\n

Neither offense could get going in the first half. Whittier punted five times while Montebello booted it away twice, missed a field goal, turned the ball over\u00a0and was stopped on fourth down.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/a><\/p>\n

The Oilers looked like a different team in the\u00a0second half. They came out on their first possession and drove 70 yards in eight plays that quarterback Gabriel Tapia capped with\u00a0an 18- yard run.\u00a0Montebello\u00a0stopped Whittier on fourth down on the ensuing series\u00a0and set up shop at the Cardinal\u00a043.\u00a0The\u00a0Oilers immediately\u00a0cashed in again. Joshua\u00a0Leon finished a seven play march with a six-yard run and after drawing blanks in the first half\u00a0the Oilers\u00a0were suddenly up\u00a014-0.<\/p>\n

Brian Zavala’s defense held again\u00a0and the\u00a0offense\u00a0put the game on ice\u00a0on the next possession.\u00a0Tapia used his arm\u00a0this time connecting with Andy Brown\u00a0on a 58-yard strike for a three score lead. Brown simply ran\u00a0right by the Whittier secondary and Tapia hit him in stride as he\u00a0raced into the end zone.<\/p>\n

Whittier finally\u00a0ended the drought in the fourth quarter\u00a0on a seven-yard run by Robert Sandoval.<\/p>\n

Tapia\u00a0rushed for 93 yards on\u00a011 carries and a touchdown and\u00a0threw for 133 yards and a score to lead Montebello.\u00a0Leon\u00a0had six carries for 47 yards.<\/p>\n

Brown had five receptions for 103 yards.<\/p>\n

Whittier\u00a0struggled most of the night offensively. Quarterback Dylan Salcido\u00a0rushed for 13 carries for 48 yards and completed\u00a0just four passes for 52 yards.<\/p>\n

Montebello improved\u00a0to 2-1 with the victory\u00a0while Whittier suffered its first loss of the year and is also 2-1.<\/p>\n

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By Tim Peterson (Montebello) – Montebello broke open\u00a0a scoreless\u00a0tie with three touchdowns in the third quarter\u00a0and went on to beat Whittier 21-7 Friday night in front of the home crowd.<\/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":[3],"tags":[11556,12288,12286,11798,3542,365,12287,8021,10826,11755,8275],"class_list":["post-55072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-andy-brown","tag-dylan-salcido","tag-gabriel-tapia","tag-high-school-football-novel","tag-joe-t","tag-joe-torosian","tag-joshua-leon","tag-montebello-football","tag-robert-sandoval","tag-tangent-dreams","tag-whittier-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55072","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=55072"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55140,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55072\/revisions\/55140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}